It’s the last night of March and there are far worse ways to go out like a lamb than enjoying another Tuesday evening of jazz played expertly by the Opera Alley Cats at the Speakeasy. No cover for the show, so show some love for players and pourers.
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 29
If you have found your allotment of strange beauty still lacking despite the fine offerings in the entire before this one, fear not: You have two fine options to tickle the pineal gland and pluck the fine cords of motion in the medulla that create the chords of subconscious harmony in the seat of the […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 28
Abronia is a Portland band that has gained international recognition for its haunting invocations of the spectral landscape of crossroads converging in the valley of death beyond the western plains of the living. A place where the flesh must be sacrificed in the white heat so a caravan of charred bones can carry the soul […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 27
The Creative Sanctuary jazz folk are putting on another tribute to the greats at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. This time it’s Duke Ellington and his tight collaborator Billy Strayhorn, author of the inimitable tune “Take the A-Train,” among many other classics. James Zeller, Katie Belknap and the usual suspects will be joined […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 26
The Cowtown Sound is throwing a Honky Tonk Thursday at the Logger Bar tonight. There will be a two-step dance lesson for all comers at 8:30 p.m., with the music starting around a half hour after. No cover at the door, so tip everyone accordingly.
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Do-Si-Do
I’m going to be brief here because I’m writing at the coda of a beautiful day. I had a wonderful time with some loved ones and the centerpiece was visiting some departed family members in the Trinidad Cemetery, one of my favorite places. We had our picnic there in the sun, with, counting the dead, […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 22
People Power for Palestine is throwing a mutual aid benefit for the people of Gaza at Arcata Playhouse featuring live music and an auction. Regular readers of this space know my feeling on the matter, so I’ll just suggest you dig deep for the $10-$20 sliding scale donation and come enjoy the music of Makenu, […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 21
Tuva is a small Russian republic which sits astride southern Siberia and northern Mongolia and has gained some notoriety for the multi-tonal throat singing practices of its semi-nomadic population. Every time the subject comes up in this column, I use the opportunity to plug the fantastic 1999 documentary Genghis Blues, which covers the journey of […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 20
The Logger Bar is hosting a night of the music of Loretta Lynn, featuring the One Night Stand Country Band backing up vocalist Siena Nelson. Also on the bill is The Brothers Demarkov, featuring the two talented Jeffs, DeMark and Landen. The fun starts around 8:30 p.m. and there’s no cover charge at the door, […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 19
Northcoast Preparatory Academy is throwing a fundraiser for its music program at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 6 p.m. Come through and check out some fantastic local talent — many of whom are educators themselves who have broken HumCo containment — including Jenny Scheinmann, James Zeller, Matt Rollings and John C. Wood. Tickets are $20 […]
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Fast Cars and Night Gardening
Spring hits the streets this week and the build-up in the air has been absolutely blooming with sensual ions and ozone for anyone with the right peepers. The forces of the Earth churn on through the wasteland detritus of human ambition and we can still feel and be animated by those primeval forces despite our […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 17
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. St. Patrick’s Day is back again, arare cross-cultural experience that Americans have chosen to celebrate in our trulystupid custom of polluting all meaning into an inebriated all-day war of attrition and orgy of crude stereotypes the scope of which won’t be seen again until Cinco de […]