June 27
Built on a locale that formerly hosted a motel and liquor store, Mission Valley’s newest concert venue is part of an 18-acre Bible-themed resort complex that offers a ministry training facility, interactive globe, History Dome Theater, a spa and swimming pool, dancing water fountains, a Tower of Peace, Prayer Gardens, and restaurants including a steakhouse.
Phil Keaggy at Legacy International Center on June 27
Legacy International Center Resort Hotel and Spa
The first show for the 500-seat Pavilion Theater will feature Christian fingerstyle guitarist Phil Keaggy, a longtime regular in local gospel programming and a frequent performer at area churches. Keaggy’s McCartneyesque songwriting and inspirational audience interaction will no doubt be boosted by the venue’s 7.1 Surround Sound installation.
This year s San Diego Music Awards featured live performances by the Redwoods Revue, Vokab Company, Jason Mraz, Planet B and more, with awards going to living legends like Swami John Reis. Watch our highlight reel here.
And there s plenty of new names to sink your ears into: Crhymes is nominated for Best Hip-Hop Song, for example, the rockers from the Montell Jordans hope to go home with the statuette for Best Rock Album, and Maria Antoinette that s no typo, folks is hoping to be crowned for Best Local Recording.
In year s past, the awards would go to the best act in a genre and the best album released in the genre. So, in 2020, Ten Bulls won for Best Indie/Alternative Album, but Aviator Stash claimed honors of being Best Indie/Alternative . period. This year, in many cases though not all each genre has an award for best single and best album, plus there are nominees for Best Local Recording, Best Video, and Album of the Year and Song of the Year. Missing is the ca
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The performers at this year’s Aug. 24 event at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay will all be making their San Diego Music Awards debuts. They include Electric Mud, Brisa Lauren, Marujah, Chickenbone Slim and The Biscuits, The Frets and Ed Kornhauser.
“I’m looking at our August event as a reopening of the local music scene, so I really wanted to book artists who haven’t performed before,” Hellman told the Union-Tribune Tuesday.
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“That doesn’t mean I didn’t make calls to Jason Mraz and Switchfoot. But they both hope to be out touring again in August, so it works out even better making this a live and local event. This will be the first get-together with many of our local musicians in one spot in quite a long time.”
Glorious Mud
In the course of what passes for an education in your country you may have been told that poor people in the Olden Days often lived in homes made of wattle and daub, that is, a framework of sticks with mud slapped on. You may also have heard tell of people in a place called Africa who live in mud huts. If so, it is almost certain that you were given the impression that these are inferior dwellings: after all, mud is dirt, and dirt is dirty, and certainly not as sturdy as proper construction. Depending where you live, ideas of what proper construction is may diverge: in Germany, rendered walls made of concrete blocks are the way to go, in England it has to be brick, while in Scandinavia and North America they prefer wooden frame construction, presumably because it helps get rid of the excess trees.
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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.”