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Jan & Dean Photo Concert Picture from Huntington Beach, California

 

Jan & Dean Band performed in Huntington Beach for the Surf City Festival sponsored by the HB Chamber

 

Huntington Beach, Calif.- I remember when Jan & Dean performed together in one of their final concerts before Jan Berry's health declined and he passed away.

 

In our series on remembering events that took place in Huntington Beach, we pulled out of the archives this photo of Jan & Dean performing one of the come-back together concerts and one of their last performances as a group before Jan Berry's health declined and he passed away several years later.

 

The location was the Huntington Beach Mall (it's now called Bella Terra), and the parking lot became the epicenter of community festivities as Joyce Riddell of the Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce put together a chamber event called Surf City Festival. A cute logo with a woody and surfboard, vendor booths with banks giving away key chains, wine poured by Diane Baker of the Huntington Beach Conference and Visitors Bureau, and an incredible audience of Jan & Dean fans attended the weekend event.

 

In the picture above you can see Dean Torrence (left) playing the guitar and Jan Berry standing next to him singing his heart out. Jan no longer carried a tune but the audience didn't mind. This guy was a legend and though you could see he was not in good health, having to sit down during the performance several times, he was a showman to the end. As people lined up to buy souvenir T-shirts, CDs and clocks, even, Jan Berry sat there patiently signing autographs on these items, seldom wavering.

 

Torrence held great respect for his former music partner who at one time, wrote songs that climbed to the top of the charts, winning the band status around the globe as cultural icons, along with The Beach Boys, who were friends of Jan & Dean.

 

Today, you can catch Torrence's act and songs of the group at special events and corporate contract shows. You can also see his original art  represented at The Gallery in Huntington Beach and on display at exhibits such as the Huntington Beach Surfing Museum.

 

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