{"id":261203,"date":"2026-04-10T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:14:14","slug":"the-five-san-diego-concerts-that-should-top-your-list-this-week-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261203\/","title":{"rendered":"The five San Diego concerts that should top your list this week \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Songwriters Showcase with Jeff Berkley: Java Joe\u2019s One Shot!<\/p>\n

Three-dozen singer-songwriters walk into a nightclub \u2026<\/p>\n

That may sound like the set-up for a music-oriented joke about missing guitar picks or open bar tabs. But it\u2019s exactly what will happen Sunday when Jeff Berkley hosts more than 30 of San Diego\u2019s leading troubadours at the Jazz Lounge.<\/p>\n

The lineup includes Gregory Page, Joel Rafael, Lisa Sanders & Brown Sugar, Shawn Rohlf, Lindsay White, Sara Petite, Sven Eric Seaholm, Gayle Skidmore and former San Diego Padres infielder Tim Flannery.<\/p>\n

Berkley, a three-time 2026 San Diego Music Awards nominee, is one of Southern California\u2019s most prolific performers, producers, tunesmiths and arrangers. Together with John Katchur and Dave Howard, he will revive an enticing format for Sunday\u2019s concert, which is being billed as \u201cJava Joe\u2019s One Shot!\u201d<\/p>\n

That moniker alludes to Java Joe\u2019s, the near-legendary San Diego coffeehouse where Jewel, Jason Mraz and a slew of other gifted area singer-songwriters laid the foundation for their respective careers back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of us were all young musicians getting started and Java Joe\u2019s was like a giant clubhouse and a place to hang out. Java Joe\u2019s contributions are immeasurable,\u201d Page said in a 2023 Union-Tribune interview. Accordingly,<\/p>\n

Berkley has invited an array of Java Joe\u2019s veterans to perform at Sunday\u2019s shindig, including Page, who begins a 19-date East Coast tour with Mraz on May 12. The lineup for \u201cJava Joe\u2019s One Shot!\u201d will also feature John Katchur, Dave Howard, Calman Hart, Joe Rathburn, Robin Henkel, Bug Guts, Rob Deez, Billy Galewood, Aly Rowell, Cara Cormier, Stucky Leigh, Salinas Road, Craig Fisher, Chloe Lou, Kathleen Beck, Mia Gascon, Patch & Maggie, Croome Brothers, Bobo Czarnowski and JT Moring.<\/p>\n

The \u201cOne Shot!\u201d part of the billing is not a reference to alcohol, but to the open mic nights held at Java Joe\u2019s in the 1990s at which each singer-songwriter did just one song, then made way for the next performer.<\/p>\n

Berkley and his many musical pals will be saluting that tradition in what is sure to be a memorable but snappily-paced marathon of songs.<\/p>\n

7 p.m. Sunday, April 12. The Jazz Lounge, 6818 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego. $35-$45. thejazzlounge.live<\/a><\/p>\n

Miranda Lambert will headline this weekend\u2019s Boots in the Park festival at Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego. (Mark Humphrey \/ AP)
\n\u201cBoots In The Park,\u201d featuring Miranda Lambert, Jordan Davis, Dylan Scott and more<\/p>\n

True to the title of her 2005 breakthrough hit, \u201cKerosene,\u201d Texas country-music dynamo Miranda Lambert knows how to fire up her listeners.<\/p>\n

This holds equally true whether she\u2019s singing up a storm or chastising fans for focusing on taking nonstop selfies at her concerts, instead of listening to her music.<\/p>\n

An NRA member and an avid supporter of the LGBTQ community, Lambert is a straight-shooter who delivers expertly paced concerts. She headlines this year\u2019s Boots In The Park festival on Saturday \u2014 just two days after earning the second highest number of nominations for the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most decorated artist in ACM Awards history,\u201d Lambert is nominated this time around in eight categories. They include: Female Artist of the Year; Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year (she is a double-nominee in both categories); Single of the Year; and Visual Media of the Year and Event of the Year (both for her collaboration with Chris Stapleton, \u201cA Song To Sing\u201d)<\/p>\n

