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Live Five: Matt Heinecke, Anthony Cullins, Diego Dead, Mission Bayfest, “We Are A Nation Of Immigrants” Premier
Solo acoustic, blues, tributes, festivals, and video debuts in North Park, Harbor Island, Mission Beach, Oceanside, San Carlos
Sublime at Bayfest 2024
“We Are A Nation Of Immigrants” video debut at Queen Bee’s
October 16
The video for “We Are a Nation of Immigrants” was shot several weeks ago at the Belly Up Tavern, where hundreds of people joined an all-star band and a film crew to participate in the filming. “Hopefully,” says singer-songwriter Mark Montijo, who helped helm the project, “this musical celebration of diversity can be widely distributed and will contribute to a broader messaging that our similarities might be more important than our differences, and that tolerance and compassion help both those receiving them and those giving them.” The video debut party in North Park features an evening of live protest music from the 1960s through today with performers including Montijo, Dan Gindling, Lenny Bole, Jeff Berkley, Cathryn Beeks, Julia Sage, Omar Musisko, Peggy Watson & David Beldock, and Jon Bogdas. All proceeds will benefit the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.
Matt Heinecke at Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
October 17
Singer-songwriter Matt Heinecke has over two decades of professional experience as an accomplished singer, guitarist, and acoustic troubadour. He first learned his performing chops while appearing in Coronado coffee shops as a high schooler. At USC, he studied classical and jazz guitar and voice before working as a singer-songwriter and studio musician in Los Angeles and Nashville, until relocating to his San Diego hometown in 2007. A husband, dad, musician, and teacher in the Coronado Unified School District, he’s become a regular presence at local eateries, lounges, and hotels specializing in light entertainment. In concert, he performs solo, with a repertoire that covers a wide range of genres, from classic rock to ‘80s and ‘90s pop, top 40, jazz, and solo classical guitar, as well as covering the artist he cites as his biggest influence, James Taylor.
Mission Bayfest at Mariner’s Point
October 17-19
The three-day Mission Bayfest offers vendors, food booths, activations, and activities all around Mariners Point Park, which includes grassy areas and a sandy peninsula extending to the water. Among the food offerings are Caribbean staples such as jerk chicken, rice and peas, plantains, and fresh seafood dishes.Musical headliners include local island music stars Pepper, Hirie, and Slightly Stoopid, as well as local singer Jakob Nowell fronting his late father’s old band Sublime. Other San Diego acts on the bill are Doah's Daydream, Dubbest, Band of Gringos, Aaron Wolf, Boostive, and Helena Holleran ft. Divina. You’ll also be able to catch sets from 311, Rebelution, Steel Pulse, Arise Roots, Artikal Sound System, Aurorawave, Big B, Chromeo (DJ Set), Denm, Eddie Zuko, Flailing Idiot, Fortunate Youth, Jesse James Pariah, Kat Hall, KRS-One, Obed Padilla, Rome, Sierra Marin, Skegss, The Elovaters, The Hip Abduction, The Philharmonik, Trish Toledo, Tuxedo, and Vana Liya. The event is all-ages, with children under five admitted free.
Anthony Cullins at Sunshine Brooks Theatre
October 18
Blues guitarist Anthony Cullins, aka the Fallbrook Kid, was still attending Mission Vista High School in Oceanside when he started playing blues rock gigs at venues like House of Blues, Pala Mesa Resort, Valley Fort Steak House, the Temecula Music Festival, and Fallbrook Brewery. When the third annual Temecula Valley Music Awards were given out in November 2016, Cullins was honored with Best Youth Original. He won the 10 Under 20 contest at the 2018 Dallas International Guitar Festival, and was the subject of a Backstage 360 documentary. Citing influences like Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mike Bloomfield, Joe Satriani, Allan Holdsworth, and Eric Johnson, he’s become a regular musical presence around town fronting blues-rock bands such as the Fallbrook Vigilantes. For this Oceanside performance, Cullins will be joined by an all-star lineup featuring Johnny Vernazza (formerly of the Elvin Bishop Band), Earl Thomas, and Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless, formerly of The Black Crowes). The evening opens with a set by Topeka Clementine.
San Diego has no shortage of Grateful Dead-style bands, from direct tributes such as Easy Wind and Electric Waste Band to Dead-inspired acts like metal crossover Grateful Shred, the Latin Dead, acoustic variant Passenger Band, and Travel Agents. Setlists are guaranteed to contain deep cuts and faves culled from decades of studio and concert recordings by both the band itself and its many offshoots and solo projects. Diego Dead formed in early 2024 and is active in the San Diego music scene, with performances at venues from Oceanside’s Pour House to Mr. Peabody’s in Encinitas. “We strive to capture the collective energy of the crowd, where the music becomes one with the audience,” according to the band, who will perform a full Dead tribute set at McGuffie’s Live, recently opened in the San Carlos space formerly occupied by Navajo Live.
