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T H E S M I T H E R E E N S
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INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS
with RAY SHASHO
Founded in New Jersey in 1980, The Smithereens have been creating electrifying, original rock’n’roll for 39 years. Jim Babjak (guitar,) Dennis Diken (drums,) and Mike Mesaros (bass) grew up together in Carteret and lead singer, the late Pat DiNizio, hailed from Scotch Plains. The band paid its dues in clubs all over the NYC tri-state area from Kenny’s Castaways in Greenwich Village to the Court Tavern and Stone Pony in NJ. As The Smithereens’ fame escalated, they were in heavy rotation on MTV and appeared on The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien, and Saturday Night Live. They’ve since performed on stages coast to coast from the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles to the Meadowlands Arena in NJ to Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, and internationally from Europe to Australia. Tour mates have included Tom Petty, Squeeze, The Pretenders, Lou Reed, and Ramones, among others.
The Smithereens’ take no prisoners sound, reflecting their Garden State roots, has resonated with fans worldwide over the course of 17 albums and 2500+ live shows. Their most recent release, COVERS, features 22 of the bands favorite songs first recorded by other artists. They've also inspired generations of musicians, including Kurt Cobain, who counted The Smithereens as a major influence on Nirvana.
And with the 2017 passing of Pat DiNizio, the surviving members have decided to persevere and carry on their shared musical legacy. Using guest vocalists including Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms and Marshall Crenshaw, they continue to entertain and rock fans all over the U.S. and the world!
Purchase the most recent album from The Smithereens entitled ‘Covers’ at amazon.com
C O V E R S
BY THE SMITHEREENS
TRACK LISTING
- The Game of Love (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)
- The Slider (T. Rex)
- Ruler of My Heart (Irma Thomas)
- Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs)
- Let’s Talk About Us (Otis Blackwell)
- Girl Don’t Tell Me (Beach Boys)
- Up In Heaven (The Clash)
- Time Won’t Let Me (The Outsiders)
- Gloomy Sunday (Billie Holiday)
- Yer Blues (Beatles)
- One After 909 (Beatles)
- I Want to Tell You (Beatles)
- It Don’t Come Easy (Ringo Starr)
- Well Alright (Live) (Buddy Holly)
- Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home (The Kinks)
- World Keeps Going ‘Round (The Kinks)
- Downbound Train (Bruce Springsteen)
- The Seeker (The Who)
- Something Stupid (Frank and Nancy Sinatra)
- Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)
- The Stroll (The Diamonds)
- Shakin’ All Over (Johnny Kidd and the Pirates)
UPCOMING SHOWS
19 Sat Oct
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in Pawling NY
Daryl's House Club
26 Sat Oct
THE SMITHEREENS: A NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME CELEBRATION AT THE STONE PONY
The Stone Pony
27 Sun Oct
THE SMITHEREENS NJ HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
Asbury Park Convention Hall
01 Fri Nov
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in Natick, MA
The Center For Arts In Natick
02 Sat Nov
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in East Greenwich, RI
The Greenwich Odeum
15 Fri Nov
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in Port Washington, NY
Jeanne Rimsky Theater
30 Sat Nov
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in Tarrytown, NY
Tarrytown Music Hall
20 Fri Dec
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in Scituate, MA
River Club Music Hall
18 Sat Jan
THE SMITHEREENS w/ROBIN WILSON in New York City
Sony Hall
07 Sat Mar
THE SMITHEREENS w/MARSHALL CRENSHAW in West Long Branch, NJ
Head Strength & Performance Coach
Mike Niklos
Strength and Conditioning Coach: Northern Illinois University
3x All-American in Football / Illinois State Powerlifting Champion
Training Background: Mike was a Division 1 Strength Coach for 3 years with Robert Morris University and Northern Illinois University, where he oversaw and implemented workouts for the Tennis, Wrestling, Basketball, Soccer, Football, and Baseball teams. Mike was a part of the staff that helped trained Robert Morris’s basketball to get into the NCAA Tournament in 2010. Mike has also trained under multiple NFL Strength Coaches including former Cleveland Browns Strength Coach Tom Mylinski. Mike also assisted in training a Gold Medalist Olympian (Breianne McLaughlin – US Women’s Hockey) during his time before coming to Acceleration.
