a place for music
AND MORE!
The OJP Music Lounge invites you to gather with friends, cocktails and good stuff to nosh on, for original music, comedy & performance by great artists from around the world.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Old Grey Cats
OJP Music Lounge opens one hour before the performance for cocktails, craft beer, wine and small bites. Pre-order food with your ticket to make sure we have what you want!
March 24 at 7:00pm
$15 plus one drink minimum
The Old Grey Cats – name taken from an old fiddle tune – have played together for almost 20 years. Alan Davis (fiddle/mandolin), Roy Durnal (bass, bodhran), and Leo Kretzner (mountain dulcimer, guitar) play Irish and American old-time music with Celtic roots, from lively jigs and reels to humorous songs and sing-alongs. They’ve played at juice bars, pubs, and Irish-style wakes, but this is a rare concert appearance.
Mick Rhodes & the Hard Eight
OJP Music Lounge opens one hour before the performance for cocktails, craft beer, wine and small bites. Pre-order food with your ticket to make sure we have what you want!
March 25 at 7:00pm
$15 plus one drink minimum
Mick Rhodes and the Hard Eight hail from the arid desert region east of Los Angeles, just close enough to the city to venture in and take what they need from the town of tinsel, leave the rest behind, and return to their outlying creative hub to plot their next record or tour.
Thriving outside the mainstream for has helped MR8 develop into one of the country’s best live bands. Battling it out independently, the group has released two records, “’Til I am Dust,” and “Paradise City,” both on Hot Tramp Records. “Paradise City,” received raves for its eclectic take on Americana, country, soul, blues and rock, with the single “Married Girls” appearing on several critics’ song-of-the-year lists.
Laughs at the Lounge
On April 8th OJP will launch a new live comedy series, “Laughs at the Lounge” which will feature monthly stand up comedy shows. The first is a variety show featuring 4 diverse and talented comedians. Stay tuned for exciting announcements about shows to come.
Ed Hume “Strumming Stories”
OJP Music Lounge opens one hour before the performance for cocktails, craft beer, wine and small bites. Pre-order food with your ticket to make sure we have what you want!
May 13 at 7:30pm
$15 plus one drink minimum
Ed Hume is a singer/songwriter and stringed-instrument maker originally from Amherst County in central Virginia.
“I grew up in a rural town full of do-it-yourselfers that included my grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. They were railroad men, teachers, nurses, craftspeople, but none of them were musicians. In my early teens, my cousin John, who was six years older, gave me access to his album collection which was mostly early-70’s singer/songwriter folk rock: James Taylor, Neil Young, Jim Croce, and similar stuff. John became a pretty accomplished acoustic guitar player, and that inspired me, so that’s always been my sweet-spot – simple vocals and guitar.”
“Strumming Stories” is Ed’s first published album, and in keeping with his do-it-yourself roots, he not only wrote the songs and recorded, mixed, and mastered the album, he also built the guitar and other instruments he used on nearly every tune.
“This collection of songs was mostly composed during the Covid pandemic from 2020-2022, and has an introspective feel due to the relative isolation of that time. I wanted to use that isolation as a gift, rather than a burden, to create. Strumming Stories is the result. I see the album as a love letter to the people and places that have been the greatest influences on me. Two of the songs are dedicated to my wife Susan, who has been my biggest supporter.”
Ed lives with Susan and their aged Australian Shepherd Mia in La Verne, CA.
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