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THE MERMEN
Halloween show

Thursday
October 31, 2024

Park Chalet
1000 Great Highway
San Francisco, CA

CANCELED

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2024

LIVE MUSIC by
THE MERMEN
Outdoors on Balboa St

The Mermen
3:00PM

Sunday
September 15, 2024

Free Admission

In front of
The Balboa Theatre

38th and Balboa St.
San Francisco, CA

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Pleasure Point Outdoors

Sunday
September 1, 2024

The Mermen
4:00PM – 6:00PM

Anthony Arya
 2:30PM – 3:30PM

The Pacific Jack Band
1:00PM – 2:00PM

Free Admission

Pleasure Point Outdoors
East Cliff Drive
Between 37th and 38th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

Miners Foundry Cultural Center Logo

Miners Foundry
Presents
The Mermen


The show Cancelled
due to a wildfire.


Saturday
September 7, 2024


Miners Foundry
Cultural Center

325 Spring St
Nevada City, CA

Golden Gate Park Bandshell
3rd Annual
Surf Music Festival

12:00pm The New Shockwaves
1:00pm Uncle Sea Monster
2:30pm The Mermen

Saturday
August 31, 2024

Free Admission

Golden Gate Bandshell
CITY of AWE

SURF GUITAR 101 FESTIVAL 2024

THE MERMEN
3 hour show
8:00PM – 11:30PM
Friday
July 26h, 2024

Golden Sails Hotel 
Long Beach, CA

The Mermen
with
Flamin’ Groovies


Saturday
July 13, 2024
Doors: 7:00PM 
Show: 8:00PM

The Chapel
 777 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA

MERMEN_Pleasure-Pt-2024. Poster art by Denise Halbe, Pleasure Point logo by Jimbo Phillips

Pleasure Point
Street Fair

The Mermen
3:00PM – 5:00PM

Saturday
June 22, 2024

Free Admission

Portola Drive
btw 41st and 38th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

HENRY KAISER QUARTERLY SHOW #6
You Can’t Get There From Here

3:40 UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
WITH SEAL PUP
Jennifer Burnes – bass guitar
Henry Kaiser – guitar and underwater videography

12:24 DORSAL
Jaya Drafts – vocal
Jennifer Burnes – bass guitar
Henry Kaiser – guitar and drums

39:53 GUITAR FEEDBACK TRIO
Jim Thomas – guitar
Bill Walker – guitar
Henry Kaiser – guitar

A Day of Adventurous Recording
of a Guitar Feedback Only Session

Featuring composer/producer of event Stephan Thelen, 
Guitarists: Jim Thomas, Henry Kaiser, and Bill Walker.
Guests are fretless guitarist Jon Durant,
music journalist Anil Prassad/innerviews.org/book,
Devin Prasad, guitar amp builder Charlie Plate,
and The Mermen bassist Jennifer Burnes

Audio mix; John Karr

Sunday Afternoon
April 28, 2024

At Jim’s Studio
Santa Cruz, CA

THE MERMEN

The Mermen perform their groundbreaking album
FOOD FOR OTHER FISH
In celebration of 
its release 30 years ago
Read about the album here

Sunday
April 7, 2024
Doors 3:00PM
Show 4:00PM

Great American
Music Hall

859 O’Farrell St
San Francisco, CA

Private Party

Saturday Afternoon
March 30, 2024

Pacifica, CA

2023

2023-MERMEN-NYE3

NEW YEARS EVE SHOW

THE MERMEN
THE JOES
PRAIRIE PRINCE

Light Show by
George Holden & Co.

Sunday

December 31, 2023
Doors 8PM
Show 9PM

Park Chalet
1000 Great Highway
San Francisco, CA

2023 The Mermen Fairfax Denice

Live Water Surf Fairfax presents
SURF NITE with THE MERMEN!


Light Show by
George Holden & Co.

Saturday, November 4, 2023
Show 9PM

Peri’s Tavern
29 Broadway
Fairfax, CA

HALLOWEENMERMEN

Halloween

The Shitones (The Mermen) 
With The Joes, Plus The Dunes

Tarzan Call Contest!
Guitar Giveaway!

Light Show by
George Holden & Co.

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Music starts 7PM

Park Chalet
1000 Great Highway
San Francisco, CA

The Mermen

Doors 3pm
Show 4pm
Sunday
Sep 24, 2023


Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA

The Mermen at
Pleasure Point Outdoors

Show 4pm
Sunday
Sep 3, 2023


East Cliff Drive
Between 37th and 38th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

VSA Memorial Day Paddle Out

VSA Memorial Day Paddle Out
Monday
May 29, 2023
9 am – Opening Ceremony
10:30-12:30 – Paddle Out -Surf
11 am – LIVE MUSIC 
THE NEW SHOCKWAVES

THE MERMEN (CANCELED)

12:00 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm Raffle winners drawn
surfboard and other prizes!

