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Five questions with Daniel Atkinson: San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival takes music beyond borders (opens the original)
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The San Diego Tijuana International Jazz Festival isn’t the region’s biggest music festival, but it might well be the most interesting and innovative. Set for Oct. 1-4 with two days in Tijuana, one in San Diego and one in Escondido, it’s a fascinating cross-cultural event that features prominent jazz musicians from the region and beyond. The fest is largely the brainchild of San Diego Jazz Ventures executive director Daniel Atkinson, who started the Athenaeum Jazz series at La Jolla’s Athenaeum
A day of music near the beach kicks off weeklong Sessions Surf Festival in Encinitas (opens the original)
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The Sessions Surf Festival emerged in Encinitas a few years ago on the heels of the pandemic. The brainchild of San Diego native Taylor Steele, a prominent surf filmmaker since the 1990s, it was initially focused on movies and panel discussions. Music often plays a big part on Steele’s movies, and the previous festivals had included smaller music events as well. But this year they added a major concert, with seven bands playing at the Seaside Reef parking lot in Cardiff on Saturday afternoon and
Five questions with John Moore: Bluegrass mandolinist returns to Vista to play Summergrass festival (opens the original)
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By the time he moved to Colorado just before the turn of the century, bluegrass mandolinist John Moore had established himself as one of San Diego County’s most influential and accomplished musicians. Born in Oceanside in 1960 and raised in Vista, Moore helped establish San Diego’s surprisingly fertile bluegrass community: He played for decades with the late fiddle/banjo great Dennis Caplinger in the nationally known group Bluegrass Etc., and gave formative lessons to future stars Chris Thile an
Five questions with Joey Harris: The Beat Farmers are back at the Belly Up for another Hootenanny (opens the original)
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It’s hard to imagine a more quintessential San Diego band than the Beat Farmers. The raucously entertaining country-punk outfit arose in the mid-1980s and gradually built a following through incessant touring, until charismatic ringleader Country Dick Montana died of an aneurysm onstage in British Columbia in 1995.Montana’s death was a huge loss for San Diego, but the remaining Beat Farmers found ways to keep making music. Guitarist/singers Jerry Raney and Joey Harris played with a variety of ba
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