There’s another birthday celebration at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. This time it’s honoring the 70th run around the sun of Latin musician David Peñalosa with music from Palante, Tropiqueño and Timbata. Latin dance and food in the cold of winter sounds just about right. Go to the Playhouse’s website for more information […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Dec. 29
There’s an important birthday to celebrate, and no, I’m not talking about my dear middle brother’s nativity marker yesterday. It’s bandleader, tromboner, music master, clownish pro and all-around great guy James Zeller’s birthday celebration at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. Expect appearances from the roster of fantastic jazz musicians who have been entertaining […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 20
It’s solstice eve, and due to the coming of another more celebrated eve on Wednesday,I’m loading the underboughs of this evening with shows to balance the silent nightsahead. The big shebang is happening over at the Arcata Playhouse, where the JingleJam Holiday Benefit, packed with so many local shining stars, will be happening in two […]
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Arcata Playhouse Rolls the Dice
With The Dungeon, the Dragon and the Wizard of Doom: A D&D Holiday Show Adventure Arcata Playhouse is bringing the British tradition of a Christmas pantomime to Humboldt once again. Pantomimes are often thought of as silent endeavors but this incarnation is the opposite. Christmas pantomimes, or “pantos,” are community centered, derived theater that combines […]
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Music Tonight: Sunday, Nov. 16
Clan Dyken returns to town with its Beauty Way Benefit for the indigenous people of Big Mountain, Arizona, to give direct aid in their effort to resist incursion on their ancestral lands by the extractive death’s head of the U.S. government and its affiliate private industry demons. The doors open at the Arcata Playhouse at […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Nov. 14
The Arcata Playhouse is hosting the Writer’s Roundup Songwriter Showcase with Ruby Ruth George, Polimana, James Zeller and Fo Fera. The setup is fashioned after the popular Nashville — and elsewhere — style of rotating performances and storytelling, featuring a whole slew of genres from progfolk to jazz and country. These are some of the […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 8
Speaking of Cadillac Ranch, that big-sound country swing act will be overseeing a fundraiser for Playhouse Arts at the Arcata Playhouse at 7 p.m. Come mingle and spend some dough for a good cause, namely keeping the lights on for our local art and music scene. This country cabaret will be packed with guest stars […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 25
The Creative Sanctuary presents the latest in an ongoing series honoring the musical alumni of the rotating, midcentury supergroup the Jazz Messengers. Tonight’s star attraction is the recently late Wayne Shorter, whose saxophonic splendor lit up the world in a career that spanned from bebop to hip hop and beyond. Join hosts James Zeller, Ramsey […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Sept. 20
It’s a good night to be blue all over. Here are some musical considerations appropriateto that theme. At 8 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse, blues singer and returning champion Earl Thomas will be joined by red hot guitarist Anthony Cullins and assorted musicians to fill the joint with the searing blue flames of classic heart-born […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Sept. 16
Baltimore is not the first place one associates with high-energy soul music, but singer and frontman Les Greene is putting in a bid to change that, along with his crab shell-tight band The Swayzees. If you find yourself needing an early-week pick-me-up, this funky show will keep the blues away. Swing by the Arcata Playhouse […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 11
Treasured local poet Jerry Martien has teamed up with Fred Neighbor, Mike LaBolle and Gary Davidson, aka The Usual Suspects for an evening of music and poetry at the Arcata Playhouse. Few events are more likely to capture the glory of a certain era of our beloved home, as only its best chorus can unite […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 21
The good folks at the Creative Sanctuary are continuing Homage to the Message, a chronological celebration of various satellite members of the Jazz Messengers. This installment is all about the tunes of trumpeter and composer Lee Morgan — gone too soon at the age of 33, when his girlfriend shot him between sets at an […]