Surfguitar101.com is very pleased to announce The Sixth Annual Surf Guitar 101 Convention! This year the festival features the best surf bands from the United States, Italy, Australia, and Japan!

The SurfGuitar101 Convention 2013
Saturday, August 10th
The Starting Gate
5052 Katella Ave.
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
Phone: (562) 598-8957
Doors open at 8am, the festivities run from 9am to 8pm.
Cost: $30 at the door

Dionysus Records will have a vending booth!

For questions & discussion, see the SurfGuitar101.com forum thread.
Facebook event page.

Featuring:

• SG101 member jam!
• Surf guitar legend Paul “Mr. Moto” Johnson & Friends!
• A tribute to the Astronauts!
• A tribute to the Penetrators!
• Outerwave (Orange County, CA)!
• Glasgow Tiki Shakers (LA)!
• 3 Balls of Fire (Texas)!
• The Mystery Men? (Georgia)!
• Aqualads (North Carolina)!
• The Pyronauts (California)
• Surfer Joe (Italy)!
• Martin Cilia & Band (Australia)!
• El Caminos (Japan)!

As usual we’ll have vendors selling surf music, clothing, and more!

The promotors of the yearly Surf Guitar 101 Festival have decided to give SOCA surf fans a winter treat with their very first So-Cal Winter Surf Fest featuring live music, vendors and raffles – all happpening Sunday January 21 2012 at The Starting Gate, 5052 Katella Avenue, in Los Alamitos, California, 11 am to 7 pm. $20.00 cover for a full day of music! The band line-up includes High Tide, The Eliminators, Slacktone, Secret Samurai, The Tequila Worms, The Breakaways

The show happens the day after Deke Dickerson’s Guitar Geek Fest in Anaheim (in conjunction with the Namm weekend) as well as the same weekend of the Vintage Guitar and Amp Swap Meet at OC fairgrounds making it a full-on reverb-drenched six (or twelve) string weekend here in Southern California!