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Entries
Blitzen Trapper vs. Dawes
When two throwback acts such as Blitzen Trapper and Dawes split a bill at Belly Up, everyone who missed being a teen in the ’70s gets a little Almost Famous for a night. Of course, no one in 1974 would …
Roxy Jones Will Be Ludacris on 10/26 @ Soda Bar
On Wednesday, October 26, the band Roxy Jones will perform the music of Ludacris, to headline the Halloween Grab Bag show at Soda Bar, a free concert with three local bands forming offbeat and unexpected tribute acts, for one night …
World Music Pioneers Oregon Hit SD Oct 24
The next installment of the Athenaeum Jazz at the Neurosciences Institute takes place on October 24 with the long-awaited return of the pioneering chamber jazz/world music ensemble Oregon. The founding members of the group met in 1970, when several of …
Jamming with 2 AC/DC Drummers Is Just Another Week For Greg Douglass
"Man, what a week," says Escondido guitar godling Greg Douglass. "Did five shows in seven days with David Bennett Cohen's band, doing a lot of piano-based New Orleans, blues, roots music. Amazing musicians, vine-ripened at their peak. Cohen OWNS that …
Symphony Plays Concert in Reverse
Local choral impresario, Krishan Oberoi, invited me to the symphony on Saturday night. I accepted. The concert started off heavy and maneuvered to increasingly buoyant pieces of music. Richard Strauss composed Metamorphasen: A Study for 23 Solo Strings, in the …
Spinal Tap Tribute Turns Up to 11 @ Eleven on 11/11/11
When famed Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel famously displayed his amplifier with settings that went to 11 in the film This Is Spinal Tap, he couldn't have guessed that 25-plus years later the world would celebrate Nigel Tufnel Day on …
Palomar College Offers Free Drum Clinic Oct. 22
The Palomar College Performing Arts Department is putting on a free Drum Set Clinic with internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award winning drummer / percussionist Mark Walker, on Oct. 22, from noon-2 p.m., in Room D-6. Walker, a Chicago native, now resides …
Film Trailer puts the Focus on Hocus
They call it “48 Hour Freak Out.” It’s a film short of the band Hocus performing whirlwind gigs over the space of one weekend in San Diego. “I thought,” says singer/guitarist Lando Martinez, “wouldn’t it be cool if we filmed …
Jamie Shadowlight Quintet at Dizzy's
Violinist Jamie Shadowlight brought a San Diego All Star group into Dizzy's, on Oct. 15, for a celebration of [mostly] Brazilian music, particularly that of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto. Ably supported, though at times overwhelmed, sonically, by Mikan …
Bring a Shovel Schopenhauer
You may need a shovel for this one because it could get deep. "Music is thus by no means like the other arts, the copy of the Ideas, but the copy of the will itself, whose objectivity these Ideas are. …
Gary Burton Quartet Live
"Thanks for coming out. This is the New Gary Burton Quartet. I think this is my third or fourth New Gary Burton Quartet," said the vibraphonist, setting off a ripple of laughter across the aisles of the sold out Neurosciences …
NY-LA Connection at the Saville Theatre
Pianist and composer Oscar Hernandez brought his Latin jazz ensemble, the NY-LA Connection to the Saville Theatre on Oct.11, as a part of the KSDS Jazz 88 fall concert series. Hernandez is a two-time Grammy Award winner for his work …
The Students Sing
I did listen to the students sing at Point Loma. All together, I'd say there were about 20 students and seven of them sang. The students who sang were: Anthony Whitson-Martini, Jon Lacayo, Krista Wilford, Katie O'Gorman, Justin Hsu, Christen …
Conference of the Contrabasses
For aficionados of the contrabass, Dizzy's was the only place to be on Oct. 9. The Fourth Annual Bass Summit gathered nine of the county's most valuable bassists for a wildly ambitious and diverse celebration of the instrument. In support …
Survive or Thrive in the Arts
I was given the chance to interact with a group of young singers yesterday at Point Loma Nazarene. Every Monday from 4:00 to 5:30 in the afternoon, the voice students gather with their voice teachers for an informal vocal forum. …