Life, Love, Legacy ~ Noel Livengood

We love and miss you everyday Noelie. You gave me so many gifts and I plan on sharing them with everyone who loves you. xoxo

Details regarding the Noel Livengood Musical Memorial/CD Release. The date has been set for March 3rd 2012 a Saturday at 6 pm. Downtown W-S at Ziggy's. 

Lots of local musicians have signed up to perform wonderful tributes and friends and family talking about Noel's life, friendship & music. Noel's Tribute band "Hippie House Revival" will perform the new CD also some oldies, but goodies that Noel & his buddies wrote back in the day! We have 6 bands performing and 10 solo/duet's performing!

Video's of never seen musical footage.

We will have VIP seats available for purchase for $50. These tickets will allow entrance, access to the upstairs to sit and mingle with Noel's family, co-workers, lifetime friends and to meet the musicians...also includes CD, Picture and T-shirt or you can purchase a general admission ticket for $10 and then purchase your package of goodies inside at the merchandise table! There will be 3 packages available to choose from for purchase including a CD, T-shirt, & Pictures available at the merchandise table.

Leaving a Legacy of Life, Love & Music!!!!

We will have general admission tickets available to hear regional bands and Nashville recording artist playing us through the night! with the likes of Tammie Davis, Da Mooch and the Serkess Church, , Shield of Salvation, Downpor, Lean In, Lacy Green, Landon Parker, Jamie Carroll, Tommy Jones, Tom Rucker and Hippie House Revival! And many wonderful solo artist...Tyler Nail and the list goes on!

This will be a night you will never forget here in the Triad of NC with more talent in one place than you've ever seen before!

Confirmed Musicians

Solo/Duet

Autumn Hayley Nance
David Willis + 1 (Possum Jenkins)
Jamie Carroll & Tommy Jones
Johnathan Loos
Katelyn Brouwer & Matthew Allivato
Lacy Green
Landon Parker
Taylor Vaden
Tom Rucker
Mr. Tyler Nail

Bands

DownpoR
Lean In
Hippie House Revival
Shield of Salvation
Tammie Davis and Band
Tommy Jones & the Serkess

Members of Hippie House Revival (Noel Livengood's Tribute band)

Whitney Everhart
Tom Rucker
Tim Beeman
Allan Mulwee
Steve Hill
Amy Auman Alford
Autumn Hayley Nance
& special visit by Tommy Jones~



We are currently having a fundraiser to raise money to put on this event. We have to purchase the CD's, T-shirts, photo-books, videos and slide-shows and memorial brochures all for this night. If your heart leads you to donate please do. Contact us for address to mail your donation.

We look forward to seeing you all!

Ziggy's has put together a ticketing booth online as well as hard tickets. Pre-sales have started! Get your tickets early. They will sale out!!! :) Here is the online ticket website.

http://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/onlineSale?action=selectPerformance&performance_id=1587858&cobrand=etixOnline&language=en&country=US

Note from Sumer:
Noel recently joined our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ in Glory land...but his music will live on and be a legacy for his children. This event we are having on March 3rd 2012 will be to start trust funds for his children with all proceeds.

We plan to have an awesome night of Noel's music along with many of our friends in the local music scene singing tributes to Noel and friends telling about his life and of course the Noel Livengood band playing the new CD!

Noel wanted to sell CD's, but most of all Noel wanted to simply "sell a song to Nashville" :) I plan to make that dream come true #1 for Noel, because I love him & want to make his dream happen, but #2 and most important to provide a secure future for his children and a legacy of life, love and music from their father.

Thank you all for being apart of this legacy for Noel!

Rock'n Roll is the new Rock'n Roll!!! Tommy Jones and the Serkess!

ARTIST BIO

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"It's taken Grammy award winning songwriters and hit crafters to make this band," Says Tommy Jones -the lead singer and driving force of the bands material, " I grew up with country music hall of famers and contracted rock song writers that shaped every idea I have. This music is the music they raised me to bring to you."

