by The Editors on October 4, 2011
San Diego musician/songwriter Nena Anderson will perform this Friday, October 7, 2011 at Carlsbadistan’s Museum of Making Music.
Described as a jazz singer by blues artists and a blues artist by jazz musicians, Nena’s soulful, passionate penchant for making music is obvious at first listen. . . Kelly Davis of San Diego Citybeat says, “Her distinctive, bourbon smooth voice stops you in your tracks and compels you to hang on every word. “On the stage, Anderson exudes the enviable self-assurance of someone who’s exactly where she’s supposed to be.”
The show starts at 6 PM and the $10 ticket price includes a slice of Knockout Pizza and a Stone Brewing Company beverage for those over 21. Click the link for more info.
[Link: Museum of Making Music]
by The Editors on September 13, 2011
Those into blues harmonica (and really, what other kind is there?) will want to hit up Carlsbadistan’s Museum of Making Music on Sunday, September 18, 2011 as Grammy Award-winning player James “Mr. Superharp” Cotton plays at 6:45 PM.
Cotton is celebrating sixty-seven years in the entertainment business (starting at the age of nine), with his unique harmonica style, he has performed alongside blues greats such as B.B. King and Muddy Waters. He recorded almost 30 solo albums, including two highly-regarded releases for Alligator in the 1980s and the famed Harp Attack! with Junior Wells, Carey Bell and Billy Branch in 1990. The New York Daily News calls Cotton “the greatest living blues harmonica player.”
Tickets are $40 for non-members and $35 for those who cared enough to join. Click here to order online or follow the jump for more info. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on August 19, 2011
One of Carlsbadistan’s coolest, hidden gems is the Museum of Making Music. And tomorrow (Saturday, August 20, 2011) the museum is holding a “reopening celebration” to show off their new interactive displays and updated exhibits.
Taking place at the Museum’s Carlsbad location (5790 Armada Drive), the reopening celebration includes activities for children of all ages and special performances by local musicians. Professional musicians will be at instrument areas throughout the Museum to give visitors one-on-one instruction and demonstrations.
For a complete overview of the day’s event click the link.
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by The Editors on August 19, 2011
Tonight, August 19, 2011, Carlsbadistan’s Jazz In The Park is finished. The end. If you’ve been wanting to go all summer, and you’ve let the gray, overcast skies keep you away, this is your last chance. Tonight, San Diego-based Monette Marino-Keita will be drumming up a storm with her own brand of Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian and traditional Korean rhythms.
Her music blends African and Latin rhythms and melodies inside funk and rock grooves and her all-star band includes Grammy and Emmy award-winners Larry Mitchell on guitar, Allan Phillips on keyboards and Mike Holguin on drums.
Get to Calavera Hills Park early and get a spot near the stage. There’s nothing like seeing hands on a drum up close.
[Link: Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on August 11, 2011
Tomorrow night (Friday, August 12, 2011), under a likely layer of fog and high clouds (if the last week has been any indication) Bluesman John Nemeth will take the Carlsbadistan Jazz In The Park Calavera Hills Park stage and blow the summer blues away with his buttery smooth voice and red hot harp.
John Nemeth is a singer steeped in the tradition of B.B. King, Ray Charles and Junior Parker, and a harmonica player of riveting intensity and virtuosity who evokes comparison to Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter. In 10 short years, he’s moved up to opening for Robert Cray, Keb Mo’, and Earl Thomas.
Nemeth will be headlining Friday night, so get to Calavera Hills Park early and bring something to share with your friends and neighbors.
[Link: Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on August 1, 2011
Things are about to heat up at Carlsbadistan’s Jazz In The Park as Big Sam’s Funky Nation blasts open the Calavera Hills Park leg of the TGIF tour on Friday, August 5, 2011. Lead by trombonist “Big Sam” Willams, the Funky Nation reportedly mixes in the sounds of Hendrix, old Steely Dan and even a little Dave Brubeck “Take Five.”
Calavera Hills Park, is located at 2997 Glasgow Dr. at the corner of Carlsbad Village Drive. Free shuttle service will operate between 4:30 and 9 p.m. from Hope Elementary School, 3010 Tamarack Dr. and from Calavera Hills School, 4100 Tamarack Dr. at College Avenue. Bring your picnic baskets.
[Link: Jazz In The Park]
by The Editors on July 11, 2011
Carlsbadistan’s Jazz In The Park gets spicy as it moves West to Poinsettia Park with the big band salsa sounds of Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad.
As the fearless leader of the ultimate West Coast Latin party band, Polanco, who hails from the Caribbean by way of New York, serves as multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger for his band, Conjunto Amistad. Over the years the group has solidified its reputation for a sound described by Latin music chronicler Lina Lecaro as “the kind of infectious, rhythmic, multilayered Latin music that makes even the most timid wallflower abandon all restraint and give it a whirl on the dance floor.”
Sounds like exactly what we need as a finish for the week.
[Link: Jazz in the Park]
by The Editors on July 5, 2011
Every summer we say the same thing at least once during Jazz in the Park and that is this: if you’re only going to go to one of Carlsbadistan’s Jazz in the Park make it this week as San Diego’s OG latino, hip-hop, jazz, jarrocho, reggae, ska band the B-Side Players rock the Stage Coach Park. It is unlikely that any band will ever more perfectly communicate San Diego’s diverse cultural music mix than the B-Side Players. For the past 19 years they’ve San Diego’s house band.
With fierce political lyrics and an overwhelming positive vibration of love, culture and unity, this legendary San Diego-based band incorporates the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil into their funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms.
Don’t miss it.
[Link: Jazz in the Park]
by The Editors on June 27, 2011
Things about to get funky this week in Carlsbadistan’s Stage Coach Park as the funkidelic sounds of Ashville, North Carolina’s Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band bounce Jazz in the Park to it’s feet with some of the best dance music of the summer.
Purveyors of original funk since 2002,” Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band zoomed onto festival stages nationwide, fueled by a heady mix of powerful original compositions, triumphant horns, laid-back grooves, and heavy backbeats. . . Today they are ready to shake the world, one cheek at a time.”
Get it? Ass cheek. Booty? Follow the jump for more info.
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by The Editors on June 24, 2011
Carlsbadistan’s own singing sisters, Ruby Summer, will be playing the San Diego County Fair twice this summer. First, today (Friday June 24, 2011) at 4 PM and then again on July 3, 2011 at 5:30 PM. Both times on the O’Brien Stage. If you needed a reason to get back out to the fair, Ruby Summer might be it. Check them out.
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