the hum / By Bob Doran

Don’t Want To Hear No Blues

On the roots reggae side, you have Woven Roots playing Saturday at the Red Fox Tavern to celebrate the release of a new CD (I think the disc is called Foundation). DJ Tanasa Ras opens the show. Lead vocalist Travis and guitarist Gueren started Woven Roots a little more than a year ago. As they explain on their MySpace, “We both homestead in the beautiful woodlands above the majestic South Fork Trinity River near Willow Creek. Our music is inspired by living off of the land, growing our own food, and doing the best job we can as being stewards of the land.” Filling out the five-piece are bassist Eliam and drummer Mike, both from Arcata, and keyboardist Alex from Bridgeville. “Our music is all about spreading a message of love, peace and respect for the Earth, all plants and all animals, so we may build a more harmonious future on this planet,” they conclude hopefully.

Friday night in the Ink People space in the back of the Muni: the 2009 Jump Off, an all ages hip hop party with Thic Family, DVS, B. Inc. and Maniac Krew benefiting the Marz Project and Eureka High’s student club Rappers Delight. The show was assembled by teenaged MC/producer/poet Terra Stolberg, aka $nub, aka Lil Maniac, a member of the high school hip hop club and leader of Maniac Krew. She asks the rhetorical question: “Who the fuck is that kid Lil Maniac???” The answer: “I am the one who’s gonna be taking hip hop back from crank that bullshit back to the Rebirth Of Slick — real hip hop — not this sugar-coated, watered-down mainstream bullshit. I hate what rap has become — I want hip hop back — so I’m doing something about it. Join me or be overrun!”

Also on Friday evening, in another town, and in some ways a different universe, there’s the first house concert of the year atHolly’s place in McKinleyville with violinist Kim Angelis playing a mix of classics and her own version of gypsy music accompanied by her guitarist husband Josef Gault. Angelis, who hails from Astoria, Ore., traces her roots to British gypsies and has a certain East-Euro flare in her fiddling. If you’re interested in going, give Holly a call at 834-6300. That show gets underway at 7:30, and having attended a house show at Holly’s, I can assure you the intimate crowd will be attentive and definitely not more interested in beer than music.

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