For most of us, last week was likely less stuffed with music and more stuffed with other temptations. A few legendary artists came through town but the streets were fairly empty over the holiday. This week is enjoying a trickling in of musical acts as the students and civilians likewise return to our county. So […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 29
It just so happens that arguably two of the greatest living banjoists, Bela Fleck and the Mandarin-fluent polymath Abigail Washburn, are also husband and wife. And they must really love each other, as they tour and play together quite frequently, a lifestyle that would certainly put a fatal strain on a less harmonious union. Tonight […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Nov. 28
Possibly the greatest bluegrass group on the planet will be visiting Humbrews tonight at 8 p.m. when Del McCoury brings his band to our wet, green grasslands ($40). In a half century of playing, McCoury has worked his magic with everyone from the legendary Bill Monroe to contemporary noodlers Phish, all the while maintaining his […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 27
The Humboldt State University music department hosts a trumpet and horn recital at Fulkerson Hall at 8 p.m. (price TBA). Expect solo pieces and concertos played with bright impeccability and executed with the eager embouchure of the dedicated young novice musician.
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Nov. 26
Iris Dement has been writing songs for more than 30 years but her very first song, “Our Town,” which she wrote at the age of 25, might still be her most enduring. Its plain and plaintive liturgy about home and the people who live there crosses the geography of the earth and sets up street […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 25
Two vinyl-spun jiggle fests await your pleasure tonight: The remade/remodeled Soul Night at Humbrews at 9 p.m. has mutated into the similar-but-new Soul Party. This is the fifth show of the rechristened Mark 2 version of that old Humboldt classic soul dance vinyl revue. Familiar face DJ Red joins Jaymorg, Tanasa and other friends for […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 24
The North Coast Repertory Theater continues its run of the musical Pippin at 8 p.m., a story about a prince journeying through an unusual world and trying to find his own place. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and based on the book by Roger O. Hirson ($16-$18). At 9 p.m. the Griffin hosts […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 23
It’s Thanksgiving. And no matter how you feel about this holiday — whether you have the option to gorge with loved ones or you are one of the unmentioned many, stuck on the outside of this family feast day and looking into brighter windows — things tend to freeze up on this day. I can’t […]
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A Musical Feast
It’s finally here. That most musical of feast days when we celebrate the gift of harmony with the rapturous delight of food. That most sacred day of eating for the musician and music fan alike. I am, of course, talking about the Wednesday, Nov. 22 feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Nov. 22
The Siren’s Song hosts singer songwriter night at 7:30 p.m. with a diverse lineup of some of Humboldt’s brightest young voices: Ghost, Donel, Julio Perdido, Blood Honey, Akaelah Rain and Jamie Coppa ($5 suggested). Aber Miller continues his Wednesday residency at Larrupin at 6 p.m. and, like Humboldt’s finest date-night restaurant and the dreamy environs […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Nov. 21
Siren’s Song hosts a throwback sock-hop night with Los Angeles’ always touring and vintage ’50s street fight sounding trio Three Bad Jacks screaming out their soulful rockabilly moan. Local early rock chuggers Snake Oil Lullaby sit mid-bill while local punk rock line-up Scum Lords make their live debut at 8 p.m. (price TBA).
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Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 20
Does anyone remember the movie Swing Kids? That seminal early ’90s teen flick in which a post Dead Poet’s Society Robert Sean Leonard and future Bateman/Batman Christian Bale process the oppressive grip of the Hitler Youth by surreptitiously swing dancing in Nazi Germany? I haven’t seen that film in years but, much like many trends […]