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7.23 | Rian Basilio & The Roosters + Weapon

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FREE concert on the beach presented by DeltaNine Clothing, On Course Events & The City of South Lake Tahoe

4:30 – 5:45 pm Weapon (Reggae)
6:00 – 8:30 pm Rian Basilio & The Roosters (Reggae, Roots, Soul)

Roosters-bard-laughAbout Rian Basilio & The Roosters
In a culture where image and material value weigh heavier on a musician s success than actual talent or creed, a young man from a small town on the island of Hawaii, has set out to resurrect the conscious music and harmonious spirit of an era not so long ago, yet long forgotten. Rian Basilio and The Roosters are a group in which a perfect combination of talent and soul has come together to create a unique and very progressive sound. While keeping the foundation of their music rooted deeply in the classic genres of reggae, they have been able to fuse elements of each musician s unique background and style, cultivating a vibe that feels vintage yet completely fresh and original. Rian’s unique voice only intensifies his already poetic and deeply personal lyrics, which touch upon subjects from world and political turmoil to equally important issues of the heart and soul. The narrative and messages that exist within his lyrics are delivered to the listener through haunting melodies and hooks that will linger in the sub-conscious long after the song has ended.

The Roosters are also no amateurs when it comes to live performance. Members have played and toured with reggae legends such as Lee Scratch Perry, Eek a Mouse, Barrington Levy, Michael Rose, The Wailing Souls, HR of Bad Brains, The Rastafarians, Detour Posse, Haile Maskel and many more. As The Roosters , they have played and toured all over central and southern California as well as Nevada and Arizona. They have graced the stages of iconic venues like The Roxy in Hollywood, The Independent in San Francisco, LA’s Dub Club and The House of Blues in both San Diego and Anaheim. From the moment they step on stage, they come full force with an energy that can ignite the masses. Whether its hardcore roots infused with dub step, or up beat rocksteady vibes mixed with soulful r&b, The Roosters deliver a message and spread a vibe that is sure to open your mind and leave your soul irie!

7.16 | Fish Out of Water + Taking Root

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FREE concert on the beach presented by On Course Events & The City of South Lake Tahoe

4:30 – 5:45 pm Taking Root (Reggae)
6:00 – 8:30 pm Fish Out of Water (RoPhunk RaeHop)

FOW 1About Fish Out of Water
Fish Out of Water (F.O.W.) is your premier rock, funk, reggae, and hip-hop specialist. Over the past fifteen years, they have developed an exceptionally entertaining, all original live show by combining these musical styles into one formula known as RoPhunk RaeHop. This high-energy act brings a positive message, captivating the audience with their music.

“It’s as if Led Zeppelin, Bootsie Collins, Bob Marley, and Ice Berg Slim were wrapped up into one bad-ass persona.” Griffith Jackson – Sacramento News & Review

With their strong stage presence and funky beats, F.O.W. has rapidly spread across the globe. Based out of San Diego, California, the group is currently on their 10th national tour across the U.S. and recently finished their 3rd in Australia, where they’ve played for sold out crowds from the Gold to Sunshine Coasts. Fish Out of Water has shared the stage with such acts as G. Love and Special Sauce, Fishbone, and The Wailers, playing well over a thousand shows to date.

The band has released four albums over the span of their career including: RoPhunk RaeHop, Harvest your Thoughts, The Dream, and their first full length acoustic album Heart to Hand (mastered by Grammy-award winning engineer Wyn Davis of Total Access Studios). Between tours, the Fish have been working on their latest CD Cantangelo Skies, due out this fall.

Cousins Kyle and Brandon Moon began the group in 2000. This multi talented duo consistently switches between guitar, bass and vocals, creating a diverse sound within the music. On percussion is Michael Turco, an established studio musician out of L.A. Their full set can include an hour of acoustic music followed by danceable beats, depending on the venue’s needs.

