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Suenalo Live at The Green Parrot Bar in Key West 5/29/10

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Easy Rider - Holy Modal Rounders - If You Want to Be a Bird

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Suenalo Live at The Green Parrot Bar 5/28/10 part 2

Suenalo Live at The Green Parrot Bar 5/28/10 part 3

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Suenalo Last Night BringsTheir 10-piece funk/afro-latin/jam band to the Parrot Stage

Suenalo, the Miami-based 10-piece Afro-Latin-funk-jam band
explodes on to The Green Parrot Stage with its polyrhythmic display of
funk, mambo, hip-hop, and jam-band-style





Green Parrot patrons will be dancing, twisting and shouting for three
pelvis-grinding nights as Suenalo brings a their 10-piece funk /
afro-beat / jam band to the Parrot stage.





a barrage of
music that's simultaneously Afro-Cuban, Dominican hip-hop, R&B,
Latin-Funk, Cuban Rhumba, and Colombian Cumbia.

Sailor Jerry Rum Brand Ambassador Lisa Hare Pays a Visit to The Parrot

Sailor Jerry Rum Brand Ambassador Lisa Hare pays a visit to The Parrot as a guest of Premier Beverage.
Here she clutches some of Bob Sexton's homegrown tomatoes as Tommy The Fisherman (left) and  Premier Beverage Salesperson, our own Vicki Roush (right), looks on.

That's some tomato from  Bob the Farmer. Who knew?


No, that's some tomato, I haven't seen a fruit or vegtable that suggestive since the Radish Festival in Oaxaca.



Lisa has an idea for Parrot bartender Annie B.


In a few moments we have have a Sailor Jerry Bloody Mary, I can't remember if we called it a Sailor Mary or a Bloody Jerry, but Cecil and Vicki gave it an A+ and said it needs to be on our menu.
Also discussed was a Green Parrot Big Screen showing of  "Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry", the Sailor Jerry documentary, on a date soon to be announced. Breakout the red carpet and velvet ropes. We already have the popcorn.

Lisa and 915 bartender Ian Rowan with their respective love apples.

Suenalo on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 28th, 29th, and 30th

Suenalo, the Miami-based 10-piece Afro-Latin-funk-jam band
explodes on to The Green Parrot Stage with its polyrhythmic display of
funk, mambo, hip-hop, and jam-band-style on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, May 28th, 29th, and 30th with shows beginning at 10 P.M.
Green Parrot patrons will be dancing, twisting and shouting for two
pelvis-grinding nights as Suenalo brings a their 10-piece funk /
afro-beat / jam band to the Parrot stage.
Any Parrot patron present for Suenalo's past Parrot shows will remember a barrage of
music that's simultaneously Afro-Cuban, Dominican hip-hop, R&B,
Latin-Funk, Cuban Rhumba, and Colombian Cumbia.
Suenalo promises to have Parrot dancers on their feet till the wee hours.

Created in 2002 in the vibrant neighborhood of Little Havana, Suénalo
has won legions of loyal fans and recently garnered Best Local Latin
Rock Band honors from the Miami New Times where they were dubbed as the source of Miami's best new spin on
rock, Latin or otherwise.
The group's 10 members form a multicultural
cocktail, a crashing wave of African beats, reggae, dancehall, and samba that makesSuenalo one of the most eclectic bands to emerge from Miami in years.
A true musical melting pot, Lead singer Amin DeJesus is Miami-Dominican. Drummer and singer Fabio Patiño is Mexican; conga player Alan Ramos is Puerto Rican; keyboardist Tony Laurencio and sax player Juan Turros are Miami Cubans; guitarist Gerard Glecer is Massachusetts French.. Chicago's man in Suenalo is trombonist Chad Bernstein. Other cities, states, and nations may not have a guy in his band, but they are there in spirit: The ensemble employs rhythms from Brazil to Jamaica, including samba, cumbia, rumba, son, hip-hop,and reggae mainly focusing on fusing Afro-beat and Latin rhythms with funk and rhythm and blues.
Melded with horns and gyrating, wah wah-peddled guitars Suénalo's
celebratory jam session becomes an addictive fusion of Afro-Latino
rhythms and American funk that makes one jump in joyful praise.

Astute Parrot regulars will recognize Suenalo's trombone player, Chad
Berstein, as the conch shell virtuoso/trombone player in the Spam
Allstars' horn section when they blew the doors off the place on their last Parrot gig.
The Green Parrot Bar is your Southernmost Center for Culture of All
Kinds, at the corner

of Whitehead and Southard Streets. For additional information call The
Green Parrot at 294-6133.

Key West Burlesque Bike Parade at The Green Parrot

Key West Burlesque 2nd Annual Bike Parade ...7 miles….5 Bars…

Key West Burlesque Bike Parade Hits The Green Parrot

At High noon today, in what could be billed as a Subway Series, The Green Parrot squares off against Cowboy Bill's.Let's Go Get 'Em!

