Luna Star Events

CLIFF & FRIENDS

Cliff Cliff & Friends, grew out of the band Corn Country, Lead by the Great Mort Glosser. This band was strictly regimented as old-timey style music. After a couple of years playing in the band, Cliff Holdren realized that the other members of the group had the talent and background to expand to other genres. The result is an acoustic jam string band that combines old-timey, folk, Gospel, classic country, Appalachian blues, and Bluegrass. Over the last 10 years the band has played at many South Florida venues including Greynold’s Park, Fruit & Spice Park, Flamingo Gardens, Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Phil’s Berry Farm, The Kiwanis Club Hosting Fleet Week, Wings Over Miami & Ft.Lauderdale Artwalk.

Tom is a talented singer who plays acoustically to a large variety of country and other genres of music.

THE 18 WHEELERS

The 18 Wheelers are a vintage music act, which performs a combination of truck driving tunes, classic honkytonk, rockabilly, and country/western from its golden age

The 18 Wheelers play a mix of original material and covers from artists like Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, early Elvis, and Carl Perkins, with hours and hours of music in our repertoire.

The band performs a wide range of American roots styles, ranging from the 1930s through the ‘70’s, and is at home in a wide variety of settings.

This is not a contemporary country act.

ALAN RHODY

Alan Rhody just released his tenth album, “Farther On” in April of this year. The new collection
is up close and personal with Rhody in his home studio, playing all the instruments and singing
all the vocals.  Showcasing new material, such as “Just Like Them,” a co-write with the late
Guy Clark, or “Sinking Ships And Rainy Afternoons” a semi-abstract and spacious finger-picking
picture of loss, the new disc also includes an emotionally moving version of one of Mickey Newbury’s
hidden treasures, “Wish I Was.”
In a career that now spans forty years, Alan Rhody still loves performing and is still being “discovered”
by audiences all over North America (such as the South Florida Folk Festival this past January).  He has
played main stages at many others such as Kerrville and The Florida Folk Festival and covers endless
miles of listening rooms, house concerts and smaller halls each year.  His original songs have been
recorded by many other artists in folk, bluegrass and country and include: Del McCoury, Kevin Welch,
David Mallett, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lorrie Morgan, The Oak Ridge Boys, Toby Keith, Tanya Tucker
and Michael Martin Murphey.

Bring your axe. Very laid back – a great way to meet some of the Café’s performers & regulars in a very low-pressure environment. Novices & pros are welcome to come on down & join the jam. Try out new material or just participate in some sing-alongs.

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

Darrell Arnold

Darrell Arnold’s compositions are soulful folk-rock, with a twist of country blues.

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.

Bring your axe. Very laid back – a great way to meet some of the Café’s performers & regulars in a very low-pressure environment. Novices & pros are welcome to come on down & join the jam. Try out new material or just participate in some sing-alongs.

ADE PEEVER

“Ade Peever is a fingerstyle acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter from the UK. A background in bucolic British folk runs parallel with a rocker streak nurtured by occasional reunions with Leeds’ loud r’n’b four-piece the Original Gravity Band. SoFlo-based since the 80’s, he’s alternated between folk (The Hautboys were residents at Linda Lou’s Cactus Cantina on SoBe in the 90s) and rock (Slide Area, another rock quartet, was named after a Ry Cooder album). In 2006 he released Green Man Said, an album of originals, featuring 28 players and a live-at-Leeds version of Bill Morrissey’s ballad “Robert Johnson.” Since 2007 he’s been singing with local Irish folk band Celtic Bridge. A rare acoustic set will highlight the story-element of the folk tradition.”

ADE PEEVER

“Ade Peever is a fingerstyle acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter from the UK. A background in bucolic British folk runs parallel with a rocker streak nurtured by occasional reunions with Leeds’ loud r’n’b four-piece the Original Gravity Band. SoFlo-based since the 80’s, he’s alternated between folk (The Hautboys were residents at Linda Lou’s Cactus Cantina on SoBe in the 90s) and rock (Slide Area, another rock quartet, was named after a Ry Cooder album). In 2006 he released Green Man Said, an album of originals, featuring 28 players and a live-at-Leeds version of Bill Morrissey’s ballad “Robert Johnson.” Since 2007 he’s been singing with local Irish folk band Celtic Bridge. A rare acoustic set will highlight the story-element of the folk tradition.”

Derelict Daughter is a dynamic female two piece recently from Central Illinois.  A collaboration between singer songwriter K Klotz and multi instrumentalist Michelle Elaine, these two will race you down the river, and land you in the church.  Their songs are built on guitar and percussion, violin, two banjos, and a hand-me-down accordion. Grounded in midwest summers and Americana roots, they draw inspiration from so many musicians, including Brandi Carlile, Shovels and Rope, Mandolin Orange, and Ani DiFranco.