Capitola Beach
Capitola, CA

2023.3.11 THE MERMEN at St Ignatius College Prep Fathers Day Auction 2023 – Surfin’ the Sunset, San Francisco. photo by emi

PRIVATE EVENT
THE MERMEN LIVE

Saturday
March 11th, 2023
5:30 -7:30 PM


at the St. Ignatius College Prep
Fathers Day Auction 2023
“SURFIN’ THE SUNSET”
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St. Ignatius College Prep
2001 37th Ave. 
San Francisco, CA 94118

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THE MERMEN LIVE

NIGHT OF IDEAS

Saturday
March 4th, 2023

San Francisco Library Atrium


Presented by KQED, 
San Francisco Public Library,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
and Villa Albertine.

The Mermen close out the event
at 11:30 PM

nightofideas.org

THE MERMEN LIVE

THE CREPE PLACE
50th Anniversary Celebration

Sold Out Show

Saturday
February 25th, 2023

The Crepe Place
1134 Soquel Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062

2022

2022.12.19 THE MERMEN – JAMES BOND THEME at The Junction Mill Valley CA

2022.9.22 THE MERMEN – Little Stinky Kitty at Taros Essaouira Morocco

NEW YEAR’S EVE
THE MERMEN

THE JOES
with Maureen O’Keefe 

Special Guest
Drummer extraordinaire
Prairie Prince

Light Show by 
George Holden & Co.

Saturday
December 31, 2022

Park Chalet
1000 Great Hwy
San Francisco, CA

First 100 buyers of advance tickets
get a free NYE poster

was Live at
The Mermen Facebook

Private Event
Holiday Party

THE MERMEN

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Monday
December 19, 2022

The Junction
Beer Garden & Bottle Shop
PizzaHacker
226 CA-1
Mill Valley, CA

MOUNTAIN MAYHEM
with 6 BANDS

THE MERMEN
(Headliner)

Power Aged – 11:30 – 12:00
Sepsis – 12:30 – 1:00
Hemorage – 2:00 – 2:45
12Gauage Promise – 3:00 – 3:30
3UpFront – 4:00 – 4:30
Heavy Blazer – 5:00 -5:30
The Mermen – 6:00 – 8:00

11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Sunday
November 20, 2022

The Sawmill Boulder Creek
15520 Highway 9
Boulder Creek, CA

ART FOR SHARKS
BENEFIT PARTY
WITH THE MERMEN


6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Thursday
November 10, 2022

This event is canceled
and will be rescheduled

Marin Made
90 Gate 5 Rd
Sausalito, CA

The Mermen Halloween Party Poster by Denise Halbe

HALLOWEEN SHOW


THE MERMEN/THE SHITONES
9 pm – 11 pm

THE JOES
8 pm

Light show by George Holden

Saturday
October 29, 2022

Park Chalet
1000 Great Hwy
San Francisco, CA

20221029 The Mermen Shitones Joes Halloween Party Flyer. artwork by emi
20221015 THE MERMEN Gillbus 10th Anniv Luau at Phoenix Hotel SF

THE MERMEN

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Bobb Saggeth

Saturday
October 15, 2022

Phoenix Hotel
Tenderloin
601 Eddy Street
San Francisco, CA

THE MERMEN
+ ALIZA HAVA

Thursday
September 22, 2022

TAROS CAFE RESTAURANT
Place Moulay Hassan
Essaouira, Morocco

THE MERMEN

Wednesday
September 21, 2022

THE SOURCE MARRAKECH
Km 10 Route de L’ourika
Marrakesh, Morocco

THE MERMEN
3:00PM
Sunday
September 4, 2022

Same as last year at
Pleasure Point Outdoors
East Cliff Drive
between 37th and 38th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

THE MERMEN
(Headliner) 2:30 PM

Opening Bands
The Young Barons
The New Shockwaves

Saturday
September 3, 2022

Golden Gate Park Bandshell
75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
San Francisco, CA

THE SHITONES
by THE MERMEN

“Back by popular demand”

6:00PM – 8:00PM
Friday
August 26, 2022

Seascape Beach Resort
on Monterey Bay

1 Seascape Resort Dr
Aptos, CA

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THE SHITONES
by THE MERMEN at
Seascape Beach Resort


Friday, July 29,  2022
6:00 – 8:00PM

Seascape Beach Resort on Monterey Bay
One Seascape Resort Drive
Aptos, CA

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Pleasure Point
Street Fair
2022

to Benefit the Live Oak Education Foundation

The Mermen 
3:30PM -5:00PM
Stage at 41st Ave and Portola Dr

Sat, June 25, 2022
11:00AM – 6:00PM
Portola Dr between 41st and 38th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

20220501 THE MEMREN BERNARD Memorial

In Loving Memory
of a Friend


The Mermen

Prairie Prince

The Joes
Joe Mirante
Joe DiLeo

Rotton Core

May 1, 2022
4:00-8:00 PM

Park Chalet – Outdoor
San Francisco, CA

The Mermen GAMH poster

Celebrating
Jennifer and Martyn’s Birthday!

