Fire Club jazz features Flora Eyster, Steve Mitchell and Andy Seal along with central PA guests including Jay Umble (jazz guitar), Steve Rudolph (jazz piano), Steve Adams (jazz piano), Doug McMinn (sax), Joel Vincent (drums), Tim Breon (upright bass) and Ann Kerstetter (vocals). Fire Club jazz covers classical jazz standards with male and female vocals. Professional sound technician Keith Hummel ("PA Musician") is our guy. Fire Club merges Andy Seal's psychedelic and smooth classical, acoustic upright and electric bass with Eyster's flutes revealing a NYC loft background and Steve Mitchell's west coast drum and percussion sensibilities. The result is awesome live, event and soundtrack music-- most of the soundtracks are too large for upload, being Sun Ra-style events. Please DO have a FULL listen to "Maiden Voyage, " you'll be glad you did. The band posts events at all news links and at Billtown Live in Williamsport, PA at the inimitable www.billtownlive.com (See bios below) OUR SUPPORTIVE VENUES/Address, Phone (570 Area Code) Bullfrog Brewery- 231 W. Fourth Williamsport 326-4700 Emmas Food for Life- 11 S. Market St. Selinsgrove 374-0178 Cherry Alley CafÃ- 21 N. Third St. Lewisburg 524-1234 Old Forge Brewing Company- 282 Mill St. Danville 275-8151 Selins Grove Brewing- 121 N. Market St. Selinsgrove 374-7308 Puirseils Irish Pub- 15 S. Sixth St. Lewisburg 523-600 Front Street Station, 2 Front Street, Northumberland 473-3626 ABC Brewing 50 N. Cameron St., Hbg 717 221-1080 Owens Farm, 2611 Mile Post Rd. Sunbury 286-5309 Page After Page 336 Market St. Lewisburg 524-7243 Elk Creek Cafà and Brew Works Main St. Millheim 814 349-88 West End Library, 45 Ball Park Road Laurelton 922-4773 Manley-Bohlayer Heritage Farm, off Route 414 East Canton NEWS: PRESS BACKGROUND Flora Eyster Bio Flutist and Community Arts Activist A Pa Partners on the Arts Grant Award winner for five consecutive years, Eyster graduated from Bard College (B.A.) and studied flute and musical composition with Patricia Spencer, Joan Tower, Ben Boretz (Founder, The Princeton Review) and Luis Garcia Renart while in the music program at Bard. She studied music improvisation for performance and dance with Roswell Rudd while at Bard College. In Boston for 11 years, Eyster studied with Matt Marvuglio at Berklee Performance Center. Living in Hamburg, Germany for three years, Eyster promoted LA and NYC bands and solo artists, Emily Hay, Anna Homler, Brad Dutz, as well as Elliot Sharp and Zena Parkins. Upon return to the US in 1992, Eyster started Flora Productions The Musical Entertainment Network which matched over 150 Pennsylvania acts and artists to 35 newly-created venues within PA. The Network business was sold in 2002. Eyster then started Flora Eyster’s Pro Musicians Entertainment which strictly promotes the original recording and engagement work for her compositions and entertainment with Celtica; The Little Paris Jazz Trio; The Classical Jazz Band; Steve Mitchell, Percussionist; Steve Mitchell/Andy Seal/Flora Eyster film compositions and placement, and Flora Eyster, soloist. Pro Musicians is celebrating 19 years in the entertainment business in 2012. Eyster was the primary composer for the Lake Placid Film Festival spot produced by Flexible frame Productions in Lewisburg, PA. This spot for the Lake Placid Film Festival features live appearances by Martin Scorsese (director Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Departed), Mathew Modine (actor Full Metal Jacket), and Bill Plympton (animator Hair High). Her work, along with Award-winner, Steve Mitchell, (duo) is also featured in the multi award-winning short film Neck Deep (international film reviews) and is integral to the feature length film All is Normal staring Linda Blair and Tom Stechschulte. Visit Todd Bieber’s web for his interesting film history as producer and film maker of indie films. She has produced eight albums (mastered by George Graham of WVIA) since 2006. Six albums feature Eyster and award-winning percussionist, Steve Mitchell. Steve Mitchell was the drummer for “Peanuts” TV specials with Charles Schulz for over 25 years. Eyster and Mitchell are in negotiations for the sale of the suite of international music cd’s. Eyster and Mitchell are active in film music production with Steve Jewett, Sitarist and Andy Seal, bassist, who records, performs and tours with blues artists, Ann Rabson and EG Kight. Celtica and Little Paris Jazz Trio have completed two newly mastered studio albums. A new solo album, Appalachian and Folk for Flutes will be released shortly. A special project of “Ave Maria” is in project stages. Eyster performs on silver and wooden C, alto and bass flutes and plays and records with over 40 other international wind flutes of all kinds. Her passion is film music and making music of all genre come alive for audiences of all ages. She is especially interested in reaching young audiences since teaching privately and at Greenwood Friends School, Millville, PA. Eyster is performing professionally in public about six times per month. Flora Eyster was a freelance columnist-writer with Susquehanna Life Magazine for “Bass and Treble Music Notes” column. She founded a new wedding division for the oldest entertainment agency in the US, after William Morris, which is located in Harrisburg, PA. Eyster Worked with this Harrisburg agency, BRP Entertainment, developing and marketing wedding business, and expanding venues in the southern PA tier for over two years. Flora Eyster is the proud recipient of a PA Partners on the Arts Grant Award for 2008-2012 award years. She produced “Nights of Ireland A Celtic Variety Show” for five years. The program support edthe work of 25-30 performers and technicians. She has appeared at Bucknell University Bucknell Hall Jazz and Art Gallery Series, Bloomsburg University “Celebrity Artist Series,” Harrisburg Cultural Arts festivals, Lewisburg Arts Festival, Lewisburg Live and Lewisburg and Selinsgrove Late Shoppers’ Night, Iron Heritage Festival, Lewisburg Celtic Festival, Bloomsburg Crafts Festival and Tree Fest, Eagles Mere Street festivals, Cristkindl Market in Mifflinburg, Mifflinburg Buggy Days, and Billtown Blues Festival (1992); she has played in over 75 PA and NY venues. She was a recent guest artist at Bard College JazzFest, performing with her former classmates and the inimitable Malcolm Cecil, on bass. All Flora Eyster’s projects can be sampled on Soundclick. www.soundclick.com Performance calendars are online for all ensembles. All national and international bookings/tours are handled at Pro Musicians Entertainment, florapro@ptd.net. (Direct contact via this site please.)