Events Calendar · August 2023
KC Turner's Cookout Series Presents AJ Lee & Blue Summit at Hopmonk Tavern
Date: Saturday, August 19, 2023
Time: Doors Open at 4:30pm and Show Starts at 6:00pm
AJ Lee and Blue Summit made their first appearance in Santa Cruz in 2015. Led by singer, songwriter, and mandolinist, AJ Lee, the bluegrass band has performed all over the world, but finds home in California’s Bay Area.
The latest full length project, I’ll Come Back, debuted August 2021 - with national touring in support of the record ongoing. Although falling loosely under the bluegrass label, AJLBS generally plays sans banjo, with Sullivan Tuttle and Scott Gates on steel stringed acoustic guitars, AJ on mandolin, Jan Purat on fiddle, and Chad Bowen on upright bass - a configuration effectively used to create unique space and texture in the arrangements not as commonly found in the music of their peers. Drawing from influences such as country, soul, swing, rock, and jam music, the band uses the lens of bluegrass as a vessel through which to express and explore the thread that binds and unifies all great music.
General Admission Tickets are $20.00; General Admission Ticket, plus Cookout Meal is $42.00, with service charges on both. Picnic Tables of 10 are also available. Please purchase your online tickets in the above website link.