Harking back to the Glory Days of  Roddy, Frenchy,  Jimbo, Buco, Joe Dog, Fireball Frank and John,  the Parrot is again within striking distance of the championship cup. At High noon today, in what could be billed as a Subway Series,  The Green Parrot squares off against Cowboy Bill's. Let's Go Get 'Em!The Green Parrot Bar, 

The First Grand Champions

of The Southermost Bocce League: 

"They Can't Take That Away From Us"

Seeing a recent post on the Solares Hil blog noting the Southernmost Bocce League's role as the only true level playing field in town (no pun intended) brought back a host of memories from the early years on the league. Our old friend Brita Brooks took some great black and white photos back then.
This one was, we agreed, one of our favorites.
Pictured at the bocce courts are Fireball Frank, Jimbo the plumber, and Jimbo's son Ian.

And here it is, Symbol of one of the great stories in Key West Sports History. The Championship trophy from the First Southernmost Bocce Season. I thought it was on the shelf at the bar all this time but Buco says hell no, he's had it all along and has been taking the thing on tour for the last two decades like it was the Stanley Cup.

Frenchy sports his vintage bocce shirt affirming our status as the inaugural champs of the league...the Parrot equivalent to the Masters Green Blazer I guess

The inscription on the front Frenchie's shirt... what can I say... we all voted on it...I guess.

I managed to find a few old photos from that Championship Match between The Green Parrot and Big Ed's Water Company, held on the old courts on Truman Avenue. That match now viewed by Key West Bocce Fans through the same gauzy lense as the Giants-Colts Yankee Stadium Matchup of yore..sporting a form right of a grecian urn, Buco lets one fly.

John rolls one. That's Sal from the Sons of Italy on the right, a seminal figure in the Southermost Bocce League. It was Sal's idea to hold a bocce tournament at the Sons of Italy Columbus Day Festa that was the inspiration and became the prototype for the S'most Bocce League. Sal commisioned us to build the court for that first tournament and having absolutly no idea how big a court was or what it was made of, and time being of the essence, we did what we always did in those days, all went back to the bar to discuss it at length, into the wee hours. We wound up making a late-night, long-distance call to the Overbrook Club, an Italian-American Social Club in West Philadephia where I remember watching much Bocce as a child. From this beer-soaked bar-to-bar conversation was gleaned enough information to begin construction of the Bayview Park court (yes, their was only one) the next morning. I'll never forget that in closing our conversation with the guys from the Overbrook Club, one gentleman could not help but add, in the most formal of tones, "I would like to announce that the Overbrook Club defeated South Philadelphia for the City Championship this year". As an aside to this story I'd like to add that we barely completed the court on time and not only did the Parrot team compete in that first tournament but our team was dispatched so quickly by the competition that day that we returned to the bar defeated (and this is what makes our run to the title that year such a stunning one) before the place was even open.
Sal was also the major player, along with Big Ed of course, in the inception of The Big Ed Rule. To my knowledge still the only rule of etiquette in the league.

While The Parrot team and some fans ( left to right: Frenchy, Bob With The Eyes, Roddy, Valerie and Joe Dog) chart the next beer run. A Spartan scene for the finals in the playoffs...a far cry from the carnival-like atmosphere that pervades playoff games today.

...Big Ed Orlando (of the Big Ed Rule fame) and Nilo Albury chart some strategy...with little sucess, I might add.

The Carter Brothers Bring NewGrass to Green Parrot

Sons of North Carolina, and pioneers of emerging folk-rock,bluegrass/newgrass, The Carter Brothers Tim and Danny will make areturn appearance to The Green Parrot Bar on Saturday, May 22nd, with shows at 5:30 and 10 P.M., and Sunday, May 23rd at 5:30 P.M.

True American originals, Tim and Dan are blood related to A.P.,Sarah and Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family musical dynasty butthey don't make a big deal out of it. Like their momma, who taught them to rinse collard greens in the Maytag, they make their new oldtimey music with tried and true ingredients and modern appliances.There might be dumbek and wah~wah banjo but it still comes out "PrettyPolly". Loosen your screws a few turns and enjoy the music of theCarter Brothers"! Think:acoustic/electric Led Zeppelin jamming withEarl Scruggs

Intrepid musical warriors and travelers aroundplanet...bringers of brief moments of love, happiness and bliss...andthe Creators of their very own unique"appalachianfolkrockfunkedupbluegrassgypsyblues"...music, their latestCD called "Cracks In the Floor" features their late friend and mentor,legendary fiddle player Vassar Clements.Their latest CD called "Cracks In the Floor" features their latefriend and mentor, legendary fiddle player Vassar Clements. The Green Parrot Bar is your Southernmost Center for New GrassCulture at the corner of Whitehead and Southard Streets.For additional information call The Green Parrot at 294-6133