Socially conscience, F.O.W. strives to use their music to its fullest potential, raising funds and donating their talent in support of such causes as hurricane relief, the Gulf oil disaster, breast cancer, and foster care. They hope their actions will one day inspire the rest of the world to give what you can with what you have.

Fish Out of Water commands the senses, moves the masses, and leaves you contemplating love, life, and everything in between.

About Taking Root
Taking Root is a Reggae band from South Lake Tahoe California who likes to play classic reggae like Bob Marley, modern reggae like sublime and alternate/classic rock songs with their own reggae twist.

7.9 | World’s Finest + MerryGold

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4:30 – 5:45 pm MerryGold (Bluegrass)
6:00 – 8:30 pm World’s Finest (Americana Dub Grass)

worlds finest 1About World’s Finest

Creating what could best be described as Neo-Americana, World’s Finest has bridged the gap between ska, Americana, dub and bluegrass. Hailing from all over the country, the band is comprised of five members: Chris Couch (acoustic guitar, vocals), Dan Hurley (electric banjo, vocals), Sean McLean (sax, electric guitar, vocals), Evan Malfer (electric + upright bass), and Mike Apodaca (drums). Even with their very different musical and geographical backgrounds, they have undoubtedly found inspiration in each others’ taste, talents, and sensibilities.

Strong songwriting, beautiful vocal harmonies, engaging band interplay and improvisation are only a handful of the many reasons why the band has garnered critical acclaim, and an ever-growing regional and national fan base.

World’s Finest has shared the stage with Steel Pulse, The Motet, Rusted Root, Pert Near Sandstone, Fruition, The Skatalites and Anthony B and have been fortunate enough to perform at North West String Summit, What The Festival?! and Symbiosis Gathering, as well as many local and regional festivals.

About MerryGold
Whiskey-soaked folk/bluegrass songs take listeners back to simpler times and portray a rawness that embodies the pioneer spirit of the Wild West.

7.2 | Tubaluba + Patrick Walsh

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FREE concert on the beach presented by On Course Events & The City of South Lake Tahoe

4:30 – 5:45 pm Patrick Walsh (Cali Country)
6:00 – 8:30 pm Tubaluba (Brass)

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About Tubaluba 
Tubaluba captures the spirit of New Orleans, and conveys it through their brass street band rhythm and style they call, Jambalaya Brass Rock.

Like the New Orleans dish that lent its name to their style, Tubaluba combines the staple musical provisions of jazz and soul with the trinity of funk, R&B & rock ‘n’ roll into a unique concoction designed to make you feel like you’ve been transported into the middle of a raucous 2nd line parade surrounded by vocals, piano, drums and a mess of horns.

Formed in 2009, Tubaluba initially drew its musical inspirations from of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Dr. John, the Cosimo Matassa influence of early New Orleans R&B and rock ‘n’ roll artists like Irma Thomas and Lee Dorsey. Over the past 5 years, their sound has expanded to encompass the rock ‘n’ roll past and funky present of their hometown of Seattle, WA. The band’s songwriting continues to evolve, blending fresh horn hooks with powerful vocal melodies.

The live Tubaluba experience is a high-energy combination of a stage show and street parade. The stage show has the feeling of a rock ‘n’ roll tent revival with fans chanting vocal hooks and trying out dance moves alongside the band’s soundtrack. The band has also been known to become “Tubalubradours” and head out into the crowd to, sometimes quite literally, take the party to the street.

About Patrick Walsh 
Story teller, producer and multi instrumentalist Patrick Walsh brings a fresh sound from the world of no genres.  Born and raised in the gold rush towns of Northern California he often incorporates local history and experiences into his songs.  Classically trained and first introduced to music through the piano at age six, he now plays and records with nearly twenty different instruments.  Walsh has been steadily performing his one man band originals live opening up for such acts as Hank Williams III, and Wayne “The Train” Hancock.  A firm believer in “if you want it done right do it yourself” Walsh writes, plays all instruments, records, masters, and even does most of the art work for his albums.  With thirty six previously released albums, he is now working on number thirty seven which should be out in 2015.