Michelle set off to learn the lay of the land about five years ago with her violin and bare hands.  After a couple years of street music and watching the country fly by, she paused in Peoria, IL long enough to join bluegrass band Woodland Remedy in January of 2017.  She has since played venues from Chicago to Iowa and down to Tennessee. Together they’ve opened for Jeff Austin, The Steeldrivers, Cornmeal, and Growler. Somewhere along the way she picked up a banjo.

K’s incredible arsenal of original music began the first time a guitar was put in her hands and hasn’t slowed since.  Her voice will first sweep you away, then wake you up and shake you to your core. As their forces began to merge sometime last fall, sparks danced around them, and the project was born.

After a summer on the road out West, they set sail for Miami, and just made port in September.  As the weather eases, these two are settling in. For the pair, this is a season of exploration, of finding their ways in these tropics, and writing their first album together, set to record in the Spring.

Tim Mcgeary hails from Naples, Florida where he has lived for the past 20 years. Tim has been writing songs and proforming since the 80’s  and wsa weth the band  “Rescue” on A& M  records and toured with Billy Idol, Rpxy Music,  Depeche Mode, The Cure and many more.  Recently Tim got a publishing deal in Nashville as a songwriter.   His  songs have been featrued on TV shows (Smallville,  One Tree Hill,  Glory Days) and movies like, Girl Got Moe (HBO),   Most redently he had 7 of his songs placed in two full length motion pictures,  “In Mysterious Ways” and The Knowers”,  Hid most recent band Wonderful Johnson opened for bands,  The black Crows,  David Ball, Sherrie Austin, Confederate Railroad, Wet Willie, Rush Low and many more,  Tim plays shows all over the country and like to work closely with young songwriters,  helping them hone their skills.

THE PETERS ROAD SWAMP BLUES BAND

The Peters Road Swamp Blues Band (PRSBB) was first gathered on Labor Day SUNDAY in 1988 by co-founders Boomslang Swampsinger and Warren “Wardog” Vanderplate in a small barber shop on Old Peters Road; the old farm road that historically connected the markets of the original town of Fort Lauderdale and the farming community of Davie, just as the music of the band continues to link urban-village music to the rural sounds of the areas beyond exurbia. The band plays their own brand of Florida “Roadhouse” music with all original songs focusing on Florida, it’s history and the Everglades. After Boomslang Swampsinger died, the band decided that his music is far too important to allow it to fade from public appreciation. The still aptly named Peters Road Swamp Blues Band still performs and dedicates each of its performances to the memory and legacy of Boomslang Swampsinger, so that people will never him. The Peters Road Swamp Blues Band features Mark “Crocodile” Harris on bass, guitar and vocals, Dawn “DeOtter” DeWitt on guitar and bass and vocals, Jake “Armadillo” Vanderplate on mandolin (son of co-founder “Wardog” Vanderplate, vocals and percussion, Jame “Jams a lot” Barton on roadhouse keyboard and vocals and Stan “the Panther” Geberer on blues harp and vocals.

Bring your axe. Very laid back – a great way to meet some of the Café’s performers & regulars in a very low-pressure environment. Novices & pros are welcome to come on down & join the jam. Try out new material or just participate in some sing-alongs.

ALL THAT JAZZ
Come join Loye and Ted for an evening listening pleasure. Smooth jazz standards and ballads with a mix of blues and pops. Intermissions and last set opened for those who want to jam with us…
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Alligator Alley is one of the state’s premier Bluegrass acts. Playing Bluegrass Classics, Country Favorites and heartfelt originals Alligator Alley is Bluegrass with Bite!

OPEN MIC HOSTED BY SARAH JACOB TRIO

HOSTING AN OPEN STAGE

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SOUTH FLORIDA CHAPTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA

NSAI South Florida Chapter Songwriter workshop

Bring an original song for critique on CD, or perform it live acoustically. Make sure to have 12 copies of your lyric sheet.

$5 for non-members/ FREE for members.

This workshop is affiliated with the Nashville Songwriters Association International. (nashvillesongwriters.com)

KEN BURKHART – Musician/Singer/Songwriter

Instrumentation: Piano/Keyboards/Hammond B3 Organ

Ken Burkhart grew up in Lancaster, PA influenced by the likes of Jimmy Smith on organ and Ray Charles on piano and vocals. Ken began performing and composing his own music on accordion at the age of 6. He then switched to Hammond B3 Organ when he was 15 and also began playing piano at the age of 21.

He traveled the US with numerous jazz, blues, top 40 & country bands. He’s also lived in So Florida where he performed with national recording artists Dizzy Gillespie, Jaco Pastorius and Mike Longo and in RI where he performed with national recording artist Dan Moretti, numerous members of the Artie Shaw Band & Grey Sargent (guitar player for Tony Bennett).

