Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins; 510s; George Luzier Boat Builders, Artist Gale Fulton, Fuzion Dance, Irish Rover Pub

This special presentation was produced in high definition by W. edu Tampa St. Petersburg Sarasota. Looking down to the various rumors say it's not the time for the whirring of the green Hey here they'll tell you it's always the time. Boat building the classic old fashioned works of art trying to both build. A woman who's life itself is art and exhilarating former fans. In this volume. Of the Gulf. Coast Journal. Reaction exclusively brought to really generous agreement going down because of the many. Million strong community leaders are going to take down the land. Dear Journal the Gulf Coast knows boats and boat

building and has for centuries. I mean starting back when boat building meant a man and would gouging out the center of a log to make a dugout canoe. Back in those days now of course boat building means many man and machines and high tech materials creating luxurious boats of fiberglass and metal. No. For some people the exceptional people Book Building still means a man and would. See every shape and size and story of the Gulf Coast with a playground. But peppered among the sea of fiberglass pieces. It was truly distinct not because of the sign. But rather because of the. Classic. Beauty. I would describe them as functioning we're.

Functioning works of art made of wood and created by one man. Yeah you can spot law both in the most symbolic spot I'm cavalier not so when you understand the humble beginnings of a man who loves wooden boats as much as George is losing when I think I built my first when I was about 14. 13 or 14. Back in old days if you need a boat that's all we get it we didn't have any money so you built a boat with help from his Uncle Bob. George built Adam an 11 foot sailboat with a canvas sail the mast fashioned from bamboo cane is prone to want to break all fair. So I knew where every patch of Big Bamboo to Bass about a big around. In town was so I didn't have a car so he went on your bicycle on your saw and you cut it off. Well 180 traffic could put it on your shoulder you roll forward it. Yeah. Yeah. It was

different. Kim Sieberg who's been friends with George since 1942 remembers those formative years vividly. He told her I still kept open G Lou and the bill to Dixie which was you know for a kid that age my age I was the ideal 18 foot ball cabin slope. Who would have thought a sailboat built 70 years ago would lead to a lifelong career one that has made George Lazear a legend among wooden boat aficionados. Well he would like this but he probably is nobody's really an artist. And you know there are various things that make you an artist. Devotion to what you do. And a good sense of form and line which all of these things he has. The votes he designs always work. And take him anywhere from prams to powerboat sloops to

sport fisherman you name it. George is probably build it. And there's there's some in town here and as quite a few in Boca Grande and. And as a schooner up in Pensacola. Thirty nine foot kitchen. Casting mean but why would someone devote his life to building a boat out of what seems an impractical and inevitable victim of salt water. It's. They're built right with the right material and everything done right in the last. Oh a long time. The right owners are key to rush Giffords owns under the forty six foot Luzier power boat building one hundred seventy nine. On the second own rate was about five years old. I watched it being built. I want to get a lot of people want to. Help. And when the person decided to sell it.

I was right there and said I'd buy. And I've owned it. Since 80 for. A tour of thunders 30 year old cabin reveals craftsmanship ahead of its time. This here this will all come off and it's just solid full of electrical lines that run up to the flybridge. It's so full that we can't get it 100 percent closed anymore since each boat is customized. George doesn't like to talk price but rest assured these buoyant artworks aren't for the faint of bank accounts. When I first met him he said Russ if you're going to ask me how much it cost. You can't afford it. And. That's what he says to people if you're going to ask a price you know already it to involve a boat. And a JD for now George no longer builds boats but he does help

maintain the fleet of losers that cruise the Gulf Coast waters. Many. On. Line the sing. In the cruise. Ship. Where the breeze Charles. Like you said it was common. Each weekend he travels to Boca Grande to spend leisure time. Where else but on his own 33 foot cutter frigate the boat be 20 years old 70 this month. Sometimes he's joined by other Luzier enthusiasts. A friendly fraternity bonded by a milled of teak nautical Mr Alger and the creative vision of one man. They're all friends and I think all of us just about all of us know each other. A

moat comes up for sale is usually sold. One of the guys or just feels good CMYK says S.M. kept up a Nazi and rundown. With no one to carry on the boatbuilding legacy. The loser vessels will eventually become floating museum pieces timeless priceless advanced in age and resistant to the elements. A true reflection of their creator. I must say. Works of art. And as we often note. There are a lot of works of art on the Gulf Coast visual and performing so as we continue now let us introduce you to a woman that you're going to want to meet. She herself is a work of art.

