Above is video of Christian Beach performing “The Finest Day” at The Brickwall Annex in Asbury Park, NJ, on June 21, 2008. Accompanied — in the darkness — by Gorgo on mandolin, John Pfeiffer on dobro and Brian Kelley on accordion.
A couple of notes:
1) It was obviously very dark in the venue so I tried lightening up this video the best I could without turning it into a grainy mess.
2) The pause button was hit about 21 seconds into the song, but recording resumed a few seconds later…to fill the gap, I spliced in some of the studio version of the song.
Video shot by Alison Litecky, who also unplugged the jukebox that was blasting away during the night.
Here is dark and grainy, but decent sounding, video of Christian Beach performing “Way Back Home” at The Brickwall Annex in Asbury Park, NJ, on June 21, 2008…accompanied by Gorgo on mandolin, John Pfeiffer on “mouth percussion” and yours truly on accordion.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing a solo, acoustic set at The National Underground – Downstairs (159 E. Houston St.) in New York City on Tuesday, July 29, 2008. He will be taking the stage around 10 p.m.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing a solo, acoustic set at KatManDu (Route 29, 50 Riverview Executive Park) in Trenton, NJ, on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. He will be taking the stage shortly after 9 p.m.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing with his backing band at The Saint (601 Main St.) in Asbury Park, N.J., on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. He will be going on at around 8 p.m. as an opening act for Colie Brice & Friends.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing a solo, acoustic set at Triumph Brewing Company (aka Triumph Brew Pub) at 117 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. He will be taking the stage shortly after 9 p.m. The performance is part of the weekly Triumph Live Unplugged series.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be doing a solo, acoustic show as part of this year’s Wave Gathering Festival in Asbury Park, NJ. He will be taking the stage at The Brickwall Tavern Annex (522 Cookman Ave.) at 10:15 p.m. (and I may be joining him on accordion for a couple of songs).
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
About a week ago, I finished working on some web graphics and flyers to promote some upcoming shows by my good friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to post them here or on MySpace so they haven’t been put to good promotional use yet.
Well, I am hoping to rectify that with the following posts.
Hello, all! This is just a quick post to say that I have just returned from a brief vacation in Texas. My girlfriend and I spent an extended weekend in the San Antonio and Austin areas. We were able to take in some of Fiesta, which began last weekend in San Antonio and runs through April 27. Also, we were able to spend a day in Austin, where we went on a tour of the Texas State Capitol, watched hundreds of thousands of bats fly out — a nightly ritual — from their summer home under the Congress Street Bridge, and saw Mike Doughty’s Band at Antone’s on 5th Street.
I’ll have some photos and videos from the trip on the ol’ blog for you at some point in the near future.
However, now that I am back in New Jersey, I would also like to share some news about my good friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach. Christian is playing the Writers in Raritan Showcase tonight at DeCicco’s (10 Anderson St., Raritan, NJ 08869, Map). He will be taking the stage around 9:25 p.m.
But that’s not all! Christian has a bevy of shows coming up over the next few weeks. Here is a listing:
May 3, 2008 Twisted Tree Cafe
609 Cookman Ave
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
9:15 p.m.
Finally, here is video of Christian and his ad-hoc backing band performing David Bowie’s “Five Years” at the Main Man Records Showcase/Record Release Party for “Hero: The Main Man Records Tribute to David Bowie” held at The Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ, on March 28, 2008 (because of potential setup problems with the 1970s Yamaha organ Christian usually brings to the gigs, I instead played a cheesy organ sound on my Alesis QS 6.1 synthesizer for this show). Enjoy!
So I just realized the fun that is YouTube playlists…yeah, I know…a little late for a geek like me to figure that out. Anyway, here is a playlist of every performance by my friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach, that can be found on YouTube. Enjoy!
Brian Kelley 