Costa Mesa, CA---Rock ‘n’ roll and the musical form that shaped it more than any other, the blues, will fill the air at the Orange County Market Place on Mother’s Day Weekend, May 9 and 10.

Jumping Jack Flash, a tribute to the Rolling Stones performs Saturday, May 9 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. followed the next day with Candye Kane, a highly touted blues and rockabilly performer based in San Diego who has performed her uniquely powerful songs from Israel to Netherlands. Kane’s shows are at noon and 2 p.m.

This is the second pair of acts performing during the new three-weekend Spring Concert Series in May at the Market Place, the weekend swap meet at the O. C. Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. Admission is free to all concerts with a canned or dried food item to benefit the Orange County Food Bank.

First up is Jumping Jack Flash, a five-person ensemble that emulates the raw power and electric theatricality that has made the Rolling Stones one of the most iconic rock bands ever assembled.

The band performs music drawn from the incredible 45-year career of the Rolling Stones, from “Not Fade Away,” to “Start Me Up.”Covering the music, and showmanship, of a band still going strong after four decades entails many challenges.

“The biggest challenge is that we’re representing four decades, and counting, of fashion, hairstyles and band members, and a song catalogue of well over 400 tunes,” said band member Young Hutchinson. “To distill all that into a two hours of performance can be a daunting task.”

To put it in perspective, groups that re-create a Beatles concert are dealing with no longer than a seven-year span.

But the members of Jumping Jack Flash love rising to the occasion

“Our approach is to do everything possible in every sense to cause the audience to suspend disbelief while we're on stage,” Hutchison said. “For instance, few musicians would be willing to lug 5-6 guitars to every show, but that's what our "Keef" has to do in order to replicate the tones and tunings of 40-plus years of records.”

The band has spent endless hours studying body movement and vocal mannerisms in order to effectively re-create the five rock legends on stage at any given time (there’s always a Mick and Keith, as well as Charlie Watts and a Bill Wyman. The fifth member is either Brian Jones or Ron Wood, depending on the era).

Hutchison said Jumping Jack Flash isn’t content with sounding or looking like the Rolling Stones but to “truly re-create a Rolling Stones’ concert from their glory, when they were the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world. “

“This is not a Holiday Inn lounge show, with all due respect to musicians who make their living that way. If you weren't lucky enough to have seen the Stones in the 60's and 70's, than you have never really seen them. Here's your second chance.”

Blues diva Candye Kane, the mother of two grown sons--including one who plays drums in her road band --will bring a special touch to her Mother’s Day concert on Sunday, May 10. While Kane’s repertoire doesn’t delve nearly as deeply into one artist as Jumping Jack Flash’s, the style of music she covers in her ferociously theatrical sets has stood the test of time as long.

Though she honed her musical chops in Hollywood-area country punk bands in the early 1980s, Kane’s forte is the blues. She covers a range of blues styles, from Chicago and Mississippi Delta to swing and jump blues, but she is mostly drawn to the sultry voices and rich personalities of some of the women who played an integral role in the music’s evolution, such as Ruth Brown, Etta James, Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton.

Since her first release in 1992, Kane has recorded seven CDs, toured around the world, and either played with, or performed with, such luminaries as John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Dwight Yoakum. She has a long list of film and television credits such as HBO’s “Queer As Folk.“ Most recently she helped organize a thirteen city tour of the Netherlands for special needs kids.

Seven times, her band has earned the top spot in the San Diego Music Award’s Best Blues band.

Her recordings amply demonstrate Kane’s vocal prowess, but her live show is the stuff of legend. Pulling from her own tumultuous childhood and young adult years, Kane sounds as if she’s lived the blues, which she has. She calls herself a “black drag queen trapped in a white woman’s body” and dresses for the occasion, wearing flashy sequined and rhinestone-studded dress augmented by brightly colored feathers.

She is also an activist and outspoken personality who has picked up the cause for groups as varied as the gay and lesbian community to kids with special-needs.

Kane is a big, brash and incredibly talented woman who likes to describe her musical evolution as something that welled up from Mississippi and settled in Las Vegas, with more than a few trips to San Francisco tossed in.

For information on either act, visit www.jjflash.biz or www.candykayne.com.

The final two concerts of the series include Springsteen, a tribute to the “boss” (Bruce Springsteen) on Saturday, May 16 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 2,000 LBS of Blues on Sunday, May 17 at noon and 2 p.m. Rumble King a locally based rhythm and blues band, has been added as the opening act for 2,000 Lbs of Blues, performing at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Regular admission to the swap meet is $2 for ages 13 years and older, but will be waived by bringing any of these most needed items for the Orange County Food Bank: canned food (fruit, meats, vegetables, easy open pop top items), dry foods, personal care items, peanut butter, snack bars or drinks (juice boxes, bottle water, coffee and tea.) Additional information on the Orange County Food Bank may be obtained at www.ocfoodbank.org. or by calling 714-897-6670.

Children 12 and under are admitted free to the swap meet. Free parking is available as well as $5 preferred parking. Admission includes access to the swap meet which runs from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and features nearly 1,000 vendors, food concessions, fresh produce, artisans and crafters, manufactured homes, kid’s playground and much more. For more information on the Orange County Market Place, visit www.ocmarketplace.com or call 949-723-6660.