In 2018 Ken toured Europe, performing at London’s Royal Albert Hall, as well as the B-Flat Acoustic Music & Jazz Club in Berlin, and The Bozar Theatre in Brussels.

Ken is known for his passionate performances, incredible improvisational skills and uniquely memorable songwriting. Although he sings and performs a variety of jazz, blues, and funk, it’s his original compositions that audiences ask for again and again.

Arthur Cruz Jazz
Keyboard artist, singer and songwriter Arthur Cruz is an interpreter of jazz standards and his own original songs – melodic tunes with pensive lyrics that blend jazz, rock and pop influences from Cole Porter to the Beatles to Sting.

A hopeful romantic, with a distinctive voice and style of song, Arthur Cruz sings of longing to be your valentine, believing in fairy tales of love and holding on to each other through the dark night of the soul

With the energetic Elvis Taylor on drums, these three musicians produce a dynamic, syncopated sound.

The trio is often joined by accomplished jazz instrumentalists (Ted McDermott,) and vocalists (Loye Hawkins,  for an exciting evening of live, improvised music.

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

Darrell Arnold

Darrell Arnold’s compositions are soulful folk-rock, with a twist of country blues.

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.

ALL THAT JAZZ
Come join Loye and Ted for an evening listening pleasure. Smooth jazz standards and ballads with a mix of blues and pops. Intermissions and last set opened for those who want to jam with us…
Free Free Free

RACHELLE COBA

With her expertise in string instruments, Rachelle’s take on the blues is unexpectedly honest and mesmerizing. She works her magic to create amazing musical arrangements with a torrential force that sweeps away every type of audience. Rachelle started out jamming with Buddy Guy as a teenager and since has played to cheering crowds all around the world by bringing her own high-powered brand of soul, country, uptown and funk blues styles to the stage. Her debut album, “Mother Blues,” epitomizes her talent as a solo guitarist, singer, producer, and writing powerhouse, and earned her a nomination for Blues Blast’s Magazine’s Best New Debut CD Award. Her second album coming summer of 2018 on American Showplace Music is getting rave reviews already. Rachelle is on her way to becoming one of the worlds premier blues women and with her band, she continues to grace the stage as one of the blues most original performers.

Since then, Rachelle toured extensively in Australia in 2013, 2016 and 2017, the United States Midwest and the Mississippi Delta and she has been a reoccurring special guest on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise.

“She played the hell out of the guitar” Matt “Guitar” Murphy

“Now I know many of you may not have had the pleasure of hearing this smoking guitar powerhouse and

singer… But I have to tell you this, you WILL be hearing more of this amazing artist. Her performance at the Blues

Blast Awards was stunning! Once she started her set, a hushed silence fell over the entire crowd. It was one of the highlights of all of the performances at the awards show.”

Bob Kieser, publisher,  Blues Blast Magazine

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

Darrell Arnold

Darrell Arnold’s compositions are soulful folk-rock, with a twist of country blues.

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.

ALL THAT JAZZ
Come join Loye and Ted for an evening listening pleasure. Smooth jazz standards and ballads with a mix of blues and pops. Intermissions and last set opened for those who want to jam with us…
Free Free Free

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

Darrell Arnold

Darrell Arnold’s compositions are soulful folk-rock, with a twist of country blues.

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

Darrell Arnold

Darrell Arnold’s compositions are soulful folk-rock, with a twist of country blues.

ALL THAT JAZZ
Come join Loye and Ted for an evening listening pleasure. Smooth jazz standards and ballads with a mix of blues and pops. Intermissions and last set opened for those who want to jam with us…
Free Free Free

Sarah Jacob views songwriting as a catalyst to navigate through emotions and give them voice. Aided by her love for puns, double entendres and allusion, her songs transform the confusions and ambiguities of inner experience into a “language of the emotions.” Since 2012 Sarah, who composes on the piano, has teamed up with Darrell Arnold, baritone vocalist and guitarist, and Fred Napolitano, saxophonist, forming the Sarah Jacob Trio. The result–mixing hints of jazz, blues and folk into contemporary rock-ballads–is an original lyrical and musical blend. The trio combines a sense and sensibility that make for beautiful songs, offering a psychological expedition of the inner world.

Darrell Arnold

Darrell Arnold’s compositions are soulful folk-rock, with a twist of country blues.

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG

WAGNER, HAND & PFLUG
ARE Nancy Wagner (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Robert Hand (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Jamie Pflug (vocals, stand-up bass, guitar, banjo, dulcimer). They play a mix of original songs and their own acoustic versions of classics from the 60s and 70s folk-rock tradition. Featuring their distinctive three-part harmonies, WHP plays music that makes you feel good and think well.

ALL THAT JAZZ
Come join Loye and Ted for an evening listening pleasure. Smooth jazz standards and ballads with a mix of blues and pops. Intermissions and last set opened for those who want to jam with us…
Free Free Free