Centre Stage Productions

This show was cancelled unfortunately, to be rescheduled at a later date!

Saturday, May 22, 7-9 p.m.  Rick Shaw returns to Centre Stage for another dinner show.  Details to be announced.  $15 per person includes dinner and show, $5 show only.  Reservations available at Centre Stage or Earl E. Books, 703 Chetco Ave., Brookings.

Biography:

Rick Shaw - Not a stage name, comes by songwriting honestly. He really had no choice - the genes ruled! His Grandmother - on Dad’s side was a country/ blues songwriter/singer during the depression and all through her life. She passed the country songwriting along to her son Jim Shaw, who ended up in and out of Nashville, Tennessee during his musical career, pitching songs and performing with the country artists of the 50’s 60’s and early 70’s. Rick inherited the songwriting and performing ability of his Dad in the country music field, while gaining the blues influence of his Grandmother, and the rock, and jazz influences that showed up along the way. A fourth generation Tennessean, Rick didn’t take to country music right off while honing his guitar skills on Southern rock and roll and blues, as he became known for years as Rockin’ Rickey in music circles from Tampa, Florida to Nashville, and the Detroit, Michigan area in the seventies and into the eighties. When he got tired (quickly) of “cutting hamburgers into five and six parts to play rock music, where most of the money went to pay for the equipment,” he turned towards country music, where his Dad had been his whole life. After awhile he was opening concerts for acts such as Earl Thomas Conley, Jim Ed Brown, Eddie Raven, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, and B.B. King. Rick influenced one of the founding members of the country band - Sawyer Brown - lead guitarist Bobby Randall ( Who later hosted You Can be a Star, Nashville Network) with his rocking style of playing country music. Randall went so far as to copy Rick’s amplifier setup and style of guitar, as he would come to a certain venue they both worked from time to time, to ask how he played particular rock licks in a country song. Sadly, when the two met again after Randall’s band helped create the rocking country sounds you hear today, Randall acted as though they had never met, and Rick decided he liked ” Nashville cat’s”  not a whole lot.  So he moved to Tampa, Florida and turned to the Blues/Rock scene there. One night while playing at a club of Blues fame - The Blues Ship - a man entered while Rick was playing guitar with a three piece band there. The man had an entourage of people with him. At break time he was introduced to Robbie Steinhart - the founding member of the band Kansas, Violinist and songwriter of ” Dust in the Wind.” Robbie had picked Rick to open for his new band Steinhart Moon, at their gigs in Tampa Bay. In Robbie’s words ” play guitar like I just saw you do, Man.” That lasted about a year before Rick finally migrated back to Nashville to pursue songwriting in the late nineties and into the early part of this decade. He currently has a catalog of songs being shopped around and a publishing contract offer on the table in Nashville, with the son of legendary Nashville songwriter - Harlan Howard - Perry, at BMI.  Rick moved to Oregon to be near his Dad as Jim’s health is on the decline. He’s been here two years now and has recently begun to venture out as a single act. Now working on a second album called MedicineMan, his first album can be purchased at his gigs or online at the following e-mail address. 7mmcreations7@sbcglobal.net   

Saturday, May 8, 7-9 p.m.  Milan Reynolds will perform for the first time at Centre Stage.  Dinner menu will feature a mexican fiesta.   $15 per person, includes dinner and show.   $5 show only.   Reservations available at Centre Stage or Earl E. Books, 703 Chetco Ave.,  Brookings.  This will be right after the artwalk so seating will start  

Biography

Milann was born a poor black child with blond hair, blue eyes and white skin. Milann was drawn to rhythm & blues and jazz from an early age believing that R&B and jazz is the foundation for music referred to as American. He picked up his first musical instrument, a saxophone at age nine. At twelve, he began playing guitar and never stopped.  At fifteen, he began his vocal training. He had the privilege of training with various vocal instructors including Oscar Hammerstein, Jester Harrison and many more; Jester Harrison being a major influence in vocal style. At sixteen, he won the Northwestern Jazz Festival Competition for sax improvisation. While living in Santa Cruz, California he

worked as a studio musician, for Hun Sounds in San Rafael. He provided musical and vocal back-up for numerous well known artists. He lives in Northern California with his artist wife and performs locally. For further information, please contact Milann at MilannR@msn.com.

Sweet Town Little will perform a Preview Concert at Centre Stage, Thursday, April 1 from 7:30 to 9:30.

This will be a free concert, although donations to Stagelights Musical Arts Community  are gratefully accepted.  All proceeds will go toward the development of the lesson program which is almost ready to begin.  We have students waiting, and teachers are formulating their lesson plans…your donations will help defray the costs for both students and Stagelights!  Centre Stage is located at 703 Chetco Ave., Brookings (in the Central Mall)

                      Scott Perry - Lead Vocals, Keys, Guitar         Mike Tyce - Bass
                David Amato – Drums                                    Paul Lopez - Lead Guitar

 Singer/Songwriter Scott Perry has been performing here locally since he was 12 years old. He has won and done well in many competitions including, Southern Oregon Idol, and Colgate Country Showdown.   He has also opened for rising acts such as Country Music Artist, Jake Owen, and American Idol Top 10 finalist, Kristy Lee Cook, from Selma, OR.
Paul Lopez - A guitar player from the young age of eight.  He’s the jack of all genres but rooted in progressive rock, blues, and acoustic originals. Paul now tries his hand at country for the first time and he’s loving it. He says, “it doesn’t matter what you play as long as you have fun doin it.”

Drummer David Amato started playing drums at the age of 10 in Grants Pass, Oregon. He has played in various Rock bands throughout the years, including American Standard, Tongue of Razors, 3DM, and End of Never. David has now discovered his talent in Country Music with Sweet Town Little.
 Mike Tyce has been involved in music since he was 5 years old.  Says he started out playing various instruments but eventually found his interest in playing bass guitar.  After 30 years of playing in several bands, which pertained to different genres such as blues, rock, country, and bluegrass, he now enjoys playing and writing music with Sweet Town Little.

Saturday, April 3 7:00 to 10:00 PM: San Francisco Bay Area singer/songwriter Steve Meckfessel offers intimate songs of family secrets, of long forgotten poets, of separateness, connection, of second chances and acceptance. He is a guitar player’s songwriter with arrangements distinguished by their varied voicings and unexpected chord progressions. Checkout Steve’s website here.

Steve will be joined by songwriters Perry Devine and Larry Diehl for a songwriters-in-the-round set that is sure to be fun and deeply moving at the same time. Checkout Larry’s website here and Perry’s website here.

This show will be a fundraiser for the Stagelights Musical Arts Community. Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Tickets are available at Centre Stage and Earl E. Books. Both are located at 703 Chetco Ave (Hwy 101) in Brookings.