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Local legend Garth Culti-Vader‘s B-Day Bash Saturday at the Red Fox is billed as a “Humboldt Hip Hop Showcase.’ B Swiz is putting it together — expect the usual suspects.

This week’s Sunday Open Jazz Jam at the Morris Graves Museum features trombonist Jimmy Durchslag joined by guitarist Jim Wilde with Michael Curran on drums and Geoff Daugherty on bass.

I spent Mother’s Day morning at the Emma Center benefit at the Bayside Grange and caught a couple of sets of groovin’ blues and jazz tunes by Karrie Wallace and Maria Bartlett, aka The Fabulous Bluejayz. (My mom liked them too.) The Jayz tell me they’ll be “jump-starting the new season for the Trinidad Artisan’s Market” (next to Murphy’s Market) this Sunday, May 17, starting at noon. The beach is close by — you could listen awhile, then watch some waves and maybe think about the Western Movement.

Songwriter extraordinaire Joanne Rand also sang a few at the Emma benefit. Like many others, she’s graduating from HSU this weekend. After years of writing and singing folk-type songs, she went back to college and earned a degree focusing on music composition. We had a long talk about it, but I’m out of room and past deadline, so it’ll have to wait for another day. You can hear some of what she learned at her Senior Composition Recital Friday at HSU’s Fulkerson Recital Hall with Joanne on piano and various friends playing guitar, cello, violin, viola and trombone. Expect resplendence. (And it’s free of charge.)

Are you graduating? Congratulations! (And good luck.)

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FIVE Comments

Comment / By eyeprod / May 14, 2009, 10 a.m.

hey you got my last name wrong, but thanks for putting us in there! ROBERT TRIPP

Comment / By Bob Doran / May 14, 2009, 10:24 a.m.

Sorry, my bad, I’ll fix it online…

Incidentally, the mistaken name didn’t come out of thin air - Robert White was the music promoter who bought and sold the Arcata Theater - argh - too many names in my head…

Robert “Bob” Doran

Comment / By eyeprod / May 14, 2009, 11:51 a.m.

I figured as much. Thanks for the support Bob! The photo of Slave Traitor was a nice touch.

Comment / By JAMES / May 17, 2009, 10:03 a.m.

Sorry I missed the “House Of Floyd” show this weekend - We in “Taxi” are big “Floyd” fans. We will be over @ Bear River next Saturday. I saw The 3 Heads at a club in Hermosa Beach a couple of weeks ago - their leader being Heath whose folks run Babbettas in Eureka. They are a great band and the opener was “the Quiet” who did “Radio” by Van Morrison dead-on. Thanks as always for the column.

Comment / By kill whitey / May 17, 2009, 10:11 p.m.

I’m certainly not sorry for missing “House of Floyd”…$22 for a cover band?

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