Carolyn Sills Combo at JAX
VENUE NOTE: Entree required - this is a supper club, and menu items start at just $10. No drink minimums.
Portion of the cover charge goes to Feed The Need, the Campus JAX outreach to feed the local homeless population. Over 15,000 meals served.
CAROLYN SILLS COMBO
They are back! Fans of Western Swing know Carolyn Sills makes the Swingin' music we all love to dance and listen to. Has it really been almost three years?
The Carolyn Sills Combo and Stellar Shows are happily reuniting for an evening of Western Swing and Americana music. Get ready to dance to tales of the Yukon gold rush, baseball history, Marty Robbins and maple glazed doughnuts, told by dueling guitar and steel leads, three part harmonies and the current AWA Western Swing Female of the Year.
A roots music group with a vintage sound older than its years, The Carolyn Sills Combo is breathing fresh life and heartfelt twang into the timeless sounds of post-war American music. Fans of classic country, blues and western swing from the 40s/50s are falling in love with the band's original songs, written and produced by vocalist/bassist Sills and her longtime guitarist and husband, Gerard Egan.
Sills and Egan are heavily influenced by spaghetti western films as well as their vinyl record collection, citing a wide range of influences from Bob Wills, Patsy Cline and Merle Travis and Les Paul & Mary Ford.
Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Female of the Year.
Paste Magazine enthuses, “Sills and her eclectic combo took to the stage like old pros, their professional, fun and charming manner won the crowd over in a heartbeat. This is by far one of the coolest shows I’ve been to in quite a while.”
Join us to dine, dance and drink Friday June 17 at 7:30 pm (doors open at 6)
Free parking, all ages, located near John Wayne airport and 73 Fwy.
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714-809-6146
3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach.
Fri Jun 17 2022, 7:30 PM
Buy TicketsBrennen Leigh - Obsessed with the West
VENUE NOTE: Entree required - this is a supper club, and menu items start at just $10. No drink minimums. Portion of the cover charge goes to Feed The Need, the Campus JAX outreach to feed the local homeless population. Over 15,000 meals served.
BIO
Brennen Leigh is as solid a roots artist as they come, drawing on influences from Hank Williams to Cindy Walker.
Delightfully old-fashioned and born 60 years too late, she’s always worked Western Swing influences into her music, and been chummy with the Asleep at the Wheel crowd in Austin. But now as a Nashville resident, the distance has made her heart grow fonder for that distinctly Texas style of country, and she’s going all in with her new album.
“When I moved to Nashville from Texas, for some reason it triggered another western swing phase in my life,” says Brennen Leigh. “I was out of Texas, but something about the swing was still grabbing me; I was listening to a lot of Bob Wills, and of course The Wheel. I had first been exposed to Western swing through my parents’ Asleep At The Wheel records while I was growing up.”
“Obsessed with the West” is officially be Brennen Leigh’s seventh solo album and includes 12 songs written by Leigh herself, with Cindy Walker as her spirit animal, guiding her pen. And along with duets with Western Swing greats such as Ray Benson, Emily Gimble and Katie Shore, the entire albums is recorded with Asleep at the Wheel at her back, so you know the swing is authentic.
“This is my love note to Western Swing; to the rich culture it comes from, as I see it,” says Leigh, “I listen to and have been influenced by a lot of dead people, but our genre is important, and I think it deserves new life and new songs. The old stuff is where I come from, my songs turn out to be a melding of the old styles, whether I like it or not. I don’t know how not to put it in there.”
The album is not 100% Western Swing, though it is encapsulating of the era when Western Swing was the dominant influence in country music. “There’s definitely a jazz influence, country, and a couple of songs that I would call cowboy or folk tunes,” Brennen says.
Her 2015 album was titled Brennen Leigh Sings Lefty Frizzell, so this is an artist who truly knows the genre.
As part of the new album, she’s made the song “If Tommy Duncan’s Voice Was Booze” which is one of the all-time great Western swing concoctions. You re call the classic Waylon Jennings lyrics: “To hear the Texas Playboys, And Tommy Duncan sing, Makes me proud to be from Texas, Where Bob Wills is still the king.”
Obsessed with the West (Signature Sounds) is a showcase not just for The Wheel or Bob Wills fans, but for anyone who’s ever curled up with Lefty Frizzell, Billie Holiday, Willie Nelson or even Louis Armstrong.
Leigh’s wise-beyond-her-years perspective comes from her hard time on the road, and her accolades prove it: she is two-time Texas Music Awards Best Female Vocalist, 2018 Ameripolitan Music Honky Tonk Award winner, appeared as a finalist on USA Network’s Nashville Star television show in 2003, and most notably, was champion of the 1993 Vergas Loon Calling Contest as a child.
