LIVE AT THE POINT SAN PABLO HARBOR CLUBHOUSE!

Derek Sup

Saturday, March 26, 2022
5 pm Doors | 6 pm Show
$15 ADV | $20 DAY OF SHOW
Includes Parking

Music in the Harbor Clubhouse (indoors)

Food Available On Site By Black Star Pirate BBQ

Local Beer, Wine, and Beverages

No outside food or alcohol please

DEREK SUP

Derek Sup’s musical life could be a line in the famous country tune, “Where Have All the Average People Gone.” The high-brow classical folks may call him too folksy, the low-brow country folks might think he’s too fancy. One evening he may be playing a concert of his piano compositions, the next night he may be musically directing Shrek the Musical for middle schoolers, and then if you aren’t too dizzy from following him around town, later in the week he might be playing his country songs at the local saloon. For his day job, he plays organ and directs the choir at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Oakland. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, piano, vibraphone, organ, synthesizer, and is learning how to play the pedal steel.

Recently he’s been on a songwriting kick in the old country music style, and has been enamored with the music of Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Townes van Zandt, Loretta Lynn, and all the rest coming out of Nashville and Bakersfield in the 60’s and 70’s. His nostalgic songs aren’t afraid to incorporate a little tasteful hokiness, but will also dive deep into difficult emotions and ask big philosophical questions. He tries to stay true and honest in his songs, telling real stories from his life and the lives of his friends, and describing things he sees and feels every day. With these new songs, he wants to make the album that you pop in the CD player every time you set off on a road trip–songs for you to belt along with as you cruise by the endless valley farmland on the 5, wind through the pines on 50 to Tahoe, or on the cliffs hanging above the coastline on the 1.

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