{"id":8308,"date":"2025-11-09T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/?p=8308"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:12:35","slug":"music-scene-11-12-25-11-25-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/music-scene-11-12-25-11-25-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Scene 11\/12\/25 &#8211; 11\/25\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ventura Music Scene<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">by Pam Baumgardner<br \/>\nVenturaRocks.com<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Pam@VenturaRocks.com<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8309 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25.jpg\" alt=\"music scene article artwork\" width=\"1500\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25-300x136.jpg 300w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25-1024x463.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25-768x347.jpg 768w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Music-scene-artwork-11-12-25-500x226.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I think of Todd Rungren, I think hit radio and immediately get, \u201dHello, It\u2019s Me\u201d, stuck in my head the rest of the day&#8230;and I don\u2019t mind. Others popular songs he\u2019s written include \u201cBang on the Drum All Day,\u201d and \u201cI Saw the Light.\u201d The man is quite the gifted singer\/songwriter and record producer, and he has a date at the Libbey Bowl where at last I checked, tickets were still available for Friday, November 21 via Ticketmaster.<a href=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-8311\" src=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers-1024x810.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the Beat Farmers in concert. \" width=\"584\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers-1024x810.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers-768x607.jpg 768w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers-1536x1214.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers-379x300.jpg 379w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/beat-farmers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Beat Farmers play the Deer Lodge December 14 with John Surge and the Haymakers. Advance tickets are available at DeerLodgeOjai.com. They call themselves, \u201cwreckless western\u201d and you may recall the band was a big part of the 80s roots\/rock\/Americana movement which included Los Lobos, The Blasters, Lone Justic and Rank &amp; File. They\u2019ve reunited and have been playing special shows the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time Grammy award-winning composer\/producer\/saxophonist, Tom Scott &amp; the LA Express returns for a show at the Grape on Friday, November 21. Securing advance tickets is highly encouraged via TheGrapeVentura.com website. As an aside, Scott was a guest artist with such recording heavy hitters as Streisand, Quincy Jones, Thelonius Monk, Sinatra, Aretha and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/social-event-of-the-year.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8312\" src=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/social-event-of-the-year.png\" alt=\"sign stating Social Event of the Year\" width=\"864\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/social-event-of-the-year.png 864w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/social-event-of-the-year-300x86.png 300w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/social-event-of-the-year-768x220.png 768w, http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/social-event-of-the-year-500x144.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The social event of the year, the Ventura Winter Wine Walk is coming up fast. Along with the ticketed wine walk where you can leisurely stroll all along downtown visiting all the participating wine tasting venues, there will also be a free holiday street fair along with live entertainment at the corner of California and Main downtown Ventura. Tickets for this year\u2019s event for Saturday, December 6, are available at VenturaWinterWineWalk.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is a good night to get out and decompress with friends before confronting the family the next day. Choices include Guy Martin at the Grape, DNA and Bloody Mary Morning at Tony\u2019s Pizzeria, TD Lind at the Ojai Valley Brewing and The Gamble at Winchesters. I\u2019ll have more in the next issue.<\/p>\n<p>Quick Notes: Winchester\u2019s Grill weekend music hours now run an hour earlier, 2-5 pm; Heavy metal artists, Y&amp;T, play the Ventura Music Hall on Friday, November 14; The always humorous ska punk band, The Aquabats, play the Majestic Ventura Theater on Friday, November 14; Mistress of Reality, an all-female Black Sabbath tribute band, play Copper Blues on Saturday, November 15; The Vonettes return to Bombay\u2019s for a date Saturday, November 15; Harley\u2019s Camarillo Bowling has the Phester\u2019s Blues Band on Saturday, November 15; and Duane Bartels has a Monday evening residency at Night Owl Ciderworks in downtown Ventura;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any music-related news or upcoming shows that you would like help publicizing? Please send all information, short or long, to Pam@VenturaRocks.com. For updated music listings daily, visit www.VenturaRocks.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ventura Music Scene by Pam Baumgardner VenturaRocks.com Pam@VenturaRocks.com When I think of Todd Rungren, I think hit radio and immediately get, \u201dHello, It\u2019s Me\u201d, stuck in my head the rest of the day&#8230;and I don\u2019t mind. Others popular songs he\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/music-scene-11-12-25-11-25-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1927,1838,1928,733],"class_list":["post-8308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventura-rocks","tag-the-beat-farmers","tag-todd-rungren","tag-tom-scott-the-la-express","tag-ventura-winter-wine-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8314,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}