The Serkess has been described as Rock and Roll rooted. They are at the forefront of the non-genre rock revival. There is obvious country style hook writing, soul style arrangement , old school r and b brashness, a big melodic pop feeling and sheer fire to their sound. 
"While my Father was writing songs for Buck Owens- his band was performing Roy Orbison. Good music was good music to him. Music is a feeling. Not how you dress. That is the message of our band." Says Jones. 
Tommy Jones (born in Sacramento California) has always lived as a working performer. By age five he was a regular on the "Easy living Country" television show, a radio performer with the Southern Empire band and a published song writer. 
"In the five years prior to my birth my Father had a capitol records contract and a mild hit- my Mother was a prominent demo vocalist in Nashville, my Grandfather had founded the Western Swing society and all of them were Television and radio celebrities. I never stumbled onto music. It was how we lived." 
Performing with country ,rock and jazz legends -Jones began playing piano to create a foundation to the songs he was beginning to write with award winning song writers 20,30 sometimes 50 years his senior. His show stopping performances at Jazz Festivals became highlights of the Western Swing concerts and gained much notoriety on the Festival circuits. As a teenager Tommy began to focus on the craft of song writing itself. 
"By 15 many artists had recorded my music. I wasn't aiming for a melded sound. I wanted to work with established performers in many musical fields as a challenge to myself. I was stumbling on to what makes music, lyrics and melody universal. Why some music crosses every bridge and some music doesn't.” 
It was this lesson that became his life obsession. As music continued to create new genre's to pin point demographics, Jones continued to focus on the things that made great music the same.Tommy moved to North Carolina and created relationships with writers from Nashville to New York. While writing a song for an emerging artists album in New York-he found the sound that combined his life's work and the work of the legends he had grown up with. 
"I was writing a song- fall (featured on the upcoming album "Playing with Fire" Tommy Jones and the Serkess' first effort) I was writing for an Americana/ country project- but what I realized is that I had put all of my influences into the same song. I couldn’t pitch it as a country song because it wasn’t but it wasn’t a pop song or an r and b song. It was all those things. That, to me, is Rock N Roll. Everything- anything- it doesn't need three other genres." 
Jones decided immediately to form the right band to create his vision. 
"I needed a group as diverse as myself." He says, “I have a metal rhythm section and a cut throat guitar section. Yet I write all the arrangements on the piano...and basically country influenced lyrics. It's new... because it isn’t being done anymore. Rock N roll is the new Rock N roll.

Playing with Fire 
From the album comes a canvas of well used influences. Shades of giant 60's ballads explode into heavy rock. Driving guitar riffs accompany melodic soul influenced vocals. Hints of Rock Theater can be found- but careful to never alienate. It sounds cutting edge. But it never hides its roots. The music is a celebration of master song writing. It is influenced by the heavy weights of every style and actively blends familiar formulas without ever copying it. They are melodic. They are heavy. They are head nodding... they are fire. 
"This band- The Serkess is my dream band. It's many, many, many styles. But only one type of music. Rock n Roll. I want you to put this music on in 20 years and not just remember where you were, but have it matter in that moment too. That’s when it lasts forever. " 
Tommy Jones has, for a long time, been known as a tireless performer. His marathon level energy is only matched by his musical quality. With the Serkess (Joey Muscles lead guitar- Mahlon Murder - guitar, the BIZ drums- the M -bass,) you get a true rock experience. A brand new revival. BIZ and The M keep beats steady and methodical sometimes, crescendoing into pure panic. Mahlon Murder glues the musical landscape with powerhouse rhythm guitar. And Joey Muscles is a devastating force of shred. They are music lovers. And their fans are music lovers as well. 
"We create music for people that love music. Not for people who dress a certain way- wear certain shoes- or that fall in a specific demographic. It’s for people that love hard working music. We give our all."

There is no doubt that crowds are flocking to the essence of rock music again. Jones has trained his whole life for that moment. For their fans- they know that moment is here. For more info visit www.mooch1music.com

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