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Surf City Concerts are seldom
orchestral pieces. The genre of Surf
City bands is often surfing tunes,
jazz, rock, pop, blues, retro such
as the Cubensis Grateful Dead
concerts and punk rock, hip hop,
etc. Surf City average age is
around 32 but there's a dichotomy in
demographic of those attending
concerts. The 60's and 70's
rock and roll crowd has never let go
of the love of music and has
discovered that some up and coming
bands are playing the classic tunes
in new-style in Surf City bars and
clubs. Then the young, up and comers
have a difficult time creating new
material so they often blend the
best qualities of rock and punk to
create something that appeals to an
audience of 21+ that may not have
heard the Led Zeppelin originals as
much as the re-makes.
While some of the top jazz
musicians live, work and compose in
Surf City, they often serve an
international audience. Their local
concerts and venues are somewhat
limited for big concert and big band
style. What's most popular in the
Surf City concert scene are the
nightly club venues that seat up to
200 people and serve up tunes with
plenty of beat, acoustic speed and
dance-a-bility.
Exceptions to every rule make
Surf City that odd bump in the road.
Take the 45-day run of Oktoberfest,
for instance. The event is going
stronger than ever, once the
management figured out that they
needed a ring-leader to keep the
crowd pumped. The shot girls with
the sexy dirndl outfits carrying
around orange sponge trays of little
shot glass tubes filled with
colorful liquids provide the right
amount of party appeal to attract
young and old. The beer hall is
doing very well after the event
experienced nearly a decade of
declining figures in attendance. The
atmosphere, set against the backdrop
of a 7-piece oom-pah band direct
from Deutschland (Germany), turns
rockers and concert pianists in to
polka party fools, all out on the
floor together dancing like chickens
in the Chicken Dance.
Surf City Concerts are a mixed
bag of music. One things stands out
in Surf City, however. The city has
more than its share of musicians and
many seldom play in their home town
but you'll find them on record
labels or touring the globe.
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