I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
Singer-songwriter
Michael Tiernan modestly calls it “one of the lesser known, longest-running showcases in San Diego.” Fans of this local musician, however, have known about Tiernan’s
“Acoustic Wednesdays” showcase since he began hosting it “many moons ago, back in 2006 or 2007” at En Fuego Cantina & Grill in Del Mar.
Every Wednesday, Tiernan would preside over an evening of music, performing and presenting other area artists to audiences.
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“It became kind of my office,” Tiernan recalled. “My listeners always knew I was there.”
I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
If you need a lift during these troubled times, take four and a half minutes out of your day and experience San Diego IndieFest founder
Danielle LoPresti’s
video performance of “22 Mountains.” The re-recording of the title track from a 2003 album by LoPresti and her band, The Masses, is a passionate exhortation of hope and courage, slightly reworded from the original composition by LoPresti and Matthew Stewart. The message to parents, to teachers, to artists, to activists, to visionaries is clear: Don’t give up.
I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
With the arrival of the new year, I’ve been thinking as many of you have about what I will do when someday the world is safe again. Among the many things I’ve missed is traveling, in particular to major hubs of arts and cultural entertainment.
You don’t get more major than New York City.
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Though I’ve visited the Big Apple on occasion before, I’ve never made it to the storied Apollo Theater in Harlem. Its history, which dates back to 1914, is populated by generations of Black musicians and performers across multiple genres and artistic disciplines.
I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
If you can spare 50 minutes this Christmas Eve, treat yourself to a warm and cozy musical visit with Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart. The area duo’s ”
A Berkley Hart Christmas Special”just makes you feel good. It’s a streaming incarnation of the kind of annual holiday shows Berkley Hart has been performing in the county for over a decade, and if you’re too busy to watch and listen today, it’ll be available through New Year’s Day (tickets $15).
I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
Society, indeed a world, cannot be understood in only 10 minutes. But it can, with all its crises and complexities, be placed in powerful perspective. In Alyce Smith Cooper’s and Shammy Dee’s
“Spittin’ Truth to Power While Light Leaping for the People,” three short videos composed of storytelling, poetry and music coalesce to make an urgent intergenerational statement about where we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed.
The three-part video experience is a