Professional: Mike ran a 4.38 for NFL scouts and was invited to the Pittsburgh Steelers Rookie Camp in 2007. He also spent time with arena football’s Chicago Rush. In 2011, Mike won the State Championship in powerlifting.
College: Mike was a standout cornerback for the Robert Morris University football team. He finished his career as a 3 time Div 1 All-American. He also placed 2nd All-Time in the NCAA for pass defenses.
High School: Mike was a 4 sport athlete in high school, playing football, wrestling, track, and baseball. Mike earned All-State and All-American (Scout.com) awards his senior year of football and led his high school team twice to the State Championship.
Fitness Expert, Entertainer, Author & Keynote Speaker
June created and co-instructed the Fitness Programs for Fitness Ambassador Martina Navratilova’s National AARP Conventions, and has appeared onstage and television with Jack LaLanne, Richard Simmons, Forbes Riley, and host of Daytime, Cindy Edwards. She teaches regularly for the YMCA, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, as well as rotaries, clubs, businesses, churches, private and special events.
June was recently featured on WFLA News Channel 8 and awarded the title of "A Great Inspiration!", one of 3 finalists in both the 2016 and 2017 Salt & Pepper Awards given by the Senior Connection Center of Tampa, Florida, is a member of the International Council of Active Aging, Better Living for Seniors, the National Fitness Hall of Fame and won Ms. Florida Senior America 2012 Fan Favorite. June is an ambassador for Tampa Bay, a longtime member of Visit Tampa Bay, and a commercial actor/lifestyle model regularly appearing on television and health and wellness infomercials and commercials. June was a semi-finalist in the Bright Stars Network Senior Talent Show, awarded Toastmasters International Competent Communicator, a Healthy Heroes Nominee for Workplace Fitness, is a 10 year participant in the National Weight Control Registry, and was listed in Tampa Bay's Best Magazine for "People with Style!"
June’s book, “Tips by Kittay” was published in 2007. Her wellness articles have appeared in health and fitness magazines and newspapers both locally and nationally. She is often heard on local and national health radio shows. Her message, professed since 2004, is simple,“Keep on Movin!”
With a Bachelor of Science in Education from State University of New York College at Buffalo and former elementary teacher, June continues her mission to help educate, inspire and motivate everyone she meets, encouraging all to live a healthy, active and engaged life.
June practices what she preaches; instilling in others the value of exercise.
"Our bodies were created for movement; we are a system of wheels within wheels, meant to rotate and revolve on a daily basis.”
June’s Philosophy of Life is simple:
Eat real food. Go outside and play. Hang around with the right people in the right places. Say your prayers. Get plenty of sleep. “You can't fool Mother Nature!”
June’s daily prayer:
“Lord Let Me Live Each Day Trying to Accomplish Something, Not Merely to Exist!”
Contemporary Artist, Photographer, Multicultural exhibitionist
SHEININA RAJ
A prodigy Sheinina Raj was tabbed, unwittingly by her High School Art teacher to attend Canada’s prestigious Emily Carr University of Art + Design saving Sheinina from the brink of betraying her vocation to the leading edge of Contemporary Art making worldwide.
With twenty years of experience Raj’s professional career began in Toronto when the Art Director of Access Music Magazine asked her to photograph the 1998 Canadian Hip Hop scene. A legacy of Photographic artwork that graced the walls of the McMichael’s Canadian Art Collection Gallery. Available nationwide the Everything Remains Raw hardcover book published by McMichael’s features a Prelude written by Sarah Stanners the Director of Curatorial & Collections who references Raj’s art as important to Canada as the Group of 7. For this exhibition the Toronto Now Magazine’s feature story headlined Raj’s photography as “Iconic” for Canada.
In 2001 Grey McGear Modern the Los Angeles based gallery that represented Raj’s artwork called with
news that her exhibition had sold out, followed by a request for her to move to LA and continue to develop her international reputation.
