Often compared to Radiohead and Coldplay, local San Diego band HARGO brings haunting melodies anchored by a driving beat, undulating rhythms. and a wide vocal range evocatively accentuating the spiritually based, socially and politically charged lyrics. HARGO is completing the year with a short tour with San Diegan band-mates: guitarist Sanjay Parekh, bassist John Jolley, and Ron Kerner on drums playing songs from their current EP, The Faint Glow, and upcoming album, Out of Mankind, HARGO’s music is about, “stepping outside of your culture and the propaganda in the world today, and about being a human being,” says Hargo Khalsa, HARGO front man. Lead singer Hargo Khalsa is not a stranger to music that inspires, earning longtime fans of his emotional songwriting such as the B-52’s Kate Pierson and Seal, as longtime fans with his emotional songwriting. The band’s first complete album, Out of Mankind, is due to release the end of January 2012.
Hargobind “Hargo” Hari Singh Khalsa – Lead Vocals / Guitar (Les Paul / Telecaster)
Band Members: Sanjay Parekh – Lead Guitar (Telecaster / Les Paul / Jerry Jones Coral Sitar Guitar) John Folley – Bass/Vocals (Fender Precision Bass) Ron Kerner – Drums (Ludwig 70’s Drum Kit)
The Mercedes Moore Band combines traditional blues with the soul and R & B of the 50's and 60's. Mercedes Moore captivates audiences with her sultry voice and graceful presence. Diverse rhythms keep dancers moving and listeners grooving! This band will take you back to a time when music was everything. Real, raw, emotional. Most recently you may have caught them at Gator by the bay Blues Festival, Adams Ave. Street Fair, or San Diego Blues Festival.
Liquid Blue® is an independent recording and touring act based in San Diego that has performed in more than 100 countries on 7 continents, a feat which no other band has accomplished. In 2010 the band scored a Billboard Top-10 Hit as Earth Passport went to #3 on the Hot Dance Singles Chart. Liquid Blue and their hit song received a Guinness World Record® for "Song Sung in the Most Languages". Their highly acclaimed LP "Supernova" was awarded Pop Album of the Year in 2009 at the Los Angeles Music Awards. Twice the group has finished runner-up for "Best Band" at the International Music Awards (2006-2007) and was also named "America's Best Independent Artist (2004-2005). The nomadic troop has performed over 2000 shows in over 400 cities and has been featured on five magazine covers. In 2005 Liquid Blue became the first American act to be signed by a major Chinese record label. The group was honored to represent the United States at the CCTV kick-off concert for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In 2010 Vocalist Nikki Green became the first American to qualify for the finals in Chinese Idol. To top things off, Liquid Blue has been certified as a green business.
Lexington Field is an American Fiddle Rock band from San Diego, CA. Formed in 2007, they have played hundreds of shows and released a 5-song EP "The Streets of Dover" (2010) and an all-original, full-length album called "Old Dirt Road" (2011). Lexington Field embraces the best of North American musical elements such as rock, punk, country, and folk and adds a fiddle, tunes of their Irish heritage, and influences from bands such as the Young Dubliners, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, and Great Big Sea. They have combined this unique sound with a high-energy live show, to give their fans an amazing musical experience. This Saturday, January 7th we will turn Jolt'n Joe's into an official Irish pub!
Todo Mundo ("All the World") blends the musical flavors of samba, rumba, reggae, and other South American and Caribbean styles into an irresistible groove that lifts the spirits of all who hear it. Led by Santiago Orozco, a native Colombian, along with musicians from around the world, Todo Mundo believes that music, as the universal language, is the best way to bring people together.
