BIG DADDY

Summer breezes… an intimate courtyard… free parking… and great music. Escape to Culver City to Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival. This year Boulevard Music presents 6 free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7 pm from July 7 through August 11 in the palm-lined courtyard of Culver City City Hall. Become an entry level sponsor by purchasing one of the 100 premium reserved seats for sale at $10 each per show available at Boulevard Music. Tickets go on sale June 7. These summer concerts are produced by Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music.

The Culver City City Hall Courtyard is located at 9770 Culver Blvd. in Downtown Culver City (corner Culver Blvd. and Duquesne Ave.).  Parking is free for two hours with concert validation in designated structures in the Downtown area. The courtyard opens at 4:30 pm. No glass containers or alcoholic beverages may be brought into City Hall Courtyard. For more information, call 310-398-2583.

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This week we present in concert Big Daddy.
BIG DADDY IS BACK! On the heels of “Smashing Songs of Stage & Screen,” their first album in nearly 15 years, “Big Daddy, The Band of ‘59” is back. This show will be one of the band’s first live performances since the mid- 90’s! From 1983 to 1994, Big Daddy roamed the Rock & Roll landscape foraging for the hit songs of the day, plucking them from the charts, chewing them up, digesting them and then spitting them back out, never to sound the same. Though the lyrics and melodies were virtually unchanged, the songs sounded as if they had been written and recorded in the golden age of Rock & Roll…the 1950’s. Today, this type of song reworking is called a “Mash Up” and Big Daddy is now credited as The Mash Up Kings of Rockabilly, DooWop, R & B, & Pop…if it’s from the 50’s, Big Daddy is all over it. Randy Lewis said it best in his 2012 L.A. Times article on the band: “More than a gimmick, Big Daddy created new takes on Pop and Rock songs that were consistently inspired, illuminating and often hilarious.” – Randy Lewis, L.A. Times, 10-4-12. The band his released six studio albums and countless other recordings, including their 1985 top 20 UK hit, “Dancing In The Dark”…a send up of the Bruce Springsteen classic. Their 1992 “Sgt. Pepper’s” tribute album continues to receive consistent radio airplay on SiriusXM’s “Little Steven’s Underground Garage.” From London’s Wembley Arena (with Gary Glitter) to Germany and Australia, Big Daddy has preached… “50’s music is still cool.” Their US shows at The Universal Amphitheatre (with Jay Leno), New York’s The Bottom Line, The Palomino, The Groundlings Theatre and Pasadena’s own Ice House have all seen Big Daddy spread their joyful irreverence. Don’t miss it!
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Culver City’s Boulevard Music Festival is sponsored by The City of Culver City, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Culver Studios, Boulevard Music, John Riordan Plumbing, Culver City Volvo & Mazda, Palm Court, Hooman Chevrolet, D & E Associates, Swiss Motors, Combined Properties, Hillside Memorial Park, Gates Kingsley Gates, Crave Desserts, Bella Vista Pizza, Cavanaugh Realty, Public School 310, Culver Hotel, Courtyard Marriott, Michael Kayem Remax Estate Properties, Tower Insurance, Dolce Realtors, Sorrento Market, Southern California Hospital, Maxam Properties, Music Munchers, Dynagraphics, Culver City News, Culver City Observer, Steeldeck Inc, Eastman Strings, Kremona, Ohana, Ernie Ball, and more to be confirmed soon as sponsorships are still available. Your company name could be here.