One of the most popular outdoor events along the Emerald Coast, the Seaside Summer Concert Series, returns to the Seaside Amphitheater on Wednesdays beginning June 1st through August 10th. For eleven weeks this summer music lovers can enjoy a variety of exciting live musical performances in the heart of 30A and the Beaches of South Walton. The Seaside Summer Concert Series is free and open to all and a great way to experience some of today's up-and-coming artists amongst the beautiful backdrop of Seaside.
Seaside was voted the "Hottest Spot for Outdoor Concerts" by 30A.com and fans from across the region have become accustomed to seeing bands who perform in Seaside go on to bright musical careers. All performances begin at 7 p.m. and free parking is available around Central Square, Quincy Circle and Smolian Circle. Below are the bands scheduled to perform in Seaside during the month of June.
June 1: THE DEFiBULATORs - The DEFiBULATORs have emerged as one of the most engaging live acts from the thriving roots scene in Brooklyn, NY - reinventing country music by melding bluegrass, rockabilly, honky-tonk, and punk into their own eclectic sound. The band wields an arsenal of guitars, banjos, fiddles, and junkyard percussion, with relentless energy and virtuosity. The DEFiBULATORs jump-start new life into vintage country music and deliver a unique sound that's anything, but old timey. They have worked alongside the Avett Brothers on a feature film and they are currently the house-band comedic event at a New York theater.
June 8: Mockingbird Sun - Front man Charlie Berry is another in the long-standing tradition of Texas-raised troubadours. After years as a working musician, Charlie is as comfortable under the stage lights as he was under the stadium lights as a football player SMU. Soul singer and Gibson picker Brett Taylor, also from Texas, chased the neon rainbow all the way to Nashville after wearing out the dancehalls in Ft. Worth. A poet from his youth, Brett has found his voice as a songwriter in Music City with songs about pain and restoration. Renaissance man Matthew "Truck" Roley plays guitar, B3 organ, banjo, mandolin and a little bit of any other instrument you might put in front of him. The boys came together through collaborations with veteran country songwriter and sage Tom Douglas, and alongside him have cultivated their first EP. Charlie, Brett, and Truck have been strongly influenced by a variety of music icons from Hank Williams to Tom Petty. Their distinct voices and styles weld together in three-part harmony. They draw from the slow blue heat of vintage country to solder whiskey-washed folk with classic American rock and roll.
June 15: Tony Lucca - Singer-songwriter Tony Lucca's sixth studio album Rendezvous With the Angels, finds the performer crafting his most thoughtful, tuneful, and mature work yet. Rendezvous With the Angels is the culmination of a life spent in music. Raised in Waterford, Michigan, Lucca began singing at age 3; by 12 he was writing and playing in Detroit-area bands. As a teen, he lived in Orlando, Florida, where he worked for four seasons on the Disney Channel's "Mickey Mouse Club" alongside such future superstars as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake. Lucca says of that experience, "A lot of the kids who came out of 'Mickey Mouse Club' wound up sitting at a big banquet of stardom and celebrity and pop success. That was awesome for them, and exciting. That was what they chose to do. There was another handful of us who didn't do that. I got to California in 1995 and saw what was out there, and got away from the star-making machinery, and thought about what I was going to say before I had other people tell me to say it. For me, it wasn't so much about being big and famous and doing whatever it took to do that. It was about having a sense of self as an artist and a sense of credibility, and doing something that I was happy with, regardless of the accolades or the success." Lucca's songs have been featured on TV's "Friday Night Lights," "Brothers & Sisters," "Shark" and "Felicity" and in Kevin Costner's feature "Open Range." He has been seen on E! Entertainment Television and A&E, and performed numerous times on NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly." Over the course of his career, Lucca has shared stages with *Nsync, Marc Anthony, Macy Gray, Johnny Lang, and the late Chris Whitley.