It's a blessing. It's a freedom to be able to start my day like this. The. The beauty of having my studio on the beach. Is that. I get to walk towards my inspiration. And. If you look at shells on the beach or look at the sky you look at the horizon. It can give you a palette. For the day. Yeah he's. At the water's edge temptation and inspiration. Back in artist Gail Ross. Sometimes I. Would collect the colors. That I think I want to. Try. The funny thing is though you get. Into the studio. Colors and. Once you know. From where they.

Were they began. To make sure that surrounds her inspires her. I have believe you just. Choose I mean Florence. This this or. This. Picture. That I have been provided. Actually. To begin my work. Dale's artwork is a sampler of artistic influences and she likes it that way. I consider myself a bilingual are bilingual in the fact that I speak both languages. Art is a language I speak the abstract language and I can speak to get a fine. Often her contracting styles peacefully coexist on one canvas. Each one containing autobiographical undertones. Did. Her hands have brushed the faces of powerful leaders

that painted modern history. I have had the marvelous opportunity to paint some of the most well-known people and I'm always in awe and I am always hard pressed to not feel like I have a crisis like a fan when I do it but it's my job and I enjoy it. This is the beginning of an abstract self portrait. And its profile and it's not it's only supposed to envelop the textures I feel. Feels real life. Portrait is as colorful as the one on canvas. She grew up in Malden Massachusetts a lower middle class suburb of Boston. My father. And mother. Were both hard working people. He was a body and fender man for a company called very street Motors.

Herman Holden was a natural draft one and a self-taught artist. He was also pale radio star. As to influence. From the time I was a little boy. I remember somebody inside him introducing his children to the doctors. And he said that's my baby R. this. Was written in stone. I never wanted to be another thing. Gayle attended an art Comprehensive High School. Her budding talents earned her a college scholarship. I also got pregnant last that's got us it still promise of promise she kept while raising her. How the creation of some great lost Junior. Gail chose to learn the business side of art receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in the study of museums.

And my hope was to be a curator but a curated needs a Ph.D.. All I wanted to do is paint and paint she did all over the world. My actual lessons in art come from other artistes Parisian artist and Asian itis Peruvian itis. All of these artists make a play. Dale came to Sarasota in 1991 a local art dealer discovered her work in New York. I was the first black artists to show in downtown on Palm. She fell in love with the Gulf Coast. Settling here in 1994 and what I was trying to do is the color. That. They would compliment each other because I tried to do them as a couple. Right. Gallery owner Allan Gallup has been a fan and friend ever since. I feel the same way about her today as I do that that is to say she's

warm and a very generous person. I sighed for her creativity. My whole body of work is one being. Introspective and outspoken. The bilingual artist refuses to stay inside the lines. Something her father was unable to do in my 30s. He took his life. It was because he was a perfectionist and a very imperfect woman. Which makes gate all successes that much more meaningful. Everything I do is a tribute to what he gave me because I think that you never die. Your body goes away in spirit and so every one of my successor misses and nobody can take that away. That's why I do what I do. Perhaps that's why at age 61 gayo is a blur in perpetual

motion. The paint on her Living Canvas never dropped the fall of I'm. Kind of working. Is. Nobody's telling me whether it's ministers not. Just me. So I'm my boss and I'm my worst critic. But. As you can see. I'm very blessed. I am sitting here. Playing like a child. Making a living. Blessed with fond memories and nature's influences. The colors of Gail Fulton Ross will never fade. She. Speaking of the arch let us continue on that line to find a group of performing

artists that you may never have heard of. But we think you ought to. Share a photo of a city with an appreciation of the good things in life. Museums ballet opera not to mention good beat. Feet lamest Bolanos Willmott one I'm sure a soldier's favorite movers and shakers. She is co-founder of fusion wrong Sharon so it was with a contemporary dance company. Q son I mean. The dance company is. You know I am it's a group of individuals artists people that come together and share ideas and connecting with the community. I'm sharing as much as we can and parallel. As a Florida teenager. Les Mis was fortunate enough to attend a performance of the Alvin

