SoulCal Experience High Desert Music Festival brings oldies music to Adelanto Stadium

You won’t need a DeLorean time machine with a flux capacitor this weekend to go back to the ‘70s and ‘80s.

The SoulCal Experience High Desert Music Festival at Adelanto Stadium will transport visitors to a time when chart-topping sounds filled the radio airwaves, vinyl records, cassettes and 8-track tapes.

Presented by Desert Community Bank, Saturday’s old-school festival will include musical groups like Con Funk Shun, Lakeside, Tierra Legacy and the Bromatics, a cover band with a Motown Tribute sound.

Signed to Mercury Records in 1976, Con Funk Shun enjoyed nearly a decade of successful national and overseas tours, eleven chart-topping albums and numerous hit singles.

Some of Con Funk Shun’s hits include ballads like “Baby I’m Hooked (Right Into Your Love),” “Straight From The Heart” and “Loves Train.”  Also, “Chase Me,” “Fun” and “Got To Be Enough.”

Tierra Legacy, which includes original members of Tierra and their children, will perform many of their greatest hits and cover versions, including the wedding song “Together.”

Originally Performed in 1967 By The Intruders, in Late 1980, "Together" was revived by Tierra, whose rendition Reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Latino-based group Tierra is also known for performing what is known by many as the greatest breakup song of all time, “Let’s Just Kiss and Say Goodbye,” written by Manhattans member Winfred "Blue" Lovett.

The Bromatics are an old-school R&B singing group based in Southern California. Their tributes feature songs by The Temptations, the Dramatics and others.

Sapphire Marketing Inc. has partnered with the Southern California Black Chamber of Commerce to bring the SoulCal Experience to music lovers in the High Desert.

Sapphire Marketing Inc. was founded in 2010 and is a minority-owned boutique agency based in Southern California that has promoted and produced nearly 100 events over the last decade.

The Southern California Black Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the economic environment for the minority business community and fostering business development and prosperity.

Desert Community Bank has served the High Desert for more than 35 years and is part of Flagstar Bank.

For more information about the Soul Cal Experience High Desert Music Festival or to purchase tickets, visit soulcalconcerts.com or call 866-768-5225.

Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227 or RDeLaCruz@VVDailyPress.com. Follow him on Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.

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