Don’t miss this unique tribute to the one and only David Bowie.
Event Details:
📍 The Corn Pound – 6335 Montgomery Road, San Antonio, TX
📅 Saturday, February 15, 2025
🕓 4 PM – 8 PM
🎟️ All Ages | Free Admission
💃 Bowie & Glam Rock Dance Party (4-6 PM)
🎸 Live Music by Marla Vee & The Stud$ + Special Guest
🎨 Art by Marla Vee, Zan Lee DuRoy, and Lucien Edwards
🛍️ Vendors: Mala-X, Guru Graphics
🎤 Partially benefitting High Voltage Youth Music Program Inc. (501c3 Non-Profit)
🚫 BYO (No Glass Containers)
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DATE: February 7, 2025
Bowie Art, Dance Party & Rock ‘n’ Roll Show: Post-Valentine’s Edition
A Night of Bowie: Art, Music, and Celebration in San Antonio on February 15, 2025, 4-8PM
San Antonio, TX – David Bowie’s legacy continues to shine in an electrifying evening of art, music, and rock ‘n’ roll at The Corn Pound (6335 Montgomery Road, San Antonio, TX) on Saturday, February 15, 2025, from 4 PM to 8 PM. This all-ages, free event will be a post-Valentine’s Day tribute to the Thin White Duke, featuring an exclusive showcase of 30 original Bowie portraits by artist and musician Marla Vee, along with works by Zan Lee DuRoy and Lucien Edwards.
More than just an art show, this immersive Bowie experience will feature a Bowie and glam rock dance party with DJ LORE spinning from 4 PM to 6 PM, followed by a live performance from Marla Vee & The Stud$, with a special surprise guest to be announced.
In addition to the visual and sonic feast, the event will include vendors such as Mala-X and Guru Graphics, offering unique Bowie-inspired merchandise. Attendees are encouraged to BYO (no glass, please!) and revel in the shared love for one of music’s most influential figures.
A portion of the event’s proceeds will benefit High Voltage Youth Music Program Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to empowering young musicians, led by Bell Solloa (Founder/Director/CEO). The event is hosted at The Corn Pound, a rock ‘n’ roll cultural hub founded by Jeff Smith (The Hickoids), ensuring a night of unfiltered, authentic celebration.
MARLA VEE: THE WOMAN BEHIND THE ART
Best known as the co-founder and guitarist of underground punk cult legends Rancid Vat and now fronting Marla Vee & The Stud$, Marla’s artistic journey is as fiercely independent as her music. Her connection to Bowie runs deep—so deep, in fact, that her first major art project was a Bowie mosaic created in 1976 while obsessively listening to David Live.
“My plan was just to make a shrine,” says Marla. “But I realized I was way out of practice in drawing, so I figured the best way to get better was to do 30 portraits.”
That creative resurgence—fueled by Bowie’s iconic imagery—turned into this one-night-only exhibition, a love letter to the man who redefined music, fashion, and identity.
“I really like his lyrics. I love his music, his face, his body, the way he moves, his clothes, his makeup—everything about him,” she says. “I would just sit there, staring at the David Live album cover, completely in love with him. I must have listened to it twice a night, five nights a week.”
Bowie Portraits
Bowie 10
Bowie 11
Bowie 12
Bowie 14
Bowie 16
Bowie 17
Bowie 19
Bowie 20
Bowie 21
Bowie 22
Bowie 23
Bowie 25
Bowie 26 – Young Bowie
Bowie 27
Bowie 28
Bowie 29
Bowie 30
Bowie – Valentine
I wasn’t sure how to go about this. I had a friend ask me about how I happened to start a solo project, and this is basically what I told him:
February 4 2018 was the beginning of a whole new world for me – that was the day that my husband and bandmate of 40+ years went into the hospital and in four days passed away. The house was very quiet.
I began jamming on my guitar with my amp cranked up, coming up with riffs that would eventually turn into songs – two of them Rancid Vat songs. The rest did not fit in with the rowdy fun hate world of Rancid Vat. I spent about a year working on my songs, and even recorded a couple of them with me playing bass, guitar and using fake drums from my synth, with mediocre results.
Spring of 2020 we were in crazy times of lockdowns and quarantines. Rancid Vat didn’t get together for three months, and by May of 2020, things were loosening up in Texas. I decided to put out a call for a bass player and drummer on facebook. I got an immediate response from a friend who had a roommate that was a punk bass player. He seemed like a good guy and had a drummer and guitar player from a band that hadn’t played in five years. Bass and guitar player didn’t work out, but the drummer did. I then recruited a bass player who had auditioned for Rancid Vat, but lost out due to another candidate being good friends with the singer.
We were able to practice on a regular basis, getting ready for clubs to start booking live music again. January of 2021: still no signs of live music happening anytime soon. I tried finding a local recording studio, but nothing seemed to materialize, so we started recording at my home studio. It took about five months to record the eight songs on our first CD “Alligator Laugh” , to be released June 18, 2021 at our debut live show, here in San Antonio TX.
I’ve been playing guitar for almost 50 years, and have a huge spectrum of influences. Majority of my band experience has been playing noisy-in-your-face-punk. This project at times is noisy punk, but probably a little more rock n roll/garage/psych.
Fronting a band is something I hadn’t done except for a very brief stint in an all girl band that mostly did 60’s covers back in the early 80’s. In Rancid Vat and Alcoholics Unanimous, I played the supporting role, which was fine, since the singers we had and Phil aka Whiskey Rebel provided the stage presence. I was involved in the recording & mix downs of those bands and gained a lot of experience doing so.
This project is a big departure in some ways from what I’ve done in Rancid Vat, in that it’s more basic punk rock n roll.
I am proud of the fact that as a female musician, I’ve accomplished something very few of my counterparts have, and hope to inspire others to do what they didn’t think was possible!
Check out Marla Vee and The Natural Born Stud$ on Bandcamp.