The first 36 hours of the four-day 29th annual Redwood Coast Music Festival in Eureka started off under sunny skies this year, thanks to the change in dates from March to May. Another tradition ended when the Zane Middle School Jazz Band kicked off Thursday’s early opening, as director Bruce McKay has retired with this […]
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Swingtime
Last weekend the streets of Eureka filled with musicians and audience members who love good music and who love to dance. A packed, repeating schedule of performances of New Orleans jazz, blues, rockabilly and Cajun music by award-winning performers kept them and audience members rotating around venues at the Adorni Center, Morris Graves, the Eureka […]
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Swing, Baby
By now the musicians who played the Redwood Coast Music Festival this past weekend have packed up their instruments and are back on the road, and the dancers who spent the weekend swinging and spinning have soaked their feet and swapped their festival finery for their regular duds. Seems like a good time to peruse […]
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Jazzy Jumpin’ Jehosephat
Well, swoosh, that was Jazz Fest 2014. Saturday night at the Eureka Muni saw a flood of young and old slipping around the dance floor in slick duds and shiny shoes or hip tennies. Who knew so many kids could swing dance? There were quite a few of them kicking it up with the Fogtown […]
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Claudia Swings
The complex music of the Claudia Quintet relies on somewhat unusual instrumentation – including accordion and vibes, at times bowed – providing a dense, beautiful setting for drummer/bandleader John Hollenbeck’s pieces. Innovative, improvised, at times carefully composed, sometimes not even written down, it’s what we call jazz these days, for lack of a better word. And […]
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From the Hum: Jazz-Folk-Amazing Meklit Hadero
Tonight at the Arcata Playhouse, a run of high quality shows continues with Bay Area jazz/folk singer and guitar player Meklit Hadero. The Ethiopian-born Hadero grew up in the U.S., attended Yale, then became a musical sensation with the release of her 2010 debut On a Day Like. Meklit has served as an artist-in-residence at […]