Santa Cruz Mountains News & Events
Brennen Leigh’s Obsessed with the West. (And that’s a good thing.) “I’ve been obsessed with western swing music since I was a kid and it’s always been an influence. My records in the past have ranged from bluegrass to country music to folk, but I’d never fully explored swing until now.” So says genre-busting Fargo-born, Austin incubated, Nashville resident Brennen…
Acid Grass Boys is a genre bending group of venerable musicians from Aptos, California, playing a hybrid of high octane Bluegrass, & Classic/Outlaw Country. No cover! Event on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/3Q38zuCP3
Fleetwood Macramé has become one of the Bay Area's most exciting tribute bands. What began as a simple exercise in fun has turned into an awe inspiring live experience complete with show stopping renditions of Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits. Audience participation is encouraged, and Bay Area crowds are coming in droves to sing along with Fleetwood Macramé. What's more, they sound so…
Sharon Allen is a veteran performer who delivers her Americana with a filling blend of her own songs and favorites. Every song is delivered with her sweet voice and persona. Sharon has gained respect from radio and audiences as she weaves between genres she knows well, folk, country, rock and blues. She will bring her full ensemble The Dusty Blues…
Join the dance every Sunday evening at the Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building as Matt Hartle and Friends play the music of the Grateful Dead. You can stream this show or dance in person, $20 cover. Stream live: https://www.facebook.com/GratefulSundays
Wednesday December 14th 2022 @ Felton Music Hall Mike Renwicks Holiday Deluxe 21+ Doors 6pm / Show 7:30 Prices: $20
Alejandro Aranda, known by his stage name Scarypoolparty, is an American singer, musician, and reality television personality from Pomona, California, and runner-up on the seventeenth season of American Idol. His debut album Exit Form was released on November 22, 2019.
The Historic Brookdale Lodge and Mountain Music Productions are pleased to present Alex Lucero on Friday, December 16 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. There is no cover for this intimate show in the Brookdale "Fireside" Lounge. Alex Lucero & The Live Again Band is a 5-piece outfit crossing genres ranging from Soul, Funk, Jazz, Americana and beyond. Band members age-range…
Gangstagrass combines great American traditions of bluegrass, hip-hop, and beyond to create a whole new musical genre that is more than the sum of its parts. As latest album No Time For Enemies climbed to #1 on the Billboard bluegrass chart, Americana Highways magazine proclaimed Emmy-nominated Gangstagrass “America’s Band” because they take so much of what’s amazing about this country…
A Rock N’ Roll dance band somewhere in Santa Cruz with a real crush on the classics, but also more modern 80s, 90s, and New Millennium rock and dance music. Blue Ocean Rockers is a 6-member band with four harmonizing singers, a rockin’ guitar player, keyboards, a bass player extraordinaire, and a drummer that keeps us tight in the pocket…
Back by popular demand, the Historic Brookdale Lodge welcomes the return of Broken Shades on Saturday, December 17 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. There's no cover for this free show in the Brookdale "Fireside" Lounge. Richie Cowan is a mean guitar picker and vocalist. He’s been supplying his soulful and bluesy lead and slide guitar to various bands he’s played…
Combining punk abandon and tightly-coiled dance music has always been bonded into the band's DNA. It's this core plus their growth and mastery of songwriting that has seen them outlive the mid-2000s 'indie/dance punk' tag and has allowed them to consistently grow lyrically and sonically from album to album. As If is their most transcendent collection of songs yet. "Each…