6.25 | The Raymond Victor Band + Jonny Gold Trio

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FREE summer music series, presented by On Course Events & The City of South Lake Tahoe, returns to the beach on Thursday, June 25th!

4:30 – 5:45 pm Jonny Gold Trio (Jazz)
6:00 – 8:30 pm The Raymond Victor Band (Blues)

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Born in Chicago, Raymond Victor is a 20-year resident of the Bay Area. Music was part of his life growing up, as his father was a guitar player and his mother a singer and dancer. Raymond started playing piano at the age of 5 and hasn’t stopped since. He worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles for 10 years and was a staff writer for CBS. Raymond recorded with Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Womack, Larry Graham and The BG. He has performed with Bobby “Blue” Bland, Big Momma Thornton, Elvin Bishop, Kathi McDonald, and Luther Tucker, and has opened for Buddy Miles, Canned Heat, Lou Rawls, Garth Brooks, Buddy Guy and Edgar Winter.

With 6 CDs to his credit, Raymond’s latest effort is “Living with the Blues”. The hit single from this latest CD, “Spirit of the Blues” was picked up by a syndicated blues show with a listenership of over 6,000,000.

Raymond’s CD “Spirit of the Blues” won the Just Plain Folks Blues CD of the Year Award. His’s song “Work Work” won the JPF Blues Song of the Year Award, and his recording of “Finger Lickin’ Blues” was nominated by JPF for Blues CD of the Year.

The Jonny Gold Trio

The Jonny Gold Trio swings hard through the classic tunes of the great American songbook. They are a jazz trio performing jazz standards, ballads, latin jazz and blues. The band plays music written by artists such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Rocker T w/ Weapon | August 28th, 2014

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Brooklyn native Rocker-T has been guided by a higher power and life experience to vocalize the messages of peace, love and equality worldwide. He is a promoter of truth and rights through music. His array of musical knowledge and the spiritual teachings he’s acquired throughout life have enabled him to not only blaze trails in many genres, but to create a unique voice which touches spirits around the world from all walks of life.

Rocker-T is an international underground sensation who is  respected by many top artists of several genres, and this popularity has enabled him to tour Japan with Jamalski, Europe with the NYC Ska Mob, the West Coast several times in many forms, the US twice with the IRT  Band (once with Shinehead), and in Mexico, Trinidad, and Panama. He has recorded internationally including three songs produced in Germany for Dr. Ring Ding’s album “Diggin Up Dirt” and “Sensi in the Club” recorded while living in Amsterdam, released by Owen Maigret’s Conquering Lion Soundz. His West Coast tours with Jah Warrior Shelter Hi-Fi were a major influence on West Coast sound systems as they saturated the area with their authentic Jamaican style sound system.

Scott Pemberton Trio w/ Black Star Safari | August 21st, 2014

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Scott Pemberton Trio
Infectious and inventive dance music. Funky, surfy, rock propelled by Scotts virtuosic guitar playing. If James Brown, Dick Dale and Jimi Hendrix planted a fruit tree in portland this sound might have fallen off.

“It’s like Ween meet’s Hendrix, but completely original” Boise Weekly

“At a festival FULL of guitarists (Safeway Water Front Blues Festival 2012), none played like Pemberton or was as fun to watch” Oregonian

“Virtuosic and brilliant” Glide Magazine

“Pemberton is a multi-genre master and a clever lyricist who can convey joy while digging deep.” Willamette Week”

Scott’s doing something new with the guitar, and beyond that, he’s doing something new with American music. He has his own unique flavor of Roots/Funk/Americana/Rock, and people are responding. His approach to the guitar is definitely not traditional but his virtuosity is undeniable.

Although he has supported himself with music since he was a teen, as a touring musician Scott is just a baby. He set out as a full time touring musician about a year and a half ago and things have been progressing fast. This summer he will be playing major festivals on the west coast, the east coast, and Canada with countless club dates in between—and he’s doing this without assistance from any label, management company or big booking agency. Just word of mouth, and the spark is spreading.

