Once again, our teen correspondents Nick and Kaylee Savage-Wright are heading to San Francisco for this weekend’s massive, seriously eclectic (and sold out) Outside Lands Festival, where headliners include Neil Young (Friday), Metallica (Saturday) and Stevie Wonder (Sunday). Here’s a little preview of what they have planned. Check back next week for a report on what they […]
Bob Doran
Freelance photographer and writer, Arts and Entertainment editor from 1997 to 2013.
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Back to School
I’ve received a few emails and a bunch of Facebook invites in the last week or so asking for help getting the word out about the Humboldt Folklife Society’s much anticipated Folk School Music Camp, which runs next week, Monday through Friday, morning to night in Blue Lake. The school is a dream fulfillment for […]
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Humboldt Mountain Music
The Compost Mountain Boys are marking their 20th anniversary playing what they call “Humboldt County bluegrass” with the release of the band’s first full-fledged CD, High on a Mountain. It all began in 1992 with the late Sean Bohannon and current Compost banjo player Tim Wilson playing as a duo at an Arcata Mexican […]
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ASP Rocks HSU
As of today you can get non-season tickets to individual shows in HSU’s CenterArts Season at HSU, a cool collection of sit down concerts (details here and here). CenterArts has lots of great artists that anyone might like — k.d. lang, Tower Of Power, Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Ahmad Jamal, Arlo Guthrie, Rufus Wainwright, for […]
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Two Turntables and…
As the world looks to London for champions, we have one coming to town Friday. Ronald K. Keys Jr., a turntablist from Cleveland aka DJ Swamp, took the 1996 U.S. title in the annual DMC DJ competition hosted by Disco Mix Club. The honor earned him a position in Beck’s band for a few […]
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Blues by Good Buddies
It’s time for the local blues scene to shine. Saturday’s 12th annual Buddy Brown Blues Festival in sunny Blue Lake honors the late Blue Lake bluesman Richard “Buddy Brown” Duggins with a ful day of the blues. The Buddy Fest headliner is once again the other Buddy, guitarist Ivan Elmo “Buddy” Reed and The Rip […]
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Gaia: A Fest for Mama Earth
Black Oak Ranch is pretty much ideal as a festival venue. The towering black oaks are a big part of that, providing cooling shade and a home for the hawks, crows and other birds that cruise the sky above you. There’s a creek running through the 150 acres ranch, room for five stages and […]
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North to Alaska
When Cuban-American rapper Armando Cristian Pérez, aka Pitbull, makes a rare appearance at a Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska on Monday, former Humboldt resident David Thorpe will be along for the ride. In fact Thorpe is personally responsible for sending the rapper to what he figured was the most remote Walmart in the United States. In […]
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For Jerry
Exalted guitar god Jerry Garcia would have turned 70 on Aug. 1, if not for the fact that he proved himself all too mortal in 1995 when a heart attack took his life. Local Deadheads have a couple of ways to celebrate Jerry’s legacy this week. Saturday the Donna Jean Godchaux Band plays at […]
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Power to the Peeps
Between the Barclays Bank/LIBOR rate-rigging affair and the HSBC money-laundering scandal, the banking industry and bankers in general have been facing some bad press of late. So it’s no surprise that the always-topical (never silent) San Francisco Mime Troupe features crooked bankers in its latest musical, For the Greater Good or The Last Election. The […]
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SoHum’s One Drop Fest Moves Forward
Another year, another Reggae on the River: Saturday and Sunday at Benbow Lake State Recreation Area south of Garberville the Mateel Community Center will host its 28th annual reggae and world music festival. This one’s another step in what the Mateel folks are calling “the continuing evolution of MCC’s grassroots reclamation of the great Reggae […]
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Folk in the Cyber Age
I’ve never met Caitlin Jemma, never heard her play her music live, but I feel like I know her, like we’re somehow connected. Of course this connection is just a digital illusion — she is a young folksinger living and sharing her music in the cyber landscape. I discovered Caitlin, who lives in Arcata and […]