Music in the Streets Sure to Please Almost Everyone’s Taste

This year’s Michelob Street Scene is the biggest yet. When San Diego’s answer to the fabled New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival returns to the Gaslamp Quarter on tonight for the sixth consecutive year, the crowd will be treated to 5 1/2 hours of non-stop music--ranging from rock, blues and jazz to reggae, Cajun and “world beat”--by 18 different acts performing on six stages.

That’s up from five hours, 14 acts and four stages at last year’s Street Scene, and just six acts and two stages in 1987.

The complete rundown as to who’s playing where and when:

On the Rock Stage at 4th Avenue and K Street: hot Los Angeles club band Bulldozer, 5:30-6:15 p.m.; San Diego’s own Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, 6:45-7:45 p.m.; hard-rock super group Bad English, led by former Babys vocalist John Waite and ex-Journey guitarist Neal Schon and keyboard player Jonathan Cain, 8:15-9:15 p.m., and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, 9:45-11 p.m.

On the Blues Stage at 5th Avenue and L Street: local acoustic bluesman Bob Eike, 5:30-6 p.m.; East Coast rhythm-and-blues favorites Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, 6:15-7:15 p.m.; Chicago West Side blues legend Otis Rush, 7:45-8:45 p.m., and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (substituting for previously announced James Cotton and his Big Band), 9:15-11 p.m.

On the Jazz Stage at 5th and J Street: Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias, 6-7:15 p.m.; pop-jazz keyboard player Dan Siegel, 7:45-9 p.m., and Grammy Award-winning jazz fusionists the Yellowjackets, 9:30-11 p.m.

On the World Beat/Reggae Stage at 3rd and J: local reggae band the Cardiff Reefers, 5:30-6:30 p.m.; David Lindley and El Rayo X, 7-8:30 p.m., and Nigerian ju-ju master King Sunny Ade and His African Beats, 9-11 p.m.

In the Cajun Beer Garden at 5th and K: zydeco accordionist Terrance Simien and the Mallet Playboys, 5:45-6:45 and 7-8 p.m., and Cajun rocker Zachary Richard, 8:30-9:30 and 9:45-10:45 p.m.

In the Rock Beer Garden at 4th and K: local “blue-eyed soul” group The Jacks, 6:15-6:45 p.m., and L.A.’s Jimmie Wood and the Immortals, 7:45-8:15 and 9:15-9:45 p.m.

Tickets to Michelob Street Scene ’89 are $12 in advance, $13 at the door. Gates will open at 5 p.m. Tickets are available at TicketMaster outlets.