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Blues festival is lawfully loud.(B SECTION)
Byline: ROBERT ECKHART robert.eckhart@heraldtribune.com
SARASOTA -- Irving Lavelle could clearly hear the hums and thumps of the 11th annual Sarasota Blues Fest on Saturday afternoon in his back yard on Davis Boulevard. The music wasn't quite as soothing as a Lawrence Welk polka for the 87-year-old retiree, but it didn't bother him much while he puttered in his shed.
Others in the neighborhood aren't so easygoing.
Complaints about the festival led to noise citations for its organizers in 1999 and 2000.
For a change, this year's Blues Fest didn't end with citations because organizer Barbara Strauss was armed with a waiver of the city's noise ordinance -- a white slip of paper that she called her "get out of jail free card."
The city refused to grant her a noise ordinance waiver last year, but relented this year after losing in court for the second time.
The charges against Strauss at last year's Blues Fest were thrown out two weeks ago by County Judge Judith Goldman, who ruled that the city's rules were "too vague."
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