June 22: Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes - New Orleans has long been known for its sassy, greasy funk. With their back-alley hipster lyrics, punchy brass and low-bottom-ized rhythm section, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes come straight from that school - the one where the Meters, the Neville Brothers and Dr. John all live. These six "dirty" boys have steeped themselves in the New Orleans funk tradition so well, they won Offbeat magazine's "Best of the Beat" award as the best emerging funk band on the 2005 Crescent City scene. The band consists of some rather unlikely funkstas. All have degrees in music, mostly from Loyola. They are also all involved in a stunning array of musical side projects that range from classical to Irish traditional. The Dirty Notes boast tunes from calm and funky grooves to full-blown frenzies at the drop of a hat. Their unique funk/rock style and high-energy will be the one concert you won't want to miss; one that combines a Dr. John-ish flare for bizarre fashion and absurd stage presence.
June 29: The Apache Relay - The past few months have been nothing short of surreal for The Apache Relay. The band was recently featured in a two-page spread in Garden & Gun magazine as "The New Sound of the South," performed in front of a standing room only crowd at the Billy Reid party at SXSW and hosted a late night jam that included the likes of Mumford & Sons and Jake Gyllenhaall, Oh, and they just released their second album, American Nomad, a modern and young roots-rock collection. The band's debut 1988, was released in 2009, and produced by Doug Williams best known for his authentically raw approach with the Avett Brothers. Paste Magazine named it an "Auspicious Debut" and highlighted the band as "Best of What's Next." The Apache Relay found each other by chance in a dorm in Nashville, where lead singer Michael Ford Jr. was becoming known for his songwriting. His first introduction was to guitarist Mike Harris, who circumvented the music school's practice hour rules pretty much any time he wanted. Harris would roll his amp into Ford Jr.'s room to jam on Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn tunes into the night. Later, when Ford Jr. started disliking performing his songs alone, he heard about Harris' new band, The Apache Relay (named for the underdog race in Ben Stiller's Heavyweights) and hired them to back him at a show, and all four musicians knew they had started something amazing. There was something about the talent and chemistry that everyone brought to the table that just worked right off the bat. Mixed in is a Bad Brains bumper sticker, jazz lessons, a lot of Beatles listening, knowledge of traditional mountain music, and the love for the complex but accessible layers of bands like the Arcade Fire.
Seaside offers up an exciting lineup of musicians scheduled through August, so stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks. All events are made possible by the arts and entertainment fee collected by The Merchants of Seaside. For more information on our community & events, please visit us online at: Seaside, FL | More than a way of life, a way of living! or find us on Facebook.
Seaside was voted the "Hottest Spot for Outdoor Concerts" by 30A.com and fans from across the region have become accustomed to seeing bands who perform in Seaside go on to bright musical careers. All performances begin at 7 p.m. and free parking is available around Central Square, Quincy Circle and Smolian Circle. Below are the bands scheduled to perform in Seaside during the month of June.
June 1: THE DEFiBULATORs - The DEFiBULATORs have emerged as one of the most engaging live acts from the thriving roots scene in Brooklyn, NY - reinventing country music by melding bluegrass, rockabilly, honky-tonk, and punk into their own eclectic sound. The band wields an arsenal of guitars, banjos, fiddles, and junkyard percussion, with relentless energy and virtuosity. The DEFiBULATORs jump-start new life into vintage country music and deliver a unique sound that's anything, but old timey. They have worked alongside the Avett Brothers on a feature film and they are currently the house-band comedic event at a New York theater.
June 8: Mockingbird Sun - Front man Charlie Berry is another in the long-standing tradition of Texas-raised troubadours. After years as a working musician, Charlie is as comfortable under the stage lights as he was under the stadium lights as a football player SMU. Soul singer and Gibson picker Brett Taylor, also from Texas, chased the neon rainbow all the way to Nashville after wearing out the dancehalls in Ft. Worth. A poet from his youth, Brett has found his voice as a songwriter in Music City with songs about pain and restoration. Renaissance man Matthew "Truck" Roley plays guitar, B3 organ, banjo, mandolin and a little bit of any other instrument you might put in front of him. The boys came together through collaborations with veteran country songwriter and sage Tom Douglas, and alongside him have cultivated their first EP. Charlie, Brett, and Truck have been strongly influenced by a variety of music icons from Hank Williams to Tom Petty. Their distinct voices and styles weld together in three-part harmony. They draw from the slow blue heat of vintage country to solder whiskey-washed folk with classic American rock and roll.
