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Celebrate the local music scene with weekend bash at Audie’s Olympic Tavern

Visalia rock band Slow Season will play night one of this year’s Audiepalooza celebration Friday, Jan. 15, at Audie’s Olympic Tavern.
Visalia rock band Slow Season will play night one of this year’s Audiepalooza celebration Friday, Jan. 15, at Audie’s Olympic Tavern. Special to The Bee

Audie’s Olympic Tavern is the kind of dive bar that helps define a city’s music scene.

It’s a place local musicians love and traveling bands talk about with friends.

Much of that appreciation is thanks to owner Audie Pardon, who for the past eight years has curated his own birthday concert party. The multi-day event is a celebration of (and thank you to) the bands that frequent the club. This year the lineup runs Friday, Jan. 15, and Saturday, Jan. 16, with a lineup that includes old-school country, rockabilly, jazzed-up rock, psych and blues.

Friday night features Glen Delpit and the Subterraneans, Cattie Ness and the Revenge, Style Like Revelators, The Jules Winnfield, Slow Season, Beastmaker and more.

Saturday night is Strange Vine, Roger Perry, Mike Smith, Good Medicine, Ryan Dean and the Bricktops (ex Poor Man’s Poison) and Blue Crown (members of Let’s Go Bowling).

Joshua Tehee: 559-441-6479, @joshuatehee

Audiepalooza

  • 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, and Saturday, Jan. 16
  • At Audie’s Olympic Tavern, 1426 N. Van Ness Ave.
  • Tickets are $10 per day
  • 559 270-7634, Audie’s Olympic on Facebook

This story was originally published January 12, 2016 at 9:03 PM with the headline "Celebrate the local music scene with weekend bash at Audie’s Olympic Tavern."

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