Red Beans & Rice
(831) 372-1955, redbeans.com
Gil Rubio (guitar and vocals), Jon Gorman (vocals), John Tindel (keys), Thomas McNamara (bass), Karl Stearns (drums) and Tamas Marius (sax), the engine that powers the institution that is Red Beans & Rice, have most likely lost count of the total number of awards they’ve snagged since forming in 1993. Every year the outfit’s spicy stew of rock, blues and R&B grows its fanbase throughout the Monterey Peninsula. A truly local band made up of players who keeps on doing it because they love doing it. The audience feels that energy to the core, like sunshine radiating down from the heavens.