BLUES


145 STREET www.145street.com


The music of 145 Street is driven by raw expressive vocals, exceptional blues harmonica, and passionate, blazing blues guitar. Each band member is an accomplished musi-


cian. The band is tight, professional, and dynamic. The blues of BB King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy,


and Paul Butterfield has inspired 145th Street to keep the Blues personal, current, and vital. Whether playing a hard driving Chicago blues shuffle, gettin’ down with a steamy slow blues, or funkin’ it up, they do it with flair, taste and excitement.


Sunday: 3:15pm, Blues Stage @ Hawley Blvd. ROOTS/AMERICANA


7TH DAY BUSKERS www.7thdaybuskers.com


Busking is a European term for performing on city streets, subways and at outdoor markets for tips. The 7th Day Buskers came together when Shawn P. Rohlf


opened up his banjo case at a Farmers Market on Sunday mornings and started busking. One by one a collection of the best musicians in San Diego joined him, forming one hot band and having a helluva good time! Rohlf’s original tunes are inspired by American folk culture from the bluegrass tradition.


Saturday: 1:15pm, Roots Rock Stage @ 34th St. ACOUSTIC


AARON BOWEN www.myspace.com/aaronbowen


Aaron Bowen has earned widespread recognition as a world-class guitarist and songwriter through his unique style and technique that blends timeless acoustic hand-me-down traditions with popular contemporary sensibilities. Best described in terms of


the weather, Bowen’s art and music are a rainy Seattle morning, a blistering midday in western Texas, or a lazy Parisian spring afternoon that take you away from the physical surroundings of your listening space to a place where you’ll always be moving to the tune of a flute at the feet of the piper who plays it.


Sunday: 5:15pm, Lestat’s Stage @ Felton St. ROCK/AMERICANA


ALEX WOODARD www.myspace.com/alexwoodard


“Woodard's well-crafted songs are cut from the same cloth as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jim Croce, Rodney Crowell, and John Mellencamp, whose music eloquently captures earthy truths about living, loving


and growing older without losing the dreams of youth.” – George Varga, Music Editor, Union-Tribune


Saturday: 12:30pm, Rock Stage @ 33rd St.


ACOUSTIC


ALYSSE FISCHER www.myspace.com/alyssefischer


Alysse Fischer, a native Floridian, is a self pro- claimed gypsy, student of life, and manifesting priest- ess. Her music is an offering of love, in hopes that her listeners may take on loving and accepting themselves (and others) more fully, choosing that they are wor-


thy of EVERYTHING wonderful and knowing that they have the power to make the world a better place. Having just returned from her North America tour singing with Jason Mraz and Bushwalla, Alysse is cur- rently working on her debut album.


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


BAYOU BROTHERS www.bayoubrothers.net


With a sound straight out of Louisiana’s dance clubs, bayou festivals, and backyard crawfish boils, the Bayou Brothers will rock you right on into Fat


Tuesday with their extensive experience and endless enthusiasm to deliver a rousing, rollicking, heart- thumpin’ musical gumbo y’all won’t soon forget. Start with a blend of accordion, keyboards, guitar,


bass, drums, and rub board, add three-part harmonies, mix it up with a lot of rockin’ Zydeco, blues, R&B, and great Mardi Gras sound, toss in dazzling showmanship and a big old dance floor, and you get the hot, spicy musical jambalaya that is the Bayou Brothers!


Saturday: noon, Worldbeat Stage @ Adams Park ROCK/AMERICANA


BILLY MIDNIGHT www.myspace.com/billymidnight


Founded in 1999 by the Shaddox broth- ers (Billy and Bobby), they recent- ly acquired ex- Rookie Card, Buzzkill Romantics


maestro Jason Hee on bass and keys. Coming out of a two year hiatus after Billy received a traumatic head injury while on tour in Oregon, the boys are back in action. Billy Midnight returns fully restored with a San Diego Music Awards nomination for Best Americana/ Country and their latest full length album. Recorded in Hee’s studio near downtown San Diego, Don’t Get Your Hopes Up cultivates some of Billy’s finest songwriting into the band’s most eclectic and adventurous record- ings to date. Shortly after the release of their latest disc, the boys asked Ben Krueger to join, adding a dou- ble guitar attack for the first time in the band’s history.


Sunday: 12:30pm, Rock Stage @ 33rd St. TRADITIONAL GOSPEL


BISHOP JOHN W. HAYNES & CHANGE


Bishop John W. Haynes & Change is a fine group of powerful musicians and singers. This San Diego- based family gospel group (three sisters, niece, nephews, and


spouses) seeks to bring the West Coast traditional gospel quartet to the forefront. As regulars at the


The Boogaloo Assassins mission is to bring the audi- ence a funky good time, Latin-soul style. Formed in Los Angeles in 2007, the Boogaloo Assassins are the West Coast’s modern answer to New York City’s Latin music explosion of the late 1960s. Heavily indebted to the classic sounds of Spanish Harlem, Los Asesinos serve up late ‘60s style salsa and Latin boogaloo, best described as a raucous fusion of American R&B with Cuban rhythms, sung in both English and Spanish. Los Asesinos have had the honor of sharing the stage with many of their favorite groups, including the Greyboy All- Stars, the B-Side Players, Grupo Fantasma, the Aggrolites, Budos Band, ALO, Money Mark, Orgone, Breakestra, the Lions, and RAMP around the country.


