US TOUR Viva Rock N’ Roll Featuring Deraps and Special Guest Johnathan Sterling

US TOUR Viva Rock N’ Roll
Featuring Deraps and Special Guest Johnathan Sterling
FREE SHOW

6-7:30 PM Johnathon Sterling
Genre: Acoustic Alternative
Johnathan Sterling has developed a style that refuses to sit neatly in one genre. His songs and covers are guided by melody first, carried by guitar, and grounded in lyrics that favor honesty and passion over perfection. His album Just Sayin’ captures that spirit. It’s personal without being confessional, thoughtful without losing its groove. Sterling writes and performs for people who feel deeply, question often, and still show up ready to live loudly.

8-10 PM DERAPS
Genre: Rock
ON ITS FIRST WEEK OUT DERAPS “VIVA ROCK N’ ROLL” WAS THE #1 BEST SELLING HARD-ROCK & METAL ALBUM IN JAPAN! RELEASED ON MAY 23 2025 WORLDWIDE, DERAPS’ SECOND ALBUM IS MAKING A BIG IMPRESSION WORLDWIDE!
Jacob went viral in his teens posting videos of him doing Eddie Van Halen solos on YouTube which led to picking up Dweezil Zappa and Steve Lukether as fans, which led to him finding a partner in a drummer/vocalist/writer, living in Australia and they formed a band. With the first release they did dates in Canada with Tom Cochran, Heart, Foreigner, and Loverboy, and toured the UK and Germany with BOC, then the official Van Halen website put his record on sale on their website and fans of BURN magazine in Japan voted them “Best New Artist of the Year”.
With the 2nd release the week it came out it was the #1 Selling Album on Amazon in Japan the week of its release and he did a feature article in BURN, and recently he did an interview with Guitar World and now endorses EVH Guitars.

According to the cliché, second albums can be tough. Not for Deraps, though, judging by the sound of Viva Rock N’ Roll. Guitar sensation Jacob Deraps returns with a fistful of tunes that it’s very tempting to describe as ‘’sizzling’, and ‘’incendiary’’- so we won’t resist. Built on Deraps’ reputation as a six-stringer in the style of Eddie Van Halen, there’s not much deviation second time around either, as that classic high-gain sound stamps itself all across these 11 tracks, although Equinox is actually a tasteful intro to Last Fall, which feels a bit like Dance the Night Away with a whisker of White Lion. Songs like The Legend of Larrikin Laddie, Blindside and Born to Die don’t rely so much on DLRera VH, otherwise fans of Eddie can plug in pretty much anywhere, as that infectious abandon and joyous swing is in the driving seat from beginning to end. ”

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