Having songs in that popular film gave him wide exposure in the surfer world, and immediately tripled his fan base. It would be fitting if he played the pair of his songs that are in the 2001 surf movie “Shelter,” also featuring tunes by the Shins and White Buffalo. Singing and playing acoustic guitar, Jennings takes the stage after two sets of films on opening night. Surf music, a legitimate genre pioneered by the likes of Dick Dale, the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, formed he soundtrack of early surf films like Bruce Brown’s 1966 classic, “The Endless Summer.” In that tradition, music remains a compelling element in the 20 new generation surf films - 15 shorts and five features - that will be screened Sept. He once recorded for Jack Johnson’s label and toured for years with Johnson, who lives on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii and is as much a surfer as he is a soft rock star. “I grew up in Pittsburgh, and now I live in Minnesota - not exactly surfing hotbeds.”īut 38-year-old Jennings comes by his surfer cred honestly. “I was born in Hawaii, but I was only there for two years,” he explains. SINGER-SONGWRITER Mason Jennings headlines the opening night of the second Mill Valley Surf Film Festival at Sweetwater Music Hall, playing, as he often does, for an audience of surfers who don’t seem to care that he’s from Minnesota and has never caught a wave in his life.
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