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Live Five: Matt Heinecke, Anthony Cullins, Diego Dead, Mission Bayfest, “We Are A Nation Of Immigrants” Premier
Solo acoustic, blues, tributes, festivals, and video debuts in North Park, Harbor Island, Mission Beach, Oceanside, San Carlos
Live Five: Matt Heinecke, Anthony Cullins, Diego Dead, Mission Bayfest, “We Are A Nation Of Immigrants” Premier
Solo acoustic, blues, tributes, festivals, and video debuts in North Park, Harbor Island, Mission Beach, Oceanside, San Carlos
Sublime at Bayfest 2024
“We Are A Nation Of Immigrants” video debut at Queen Bee’s
October 16
The video for “We Are a Nation of Immigrants” was shot several weeks ago at the Belly Up Tavern, where hundreds of people joined an all-star band and a film crew to participate in the filming. “Hopefully,” says singer-songwriter Mark Montijo, who helped helm the project, “this musical celebration of diversity can be widely distributed and will contribute to a broader messaging that our similarities might be more important than our differences, and that tolerance and compassion help both those receiving them and those giving them.” The video debut party in North Park features an evening of live protest music from the 1960s through today with performers including Montijo, Dan Gindling, Lenny Bole, Jeff Berkley, Cathryn Beeks, Julia Sage, Omar Musisko, Peggy Watson & David Beldock, and Jon Bogdas. All proceeds will benefit the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.
Matt Heinecke at Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
October 17
Singer-songwriter Matt Heinecke has over two decades of professional experience as an accomplished singer, guitarist, and acoustic troubadour. He first learned his performing chops while appearing in Coronado coffee shops as a high schooler. At USC, he studied classical and jazz guitar and voice before working as a singer-songwriter and studio musician in Los Angeles and Nashville, until relocating to his San Diego hometown in 2007. A husband, dad, musician, and teacher in the Coronado Unified School District, he’s become a regular presence at local eateries, lounges, and hotels specializing in light entertainment. In concert, he performs solo, with a repertoire that covers a wide range of genres, from classic rock to ‘80s and ‘90s pop, top 40, jazz, and solo classical guitar, as well as covering the artist he cites as his biggest influence, James Taylor.
Mission Bayfest at Mariner’s Point
October 17-19
The three-day Mission Bayfest offers vendors, food booths, activations, and activities all around Mariners Point Park, which includes grassy areas and a sandy peninsula extending to the water. Among the food offerings are Caribbean staples such as jerk chicken, rice and peas, plantains, and fresh seafood dishes.Musical headliners include local island music stars Pepper, Hirie, and Slightly Stoopid, as well as local singer Jakob Nowell fronting his late father’s old band Sublime. Other San Diego acts on the bill are Doah's Daydream, Dubbest, Band of Gringos, Aaron Wolf, Boostive, and Helena Holleran ft. Divina. You’ll also be able to catch sets from 311, Rebelution, Steel Pulse, Arise Roots, Artikal Sound System, Aurorawave, Big B, Chromeo (DJ Set), Denm, Eddie Zuko, Flailing Idiot, Fortunate Youth, Jesse James Pariah, Kat Hall, KRS-One, Obed Padilla, Rome, Sierra Marin, Skegss, The Elovaters, The Hip Abduction, The Philharmonik, Trish Toledo, Tuxedo, and Vana Liya. The event is all-ages, with children under five admitted free.
Anthony Cullins at Sunshine Brooks Theatre
October 18
Blues guitarist Anthony Cullins, aka the Fallbrook Kid, was still attending Mission Vista High School in Oceanside when he started playing blues rock gigs at venues like House of Blues, Pala Mesa Resort, Valley Fort Steak House, the Temecula Music Festival, and Fallbrook Brewery. When the third annual Temecula Valley Music Awards were given out in November 2016, Cullins was honored with Best Youth Original. He won the 10 Under 20 contest at the 2018 Dallas International Guitar Festival, and was the subject of a Backstage 360 documentary. Citing influences like Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mike Bloomfield, Joe Satriani, Allan Holdsworth, and Eric Johnson, he’s become a regular musical presence around town fronting blues-rock bands such as the Fallbrook Vigilantes. For this Oceanside performance, Cullins will be joined by an all-star lineup featuring Johnny Vernazza (formerly of the Elvin Bishop Band), Earl Thomas, and Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless, formerly of The Black Crowes). The evening opens with a set by Topeka Clementine.
San Diego has no shortage of Grateful Dead-style bands, from direct tributes such as Easy Wind and Electric Waste Band to Dead-inspired acts like metal crossover Grateful Shred, the Latin Dead, acoustic variant Passenger Band, and Travel Agents. Setlists are guaranteed to contain deep cuts and faves culled from decades of studio and concert recordings by both the band itself and its many offshoots and solo projects. Diego Dead formed in early 2024 and is active in the San Diego music scene, with performances at venues from Oceanside’s Pour House to Mr. Peabody’s in Encinitas. “We strive to capture the collective energy of the crowd, where the music becomes one with the audience,” according to the band, who will perform a full Dead tribute set at McGuffie’s Live, recently opened in the San Carlos space formerly occupied by Navajo Live.