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MUSICAL LEGEND San Diego’s jazz community will align for a special 81st birthday tribute to musical icon Joe Marillo. Courtesy photo
Balkanfest 2013, cover-band heaven and jazz icon Joe Marillo
Café-Bar Europa continues its celebration of world music with Balkanfest 2013. The event is set to take place from May 24-27. Featuring performers from — and inspired by — traditional music of the ...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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• Johnny V Vernazza: 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 1 at the Kona Kai Resort, 1551 Shelter Island Drive. www.resortkonakai.com.
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Lots of blues guitarists call San Diego home, but only one has mastered the Billboard charts. Johnny V. Vernazza, a member of legendary combo The Elvin Bishop Group, hit No. 4 on the Billboard char...
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Cliff Robertson is honored as La Jolla High's homecoming football game grand marshal at Edwards Stadium a few years ago. He graduated from La Jolla High School in 1941. DON BALCH
Former colleague plans documentary on Cliff Robertson
When Steve Thompson, who for years worked as a publicist in the manufacturing sector, decided to give a career in the film industry a try, he never expected where he would end up. When Thompson le...
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Mission Bay High students perform during a previous “Jazz on the Green” event, set for Saturday, May 18 this year. Courtesy photo
‘Jazz on the Green’ to thrill listeners, raise funding
Recognized on both a local and national level, it’s no secret that Mission Bay High School’s music program is one of San Diego’s treasures. Generations of musicians have honed their skills at the ...
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Sara Groban will compete in a battle of the bands at Brick by Brick on May 16. Courtesy photo by Frank Rodrick
LIVE MUSIC: Girl music power, prime blues and a CD-release weekend party
Does the world need another girl with a guitar? The answer is yes, at least when it comes to a talent like Sara Groban. Appearing at Brick by Brick on May 16 as part of a battle of the bands, Groba...
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Guitarist Johnny “V” Vernazza will play at Gator by the Bay at Spanish Landing Park from May 10–12. Courtesy photo by Sandra Castillo
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A little taste of New Orleans comes to San Diego via the 12th annual Gator by The Bay Festival, taking place May 10-12 at Spanish Landing Park. The celebration of Crescent City culture is expected ...
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The Old Mission Beach Athletic Club will, for the first time in two years, present its OMBAC Beach MusicFest on May 11 at Mariner’s Point in Mission Bay Park from 2 to 8 p.m. Included in the music ...
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eclectic sounds Petunia and The Vipers is a five-piece band that sets a new standard when it comes to intensity and passion. The band plays at Tio Leo’s on April 26. Courtesy photo
Live Music: Petunia & The Vipers; Yellow Red Sparks and Killing Joke
Petunia and The Vipers are coming to San Diego and roots music will never be the same. Appearing at Tio Leo’s on April 26, the band is as comfortable with a Spanish ballad, New Orleans shuffle o...
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ROCK CLASSIC Cherie Currie. Courtesy photo
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Fans of California’s original punk scene won’t want to miss a performance from Cherie Currie at Brick by Brick on May 3. Though she has had a solo career of note, it’s her time in the late 1970S as...
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BODY ART Westley Dickerson of Crossroads Tattoo begins his artistry. Ethan Orenstein
Boardwalk Beat: Getting inked on Garnet Avenue
With more than 10 tattoo shops on Garnet Avenue alone, the beach area is home to a large number of talented tattoo artists with a variety of specialties. Many of the shops have been around for a l...
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Surf Film Fest ready to ride new wave
The San Diego Surf Film Festival (SDFF) will soon host its much-anticipated list of films for 2013. The films, chosen by a six-member screening panel, will represent a wide variety of cultures and ...
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Queen of sound Sara Petite is the local queen of the sound. Appearing at The Griffin on April 19, Petite is poised on the verge of a national breakthrough. Courtesy photo
Live Music: Palmer power, Nancarrow, Sara Petite and Fish Out of Water
One of the biggest music stars of the 1970s, drummer Carl Palmer performs at Brick by Brick on April 13. A brilliantly flashy showman, as a member of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Asia, Palmer has p...
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The California Honeydrops. Courtesy photo
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The California Honeydrops, a Bay Area-based quartet, stop in at The Griffin on April 14. Currently touring behind its latest album, “Like You Mean It,” the California Honeydrops mix up country, g...
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“Accomplice: San Diego,” the fourth in the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls series, runs through April 21.
Playhouse’s ‘Accomplice’ brings out theatergoers’ seedy side
It began with a cryptic phone call. The voice on the other end gave vague directions: meet at the corner of State and Fir at the “eyeball” at exactly 4:30 p.m., no later, no earlier. Upon meeting t...
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Ellen Salk’s “Desire,” 5’ by 6’.
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Artist Ellen Salk (daughter-in-law of the late Jonas Salk), composer Christopher Adler and art critic Sally Yard will hold a panel discussion about multidisciplinary approaches to art making and th...
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