She has also been featured as an instrumentalist and singer on a myriad of releases by artists such as Jim Lauderdale, Rodney Crowell and James Hand. Having written songs previously for folks like Rodney Crowell, LeAnn Womack, Sunny Sweeney, and Charley Crockett, Brennen Leigh has proven her songs timeless, no matter what era or influence she brings to them.
Now she brings her show to Newport Beach where she is featured in a Sunday matinee at the esteemed supper club Campus JAX where so many of her friends and fellow artists have performed.
All ages, free parking, entree required, no drink minimums, dance floor, near John Wayne airport.
Doors at Noon, show starts at 1 pm. 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach.
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Sun Jun 19 2022, 1:00 PM
Buy TicketsJames Intveld Celebrates Ricky Nelson
An open invitation from James Intveld:
Sun Jun 26 2022, 6:00 PM
Buy Tickets3 Trails West at JAX
VENUE NOTE: Entree required - this is a supper club, and menu items start at just $10. No drink minimums. Portion of the cover charge goes to Feed The Need, the Campus JAX outreach to feed the local homeless population. Over 15,000 meals served.
BIO
Campus JAX is at 3950 Campus Dr. In Newport Beach near John Wayne.
714-809-6146
Fri Aug 5 2022, 7:00 PM
Buy TicketsThe Surfrajettes at JAX
BIO
The Surfrajettes are a four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto, ON, Canada. Since forming in late 2015, the band has charmed audiences with their clever mix of psychedelic rock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick as their guitar strings.
The Surfrajettes achieved viral online notoriety from their home-made performance videos and their feature by Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA. The debut 45 single “Party Line / Toxic” released late 2018 on Hi-Tide Recordings to immediate success. The band has toured extensively in its support, including performances on The Beach Boys Cruise, The Melissa Etheridge Cruise, at Nashville Boogie, Wild O Fest in Mexico City, The New England Shake-Up!, Surf Guitar 101 Convention, Tiki Oasis & Hi-Tide Summer Holiday: Asbury Park.
The band released the follow up single “Hale’iwa Hustle / Banzai Pipeline” in 2020, supported by a festival appearance at Hi-Tide Winter Holiday: Pittsburgh. The group spent the rest of 2020 and most of 2021 writing and recording their debut LP “Roller Fink” - in stores worldwide April 22, 2022 from Hi-Tide Recordings / Virgin Music. The album will be available for purchase for the very first time following their performance at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend 25 car show.
The Surfrajettes are guitarists Shermy Freeman and Nicole Damoff, bassist Sarah Butler, and drummer Samantha Maloney. When not on tour, the group is busy woodshedding in their secret beach hut, sewing new miniskirts, debating vintage gear, and daydreaming about performing in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Sun Aug 7 2022, 5:00 PM
Buy TicketsPhat Cat Swinger 20th Anniversary Party
VENUE NOTE: Entree required - this is a supper club, and menu items start at just $10. No drink minimums. Portion of the cover charge goes to Feed The Need, the Campus JAX outreach to feed the local homeless population. Over 15,000 meals served.
Sat Aug 13 2022, 6:30 PM
Buy TicketsBig Sandy's Barndance Boogie
Big Sandy’s Barndance Boogie is a vintage Western swing festival, and it's your chance to experience FOUR authentic Western swing bands — plus our Honky Tonk Angels – and plenty of dance music past and present.
The Line-up:
Carl Sonny Leylands' All-Star Western Swing Band, the Southwest Biscuit Co., Lil' Mo & the Lonesome Crows and The Dickens cowgirl band perform from 2-8 pm on Sunday Aug. 21.
Our host is Big Sandy, who will be spinning those classic Western swing tunes with rockabilly and honky tonk in the mix.
The Honky Tonk Angels are Abby Girl, Amber Foxx, Lil' Sue and Natalie Mendoza, adding their voices in a variety of ways.
Enjoy a chuckwagon barbecue buffet - and a full bar - while you dance the day away in this swingin' matinee festival.
Whether you're sippin' a jug or just cuttin' a rug, Western swing makes good-time music for all ages.
At The Top is a spacious and historic Long Beach venue which is all dance floor at 105 W. Broadway at Pine Ave. in downtown Long Beach
It features a long art deco bar, hardwood floors, smokin' sound system and beautiful upholstered furniture.
There are 2 hours of FREE PARKING a block away in the large public garage at 51 East 3rd St., plus there are numerous parking lots and metered street parking nearby.
For more info text 714-809-6146