1 p.m. Saturday, April 11. Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego. $99-$299. tickets.bootsinthepark.com\/e\/sd-bitp-april-26\/tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MandolinMandolin player and singer Sierra Hull is a six-time Grammy Award-winner. She will perform April 15 at the Belly Up in Solana Beach. (File photo)
\nSierra Hull, with Mason Via<\/p>\n

In 2009, Sierra Hull became the first bluegrass musician in the history of Boston\u2019s Berklee College of Music to be awarded the Berklee Presidential Scholarship, which covered all four years of her tuition and housing.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association\u2019s Mandolin Player of the Year Award, a feat she has accomplished six times.<\/p>\n

Now 32, Hull is also an engaging singer and band leader who earned four Grammy Award nominations for her terrific 2025 album, \u201cA Tip Toe High Wire,\u201d and has her own line of Gibson F5-G mandolins. She handily won over the crowd here last summer at the 2026 Outlaw Music Festival Tour stop, where she memorably opened for Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Billy Strings.<\/p>\n

8 p.m., Wednesday, April 15. Belly Up, 143 South Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. $30-$53 (must be 21 or older to attend). bellyup.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Gypseas of Infinity<\/p>\n

There are a handful of rock musicians in the nation who double as real estate agents, including Dandy Warhols keyboardist Zia McCabe and former Alice Cooper drummer Neal Smith, who last year told Rolling Stone he is proud to be \u201cthe only rocker\/real estate agent in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

But San Diego singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Clayton Connolly may well be the only musician-by-night\/real-estate-agent-by-day to write a song, \u201cPick Us,\u201d that gave him the edge to beat out 15 other buyers competing to buy a home in Point Loma (which he slyly rhymes in the song with \u201chome-ah\u201d).<\/p>\n

An Ocean Beach resident, Cameron is also the only musician\/real estate agent I know of signed to Surfdog Records, the plucky Encinitas-based label whose roster includes Eric Clapton and The Stray Cats. Longtime Clapton band guitarist Doyle Bramhall III is one of the veteran musicians featured on Cameron\u2019s Surfdog debut album, which he made under the name Gypseas of Infinity.<\/p>\n

He bills the 15-song collection as a \u201csonic ceremony\u201d and \u201cmusical medicine.\u201d it mixes such lilting ballads as \u201cBreathe\u201d and \u201cSymphony of Divinity\u201d with the catchy, percussion-driven \u201cElementos\u201d such drone-happy, trance-tinged numbers as \u201cLetting Go Of Everything\u201d and \u201cKarma.\u201d Those song titles reflect the spiritual bent of the lyrics, which Connolly sings warmly and earnestly.<\/p>\n

7 p.m. Friday, April 10. The Template, 5032 Niagara Avenue, Ocean Beach. $15. obtemplate.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Chuwi <\/p>\n

A sizable number of talented and charismatic bands and solo artists have risen \u2014 due to their skill, tenacity, pluck and luck \u2014 from doing small club shows to performing in arenas and stadiums.<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican quartet Chuwi is about to experience the reverse trajectory, at least in a manner.<\/p>\n

Last fall, Chuwi was the opening act on Bad Bunny\u2019s international stadium tour. The group also joined him nightly to perform \u201cWeltita,\u201d their collaborative song from Bad Bunny\u2019s 2026 Grammy Album of the Year-winning \u201cDeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS\u201d.<\/p>\n

Chuwi teams siblings Lor\u00e9n, Willy and Wester Aldarondo with their friend, Adri\u00e1n L\u00f3pez. Together, the four fuse indie-pop and salsa with with such traditional styles as bomba, plena and merengue. The band\u2019s concert here next Thursday, April 16, will kick off its 2026 Primavera Tour.<\/p>\n

8 p.m. Thursday, April 16. House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Ave., Gaslamp Quarter. $33.25. ticketmaster.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Songwriters Showcase with Jeff Berkley: Java Joe\u2019s One Shot! Three-dozen singer-songwriters walk into a nightclub \u2026 That may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29160,114924,7498,114921,114922,35148,18767,74,76,75,114923],"class_list":{"0":"post-261203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-chuwy","10":"tag-jason-mraz","11":"tag-java-joes","12":"tag-jewel","13":"tag-miranda-lambert","14":"tag-puerto-rico","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-sierra-hull"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}