One week from today, the Kula Café will celebrate its first anniversary operating out of Asbury Park’s Springwood Center. Anniversary festivities include an open house featuring top New Jersey jazzmen from 4 to 6 p.m. followed by the spring start-up of Thursday night live blues from 7 to 10 p.m, according to a news release from café […]

Thursday night, Feb. 6, marks the last time Al Holmes and the Tribe will play Kula Café’s “Deep Blue Blues Night” before the band takes its winter break, according to a release from the café owners. Since last summer, front man and guitarist Holmes has played beside bassist Gene Boccia and drummer Al Johnson [shown above] […]

The sounds of deep blues music have returned to the west side of Asbury Park, once the city’s stronghold of influential blues, soul and jazz music. Kula Café, located in the Springwood Center on Springwood Avenue and owned by Interfaith Neighbors, now hosts “Deep Blue Blues Night” on the first and third Thursdays of each month. […]