🎶 Live Music: Garden Groove, A Tribute to Sublime at The Siren

Garden Groove brings the Sublime songbook to a Siren Wednesday

On Main Street in Morro Bay. Garden Groove plays a Sublime tribute at The Siren on Wednesday, September 2 at 7 PM, tickets $15 to $18 at thesirenmorrobay.com. The Long Beach trio’s reggae-rock canon remains the unofficial soundtrack of California beach towns three decades on, and a tribute set a few blocks up Main from an actual working harbor is about as on-context as the material gets.

The Sublime songbook is compact and beloved, What I Got, Santeria, Badfish, Doin’ Time, and a good tribute act treats it as singalong scripture, which is exactly what a midweek Siren crowd wants. The fog usually rolls up Main about the time doors open, which somehow suits the songs too. A midweek tribute keeps the weekend free and the ticket cheap, the right formula for a school-night singalong. Bring the whole crew of Sublime loyalists; the choruses need them.

The Siren is the Main Street room that carries most of Morro Bay’s live music, small, dark, and close to the stage, with the kitchen and full bar running through the night. Shows are 21 and over per the venue’s evening policy, and seating is first come, so arriving early gets a table.

For more tribute nights and reggae-rock around the bay, see what is on the event calendar.