Summer Fun on the 101

Besides the music, Summer Fun has got plenty of great activities planned for the young and the young at heart. Check out Julie Ann Stricklin of amazing banner she recently completed. Paint Encinitas will be helping the kids of Leucadia color that in throughout the day and there will be plenty of other art activities.

Paint Encinitas will be unveiling their newest mural at Royal Liqour in Leucadia from noon-3PM this Sunday (6/29). Join their party.

We’ll be having another hula hoop contest for the kids to win a new Summer Fun on the 101 T-shirt.

Big thanks to Lisa from Swell Stuff for providing the hoops again!

For the 21 and up crowd, well be having a beer garden with all delicious local brews from Stone Brewing Co reminding you that ‘Fizzy Yellow Beer is for Wussies’…

The Lost Abbey and their sublime batches of brews…

And the up and coming Aztec Brewing.

Check out their open mic night every Thursday evening.

In case that wasn’t enough, we’ve got insane raffle prizes this year! A surfboard from Surfy Surfy, a Gopro camera, an Enjoy Handplane, 4 season passes to the Del Mar Races and gift cards from SO many local businesses you would not even believe it!

If you don’t know who Jack Tempchin is, there’s still a good chance you’ve heard his music before. This citizen of Encinitas has penned about a half dozen well known hits that have charted internationally in his long career as a singer/songwriter.

Perhaps Jack’s most famous and beloved tune is ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling’. It was performed by Eagles and released as a single off their eponymous debut album which reached #22 on the US Billboard charts and went platinum. You’ve probably heard it plenty of times no matter when you were born…

South Coast Winery in Temecula even has a wine in honor of Jack’s gorgeous song.

Other great songs Jack wrote for Eagles include “Already Gone”, “The Girl From Yesterday,” “Somebody,” and “It’s Your World Now.” As with most great rock bands, the Eagles eventually split up and went on to solo careers. Jack went on to co-write  “You Belong to the City”, “Smuggler’s Blues”, “The One You Love”, “I Found Somebody” and “True Love” with Glenn Frey.

‘You Belong to the City’ reached #2 on the US Billboard Charts, but its appearance on the Miami Vice soundtrack helped make that album #1 for 11 weeks and the best selling LP of 1985.

I’m sure plenty of you remember Miami Vice…

And certainly some of you know the tune from when Jay Z sampled it…

But I will always remember ‘You Belong to the City’ from hundreds of repeated viewings of 1986 Mets: A Year to Remember…

“Slow Dancin” is another great Jack Tempchin tune which reached the top ten for Johnny Rivers…

But we love Jack’s version with the Funky Kings best…

Jack has written songs for and with scores of other artists including Emmylou Harris, George Jones, Glen Campbell, the Paladins and Candy Kayne.

While Jack is most famous for his midas touch in songwriting, he’s also a top shelf performer who still knows how to rock.

We are honored to have Jack Tempchin with his band Rocket Science at Summer Fun on the 101 this year. Don’t miss them this Saturday 5 PM at Roadside Park!!! He just gives us a peaceful easy feeling about this weekend…

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!!