Both born on the same day March 20th
which is also the first day of spring

Lightshow by George Holden & Co
W/ Special Guests:
Marco Ferrero, Liam Gillespie and Timothy Brown
 

March 20th, 2022
Doors at 3:00PM
Show at 4:00PM

The Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA

THE MERMEN
NEW YEARS EVE

Friday, December 31, 2021
Show 9:00PM

Park Chalet
1000 Great Hwy
San Francisco, CA

2021 The SHITONES/Mermen Halloween Poster by Denice Halbe
2021 The SHITONES/Mermen Halloween, Poster by Denice Halbe

THE SHITONES/THE MERMEN
HALLOWEEN PARTY

Sat, October 30, 2021
8:00PM
Park Chalet
1000 Great Hwy
San Francisco, CA

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Guitar Radio Show
Episode 288
Jim Thomas
from The Mermen
(1:48:06)
By: Mark Daven

October 19, 2021

LISTEN at
guitarradioshow.com

2021

The SHITONES, featuring
members of THE MERMEN
doing only instrumental covers
and various SHITONES mayhem

Thursday, October 7th, 2021
6-8pm

Seascape Beach Resort
One Seascape Resort Drive
Aptos, CA

Presented by
The Center for the Arts

Sat, September 25, 2021
Doors 7:00pm,  Show 8:00pm

Main Stage Theater
The Center for the Arts 
314 W. Main Street
Grass Valley, CA

Sat, September 11, 2021
Private Event
with The Mermen
San Francisco, CA

Art by Ann Cohen

3:30-4:30 pm
Sun, September 5, 2021

Pleasure Point Outdoors
(Free Live Music)

East Cliff Drive between 37th and 38th Ave
Santa Cruz, CA

Fri, August 20, 2021

THE MERMEN at
LIGHT RAIL STUDIOS

San Francisco, CA

Fri, August 13, 2021

Private Event
with The Mermen

Pacifica, CA

Fri, August 13, 2021

Jack Casady – bass player from Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, hanging out at the Mermen’s studio in Santa Cruz today. Jennifer is playing Jack’s very special custom bass

Jack Casady, Jennifer and Stacy Parish (Stacy is a recording engineer/production who received 6 Grammy certificates for his engineering work on the Robert Plant/Allsion Krause RAISING SAND album. (the album won 5 Grammys)


Sat, August 7, 2021

SIFF (Sonoma International Film Festival)
Summerfest Saturday Music & Movie
Live Music from The Mermen
before the film The Ventures: Stars On Guitars

Cornerstone
23570 Arnold Drive
Sonoma, CA

Henry Kaiser, 1993 Giant Mantas with The Mermen (Jim Thomas, Martyn Jones, Jennifer Burnes)
Recorded on June 22, 2021 at The Mermen Studio, Santa Cruz, CA

Sat, May 22, 2021
Private Event
with The Mermen
Sonoma, CA

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Thu, May 6, 2021, 6:00 PM
KSQD The Golden Hour
53:45

(((folkYEAH!))) Presents
THE MERMEN
at The Chapel’s Outdoor Stage
Dinner & Show

Thu, November 12, 2020
Early Show
5
:30 PM, Doors at 5:00 PM 
Late Show
8:15 PM, Doors at 7:45 PM

Featuring Liquid Lights
by Mad Alchemy

The Chapel – Outdoor Stage
777 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA

The Mermen: Jim, Jen and Martyn at Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, overlooking the beach
on East Cliff Drive
between 37th and 38th Ave. 
Sun, Sept 6th
3:30 PM SHARP

CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19

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THE MERMEN
12:00 PM Sun, April 19th, 2020
Esplanade Park
Capitola, CA
Operation Surf Santa Cruz

CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19

THE MERMEN
1:00 pm, Sat, April 25, 2020
EcoFest
Linda Mar State Beach
(south parking lot)
5000 Hwy 1 , Pacifica, CA
The Pacific Beach Coalition
www.pacificbeachcoalition.org

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