Sunday: 4:45pm, Worldbeat Stage @ Adams Park SINGER-SONGWRITER


BRONI www.myspace.com/bronibroni


In 2007 singer/songwriter Broni was toiling in empty pubs on the band circuit when he gave himself some advice: “Don’t sell yourself short; take a chance and be free.” Two years later, that mantra would become a part of


“You Can Dance at Any Age,” one of the tracks from his debut solo album Every Thought I’ve Had Since I Was 10, released in 2009 on Psycho Janitor Records nation- wide and worldwide digitally. With influences ranging far and wide from Ray


Lamontagne and Bernard Fanning to Death Cab for Cutie, Broni has used the stage and studio to fine-tune his craft. He has played alongside some of Australia’s best in Bob Evans and Ella Hooper, and was even invit- ed to perform at the 2008 Falls Festival.


Saturday: 11:15am, Lestat’s Stage @ Felton St. 5


House of Blues Gospel Brunch, their spirit-filled, profes- sional performance uplifts audiences of all genres. The group started over 17 years ago and has developed a distinct gospel sound with a hint of rhythm and soul that rocks any house and raises the roof.


Sunday: 12:30pm, Blues Stage @ Hawley Blvd. BLUES/ROCK & ROLL


BLUE FROG www.myspace.com/thebluefrogband


In 2001 Patrick “BlueFrog” Ellis, along with Alan Adamson, formed the original Bluefrog and Company as the house band for Buffalo Joes in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter. Combining the Blues


Harmonica influences of Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, Kim Wilson, Sonny Boy Williams, and Rod Piazza, with the guitar and keyboard styles of SRV, Allman Brothers, Doors, Lynrd Skynrd, and Ellis’ original music, the band quickly became popular with the large expat crowd. BlueFrog continues to unite American blues with its off- spring rock and roll to bring your feet to the dance floor.


Saturday: 1:45pm, Blues Stage @ Hawley Blvd. LATIN/SOUL


BOOGALOO ASSASSINS www.myspace.com/theboogalooassassins


29TH ANNUAL ADAMS AVENUE STRE E T FAIR SINGER-SONGWRITER


CHAD CAVANAUGH www.myspace.com/chadcavanaugh


San Diego-based singer/songwriter Chad Cavanaugh forged a music career out of loss, due to the economic collapse. Chad tours throughout the Southwest and Southern California performing in all manner of venues, telling


stories of a life less ordinary shaped by his time in the US Army Infantry, the battling of addictions, hardship of the streets, a sharp sense of humor, and the joys of family. Bringing a style compared to Johnny Cash, Sublime, and Jack Johnson, Chad’s music has sold around the world and is played regularly on San Diego’s Radio Sophie 103.7fm and Rock 105.3fm.


Sunday: 11:15am, Lestat’s Stage @ Felton St. LATIN JAZZ


CHASE MORRIN & THE LATIN


CONNECTION www.chasemorrin.com


Sixteen-year-old Chase Morrin is the leader of his own jazz trio and his five-man Latin Connection. He is also the pianist in the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine, one of San Diego’s longest lived big bands, and in the


Palomar College 7 O’Clock Jazz Ensemble, in which he is only one of three members who are not college stu- dents or graduates. The Los Gatos native, now a junior in high school


also plays bonang barung (two-dozen small, gong-like tuned chimes) in his school’s Javanese Gamalan Orchestra. He currently takes four advanced placement courses, including calculus and physics, and averages four to five jazz gigs per week, as well as teaching classical piano to two students of his own.


Sunday: noon, Worldbeat Stage @ Adams Park BLUES


CHET & THE COMMITTEE www.chetcannonblues.com


Chet Cannon is a self- described Terminal Blues Fan who once attended 26 blues concerts in 29 days. We’ve performed as the Committee around San Diego since summer of 2001. . . happy to say had opportunities to share a stage with many talented


musicians. Opening for Miss Candye Kane, Mr. James Harman, John Hammond, Chris Cain, Rod Piazza and Mighty Flyers, Magic Slim, Little Charlie’s Nightcats and others; their main objective is to make sure every- one has a good time! They pour their hearts into it! The jumpin’ debut, Don’t Get Me Started, nominated best blues CD in 2006, is still available at www.cdbaby.com.


Saturday: 5:45pm, Blues Stage @ Hawley Blvd.


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