Jason Feddy

Career

Feddy was born in the city of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and, after a couple of years drifting around Europe and the Middle East, returned to England and formed the rock 'n roll band Officer Dibble, which he fronted as a singer and guitar player. Going solo as a singer/songwriter soon thereafter, he spent the next couple of decades touring and making albums, acquiring accolades and notoriety along the way. Feddy has been featured in the prestigious London based Time Out (magazine) and on the cover of the Classic Rock Society journal. He tours in Europe regularly to this day and has written songs for film & TV.

Feddy is now also a popular radio personality on KXRN 93.5FM in Laguna Beach, California.

Beatroots Band

The Beatroots band was formed by Feddy in the spring of 2006 in response to a request from Laguna Beach's world-famous Festival of Arts (see Pageant of the Masters or Sawdust Art Festival). The Festival was looking for a band to play Beatles songs on their music stage every Sunday afternoon the following summer. They contacted Feddy, who brought the players together and formulated the show. The Beatroots are a different kind of "tribute" band. They don't dress up, they don't wear wigs. They play the songs of The Beatles in their own style, staying close to the original, but improvising when the feeling takes them. This makes for a truly energetic and alive experience for both the musicians and the audience. Not a dreary copy-cat, but a real, organic living tribute.

The Beatroots show was a tremendous success at the Festival of the Arts—it ran for six incredible years—and to this day the band continues to appear at the Festival and various other venues.

The Beatroots are: Jason Feddy (lead vocals and guitar); Geoff Perlman (vocals/guitars); John Troy (vocals/bass) and Evan Stone (drums).

133 Band

In 2014 Laguna Beach resident Clay Berryhill gathered together eight local musicians with big time musical careers, including Feddy as guitar player and singer, to create a new band modeled after the Traveling Wilburys, called the 133 Band. In addition to Feddy, the 133 Band features Beth Fitchett-Wood (guitar & vocals), Steve Wood (keyboards & vocals) Poul Pedersen (guitar & vocals), Bob Hawkins (lead guitar), Alan Deremo (bass), Nick Hernandez (ukulele, guitar & vocals), and Drew Hester (drums).

The 133 Band made its debut by opening for The Beach Boys at the Irvine Bowl and continues to appear at numerous venues in southern California. It is also producing an EP, a CD, and a documentary film about the making of the band and its members.

Hautewerk Band

Since 2011 Feddy has been the lead singer and acoustic guitarist for the band Hautewerk with John Hall (Bass), Bob Hawkins (lead guitar & vocals), Tom Ricci (keyboards, guitar & vocals), and Ray Weston (drums).

Movies And Television

Feddy has written and performed songs for the Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen TV series So Little Time, feature film Divorce Invitation (starring Paul Sorvino & Elliott Gould), and soundtrack for the documentary film "Home Again."

Shakespeare's Fool

There are songs in the plays of Shakespeare. In the spring of 2010, Feddy and his band met with local performance poet, actor and teacher John Gardiner, to develop a performance piece of Shakespeare's songs with modern, acoustic based tunes combined with speeches from Shakespeare's plays.

The result is a fast-paced, off the cuff and energetic performance called Shakespeare's Fool, featuring 10 songs and 10 speeches from the Shakespeare canon accompanied by performance art by Feddy's actress wife, Ava Burton. Feddy recorded the songs with his friends and musical collaborators David J. Carpenter (bass) and Bryan Head (drums).

Feddy also regularly performs Shadespeare's Fool live at local venues such as Rockpile Amphitheater at Heisler Park, overlooking Laguna Beach's Pacific Ocean lagoon.

Cantor

Feddy is a fluent Hebrew speaker and performs many popular and ceremonial songs. He currently serves the resident Cantor at Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach. He has also appeared at Temple Beth in San Diego, Temple West in La Jolla, Chabad of Laguna Beach, and Beth Hamidrash in the United Kingdom.

Radio Personality

Feddy began his radio career with a Sunday morning show entitled Full English Breakfast on KXRN 93.5FM in Laguna Beach. The show continues to feature Feddy and his cousin Martyn Cohen (along with other sometimes co-hosts), bantering about with humorous chat on current events and life in general, in between playing groovy tunes.

