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KC Turner Presents Cookout Concert SeriesCRACKER
+ Megan Slankard Trio
HopMonk Novato Beer Garden
DOORS: 5pm | SHOW: 6pm
General Admission:
$40 ADVANCE | $45 DAY OF SHOW
ALL AGES (Children 3 and under free)
Sponsored by JAMBAR
NO REFUNDS | ALL SALES FINAL
Tickets: After completing your purchase on See Tickets, you will receive an email confirmation with your attached PDF ticket(s). You MUST print and bring your PDF tickets AND VALID PHOTO IDENTIFICATION to be admitted for the event. You may download the See Tickets app and show your ticket on your mobile device for entry in lieu of printing.
EVENT INFO:
NO PETS
NO COOLERS
NO BACKPACKS
NO OUTSIDE FOOD
NO UMBRELLAS
NO SMOKING
EMPTY REUSABLE WATER BOTTLES ARE ALLOWED
-FAQs-
Q: Is this show outdoors?
A: Yes. This event is held in HopMonk Novato's Beergarden concert venue.
Q: Are kids allowed?
A: The shows are all ages. Kids need a ticket to attend. No Babies in arms please.
Q: Is it seated?
A: General admission seating is first come. The Hillside section is opening seating. You're allowed a LOW-BACK chair or blanket to sit on in the grass area. At the top of the hillside section there is table seating that is first come. We recommend arriving at the time doors open.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
CRACKER’S NEW DOUBLE-ALBUM “BERKELEY TO BAKERSFIELD” OUT NOW THROUGH 429 RECORDS!
Cracker‘s tenth studio effort, the double-album entitled Berkeley To Bakersfield, finds this uniquely American band traversing two different sides of the California landscape – the northern Bay area and further down-state in Bakersfield.
Despite being less than a five-hour drive from city to city, musically, these two regions couldn’t be further apart from one another. In the late ‘70s and ‘80s a harder-edged style of rock music emerged from the Bay area, while Bakersfield is renowned for its own iconic twangy country music popularized, most famously, by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Yet despite these differences, they are both elements that Cracker’s two cofounders, David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, have embraced to some degree on nearly every one of their studio albums over the last two decades. On Berkeley To Bakersfield, however, instead of integrating these two genres together within one disc, they’ve neatly compartmentalized them onto their own respective regionally-titled LPs.
As Lowery explains, “On the Berkeley disc the band is the original Cracker lineup – Davey Faragher, Michael Urbano, Johnny and myself. This is the first time this lineup has recorded together in almost 20 years. We began recording this album at East Bay Recorders in Berkeley, CA. For this reason we chose to stylistically focus this disc on the music we most associate with the East Bay: Punk and Garage with some funky undertones. To further match our sense of place we often took an overtly political tone in the lyrics.”
“This Bakersfield disc represents the ‘California country’ side of the band. Throughout the band’s 24-year history we’ve dabbled in Country and Americana but this time we wanted to pay homage to the particular strain of Country and Country-Rock music that emerges from the inland valleys of California.”
Cracker has been described as a lot of things over the years: alt-rock, Americana, insurgent-country, and have even had the terms punk and classic-rock thrown at them. But more than anything Cracker are survivors. Cofounders Lowery and Hickman have been at it for almost a quarter of a century – amassing ten studio albums, multiple gold records, thousands of live performances, hit songs that are still in current radio rotation around the globe (“Low,” “Euro-Trash Girl,” “Get Off This” and “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me” to name just a few), and a worldwide fan base – that despite the major sea-changes within the music industry – continues to grow each year.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
HopMonk Tavern Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato, United States
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