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Join RDNC for live music, family activities, local artisans and great food at the 2nd Playland on Balboa Music Festival! The event is free and open to the community. Live music will be held at an outdoor stage as well as within the Balboa Theater, La Promenade Café, Noise, Simple Pleasures Cafe and Creative IQ Art Studio! More info on artists and vendors to come. The Outdoor Main Stage is sponsored by Outside Lands Music Festival! Acts include BURNT., Teen Models, The Total Bettys, Bandy’s Brass Band and DJ Jackie Sugarlumps! To pay homage to the original Playland at the Beach, the Balboa Theater will be screening two films by Strephon Taylor- Sutro’s: The Palace at Land’s End and Playland at the Beach. La Promenade Café will host music by McLean as well as Denise & Larry. Noise Records will have music by Verst and Rocky Ramirez. Creative IQ will also host Bandy’s Brass Band in addition to the Art opening: "Those Who Can, Teach" - featuring the Fine Art of Creative IQ's Teachers. Simple Pleasures lineup will include The Wyatt Act, Vollmer, The Salt People as well as Chris Mendoza and Friends!
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Verst Biography
Verst is an indie/space rock trio from San Francisco, California. Bass player John Parsons first discovered guitarist John Dickey’s music in the mid-90s via a random purchase of Pie’s “gone” EP in a Greenwich Village record store. Dickey was the mastermind behind Pie, a Boston-based band that opened for Built to Spill and Yo La Tengo before imploding. Parsons led San Francisco alt-rockers, Rule of Thumb, through four albums (and opening slots for The Gourds, Chuck Prophet, and Richmond Fontaine, among others) before dissolving the band.
In 2002, Parsons, determined to find more Pie music, discovered that Dickey had relocated to San Francisco and formed a new band, Richard Bitch. A decade later, the two Johns joined forces in Verst along with drummer Brandon Hemley (also from Rule of Thumb). The music incorporates a wide variety of influences: everything from Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement to Judas Priest and King Crimson, layered with the “A.M. Gold” sensibilities of America and Bread. And yet, it is distinctively and unmistakably original. Starship Crash, the debut album released in 2015, was deemed a “noise-pop masterpiece” by Pandora and received numerous accolades in the press. David Slain, the band’s second album, was released on November 14, 2017.
John Dickey / guitar
John Parsons / bass
Brandon Hemley / drums
Read MoreIn 2002, Parsons, determined to find more Pie music, discovered that Dickey had relocated to San Francisco and formed a new band, Richard Bitch. A decade later, the two Johns joined forces in Verst along with drummer Brandon Hemley (also from Rule of Thumb). The music incorporates a wide variety of influences: everything from Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement to Judas Priest and King Crimson, layered with the “A.M. Gold” sensibilities of America and Bread. And yet, it is distinctively and unmistakably original. Starship Crash, the debut album released in 2015, was deemed a “noise-pop masterpiece” by Pandora and received numerous accolades in the press. David Slain, the band’s second album, was released on November 14, 2017.
John Dickey / guitar
John Parsons / bass
Brandon Hemley / drums
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