Bounce House Ska
Founded in 2022, Bounce House began as a 4 piece band practicing in the back room of a house in Mesa but quickly out grew the space. After finding the perfect fit on vocals in Sara Rose in 2023, the band expanded to seven members. The core of drummer Estevan, guitarist Cesar, and bassist John, saw the addition of Dan on alto sax, Chewy on tenor sax, Scott on trombone, and Victor on Trumpet. Since their inception, BH has played fundraisers, the state fair, private parties, and venues from east to west in their home state. By getting people dancing with their mix of ska subgenres and other musical influences, BH began receiving invites back by venues. So remove your dancing shoes but keep those (socked) feet skanking as you enter the Bounce House.
the band
Her father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. Her mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. Her father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Her childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring she’d make meat helmets. When she was insolent she was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really.
SaraRose Lead Vocals
John Bass
John became interested in music through relatives' records and an unhealthy amount of music videos. He did not pick up a bass until his early 20s. Lessons when finances would allow, idle high school "let's start a band" talk, jam nights, and an attempted punk band being his only experience. The bug to start his own project, came after brief stints in two local ska acts ended. At which time, the bouncing began.
Estaban Drums
Sign: Leo Age: aged like milk Born and raised in LA Comes from the LA ska scene. (Operation no one knows). Music inspirations: Marvin Gaye, Masayoshi Takanaka, Gondwana, the SOS Band, the Gap Band and Jose Jose.
Loves: cheese, Lucha Libre, the sound of things deflating.
Hates: The fact cheese dont love him, traffic , sticky stuff.
Born with six strings practically welded to his hands, Cesar picked up the guitar at 15 and hasn’t put it down since (mainly because it makes eating soup nearly impossible). A multi-instrumentalist at heart, he’ll dabble on anything that makes noise, but the guitar remains his first love—mostly because it never talks back.
Having wandered through more bands than most people cycle through Netflix shows, he eventually found his musical soulmate in Bounce House Ska, where his riffs are questionable, the horn section is bouncy, and the energy is somewhere between “skanking in a circle” and “mild cardio workout.”
While his dreams of superstardom involve sold-out arenas, world tours, and possibly a line of signature socks, at the core he just wants to make great music that hits as hard as an unexpected trombone solo. Whether he’s shredding, strumming, or accidentally unplugging his amp mid-song, one thing’s certain: he’s here to make sure the party never stops—unless someone yells “encore,” in which case it absolutely does not stop.
King Caesar Guitar
Daniel (the rocket scientist) Alto Saxophone
He found his love of music in the 5th grade when he first started playing clarinet. From there, the following year he started playing alto sax in the middle school’s beginning band. He quickly advanced the following year to the school’s jazz band, playing tenor sax. He also took up the bassoon in concert band. Daniel was in band the rest of the way through middle school and high school, playing tenor sax in jazz band, bassoon in concert band, and clarinet in marching.
As an adult, he still enjoys playing music as a healthy and expressive outlet. He played in a tejano band based out of Denver, CO for several years, and also was a member of the Pueblo municipal band (Pueblo, CO) before coming to Arizona in 2019. Daniel has also been part of a few community concert band and wind ensembles in the Phoenix metro area. He currently plays tenor sax with the Phoenix Pioneer band, and has been playing alto saxophone with Bounce House Ska since 2023.
Coming from a musical family, Daniel credits his love and passion for music to his supportive family who has bolstered his musical journey for the last 20+ years, along with his wife, his #1 fan.