{"id":457397,"date":"2026-09-08T18:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:18:12","slug":"san-jose-blues-music-great-jc-smith-performs-free-concert-in-hayward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457397\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose blues music great JC Smith performs free concert in Hayward"},"content":{"rendered":"

JC Smith<\/a> has long been one of the true aces on the Bay Area blues music scene.<\/p>\n

The vocalist-guitarist, who has released several fine blues records during his award-winning career, tears it up on a regular basis at top clubs in San Francisco and his native San Jose.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also performed at such celebrated music gatherings as the Monterey Jazz Festival<\/a> and the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.<\/p>\n

And what do all those fine venues\/festivals share in common? Well, among other things, they typically charge admission.<\/p>\n

But that won\u2019t be the case if you want to see Smith and his mighty blues band on Sept. 13 when they perform a free concert at the Music at the Mansion Summer Concert Series in Hayward<\/a>. It\u2019s the finale of the 2026 series, which also featured Puerto Rican music act the Latin Rhythm Boys, swing band 3 O\u2019Clock Jump and R&B\/funk group Chocolate Ice earlier.<\/p>\n

The series is hosted by Bay Area slack key guitar great Patrick Landeza<\/a>, who has performed with Smith on previous occasions and hopefully will do so again at this show.<\/p>\n

The music runs 1 to 5 p.m. at Mt. Eden Mansion, 2451 W. Tennyson Road. For more information, visit thehardfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JC Smith has long been one of the true aces on the Bay Area blues music scene. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[389,184,102829,7,2644,332,967,2955,1533,181,330,3743,8257,8258,88,90,89,94685,420],"class_list":["post-457397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-blues-music","tag-california","tag-concerts","tag-east-bay","tag-entertainment","tag-hayward","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-music","tag-nightlife","tag-pop-music","tag-rock-music","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-social-alert","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457397","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=457397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}