Ventura Music Scene
Surf Rodeo’s Up!
by Pam Baumgardner
VenturaRocks.com
Pam@VenturaRocks.com
JD Drury and Surf Rodeo announced the dates for this year’s two day event over the summer. Mark your calendars now because you won’t want to schedule your summer vacation July 12th and 13th. They’re currently looking for vendors and bands, if you’re interested, shoot them off an email to SurfRodeo@gmail.com. And speaking of upcoming music events, Roadshow Revival’s a Tribute to the Music of Johnny Cash announced their first signed act, The Palladins.
I spoke to Jeremy Pemberton from Discovery Ventura who was more than pleased with the turnout for their grand opening weekend. Now they’ll be filling out the paperwork for long-term entertainment permits so they’ll be able to provide music on a consistent basis. We’re looking forward to good things to come from Discovery in the future.
Jon Gindick’s Mississippi Delta Blues Harmonica Jam Camp was held here in Ventura for the very first time bringing to town some of the finest players including Brian Purdy, R.J. Mischo, Cheryl Arena, Hash Brown and the man himself Jon Gindick. The workshops were held at the Pierpont Inn over five days. Most of the camp players arrived at Bombay’s on Thursday, January 23, to witness their instructors tear it up with members of the Gypsy Blues Room. At the end of the night all players (new and seasoned) got out their harps and joined in for a group grand finale with dozens of harp players throughout Bombay’s playing in synch. It was pretty cool.
I ran into Gil Valencia at Peirano’s on a Tuesday evening. While taking some pictures, Gil announced to the crowd that I was the “Mamarazzi” to which everyone gave me a warm welcome. Gil told me that he would always fill the house at the Sidecar Restaurant when he would play there the third Tuesday of every month. Well after they closed he found a new home at Peirano’s and his following, well, followed.
And as always, we invite you read the latest from Polly Hoganson, MusicMuse on VenturaRocks.com. She recently interviewed Chris Jay of Army of Freshmen who spoke candidly about the new film project he and fellow band mate Aaron Goldberg wrote called Baker’s Dozen. They’ve been seen filming around Ventura using members from several local bands including members of 8Stops7 and New Liberty along with several of guys’ wrestling heroes such as Jake “The Snake” Roberts, Tommy Dreamer and Diamond Dallas Page.
Have any music related news or upcoming shows you want help on publicizing? Send all information short or long: Pam@VenturaRocks.com.