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at last summer’s Ojai Music Festival, head of last fall’s Silk Road Ensemble show at
the Granada, and now in the driver’s-seat spotlight with her band at the Arlington, on
Tuesday, April 23. She’s out to promote another ear-and-soul grabbing album, You’re
the One.

Go. She’s the one.

To-Doings:

The still-young musical entity known as the Santa Barbara Chamber Players returns
to the busy classical calendar at First Methodist Church on Saturday, April 6, with an
intriguing program. Brahms’s Serenade No. 1 will be in the house, for old times’ sake,
but the more interesting stops along the way come from the great “nuevo tango”
king Astor Piazzolla — his “Adiós Nonino,” orchestra by Eduardo Marturet — and
Gabriel Fauré’s suite Pelléas et Mélisande, timed with Fauré’s centennial year.

Few chart-sweeping American pop singers have had a more serious vocal chops and
clarity than Johnny Mathis, the singer whose list of hits include 1957’s “Chances
Are,” “Misty,” and “Wild Is the Wind.” Personally, his tune “99 Miles from L.A.” hits an
especially bittersweet note. Luckily for us, Mathis periodically stops in to play
the Chumash Casino, partly because of family connections in the Valley. Catch him
in his timeless glory this Friday, April 5.

Also up Santa Ynez Valley way, the “Tales from the Tavern” series continues next
Wednesday in the kitschy comfort of the Maverick Saloon, with storied singer-
songwriter Willie Nile.