After a long hiatus, award winning San Diego sweethearts, The Midnight Pine, are returning to the stage for a special final performance. Founded in 2011 by songwriters Shelbi Bennett and Alfred Howard, the Midnight Pine has had many evolutions but the heart will always remain Bennett's sweeping, soulful voice and Howard's poetic pen. The unique soundscape of spectral folk and haunting americana defines the The Midnight Pine's cinematic presence on stage and across four studio albums. Join them for a journey through their catalog, reenvisioned one last time for The Final Midnight, August 21st at the Music Box.

Stories are everywhere, if you look for them The Color Forty Nine hail from San Diego, California, where pretty much everything is nice. The weather and languid pace can easily lull you into a blissful complacency...or implore you to seek for more. Hence, this band mines musical stories from these surroundings, daily life, countries traveled, and the fortunate proximity of the neighboring town of Tijuana, Mexico, a whole different place altogether. Collectively, the members of the band have played throughout the world with projects such as little white teeth (Phil Beaumont), the Black Heart Procession (Matt Resovich, Jason Hooper and Scott Mercado), the Album Leaf (Matt Resovich), maquiladora (Phil Beaumont), System’s Officer (Jason Hooper) and Manuok (Scott Mercado). The band members have also been touring members of The Black Heart Procession, Eric Bachmann and Pinback.  As multi-instrumentalists, each member gets to stray from their previous roles to find new musical connections to songwriting. As a bass player for most of his life, Beaumont picked up, by happenstance, a baritone ukulele to travel with more easily, and thus was the genesis of this project.  Matt Resovich plays violin and Casiotone through the many effects pedals he builds himself. Jason Hooper, a highly sought after drummer, picks up the bass for the Color Forty Nine, and Scott Mercado, typically the front man to his own band,Manuok, sits behind the drums to fill out the rhythm section. Their musical home is the attic of a 1910 home in Sherman Heights, where each rehearsal begins with a family style meal of good food and better wine. Their first self-release in 2018, ‘The Color Forty Nine’ clearly defined thier unique quality and was rewarded with two San Diego Music Award nominations, including a coveted “Best New Artist” nod. With the shut down of 2020, the band used the time to write and record songs that developed into String Ladders, their second EP released in 2021. Of particular note, the band collaborated with Café Tacvba vocalist Rubén Albarrán who sang the Spanish verses to  What Would I Know? / Yo Que Sé?, a song dealing with border issues and larger notions of the human condition. The band also collaborated with Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Prize winning artist Hugo Crosthwaite to create a hand-drawn stop animation video for the song, released in July of 2021.  In 2023, the band released the, 3-song Ep, Eternally Grateful, produced by Scott Mercado. A blend of rich, moody songs that saw the continued development of the band’s multi-layered and thoughtful sound.  In 2025, The Color Forty Nine are now set to release a series of nine contemplative songs on a full-length LP. Titled 'A Whisper', the album is a collection of new and previously unreleased songs that capture quiet mornings and moody evenings..   Recorded and mixed both by the band in their home studios, and at Mexico City's fabled Estudio Noviembre by Grammy winning sound engineer, Dave Parra, the depth of album's songs, and the warmth of production is set to envelope and embrace the listener.  In the same spirit that brought previous collaborations with Rubén Albarrán from Cafe Tacvba, the band is working with a variety of artists and filmmakers for videos to accompany the textural songs. Following a tour in Japan in 2025, the band is currently writing new material for an upcoming release. The Color Forty Nine is: Phil Beaumont - Vocals & Baritone Ukulele Matt Resovich - Violin, Tenor Guitar & Synthesizers Jason Hooper - Bass and Vocals Scott Mercado - Drums & Glockenspiel