Hosker’s Blast From The Past
Dan Hosker
Even as the people who knew musician Dan Hosker best mourned his death in August 2012, they were moving quickly to secure his legacy.
The inaugural concert to fund a project called the Dan Hosker Music Continuum was held that December, around the birthdate of this prolific punk and indie guitar player. Every year since, the fund has awarded $500 to a student at Hosker’s hometown high school, Bishop Fenwick, in Danvers, Mass., for furthering the recipient’s music education. Proceeds from the fourth annual concert, taking place on December 11 at Jump the Shark in Fort Lauderdale, will also buy musical instruments for girls attending Miami Girls Rock Camp whose families could not otherwise afford them.
The lineup for this year’s event also demonstrates how much Hosker, one of the scene’s most engaged and energetic participants, has meant to people whose lives he touched. Rob Elba, an organizer of the concert who played alongside Hosker in the Holy Terrors, in South Florida’s peak early-’90s punk scene, marvels at the unanimous response he received for this year’s concept: a “Blast from the Past” reunion of bands from that time and place.
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“No one said no,” said Elba. And a number of musicians who no longer call South Florida home are coming in to perform. The lineup will resonate with anyone who tracked favorite bands along a club circuit from Churchill’s in Miami to Ray’s Downtown in West Palm Beach: Black Janet, Los Diablos, Tongues of the Heartworm, Basketcase, Dore Soul/C60s, Quit, DT Martyrs, One Eyed Kings, Boxcar Timmy and Scraping Teeth.
While Elba has a punker’s innate wariness of nostalgia, he views this year’s festival as a righteous celebration — of its namesake, of the scene Hosker anchored, and of the joy these musicians found in playing together. And with enough funding already in place to disburse scholarships for a decade or more, the project is “becoming exactly what we all hoped it would be,” said Elba.
*Slackers, please note – this will be an EARLY SHOW! Doors at 6:30!!
INSIDE (Bobby Johnston/Jeff Tucci Stage)
7:30 Boxcar Timmy (Greg Johnson)
8:30 Los Diablos
9:30 C60’s/Dore’ Soul
10:30 One Eyed Kings
11:00 Basketcase
11:30 Tongues of the Heartworm
12:00 Scraping Teeth
12:30 DT Martyrs (Ian Hammond)
OUTSIDE (Dan Hosker Stage)
7:50 John Bradley/DHMC Guitar Presentation
8:00 Black Janet
9:00 I Don’t Know
10:00 Quit
*DJ Skidmark on all the in-betweens
Dan recorded and played drums on the track playing below ‘It’s Hard to Believe” by Wolfboy and the Fantods.
Doors open at 7pm for this evening of bands, art and raffles. Admission is a minimum $10 donation. DJ Skidmark spins. Jump the Shark is at 810 NE 4th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Call 954-667-4126 | RSVP ON FACEBOOK
~ Sean Piccoli
