You may have noticed I haven’t been posting as much content here lately as I used to.
That’s because the majority of my time has been spent adding to my YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/mousertainment
I’m posting regular updates there of videos of shows, performers and characters. If you haven’t had the chance, please check it out and consider subscribing.
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Moon Knight at Avengers Headquarters in Avengers Campus
Avengers Campus continues to prove to be the place in the Disneyland Resort that evolves the most on a regular basis.
I was fortunate enough (thanks to a friend) to attend not just Sweethearts Nite at Disneyland Park recently, but Villains Nite at Disney California Adventure as well.
There were villains aplenty to visit all across the park – Including:
Yzma
Prince John & the Sheriff of Nottingham
Live Action Maleficent
However, my attention was grabbed and remained most of the night visiting Loki at Avengers Campus. Continue reading
It’s summertime – which means when I’m not at the Disney Parks, I’m traveling all around Southern California to see some of my favorite bands performing concerts in the local community parks!
This weekend I had the immense pleasure of watching Yachtley Crew bring their yacht rock grooves to Simi Valley to thrill the massive crowds there.
I love a lot of bands, but I guarantee you will not experience a more FUN show than seeing Yachtley Crew live! They perform all around Southern California (& more) at clubs and concert venues and no matter where they are, they bring the best most ridiculous over the top joy to every song they perform. They just keep an ear to ear grin on my face from beginning to end of every show they do. Continue reading
While a lot of exciting things are happening right now at the Disneyland Resort (and I’ll be posting some coverage of the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and more soon), sadly, live band music is not one of them.
So those looking for a season of great live musical performances should really consider a visit to Knott’s Berry Farm this summer!
Monday through Thursday evenings in the park, you’ll find one of Mousertainment’s favorite bands playing there at the Calico Mine Stage – Hiatus!
Friday through Sunday evenings in the park, you’ll find another favorite group performing at the Calico Mine Stage – The Suffragettes!
And as an added treat, you can also find the amazing TOMASINA performing there at the Calico Park Stage as follows:
June 8, 16, 30
July 6, 13, 21
August 4
This Knott’s Summer Nights live music schedule is currently planned from 6/7/19-8/11/19, however, all dates and times are of course subject to change. Continue reading
Yachtley Crew!
I’d actually heard about these guys from a fellow local bands fan prior to them finally appearing at Disney California Adventure a few weeks ago for the 2019 Food & Wine Festival. As I trust my friend’s taste in performers, I knew I’d have to check these guys out when they appeared at the stage in front of the pier in an area now referred to as Paradise Gardens Park. Yachtley Crew has been playing on Sundays and Mondays throughout the run of the Festival and you can still catch them there this weekend and next!
The first week or two, I heard them in passing as I walked around the pier while they worked that yacht rock groove of theirs on tunes like “Rosanna” and “Africa”. But I knew I’d need to stop and catch a full set sooner rather than later and as soon as I did, I was hooked!
This awesome crew reeled me in with not only their great sound – from the lead singer to every musical member of this talented band – but their silly and fun antics as they played. I love the look of their thematic white sailor suits and their cheeky self-aware choreography.
By being the first to make fun of themselves and their heightened ironic song stylings, they keep it light enough to amuse the younger members of the crowd but respectful enough (including the dead-on vocal and musical arrangements) for those who remember singing along to all these hits on AM radio back in the day to enjoy, too!
Although I think everyone appreciates just how ridiculous it is to sing along at the top of your lungs to “Brandy” or “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”, the recent re-popularization of such tunes in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie soundtracks makes them a perfect match to enjoy in the now-sunny springtime along the pier! Continue reading
Last year, Hiatus skipped doing their popular Halloween show in favor of a Christmas show, but happily this year they are back with a more family-friendly version of the show that they are performing this weekend at the Irvine Spectrum Center. I went to the show last night, but you can catch it again tonight with different song sets starting at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30pm!
As noted, this show, performed publicly and FREE, doesn’t have the more adult content provided by hosts Frank N. Furter and Beetlejuice of the former incarnations of the production. Instead, for this performance, the singers and musicians are dressed as fairy tale characters (Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad Wolf, Jack & the Beanstalk, etc.) and host the show themselves.
Though there are still some great dancers who do a little bit of booty-shaking along the way!
But considering neither the parents nor the kids in the crowd seemed offended, I guess they kept it basically PG when the dancers were on, and more G rated for the rest of the show otherwise. Continue reading
The 80z All-Stars in Downtown Disney.
While I still plan more Walt Disney World Resort coverage for this weekend and further upcoming features, I wanted to briefly interrupt that focus to give a quick update on the status of live entertainment in Downtown Disney in Anaheim.
It’s still happening!
Yes, with the recent news of the halt of construction on the planned new hotel in the area, happily both the main stage down by the former ESPN Zone as well as other spots such as in front of the WonderGround Gallery are still teeming with nightly live musical entertainment! And hopefully that will continue for the foreseeable future!
A couple of quick highlights of bands and performers I was excited to see on the schedule for this month (though as always, the lineup is subject to change!): Continue reading
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