Varsity Strings

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Hello Kitty says "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIA!"

We've never announced birthdays on the Varsity Strings blog before, but...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIA!

Also -

Hello Kitty has just opened a new Sushi Bar and Sophia is invited!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

LIZFEST 2011

Here we are at LIZFEST 2011! This is the 5th Annual Pop-And-Jazz festival held at the Weedmark's that is sort of an underground Woodstock for San Diego jazz pros. They raise money for performing arts scholarships and music programs around town.

We open with Sophia's version of "Little Lion Man", which is becoming one of our standards, the drummer at the back is Russell - a Grammy-winning pro who jumped right in like he's been practicing this song all week:

Jake gets into it here, the audience loves these two!

Jake's favorite song:

Sophia wants to go to BOSTON!

A Max original - I wrote this with Jake:

And these guys are pretty amazing for being 10 years old!

Here is what happens at night at LizFest;

the whole place turns into a Greenwich Village style coffee house

filled with jammin' jazz pros;

Here's a great version of "All Of Me":

See you next time,

and thanks to
Nathan and Anita Weedmark!

Friday, May 27, 2011

Street Jam 2011

We invited a lot of the Varsity Strings musicians

for a year-end graduation party Street Jam - in our garage:

It got pretty freaky, we played for 3 1/2 hours and drove the neighbors crazy but we stopped at 9:00pm EXACTLY! Then we watched Pink Floyd's "The Wall" out back on the projector screen...

Jake and Daniella arrive and Alfonso sets up Ben Kling's mini-drum set. He uses a suitcase as a bass drum, it works and you can pack up everything in it too!