Every October, music lovers from across the nation make their way to Eureka for the Redwood Coast Music Festival, one of the premier roots-music gatherings on the West Coast. This year, for four jam-packed days, Thursday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 5, Old Town and Downtown Eureka will come alive with blues, swing, zydeco, jazz, […]
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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 […]