Kaleigh Baker and The Downgetters at Ralphfest 2
Orlando (Fla.)
Music--Florida
Musicians--Southern States
Festivals--Southern States
Concerts--United States
Nightclubs--United States
Kaleigh Baker and The Downgetters performing live at Ralphfest 2 at The Beacham Theater, located at 46 North Orange Avenue in Downtown Orlando, Florida, on November 24, 2012. The Downgetters is an all-star band from Orlando, featuring, from left to right, guitarist Brian Chodorcoff, drummer Mark Janssen, vocalist Kaleigh Baker, bassist Mike Kossler, and guitarist Jeff Nolan. The band also includes vocalist/guitarist Joseph Martens and saxophonist/keyboardist Nathan Anderson, neither of whom appear in the photograph. <br /><br />Originally from Western New York, Kaleigh Baker is a jazz/blues/rock singer-songwriter based out of Orlando. Known for her soulful vocal delivery and incredible range, Baker tours relentlessly, sharing the stage with notable performers such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy, Trombone Shorty, Tony Hall, Kevn Kinney, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Boz Scaggs, Juliette Lewis, and Terri Binion. Baker played Janis Joplin in a play entitled, "Janis Joplin, Little Girl Blue," at the 2015 Orlando International Fringe Festival, winning several audience choice awards, including Best of the Fest, Best Female Performer, and Best Show in the Gold Venue.
Lyman, Alicia
Original color photograph by Alicia Lyman, November 24, 2012: <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
Lyman, Alicia
Lyman, Alicia
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The Beacham Theater, Downtown Orlando, Florida
Kaleigh Baker and the Downgetters at The Beacham Theater, 2012
Orlando (Fla.)
Music--Florida
Musicians--Southern States
Concerts--United States
Nightclubs--United States
Rock music--United States
Jazz--United States
Blues (Music)--Florida
Kaleigh Baker and the Downgetters performing live at Ralphfest 2 at The Beacham Theater in Downtown Orlando, Florida, on November 24, 2012. The photograph features, from left to right, guitarist Brian Chodorcoff, drummer Mark Janssen, vocalist Kaleigh Baker, bassist Mike Kossler, and guitarist Jeff Nolan. The Downgetters is an all-star band from Orlando, featuring Baker, vocalist/guitarist Joseph Martens, Chodorcoff, Nolan, Kossler, saxophonist/keyboards Nathan Anderson, and Janssen.<br /><br />Ralphfest is an annual concert festival in Downtown Orlando, Florida, that celebrates the memory and musical influence of Ralph Ameduri, Jr. Ameduri was an Orlando musician who was murdered on September 10, 2011, in a robbery attempt on a patio behind Jessie's Bar, a Winter Haven music club where he was filling in for a member of local band, Thomas Wynn & the Believers. The inaugural concert was arranged to cover his funeral expenses and, since then, proceeds from the events have gone to the Ralph Ameduri, Jr. Music Scholarship Fund, which operates through the Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools, awarding a musical instruments to graduating high school students. Ralphfest 2 took place on November 24, 2012, on three different stages: one at The Beacham Theater, one at The Social, and one at The Outside Elixir Stage on Washington Street. The benefit features 26 bands that Ameduri was part of, worked with, had close ties to, or enjoyed, as well as multiple DJs. Some of the performers included Thomas Wynn & the Believers, The Ludes, Music's Milka Ramos, SUNNY, The Downgetters featuring Kaleigh Baker, Riverbottom Nightmare Band, The Legendary JC's, funkUs, and The Woolly Bushmen. Ralphfest 2 raised $10,000.
Lyman, Alicia
Original color photographs by Alicia Lyman, November 24, 2012: <a href="http://alicialyman.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/CONCERTS-archive/C0000q_kABE1Z.zs" target="_blank">Archive: Concerts Archive</a>, Alicia Lyman.
Lyman, Alicia
Lyman, Alicia
image/jpg
Still Image
The Beacham Theater, Downtown Orlando, Florida