Irie, or Not?

If you like your hip hop more on the dubby conscious side, check the A.P.O.S.T.L.E. show at the Fox Saturday. The S.F. rapper is on the road with DJ Quest and a new album, Lyrical Activism. Also on the bill, Goddess Alchemy Project, who you might have heard at EarthDance.

The dancehappy Deep Groove Society has some special guests in town this week: First, Rob Paine, founder of Philadelphia’s Solomonic Sound System is here for three shows. Rob is known for his fusion of reggae with house music and is credited as an innovator of “dub-house,” which, says Dub Cowboy, is a favorite of Humboldt electronic music fans. If you picked this paper up Wednesday (Oct. 1) you can hear Rob spin tonight at the Jambalaya’s weekly reggae night. On Saturday, Oct. 4, he’s in Eureka for the monthly Sacred Palace Arts Alive! thang. There he will be joined by L.A.-based DJ/composer Blackliquid, aka The Funky African, whose specialty is funky-house. Sunday Deep Groove’s Sundaze at the Jam features Paine and Blackliquid along with J-Sun.

Quick note to blues fans: The legendary Guitar Shorty is at the Riverwood Saturday. ’Nuff said.

Sunday marks Round 3 of the Fox’s hip hop weekend, with Bronx-based rapper Percee P there for a show with Nac 1, Los Blooms, Thoth and DJs Blue Velvet, Chico and Kinetic Kutz. Monday the Fox switches to reggae mode with lanky singjay Eek-A-Mouse in the house.

KHUM’s Monday open mike at Curley’s shifts gears Oct. 6, with Port Angeles acoustic duo Deadwood Revival returning to play their favorite Humboldt haunt. (They’re actually here all weekend. They’re at Humboldt Brews Saturday night.)

Canadian fiddler Natalie MacMaster returns to the Van Duzer stage Tuesday, Oct. 7, for an evening of Cape Breton-style music, which is kind of like Celtic but, well, Canadian.

Tuesday at the Red Fox it’s San Francisco indie jamrockers Tea Leaf Green. TLG is on a northwestern swing following a hometown gig Sunday as part of the truly awesome line-up for this weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 8, a free festival in Golden Gate Park. Among the other 70 or so acts: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Gogol Bordello, Ricky Skaggs, Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs and HSBG regular Emmylou Harris. The whole fest is paid for by zillionaire banker/philanthropist Warren Hellman, who must have sidestepped the current financial meltdown.

Can’t make it down to the City or to SoHum? Arcata has it’s own music fest Saturday, a benefit for Humboldt Free Radio we’ll call the Hardly Strictly Rock-toberfest Boogie. It’s in the parking lot behind Big Pete’s in Northtown starting at noon, with The Common Vice,followed by hard-rockin’ honky tonkers Side Iron (1:15), an S.F. blues-rock combo, Ride the Blinds (2:30), garage soul rockers The Ravens (3:45), and last but not least the psyche/folk-rock of Yer Dog (5 p.m.). It should all be all over by dark so as to avoid complaints from the neighbors.

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Comment / By Ed Voice / Oct. 2, 2008, 8:59 a.m.

Morning Bob,

I was glad to read about what is going on down at the Southern Humboldt Community Park (SHCP), but it seems you are only printing one side of the story. As a family home and property owner (since 1966) right across the river from Tooby Park and now neighbor to the SHCP, I must tell you, the complaints are well documented with County Planning & Kirk Girards office, for the past couple of years. As I am one who has made the complaints, along with others. As SHCP keeps bring in bigger & bigger Concerts, so does the Sound, traffic and people get bigger and larger.

You are correct, the A & O concert was the straw that broke SHCP back. So now neighbors in the area are fighting back, they are not going to take this kind of treatment any more, SHCP treats their neighbors, like we don’t exist, or we should be thankful for the wonderful music we can enjoy, for free.

The mind set down here is; We can do what ever we want, and say what ever we want to get what ever we want.

Ask SHCP, for any CUP paper work they have been issued by the County, for any of the events or concerts at the Park. Call Kirk Girards office, ask him if his office has allowed the last two Concerts to go ahead as planned.

Remember, there are two sides to every story…..

Thank you Bob,

Ed Voice SF EEL RIVER Garberville, Ca.

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