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Across the Plaza at Mazzotti’s Friday, Ponche! does its AfroCuban salsa thing for dancers or just plain listeners.

The annual hippie campout known as the Trinity Tribal Stomp begins Friday, at Junction City Park way out Hwy 299. The first night is just a drum circle and acoustic jams. Saturday’s bands include Kan’Nal , Albino !, Alma Melodiosa , Woodbox Gang , Alice DiMicele and local samba troupe Ginga Mais , among others. Sunday it’s Aphrodesia , Clan Dyken , Lost Coast Marimbas and more.

A couple of the bands stop in Arcata coming or going: Alma Melodiosa plays its slightly new-agey “flamencadelic” music Friday at Muddy’s Hot Cup. Woodbox Gang is at the Jambalaya Saturday night — they must play early at the Stomp — kicking their “trashcan Americana,” a collection of twisted original songs leaning variously toward alt. bluegrass, alt. western swing and alt. gutbucket blues. Local honky-tonkers Rooster McClintock open.

Attending the alt. newspaper conference up in Portland, everywhere we turned someone was offering samples of Willamette Valley wine, and it wasn’t half bad. In fact, some of it’s damn good. See for yourself Saturday, July 28, at the Pearl when Geolink Wine offers a tasting of Oregon Pinots. SoHum/NoHum jazzers Humboldt Time provide the soundtrack with special guest vocalist Sophia Zidel .

Expect something completely different Sunday night at the Pearl as Night Wounds hits town with some nasty sounding neo-no wave noise on its “ I Can’t Feel My Face ” tour. Formerly based in L.A., the band now calls Portland home, as does N.W. saxophonist Ryan Carlise , a former local who was part of the infamous Daytime Minutes. The tour also includes Sacto punks Sexy Prison and Midnite Snake , a psyche-trash band out of Pittsburg, Penn.

Free reggae? Stop by the Arcata Plaza for Saturday’s Farmers’ Market, where Massagana gets irie. You can also catch them the following weekend at that big music festival on a certain bend along the Eel. More on that one next week. Peace.

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