NEW YEAR'S EVE PACKAGE Dinner & Entertainment — Please Call For Reservations! Restaurant of the Year —How- Detroit magazine 2004 Blue Fringe: Hayyim Danzig, Dov Rosenblatt, Danny Zwillenberg and Avi Hoffman. The band's musical background varies, too, from Zwillenberg's five-year career on drums to Rosenblatt's start at age 11. He placed an ad offering his musical services to play keyboard at private par- ties in his hometown newspaper in Baltimore, where his father, Gary, now publisher-editor of New York's The Jewish Week, was editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times. Rosenblatt, a self-taught pianist, drummer and guitarist, continues to both compose songs — from pop-rock to reggae — as well as sing. The band's original words and music on My Awakening include Rosenblatt's tunes written while he was in high school and college. While in Israel in 1999, he recorded the single "Flipping Out," which is also part of the CD. "Our second CD is much more col- laborative, he said of Seventy Faces, due out this winter. "Songs on the new CD will have a Hebrew chorus with English words that discuss what the Hebrew phrase means to us." Creating A CD My Awakening was recorded under the direction of producer-engineer Bill Kovatch. "Danny and Hayyim found Bill in the classified ads in a paper in Philadelphia and recorded a demo with him when they were in high school playing with a different band," Perl said. "Bill took Blue Fringe to Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, where he was working at the time, to record My Awakening. "He had worked on an album with J.Lo [actress-singer Jennifer Lopez] in the same room not long before," Perl said. Kovatch also produced the group's upcoming second CD. Marketing the CD went smoothly, since the group already had fans waiting to buy it, gathered during their year- and-a-half of performing together. "Sameach Music, our main distribu- tor, took 500 copies on consignment for 90 days," Perl said. 'About a week after the CD was released, I got an order for another 1,000 copies. In the beginning, we were selling the CDs pretty much as fast as we could manufacture them." Among the songs that Rosenblatt has written, two that are especially meaning- ful were written as an expression of his ties to Israel. He wrote the CD's title song, "My Awakening," during his two years of learning there. "It talks about the spiritu- al awakening kids really go through while studying and living in Israel," he said. "I was back in America when I wrote `City of Gold' in response to a wave of bombings in Israel," he said of the song describing both his helplessness and soli- darity. The group performed the song last year in Jerusalem's Great Synagogue at a fund-raising event for One Family Fund, an organization providing assistance to victims of anti-Israel terror. "Singing the words never meant more to me than they did that day," Rosenblatt said. As the three Blue Fringe members who are students get close to graduation, Perl maintains they are not planning to part. "They plan to stick together as long as possible," he said. Doing what he loves, Rosenblatt said the success of the band was a perk. "I never expected any of this," he said. "It really took us by surprise, to be able to get through to so many people." As far as his future, the psychology major said, "For now, I plan to follow my dreams. Music is going well." lunch MONDAY - FRIDAY I YAM - 5PM dinner MONDAY - THURSDAY, 5PM - 1 OPM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 5PM - 1 1PM CLOSED SUNDAY unique private rooms available 1824 west 14 mile road royal oak, michigan 48073 248-655-5000 ********************************* HOLIDAY CATERING PARTY TRAYS * 6646 Telegraph Rd. • At Maple (15 Mile) Bloomfield Plaza • (248) 932-0800 * * * Fabulous Hot Dinners Steve's Gourmet Turkeys & Scrumptious A Little Bit Of New York Desserts Right Here In Bloomfield Hills * * * * * ** * * * * * ** * * * * * ** * * * * * ** * * * * * ** "Blue Ginger e. attires the best of Malaysia, Vietnam c Japan." Danny Raskin, November 26, 2004 BLUE GINGER Vietnamese I Japanese I Malaysian Try our authentic Bubble Tea (our specialty) Low-Carb I Low-Calorie Fresh Shrimp Roll $5.95 I Lunch Entree includes Miso Soup $5.95 I 2 Sushi-Roll Special (California & Cucumber Rolls) To purchase My Awakening ($13.99) by Blue Fringe, access the Web site at vvww.bluefringe.com 6635 Orchard Lake Rd. Tues-Thurs 11-10 Fri-Sat 11-11 Sun 12-9 ( in Old Orchard Mall) 248.737.7918 During Lahser construction use Telegraph service drive entrance. ■ BBQ Grill on the Table p ■ Best Sushi Bar in Town ■ Traditional Floor Sitting Rooms Available • $1 Sushi with membership ■ lunch only 10% off I your TOTAL food bill I ft• ANY TIME •4• Dine in only ■ Not good with any other offer expires 12131/04 New Seoul. Garden Authentic Korean & Japanese Cuisine Phone (248) 827-1600 www.newseoulgarden.com newseoul@hotmail.com Open Daily Catering Available F3 27566 Northwestern Hw . 12/10 2004 61