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North Park Community Park isn’t recognized as a hot spot in the neighborhood—at least in a good way—but North Park Community Association members are trying to get the park the favorable attention they think it deserves. The NPCA is expanding its free summer concert series usually held in Bird Park by adding an additional concert that will be staged at North Park Community Park on Aug. 21 from 5 to 7 p.m.
To the uninformed observer, North Park Music Thing can look deceivingly like one big party. Yes, the booze, the music and the masses of people having an inordinate amount of fun could make it appear so but in its third consecutive year, the festival is nothing short of instrumental for the local music scene
On successive weekends last month, customers at Adams Avenue’s Kensington Café enjoyed musical entertainment as they sipped their coffee and wine and munched on tapas and desserts.
If music is your thing, you won’t want to miss the third annual North Park Music Thing. Also known as the San Diego Music and Media Conference and Festival, the annual two-day event kicks off Friday, Aug. 13, and will continue all day Aug. 14. With live performances at 14 stages in the Uptown area, panel discussions, workshops and demo review sessions, North Park Music Thing is the one-stop shop for music lovers and anyone looking to step into the music industry. It is produced by the San Diego Music Foundation.
After canceling nearly all his tour dates this year while recovering from back surgery, iconic American composer Burt Bacharach will make a special appearance conducting the San Diego Symphony as part of its Bridgepoint Education Summer Pops series
Be thankful Michael Cavanaugh’s dad wasn’t a Tiny Tim fan.
A budding 7-year-old pianist in 1979, Cavanaugh became enamored with Billy Joel songs because his father listened to them in their Cleveland home
Good things come to those who wait.
Once again the proverb proves itself true for music fans as local band Dirty Sweet prepares to hold its CD release party for their sophomore album, “American Spiritual,” three months after the fact. While the band is arriving to the scene a little late, they do so with good cause—at the time of the album’s debut, the men of Dirty Sweet were on an extensive European tour
Few events herald the advent of summer in San Diego with more panache than the San Diego Symphony’s Summer Pops series. This year’s sponsor is Bridgepoint Education, an online university whose headquarters are in San Diego
The first impression one gets looking at the outside of the Normal Heights United Methodist Church, across the street from Adams Elementary School, is that it looks like a run-of-the-mill Sunday gathering place, complete with a fellowship hall and a main church.
Everything happens for a reason. Or so seems to be the case with Kristen Gundred, who now answers to her new stage name, Dee Dee