This week we’ve got a story about the state bar possibly suspending a pair of lawyers for ethics violations while representing the county in a case that’s already yielded a $1 million lawsuit. Setlist columnist Collin Yeo joins us to talk about the thrill and anxiety of inching back to live music shows, and highlights […]
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Summer Arts Faire This Weekend at the Mateel
The Mateel Community Center presents the 44th Summer Arts Faire Saturday and Sunday, June 19 and 20 with indoor and outdoor stages packed with music to make up for all you’ve missed this past year and a half. The family friendly event features a mix of regional bands and DJs, over 50 craft and food vendors, local […]
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Music, Music, Everywhere!
This week, COVID-19 restrictions are lifting and so are our spirits. As if meeting the moment, the hills, gardens, bars and parks are alive with the sound of music. Every third Sunday of the month through summer, catch live Music in the Garden in the beautiful setting of Humboldt Botanical Garden. This Sunday, June 20, […]
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The Lost Year
Sometime in the first three months of 2020, nearly every musician in Humboldt County played their last live gig. It’s difficult to pin down the exact date of the general venue closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic but St. Patrick’s Day is a good hinge, a pivot point where venue owners and employees had to […]
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Live Entertainment Still Canceled
Despite what you might be seeing around the county and online, live shows are still not allowed under our current phase of shelter in place. On Aug. 4, the Humboldt Reopening Certification Team sent an email around to restaurants reminding them of the regulations for outdoor tent dining (one side closed only), face coverings (still required […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 21
The Bay Area’s Sylvestris Quartet comes to the Westhaven Center for the Arts to perform a series of pieces centered around two disparate but innovative composers of the style, Ludwig van Beethoven and Heinrich Ignatz Franz Biber, starting at 7:30 p.m. ($5-$20 sliding scale). The quartet only plays on the gut strings used by musicians […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 20
The Outer Space hosts a pretty cool noise night at 7 p.m. with Portland acts Open Marriage and System Lords (price TBA). Representing the local noise community is Ferndale’s Goruta. I didn’t even know it was legal to make loud music in Ferndale, let alone noise music, so good on them.
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Music Tonight: Sunday, March 18
Sorry if I am breaking any hearts with this non-breaking news, but the Bonnie Raitt show up at The Van Duzer Theatre is totally sold out. Here’s a good idea for those of you who missed the chance to see the red-haired, slide-playing chanteuse: How about attending a singing workshop at The Sanctuary at high […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, March 17
It’s that other green-themed holiday celebrating intoxication with a faint nod to a foreign culture. But unlike 4/20, this day usually gets a little feistier and has nothing to do with listening to reggae and getting high. Instead it’s amateur happy hour for people who probably shouldn’t drink and — this could be the weed […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, March 16
Bay Area R&B and retro-soul singer Quinn DeVeaux brings his tenor voice and fantastic band to the Sanctuary tonight at 7 p.m. for an evening of hip-shaking dance music. It took me a while to warm up to the Sanctuary as it reminds me of a cult house from a mid-’70s David Cronenberg flick where […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, March 15
I forgot what a thrill the first heady hits are and how much of an upper this plant is for me. I am firing on all cylinders and ready to report in the midst of this fantastic time-dilation. Over at the Siren’s Song tonight it’s 33 and a Third Thursday, an old skool (that’s how […]
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Attack of the Monster Women
A few minutes into the 2006 Humboldt County music documentary Rural Rock & Roll, The Monster Women’s guitarist and vocalist Courtney Jaxon describes our little slice of heaven. “There’s something strange and magical about this whole place,” she says. “It’s like we’re in the middle of some weird forest where things are different.” A bit […]