Black Star Safari

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Black Star Safari is a South Lake Tahoe based electro/rock/folk/funk duo. Featuring two MI Alumni; Matt Mandella on drums, vocals and samples and Dan Green on guitar and vocals. This duo creates an engrossing sound spanning musical genres and eras.

Mojo Green w/ Musical Charis | August 14th, 2014

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Mojo Green – Heavy Horn Funk and Soul

Mojo Green, Exploding from the shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains, have been staking their claim over the past 4 years as one of the regions premier horn driven funk and soul dance bands. Mojo Green, originally formed in 2009 has over the past several years transformed into a Funk and Soul Horn Driven powerhouse with a sound all their own. Made up of: Frank “Fletch” Fletcher on Drums and Trevor Rice on Bass laying down the tight and funky grooves that create the foundation, with Tim Bain on Guitar adding some tasty,deep funk rhythms and blistering lead lines, a powerhouse heavy horn section composed of Kevin Thomas on Bari Sax,Monty Adams on Trumpet and John Bennum on Trombone with Jenes Carter adding her Soulful and Sexy vocal leads, Mojo Green plays a style of dance music that is extremely funky and very sexy.

 

Musical Charis formed in the summer of 2008 as a male/female 4 piece with the intentions of creating an encouraging, light-hearted atmosphere for songwriting and creativity. “Charis” is the Greek word for gift, so the name literally translates to “Musical Gifts” Since then, the group has grown into a cabaret of multi-instrumental musicians who constantly tour, write and record new material. The band even made time to open “Musical Charis Music School” for low-income families in Sacramento. Members of the band teach private piano, guitar, and voice lessons to over 50 youngsters in the area.

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“People People” (JMB Records) the 10 song full length album released on July 23rd, 2010 was co-engineered by John Baccigaluppi (Editor of Tape OP Magazine) “Forward” may be the highlight of the ten track record, a catchy indie rock number that is in a class of its own on this album. The instrumentation here and throughout the record is extremely impressive, as each band member know their own roles. This makes for a wonderful chemistry that is audible even in a studio recording.”

 

40 Watt Hype w/ Candelaria | August 7th, 2014

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40 Watt Hype at Live at Lakeview in 2012

40 Watt Hype (A three-peat headliner of Live at Lakeview)

In the center of California, a culture that is the underbelly of LA and San Francisco. from the bass bumping out of the ’84 Cutlass to the backyard fiestas, the music of 40 Watt Hype is created—live Hip Hop cultivated from the seeds of a favorite dusty Soul record with a Latin b side.

Born and influenced by the streets of Fresno, 40 Watt Hype started (out of necessity) at a backyard party by front man Aaron Wall and as soon as the music started, the people danced and embraced this new sound. Wall—songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer—a second generation Dutchman from Holland, grew up listening to a multitude of styles and forms of music, from R&B to Hip Hop to Latin. When you hear and see Wall perform, you can feel the love and influence of the environment he is the product of, breaking stereotypes, as he states, “nothing turns heads quicker than seeing a white boy sing and rhyme in Spanish”. As a kid in Eastside Fresno, he learned to speak Spanish from hearing it throughout the neighborhood and from kids at school, and during high school in Fresno’s urban Westside, R&B and Hip Hop further impacted itself on his musical journey.

With the new album, “Push”, 40 Watt Hype blends equal parts rhythms and blues of Anthony Hamilton, evident in “Wannabe”; the hip hop ear of Mos Def as heard in “Echoes Through the Ghetto”; and the Latin touch of the Calle 13 in “Mas y Mas”—creating a kind of music that crosses genres and can’t be pigeonholed. Lyrically, the focus on optimism and hope “Only the Strong Survive” personifies the never-say-die attitude the band has maintained since its inception.

