Boot Juice - Concerts at Commons Beach

Get Ready! Local, regional and national performers will delight Tahoe City audiences every Sunday afternoon, 4-7pm! This FREE 12-week concert series begins June 14 through September 6. (no concert July 5).

Blankets, low-back chairs, sunscreen, a hat, food, drinks, cash for food and drink, and of course, your dancing shoes!

THIS SUNDAY we welcome BOOT JUICE!

Boot Juice is a six-piece high-energy rock ‘n’ roll / Americana act from Northern California, notorious for their barn-burning live shows that get entire crowds on their feet dancing: a reputation earned from recent performances at legendary venues like The Fillmore and Dillon Amphitheater, festival sets at Treefort, High Sierra, and Golden Road Gathering, and packed club shows all across America during their many years on the road.

Though they call the Sacramento, California area home, Boot Juice originated in 2017 deep in the mountains and rivers of Idaho and Northern California, where husband-and-wife duo Connor Herdt (vocals / acoustic guitar) and Jessica Stoll (vocals, mandolin) worked outdoor jobs like raft-guiding and ski patrol. Herdt’s close friend Evan Daly (vocals / electric guitar) would often come out to visit and the two would do what they’ve done since they were young kids: sit around and shred on guitar together for hours. Stoll, who has done all of the band’s artwork (album covers, merch designs, tour / show posters – you name it) since the band’s early days, joined the band as a vocalist and mandolin player, balancing Herdt’s heartfelt crooning and Daly’s raspy, rock ‘n’ roll bellows with her soulful, resonant pipes.

When they played music together, it would often turn into an impromptu backwoods show for fellow river/recreational workers, earning them their earliest diehard fans. This era also inspired their band name: Boot Juice is a nod to the whitewater kayaking tradition in which a kayaker who “swims” (flips their boat) has to drink a beer from their shoe, thereby appeasing the river gods – and also turning their day around after enduring a dangerous situation. It’s also a way of saying, “Put on your dancin’ shoes, Boot Juice is coming to town.”