Last weekend I had the opportunity to help the Delmarvanightlife.com folks celebrate their fourth anniversary, along with eight bands from various reaches of Maryland and beyond.
Blake Haley played for the musicians early since the crowd was a little slow to arrive. Too bad, because they played some good stuff including a couple Pirate Radio songs I like.
Skribe was a band I hadn’t heard before and of the three new to me I enjoyed them the most, although the next band was good too.
I liked Shoreline pretty well too, so both those bands are welcome to stop by our end of the state whenever they want as far as I’m concerned. They were also shrewd enough to bring some swag.
David Andrew Smith brought his band down here as well (along with some merch I didn’t get a picture of.)
This stage full of guys was Will Hill, who brought their groove down here. As you can see, the crowd was growing and they enjoyed these guys.
It didn’t slow down with Bond n’ Bentley, who kept the funk going, although they perhaps were a little more toward conventional rock. Three of the last four had fairly danceable music, but the other was the band I came to see, Code Anchor.
One thing I noticed about Code Anchor is that they’ve developed quite a friendship with Pasadena. The two bands shared three bills last weekend, a mini-tour of sorts for the Long Island-based Code Anchor. When I checked on Pasadena I noticed they had some New York dates so it appears the favor is being returned.
Speaking of Pasadena, they closed out the evening.
They even had some special guests here and there. Generally they come across as a great jam band.
So Pasadena closed things out. If my memory serves me correctly, there will be another large multi-band show on March 21 (Skip Dixxon’s Spring Luau) then the DNL 42-0 Party on April 18, which will feature many of these same bands both inside and outside Brew River. That should be fun.
