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Deke Dickerson is a musical spokesperson for his generation - as well as an historian who is constantly updating the status of famed musicians from years gone by.

He is best known for being a guitarist and songwriter steadily creating new music, and has a new trio he has formed to play rockabilly, Western swing and honky tonk.

Deke Dickerson & the Whippersnappers perform originals plus covers by artists like Webb Pierce, Ray Price and Skeets McDonald.

Adding to the Sunday soiree, enjoy three more great bands: Amber Foxx with her rockabilly and torch songs, plus the Moontones, the well-known R&B/swing band - PLUS the Rockin' Rebels, SoCal's original rockabilly band from the 70s.

These excellent and entertaining bands round out the combination of styles that, together with Deke's hillbilly-influenced music, come together to equal Hillbilly Jazz!

It's a Hillbilly Jazz matinee Sunday at Original Mike's.

This show features those world-renowned rockabilly artists Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys.

From Los Angeles, Dave Stuckey & the 4 Hoot Owls plus Carl Sonny Leyland make a VERY RARE appearance in Orange County - and we have them for two sets!

The Southwest Biscuit Co. is a Western Swing band who really deliver the vintage goods - danceable good-time music with a swinging beat.

Three bands, big dance floor, full menu, free parking - it's a swingin' Sunday soiree!

Kicking off the show at 8 is the wonderful James Lee Stanley and his humorous stories, insightful lyrics and great guitar playing.

Collectors of Tiki Mugs will want an official Escape to Tiki Island work of art, designed by Outline Studios and created for the recent event at the Yost Theater.

This unique beauty looks like a tiki head plopped onto a volcano, and contains 16 oz. of any beverage you wish to pour into it!

To purchase, simply click on the box below, with or without shipping added.

Or, email christopher@expoeventsusa.net or text to 714-809-6146.

Just over a dozen remain available at $75 (or $93 with shipping) and the Ltd. Edition is sold out.

The Surf & Turf Beach Party is a monthly matinee on a Sunday afternoon starting Sept. 29 at Original Mike's in Santa Ana.

A combination of musical styles, Surf & Turf will feature the best in rockabilly and surf bands. Big Tiki Dude and Stellar Shows are teaming up to bring you some spectacular shows aimed at the connoisseurs out there.

This 4-hour show features rotating sets from two of the hottest groups in the area:

The Hot Rod Trio and The Eliminators!

THE ELIMINATORS have led the way in the resurgence of instrumental surf music that was popular during the early 60s by staying true to the sound while giving the music and their show a modern twist. Their fast rising popularity is due to their incredible live performances and their T.V and radio sound waves. You know their sounds from the Bud-Light "Left coast right beer" commercials, guest appearances on "Beverly Hills 90210", bumper music and record reviews on 95.5 KLOS "Mark and Brian" show, a guest band appearance on the popular talk show "The View" and from background music for the hit T.V drama "Providence". THE ELIMINATORS have had great national exposure by performing on a 25-city tour sponsored by Bud-Light and opening for superstar Jimmy Buffett. THE ELIMINATORS are five California longboarders who live the lifestyle of the music they play.

HOT ROD TRIO has been playing in Southern California and the West Coast for the past 20 years, with the same band members. They were recently inducted into the ROCKABILLY HALL OF FAME, SECOND GENERATION!! The band has played with countless bands including The Surfaris, Junior Brown, The Ventures, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Deke Dickerson, Glen Campbell, Trisha Yearwood, Big Sandy, Duane Eddy, The Polecats, the B-52s and Jimmie Vaughan.

Buddy Dughi is proud to be sponsored and endorsed by Gretsch Guitars and TNM Guitars

This is an all ages show w/ free parking, with a full menu featuring Surf & Turf: Salmon dinners, wraps and Seared Ahi salads and entrees, PLUS Ribeye steaks, Chicken enchiladas and much, much more!

Big Sandy's Barndance Boogie is back, and it couldn't have a more exciting lineup!

First, Bibi & Her Tremblin' Souls are bringin' a mixture of blues, soul and a whole lot of heart as they make their PCH Club debut.

Hand-picked by Big Sandy, be sure to arrive on time to catch this band at 8 pm sharp.

Shanda & The Howlers are a rhythm & blues revivalist band out of Las Vegas. The talented group of five musicians performed their first show in the spring of 2015, and are a Big Sandy favorite.

Influences in their sound can be traced to such artists as Big Maybelle, Ruth Brown, Otis Redding, The Crystals, The Marvelettes, Gino Parks, LaVern Baker, and James Brown.

