Country Dick still a towering presence in San Diego<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Front man Country Dick Montana (real name: Dan McClain), who sang and played drums, died from an aneurysm while performing with the band at a 1995 concert in Whistler, Canada. He was 40.<\/p>\n Guitarist-singer Buddy Blue (real name Bernard Siegel) died at his home in La Mesa after suffering a heart attack. He was 48.<\/p>\n Both will be honored with music and words at Saturday\u2019s Hootenanny. So will Mojo Nixon, a close colleague and collaborator of the band who died last year from a cardiac event at the age of 66.<\/p>\n Mojo Nixon, rock \u2018n\u2019 roll wild man, Sirius XM radio host and former MTV mainstay, is dead at 66<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And by extension, the concert will also honor Paul Kamanski, who wrote some of the Beat Farmers\u2019 standout songs and died last year from sudden heart failure at the age of 68.<\/p>\n Award-winning San Diego singer-songwriter Paul Kamanski dies at 68<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n One of the most influential and beloved San Diego bands of the past 50 years, the Beat Farmers blend rock, county, rockabilly and various American roots-music styles with punk-rock inspired velocity and an infectious irreverence that saw the band perform Led Zeppelin\u2019s thundering \u201cImmigrant Song\u201d on kazoos.<\/p>\n The Beat Farmers, who rose from Spring Valley in 1983 to rock the world, celebrated on new\/old double-album<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The group\u2019s 1985 debut album, \u201cTales of the New West,\u201d earned rave reviews and more acclaimed albums and multiple tours of the U.S., Canada and Europe followed. Saturday\u2019s concert will feature an array of musical pals.<\/p>\n The lineup includes former Rod Stewart\/Mick Jagger guitarist Stevie Salas, former Buddy Blue Band horn section mainstays Ed Croft and Joe \u201c Sweet Lips\u201d Dyke, guitarist-singer Bill Davis of Dash Rip Rock, and former Nixon band keyboardist Pete \u2018Wetdawg\u201d Gordon.<\/p>\n The show will open a set by Joey Harris & The Mentals, whose leader and namesake replaced Blue in the Beat Farmers in 1986. Harris will also perform with the Beat Farmers, whose ace drummer, Joel Kmak, briefly preceded Montana in the band early on.<\/p>\n 8 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 23. Belly Up, 143 South Cedros Ave., Solana Beach. $32.55 (must be 21 or older to attend). bellyup.com<\/a><\/p>\n I was delighted and dazzled the first time I heard Bela Fleck & The Flecktones perform, back in 1991, at the Playboy Jazz Festival and again few months later at San Diego Street Scene.<\/p>\n Bela Fleck, a dizzyingly gifted banjo master, got vertigo making new album. \u2018It was not fun,\u2019 he acknowledges<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The four-man band\u2019s 1993 performance here at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay was similarly scintillating, as was its 2012 gig here at Anthology.<\/p>\n The quadruple-Grammy Award-winning group\u2019s singular fusion of bluegrass, jazz, classical and funk sounded like nothing else in the early 1990s. That is still the case today for banjo master Fleck, bass great Victor Wooten, harmonica and keyboard marvel Howard Levy, and percussionist Roy \u201cFuture Man\u201d Wooten, a wizard on the Drumitar (a guitar-synthesizer he converted into a touch-sensitive \u201cdrum set,\u201d complete with cymbals, all of which he nimbly plays with his fingers).<\/p>\n After disbanding in 2012, the group reunited in 2016 and has since toured on a not quite annual basis. Why no area concert promoter has been savvy enough to present Fleck and his band here even once since 2012 is a mystery. But that should make their concert this weekend even more of a genre-blurring musical treat.<\/p>\n 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. The Magnolia, Main Street, El Cajon. $71-$82. ticketmaster.com<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the most alluring double-bills of the summer, this Sunday concert finds multilingual Colombian vocal star Kali Uchis and San Diego\u2019s vintage sweet-soul champions Thee Sacred Souls pairing up for what will surely be a memorable evening.<\/p>\n Uchis, 31, is equally adept and authoritative whether performing reggaeton or boleros, cumbia or reggae, hip-hop or dance-pop, R&B or electronica.<\/p>\n\n
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The genre-leaping band Bela Fleck & The Flecktones is returning to San Diego for the first time in more than a decade for a Sunday concert at The Magnolia. (Gemhouse Media \/ Courtesy Belly Up)
\nBela Fleck & The Flecktones<\/p>\n\n
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Colombian vocal star Kali Uchis will perform this weekend at Pechanga Arena San Diego. (Drew A. Kelley)
\nKali Uchis, with Thee Sacred Souls<\/p>\n\n