May 26,
2005
Tune in to KABC 790 AM tonight at 11pm (Pacific Standard Time)
to hear Venice interviewed live by Mr. KABC. If you live
outside of the Los Angeles area, you can check it out via the
internet over
here.
May 18, 2005
Mark Lennon has just made his own follow-up announcement on Venice
Talk: "We're so excited about our little upcoming tour.
Besides the promo 5 song CD we have available, I'm going
to have a new solo CD. It's not my real solo CD, 'Dance
or Cry,' but 14 or 15 songs that I've written myself (plus 2 Monroe
Jones songs and one I wrote with Chris Horvath). It's like
the Venice "Garage Demos," but it's called: 'Mark
Lennon - The Demo Sessions.' It should be available in about
a month, I hope." The CD will be sold on Mark's webpage
and on CD Baby. Watch this space for further information.
May 15, 2005
At long last, we're proud to make the following announcement:
 After many performances together in & around Los Angeles through the years, John Vester & Mark Lennon are taking their show on the road for the first time & will be touring in Holland September 8-18th. THE JOHN VESTER MARK LENNON 2 VOICES, 1 GUITAR Concert Tour will feature new, recent & older works of both American artists.
John Vester, originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, started playing in bands there in the early 70s, moving to L.A. in 1978. For the next 20 years, he worked in L.A. as a singer/songwriter/guitarist developing his craft --- finally delivering his first cd in 1998: My Heart Is In Your Hands, followed by Half A World Away in 2002 & Things I Wish I Would Have Said in 2004. John has also written & co-written a number of songs on the last 5 album releases by the American band Venice (including: 2 Meter Sessies which earned a gold record award in Holland in 2003). Mark Lennon was born & raised in Venice, California & has been lead singer for the band Venice since 1978. This multi-talented artist has co-written many of the songs on Venice's albums & is also well known for his great vocal sound as a session singer. Mark has sung with Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Phil Collins, Cher & many more.... TOUR SCHEDULE
It contains the songs: All songs written by John Vester except Matte Kudasai (King Crimson). |
May 11, 2005 - 3pm Update
Many of you may have noticed, as I did, that Ticketmaster is only
selling the $40 and $60 seats. If you're interested in sitting
"poolside," with private reception ($250) or without
($125), you can pick up those tickets from http://www.guacfund.org/. The ordering section
of the site is down right now, but it should be back in about
an hour.
May 11, 2005
Tickets for the Venice/Jackson Browne/Ozomatli show will go on
sale to the general public, via Ticketmaster, on Saturday, May
14, at 1:00pm. But you guys can get your good seats before
everyone else (and before the reserved sections sell out) by participating
in the internet presale. Anytime between noon today (Pacific
Standard Time) and 10pm Friday, click on this
link and
enter the password "HOB" (without the quotation marks).
May 9, 2005
There's happier news to report today. Venice, Jackson Browne
and Ozomatli will perform a benefit concert at the Memorial Greek
Theater at Santa
Monica High School,
on Sunday, June 5th, starting at 2:00pm. (Note, this is
not the Greek Theater in Griffith Park, this is at 601 Pico Blvd.
in Santa Monica, CA.) Venice will open the show, and will
also perform with Jackson Browne. Tickets are $40 for general
admission, $60 for reserved seats in the first ten rows of the
benches section, $125 for seating in nice lawn chairs at a section
in front of the stage ("poolside"), and $250 for that
same seating but also including a nice post-show reception with
all of the artists. Tickets go on sale at Ticketmaster this
coming Saturday (May 14), but watch this news page for a special
presale password, which will allow you, starting Wednesday (May
11), to buy your tickets before they go on sale to the public.
Reserved seating is limited and will sell out quickly, so
if these are the seats you want, I urge you to take advantage
of this presale. I'll post that information as soon as I
get it.
Being a benefit concert, your ticket purchase is a tax write off. Just so you know, according to the press release, the profits go to support "music programs in the Santa Monica Title 1 elementary schools (Edison, McKinley, Muir and Rogers) and their feeder middle schools (John Adams and Lincoln Middle Schools), as well as the For The Arts endowment. Specifically, the following music programs will be supported: 3rd grade general music, 4th and 5th grade choral music, and Dream Winds, which provides semi-private instrumental music instruction to disadvantaged students."
Spread the word!
May 2, 2005
Our heartfelt condolences go out to the Lennons with the news
of the recent passing of Isabelle Lennon, the mother of Pat and
Kipp and the Aunt of Michael and Mark. She was truly loved
and gave boundless love in return to her 12 children, 27 grandchildren,
12 great-grandchildren and many, many nieces and nephews and friends.
She will be deeply missed and forever remembered by all.
Isabelle "Mom"
"Aunt Sis" Lennon
1919-2005
We'll keep a candle burning...
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