Andy Powell

If you’re familiar with Lawnstock, you’ll know it’s an annual music festival put on by the Zwerdling family to benefit a local child with medical needs. This year the festival is helping Kiarra Plante, who has type III hereditary angioedema, and making its public debut at Perigot Park in Blue Lake at 11 a.m. with […]

Arts! Arcata is in full swing tonight starting around 6 p.m. so you’ll be able to check out plenty of fine local musicians hawkin’ their sonic wares. Over at Wrangletown Cider Co. — remember the old recycling center? — you’ll get your first dose of local electric Americana band Rogues’ Gallery around then. At 6 […]

Cruzin’ Eureka‘s Poker Run meets up this evening at Vista Del Mar in Eureka at 6 p.m. and there’s local music to welcome the cruisers. You’ll find well-dialed blues-rock band Cold Blue Water in the parking lot, jamming away along with Ghost Train in front of some pretty fine looking classic cars. Check it out […]

Bluegrass is being provided at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room from Kindred Spirits at 6 p.m. and for free today. For you bass freaks, there’s no better place to be that at the Van Duzer Theater at 8 p.m. for a performance from Thundercat, revolving around six-string bass master Stephen Bruner. He’s contributed to […]

It’s the first Saturday of the month so that means it’s Arts Alive! in Old Town Eureka around 6 p.m. tonight. However, starting a bit before the arts get alive, Redwood Acres is hosting Acres of Blues which is a two-day blues festival starting at 9 a.m. this morning with musical acts Laurie Morvan Band, […]

If you decide to call in sick to work tomorrow and make it a four-day weekend, start off at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room around 6 p.m. where you’ll hear some jazz tunes from Fred & Jr. (no relation) for free. Enjoy some tasty local beers and if you have too many, you may […]

The Trinidad Bay Art and Music Festival wraps up today with three concerts at two venues. The first begins at Holy Trinity Church at 11 a.m. with preludes, dances and counterpoint with Peter Kibbe on the cello. Then at 2 p.m. you’ll find soprano Clara Lisle and powerhouse pianist Daniela Mineva at Trinidad Town Hall […]

Day two of the Trinidad Bay Art and Music Festival gets underway at 2 p.m. at Trinidad Town Hall with Tales of the Baroque with Trio Seraphim. Four hours later, you’ll find dance music courtesy of the Delta Nationals outside at the Mad River Brewery playing for free. Mon Petit Chou is at Cafe Mokka […]

Classic country is on the bill tonight at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room at 6 p.m., thanks to the Redwood Ramblers who are playing for free. The Trinidad Bay Art and Music Festival kicks off tonight in Trinidad’s Town Hall at 8 p.m. with a concert of modern classics featuring Nonoka Mizukami on the […]

With some of the high schools already back in session, you parents deserve to get out and celebrate that you survived the summer. For those of you with younger kids who haven’t started school yet, well, you deserve a beer or three just to keep the internal machinery nice and lubed up. Stop by the […]