Since then Sheinina has reopened Chinatown Los Angeles with her photographic light paintings projected onto Cirque Du Soleil performers and the architecture that frames Chung King Road. Her vision for a virtual park in the courtyard of the A+D Architecture and Design Museum served as an environment that came to life and aired as NBC’s Today in LA cover story. As the A/V Producer of the Genii Awards Raj projected her visual artwork onto the Skirball Cultural Center Auditorium creating the backdrop for Jay Leno as he honored Betty White with the coveted Life Time Achievement Award.
Raj continues her passion for arts and culture with Intercultural, an immersive vision and sound art experience that features a quadrophonic collaboration by Nelly Furtado. The conceptually rigorous detailed portfolio explores diversity through a collection of self-portraiture featuring artist Sheinina Raj arrayed in the traditional finery of 24 nations. Respectfully a humanitarian call for Sheinina, she stands to enlighten cultural ideologies, initiate respect for diversity and unify humanity for a peaceful coexistence worldwide.
In 2016 Sheinina launched the touring exhibition at the Elaine Fleck Gallery in Toronto prior to New York in 2017. As the destination exhibition at the Miami Design Preservation League Art Deco Museum Raj was honored with an Intercultural Day Proclamation from the City of Miami Beach. With the gracious support from Global Affairs Canada and the Embassy of Canada to the United Arab Emirates Intercultural exhibited at World Art Dubai where Sheinina received the “Most Innovative Artist” Award.
The Prime Minister of Canada the Right Honorable Justin Trudeau stated Sheinina Raj’s Intercultural art exhibition as, “The Best”.
The British Council awarded Sheinina Raj as a Presenter for her Intercultural Poster shown at their 2018
Going Global Conference Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Having met with Ingrid Leary of the British Council NZ Raj was commissioned to join the “A” team as a Fijian Artist for the launch of the opening plans for the new National Gallery of Contemporary Arts Fiji. Sheinina’s visual art projection on the exterior of the architecture spoke of ancestry, present day and a peaceful vision for the future.
Artist Talks with Knight Foundation Director of Communications Anusha Alikhan and LA Weekly Art Critic Shana Nys Dambrot have brought art to the forefront of dialogue discussing culture and identity, while encouraging a peaceful union in galleries and museums across America.
Unanimously Art Critics from, Miami Herald, Miami New Times, Huffington Post, Argonaut News and Fiji Sun have given Sheinina Raj critical acclaim.
A decorated artist Raj is a recipient of the 2018 International Photography Awards celebrated at Carnegie Hall in New York City. As the Tokyo International Foto Awards Gold Award winner Sheinina’s awarded artwork exhibited at the Shibuya Cultural Center, Japan, Feb. 2019.
Intercultural will next exhibit at the Lois Lambert Gallery at Bergamot Station May 2020 followed by the UN Head- quarters in Geneva with Fiji as the Host Nation in June 2020.
Native American Flutist
DEBRA DELAHUNTY
Debra was born in Huntington Beach,CA and was always drawn to the Native American way of life.
In 2009, Debra met Peter Lovio (Yaqui), (who became a close friend and her mentor), at Redbirds Children of Many Colors Powwow. He took her by the hand and introduced her to a flute maker and told her, “This is your next Spiritual Journey.” At that time she didn’t understand what he meant until the following week when she was at an open mic and he told her she was going to play. After she played (never playing an instrument before) she understood what he meant as it came natural to her.
Debra has put out one CD, and seven (7) years later plays her flutes for meditations, weddings and Celebrations of Life. You can also hear her play every third (3rd) weekend of July at Redbirds Children of Many Colors Powwow Flute icrcle, held at Moorpark College in Moorpark, CA where her journey began, and in December in Simi Valley, CA at Redbirds Blanket, School Supply and Toy Drive for the children on the Pine Ridge Reservation, SD.
Debra Delahunty is a big supporter of the Shadow Land Foundation, where her CDs can be purchased and the money will go to help the foundation provide wolf education for children of all ages. Inquire about the CDs and the wolves at their website.
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