An out of doors live performance within the Santa Cruz Mountains is designed to assist native college students discover their jam, musically talking.
The admission-free Santa Cruz Mountain Jam is ready for Aug. 20, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., on the Loma Prieta Playfield and Gazebo, situated at 23845 Summit Street in Los Gatos. Proceeds from a silent public sale and concessions on the occasion will profit music packages at Loma Prieta Elementary and CT English Center colleges and fund scholarships for college students who wish to pursue music.
“It’s an effective way to develop shallowness in younger folks and a artistic outlet,” live performance organizer Louis Niemann stated.
The Niemann household produced the primary Mountain Jam in 2013. After a two-year pandemic-era pause, the occasion is again this 12 months with a lineup of 5 musical acts.
“For us, it’s type of a means of paying again the group,” Niemann stated. “We simply wish to have a extremely enjoyable musical occasion that everyone can take pleasure in. It’s freed from cost, so you possibly can take heed to all these nice native bands and have a extremely economical expertise.”
The live performance kicks off with Los Gatos favourite the Summit Sisters and new, neo-soul jazz fusion band EDYN.
The Joint Chiefs will carry out their funk, acid jazz and traditional R&B, and the Santa Cruz-based Anthony Arya Band will convey rock, folks and blues. Alex Lucero and the Reside Once more Band will headline the present, performing a variety of soul, funk, jazz and Americana.
Niemann stated Mountain Jam is a “group effort” with a number of group help.
Objects up for bid within the silent public sale embrace circumstances of wine from native boutique wineries, a portray from native artist Gordon Smith, reservations at trip houses and a reserving for the bands within the lineup to play at an occasion of your selecting.
Native Michelin-star chef Matt McNamara, behind gourmand vegetarian restaurant Fairly Good Recommendation, can be serving up each vegetarian and non-vegetarian choices for visitors.
There can be loads of kid-friendly actions as nicely, Niemann stated, together with a “petting zoo for musical devices” for youths to check out. There may even be a mountaineering wall, face portray, a bubble maker, a Canine Are Welcome contest and varied distributors.
“It’s an enormous reduction that we've sufficient confidence in it to type of all transfer ahead, Niemann stated. “With the best way individuals are feeling, we really feel there’s a saved power for folks desirous to get out and to see dwell music.”
For extra info, go to https://santacruzmountainjam.org.