art
Jesse Allen Opening
Tomorrow, 3-9 p.m. Earth Gallery, 436 maple lane, Garberville. Collection of hand pulled prints from the ‘60s to late ‘90s. www.facebook.com/earthgallery. 923-1121.
upcoming
events
Mechanical Menagerie
Tomorrow, 8:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Whimsical all-ages animal-themed benefit for Nighshade Serenade. Music by Gunsafe, fire show, animal hijinx by Blue Angel Burlesque, bellydancing and silent auction. $10. E-mail megjclarke@hotmail.com. 832-8973.
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free
44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. www.KineticGrandChampionship.com. 889-3024.
theater
The Finals
Today, Tomorrow, Saturday, 8 p.m. Carlo Theater, 131 H St., Blue Lake. Students of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre’s Class of 2011 presents seven 10-minute plays. www.dellarte.com. 668-5663.
Band of Brotherz (reggae/hip-hop)
What:
San Francisco-born drummer Jay Lane has had a multifaceted career, to say the least. After playing ska with The Uptones and funk with The Freaky Executives in the ’80s, he joined forces with Les Claypool in the original lineup of Primus, which indirectly led to meeting Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and forming Ratdog. On the side, he helped form a ’90s-era East Bay aggregation called Alphabet Soup.
“Kenny Brooks, the saxophone player, had all these jazz gigs popping up and we kind of made it into hip hop jazz and played all these lounges and little clubs and stuff,” Lane recalled, calling from his home in S.F. “Alphabet Soup was a real nice mix of those two elements: hip hop and jazz. That’s basically what we’ve been trying to carry over to this Band of Brotherz thing.”
Band of Brotherz finds Lane reconnecting with A-Soup lyricist/rapper Zachariah Mose, aka Iron Monk. “It was about five years ago when Zach came over and played me some tracks he’d made on a laptop that really caught my ear,” said Lane. “He’d really honed his songwriting skills. … I got excited and told him I wanted to do a band with that material, a new Alphabet Soup kind of thing. He suggested the [Brotherz] name. We worked on some more tunes together. Then we decided to do something with some Grateful Dead samples, doing them hip hop-style. We incorporated that into the first project.” The result: an iTunes album, DeadBeatz and Murderous Medlys, and a bit of touring.
Fast-forward to today. Ratdog is on hiatus while Weir plays with the Dead spin-off Further, and Lane is about to go back on the road with Claypool in a resurrected Primus. But first, he’s hitting the road with Band of Brotherz 2.0, a crew including Zach and friends and a live band. They start their Ganjapalooza 2.0 tour with a tie-dye hip hop show this Thursday at Red Fox.
www.passionpresents.com
When/where:
| Dates | |
| Time | 9 p.m. |
| Phone | 707-269-0282 |
| Venue | Red Fox Tavern |
| Cost | $12.00 |
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Mechanical Menagerie (Tomorrow)
events / 8:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Whimsical all-ages animal-themed benefit for Nighshade Serenade. Music by Gunsafe, fire show, animal hijinx by Blue Angel Burlesque, bellydancing and silent auction. $10. E-mail megjclarke@hotmail.com. 832-8973.
