{"id":70063,"date":"2025-07-17T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70063\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:09:08","slug":"the-three-san-diego-concerts-you-certifiably-wont-want-to-miss-this-week-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/70063\/","title":{"rendered":"The three San Diego concerts you certifiably won\u2019t want to miss this week \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & The Sekondi Band, with Mitchum Yacoub<\/p>\n

It is beyond unlikely that Ghanaian highlife-music legend Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, 78, is performing in San Diego next week only two months after Ghanaian highlife-music pioneer Ebo Taylor, 89, performed here in May.\u00a0It\u2019s even more serendipitous \u2014 and significant \u2014 since Ambolley credits Taylor as a key artistic inspiration.<\/p>\n

Ambolley has more than 30 albums to his credit and has blazed a highly distinctive path with simigwa music. his propulsive fusion of highlife, jazz, funk, soul and rap.<\/p>\n

His 2022 album, \u201cHighlife Jazz,\u201d features Ambolley\u2019s ebullient original songs and his delightful, dance-happy reinventions of such jazz classics as John Coltrane\u2019s \u201cA Love Supreme,\u201d Miles Davis\u2019 \u201cAll Blues,\u201d Thelonious Monk\u2019s \u201cRound Midnight\u201d and Wayne Shorter\u2019s \u201cFootprints.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s hoping he\u2019ll include a few of them at his concert here, which will feature Ambolley and his eight-man Sekondi Band band performing his superb 1975 debut album, \u201cSimigwa Do,\u201d in its entirety.<\/p>\n

The album was banned from airplay in his homeland by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, which apparently objected to its sometimes politically-charged and sexually suggestive lyrics.\u00a0Thirty-eight years later, Ambolley received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Ghana Music Awards. Although he lived for a number of years in Los Angeles,<\/p>\n

I have no recollection of Ambolley having ever performed in San Diego before. Do you?<\/p>\n

9 p.m. Tuesday, July 22. Music Box, 1337 India Street, San Diego. $38.30-$162 (must be 21 or older to attend). musicboxsd.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"NathanBassist Nathan East, left, and his son, keyboardist Noah East, recently released their first duo album, \u201cFather Son.\u201d (Brian van der Brug \/ Los Angeles Times)
\nThe Cream of Clapton Band, featuring Nathan East & Steve Ferrone<\/p>\n

Eric Clapton won\u2019t be performing at UC San Diego this weekend, but San Diego-bred bass great Nathan East \u2014 a core member of Clapton\u2019s band since the 1980s \u2014 will be featured.<\/p>\n

So will drummer Steve Ferrone, who played alongside East in Clapton\u2019s band for six years and then anchored Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from 1994 until Petty\u2019s death in 2017.<\/p>\n

East and Ferrone\u2019s concert here will be a family affair.<\/p>\n

Cream of Clapton Band keyboardist is East\u2019s 25-year-old son, Noah. Its guitarist, Will Johns, is Clapton\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n

The group will focus on songs from two Eric Clapton albums that feature Nathan East and Ferrone, 1992\u2019s 26-million-selling \u201cUnplugged,\u201d and 1991\u2019s \u201c24 Nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert will open with a set by Noah and Nathan East, a UCSD alum, They recently released their gently absorbing first album together, \u201cFather Son.\u201d<\/p>\n

7 p.m. Friday, July 18. Epstein Family Amphitheater, UC San Diego, 9480 Innovation Lane, La Jolla. $25-$68 (free for UCSD students). artpower.ucsd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Italian rock band Giuda returns to San Diego for a concert at the Casbah next Thursday, June 24. (Photo courtesy Casbah)
\nGiuda, with Lower Class Brats and Menstrual Tramps<\/p>\n

Formed in 2007, the Rome-based band Giuda has yet to achieve the high-profile of M\u00e5neskin, the Rome-based band that formed in 2017 and went on to become the biggest Italian rock act ever in its homeland and abroad.<\/p>\n

Both bands are heavily inspired by music of a bygone era.<\/p>\n

For Giuda, it\u2019s a bit of AC\/DC but mainly the glam-rock of the 1970s, including T. Rex, Slade, The Sweet, Suzi Quatro and Iron Virgin.<\/p>\n

For M\u00e5neskin, it\u2019s The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and White Stripes, combined with the genre-bending look of glam-rock.<\/p>\n

While the three-man, one-woman M\u00e5neskin\u2019s members wear lots of makeup and enjoy crossdressing on stage, the five-man Giuda has almost no image to speak of, preferring to lets its music speak for itself.<\/p>\n

And while M\u00e5neskin\u2019s glitzy, paint-by-numbers songs appear to be devoid of humor (or, at least, intentional humor), Giuda clearly does not take itself too seriously.<\/p>\n

Witness such Giuda favorites as \u201cBonehead Waltz,\u201d \u201cFar Boy Boogie\u201d and \u201cGet That Goal,\u201d whose soccer-stadium-chant-punctuated lyrics celebrate the band purportedly having won the World Cup.<\/p>\n

When? Where? Against which team? Giuda isn\u2019t elaborating, but its hard-rocking music nearly says it all.<\/p>\n

8:30 p.m. next Thursday, July 24. The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Bvd., Middletown. $24.74 (must be 21 or older to attend). casbahmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & The Sekondi Band, with Mitchum Yacoub It is beyond unlikely that Ghanaian highlife-music legend Gyedu-Blay…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,171,1370,5424,3549,3550,7264,1072,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-70063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-music-and-concerts","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-things-to-do","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114868975557988038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}