Jazz, Latin / Tejano / Mariachi, Reggae / Ska, Rock
“One of my favorite Manu Chao songs is ‘Bienvenidos a Tijuana,’” says Santiago Orozco of reggae/Latin/acoustic group Todo Mundo. “I love this song. It has a line that says, ‘I want to go to San Diego, but I can’t.’ And always this sentence was magic, like, ‘You should go there and check it out.’ Everybody thinks I’m crazy for that. But it’s the heart feelings. Signs.” The Bogotá, Colombia native followed the signs to visit San Diego in 2008, playing on the streets of Ocean Beach with a Russian friend accompanying on hand drums. “We played for three hours and made one dollar,” Orozco laughs as we drink sangria on the patio of El Camino in South Park. Unfazed, the duo continued busking in the Gaslamp and at farmers’ markets in Ocean Beach, Little Italy, and Hillcrest. “I saw people appreciating the music, giving tips. I said, man, I’m doing what I love. That was like a sign for me in my life. Playing in the streets was so magical for me. I start to meet people, a beautiful girl, everything was so happy. So I was tempted to stay.” Returning home, Orozco founded Todo Mundo in Argentina in 2009. After several months, he ditched his cinematography career and decided to move the group to the U.S. However, no one could travel with him for lack of visas. He arrived alone in San Diego in January 2010 and began working with Jake Sibley on the cajón (a Peruvian percussive box) and, later, fellow Colombian Fabio Alejo on keys. Says Orozco , “The thing about live music is that it’s in the moment. I’m singing and I connect with you in the moment. The most sacred for me, more than anything, is the live music.” The band is often seen busking around town. “For Todo Mundo, the street is the best school. In life, in music, the street is the best. You are naked there. People can think you are crazy. But it is there where you show what you are, just what you have. The street taught me a lot, and the most, most important thing: the connection with people. Todo Mundo means everybody together. It’s a movement to bring a lot of people together and see that we are just one in this life. If you talk to the people in the band, all they want is to make people dance. If we can make you forget your worries, we are doing a good job.” The band also includes Latin jazz trumpeter (and former police officer) Melissa Mejia. “Some people are, like, ‘Can you write off my ticket?’ I’m not a cop anymore. I’m a civilian now. But some people think that even though I resigned [from the San Diego Police Department], they still think that I have these abilities.” Mejia says that after six months of intensive training and a month on patrol, she came to a simple conclusion. “The job wasn’t for me.” The Oberlin College music grad quit without a backup plan, so she filled her days practicing trumpet. She practiced in her car so as not to disturb the neighbors in the Rancho Peñasquitos apartment complex where she lives with her husband. “I began to pray. And I wrote out my goals on three-by-five cards. And I went on a two-day mini fast to be better able to hear where I was supposed to go. It was a big decision,” she says. “I didn’t have a job anymore.” A week later, Mejia, who says she had dreamed of performing in a Latin band for years, got an inspiration. It came in the form of a whim to cruise craigslist. “I typed in one word: trumpet.” An ad came up from a Latin band that was looking for a female trumpet player. “It was crazy,” she says. “The ad had posted just two hours earlier.” “The first day we all played
[together] was in a bar.” Orozco says of jamming with Mejia at Bar Dynamite. “It was just amazing,” he says, his accent heavy as he searches for the proper words. “The thing she was doing, was...like I told her — where you have been for my life?” “When I answered the ad,” Mejia says, “they didn’t know I’d been a cop and hadn’t played for seven months.” How did that work out in the beginning? “For me it was a surprise,” says Orozco. “I was always looking at the police like aliens. Not in my world. It was different,” he says. “Now I’m playing with an ex-police. But in the end, it was cool.” Later he will say, “Now the police are my friends.” Mejia says the musician’s life is a fit. But once a cop, always a cop? Mejia considers the question for a moment. “We played downtown and I told a guy I used to be a police officer, and he was, like, whoa! Some people do have that kind of reaction.”
Their Organic Fire album won Best World Music Album at the 2011 San Diego Music Awards.
Seven national powerboat racing tours, featuring the world’s fastest boats compete on the waters of San
Diego’s Mission Bay, September 16-18, as headliner of the region’s largest annual family beach festival and sports competition.
This year marks the first time in three years the Air National Guard Hydroplane Series and the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series have run together on MissionBay. They are joined by the automotive-powered Grand Prix West Hydroplanes and offshore series newcomer P1 USA, among others during the three-day weekend.
“The Unlimited hydroplanes and the drag boats are truly fan favorites,” said Jeff Thomas, chairman of San Diego Bayfair’s Board of Directors. “This is the only race site in the country you can experience both tours on the same body water, same weekend. If you love jet engines or the roar of the pistons and the sheer speed of seeing the fastest race craft with no wheels, Bayfair is the place to be in September.
“But it’s more than just powerboat racing, there’s something for everyone, great vendors, food, music and the shores of beautiful Mission Bay, combined with the best weather of the year.”
San Diego is the final regular season stop for The Air National Guard Hydroplane Series before wrapping up its season in Doha, Qatar in November. Ten unlimited hydroplanes compete for the famed Bill Muncey Cup, which was won last year by the tour’s all-time winningest driver Dave Villwock, who just this year passed Muncey’s record of 62 wins.
Villwock, driving the Spirit of Qatar, and his primary competition driver Steve David in the Oh Boy! Oberto have each won two races this season, though there’s a young, highly skilled group of drivers challenging the two veteran’s dominance. Speeding across the water at over 200 mph in the straightaways on the 2.5-mile Bill Muncey racecourse, the fastest body of water on the circuit, drivers are subjected to G-forces similar to what a fighter pilot experiences. Even there boats are similar, protected in cockpits designed after the Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Returning to Mission Bay after a one-year hiatus, the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series expects as many 120 boats churning up the water in front of Crown Point. Billed as the extreme sport of extreme sports, the series’ Top Fuel Hydros can achieve 260 mph on a quarter-mile course.
