For over a decade as a house concert series on a 120 year old ranch outside of Santa Paula, Deep End Sessions hosted over 60 live music concerts. Our music genre is Roots Music from different regions of North America. We’ve featured Southern Old-time, Bluegrass, Early Country, Honkey Tonk, Cajun, Creole, Swamp Pop, Folk, Tex Mex, and Mexican music. Often the music comes with a good dose of storytelling offering a window into these rich traditions. 

Deep End Sessions is the brainchild of me, David Bunn, a visual artist from the piedmont of North Carolina, living and working in Los Angeles and Santa Paula since the early 1980s. I grew up with Round Peak old-time music and Bluegrass and musical elders like Tommy Jarrell and Doc Watson. I am a guitar noodler who loves Appalachian String Band music. While travelling home for time with family, as one does in mid-life, I began attending music camps such as Augusta in Elkins, West Virginia. I followed that trail to Blackpot in Eunice, Louisiana, fiddle contests in Colorado, Texas and on the West Coast, and on into Canada with Nimble Fingers Bluegrass camp, among others. I took a few workshops and paid close attention, and began to think about the old farmhouse in Santa Paula, c 1908, where my wife and I lived as a venue for doing something with and for the many travelling musicians in these genres I was interested in.  

In 2026, we begin a new chapter of live music in partnership with the fabulous Hotel El Roblar, featuring the old world charm of Ojai, California, and the fabled Ojai valley. Hotel El Roblar, circa 1919, reopened this past July after several years of careful and inspired renovation. Hotel El Roblar shares many of the beautiful period features of the fabled Deep End Ranch farmhouse, circa 1908, where Deep End Sessions developed. The Hotel’s early California architecture, dark wood, warm period lighting, generous though intimate spaces is the dream pad for the next decade of live music happenings. 

Deep End Sessions isn’t just a concert, it’s an experience!
                                                                                                     -- as one of our audience regulars says