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Saturday Backyard

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About Me

Hi, my name is David A. Mathieu, and I'm a member of Community Reformed Church (CRC) in Escondido. I call it, the "little church that could." Sometime during my first visits to CRC, I noticed the quaint outdoor amphitheater. As the weeks went by, I had conversations with CRC Senior Pastor John Bales about it. With his blessing, I began talking with local musicians about an idea for a summer concert series. It turns out, they've been searching for just such an environment to perform in. A situation where local residents could bring their families, friends, or a date out for an evening of great music, art, and refreshment. It is my goal to bring not only San Diego area Christian musicians, but all the talented SD county musicians to our corner of north county and let them play amongst our lazy evening summer sunsets. Comon, what could be better! Refreshments such as various coffees and baked goods will be sold at cost. There is absolutely no obligation to buy. We'll also be looking to get San Diego area artists involved by having them display their artwork. One of my dreams is to have CRC become known as a Christian music center in San Diego county, and another would be to fill up our "litte church that could." If you enjoy the music you hear at our Saturday Backyard concert series, you will love the music we are working on for our 9:00AM SUNDAY SERVICE!

My Interests


Don't forget to become a friend of Saturday Backyard! We're a nonprofit concert series featuring weekly performances in our outdoor amphitheater here at Community Reformed Church, 777 W. Felicita Ave. in Escondido. Admission is FREE to all our Saturday evening concerts! The shows start at 7:30 and go to oh, about 9:00. We are thankfully booked with incredibly talented performers all the way through September. We exist to promote not only San Diego area Christian musicians, but ALL SD county's talented musicians. I do also hope through Saturday Backyard we can renew local interest in CRC. If there is a local musician or group you would like to see featured, please send me a message. And someone just made me realize something very important. We need more fans like, +A|then|A+, to pass along the word about Saturday Backyard!

I'd like to meet:

This one's easy! Any and all amazing individuals interested in participating in "Saturday Backyard" at CRC. We need musicians, artists, volunteers for set-up and take-down, bouncers (...just kidding), servers, donated baked goods, coffee experts, greeters, any myspace savvy individuals who can help me with our page...you know, it goes on and on! Basically any good samaritans who would take pity on me!

Music:

JUL 21 - RHEANNA DOWNEY (...I absolutely LOVE this picture of Rheanna! Actually I want to change that, this is my very favorite artist pic! With Rheanna's song playin in the background, can't you just imagine the little girl slowly makin her way up ever so close to Rheanna and then freezing in astonishment?) & GAYLE SKIDMORE AND THE ESKIMO FRIENDS (...awesome artsy pic!) pic JUL 28 - KIM DIVINE AUG 4 - BRENDA XU AUG 11 - LINDSEY YUNG with special guest DAVE'S SON AUG 18 - JOSH DAMIGO (...before he met the Pickpockets) AUG 25 - IAN GALLEGHAR & David Hasselhoff (...ummm, David was scheduled to appear but he is handling some personal matters. We've replaced David with STASIA CONGER.) SEPT 1 - FREE AIR SEPT 8 - LEN GUERZON & FRIENDS SEP 15 - MATTHEW BLAKE (...Matthew and his little sister at their first open mic, Matthew is the one feelin' the moment) SEPT 22 - JORDAN REIMER June 30 - SEPT 29 - THE LARSON SISTERS with special guest CHRIS CLARK IVAN CHEONG & CALEB JUDE GREEN performed June 30th. "LIVE IN CONCERT" photos taken by JOHN HANCOCK. You da man John!
JAMIE K. CRAWFORD performed July 7th. "LIVE IN CONCERT" photos taken by JOHN HANCOCK. You da man John! KATIE CHRISTINE on July 14th. All pictures taken by John Hancock. Great job John!

My Blog

THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG

Josh Damigo on his hit song "Pocket Change" Posted June 19, 2007 It was basically written on 2nd St & Broadway in El Cajon as I was waiting for the bus. Jay, the character in the so...
Posted by Saturday Backyard on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:42:00 PST