Based upon the wild popularity of Full English Breakfast, Feddy was invited to host his own daily show on 93.5FM, something he described as "moonlighting during the day as DJ." The show includes music, news, sardonic comedy, and regular interviews of an eclectic group of celebrities such as Rick Springfield (actor & Grammy Award winning musician), Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), Eddie Money (rock musician), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Teri Nunn (Berlin), Jim Kerr (Simple Minds), Lee Rocker (Stray Cats), Mike Green & Ray Weston (Iron Butterfly), Robbie Krieger (The Doors), and many others.

Following the huge success of Feddy's daily show, he has now teamed-up with popular DJ Tyler Russell to do a new live morning show for 93.5FM weekdays from 7-10:00 a.m. entitled "Daily Scramble Live" followed by an abbreviated version of his continuing daily show. "Daily Scramble Live" features an invigorating blend of music, news, games, in-studio guests, and banter. Highlights include Daily Scramble News, the Only in Laguna File, Jason Sings the Police Blotter, Grab Bag of Games, and Let's Punk Newport.

Venues/Other Artists

Over the years Feddy has played at various venues throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Middle East, including the Royal Albert Hall in London, the London Palladium, Wembley Stadium, Glastonbury Festival, Harrogate Blues Bar, Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts, Laguna Beach Sawdust Art Festival, The Tudor House Theatre in Lake Arrowhead, Jacob's Ladder Festival in Israel, and many, many more. Jason has also appeared on MTV.

Feddy as a solo artist, or with various bands, has opened for or collaborated with such noted musical artists as Al Stewart, Donovan, The Beach Boys, Neil Young, Kenny Loggins, David Gray, Ben Folds Five, Patsy Matheson, The Cranberries, Tears For Fears, Ralph Covert, Christie Moore, Paul Young, John Martyn, Jools Holland, Chris de Burgh, and Lisa Loeb, to name but a few.

Laguna Beach Playhouse

Feddy served as co-host for the sold out Laguna Concert Band featuring Lee Rocker at the Laguna Beach Playhouse.

In the summer of 2014 Feddy made his stage acting debut as a radio announcer in the Laguna Beach Playhouse presentation of "Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story."

Sponsorships/Endorsements

Feddy is sponsored by and officially endorses Rickenbacker guitars and Bose sound reinforcement systems.

Community Service

Feddy is consistently involved in community service and support of charitable organizations. He has played the Blue Water Concert to Help Save Trestles, the InPerson Social Media fundraiser for Earthroots Field School, appeared at the Home Aid OC's Annual Project Playhouse Dinner & Auction to benefit for the homeless, and been featured at the Friendship Shelter Annual Gala, among others.

Feddy has spearheaded bringing the MiC Immersion program to Orange County (a two-day event which brings together high school age Jews, Christians, and Muslims to learn how to exchange ideas with mutual respect, collaborate, and work together towards a common goal through the process of writing a song).

Personal life

Feddy attended Leeds' Morris Silman Middle School in the United Kingdom, which provided a rounded Jewish and secular education and Bar-Mitzvah training. Feddy and his family were longstanding members of one of the many local synagogues. Feddy was a member of the school and synagogue choirs and was awarded 1st prize in the school's trophy for music in his last year at the school. Active for all of his childhood years in the Kibbutz oriented youth movement (Habonim/Dror), Feddy was raised to the soundtrack of Jewish music, both ancient and modern. His mother was (and still is) an active member of various amateur choirs and liturgical singing groups. His father's side—not so musical—although he does account for Feddy's sense of humor and big personality!

In 2010 Feddy married his sweetheart, classically trained actress Ava Burton, in Israel on Kibbutz Tuval, under a chuppah overlooking the Galilean hills. They make their home in Laguna Beach with their beloved white poodle "Mrs. Pickles."

Albums

Songs

Shakespeare's Fool Songs (lyrics by Shakespeare/music by Jason Feddy)

Movie And Television Songs