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After an assuredly much-needed summer break, Santa Barbara songstress, promoter, and music fan Christina Grimm is back to her old tricks and haunts this upcoming Thursday, September 18, when she presents her 18th Santa Barbara Songwriter Showcase at Jensen Guitar’s Mainstage.
Carpinteria’s reggae star Dominic Balli is the winner of the first ever Independent Road to West Beach Contest.
Aside from a couple of scheduling snafus and a wee bit of organizational troubles, this past weekend’s Road to West Beach semifinals wrapped up with a bang.
Some time last year, we here at The Indy had the bright idea to collect and put to print all the Santa Barbara-based music makers we could track down.
While I can happily smirk that I, as an S.B. transplant still in her early twenties, I would never go so far as to call myself a Santa Barbara music history buff.
By the time this here column makes it’s way out of my word processor, the fine folks behind this year’s Independent Road to West Beach competition will have officially launched 2008’s online Indy Band Guide.
Following last year’s Fiesta debacle in front of Tonic-and the recent waterfront melee that occurred during this year’s Fourth of July festivities-I will be the first to say that I look forward to this weekend with about as much excitement as I do trepidation.
Last year’s winners of The Indy‘s inaugural “Local’s Only Music Issue” are back and ready to party.
It rarely happens that I-by no intense searching or snooping of my own-catch wind of a name or face that has seemed to have mysteriously (and abruptly) dropped off my musical radar.
With a smoky and ash-filled July 4th now behind us-and the Gap Fire waning just enough to keep my short-but-sweet mental mash up of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Franz Ferdinand’s “This Fire,” and Cut Copy’s “Hearts on Fire” out of my head for the time being-it seems that there’s no better moment to start looking toward future shows, fresh starts, and new musical beginnings.