As the drivers attest, there is a fine line between winning the race and crashing. Drag boats are competing in 11 classes including sportsman, PWC and professional. In addition to the racing action, fans can meet the drivers and watch up-close the boats being prepared for competition.
Here’s a brief overview of the other classes of boat racing at Bayfair:
Grand Prix West—The piston-powered boats are just 2 feet shorter than the unlimited hydroplanes, but are powered by supercharged, big-block V8s, racing at speeds over 160 miles per hour. Grand Prix West boats are a fan favorite, offering the roar of piston engines and the rumble of brute horsepower.
P1 USA—A new offshore racing series to North America, the series decides its SuperStock champion in San Diego. The tour features outboard-powered 28-foot V-bottoms head-to-head, Match Racing on Saturday and an endurance race on Sunday. The boats must maneuver an exceptionally tight course in Mission Bay, a challenge for the most experienced driver. The tour also includes twin-engine V-bottom boats.
Cracker Boxes—Appearing with the Lucas Oil Drag Boat Series, Cracker Boxes feature the engine in front of the driver and observer. The flat-bottom runabouts have the exact same bottom design as the boats when they made their debut in the 1930s. These boats can run speeds up to 100 mph.
Stock Hydros—Capable of speeds of up to 70 mph, these small hydroplanes use small outboards and run a tight course close to the fans.
PWC—Featuring many of the top riders from the West Coast on standup and sit-down PWC, these agile and fast watercraft thrill race fans. More than 15 riders will compete in various classes for fans on Crown Point.
In addition to the racing, the Air National Guard San Diego Bayfair includes live music and entertainment for the entire family. Vendor booths will be selling foods and there are carnival games for youths. For those over 21, beer gardens will be set up where fans can watch the racing action.
Tickets are $25 for a single-day entry pass or a three-day Super Pass is $45. Children under age 12 are free. Active military personnel and reservists with valid ID are free to Bayfair. Gates open at 7 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. each day, Friday through Sunday, September 16-18.
Air National Guard Big Stage Fri Sept 16th
Time Band Name Genre
10am Froghead ___________ Rock / Alternative Rock / Progressive Rock
11am Cyanide Vogue ___________ Rock / Dirty Rock n Roll
12pm SoundDrug ______________ Rock / Alternative / JAP
This is San Diego's last chance to see the Complete Prayformance from the Academy Award winning Tribal Baroque on there "Bless the World Tour" along with the release of there brand new CD "Love and Devotion" They will be leaving San Diego March 1st and heading up to San Fransisco for a month and then to Canada for the summer. The show date is Feb 26th doors open at 7pm ArtLab Studios 3536 Adams Ave San Diego 92116 Tickets can be purchased at Ego Id 3538 Adams Ave San Diego 92116 during business hours or by phone (619) 283-1199 x115 and tickets will be placed on will call. Hurry they are going fast...
There will be an after party for Lila’Angelique birthday at ArtLab studios after the show. During intermission of the Prayformance there will include a Tea Ceremony that everyone is invited to sit in on. There is very limited amount of tickets available for this performance so please get your tickets ASAP before they are gone.
Ticket include the new CD Love and Devotion, Hors d’oeuvres, Refreshments all for only $20 for ArtLab Members and $25 for non Members. So bring your pillow and lets sit down and get personal with Tribal Baroque. Make sure you get your CD signed after the show. This is an all ages show that will change every one's idea of what a night of entertainment can be. A Show to remember for sure!
Lila’Angelique One day in the Angel tunnel in New York's Central Park, when she was listening to Thoth while they were singing "Anya," it sounded like a baroque countertenor; but there rhythm, vocal whooping and roaring sounded so tribal, that Lila called there music “Tribal Baroque”. A combination of opposites: raw, howling singing, feet stomping rhythm, faces painted, breasts flopping, wild original costumes, ecstatic spiritual dancing combined with highly developed musical phrases, perfect pitch, Bulgarian-style operatic soprano and countertenor vocals, and classically influenced violin. Thus the name, "TRIBAL BAROQUE"
Soul/Jazz...Tori Roze is a multi-instrumentalist and soul-singer to the core. Currently living in San Diego, Tori has been writing music since the age of sixteen, utilizing the medium to primarily channel those things that cannot be understood merely by the act of saying the words themselves. The Hot Mess, comprised of five extremely exceptional musicians that literally bring the house down, is sure to leave you reeling with toe-tapping excitement. "If you combined the music of Erykah Badu, Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Pink, and Adele, you would acquire what our sound is. We like to put some stank on it, bottom line." Seeking nothing more than to shed light on the human experience, Roze is a key artist in conveying the emotional intent behind a song. Her edge being that of a heart-driven soul mixed with the nitty gritty truth, she is sure to leave audiences with the sense of relative human connection and a vocal style that is absolutely unforgettable.
