The Coals

The Santa Barbara Vintners are proud to have, The Coals as the musical entertainment for Vintners Festival 2020. They had the festival hoppin' last year and we're so happy they are back!

Buzz about the band:

"Inventive, catchy, genuine and moving."
KPCC

"Channeling Nick Cage's country cousin, the rangy frontman leads various permutations of his capacity-five crew around this city's self-conscious coffee shops, faded bars and painfully civilized outdoor gatherings with a knowing, slightly stoned half-smile and a repertoire of romantic, musically poetic material that gnarled Nashville bards would kill for. The Coals are a rare and beautiful thing to behold."
LA Weekly 

"Remember when songs were carefully scripted and punched in at two or three minutes? All the tune, all the words, all the feeling delivered in a package that nestled happily in the brain? The Coals are a band who play for the sake of the song."
Americana UK

"It's a perfect mix of quiet and thoughtful things, faster stuff that you can move your ass to."
Countrywood (Sweden)

"It's Americana at its best. Sometimes it is approaching pure Mexico, but it never gets more complicated than that."
Obladoo (Sweden)