Speaking of free concerts with donations welcome, there’s a fine matinee going down at the Eureka Woman’s Club at 2 p.m., where you will find the All Seasons Orchestra performing its summer program. In the songbook today will be selections from John Williams’ Star Wars score, Richard Meyer’s “American Rhapsody,” a Duke Ellington medley arranged […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 12
Options abound tonight, but I’m going to steer you toward a tried-and-true summer jam that, from venue to performers, is a guaranteed good time for a warm night just off the Mad River. At 9 p.m., the Logger Bar will be hosting country-tinged strummers, pickers, singers and songwriters Turtle Goodwater and Jerome Stinsprig. These fellas […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, July 11
So many options tonight, I have whittled it down to two in Arcata that each kick off around 7 p.m. Over at the Veterans Hall, you will find a free one — with donations welcome — offered by devil-rustling fiddle stompers Bow-Legged Buzzards along with Baby W33k3nd. Meanwhile, Moss Oak Commons has a payment optional/$5-$10 […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 10
How about a Metal Thursday? If that sounds interesting, Savage Henry Comedy Club has you covered, although this one is going to be a little more punk than metal, to be honest. Bay Area band Skin and Bonez joins locals Kolonizer, Brain Dead Rejects and Spayr for a night of punk and heavy alt rock. […]
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Comedy Tonight: Monday, July 7
The Secret Society of Silly Things is an improv comedy troupe that has been described favorably as a cargo cult formed from the airwave droppings of Whose Line is it Anyway? If that sounds interesting enough for a 10-spot investment at the door of Savage Henry Comedy Club, come on by. It’s all lucky sevens […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 5
The Creative Sanctuary continues its Jazz is Peace series with an homage to one of my heroes and the father of some of the greatest music this country ever produced, from the Delta womb of all good American sounds, my spiritual home, New Orleans. I’m talking about Satchmo himself, Mr. Louis Armstrong, who would be […]
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Music Tonight: July 4, 2025
Lots of ways to celebrate tonight, but I’m going to suggest something far-out, as in geographically. Dig this: In Shelter Cove, about as south west as you can go in Humco without a boat, is a fun joint called Mario’s Marino Bar, where at 8 p.m. DJ Alan Espinosa will be serving up sonic teasers […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, June 30
It’s another Metal Monday at Savage Henry Comedy Club, and this line-up looks cool. San Diego’s black/doom group Woods Witch is joined by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s solo black metal violinist Joey Molinaro, along with excellent local acts Ultramafic and Psyop Victim. As ever, the show starts at 7 p.m., it’s a $5-$20 sliding scale, and while […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, June 28
The Creative Sanctuary presents another jazz show at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m., this one is a tribute to trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham, a criminally underrated musician who died far too young and is perhaps most famous for his work with the early iteration of the Jazz Messengers. Co-producers James Zeller and […]
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Celebrate the Opening of the Humboldt Bay Trail South
Celebrate the beginning of a new era for outdoor recreation and transportation in Humboldt County. After two decades of vision, planning and community persistence, Humboldt is ready to celebrate a milestone: the completion of the Humboldt Bay Trail South segment, linking Eureka and Arcata with a continuous, safe and scenic bike and pedestrian trail along […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, June 27
There’s an outsider rock and psyche show at the Wild Hare Tavern at 7 p.m. New(ish) local bands The Mercury Suckers and Western Extra will join up with Los Angeles group Hooveriii for an evening of the good stuff. The Wild Hare is one of the best new venues out there, with an excellent sound […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, June 26
Nashville’s Crys Matthews plays a right-handed acoustic guitar as a leftie, upside down to the casual viewer, with the tenor strings up top and the wrapped lower strings sitting on the bottom, a tradition which dates back to the pre-recording era of American blues music, and was the style in which Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton, the […]