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ANNOUNCING:
HIGH & DRY
August 18-19,
2006
The Cayuga Vault
1100
Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA
host: Jack Shite
emcee: Spud
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Songfight!
High and Dry is this year's annual gathering of the Songfight! online music
community, and this one promises to be bigger than ever. It offers multiple
days of music, introductions, recording, and debauchery culminating in 2 days
of live performances at one of Santa Cruz's leading music venues. Songfighters
will come from all over the world, bringing their unique culture and bad music
to share with others who are doing the same thing. Playing before a captivated,
friendly, and often inebriated crowd, you are playing in front of friends, even
if they are virtual ones. Songfight! Live is open to all songfighters, although
preference may be given to those songfighters who actually have submitted more
than once. |
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| REGISTER!
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PERFORMERS! We have created a form for you to provide basic
information to help the organizers out. Please visit this page and let us know what's
cookin'! |
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| DISCUSS! |
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There is a
special forum on the Song Fight! message board for discussion related to the
show. Arrange for collaborators, discuss travel, lodging, activities, etc.
Go
here. |
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| The Show |
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The music
will take place over the course of 2 days, with each show starting around 7:00
and going until about 11. Load in and set up is at 6pm each night. A schedule
will be created once people begin to confirm their intent to play. There are a
number of folks that live in the bay area who will most likely come and play,
so the schedule is likely to fill up pretty quickly. The club will provide a
sound engineer, from whom we could most likely get a board feed for recording
on somebody's laptop. The club seats about 90-100. I will be promoting this
locally as an all ages show, and the Cayuga Vault will also promote it on their
website and music listings that get picked up by the local media. |
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| The
Artists |
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A record
number of artists will be performing at Song Fight! High and Dry.
Click here for more information. |
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| The Town |
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Santa Cruz
is the stereotype California beach town. Considered the birthplace of surfing
in California, it has excellent beaches, a very nice walkable downtown area
full of shops, cafes, bars, and restaurants, and a boardwalk amusement park on
the main beach. It is also the home of the University of Caifornia Santa Cruz.
It sits on the northern terminus of Monterey Bay, where it meets the Pacific
Ocean. It is about 75 miles south of San Francisco, and about 30 miles west of
San Jose. |
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| The Weather |
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The weather
in August will most likely be warm during the day, with the potential to be
chilly at night. Northern California is notorious for it's summer fog, and
Santa Cruz is no exception. Santa Cruz usually doesn't have as much of a
daytime fog problem as say San Francisco has, but it can and often does come in
at night. Which means nights can be downright cold and blustery. Bring at least
one fleece jacket kind of thing. |
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| Getting
There |
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Closest
major airport is San Jose, about 30 miles away. San Francisco airport is about
1.5 hrs. Oakland about 1 hour. San Jose is a good airport to fly into. Besides
being the closest to Santa Cruz, it's easy to get around in and often times
cheaper. |
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| Fun Stuff |
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Visit the
Boardwalk. Make sure you
ride the Giant Dipper. One of my favorite bands wrote a song about it.
Visit
Downtown. Downtown Santa Cruz
has lots of cool shops, places to eat, 2 multiplex theatres, 2 movie houses,
record stores, bookshops, etc.
Go
Surfing.
Cowells Beach is friendly and easy for beginners, and has rentals on the beach.
Shop for used music gear. We've got 4
really good music shops with used gear.
Go fishing. Or crabbing. The
Santa Cruz municipal
wharf is open until 2am and parking is free to cheap. Plus it's fun to hang
out on the pier and check out the sea lions. |
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| Eats |
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Cheap:
Charlie Hong Kong - Soquel Ave
(2 blocks from Cayuga Vault)
Asian street food, noodle house, big helpins,
cheap prices, vegi oriented
The Asian Rose Cafe - Downtown
Santa Cruz (Pacific Ave)
vegetarian indian/el salvadoran, a la carte, lunch
only, awesome food!
Vallarta Burrito - Downtown
Santa Cruz (Pacific Ave)
good standard mexican fare
Pizza My Heart - Downtown
Santa Cruz (Pacific Ave)
i mention this mostly because phil redmon used to
work here. their pizza ain't bad.
The Saturn Cafe - Downtown
Santa Cruz (Pacific Ave)
mostly vegetarian, open late, good size portions,
good prices
The Santa Cruz Diner - Ocean
Street
an institution, open all night, good prices, good food
Not Cheap but still
good:
Shogun - Downtown Santa Cruz
(Pacific Ave)
excellent sushi, pricey but large and very fresh portions, my
favorite restaurant in santa cruz
Thai Orchid - West Santa
Cruz/Mission
nice little thai restaurant on mission in west santa cruz.
very good food |
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| Sleep |
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Lodging Options in Santa Cruz
Vicinity:
10k
Vacation Rentals: Lots of vacation houses and condos for rent
Montery
Coast.com: More vacation houses for rent |