Some Excellent Funky Beats

Meanwhile, that same Wednesday at the Alibi, another Bad Kitty psychobilly thing, this time featuring Frenzy, a kick-ass trio from Bristol, UK who’ve been at it for 25 years (although not necessarily with the same line-up). Touring with them up and down the coast: Henchmen, a like-minded trio from Whittier.

This Saturday is also Arts Alive! —something I won’t miss this month, since I’m part of it, at least on a small scale. Forgive the self-serving plug, but one of my snaps was accepted for the Humboldt Arts Council’s annual Northwest Eyephoto contest (at the Graves). Of course, as usual there’s plenty more going on for the arts walk, including music all over the place. Humboldt Bay Keeper has the Sari Baker Trio; Chico’s swingin’ puppeteers, Hibbity Skibbity, are at Ramone’s; and Spudgun is at Old Town Coffee. The Alternative Building Center, a source for “green” eco-friendly materials for building and remodeling, celebrates its first anniversary Saturday with an afternoon-into-Arts Alive! party (ABC is at 4 and A sts. down by the Co-op) with music by UKEsperience and Absynth Quintet, broadcast live (in part) on KHUM. The station will also have someone down by the Gazebo where the steel drummers of Pan Dulce will be banging their pans, so I suppose you could experience all of this vicariously over the airwaves. That said, I advise being there. And if you can’t be there, be here, now.

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