A new album from influential local jazz trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos is about celebrating the tunes that got him through a rough few years and the musicians and students that surround him.
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It remains to be seen if indoor and outdoor concerts in San Diego and throughout California will be able to resume without any restrictions on June 15, contingent on the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations at the time and the amount of available vaccines.
Nevertheless, several San Diego concert presenters announced Monday that they are gearing up for renewed activity.
Humphreys Concerts by the Bay confirmed its first booking of 2021 a pair of Aug. 17 and 18 standing-room-only shows by the Philadelphia folk-rock band Mt. Joy and the bluegrass-fueled Minnesota group Trampled By Turtles. Tickets go on sale this week for the concerts at the 1,450-capacity Shelter Island venue, whose 40th anniversary last year was pushed back to 2021 because of the pandemic.
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Gilbert Castellanos jazzed to return to trumpet after groundbreaking dental breakthroughs saved his career [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-CASTELLANOS:SD]
SAN DIEGO Under ordinary circumstances, dentists usually help maintain and save people’s teeth not their careers.
But there was nothing ordinary about the precarious state of trumpet dynamo Gilbert Castellanos’ teeth and jaw bone when he reluctantly agreed to let San Diego dentist Roy Vegter examine him in mid-2018. The acclaimed jazz musician and music educator had spent years forgoing any medical check-ups. His hesitance was the result of a botched root canal surgery and before that several discomfiting appointments with neurosurgeons.