Brock Holmes & Carol Nicotera
along with Doc Benjamin
preform a benefit concert
Where: Ebenezers Coffee House
201 F Street NE
Date: Friday, April 25
Time: 7PM
Suggested Donation: $20
All proceeds go to Restoration Ministries
Brock Holmes & Carol Nicotera perform a remarkable and entertaining repertoire that covers a wide mix of styles, including jazz, pop, blues, country, and swing, with a little rock thrown in for good measure. Brock counts as his musical influences Tommy Emmanuel, Lenny Breau, Joe Pass, Tuck Andress, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Martin Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Fleck, and the Ebo, while Carol numbers Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Patti Austin, Steve Goodman, Wynonna Judd, and Diana Krall among her favorite vocalists.
Brock & Carol have performed in the Washington, DC, area for more than 20 years. They met while doing the Hexagon Musical Revue, for which Brock was the musical director and Carol, a featured soloist. They then sang together in the award-winning vocal ensemble Brock & the Rockets. The Rockets performed to local acclaim and loyal audiences for a decade and gave a sold-out reunion concert at their favorite venue, the Birchmere. The Rockets' self-produced album, Out to Launch, was a sell-out.
Before helping launch the Rockets, Carol appeared in a number of local community-theatre shows, including her 7-year stint with Hexagon. After leaving the Rockets, Carol helped start up a new musical venture, Love & Madness – a four-person vocal ensemble featured in a Washington Post article about the local cabaret scene – that performed in local clubs and in an annual Pops concert with the McLean Symphony. She also takes great pride in having sung the "National Anthem" for several local sports franchises.
Brock has been performing in both private and public venues since the age of 3, when he figured out that "Frere Jacques" has only six notes in it and this was the hardest song he knew. Before coming to Washington, he performed as a singer and instrumentalist in a wide variety of venues, including as soloist in the European premier of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. While in DC, he has been musical director of Hexagon for its 20th and 30th anniversary productions, musical director of Brock & the Rockets, and leader of his polyrhythmic band Rhythm Warrior. He is currently musical director of the 53rd Hexagon show, “Stars and Gripes Forever.”
Under the name of Doc Benjamin, Dr Benjamin Keyes has played music for the last 37 years in coffeehouses, small stages, and churches throughout the country. In 1973 he opened the Ashville Folk Festival in Ashville North Carolina and was the opening act for Richie Havens in 1999 in St Petersburg Florida. He has produced 2 CD’s, one secular the other Christian and has continued to be seen in acoustic venues over the past few years. Doc is a singer/ songwriter with a 60’s/70’s flair and an entertaining perspective on the topics his written about. Cover songs have been reworked to fit his genial style and his favorite has always been the protest songs.
along with Doc Benjamin
preform a benefit concert
Where: Ebenezers Coffee House
201 F Street NE
Date: Friday, April 25
Time: 7PM
Suggested Donation: $20
All proceeds go to Restoration Ministries
Brock Holmes & Carol Nicotera perform a remarkable and entertaining repertoire that covers a wide mix of styles, including jazz, pop, blues, country, and swing, with a little rock thrown in for good measure. Brock counts as his musical influences Tommy Emmanuel, Lenny Breau, Joe Pass, Tuck Andress, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Martin Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, Bela Fleck, and the Ebo, while Carol numbers Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Patti Austin, Steve Goodman, Wynonna Judd, and Diana Krall among her favorite vocalists.
Brock & Carol have performed in the Washington, DC, area for more than 20 years. They met while doing the Hexagon Musical Revue, for which Brock was the musical director and Carol, a featured soloist. They then sang together in the award-winning vocal ensemble Brock & the Rockets. The Rockets performed to local acclaim and loyal audiences for a decade and gave a sold-out reunion concert at their favorite venue, the Birchmere. The Rockets' self-produced album, Out to Launch, was a sell-out.
Before helping launch the Rockets, Carol appeared in a number of local community-theatre shows, including her 7-year stint with Hexagon. After leaving the Rockets, Carol helped start up a new musical venture, Love & Madness – a four-person vocal ensemble featured in a Washington Post article about the local cabaret scene – that performed in local clubs and in an annual Pops concert with the McLean Symphony. She also takes great pride in having sung the "National Anthem" for several local sports franchises.
Brock has been performing in both private and public venues since the age of 3, when he figured out that "Frere Jacques" has only six notes in it and this was the hardest song he knew. Before coming to Washington, he performed as a singer and instrumentalist in a wide variety of venues, including as soloist in the European premier of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. While in DC, he has been musical director of Hexagon for its 20th and 30th anniversary productions, musical director of Brock & the Rockets, and leader of his polyrhythmic band Rhythm Warrior. He is currently musical director of the 53rd Hexagon show, “Stars and Gripes Forever.”
Under the name of Doc Benjamin, Dr Benjamin Keyes has played music for the last 37 years in coffeehouses, small stages, and churches throughout the country. In 1973 he opened the Ashville Folk Festival in Ashville North Carolina and was the opening act for Richie Havens in 1999 in St Petersburg Florida. He has produced 2 CD’s, one secular the other Christian and has continued to be seen in acoustic venues over the past few years. Doc is a singer/ songwriter with a 60’s/70’s flair and an entertaining perspective on the topics his written about. Cover songs have been reworked to fit his genial style and his favorite has always been the protest songs.
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