Arlington Teens Make 'Safety Third' Saturday at IOTA
Band consists of Washington-Lee, Yorktown High School students.
Not many 10-year-old olds are enterprising enough to start their own band, let alone stick with it. But the five guys in Safety Third pulled it off. Now, the band — whose members are all ninth-graders at Washington-Lee and Yorktown high schools — have been playing together for four years and have their first CD under their belt. "We've all been good friends since elementary school. So we just thought it would be a fun thing to do," said bassist Gabe Westergren, 14. "We just decided to have this band. And it's gone pretty well." The Arlington-based rock band is one of three local groups — all comprised wholly of local high school students — playing the early show Saturday at IOTA Club & Cafe on Wilson Boulevard in Clarendon. Red Light …
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Michael Swisher
7:30 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Cheers to the band members for their creativity and hard work! Cheers to their families for supporting them! Cheers to IOTA for giving them a great gig! more ›