No Reason To Cry and Total Recall launch Friday before Ticket to Ride and All Good Vibes take over Saturday; Zenn Vudu brings Stonegroove Soul to Sunday’s Powerhouse of Blues
From the music of Eric Clapton and Linda Ronstadt to Beatles classics, dance-floor favorites and a Sunday afternoon steeped in blues, soul and funk, Powerhouse Pub has another wide-ranging weekend of live entertainment lined up in Historic Folsom. The music begins Friday, Sept. 18, with No Reason To Cry bringing the music of Clapton and Ronstadt to the TGIF Early Show at 6:30 p.m., followed by Total Recall at 10 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 19, starts with Sacramento-area Beatles tribute Ticket to Ride at 3 p.m., before All Good Vibes takes over the late-night stage at 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, brings a familiar name back to Powerhouse of Blues when Zenn Vudu takes the stage at 3 p.m., pairing the songwriting and experience of longtime Northern California musicians Steve Dunne and Dana Moret with a sound that reaches from blues and soul into funk, rock and pop.
Friday’s weekend opener puts the music of two unmistakable voices of the 1970s and ’80s at the center of the show — Eric Clapton and Linda Ronstadt. No Reason To Cry takes the stage at 6:30 p.m. with a tribute built around the music of both artists, focusing heavily on the era when Clapton and Ronstadt were producing some of their most recognizable recordings.
The pairing gives the tribute plenty of room to move musically. Clapton’s catalog stretches through blues rock and guitar-driven classics, while Ronstadt became one of the defining voices of the 1970s and early ’80s with a body of work that crossed rock, country and pop.
No Reason To Cry describes its approach as high energy rather than a subdued recreation, putting the emphasis on the guitar solos, vocals and emotion behind the songs. The tribute is part of Powerhouse’s TGIF Early Show, giving the weekend an early start at 6:30 p.m.
Friday continues at 10 p.m. with Total Recall taking over the late-night slot. The second show changes the pace after the early tribute and carries Friday night into Powerhouse’s later dance and party hours.
From alternative rock and pop to dance hits and radio favorites, Total Recall delivers a nostalgic trip through the music that defined a generation. For audiences who grew up during the decade, the show offers a chance to relive the soundtrack of their youth, while younger fans can experience the songs that continue to influence artists today.
Ticket to Ride, All Good Vibes takes over Saturday
Saturday’s music begins at 3 p.m. with Ticket to Ride bringing one of popular music’s most recognizable catalogs to the Saturday Afternoon Dance Party. The Sacramento-area Beatles tribute takes audiences through the evolution of the Fab Four rather than concentrating on just one period of the band’s career.
Its repertoire stretches from the early days of “Please Please Me” through the increasingly ambitious music that followed and all the way to the second side of “Abbey Road.” For Ticket to Ride, getting the sound right also means paying attention to what is on the stage.
Band members use many of the same types of instruments associated with The Beatles, including Gibson, Rickenbacker and Hofner guitars and basses, Vox equipment and a Mellotron. Tight vocal harmonies are another central part of the show, reflecting a catalog in which harmony became as important as the instruments themselves.
Kevin, one of the group’s founding members, handles guitar and is one of four singers, using a hollow-body Gibson to help recreate George Harrison’s early guitar sound. Julian also plays guitar and sings while handling many of the lead guitar parts.
Founding member Matt plays bass and is another of the group’s lead singers. His musical background began with trombone from grade school through college jazz before he eventually made the switch to bass.
Sherman serves as what the group calls its “fifth Beatle,” adding vocals, piano, acoustic guitar and Mellotron. That last instrument plays an important role when the band reaches the more elaborate studio years of The Beatles, helping reproduce some of the orchestral textures that became part of the group’s later recordings.
Robert holds down the drum chair, bringing experience from a number of ’60s and classic rock bands and moving between the harder-driving songs and quieter ballads in The Beatles catalog. Together, the group’s goal is less about simply playing a collection of Beatles hits and more about taking the audience on a musical trip through the band’s changing sound.
Ticket to Ride begins at 3 p.m., but Saturday’s music doesn’t end with Beatlemania. At 10 p.m., All Good Vibes takes over the Powerhouse stage with a broader party soundtrack designed to carry the night into the late hours.
The late show brings the emphasis back to dancing and gives Saturday two distinctly different halves. The afternoon reaches into one of rock music’s most influential catalogs before All Good Vibes shifts the focus to a contemporary late-night party atmosphere.
Zenn Vudu brings Stonegroove Soul back to Sunday
Sunday afternoon belongs to Zenn Vudu, a band with deep ties to Northern California’s blues and soul community and a sound that deliberately refuses to stay inside one genre. Zenn Vudu takes the Powerhouse of Blues stage at 3 p.m., led by producer, songwriter and musician Steve Dunne of Lydia Pense and Cold Blood alongside vocalist Dana Moret, a Sacramento Blues Society Hall of Fame member who has also worked as a supporting vocalist with Cold Blood.
The project grew from a songwriting partnership between Dunne and Moret that stretches back more than a decade. Rather than allowing those songs to remain simply a writing project, the pair built Zenn Vudu as a vehicle to bring them to the stage.
The group also draws on the songwriting of Larry Davis of the Bay Area funk band McNasty, adding another layer of soul and funk experience to the mix. The result is what the band has dubbed “Stonegroove Soul,” a fitting description for music that can move through soulful blues, funk and rock while adding contemporary pop touches rather than trying to reproduce one particular era.
The influences behind that sound cover plenty of musical territory. Zenn Vudu points to artists including Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Sly Stone as touchstones for its original material.
Those influences can be heard in the band’s emphasis on vocals, groove and songwriting, but Zenn Vudu isn’t presented as a tribute act. Dunne, Moret and their bandmates use those roots as a starting point for their own songs and arrangements.
For Moret, the project adds another chapter to a career that has kept her connected to the Sacramento and Northern California music scenes. Her work with Cold Blood ties her to a band whose horn-driven mixture of rock, soul and funk has been part of the Bay Area sound for decades, while her own work earned her induction into the Sacramento Blues Society Hall of Fame.
Dunne brings another direct Cold Blood connection as well as years of songwriting and production experience. Together, he and Moret bring different backgrounds to Zenn Vudu while sharing deep roots in the blues, soul and funk that form the foundation of the project.
That combination makes Sunday’s show a fitting closer to a weekend that spends much of its time moving between generations. Friday revisits the music of Clapton and Ronstadt, Saturday afternoon traces The Beatles from their early recordings through their later studio years, and Sunday draws from the traditions of blues, soul and funk while putting original music at the center of the performance.
Zenn Vudu performs from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday as part of Powerhouse of Blues. The afternoon performance closes a weekend that stretches across three days and several decades of music on the Powerhouse stage.
Powerhouse Pub is located at 614 Sutter St. in Historic Folsom. No Reason To Cry opens the weekend Friday at 6:30 p.m., followed by Total Recall at 10 p.m.; Ticket to Ride performs Saturday at 3 p.m., with All Good Vibes following at 10 p.m.; and Zenn Vudu closes the weekend Sunday beginning at 3 p.m.
All weekend shows are for ages 21 and over. Tickets, VIP reservations and additional event information are available at PowerhousePub.com.
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