🎶 Live Music at Laurel House
Johnny Vernazza
May 23rd @ 7:00 pm! 🎶

More Info @ Johnnyv.net

Johnny “V” Vernazza was born in San Francisco and raised in Daly City. As we all know, the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960’s was a hotbed of music. Clubs were everywhere and to go out and jam at four or five clubs a night was the norm, not to mention the Fillmore, Avalon Ballroom and concerts in Golden Gate Park.

Starting out playing guitar in 1963, Johnny Vernazza also played bass for a time with a rock band that worked the Fillmore and toured as the opening act for Quicksilver Messenger Service, War, and Big Brother and the Holding Company. About 1970, he joined the gospel band” Gideon and Power”, which toured the United States, and appeared on the Sonny & Cher Summer Show on NBC TV.

As the blues scene gathered national and international momentum, Johnny “V” was playing with blues greats such as Luther Tucker and Sunnyland Slim. Around that same time, he was holding court with a blues band in San Francisco’s North Beach with former Elvin Bishop member Perry Welsh. Elvin would come in and jam towing along the likes of Paul Butterfield and other blues monsters. It wasn’t long after that Elvin asked Johnny to join the new band he was putting together; the rest is history. This association led to six albums, endless touring and the #3 song in the nation by 1974 “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”. That record turned Gold as well as a LP with “The Marshall Tucker Band” that featured Johnny and Elvin on slide guitar.

Elvin and Johnny’s dual lead and slide parts set a style that was part of the Southern Rock Sound and continues to live on today.

Electric Waste Band
July 11th, 2026 @ 7:00 pm

No need to drive to San Diego, catch EWB in a rare north county show at the
Laurel House.

  Long gone are the glory days of piling into a van and following the trail of the Grateful Dead each time they embarked upon one of their celebrated tours. Today, the iconic 60s band from San Francisco belongs to the ages, but the creative spirit of their music not only continues to thrive, but it is also resurrected every week at a historic club called Winston’s in Ocean Beach, California. The long-established Monday night house act, Electric Waste Band, has drawn an adoring crowd of devoted fans each and every week since 1992 — an astounding two decades and counting.

Formed way back in 1989, Electric Waste Band has entertained the local deadhead community for many years now, always to rave reviews as they serve up a staggering catalog of over 150 classic Grateful Dead songs. Improvisation is their focal point and each member is well-versed in creating magic on the fly. Every performance is a unique journey, one that pays reverent homage to the past while somehow always sounding new and fresh.

If you yearn for the glory days of the Grateful Dead, the Electric Waste Band is a portal in time to a bygone musical era. If you are new to the scene, the energy of their performances may sway you into becoming a lifelong fan of the genre. Most importantly, if you long to hear real musicians play real songs on real instruments, Electric Waste Band is an oasis within the vast wasteland of pre-programmed pop and repetitive rhythmic loops.

Happy Baby Band
(Steph Johnson and friends)
August 29th, 2026 @7:00pm

Steph Johnson is an award-winning recording artist, activist, and the co-founder and CEO of Voices of Our City Choir, an internationally recognized nonprofit that amplifies the voices of individuals experiencing homelessness through music. With a career spanning over two decades and five studio albums, Steph has been honored as a San Diego Music Award winner, a California Arts Champion, and a 2020 Woman of the Year. Her work has been featured on PBS, NPR, and America’s Got Talent, where the choir earned the Golden Buzzer and advanced to the semifinals. Through her leadership, Voices of Our City Choir continues to transform lives, using music as a powerful tool for connection, dignity, and change.

Steph’s new project, Happy Baby, is an electronic funk soul dream with key people from her musical journey that have inspired her evolutionary sound. What started as a 5 song demo, cowritten with Grammy Winning pianist and composer, Rachel Eckroth (St Vincent, Rufus Wainwright, Chris Botti) has expanded into a 12 song debut album from the group titled Cartwheel Galaxy, inspired from the actual Cartwheel Galaxy in our solar system. Steph hopes to travel together with you on August 29th for the debut full band concert.

Steph Johnson / voice, lyrics, guitar

Natalie Bradley / voice, lyrics

Cameron Wulf / co-producer, synth, vocals

Carter Key / keys, trombone, voice

Harley Magsino / bass, guitar

Johnny Steele / drums, percussion