I am a very big fan of the locally independently owned radio station KPRI in San Diego, California. I am also what is referred to as a FREEQ, a frequent listener.
By being a frequent listener you are able to sign up for free concerts that are being held in the San Diego area. It amazes me that there is so much local talent and so many local free events available.
Below is the newest upcoming event sponsored by KPRI.
DELTA SPIRIT
La Costa Bluefire Grill
Wednesday, August 18th
Doors open at 6:00pm, Show begins at 7:00pm
Theres a scene in Murray Lerner’s film (Festival), about the 1963 Newport Music Festival, where Peter, Paul and Mary are shown obliging a resounding call for an encore with the protest song, If I Had A Hamme. Peter and Paul face each other from the sides and Mary faces the audience of tens of thousands, shaking her blonde hair and bearing down on a song about making change. She would, they would hammer out danger and a warning all over the land.
Delta Spirit have five hammers and they swing them the way Mary bobbled her head back in ’63 for her close-ups, the way Mary sang as if her knees were on fire and her mouth was brimming with more ire laced with optimism than she knew what to do with.
These Californians have more in common with the dirty haired, dirty fingernailed folk groups of the nascent years than they do any of their contemporaries. They’re suited for reminiscent hopefulness and the gracefully youthful fusion of hostility and all-encompassing passion for all things that can set a smile ablaze or turn the hairs on arms and backs of necks into little beds of nails at the flick of a switch. They make lists of things they like, including all of the people they love, their home, pretty girls, desserts, bodies of water, justice and America.
They make you understand that, when it’s all boiled down, what we all ultimately live for is catharsis and a fulfillment of body meeting land, air and sea harmoniously. They’re about bodies meeting bodies, pressing skins to skins. They’re about reminding you to listen more than you talk. They’re about urging you to put stock in the happiness of others, not just your own. They make it obvious that we have to go somewhere to be somewhere. We have to feel something to really live. They sing of the soul searchers. They sing for the soul searchers. They are the soul searchers.
~ Sean Moeller
This Private Listener Concert is by RSVP only through KPRI.