29TH ANNUAL ADAMS AVENUE STRE E T FAIR HEADLINERS PSYCHEDELIC/FOLK


PETER CASE www.myspace.com/petercase


REGGAE FULLY FULLWOOD BAND


TOSH MARLEY TRIBUTE www.myspace.com/fullyfullwood


BLUES


JAMES HARMAN & FRIENDS www.jamesharman.com


Peter Case is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who has had a wide-ranging career – from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance. He is the rare songwriter who’s considered life from all its angles and hasn’t flipped yet, though he’ll be the first to admit that as time goes by, the weirder it gets. After disbanding the Los Angeles new wave/


power pop group the Plimsouls in the 1980s, Case launched a career as an important American solo artist specializing in flat-pick guitar style and semi-autobio- graphical stories, delivered in a narrative style.


Sunday: 4:45pm, Roots Rock Stage @ 34th St. REGGAE


THE LIONS www.myspace.com/lionsbread


A truly well-earned recognition as being one of the greats of the music industry, deeply creative and posi- tively innovative, Fully Fullwood is one of the most pop- ular and well-known bass players in the world. He has worked and recorded with every major artist out of Jamaica. His list of credits reads like a who’s-who of the twentieth century’s most important musical artists. Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Michael Rose, Mikey Dread,


The Mighty Diamonds, Black Uhuru, Joe Higgs, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Frankie Paul, Big Youth, U-Roy, Sister Carol, John Holt, Judy Mowatt, Ken Boothe, Andrew Tosh, Delroy Wilson, and many more have uti- lized the outstanding talents of this absolutely amazing composer, producer, and musician. The originator and leader of the Soul Syndicate Band, Fullwood has the distinction of also being a member of reggae superstar Peter Tosh’s famous band, Word, Sound and Power with whom he recorded and also toured with exten- sively until the singer’s untimely passing.


Saturday: 7:30pm, Worldbeat Stage @ Adams Park FOLK ROCK


EXENE www.myspace.com/exenecervenka


The Lions are Los Angeles’ premier 13-piece all-star reggae band featuring members of Hepcat, Orgone, Fitz and the Tantrums, Breakestra, the Expanders, Ocean 11, Connie Price and the Keystones, and the Rhythm Roots Allstars. The result of an impromptu recording session by some of the scene’s most soulful and notable musicians and singers, the Lions created grooves that went beyond Jamaican music by combin- ing new and traditional rhythms, and dub mixing mas- tery with the global sounds of Ethiopia and Colombia. Their album, Jungle Struttin’, was released on Ubiquity Records in 2008. The Lions are now releasing songs on their own Lions Bread label, including “This Generation” and “Roll It ‘Round,” both featuring MC Black Shakespeare, “Pieces of a Man” with Alex Desert riding the rocksteady rhythm, and the laid-back instrumental “New Girl.” Their live set transcends any particular genre but is best described as a healthy mix of vocal and dub tracks, balancing classic reggae and soul cuts as well as new originals. The Lions have showcased their talents at Sunset Junction, U.S. Open of Surfing, Ragga Muffins Festival, UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Haiti Relief Concert, KCRW’s Sounds Around Town, Funk Rumble Block Party, El Rey Theatre, the Belly Up, Roxy Theatre, Dub Club at the Echoplex, Galaxy Theatre, and Slims. They had the honor of being the backing band on two occasions for reggae legends the Heptones, and were direct support for the likes of Bedouin Soundclash, the Aggrolites, Fat Freddy’s Drop, and Antibalas.


Sunday: 3pm, Worldbeat Stage @ Adams Park


A true renais- sance woman, Exene is a singer, artist, and poet whose work traverses virtually every aspect of those disciplines. She is known for her work as singer for the


legendary punk band X as well as the Knitters and the Original Sinners. Best known as the singer for X, one of the leaders


of the late-’70s/early-’80s California punk explosion, Exene Cervenka has also issued solo albums, launched several side bands, and penned books. Through a local poetry workshop in Santa Monica, Cervenka met John Doe, and the seeds of what would eventually become X were planted. With both sharing vocal duties (and Doe doubling on bass), Doe’s friend Billy Zoom supplied gui- tar in a Duane Eddy style and was soon followed by the arrival of drummer D.J. Bonebrake, resulting in the birth of X in 1977.


Saturday: 3:45pm, Roots Rock Stage @ 34th St.


