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!

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!

Curly MAX!

ALAN!

GO DIEGO!!!!!

ALAN's stomp pedals.

Alfonso on drums -

Alfonso ROCKS.

Jake works the mic...

The GANG.

The AUDIENCE...

Me, Alan, Ben Kling.

Good Night All You Fans!

A jam session early in the evening -

Thanks for coming! 
And thanks to the Pink Floyd Freaks 
who stayed to the very end!

LizFest Practice

Sophia came over yesterday to practice a few songs for LIZFEST!

Everybody's invited! See you there!

LIZFEST!

Every year we're asked by Nathan and Anita Weedmark to perform at LizFest, an all-day private music festival held here in San Diego. A huge list of local professional jazz and pop singers, Grammy winners and recording artists show up to support the Weedmark's charity work, and it's probably the most amazing and laid back cool event we attend all year long.

Victims of Authority opens at 2:00pm

Palomar High School Rock Band 2:30pm

Varsity Strings performing at 3:15pm
All Day Jazz, Various Groups 4:00-10:00pm

Stay as long as you want! 
Free food & drink with donation. 
Everyone is welcome, see you there!

May 28th, 2:00pm - 10:00pm 

4781 Diane Avenue, San Diego 

$20 Suggested Donation
Free Admission to all Musicians! Right On!
All proceeds go to the School of Creative and Performing Arts
and The Music Program 
at the San Diego Center For Children
info: lizfestmusic@gmail.com