Hey, SunFesters! I’ll keep this as brief as possible, because if you were at every or almost every day of this year’s SunFest like I was, you’re probably exhausted and don’t have a lot of patience for the words and the comprehension and such.

I enjoyed this year’s SunFest. Was it my favorite of the eight I’ve attended? No. Was it the worst? Not even close. All in all, it’s still an amazing value for the money – there is nowhere else where I could’ve seen Earth Wind and Fire and Jeff Beck down the street from each other for under 40 bucks. I probably couldn’t have seen even one of those acts for that price. And yeah, so the parking and the food is expensive. Where isn’t it? Park and walk, y’all. Eat first. Get hand-stamped, go outside to eat and come back. No one is tying you to the gyro stand with a bungee cord and a hot poker.

I also don’t get people who say “It’s a scam.” It’s costly, depending on how you do it. But a scam is when you pay money for something and get bait and switched. You paid for a bunch of shows that you had the schedule for, so it couldn’t have been a surprise to you. You went to those shows or you didn’t. You didn’t pay for Jeff Beck and get his cousin Joe Beck.  You weren’t scammed. You had a good time or a disappointing one. But I don’t get how anyone was scammed.

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Frank Sinatra Jr. performs with a 20-piece big band at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. (Howie Grapek / GPO)

Photos: Frank Sinatra Jr. at Hard Rock Live | Info on Sinatra’s upcoming appearances at Lyric Theatre, Stuart

A 20-piece orchestra brought back the Big Band Era at Hard Rock Live for the Frank Sinatra Jr. Show on Thursday night.

With the band playing to a slightly older generation, the audience got to experience Big Band sounds and a stroll down memory lane covering an entire almanac of Frank Sinatra’s music.
 
Frank Sinatra Jr., who for many years was the musical conductor/director for his father, “Old Blue Eyes,” gave the concert attendees a glimpse into his father’s contagious melodies.
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Last Thursday, I took a swing by The Cottage in Lake Worth with my buddy Staci Sturrock, the Post fashion editor, for an event with a local biker-esque T-shirt company called Slut Life (!). And I ran into this lovely creature, Michelle Leigh of the Boynton/Miami power swing band Ever So Klever.

I love this band – their mixture of ska, swing, pop, jazz, rock and pretty much everything else you can imagine is as colorful as their outfits. And, like two of my favorite bands, Earth Wind and Fire and Chicago, have, like, 87 members, many of them bearing horns that they know how to use. They were great at SunFest – check ‘em out next time you can.