Cooper Battle of the Bands 2012

Cooper Battle of the Bands will be held in Clermont inside Cooper Memorial
on the Lake Sumter College Campus, May 5th 2-4pm

You must sign-up before April 2nd

First Place- $300
Second Place-$200
Third Place-$100

open to ages 13-20

To enroll online send your name and your band info to Lisa P.
Subject “BOTB sign-up” <lpiper@lakeline.lib.fl.us>;

More details to come…

Trash 2 Fashion 2011 Results

Saturday we gathered for the 2nd annual Trash To Fashion Runway Show at Cooper Memorial Library in Clermont. The contest was without a lack of unique display's of creative earth friendly designs from wonderful local designers.Our MC was the beautiful Lucienne Diver author of the Vamped series who, as always, did a fabulous job and kept the audience's attention from wavering.

 As any event there are changes and the scheduled performance from Gemeni was canceled as they could not make the event, but where they failed to perform The comedy Troupe The VaudeVillians stole the show with their 40's inspired improv comedy, keeping the crowd laughing, they played their roles well and I will put a 'recommend' next to the VV. If you didn't make it to this year's T2F then catch them at the Clermont Moonlight Theatre.

At the Photo Wall both contestants and show-goers could have their turn at the the Trash to Fashion Photo wall having pictures taken and printed on-site not only of their wonderful designs but also with Lucienne and The VaudeVillians. 

 In the 11-15 age category Logan Covington walked away with the first place spot wearing a soda pop bodice with newspaper roll skirt and soda can belt, Second place winner was a group of designers which included Abbie Columbus, Summer Stilton and Taylor Stagg, The designed a coffee filter dress, newspaper belt and garbage bag with coke tab bodice, third place was Juliet Patterson who looked fantastic in a graduation gown sleeve skirt, tissue box belt and pipe cleaner necklace.

Our First place in the Ages 16 to 25 category was Margeaux Graham with a wallpaper and table cloth dress with wallpaper flower accents.  Second place goes to Aubrey Covington with a trash bag bodice and water label skirt with origami accents. In third place was Cassandra Bell wearing a festive dress from recycled chip bags.

This was a wonderful event and again a thank you goes out to all our fantastic contestants and everyone that worked on this event as well as a Special thanks to Judy Buckland and of course Cooper Memorial for allowing us to have the event for a second time in their facility.  

Live @ the Plaza

For the first time Some awesome band's will be coming together performing live at the Plaza in Orlando on October 15th and it's a must-see concert. A Hero's Fate has aquired a large following since 2007  touring the US with their pop/punk style. Chasing Thrill  has earned a spot at Taste of Chaos and the Warped Tour even scoring in the top 5 unsigned bands from SmartPunk.com with their powerpop/rock sound. Gemeni is the 5 piece alternative rock Orlando based band giving a gothic spin on their pop/rock sound with songs like 'Trapped' and 'Stake in the heart'. Fronted by twin sisters Gina and Lisa gomez who you can catch performing acoustially at this years Trash to Fashion on October 22nd at Cooper Memorial.

A Hero's Fate: http://www.purevolume.com/aherosfate
Chasing Thrill: http://www.purevolume.com/chasing_thrill
Gemeni: http://www.reverbnation.com/gemeni

Battle of the Bands 2011 Results

Battle of the Bands 2011
Friday Night we gathered at the Wesley Center in DownTown Clermont to watch as 5 of the best bands in Florida battled it out for $500 at the end of the Night!

Our Guest MC  for the night was the beautiful Lucienne Diver, the best selling author of Vamped, Revamped and Bad Blood. She did a fabulous job throughout the entire night.

Kicking off the night was the band Set The Score, followed by the guy's of Fallback 16,  then taking the stage was Radagun  proceeded by the Hard Rockers of DeadBolt Revival and closing the night was a fun performance by the punk/rockers of Vagrant Undertow!

  The night's big winners were announced by our MC Lucienne Diver as 2nd place went to Vagrant Undertow and first place and winner of $500 was  DeadBolt Revival!

With Great Bands; Set The Score, FallBack 16, Radagun, DeadBolt Revival and Vagrant Undertow the show had great music and sensational talent. And another BIG thanks to  Chick-fil-a, Lake County Libray System, Lake Front TV, First United Methodist Church and Lucienne Diver!

BOTB's promo Aug. 5th 2011

The Wesley Center, Clermont Fl August 5th @ 6pm

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lake County Battle Of The Bands 2011

Update!!!!

For those of you that don't want to wait in-line the day of show to get your tickets, GOOD NEWS you don't have to! You can get your tickets in advance Through NewBeginningslake.org  at The Wesley Center for only $5 and the tickets will be mailed directly to your house, Gotta love modern technology. But don't worry you may also purchase your tickets at the door for only $7. 

For your added enjoyment you will be able to purchase T-shirt's and CD's from some of the band's including; The Real, Vagrant Undertow, Set The Score and the band Radagun who will offer their posters for FREE yupp  I said FREE:) 

Now one more bit of exciting information two of the band's performing; 'The Real' and 

'Set The Score' are both in the running for the Ernie Ball 15 contest so scroll on over to their band

profiles take a listen and VOTE! Then come see them live at The Wesley Center on Friday,
August 5th @6pm DownTown Clermont!  
 vote for The Real for the Ernie Ball 15: 

 Vote for Set The Score for the Ernie Ball 15: