Outdoor music bashes (green grass and sunshine/live bands/free-flowing booze/massive abuse of interesting substances) have a long, proud history of beastly behavior—drunken brawls, projectile vomiting, spontaneous nudity, public sex and urination. You will not behave like that, thank you very much, at KSBR’s 20th Annual Birthday Bash and celebration of 30 years of jazz on the air at the Saddleback College station. If you do, the Mission Viejo etiquette police will chuck your sorry ass into the paddy wagon and dump you in La Habra, where you belong. A sizzling lineup of nearly 50 contemporary jazz stars includes Boney James, Sara Gazarek, East Bay Soul, Brian Bromberg, Johnny Sandoval, Craig Chaquico and some special guests who, for contractual reasons, must remain secret until they walk out onto the stage. Come help support the OC’s only commercial-free, member-supported jazz station…just leave your inner Huntington Beach self at home.
Sun., May 24, 3 p.m., 2009
