{"id":254467,"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/music-fest-seizes-adams-avenue\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:00:00","slug":"music-fest-seizes-adams-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/music-fest-seizes-adams-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Music fest seizes Adams Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Joyell Nevins<\/p>\n

Music spilled out onto the streets on Saturday, April 27, as Adams Avenue Unplugged, sponsored by the Adams Avenue Business Association, kicked off its seventh musical walk-about. Nearly 10,000 music fans came out to hear 80 different artists sporting steel drums, cellos, guitars, trumpets, and even harmonica s. The musicians performed in 24 different venues up and down Adams Avenue from Kensington to University Heights.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is such a pleasure to play here,\u201d singer-guitarist Nina Francis said, who was nominated for Best Singer-Songwriter at the 2019 San Diego Music Awards.<\/p>\n

Francis grew up attending Unplugged\u2019s parent, the Adams Avenue Roots Festival, and approached it with wide eyes and wonder as a child. Now a grown-up, she made a special trip down from Los Angeles to continue the tradition from the other side of the stage.<\/p>\n

While the Roots Festival may have changed names and removed the street vendors, Unplugged has kept the same diversity of acoustic music. Blues, soul, folk, jazz, country and other genres all showed up on the schedule this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t have done [the festival] without the amazing contribution of the many performing artists,\u201d said Scott Kessler, Unplugged coordinator and executive director of the Adams Avenue Business Association.<\/p>\n

The lineup was a hodgepodge of bands, duos and solo artists. Musicians performed in venues as different as they were: bars, restaurants, coffee shops, a church, a water store, and even in front of an auto mechanic shop.<\/p>\n

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San Diego State University students Sam Zorn and Ekaterine Kvaghinidee visited Unplugged to support their friends and performers Nathan & Jesse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That last privilege went to Dan Dimonte of the Dan Dimonte Trio and his drummer Zac Tatum. Dimonte was tapped to play when Kessler heard him perform at a local art gallery. The idea emerged to turn a space beside the food court at Smitty\u2019s Service into a stage as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a blast,\u201d Dimonte said, noting that foot traffic didn\u2019t just walk by. \u201cPeople were hanging with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some festivalgoers came out to support a specific artist, while some just strolled up and down the main drag, entering wherever their ears took them. Some of the bars became so full, bouncers had to turn people away because they were at capacity\u00a0 (those pesky fire codes!). Many of the musicians themselves visited other artists or made an appearance at the fest\u2019s official after-party at the Air Conditioned Lounge.<\/p>\n

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The Liquorsmiths at Sycamore Den (Photos by Joyell Nevins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unplugged also boasted two headliners \u2014 multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, and Grammy Award-winning Gaby Moreno \u2014 and those ticketed concerts were completely sold out. Even businesses not sporting stages got into the festival spirit, offering specials or staying open late.<\/p>\n

If you weren\u2019t able to come out on April 27, or just want a continual replay, check out the \u201cAdams Avenue Unplugged\u201d Spotify playlist and enjoy a musical feast for your ears.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Se puede contactar a la escritora independiente Joyell Nevins en joyellc@gmail.com<\/a>. Tambi\u00e9n puedes seguir su blog Small World, Big God en swbgblog.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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