Garden enthusiasts relish the new lawn care secrets of horticulturist Frank Bluestein

Gary, In – Green thumb enthusiasts will be interested to know that popular columnist, Frank Bluestein, will be releasing a garden care web site with money saving tips. Fans of, “Green Pastures” will be able to logon the new site coming out in September. The web site is promising videos and something that Bluestein calls, lawn cocktails.

The summer months can be brutal on the lawn and can lead to deterioration. Yellow, rough, and patchy grass is the results of exposure to the hot summer sun and grubs. This can leave the lawn looking uncared for and neglected even if it receives proper moisture. In particular the larvae from the Gypsy Moth can take on a horrendous attack on the lawn. Most people do not know how to take care of this infectious problem.

“One way to eliminate this problem is to use the lawn cocktail. The one I talk about in my column works very well. You take a spray bottle and put in Palmolive, ammonia, Kayo syrup, lawn food and beer of all things and then you feed it through the nozzle. Spray this throughout your yard and in about two to three weeks you will see a return of healthy green grass. If you got yellow grass and beetles then you need to do a little investigation and make an investment in your lawn.” Says Frank Bluestein.

“This sounds like a far out thing but your grass is going to love it! We first started doing this about 30+ years ago and I heard about it first from a retired baseball coach in St. Louis.  You must make sure you put in equal parts into the mixture and not get any of this stuff on your hands because it tends to smell. This is the kind of stuff we will be featuring on the site along with video tutorials. I’m excited about the project.”

Horticulture is one of Frank Bluestein’s biggest passions. In 1993, Frank and his lawn care crew restored a large infested field that had weeds, crabgrass and the notorious Gypsy moth beetles. Helping golf course is another one of Franks big passions when he isn’t playing Blues music.

The web site is scheduled to be completed sometime in September.

“We plan on having information on there on how to – winterize – your lawn and how to protect it throughout the cold winter months.”

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Norwalk, Connecticut – Fans of the blues will want to take note about the upcoming Groovefest in Norwalk, Connecticut coming in August 2009. The Chicago based Bluestein is the coordinator for the festival and promises that this years event will be much better in its New England location. This years  event took a lot of preparation from local blues acts in the Chicagoland area.

Frank Bluestein had to straighten out some inside fraud allegations from a group he hired to organize this years event, Christians First. The fraud investigation centered around $110,000 of missing funds  and this contributed to some scheduling conflicts. Rehearsals have gone on as scheduled and have been coming together really well.

“The beauty of this years event is that even though we had some set backs it has had no direct effect over the music. We are taking these high end recordings and will be presenting them in a 3 disc set to the attendees of this years Groovefest.” Says festival organizer Fritz Machauley. “Frank and I are quite confident that this blues music set will sell well. We are expecting 40,000 concert goers at the bare minimum. This will help offset some of our recent financial woes.”

The blues fest is going to benefit the creation of a new youth center scheduled for Bridgeport sometime in 2010. Frank Bluestein is also going to be joined on stage this year with fellow blues great Gunner Allen Smith. This promises to be a great event and a wonderful collectors item.

Stamford, CT – Chicago Blues legend Frank Bluestein is going to hit the stage at this years Summer Groovefest 09 in downtown Norwalk, CT. This will be a free event filled with live performances, street art and a silent auction to benefit a new youth center planned for Bridgeport, CT. In addition to reorganizing this years event, Bluestein has recorded a special CD to help raise funds for the cause.

Summer Groovefest 09’ will move from its native Chicago origin to new and unfamiliar territory in Norwalk , Connecticut. The festival is a collection of live blues acts that appeared in closed door club events and rooftop parties over the past two years.

The new CD will be available at the event on August 15, 2009. Right now there are plans to include this CD on an ecommerce web site. As of this writing there is no site to order it from. You will have to buy the new Frank Bluestein CD at Summer Groovefest 09’. The CD is titled, “Kick Out The Blues” and features Bluestein on his ever present harmonica as well as belting out the vocals on several  tracks. There are at least three tracks that feature only music. The compositions date back to the early 80’s and this will be the first time they will be released to the public.

Getting the groups together took a considerable amount of time. It was not easy to get cooperation from various management during these busy summer months. Many of the performers were locked up into various commitments.

“Organizing this blues fest in Norwalk has been a tremendous effort. We wanted the CD to coincide with this years event. It’s not every day you get a collection of real Chicago/Kansas City bluesmen in the city of Norwalk. We are quite confident that this new addition to the rich cultural east coast scene will be exactly what music lovers and thrill seekers will enjoy.” Says concert promoter Fritz Machauley.

Fritz Machauley has been working with Summer Groovefest 09 along with Frank Bluestein. Machauley was brought in to put a halt to inside fraud and mismanagement of funds. He led an intensive fraud investigation and fired several staff members internally and has given the control back to the musicians. This will be an artists event where they maintain total control over this years festival activities.

Stamford, CT – Fans of the blues will get a chance to hear R&B legend, Frank Bluestein, as he joins the all star music roster of this years, Groovefest. The free non-profit event is putting together a group of live performances for this day event that takes place on August 15, 2009. The sessions will be recorded and distributed on the web where people can see them. The audio recordings are scheduled to be released in  a fundraising CD to help build a youth center in Bridgeport, CT some time in 2010.

Getting the groups together took a considerable amount of time. It was not easy to get cooperation from various management during these busy summer months. Many of the performers were locked up into various commitments.

This years Groovefest has changed considerably. It has moved from its native Chicago. The festival originally began in the Windy City’s notorious Rogers Park.  The collection of artists came from different areas of the city to meet and jam in places like the Home Grown Café, The Green Mill and various rooftop parties. This is the first time that it will appear in Norwalk, CT.

Bluestein and Fritz Machauley organized the independent festival after their inhouse staff members reported money missing. There is an ongoing investigation concerning fraud centering around missing contributions. Now the artists are taking control of the situation and moving the music festival out of Chicago and into a new location.

Frank Bluestein is really excited about the move to Norwalk, “The east coast neighborhoods are really mixed when it comes to music. There is a large Spanish speaking population here that mostly listens to hip hop and rap. Then you have a lot of traditional ethnic music here in the Mexican and Italian tradition. Blues is not something that these folks are largely accustomed to. Then you have a large group of Generation X’ers here that still get together on stage to create their own personal homage to Led Zeppelin. The mix here is very strange. I don’t know what kind of crowd this is going to draw.”

Getting rehearsal space for the music festival has been very easy. Bridgeport has had a long history of having empty warehouses and industrial space.  This years turn out will predict whether or not the festival will take place here in 2010. Frank Bluestein is hopeful that it will and so is the local blues community.