Ailey American Dance Theater. It was a life altering experience. I remember saying Oh I can do this. I can even do that possibly nationally because there are people out there with darker skin color their shape was muscular and looked different it was in a field you know pale yellow European you know ascetic How do I fare properties like you cut me out on that with all of future dancers share a commitment to the essence of what makes them more than just a spectator sport. The Nigerians have this proverb that say people walk you can dance and you can talk a good sing. But why contemporary because contemporary has a history of being a pedestal of being the stage for expression. It's time for Sarasota to to have. That voice and you know. And that. Oh. And clearly Sarasota is ready as shark magazine named

lamest and a 2008 hot topic leading to a gala event and performance at the Sarasota Opera House. For Q magazine contacted fusion dance artist. To. Interpret some of their hot topics that they would be showcasing their issues and then I brought them to the company and created little vignettes. And. We turned it into a piece. In the same. Format. I would say my first. Teacher was. Dancing with me and her mother when Ramos was rejected from the dance program at the Miami magnet school she didn't waste any time dancing around the subject. Human mom she was like my childhood. She got. My start you know started dance training and ballet.

True to her background lamest teachers a variety of community classes and is an adjunct faculty member of Cheryl shoulders arch Magnet School Drop your pelvis is underneath you roll up through the spy. Reaching reaching energy out through the fingertips. She really does embrace her culture and much of her appreciation for her culture is apparent in the way that she moves and she does make it clear to students where everything comes from and how that's tied into her hair back. White said. When she comes. Here really helps you individually. When I met her she helped me to open up to people and people as we change. And it really does help to become a better dancer.

Well. It. Was. The same. Opening my opening opportunities. With the newest Willmott does well for them unity all the better for us. And finally then one more example of the Performing Arts along the Gulf Coast on the variety there of. Actually it's more than just performing art it's a it's a happy feel good kind of music that most people enjoy. Whether or not there are those to don a bit of the green come mid-March. Says. STRANGER. We all get along. With the family. One big happy family that got its start on a New England golf course

when two friends vowed to escape the cold winters for Florida didn't really know a whole lot about. Us. Except me and I get a side of the counter. You know you learn quickly. After. All Duffy And Bobby Vesey have made up for a long time. For nothing. Born in Dublin. Specially the first generation Irish-American from New York with the Irish Rover called the Burmese musicians and Ross banker interest so. Great. It's like home now to be honest with you. It's got so many regulars and people coming out just to really enjoy themselves and we grew up singing to them get to see them really have a good time really enjoying ourselves and they have fun. We have let. Us. Have they are saying. Quote. Not surprising this good ship of farm has signed on a loyal group.

That's like a home away from home for me because I'm from Derry in Northern Ireland. Find out these are the kind of pubs I used to go to and I think coming musician I play in pubs. And out and I can hear and heard the music I'm like haha. I'm home. I don't like a candidate. Now to say oh Ireland. This is Michael second home. Didn't scream to her. Side when he did so. We're trying to really recreate what. Would have been going on let's say in Ireland from the 60s 60s and 70s when Irish music was really fragile. You know it sounds funny but Irish music now in Ireland is kind of on the back burner. You know it's all rock n roll rhythm blues and all that kind of stuff and you know. You have to really look hard for Irish music. Snow the city. But not in Sarasota on a side street animals prefer mall. But try color marks the spot. I think.

Audience participation this. Is. An Irish music. It makes the song and it makes you know obviously makes people feel like they belong. To Buffy and Bob eventually have not only transplanted the music of the Emerald vial they've managed to recreate the Irish pub experience. After the hour. Now chronicling. How far. They are. In the Company areas from or send them down to the very small business know the songs they sing along with us and. We get the drum going it's called the bow run and really lift the spirit up and that everybody leaves with a happy face him to be sure. The thing about the average public thing. The fun. The laughing everybody just gets along. Your family. Is a lot of fun. Like the folks of. Irish public house Think back to the Middle Ages. Since I did

not require a membership to eat or drink it became a popular choice of the working class. The common item. Is the social focal point so to speak. You know. Everything revolves around. I know that sounds terrible. It's the truth. You know you want to do anything in the school see it after the game and see if it's raining outside. Let's hear. The charm and friendly atmosphere of the traditional Irish pub remained popular today so popular they have been copied all over the world. May you be in heaven. An hour before the Devil Knows You're. Here on the Florida Gulf Coast the Irish Rovers home port his Sarasota. Team running. The sets. Thanks for being with us for this Ronnie mobile Gulf Coast Journal. We began by talking about boats we've been talking about art. Let us finish by showing you the art that boats and sun and water themselves create.

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