Chicago has long been known as The Windy City and for their Chicago style hot dogs and deep dish pizza. Soon Chicago may be known as the location of the highest energy trop rock festival in the nation. You may be thinking to yourself, “Self, trop rock and Chicago go together about like snow skiing …
All Trop Rock or Parrot Head events begin with their registration or check in process giving you that first impression of “Here We Go.” Registration on a Friday afternoon with free pudding shot greetings and smiling faces connected to friendly hands passing out goodie bags, badges and selling raffle tickets for baskets, a Special Ticket …
The Southernmost Coconut Castaways hosted their 10th Annual Meet me in the Keys in Key West, Florida from June 8 -11 with an all-star line-up of musicians and raised $70,000 for KOA Care Camps. These are summer camps throughout North America where children with cancer can attend along with their siblings and enjoy getting to be …
Who doesn’t want to sail off to the tropics and leave it all behind? If you’ve done it or ever hope to, then here is a Sailing Song playlist for the soundtrack to your adventure. In the Trop Rock genre (think Jimmy Buffett to Kenny Chesney to Bertie Higgins) , there are many songs about …
Dorothy Bedlin and her Tampa Bay Parrot Head Club (TBPHC) Phlock succeed in delivering phrases like “Party with a Purpose,” “Parrot Heads have Heart” and “ Music feeds the Soul.” Every year the TBPHC and their Music on the Bay (MOTB) Attendees have raised more then the previous year for the Shriner’s Hospital for Children. …
Our Trop Rock Rum Songs Playlist is all about that sweet intoxicating liquor which occasionally is the subject matter of a Trop Rock song. Songs that more than mention rum, these celebrate how rum is intertwined in our lives (if you’re a rum drinker that is). It heals, it hurts and it can make last …
It’s one thing to hear a new Trop Rock CD for the first time and give an opinion, but it’s quite another thing to experience a Trop Rock CD release party, especially when Donny Brewer is hosting the party! Well, actually Fred and Sara Guerrero hosted the event at their Isla Bella House Concert venue …