There is a lot going on this weekend, with parties, pub crawls, yacht parties, etc. This link will provide some ideas if you haven’t already made plans. https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ca–san-diego/events/ There are more details and lots more events and city festivals at https://www.sandiego.org/campaigns/winter-holiday-in-san-diego.aspx Fireworks at Coronado Island, Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, Ocean Beach, Oceanside City Harbor and a […]
Jazz/Punk Raconteur Mike Dillon & Punkadelick makes its recorded debut with Inflorescence (Royal Potato Family), an album of heady, instrumental rock highlighting a band deep in the throes of creative freedom, road-tested and wild. Consisting of ten tracks and clocking in at 42 minutes, Inflorescence is an expansive, focused, and fearless collection, representing a world where Duke Ellington and Augustus […]
This New Year’s Eve, Party and Dance to the lively blues sounds of Chicago Hall of Fame blues great Freddie Dixon Band at The Quarry Ballroom, 121 S. Williams St., Saturday, December 31. Music starts 9pm. Complimentary Champagne from 11pm-12 Midnite. Info: (708) 564-5154 or visit www.thequarryThornton.com. Dixon recently returned from a successful tour of Brazil, where the […]
“Keep Going, Dave Jordan’s third collaboration with Anders Osborne producing, takes you on an Bayou adventure. Keep Going is nine songs in all, including a faithful reading on Dire Straits’ So Far Away From Me with a Louisiana flair. Great stories, fine writing, just the right music- this one’s a keeper.” JOHN THE ROCK DOCTOR “Dave Jordan, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter/bassist and guitar […]
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Jon Geiger has been called one of SoCal’s hardest-working blues men, and for good reason: the blues-rock guitarist and vocalist is seemingly always gigging. Geiger kicks off 2023 with performances at some of the Southland’s most popular venues – Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach on New Year’s Eve, Saturday, December 31; Harvelle’s in Santa Monica on Tuesday, January 3; […]
SoCal-based blues vocalist and band leader Sandy Haley tends to write songs about conditions that affect her. Her newest, ‘Run For Shelter,’ is a true story “about when I found a woman lying on a sidewalk in the Winter outside of a Target store. She had no clothes or shoes on, and was wrapped only […]
Make Music Winter, the free, outdoor musical celebration with exuberant and participatory parades, performances, and events throughout New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and dozens of other U.S. cities, today announced its updated schedule for December 21. The musical celebration on the shortest day (and longest night) of the year brings together people of all musical abilities and styles to […]
Chicago Hall of Fame blues great Freddie Dixon has just returned from a successful tour of Brazil, where the bassist-vocalist performed eight shows in nine days. “Freddie Dixon’s tour of Brazil concluded with resounding success,” said promoter Adrian Flores. who also played drums in Dixon’s band during the eight shows he played important events here such […]
“We are in the sixth year of saluting my Dad’s music and life for the Allman Family Revival…but it’s reaching beyond that initial sentiment. It’s galvanizing relationships within our generation of musicians. It’s continuing a tradition of feel based music and it’s an honor to put these shows on. Because at the end of the day […]