Josh Sorheim is a fantastic all around musician, exceptionally skilled guitarist, lap steel, and piano player - with the added bonus of a superb voice.

Josh plays 1950s Rock n Roll infused Rhythm and Blues, and like the entire lineup at the Barnyard Boogie, the music is definitely danceable!

Big Sandy grew up listening to his parents' collection of jump blues records. Inspired by the rockabilly revival of the early '80s, he began to perform with a variety of neo-rockabilly bands in Southern California. In 1988 he formed Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys.

He is both a music historian and a human jukebox who has the added pleasure of performing with countless guest artists, and has the ability to make those random appearances seem polished and rehearsed.

Big Sandy's Barndance Boogie gives him a chance to present some of his favorite artists in a showcase at a club with full dance floor and dinner menu and free parking with all ages allowed.

Doors open at 7 pm.

Louis Armstrong was once asked what his favorite kind of music was, and his response was simple: “Good music.”

Petunia & the Vipers’ sound may not sit comfortably in one certain genre, but “Good Music” describes it well. Together with his band the Vipers they play original music combining elements of classic 1920’s thru 70’s country, country blues, western swing, alt country rock, Mexicana, French cabaret, Romanian, ragtime, jazz, punk and folk music.

A new music that springboards off of music of the past and jumps into the present day, left with only echoes of the past… Something in between 1920’s and steam punk.

Petunia is no stranger to being a “road dog”. He’s spent most of the last 23 years crisscrossing sections of Europe, North and South America, playing his old hobo haunts, hitch-hiking junctions, street corners, dive bars, churches and run down theaters. He’s more than just an entertainer, he’s a modern musical enigma. Imagine that David Lynch and Nick Cave had a hillbilly baby, that yodeled… or Tom Waits meets Elvis at Woody Guthrie’s hobo junction. This is just one way of describing the man known simply as Petunia. He’s an adventure seeker, a poker player, and a mysterious stranger.

A restless wanderer, a musical historian, and a quirky yet amazing talent, Petunia joins the greats from north of the 49th for his classic style and raucous performances. He is simply a Canadian treasure.

He makes a RARE appearance in Orange County Oct. 17 - and only Stellar Shows has him.

Make plans now to see this wünderkind - and his extremely talented band.

With a show this special, we have a special guest to match:

Don't miss the opening set by Abby Girl & The Real Deal at 7 pm!

Abby Girl (a.k.a. Abby Maharaj) has thrilled listeners, landed an Ameripolitan nomination for Rockabilly Female 2019, and earned followers in the U.S. and overseas. She’s at ease singing with blues greats and belting out her original songs and rockabilly tunes.

People most often comment on the rich, warm tone of her voice. SDnews.com recently wrote that Abby Girl “is blessed with an impressive voice, which echoes Patsy Cline...a vintage sound that will also appeal to fans of early country music or rock’n’roll.

Reservations: www.STELLARSHOWS.net • 714-809-6146 ORIGINAL MIKE’s is located at 100 S. Main St. Santa Ana Free parking • all ages • full menu • 7 pm start

The Hacienda Brothers have recently released "Western Soul" as a tribute to their late leader, Chris Gaffney. This may be the final Hacienda Brothers record and it's certainly the first since 2008. Its 16 songs were either unreleased, or are versions that have never been heard before.

Western Soul will be on sale at the concert on Oct. 18, or order both CD and Vinyl online at https://luxrecordsusa.com/store.

Here is the history of the Hacienda Brothers:

