MUSIC DIRECTOR DRC

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SEATTLE WA. From time to time we like to show a different side of the various performers who make up the band, a different shade of pink if you will.  This month we bring you an inside glimpse to the outside cutting edge world of Dr. Ronald Cole, Music Director of the Freddy Pink Band. At first glance Dr. Cole is the conscientious professor of music, whose job includes keeping the FP horns on the same page, and melding those horns with the band’s rhythm section.  For the most, the University of
Washington Alumnist runs the band’s rehearsals, hires the band’s substitutes, and generally make sure that Freddy Pink always has a crack crew on deck for each performance.  What most people don’t know, is that Dr. Cole, or The DRC as the boys like to call him, is not only an avid seafaring man, but also a passionate sci-fi enthusiast.  The culmination of  the two has brought about a hybrid hobby for Dr. Cole that is best described as Jules Vern’s Captain Nimo meets Techno-Naval Architecture.  The Dr.s latest yachting toy is the 110 foot trimiran Mezzo Forte, designed by world renowned naval architect, Renaldo Cioppriatti, whose futuristic yacht designs have captured the imaginations and pocketbooks of other high-profile individuals like Paul Allen, Cher, and P-Diddy.   The Mezzo Forte is currently undergoing sea trials at the helm of the Dr. himself, who besides being a Musical Mental Health Therapist, and having his Doctorates degree in music, is also a fully licensed captain.  If all goes according schedule, the futuuristic yacht will make it’s way toward Cannes France early January for the highly anticipated release of the new Freddy Pink music video, “Hellsapoppin’”.  We’re sure Mezzo Forte will raise a few eyebrows in the very provincial harbour at Cannes.  Fair winds and calm seas DRC


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OREGON CONCERT SERIES TO HAPPEN AT LAKE OSWEGO SOUNDS OF SUMMER

 
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January 2008

BIG SKY 4TH

The boys are excited about their upcoming trip to Montana that will begin with a wedding in the beautiful georgetown Lake area near Missoula, and finish up with a fourth of July concert for the city of Big Sky  Montana.  Freddy Pink worked in the Big Sky area last summer at the yellowstone Club, the Club Med of Montana which is situated in the valley just to the south of Big Sky. Many of the people we met at the yellowstone Club also work for Big Sky.

    The Big Sky concert is promoted by the Arts Council of Big Sky  a community based organiation with a long and colorful history of being Big Sky’s premier non-profit cultural event association.  The “Summer Sounds”
series comes alive at the meadow Village Concert Stage, one of the most beautiful music venues in the state.  The stage is located in the Big Sky Community Park on Little Coyote Road in the Meadow Village.  The concert will begin 7:00 P.M. lasting till the fireworks at 10:30.  It is our understanding that this is a spectacular fireworks display, one of the largest in the state and it takes place in an absolutley gorgeous place, so we can’t wait.  Like all guys, the fourth of july holds a warm and fuzzy place in our hearts, and though we will be spending this years holidaybon the road, we can’t think of a better audience than the good people of Big Sky to spend it with.  After all, it is a ski town.  Now if we could just get down there in the winter.
 

ORIGINAL GUITARIST PETER BLOSSOM RETURNS FOR  AUGUST CONCERT


SUQUAMISH WA. Freddy Pink will perform once again on Agate passage for the Clearwater Summer Concert Series taking place Wednesday August 19th from 6:30 to 8:30.  Last years concert crowd numbered in the neighborhood of three thousand and we are expecting higher numbers this year. 

    The band is happy to announce the return of original guitarist Peter Blossom, one of the founding members of the group. 

  Freddy Pink started on Bainbridge Island twenty-five years ago with the  happenstance meeting of Peter Blossom and Gordon Yancey (Peter and Gordon) while commuting from Seattle to bainbridge Islans by ferry.  Both yancey and Blossom had straight jobs at the time, but both longed to make music, and so they launched Freddy Pink and The Hightops, a ride that would last around five years before Blossom would return to his home state Connecticut.

    Peter and Gordon were recently reunited by e-mail through the passing of a
friend and one time Freddy Pink Member Robbie Jordan, one of the groups Sax players.  They had often talked about reunions, and now after close to twenty years it is finally going to happen.

    The two of them have been sharing original compositions via e-mail and there has been talk of a collboration.  “I always loved making music with Peter, he is truly one of the finest musicians I have worked with in my carreer.  Peter’s playing is what gave Freddy Pink that raw edge, the very reason why the fans loved the band.  Since then his style has become more refined, but that edge is still cutting sharp.  Since working with Freddy Pink Blossom has taken forays into the realms of country, and folk, all of which have culminated with his original blues-rock roots.  His style is more fluid than ever and seems to flow through his fingers as an extension of his heart.  This summers concert attendees are sure to get their ears full of great sounds.  For more info see:


Clearwater Casino Concerts

 

PORTLAND ORE.  Freddy Pink is slated to perform a concert in  the park at Portland’s Lake Oswego July 14th.  The concet, part of a multi-concert series will take place at Foothills Park a short drive from downtown Portland. 

   The band is very happy to be working the Portland area again. Portland is a very hip music town and the poeple in the area truly revere their local talent, so it was a bit of a coup for us to break into their local scene and we promise to not let them down.  The job came to us via agent Becky Strobel of Sterling Talent, Oregon’s premier talent booking agency.  Sterling was also responsible for placng Freddy Pink with PGA Touring golfer Peter Jacobs

    This next year will find Freddy Pink out on the road more tha  ever.  The economic climate that seemed to hit washington last, also appears to be recovering last and the corporate meetings that are Freddy Pink’s bread and butter and have been down considerabley in the Seattle Bellevue area.  Therefore the boys have taken to the road to find employment elsewhere.  They have found great success in Sun Valley Idaho, Montana, and Oregon and plan on expanding in the next year to Minneapolis, Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Denver.

   

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Transatlantic speed record holder Mezzo Forte

Freddy Pink and The Hightops 1984

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