- Joe Frisbie
- Brothers Ian and Evan Koteles of 10th Concession at The Local Revolt
Occasionally, a group of people get together and try to share something they love with others, to really reveal the experience. The promoters of The Local Revolt Music Series are making a habit out of it.
Reyna Martin and Bob Teets' sideline, Your Hot Sauce Company, is something they do strictly for fun, and for the love of it. For the past 12 years, they've been putting on spicy food shows, including the Pinellas Pepper Fest in Pinellas Park and the I Like it HOT! Festival in Largo - the largest spicy food show in Florida. They LOVE anything hot, and hosting shows that bring together other aficionados. They generally hire local bands to add to the festive atmosphere of these events, so when - while heated up with hot tunes, peppery condiments and cold beer at one of their events - a fellow enthusiast approached them about putting on a concert, they were all for it. As these conversations are wont to be, there was general agreement all around, and Reyna and Bob set about making it happen.
- photo by Joe Frisbie
- The Jeremy Thomas Band at The Local Revolt - Jeremy Thomas
“We all realized pretty quickly that the high cost of acquiring a national act was going to be prohibitive,” said Martin. “We figured that the allure of our hot sauce festivals had a lot to do with the local aspect of the vendors — one-of-a-kind, you-can-only-get-it-here offerings — and decided that the same should be true of our performers. It all fell together… we had to “revolt” and do it our way, the way that we know...we had to do it local.” The Local Revolt Music Series was born. [MORE AFTER THE JUMP.]