James Harman lives in southern California, but his music clearly reflects his south- eastern roots. Born in 1946 in Anniston, Alabama to musical parents, Harman began piano lessons at age four and sang in the church choir. His father’s Hohner


harmonicas were in the piano bench, and he would play them after his piano lessons. He experimented with other instruments as well, including guitar, organ, bass, and drums, performing solo and with family mem- bers at dances and country suppers. He found the blues early in life, both on black radio and on the street cor- ner. “Radio” Johnson, a local blind street singer who played slide guitar with a knife, was an early influence and collaborator. Harman’s professional career began in 1962 after


moving to Panama City, Florida. Soon after the move, he discovered like-minded friends, who invited him to black nightclubs to see such performers as Little Junior Parker, Jimmy Reed, Little Milton Campbell, Slim Harpo, Bobby Bland, O.V. Wright, B.B. King, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, and James Carr. He began hanging out on a regular basis and was eventu- ally asked to sit in by local house bands, becoming known as “that boy who sings like a man.” Encouraged by this acceptance, Harman launched the first of his many rhythm ‘n’ blues ensembles, using such names as King James and the Royals, Snakedoctor, Disciples of Soul, Disciples of Blues, the Disciples, Voodoo Daddy, Soul Senders, Pieces of Eight, Kingsnakes, and finally, the Icehouse Blues Band.


Sunday: 4:45pm, Blues Stage @ Hawley Blvd. FOLK ROCK ROCKET SCIENCE WITH


JACK TEMPCHIN www.facebook.com/jacktempchin


JAZZ ROCK/FUSION


OHM www.chrispoland.com


FOLK/ACOUSTIC ERIN MCLAUGHLIN W/ SEAN


WATKINS www.myspace.com/theericsings


Erin McLaughlin began writing her stories to songs about two years ago after the untimely death of her youngest brother Bryan. The best thing she felt she could do for herself was to “air out this soul searching, frequent grappling with life and its peaks and


valleys” through the medium of music. Lately she has been performing with Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, who will join her at the Adams Avenue Street Fair.


Saturday: 2:15pm, Lestat’s Stage @ Felton St. JAZZ/FUNK


ROBERT WALTER www.myspace.com/robertwalter


Soul jazz organist Robert Walter built a reputation as one of America’s heaviest jazz- funk crossover musi- cians. He earned inter- national acclaim for his work with the Greyboy Allstars, who were credited with bringing


the ‘60s/’70s soul jazz sound to a modern jam band audience. Walter has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe for the past 15 years with the Greyboy Allstars and his own ensembles: 20th Congress, Robert Walter Trio, Super Heavy Organ. He performs with the Headhunters, Fantastic 4, Mike Clark, Stanton Moore, Steve Kimock, Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter, Fred Wesley, Skerik, James Singleton, Tim Green, and others.


Saturday: 7:45pm, Rock Stage @ 33rd St.


From humble beginnings at coffeehouse hootenannies, to having two songs on the best-selling album of the 20th century, Jack Tempchin has been a principal archi- tect of the country rock music of the 1970s, known sim- ply as the Southern California Sound. Over his prolific 40-year career, Tempchin’s songs have been covered by such great artists as George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Glenn Campbell, Tanya Tucker, Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, Randy Meisner, Richie Havens, Chris Hillman, Johnny Rivers, and bands like the Eagles, the Paladins, and New Riders of the Purple Sage. Tempchin’s current band Rocket Science is a


unique blend of accomplished talents, superb songwrit- ing, and deep musical roots, which delivers a payload of great songs. Through hoodoo blues and arguing machines to good old rock and roll, their mission is to go where they’ve already been but this time they’re taking you.


Saturday: 5:15pm, Roots Rock Stage @ 34th St.


Chris Poland is probably best known as the former lead guitarist for Megadeth, but he had been a well known L.A. area fusion player prior to his stint with Mustaine’s group. Chris’ clean, overdriven tone, and legato phras- ing make him instantly recognizable. His unique style can be partially attributed to an injury to his index fin- ger on his fret hand. This injury forced him to develop a style that includes smoothly phrased passages and wide intervallic leaps. 1990 saw the release of Chris’ first solo effort, Return to Metalopolis, on Enigma Records. With brother Mark on drums and Chris playing the rest of the instruments, a unique mix of heavy metal and fusion was formed. Chris and Mark eventual- ly formed the progressive group Damn the Machine with David Randi on bass and Dave Clemmons as vocalist and co-guitarist. Chris now finds himself work- ing with his friend and bandmate from the New Yorkers days: Robby Pagliari. Along with drummer Kofi Baker, Chris, and Robby are now writing and performing as OHM.


Saturday: 8:15pm, Lestat’s Stage @ Felton St. 4


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