By Jay Allen Sanford | Published Wednesday, June 17, 2009
“My parents maintained a very musical household,” says singer-trumpeter Tori Roze. “My mom played with Randy Holden, the lead guitarist in Blue Cheer, and she opened for groups like Canned Heat and Three Dog Night. She used to hold Janis Joplin’s Southern Comfort bottle for her offstage.
Roze’s parents were also involved with the San Diego Repertory Theatre and with Indian Magique, a theatrical troupe that won the Canadian Emmy for Best Comedy Show in 1977. In high school Roze fronted the band Carne Askata before departing to attend Boston Conservatory for a year. After doing a semester in London with music and theater classes at the Old Globe, she eventually graduated with a degree in theater from UC Santa Cruz. She currently fronts the six-piece rock ’n’ soul combo Tori Roze and the Hot Mess. “If Erykah Badu, Amy Winehouse, Ella Fitzgerald, Pink, and Adele were all to get together,” she says, “you’d get the essence of our sound. Bottom line: we like to put some stank on it.”
WHAT’S IN YOUR CD PLAYER?
1. Michael Jackson, Off the Wall. “Can we just talk about how incredible this record is? Fully orchestrated, the man sings his heart out, and it makes your booty wanna move.”
2. Erykah Badu, Mama’s Gun. I could listen to this forever and be happy.”
3. Björk, Family Tree. I love how this woman sings from her soul, and you feel it viscerally. I have to see her perform before I die.”
4. Grand Ole Party, Humanimals. “A local band doing something way different — this is what I listen to before I go out to amp me up.”
MOST-VISITED WEBSITES?
1. Myspace.com“I’m always checking up on my music page and updating things, and I’m constantly looking for female-fronted bands that rock.”
2. Sonicbids.com“Always updating my EPK [electronic press kit] and looking for exciting gigs.”
3. Astrology.com“I gots to know my horoscope, shoot!”
4. Google.com“I get extreme usage of the image finder, for flyer-making and whatnot.”
5. Facebook.com“Man, this is the most un-user-friendly site ever, but all my friends are addicted to its crappy layout, so I use it to check in with friends who are too cool to use Myspace anymore. What the heck are they thinking?” MAC OR PC?
“PC, because I can right-click.” DO YOU PLAY VIDEO GAMES?
“Eww.” BEST ADVICE YOU EVER GOT?
“Perseverance, kid — it’s the only thing that’s going to save you.” FINISH THIS SENTENCE: “I LIVE IN SAN DIEGO BECAUSE.…”
“…I can. Jealous?” CARE TO RATE THE NEW PREZ?
“He’s pretty snazzy, but he’s got his work cut out for him. Thank goodness he’s eloquent, though. Sheesh!” SOMETHING ABOUT YOU FEW WOULD KNOW OR GUESS?
“I worked at Hot Dog on a Stick for ten years...ha!"
"San Diego's Funky Songstress: Tori Roze"
Tim Pyles - FM 94.9 On Air
"Tori Roze's voice gives me fierce goose bumps. She grooves with soul, style and just enough rock to let you know she's serious."
Cathryn Beeks - Listen Local SD
"“My parents maintained a very musical household,” says singer-trumpeter Tori Roze. “My mom played with Randy Holden, the lead guitarist in Blue Cheer, and she opened for groups like Canned Heat and Three Dog Night. She used to hold Janis Joplin’s Southern Comfort bottle for her offstage.” Roze’s parents were also involved with the San Diego Repertory Theatre and with Indian Magique, a theatrical troupe that won the Canadian Emmy for Best Comedy Show in 1977. In high school Roze fronted the band Carne Askata before departing to attend Boston Conservatory for a year. After doing a semester in London with music and theater classes at the Old Globe, she eventually graduated with a degree in theater from UC Santa Cruz. She currently fronts the six-piece rock ’n’ soul combo Tori Roze and the Hot Mess. “If Erykah Badu, Amy Winehouse, Ella Fitzgerald, Pink, and Adele were all to get together,you’d get the essence of our sound. Bottom line: we like to put some stank on it." Jay Allen Sanford - San Diego Reader
"Ranging from the Joss Stone-ish "Sweet Drank" to the 1990s Taylor Dane dance-anthem style of "Like a Rockstar," Tori Roze is both gritty and soulful. Apparently she subscribes to the MC Hammer school of break-ups, as she sings in "Bet's Off": "You're just trying to make me jealous/Better try harder 'cause nobody can touch this." Her tortured yet self-confident style makes this songstress too legit, too legit to quit. Enrique Limon" - San Diego City Beat
