Get ready for nighttime action at the Fortuna Rodeo this week with the best of the best competing against rip snortin’ bulls for big bucks during Bullfighters Only, happening Friday, July 14, from 5:30 to 11 p.m. at Fortuna Rodeo Grounds. Get tickets online at northcoasttickets.com/events/bullfighters-only-7-14-2023. There’s more bucking excitement at the Bulls, Broncs and […]
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Bigfoot Daze in Willow Creek this Saturday
Celebrate the Notorious BIG (foot, that is) at Bigfoot Daze, Saturday, July 8, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Willow Creek (free admission). The 61st annual family-friendly festival offers a downtown parade and a slew of activities at Veterans Park, including food and vendor booths, a horseshoe tournament, ice cream social, Bigfoot calling contest, watermelon […]
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Eureka’s Fourth of July Party Plan
Eureka Main Street’s celebration is set to fill the streets of Old Town today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weave through the vendors, bubbles, fire trucks and people you haven’t run into in forever, and you can find speeder car rides from First and E streets, and horse-drawn carriage rides at the gazebo. There’ll […]
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CenterArts Announces First Installment of 2023-2024 Season
CenterArts dropped the list of its first installment of acts coming to the area for the 2023-2024 season. Highlights include Sylvan Esso, recent Grammy winner Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Mariachi Herencia de México and Tommy Emmanuel. See the full list of who’s headed to town in the press release below, then grab your calendars and make your plans. […]
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Fourth of July Fun
Get ready for the boom, crack and sizzle of the Fortuna Fireworks Festival, popping off a day early on Monday, July 3, at Newburg Park (free admission, $5 parking, $10 kids’ activities wristband). From 5 to 8 p.m., enjoy the holiday vibe with music, arts and craft vendors, fire dancers, barbecue and kids’ games (but […]
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Photos: First Market Night of the Summer
The Friday Night Market scene was in full swing for its return to the streets of Old Town Eureka. The streets were filled with music, food, vendor booths, some fire dancing and faces new and old. The golden hour get togethers will keep going through October 27. Photographer Kait Angus was there to mingling with […]
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Eureka Friday Night Markets are Here
Eureka’s popular Friday Night Markets kicks off for the season this Friday, June 30, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Old Town (free admission). The bustling nighttime farmers market runs every Friday, from June 30 through Oct. 27, filling the streets of Old Town with rows and rows of vendors, crafters, food trucks, a bar […]
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Comedy Tonight: Monday, June 26
No Metal Monday tonight at Savage Henry’s, however there will be a free comedy open mic at 8 p.m. hosted by yuk-ster Jason Merritt.
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Summer Arts and Music Festival this Weekend
The Mateel Community Center is bringing the party back this weekend with its 46th annual Summer Arts and Music Festival, happening Saturday, June 24, and Sunday, June 25, at its new location County Line Ranch. The two-day celebration along the South Fork of the beautiful Eel River features huge musical acts like Ozomatli, Mike Love […]
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Redwood Acres Fair is Here!
Rejoice! The corndog days of summer are here. Nothing says summer like the smell of deep- fried fair food and the sound of happy shrieks from rides high up in the sky. Redwood Acres Fair “Summer Starts Here” is on now, June 21 through June 25 at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds (entry fee $15, $10 kids/seniors, […]
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Music Today: Sunday. June 18
Fernstock, Fernstock, Fernstock! Fernstock 2023 is coming to the Humboldt County Fairgrounds today. Starting at noon, there will be two stages with 15 bands competing for $5,000 and a chance to play at the Humboldt County Fair. In addition to the music, there will be oodles of food and local vendors, tasty local beverages, family […]
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Fifteen Bands Set to Rock HC Fairgrounds
Fifteen bands enter, one band emerges as champion of Fernstock 2023 – A Battle of the Bands. OK, that was dramatic. But so is a hoard of local rockers, funksters, folksters, metalheads and punks duking it out on three stages at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds on Sunday, June 18, from noon to 7 p.m. ($20-$50, […]