Bali Hai – Bar of the Year Tiki Party featuring Creepxotica

Ladies and gentlemen please join Bali Hai on Tuesday, April 21st as they invite Creepxotica down to celebrate this month’s Bar Of The Year Competition! This evening will kick off in the lounge as they offer guests extended happy hour food specials, $5 Mai Tai’s and live music by Desi Realtor until 8pm.

Highlights of the Night
– 7:30pm doors will open to our Hawaiian Village Outdoor Pavilion
– 8:00pm Creepxotica hits the stage
– $5 Mai Tai’s all night
– Bali Hai Tiki T-Shirt Launch (25% t-shirt proceeds go to Wounded Warrior Homes)
– $12 Tickets (100% ticket proceeds go to Wounded Warrior Homes)
– DJ in between Creepxotica sets

Limited number of tickets will be sold for this all ages event. Click here to purchase – Password is creep

Thank you for your support and enjoy the show!

Bali Hai on Shelter Island in San Diego celebrated their 60th Anniversary on October 30 with a marvelous party featuring for each attendee endless amounts of food, a brand new tiki mug, a drink, Polynesian dancers, a dedication from the mayor and a great set from Creepxotica!
(photos by Lee Joseph – if you want to use any please credit me and the label)

Sir Gravy

running the merch booth!

Southern California Halloween 2014 is extra creepy  with live shows in San Diego and Palm Springs with Creepxotica, The Creepy Creeps and Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides!

Thursday October 30:
Bali Hai 60th Anniversary with Creepxotica (San Diego)
Friday October 31:
The Creepy Creeps at the Casbah (San Diego)
Friday, October 31:
Our pals The Dynotones at Tonga Hut Palm Springs
Saturday, November 1
Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides at Tonga Hut Palm Springs

A very limited amount of these posters will be available at the Bali Hai 60th Anniversary party, October 30, 2014 at Bali Hai, Shelter Island, featuring Creepxotica. Tickets for the event are going FAST! Get your tickets here:

For 60 years, the Bali Hai has help set the culinary bar for San Diego restaurants! To celebrate our 60 years of success, we are throwing a party with live entertainment, including performances by Creepxotica, Desi Realtor, Pride of Polynesian, and live painting by Norm Daniels. Join the festivities and rub elbows with long time customers, our favorite Tiki fanatics, friends and family and community dignitaries while you dine on succulent roasted pig, fried rice, poke, and your beverage of choice!

Tickets to Bali Hai’s 60th Anniversary Celebration are $40 per person, which includes one Limited Release Anniversary Tiki Mug, one drink ticket (including our World Famous Mai Tais), and a ton of fun.

What: Bali Hai’s 60th Anniversary Celebration
Where:Bali Hai Restaurant
2230 Shelter Island Drive
San Diego, CA 92106
When: Thursday, October 30, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Share your Bali Hai Memories! Send your photos and stories to 60th@balihairestaurant.com to be included in their Anniversary slide show!

We’ve just received word that Creepxotica will be headlining the iconic San Diego / Shelter Island’s Bali Hai 60th Anniversary Party! Stay Tuned for more info!

Come out and get creepy with Creepxotica at the San Diego Bali Hai Monthly Monday Meetup group. They are throwing a party to celebrate our first year of meetups. You know you’ve been wanting to come down and meet with them, now here is the one meetup you don’t want to miss. They will be taking over the South Pacific room downstairs for this special event. There will have full bar and food service available for us this evening.

Doors open at 6:00pm and show starts at 7:30pm, first come first serve. A small donation for the band is all they ask.

Bali Hai Restaurant 2230 Shelter Island Dr, San Diego, CA 92106

This is an RSVP event, so post your RSVP on the Monthly Meetup’s Facebook invite page

This year, Tiki Oasis explores the Hawaiian influence on American music. Part Americana, part Hawaiiana, Hulabilly is an American music style derived from the blending of Rockabilly and Haole Hawaiian music. The live musical entertainment at this year’s four-day Polynesian Pop festival/celebration features numerous roots and rockabilly performers, a couple of Elvis (the King of Hulabilly) salutes as well as the essential exotica / surf / instrumental sounds Tiki Oasis is known for.  DJs will be covering the gamut of these musical styles as well and this year, LuxuriaMusic.com will be featuring their DJs in the indoor marketplace.

Two current and one future Dionysus artists will be playing the event this year. Big Sandy, whose still in-print first album, “Fly Rite With” was released by the label in 1989, will be headlining the event at a special Sunday Hoedown with the legendary El Vez. Surf / Exotica creeps, Creepxotica who have released their “Haunted Bossa Nova” LP on Dionysus this year, will be playing at the Bali Hai Meet and Mingle on Thursday Aug. 15, along with The Fishermen, featuring Brian Lease, former vibe player of  ’90s Dionysus lounge sensations, Frenchy, and Tiki Oasis favorite, Kim Tsoy who will be backed up by a band including Dionysus’ Records Lee Joseph on bass. Jason Lee  and the RIP Tides, whose debut LP will be released on Dionysus, will be playing poolside on Friday. Jason Lee will be teaching a “Twang Guitar” seminar on Saturday at 1:00 PM. Dionysus Records’ Lee Joseph will be doing a DJ set of all rockabilly, poolside, on Saturday at 2:15 PM. There will be a Dionysus Records vending booth in the Outdoor Marketplace on both Saturday and Sunday.