The Hacienda Brothers originated in 2002 when friends Chris Gaffney and Dave Gonzalez played together during a planned jam session at the 40th birthday party of their mutual friend, Jeb Schoonover. Gaffney was a successful singer and songwriter who had released several albums with his band The Cold Hard Facts and had toured with Dave Alvin. Gonzalez is a singer, songwriter, and guitar player, then mainly active with The Paladins. After playing on stage together, and at the urging of Schoonover (who would become their business partner and manager), they soon joined in Tucson, Ariz., to write and record their first album. Calling themselves the Hacienda Brothers, they were joined by Dave Berzansky (pedal steel), Hank Maninger (bass, also with the Aqua Velvets), and Dale Daniel (drums). Their self-titled debut in 2005 was produced by the legendary Dan Penn, who also wrote two tracks. The album was praised widely; Vintage Guitar magazine called it "a great CD.” What's Wrong with Right, also produced by Penn, was released the following year and garnered critical accolades. Bob Mehr, writing for Mojo Magazine, praised its "authentic sawdust-floor shuffles" and "cinematic Morricone twang." Their self-titled debut album appeared in 2005, and quickly the band received critical recognition for their eclectic music. Their second album, What's Wrong With Right, was chosen by the alternative country magazine No Depression as one of the top 60 albums for 2006 and by R&R as one of the top 100 Albums of 2006. Band leaders Gaffney and Gonzalez were interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, and Gonzalez was voted one of the "Top 101 All-time Unsung Guitar Heroes" by Guitar Player Magazine. In 2007, they were nominated for "Group of the Year" by the American Music Association. In August 2007, they released a live album Music for Ranch & Town. Chris Gaffney died of liver cancer on April 17, 2008, while the band was wrapping up the recording of their third studio album, Arizona Motel. That album received great critical acclaim and was called "forceful and timeless." A positive review accompanied an "in memoriam" article for Gaffney in Vintage Guitar; a later review in the same magazine said the album "kicked butt.” "This album delivers more moments of greatness, more consistently, than any of their previous releases and is a fully realized work of music-craft." The band planned on touring in support of a tribute album for Gaffney and did so in 2008; on at least one occasion they were joined by Dave Alvin as a special guest. In 2009, a tribute album to Gaffney was released, A Man of Somebody's Dreams: A Tribute to the Songs of Chris Gaffney, which included songs played by fellow Hacienda Brothers as well as many other luminaries.

On the occasion of the 10th year of his passing, Schoonover and Christopher Burkhardt of Stellar Shows organized a Chris Gaffney Reunion Party in Long Beach with 400 guests, family members and fans. Performers included Los Fabulocos, James Intveld, Rick Shea, The Cold Hard Facts with Dave Alvin and the reunited Hacienda Brothers.

Playing together again, the quartet were reminded of the immense popularity of the Hacienda Brothers - and became determined to resurrect their success.

RICK SHEA

"An incredible and intelligent musician and songwriter with an angelic voice that I'd kill for" - Dave Alvin

Longtime Southern California singer-songwriter Rick Shea got his early musical education in the bars and honky-tonks of San Bernardino. While you may often see him live with his worn old Telecaster, backing up the likes of Dave Alvin and Wanda Jackson or burning through a set of his own songs and a few honky-tonk standards, he's also built a solid career for himself as a solo artist, singer, guitarist and songwriter. With nine critically acclaimed albums, he’s performed all over Southern California, the West Coast and across the country and in Europe.

Shea's songs reflect the folk, country, rock and Mexican influences he grew up with. "Songs tell our stories and our history and songs were how those stories were shared in the past, I'd like to continue that tradition."

"Shea is to interior California what Joe Ely is to west Texas: his music evokes deep Kern, San Bernardino and Riverside counties the way Ely nailed down Laredo - two pinches of old Mexico, a blast of exhaust from the bossman's new Suburban and a baseline of working-stiff desperation."

**** four stars - Jackson Griffith

“Like all outstanding folk writers, Shea knows the land and its human inhabitants are inseparable, and the former is predictable only in doing unpredictable things to the latter.“ David McGee - Deep Roots

"Shea’s storytelling, songwriting and performing skills place him in the tradition alongside the finest California roots singer-songwriters of the last 40 years including Dave Alvin, Tom Russell and John Stewart." - No Depression

"a hauntingly nostalgic vocalist, imperative guitarist and literate, detail rich songwriter, do yourself a favor" - Sing Out

"Superb!.. Shea’s songs are second to none."
- Jonny Whiteside LAWeekly

On Fri. Aug. 18, experience the Hacienda Brothers along with Rick Shea & The Losin' End at the Golden Sails Hotel, 6285 E. Pac Coast Hwy.

See StellarShows.net for seats.

All ages, Free parking, Full Menu and VIP seating avail.

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has built its reputation the long, slow, hard way. After 12 years of playing as many as 300 shows each year, Rev. Peyton, the world’s foremost country blues finger-style picker, along with the biggest little band in the country has pieced together one of the most dedicated followings out there. This following is sure to eat up the band’s latest offering, Poor Until Payday, (the second on their own Family Owned Records label through hip Nashville indie Thirty Tigers) out October 5th, a country blues record that was made the right way — two feet on the ground and both hands getting dirty.

