If you feel like learning something before grooving out, go to keet.org to register for a seat at the Arcata Playhouse for a free screening of the new documentary We Want the Funk! about the history of that groovy, butt-rattling genre of music. Afterward, you can enjoy a set of some of that good stuff live, with local heroes Claire Bent and Citizen Funk on tap for tunes. The fun starts at 7 p.m., which should give you enough time, if you still feel like dancing, to head over to Humbrews after 8:30 p.m. to catch local Afro-Cuban octet Timbata blowing up the dance floor for just $10.
This article appears in ‘Fire Teaches Us Many Lessons’.