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San Diego Blues Calendar: June 2nd – 8th

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Blues Calendar - Jun 2

It is a pretty typical week for downtown San Diego blues, with most of it happening at the SpeakEasy and Patrick’s in the Gaslamp.

Hopefully Kona Kai’s renovations will wrap up soon on Shelter Island, and they will resume their schedule of blues a few times a week. It is a nice complement to Humphrey’s Backstage schedule (which is now a mix of blues on Mondays & R&B on many Thursdays and Sundays – along with their predominantly jazz calendar).

We seem to have more R&B bands getting booked this spring, which suggests the venues are getting more people out for that. I’m hoping we will see a trend back to more blues in the summer.

One other trend, that is drawing a nice crowd, is the 2-5pm blues at Hennessey’s/SpeakEasy. This past weekend was the Youth Blues Jam, which is always impressive, and this coming Saturday we will have John January & The Rare Creed!

San Diego Blues Calendar: May 26th – June 1st

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Blues Calendar - May 26

Memorial Day kicks off another full week of blues around town. This week most of the live blues is at the Gaslamp SpeakEasy, Patrick’s Pub and Humphrey’s Backstage Lounge. So it’s a bit light, but still lots of good music every single night.

At JammingOut at HOB this Wednesday there will be a local featured band, as they do now the last Wednesday of the month. This time it is Bi-Polar Express, who is also playing at the Harley Davidson in Little Italy next Saturday from noon-1:30.

And we have a band coming in from out of town on Sunday night, the Terry Hanck band (Terry plays sax) – based out of San Francisco, which will be playing at Patrick’s. They won the blues category in the International Songwriting Competition last year and are now back out on tour. I checked out their website, and they sound great!

Soul Organization Mixes It Up at SpeakEasy

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I have wanted to hear this band for a while, and I finally saw them the other night at the Gaslamp SpeakEasy.  They will be back there again at the end of June.  This is Doc Holiday’s organ-influenced and soul-infused sound that runs the gamut of jazz, blues, rock and soul – with John Hunt (a fabulous guitarist) and Billy Wear on drums.  Everyone seemed to really enjoy them.

There was a wide mix of tune genres, and these 2 videos just give you a taste of what these guys play.

This first video highlights Doc on the organ in the song A Real Good ‘Un.

And in this video, John Hunt does a fabulous medley of cover songs Susie Q and Born on the Bayou.

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San Diego Blues Calendar: May 19th – 25th

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Blues Calendar - May 19 This week we have a nice mix of blues – from straight up blues to blues mixed in with zydeco, swing, jazz, R&B and soul.  Silky Sol is new in town – from St. Louis, and she has an amazing soul voice (think Aretha Franklin).  You can catch her Saturday afternoon at the SpeakEasy from 2-5pm.

Jams are happening as usual on Monday (Gaslamp SpeakEasy), Tuesday (Patrick’s Pub) and Wednesday (JammingOut at House of Blues AND also at Humphrey’s), so there are two jams now happening regularly on Wednesday nights.

NOTE: JammingOut at HOB on Wednesday will start at 9pm, not 7pm – this week only.

Annette DaBomb’s Soulful Blues & Jazz at the SpeakEasy

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Every Thursday night you can hear this beautiful lady’s voice at the Gaslamp SpeakEasy (from 9p-1am), singing a mix of blues and jazz.   I absolutely love her voice, and I’m thrilled to finally get some good video clips from her weekly gig.

Annette is joined with her Bomb Squad band members… Tony Peterson on drums, Doug Brunelle on bass (as well as the clarinet and flute), and Alan Zundelevich on keyboard.  In this video, the band is performing cover song Got My Mojo Workin.

For Billie Holiday fans, Annette will melt you as she sings this cover song All of Me.

And in this last video, Annette and her Bomb Squad are performing Eric Clapton’s cover song Further On Up the Road.

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Talented Kids Show Up at Youth Blues Jam

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Once again some incredible talented young people (up to 21 years old) showed up and played together last Saturday afternoon at the monthly BLUSD Youth Blues Jam at the Gaslamp Speakeasy.

The host musicians are Leilani Kilgore (guitar – playing over her head in this video), Tyler Ray Davidson (guitar) and Malachi Johnson (on drums).  Joining them in this video is Victor franklin, who is playing the bass guitar.

In this video, Aidan Mooney, who is only 9 years old, plays the guitar with the older teens hosting the jam – and holds his own!!

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San Diego Blues Calendar: April 21st – 27th

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Blues Calendar - Apr 21It looks like a fairly light week of blues around downtown.  Patrick’s Pub is now starting to host more rock bands, and Kona Kai is going to be closed for renovations for a while.

The blues jams are all still happening on Monday (Speakeasy), Tuesday (Patrick’s), Wednesday (House of Blues) and Thursday (Spaghetteria).

Lafayette Doing His Thing

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This is a good video of Lafayette Falkquay and his blues band performing cover song Black Cat Bone this past Saturday night.  Doc Holiday was playing keyboards, Ronnie Baumslater was on bass (can’t fix that red light that’s on him unfortunately), and Billy Wear was on drums.

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San Diego Blues Calendar: April 14th – 20th

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Blues Calendar - Apr 14

Another good week of blues jams and bands around town. Blues every night in the Gaslamp – at Patrick’s (and every night but Sunday) at the SpeakEasy.

There is also the Youth Blues jam on Saturday afternoon that is always incredibly good, and some of the kids that come in are as young as 9 years old.  This is an open jam for any young person who wants to come play some blues.

This may be Kona Kai’s last week of music out on Shelter Island before they shut down temporarily for renovations.

San Diego Blues Calendar: Mar 31st – Apr 6th

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Blues Calendar - Mar 31It looks like Kona Kai will be open for two more weeks before they close for remodeling, and this week Backwater Blues Band will be playing there on Wednesday evening.

There is also a tribute to Muddy Waters by the 145th Street local blues band at 98 Bottles on Saturday, which should be lots of fun.

And of course, there are jams Monday – Thursday around town and blues playing most nights at Patrick’s and the SpeakEasy in the Gaslamp.