The ball keeps rolling around the sun and, despite the best efforts of the lunatics running this side of the hemisphere, spring has sprung. Life is absolutely exploding everywhere. Our beloved Eureka Symphony is back in bloom with “Humor, Passion & Power — the Human Spirit.” The penultimate program for the season, the highlight of […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 6
The Eureka Symphony is back with an early welcome to spring, playing tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight’s program is called Legends and Spirits — Stories in Sound and features bassoon soloist Rufus Olivier playing the music of living Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaahá Tate, along […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 13
The possibility of a Beatles reunion was permanently revoked before I was born, and now, people like myself who are fans of those world-changing Liverpudlians yet never shared the planet with them are close to outnumbering those who did. Regardless of your age, it’s a done deal, so we are left with tributes and satellite […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 3
Another kick-off night of happy returns, this time over at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, where at 7:30 p.m. you can catch the first performance of the Eureka Symphony’s new season. Tonight’s program Contrast and Transformation features pianist John Chernoff for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, along with a piece […]
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A Taste of Ireland in Eureka
Thunderous footwork, soaring music and that unmistakable Celtic fire take center stage in A Taste of Ireland – The Irish Music & Dance Sensation, happening Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts ($42.14-$76.85 all-in pricing).This internationally acclaimed show features a roster of world-champion dancers performing high-energy choreography set […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, May 31
The Eureka Symphony presents the final night of its 2024/2025 season finale, appropriately titled “A Grand Finale.” The program features the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by late Romantic period Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz, with Cal Poly Humboldt professor Daniela Mineva on the keys, along with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, aka, “the dance one.” The string […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, April 25
The Eureka Symphony returns to the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts for the first of a two-night springtime celebration titled “Music of the Spheres.” The program starts out with some heavies from the classical era, with a piece by Hadyn featuring some very talented local high schoolers in the instrumental mix, and Mozart’s hybrid […]
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Theater Tonight: Monday, March 10
I don’t have any children and by the time you are reading this, I will have carved another notch into my early 40s. Age, my general temperament and economic status puts the likelihood of offspring ever lower on the actuary board. Which is fine; I’m at least one special niece’s favorite uncle and a fairly […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 6
Bay Area rap superstar and former collaborator and friend of the late, great Mac Dre, Andre Nickatina is back in town for an evening at the Arcata Theatre Lounge. As he is a man who needs little introduction in these parts, I’ll just add that doors are at 7 p.m., and tickets are going for […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 12
The World-Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra is an institution which will forever be associated with the pinnacle of World War II-era big band jazz, in no small part because its eponymous founder disappeared into the fog of war aboard an allied air force plane headed from England to France sometime in the hours before the beginning […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 9
There are two world-class, world music ensembles available at your pleasure tonight at 8 p.m. but, due to the nature of time and space in our particular reality, you will have to decide which one fits your tastes better. Over at the Arcata Playhouse, as a part of the tail-end of the Zero to Fierce […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Dec. 19
We’re making up for two ghost days this week with yet another double-booked night of fun. First up at 7 p.m., Huckleberry Flint is putting on its popular Winter/Christmas show at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts. As in seasons past, this one is at a very real risk of selling out, so if […]