Discovery Channel's Pelletier Loggers Family Restaurant Hosts NEVAH

On September 26, 2011 the Discovery Channel's Pelletier Logger's Family Restaurant upstairs bar was the staging area for a night of NEVAH. 

Pelletier Sign - Notice they even got the lettering correct on the band name!

Richard, Ed, Jack and Hal arrived early to get a head start on the band's equipment setup. It didn't take long before they had the speakers, stands, cables, power cords, sound board, microphones, microphone stands, instruments and risers in place. Everything was neatly arranged, plugged in to it's appropriate jack on the "snake" and then the opposite end of the snake attached to the sound board. A real thing of beauty to watch the setup, which I believe now takes less than an hour from start to finish.


Jack, after setting up his stage, pedal steel, mics and stands, donned a set of headphones and we all helped with a preliminary "level's set" for the vocal mics and instruments. 


Shortly thereafter the rest of the Men O' Nevah showed up, Phil, Larry and our newest Nevah-Man Dick Knipping, whom we thank for filling in on percussion for "Doctor Eric Brown" who was not available for this gig. A second thank you goes out to Scotty Reynolds who came by a few minutes later to run the board and fine tune our sound for the evening, since Jay was not available this past Saturday. When everyone had all their instruments in place and ready to go we ran a quick sound check with the entire band to finish adjusting all the levels. 

Scotty (in the foreground) fine tuning the NEVAH sound.

Then, it was revealed to all, the NEW 4' x 8' NEVAH BANNER … and a special thank you goes out to the anonymous donor of said BANNER. It looked terrific hanging on the wall. Luckily we were able to find a place to hang it near the band. 

After everything was set we had an hour and a half to go, so most of the band went downstairs to have a bite to eat. A "lite meal" of course.


Oh, I almost forgot, the wonderful crisp photos you see were provided by Adria, the lovely and talented wife of our guitar player, Larry LeBlanc. Adria also took some video of the evening and we're hoping to get it very soon.

Men O' Nevah - (L to R)
Hal, Larry, Richard, Jack, Phil, Ed, Dick

NEVAH started playing at 9 pm and had a wonderful time performing several sets for the appreciative fans who stayed for several hours throughout the evening. A good time was had by all and we even got a nice post on our facebook Sunday afternoon, "Steve wrote: "Good sounding music last night in Millinocket at Pelletiers!"


That's all for now …


NEVAH