For detailed information check the Tiki Oasis website. Here is the schedule of bands on the main stage:

THURSDAY (Bali Hai)
Emcee: King Kukulele
Lanai Stage 7pm
King Kukulele
Lanai Bar 6pm – Midnight Eric Musick
Lanai Bar 7:30 and 9:30 sets
Fisherman & Kitty Chow
Lanai Stage 8pm Kim Tsoy
Lanai Stage 9pm
Interlude Featuring Coco Tiki, Mimi Le Meux & Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid
Lanai Stage 9:30pm Creepxotica

FRIDAY (Crowne Plaza)
King Kukulele/Co-Emcee: El Vez
5:15 – Hukilau Hot Shots
5:45 – Polynesian Paradise Dancers
6:15 –  B Stars
6:45 – Molotov & Dixie D’Lish
7pm – Miss Tiki Oasis Contest hosted by El Vez and Nikki Napalm
7:30  Lucky Stars
8:15 Vic Trevino Jr
9pm  18 Wheelers

Saturday (Crowne Plaza)
Emcee: King Kukulele/Co-Emcee: Big Sandy
5:30 -The Cheap Leis
6pm –  Hulabilly Costume Contest  – Prizes for Kids & Couples!
6:30 -Acapulco Radio 7pm – Round Two Hulabilly Costume Contest – Prizes for Best Male, Best Female
7:20 – Molotov & Dixie D’Lish
7:40 –  Dancers Ke Polani Ohana E Kai
8:15 The Hula Girls
9pm Southern Culture on the Skids

SUNDAY (Crowne Plaza)
Emcee: Otto von Stroheim
5:30 –  Doors open, come dance with the Hang Ten Hoppers!
5:30PM – 10:00PM Okie Oran Disc Jockeying
6:30PM –  El Vez Special Solo Performance Featuring a tribute to “The King”
7:30PM  Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
8:30PM  Intermission interlude with Hang Ten Hoppers
8:45PM  Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

Images: Creepxotica, Jason Lee, Kim Tsoy

Another Tiki Oasis has come and gone.

Having been to all 11 Tiki Oasis weekenders, I can without a doubt say that this year’s event was in many ways better than the previous 10, and that my friends is not an easy accomplishment. For instance, Tiki Oasis’ musical line-ups have always been magical but this one was that much more over-the-top. Some of the musical highlights from Tiki Oasis 11 include the legendary “Mr. Bongo,” Jack Costanzo‘s superb Latin Jazz ensemble who just freakin’ NAILED it, tight and tough instrumental insanity from Los Straightjackets who were joined by our pal Big Sandy for a round of rock ‘n’ roll songs en Espanol, an excellent set of Herb Albert tunes from the tribute group Herb, exotic and percussive Latin Jazz sounds from Orchestra Superstring featuring some truly amaazing play between the percussionists as well as DJ Bonebrake’s brilliant performance on the vibes, and the spooky exotic meets surf sounds of our own Creepxotica who played poolside, at the art show and wandered around the event dressed as Dia De Los Muertos mariachis with portable pig-nose amplifiers strapped to their outfits. To cap it all off, for the first time, Tiki Oasis extended through Sunday Night with a most entertaining show including two perfectly paced sets from exotica legends Don Tiki who filled the stage with exceptional musicians on their very first performance in California.  As stated, these were highlights for me – the rest of the music? Two thumbs up!

I’d have to write over a thousand words to truly cover the event from start to finish, so instead of going into detail about how great the symposiums, art,  debaucherous room crawls,  LuxuriaMusic.com and poolside DJs, the fabulous King Kukulele and Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid, marketplace, Otto’s muschache and Baby Doe’s circle skirt were, I’ll just load up this post with Tiki Oasis videos from our friends at Lost in Paradise and other various sources on YouTube so you can see for yourself the color and fun that this event represents and gives to its attendees. Don’t miss Tiki Oasis 12… Stay tuned for the scoop!

I shot a video of Creepxotica playing outside the elevators as the room crawl action was going full steam with my iPod Touch – will post as soon as I upload and edit as I’m still catching up on work here. As more Tiki Oasis 11 videos pop up on YouTube I’ll put those up as well.

Lee
(Photo: Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid –  by Scott Evanskey)

Tiki Oasis Flicker Photo Group

Tiki Oasis Facebook Group

Lost in Paradise videos

Jack Costanzo

Tiki Oasis 11 Car Show with Crazy Al Evans, Perk, SHAG, and the Hula Girls

Burlesque