The 9th annual San Diego Blues Festival took place at the Embarcadero Marina Park Park in downtown San Diego. The park is a beautiful location for an outdoor music festival. Views of downtown San Diego, the San Diego Marina, Coronado Bridge and Coronado Island. The park itself has lots of trees for shade and a […]
Kevin and Michael Bacon and their band, aka The Bacon Brothers, played to a near capacity crowd at the legendary Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA. Kevin is best known for his acting in hit movies such as Footloose, A Few Good Men and Apollo 13 and dozens of others. Michael is also well known […]
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The Black Lillies recently performed to an intimate, relatively subdued crowd at Ramona California’s historic Mainstage Theater. But that didn’t keep the band from performing as if they were in front of a sold-out stadium. The latest iteration of the band from Knoxville, TN is founding member Cruz Contreras on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Sam […]
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Lucinda Williams and her band Buick 6 performed for an older, yet enthusiastic sold out crowd for the second night in a row at the legendary Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA. Audience members included NBA Hall of famer and music fan, Bill Walton. Lucinda is currently on tour to celebrate the twentieth anniversary […]
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Raleigh, North Carolina Americana band New Reveille featuring Amy Kamm, lead vocals, Daniel Cook, banjo, guitar, and vocals, and Autumn Brand fiddle and vocals recently made a swing out to the west coast to promote their newest album, The Keep. They were joined by special guest, Los Angeles based session musician, Adam Tressler on guitar […]
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Gone West performed to a sold-out crowd at the legendary Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA. They are on the road promoting their new EP, “Tide” The band is made up of some of the best singer-songwriters you will find around. Grammy award winner Colbie Caillat and her fiancée Justin Young have joined together […]
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Saturday, Day Three of the Old Settler’s Music Fest did not start off well. No sooner did we arrive at the venue and before the first scheduled band, Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons, began their set, campers were sent back to the campgrounds and non-campers were sent back to their cars due to a severe […]
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The first big evening of the festival was in the main festival area with two stages. They did a wonderful job of positioning the stages so that even though there was music playing at the same time you could not hear music from the other stage. The sound guys were fantastic as were the lighting […]
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The Old Settler’s 32nd Annual Music Festival in Tilmon, Texas was a big success in spite of dramatic weather and temperature swings. The festival was ranked number five of the top ten music festivals in the US by USA Today. OSMF beat out some pretty big names in the festival world like, Austin City Limits […]
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Multiple San Diego Music Award winner for Best Americana, Sara Petite and her band put on one heck of a show at the historic Mainstage Theatre in Ramona, CA. Originally opened as a movie house in 1947, the theatre like many grand old theatres around the country closed down and fell into disrepair. It was […]
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