Sousa concert, album to come
by Garrick Rawlings Following the memorial paddle out for Kevin Sousa Saturday, an afternoon concert in his memory was held on Pier Plaza featuring musicians from the Kevin Sousa Band (KSB), along with some very special guests. Acoustic duo Mike Longacre and Jeff Baker, aka Mike & Jeff, kicked off the show with a set of spirited originals and covers, something they do every Sunday at Longacre’s Mike’s Guitar Parlor shop on Pier Ave. Sousa often joined the Sunday jams, and Mike & Jeff often opened shows for Sousa’s band. In preparation for the band performance, Kevin’s wife, Patti Fellers Sousa, and KSB’s musical director and keyboardist, Steve Aguilar made up setlists for the show and subsequently held a band rehearsal on Saturday night at the Sousa’s Hermosa Music Company studio. Zeal Levin described how the show came together. Levin is a singer-songwriter and guitarist with Triple Bueno, and also the Kevin Sousa Band guitarist, and manager of the Hermosa Music Company studio, Surfers Walk of Fame inductee and Spyder Surfboard founder Dennis Jarvis helped get this event off the ground. Zeal Levin performing with the Kevin Sousa Band during the Kevin Sousa Memorial Concert on Pier…
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