Candelaria 
Candelaria is at the forefront of the global cumbia-fusion movement. Truly independent, Candelaria wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered their debut CD at their own studio in Oakland, CA. From this album, the single “No No No” was recently featured on NPR’s Alt.Latino, which described the group as a 2013 emerging latin band to watch. Their irresistible combination of the traditional with the modern has filled dance floors across North America, from San Francisco bay area venues such as The Elbo Room, The Independent, Moe’s Alley and The New Parish, to festivals like the Mateel Community Center Summer Arts Festival, San Francisco Carnaval, Bliss Fest, Sierra Nevada Music Festial, and Lightning in a Bottle Festival.

In 2006, three musicians from across the Americas found themselves in the Bay Area –scouring Craigslist for other like-minded musicos, ready to take their musicianship to a different level– and though they didn’t know it at the time, these folks were on the verge of creating a previously unknown style of music: cumbia-dub. Bassist Daniel Yockey (Wisconsin, U.S.), conguero Carlos Mario Aguirre (Colombia) and gaitero / guitarist Adley Penner  (Canada) met while playing with Colombian folklore group, Aluna.  Inspired by the raw, rootsy rhythms of cumbia, yet growing restless with only playing covers, they began to experiment with the style. They applied dub studio techniques and reggae style bass lines to traditional cumbia and other Colombian rhythms, developing a completely unique style of dance music with electronic sensibilities and a raw, live feel. Though this ground-breaking idea was first conceived in 2006, it did not reach full fruition until the autumn of 2009, when Candelaria was formed under its current name in the heart of Oakland: the Fruitvale district.

Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds w/ Merrygold | July 31, 2014

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Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is a seven-piece powerhouse from NYC that puts a modern spin on classic soul. The band is led by Arleigh Kincheloe (Sister Sparrow), whose astoundingly powerful voice and sly demeanor make for a spellbinding presence onstage. She is backed by the mighty force of The Dirty Birds, a flock of seven men who masterfully lay down thundering grooves and soaring melodies. While each of the Birds are capable of lighting up the stage with jaw-dropping displays of musicianship, it’s clear they’re all focused on delivering the band’s infectious music as a single entity. Simply put, the band’s live show is explosive.

 

The band has earned a reputation as a true road-warrior. Since they started touring in 2011, Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds has played 150 shows each year all across the US (45 states so far) and Canada. Along the way, they’ve racked up a formable list of festival appearances, including Bonnaroo, Firefly, Mountain Jam, Voodoo Experience, Bear Creek, Gathering of the Vibes, Telluride Jazz, and late night sets at Austin City Limits and Jazz Fest in New Orleans. They’ve also shared the stage with Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) and Warren Haynes at a Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm’s Studio, played with Gov’t Mule at the Beacon Theatre in New York, and opened for a long list of tremendous acts like The Avett Brothers, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Dr. John, Fitz and the Tantrums, Counting Crows, JJ Grey and Mofro, moe., Soulive, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and the Funky Meters. Equally at home in the studio as they are onstage, their EP Fight (2013) was produced by Grammy award-winner and former American Idol Judge Randy Jackson.

 

The band is building a following the old-fashioned way – and the demand for their infectious music has kept them on a relentless tour schedule across the country. Fueled by the band’s boundless energy, every show turns into a wild dance party, and the Dirty Birds are establishing a rabid following of fans eager to receive a potent dose of good times, delivered by the band night after night.

 

 Merrygold

 

Whiskey-soaked folk/bluegrass songs take listeners back to simpler times and portray a rawness that embodies the pioneer spirit of the Wild West.

 

MerryGold is Jillian Secor (guitar, vocals) and Alex Stephens (guitar, mandolin, vocals). Based in the small northern California town of Placerville, themes of the Gold Country are abundant in their music. Their whiskey-soaked folk/bluegrass songs take listeners back to simpler times and portray a rawness that embodies the pioneer spirit of the Wild West. While traditional folk and bluegrass influences are apparent in their music, MerryGold incorporates a wide variety of influences to create their own sound.