June 15: Tony Lucca - Singer-songwriter Tony Lucca's sixth studio album Rendezvous With the Angels, finds the performer crafting his most thoughtful, tuneful, and mature work yet. Rendezvous With the Angels is the culmination of a life spent in music. Raised in Waterford, Michigan, Lucca began singing at age 3; by 12 he was writing and playing in Detroit-area bands. As a teen, he lived in Orlando, Florida, where he worked for four seasons on the Disney Channel's "Mickey Mouse Club" alongside such future superstars as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake. Lucca says of that experience, "A lot of the kids who came out of 'Mickey Mouse Club' wound up sitting at a big banquet of stardom and celebrity and pop success. That was awesome for them, and exciting. That was what they chose to do. There was another handful of us who didn't do that. I got to California in 1995 and saw what was out there, and got away from the star-making machinery, and thought about what I was going to say before I had other people tell me to say it. For me, it wasn't so much about being big and famous and doing whatever it took to do that. It was about having a sense of self as an artist and a sense of credibility, and doing something that I was happy with, regardless of the accolades or the success." Lucca's songs have been featured on TV's "Friday Night Lights," "Brothers & Sisters," "Shark" and "Felicity" and in Kevin Costner's feature "Open Range." He has been seen on E! Entertainment Television and A&E, and performed numerous times on NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly." Over the course of his career, Lucca has shared stages with *Nsync, Marc Anthony, Macy Gray, Johnny Lang, and the late Chris Whitley.
June 22: Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes - New Orleans has long been known for its sassy, greasy funk. With their back-alley hipster lyrics, punchy brass and low-bottom-ized rhythm section, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes come straight from that school - the one where the Meters, the Neville Brothers and Dr. John all live. These six "dirty" boys have steeped themselves in the New Orleans funk tradition so well, they won Offbeat magazine's "Best of the Beat" award as the best emerging funk band on the 2005 Crescent City scene. The band consists of some rather unlikely funkstas. All have degrees in music, mostly from Loyola. They are also all involved in a stunning array of musical side projects that range from classical to Irish traditional. The Dirty Notes boast tunes from calm and funky grooves to full-blown frenzies at the drop of a hat. Their unique funk/rock style and high-energy will be the one concert you won't want to miss; one that combines a Dr. John-ish flare for bizarre fashion and absurd stage presence.
June 29: The Apache Relay - The past few months have been nothing short of surreal for The Apache Relay. The band was recently featured in a two-page spread in Garden & Gun magazine as "The New Sound of the South," performed in front of a standing room only crowd at the Billy Reid party at SXSW and hosted a late night jam that included the likes of Mumford & Sons and Jake Gyllenhaall, Oh, and they just released their second album, American Nomad, a modern and young roots-rock collection. The band's debut 1988, was released in 2009, and produced by Doug Williams best known for his authentically raw approach with the Avett Brothers. Paste Magazine named it an "Auspicious Debut" and highlighted the band as "Best of What's Next." The Apache Relay found each other by chance in a dorm in Nashville, where lead singer Michael Ford Jr. was becoming known for his songwriting. His first introduction was to guitarist Mike Harris, who circumvented the music school's practice hour rules pretty much any time he wanted. Harris would roll his amp into Ford Jr.'s room to jam on Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn tunes into the night. Later, when Ford Jr. started disliking performing his songs alone, he heard about Harris' new band, The Apache Relay (named for the underdog race in Ben Stiller's Heavyweights) and hired them to back him at a show, and all four musicians knew they had started something amazing. There was something about the talent and chemistry that everyone brought to the table that just worked right off the bat. Mixed in is a Bad Brains bumper sticker, jazz lessons, a lot of Beatles listening, knowledge of traditional mountain music, and the love for the complex but accessible layers of bands like the Arcade Fire.
Seaside offers up an exciting lineup of musicians scheduled through August, so stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks. All events are made possible by the arts and entertainment fee collected by The Merchants of Seaside. For more information on our community & events, please visit us online at: Seaside, FL | More than a way of life, a way of living! or find us on Facebook.
