Jazz and worship musician and hymn writer Dan Damon is putting on a performance of his devotional music at First United Methodist Church in Eureka at 4 p.m. I believe this is a “donations welcome” type of event, although I haven’t found a suggested amount as of press time.
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 24
Blues, soul, folk and Americana singer/songwriter Chris Pierce will be at the Old Steeple tonight at 7:30 p.m. Pierce has toured and released albums for the last three decades, sharing some big stages with artists like Neil Young and B.B. King. The man plays a lot of instruments and has a big voice, which is […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 23
Etana is the stage name of Shauna McKenzie, a Grammy-nominated singer originally from Jamaica whose reggae vocals have been winning fans around the world for nearly two decades. Tonight, she will be bringing her neo-soul reggae sound to Humbrews at 9 p.m. Tickets are going for $25 in advance, $30 at the door, so plan […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct. 22
Caveman Dave is a one-man band whose main instruments are guitar and vocals. Therecordings I listened to feature some programmed backing rhythm tracks and both acoustic and electric guitars, along with hybrids like the cigar box guitar. He lives and teaches music lessons in Eugene, Oregon, and regularly tours the coast hitting bars and pubs […]
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Dream a Little Dream
Do you ever wonder why it seems so much easier for Americans to fantasize about an apocalypse than a revolution? Or why we are more attracted to entertainment with visions of post-apocalyptic scarcity and violence rather than a peaceful, cohesive, post-revolutionary society that nurtures a livable future? For most of this new century, our culture […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 17
Nothing screams freedom quite like an all-ages punk show during the beginning of the school year. Tonight’s line-up at the Siren’s Song Tavern looks like fun, fun, fun and then some. Groove and thrash punk act SNAKEHEAD has twisted down the coast from Crescent City — or Crooked Titty, as my sister calls it — […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 16
The jazz residency collective After Hours presents “Three: The Evolution of the Piano Trio,” with music spanning the works of Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and beyond. Swing by the Arcata Playhouse by 7 p.m. to hear the goods delivered by Matt Seno on keys, bassist Lee Phillips and the young prodigy Ramsey Isaacs on the […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Oct.15
If you are in the mood to hear some of the best local folk and bluegrass — and simply can’t wait a week and a day for their show at the Siren’s Song Tavern with The Pine Box Boys — come over to the Basement around 7:30 p.m. to enjoy some songs by Elderberry Rust […]
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Time in a Bottle
I was recently driving up and down the coast a lot in the space of a few days, specifically the area between Arcata and Trinidad, mostly for work but a bit for fun as well. Any amount of leisure driving counts as a vacation — in the financial sense of cost analysis anyway — in these […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Oct. 11
Live Dead & Brothers is a jam band tribute act dedicated to playing all things Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers. Tonight’s set at Humbrews will be recreating the Merry Prankster era of the former group. At 60 years and counting, these tunes are ready to sail across the cultural alphabet from LSD to AARP, and […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Oct. 10
Speaking of musical tributes, local genius and keeping departed sounds alive, Barking Dogma is playing the music of the late Kevyn Dymond with a new line-up featuring local drummer and sound -slinger Michael “Tofu” Schwartz. Red Hot Shame is the other half of the lineup at the new-ish Siren’s Song Tavern tonight at 8 p.m., […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 9
James Zeller and the J-Street Regulars are playing another jazz tribute gig — not on J Street, as the Sanctuary isn’t an option currently — but rather at the Arcata Playhouse. Tonight’s gig happens on the eve of the 110th anniversary of the birth of the tributee, a feast for the high priest of bop, […]