In Pursuit of Happiness

The following Wednesday, Feb. 13, Sonoma-based reggae band Groundation brings its 8th annual Bob Marley Tribute Tour to Humboldt Brews. Special guest for the all-Marley music tour is guitarist Will Bernard who is up for a Grammy for his album Party Hats. Incidentally, the disc features Groundation’s drum/bass team Paul Spina and Ryan Newman on several tracks.

By chance that’s also the day for the weekly Wednesday reggae night at Jambalaya featuring One Wise Sound with Aka Boom. And, in an unfortunate bit of counter programming, Wednesday is the day forHigh Voltage Reggae at Blue Lake Casino’s Wave with your hosts Jah Sun and Ishi Dube (I’m told their back-up band is killer). I don’t recall which club declared Reggae Wednesdays first. Let’s hope it won’t take a lawsuit to decide which show survives.

If you have cable TV and tune it to Access Humboldt Channel 12 this Friday at 10 p.m. you can catch Ishi on the debut of Live with Passion, a local music show hosted by Steve Watts of Passion Presents and a woman described in their p.r. as “the lovely Katie Mae.” In the future the bi-weekly show will showcase music by Jah Sun, Moo-Got-2, Subliminal Sabotage and Mobile Chiefing Unit, maybe even the Steve Watts Band. Out on the town Friday night? Catch rebroadcasts Sundays at 11 p.m. and Thursdays at midnight. Live music at home? Now there’s a conundrum.

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