Summer Fun on the 101

Summer Fun is a true grass roots community festival that would not be half as fun without support from some great local businesses. We pause to thank two of those sponsors today.

Thank you Swami’s Cab! Serving the coastal cities of Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas and Carlsbad, Swami’s cab is the most trusted name in town for a safe ride. Swami’s has over ten different drivers, all of whom are upstanding locals you would feel safe sending your grandmother with. Unlike Uber or any ride share apps, Swami’s has only fully licensed drivers who are commercially insured and background checked and drug screened through the San Diego Sherriff’s department. ‘No Kooks’ is their motto and they live it!

Thank you Peter Curry and Cassidy Turley Commercial Real Estate! Cassidy Turley is San Diego’s leader in commercial Real Estate. Their offices serve ” owners, investors and tenants with a full continuum of integrated services – including capital markets, tenant representation, corporate services, project leasing, property management, project and development services, and research and consulting.” And they specialize in “industrial, investment, office, life sciences, medical, retail, multi-family, restaurant/fast food, and healthcare property types as well as undeveloped land.”

Hi Summer Fun fans!

We need volunteers for Friday evening (6/27) and Saturday both day and night (6/28). Please contact Michael at ruthlesshippies@gmail.com with your availability and we will hook up the first ten volunteers with Summer Fun T-shirts!

Getting some inspiration from Woodstock…

Leucadia is gonna be one big city next weekend!

In case you’ve been too busy surfing or watching the World Cup to have caught this past Wednesday’s Encinitas City Council meeting, we taped some of it for you. Here we see Leucadia 101 Main Street Association’s promotions chair, the Ruthless Hippy, doing some promoting of Summer Fun…

Mattson 2 is back headlining Summer Fun on the 101 for the fourth time! Twin brothers Jonathan (drums) and Jared Mattson (guitar) are seriously stoked to be playing for their hometown crowd on June 28th 4PM at Leucadia Roadside Park. Here’s some background on these Encinitas locals who are slowly conquering the globe with their refined vision of a jazz sound that all can groove to…

If you could soundtrack the jangle of the sea and the jazz of the surf, the Mattson 2 would most certainly be the composers. The foot stomps of a shoe-gazed salty air meets the tight groove and polished shake of the night with each of the duo’s multi-layered tracks. And with their third record, “Feeling Hands” (Galaxia records. Produced by Thomas Campbell), audiences around the globe are witnessing the growth of two musicians hitting full stride with deft layering, detailed composition and an altogether unmistakable sound. With their signature suits in tow, both Jared and Jonathan have relentlessly toured throughout Brazil, Paris, Spain, Japan, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, and the United States, generating global acclaim while also further curating their sound into a musical kaleidoscope that brings to mind everyone from Charles Mingus and Chet Baker to the Smiths and the Jesus and Mary Chain. They have acquired a pair of Bachelor’s degrees in music with an emphasis in Jazz and African studies from the University of California San Diego, and even more recently received their Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Music from University of California Irvine. At UC Irvine, they were a part of the Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology program (ICIT). Having performed with the likes of Ray Barbee, Tommy Guerrero, Money Mark, John McEntire, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Cornelius, Farmer Dave Scher, Dave Pike, Jeff Parker, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Davis, and George Lewis, the Mattson 2 have grown up quick, accomplishing more in a short time than many musicians in their entire career, and thus further providing a mature sound that is equally at home on the beach as it is in the jazz club. So tighten that tie, turn up the volume, dig your toes in the sand and soak in the shimmery whitewash of the Mattson 2.

Montalban Quintet is a musical collective founded by Christ Prescott, best known for his drumming with Pinback, No Knife and so many other great SD bands. While the line up is constantly in flux, their debut album ‘Montalban Quintet‘ includes playing by Chris Prescott (drums, guitar and electronics), Carl Prescott (trumpet), Kenseth Thibideau (bass), Jim Weiss (saxophone), Terrin Durfey (vocals), Marjorie Prescott (cello), Nathan Hubbard (vibraphone) and Hermelindo Montalban (percussion).

Not truly a quintet, the band’s name derives from band member/UCSD music grad Hermalindo Montalban, who was known to create music using five handrails on the stairwells near the Mandeville music building. Their sound is an amalgam of the group’s collective influences and  studies in jazz, minimalism, post-punk, and new western art music. Tape loops often guide the rhythmic structure and the tunes feature grand melodies that could be described as cinematic.

Dig their music to some surf clips from ‘Mancturing Stoke‘ which band founder/drummer Chris Prescott scored.

And here they are rocking the crowd at Lou’s Records on Record Store Day 2012.

These guys are a truly talented and classy group of musicians and you will not want to miss their beautiful grooves on Saturday June 28th at Roadside Park!!!

We love our great new poster art by the ever eccentric Harry Holiday (pictured below). He will have prints and original art for sale at Ducky Waddle’s 6/27 and at Roadside Park 6/28. Support this homegrown talent!!!

  We owe a HUGE thank you to the epic design crew over at SPY Optic for making it all come together smoothly. Those guys love to keep Leucadia HAPPY with their lenses and support of local events!

Summer Fun on the 101 is so lucky to be having local songstress Nena Anderson as a headliner this year (6/28 @ Roadside Park). Having grown up in Encinitas, this daughter of a surfboard shaper is totally stoked to be playing in front of a hometown crowd in Leucadia.

For those who don’t know much about her, Nena has been active in the San Diego music scene for about two decades. She’s been known for playing solo, forming her own groups (Brawley, Nena Anderson and the Mules), singing the June Carter parts for Johnny Cash tribute Cash’d Out and sharing the stage with other local legends such as Gilbert Castellanos, Adrien Demain and many others.

While she’s versatile enough to have been nominated for 11 SD Music Awards in 4 different categories (Best jazz, Best Acoustic, Best Americana, Best New Artist), Nena’s sound is best described as Americana. Her songs are a blending of different traditional American styles such as blues, country, folk, jazz and rock.

The beautiful tunes and lyrics that Nena writes combine smoothly with her sultry vocals and seasoned stage presence. She has a truly an original voice, so go ahead and check her songs out. We know you’ll love them no matter where your musical tastes fall.

Long time Summer Fun sponsor and venue, 454 Tattoo is having a tenth anniversary art show tonight! These guys do some of the best ink in the business and are great people to boot.

It will be a fun time with some incredible art, so go check it out whether you’re inked or not!!

We are so thoroughly stoked for this year’s festivities. The Mattson 2 is back! We’ve got Jack Tempchin, Nena Anderson, Montalban Quintet and so many more great bands ready to rock Leucadia. Click the schedule tab to check out more of these awesome acts

Vibe out to this mix by Ruthless Hippies containing songs by some of this year’s headliners and lots of other chill summer tunes…

Fill in as many blanks as you can (by replying here or on our facebook page). The most correct answers WINS a FREE Summer Fun T-shirt…

(1) The _____ _____ ‘Stoked’
(2) M. Schmitt ‘_____ _____ Theme’ [played live on uke]
(3) The _______ ‘Endless Summer Theme’ [45 slowed to 33rpms]
(4)______ __ ‘Endless Summer Theme’ [live at Encinitas City Hall]
(5) The _______ ‘Endless Summer Theme’
(6) _____ _______ ‘Time Capsule’ [live at Ducky Waddle’s]
(7) ____ _____ ____ ‘Little Black Submarines [live at Battle of the Bands]
(8) _____ _______ ‘One More’
(9)Eagles ‘______ _____ _______’ [written by ____ _______]
(10)_____ ______ ‘_____ Sorta’
(11) M Schmitt ‘______ ____ Theme’