By Stephen K. Peeples The 13th annual Summer Meltdown Autism Awareness Art & Music Festival takes over Central Park Saturday, and we have the winners of last week’s SCV Rock Beat random drawing for free tickets, courtesy the Yes I Can students who stage the show. Congratulations to the Denise Gilly family; Nicole Schlichtholz; Don Leigh and Sophia Peebles (no ...

By Stephen K. Peeples By special arrangement with organizers of the 13th annual Summer Meltdown Autism Awareness Art & Music Festival, and in celebration of National Autism Awareness Month in April, SCV Rock Beat will give away 10 pairs of Summer Meltdown tickets to lucky local fans in a random drawing. If you and a guest want to attend the ...

By Stephen K. Peeples Last Saturday, on National Austism Awareness Day, organizers of the 13th annual Summer Meltdown Autism Awareness Art & Music Festival unveiled a new headliner and a revamped lineup for the event at Santa Clarita’s Central Park on Saturday, April 30. Unified Highway has signed on to headline, and the bill also features Z-Trip, Katchafire, Through the ...

By Stephen K. Peeples Updating news a couple weeks ago about the 13th annual Summer Meltdown Autism Awareness Art & Music Festival slated for Central Park on Saturday, April 30: Organizers have regrouped to produce a single-day event, and will announce the top headliner this weekend. That’s the latest word from Bret Lieberman, special ed instructor at Canyon High School ...

By Stephen K. Peeples Santa Clarita’s putting on the green Thursday night as Senses on Main celebrates this month’s Third Thursday with a St. Patrick’s Day-themed street party on Main Street in Old Town Newhall. Starting at 7 p.m., local Celtic rock quartet Ken O’Malley & The Twilight Lords will have dancers reelin’ in celebration of Irish heritage. It’s an ...

Santa Clarita Valley Entertainment Report: March 10, 2016 – The Snareheads — Billy Davis, Steve Sadd, Joe Fuoco, Mike Fitzgerald and Joe Bertalli – bang the drum Friday night at Valencia Wine on Town Center Drive. By Stephen K. Peeples These guys play a cool mix of classics and originals and know how to rock a party. Showtime’s at 9 ...

Santa Clarita Valley Entertainment Report: March 3, 2016: Rootsy Americana singer-songwriter Pat Nason and his Regular Crew bandmates Ed Pausic, Sue Blue Bull and Deborah Houston Cloer just premiered a new video clip for “Everything’s Gonna Be Different,” a key track from the group’s “All the Time in the World” album. By Stephen K. Peeples The Crew shot the clip ...

So you wanna be a rock ’n’ roll star? [Cue The Byrds!] This is the final week for aspiring young musicians to sign up for the GigMasterz rock school at Keyboard Galleria on Soledad Canyon Road. By Stephen K. Peeples If you aren’t playing guitar, bass, keyboards or drums in a band, here’s a great opportunity to learn from the ...

Santa Clarita Valley-based company’s website features Amazon top-sellers; ‘Pet Me Happy Radio’ show in development SANTA CLARITA, California – Pet Me Happy, a new Amazon online pet supplies store founded by Santa Clarita pet lovers, is officially open for human shoppers everywhere at http://www.PetMeHappy.com. Pet Me Happy’s new website aggregates the top-selling pet supplies on Amazon.com, manufactured by the world’s best-known brands ...

Valentine’s Day is Sunday, of course — and what better way to start the most romantic weekend of the year than with an irreverent, side-splitting marathon comedy show? By Stephen K. Peeples Friday night starting at 8, more than a dozen SoCal comedians will converge on Newhall for two hours of merry mayhem at the Spotlight Arts Center on Lyons ...