With all the power of a freight train, the Big Damn Band is known for its live shows. Rev. Peyton delivers guitar pyrotechnics the old fashioned way — ten fingers, a 6 string and an amp cranked at full tilt. In the country blues style, he plays the bass with his thumb, while picking the lead with his fingers at the same time. When he lifts the guitar behind his head to play there’s nothing but skill and 16 gauge nickel strings to make the sounds coming out of the speakers.

Beside him on stage are just two other people. His wife, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton playing with all the nuance and percussive power of a New Orleans drum line, and keeping the train moving is Max Senteney on a lean drum kit including a 5 gallon maple syrup bucket. Together they play Peyton’s wildman country blues that’s as much ZZ Top as it is Bukka White.

On Poor Until Payday Peyton wanted a sound as live and electric as the records made in the heyday of 45 rpm blues classics from Chess, Stax and Sun Records. Playing his beloved custom-made National steel resonator, a 1949 Harmony Archtop, a 1954 Supro Dual Tone and a 1955 Kay Speed Demon through a 1949 Supro amp, Rev wanted to restore the “warmth, pops and hisses” mostly eliminated by modern-day compression. The band played in a room together with minimal micing (using only the best classic pieces they could get) with the main effect being tape saturation.

That’s it.

The result is an album that is direct, soulful and demands to be played loud.

The themes of songs like the title track, “You Can’t Steal My Shine” and “I Suffer I Get Tougher” offer the antidote to today’s hard times by touting “perseverance, inspiration and hope… being your authentic self despite everything lined against you, a light at the end of the tunnel.” With a vocal style reflecting both the soulfulness and bite of his idols, Rev has added world-class singer to his already-renowned skills as a finger-pickin’ guitar phenom. Breezy and Max also contribute background vocals to most of the songs, with “The Miss Elizabeth of Country Blues” actually taking the spotlight with a sultry call-and-response showcase on “Dirty Swerve,” in which she also contributed to the writing.

Peyton’s blues pedigree is well established. Woodshedding since he was 12, Peyton has kept alive a tradition of finger picking pioneered by the likes of Mississippi John Hurt. However, Peyton plays with the energy and attitude of a Howlin’ Wolf. Indeed if it has strings he can play it whether that’s a custom-built National, a cigarbox, an axe or even a shotgun (seriously, Google it.).

He’s done his homework and been given the blessing of the gatekeepers of the tradition — even befriending and touring with some of the last of the great Delta Blues and Hill Country blues legends like David “Honeyboy” Edwards, T-Model Ford (whose grandson calls him Unk), and Robert Belfour.

Rev and Breezy make their home in rural southern Indiana near the adopted home of bluegrass legend Bill Monroe, among national parks and forests in what began as an artist’s colony. “Most of the people here can both paint a picture and skin a deer,” laughs Breezy.

There’s nothing dusty or sentimental about Peyton’s music, though. There’s no songs about picking cotton. They aren’t a museum piece. The Big Damn Band have taken nearly a century of blues songsmanship and crafted a thing all their own. There is not a single act out there that sounds like this.

The Big Damn Band make friends and fans every place they go — and there are few places they haven’t been, having performed in 37 countries. After Poor Until Payday, the only people who won’t be on the big damn bandwagon will be people who haven’t heard or aren’t paying attention.

This is real, from the heart, handmade music made by people, for people, who don’t have time for BS.

Since his stunning debut, Thunderstorms and Neon Signs in 1995, Wayne “The Train” Hancock has been the undisputed king of Juke Joint Swing - that alchemist’s dream of honky-tonk, western swing, blues, Texas rockabilly and big band.

Always an anomaly among his country music peers, Wayne’s uncompromising interpretation of the music he loves is in fact what defines him: steeped in traditional but never "retro;" bare bones but bone shaking; hardcore but with a swing.

Like the comfortable crackle of a Wurlitzer 45 jukebox, Wayne is the embodiment of genuine, house rocking, hillbilly boogie. Wayne makes music fit for any roadhouse anywhere. With his unmistakable voice, The Train’s reckless honky-tonk can move the dead.

If you see him live (and he is ALWAYS touring), you’ll surely work up some sweat stains on that snazzy Rayon shirt you’re wearing. If you buy his records, you’ll be rolling up your carpets, spreading sawdust on the hardwood floor, and dancing until the downstairs neighbors are banging their brooms on the ceiling.

Call him a throwback if you want, but all Wayne Hancock wants to do, is simply ENTERTAIN you, and what's wrong with that?

Join us at the PCH Club in Long Beach for this special showcase.