Battle of the Surf Bands founder Ferenc Dobronyi and wife/musical partner Karen Broder Dobronyi. Southern California may be the once and forever wellspring of surf music—Dick Dale’s wild shows at Orange County’s Rendezvous Ballroom famously ignited the surf craze in 1961—but the San Francisco Bay Area can more than hold its own with local disciples of Fender guitars and amps and waves of reverb. You can see for yourself on April 19, if you journey to the Ninth KFJC Battle of