Last weekend marked the 33rd year of the Redwood Coast Music Festival in Eureka. The event evolved a long way from its original Dixieland jazz era into what organizer Mark Jansen describes as “a musician’s festival where players collaborate with each other and one that they all want to come to.” “The musical focus of […]
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Eureka’s History of Brothels and the Week’s Gigs
This week we’re talking about the first of a two-part history of brothels in Eureka and how the women of the red-light district kept the city in the black. And we’re running down some noteworthy music shows around the county. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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Keeping the Beat for 50 Years in Humboldt
I felt like a stranger in a strange land when I drove into Rio Dell in March of 1975 to play a six-month job with a country band. Fortuna native Jerry Cooper, a musician I’d played with in San Francisco, had moved back home. He called me in San Francisco and offered six months of guaranteed […]
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Prop 36, Valentine’s Fun and Red Flags
This week California Local Journalism Fellow Anne To breaks down the impacts of Prop 36. We’ve also got a rundown of entertainment and community love over the weekend, as well as a satirical look at dating in classic literature vs. the real world. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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Back Down to the Basement
After a brief run, the Basement was shuttered by the pandemic and the space that once housed Abruzzi’s below Plaza Grill, just under the slope of the Arcata Plaza, spent years dormant. According to the jazz lounge’s manager Dillon Savage, he approached owner Bill Chino about reopening the club after a couple of other ventures […]
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NCJ Preview: The House That Schneider Built and Weekend Entertainments
This week we’re looking behind the scenes of the mess over Travis Schneider’s would-be mansion, from the wild permit violations to the public controversy and why it’s coming down. We’ve also got music, movies and good news for fishermen. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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Bobby Jo Valentine in Concert
Enjoy the dulcet offerings of Bobby Jo Valentine: An Intimate Concert of Hopeful Folk and Pop Music, Saturday, March 5, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka ($20). The award-winning singer/songwriter delivers “catchy songs with good tunes and intelligent, thoughtful lyrics in the tradition of Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and Bruce […]
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NCJ Preview: The Toll of Empty Stages, Code Enforcement Piling Up and a COVID Update
In this week’s NCJ Preview, host David Frank and Journal news editor Thadeus Greenson talk about the toll COVID-19 has taken on local musicians, why county code enforcement cases are piling up at an alarming rate and how local COVID-19 case rates are climbing as vaccination appointments go unfilled. Read more about all these stories […]
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The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival Valentine’s Day Program
The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival presents “Love Duets,“ a delightful program of romance to start your Valentine’s Day off on the right note. Tune in online Sunday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. for works by Robert and Clara Schumann, and music from Hollywood and the Jewish diaspora performed by mezzo soprano Cecelia Hall, tenor […]
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County to Begin Reviewing Applications for Outdoor Live Performances
The state of California has released limited guidance that could allow live performances to resume in a limited capacity outdoors on the North Coast in the near future. The interim rules — which the state is expected to followed up with more thorough guidance soon — allow two types of live performances in counties in […]
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The Sound Guys: Edison and Berliner
Fifty years after the world’s first surviving photograph was taken by Nicéphore Niépce in 1827, Thomas Edison did for sound what the French experimenter had done for light: capture it. Edison made his first recording “Mary had a Little Lamb” in December of 1877 and — like Niépce’s original photo — it was crude, imperfect, […]
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Songs from Synthetic Summer Camp
Every summer has its share of feel-good albums and hits made just for the season. I don’t know when this tradition began but it had to have been during the mid-century upswing era of youth culture and its attendant flood of pop music. I can’t really imagine Mario Lanza or Maria Callas releasing hazy poolside […]