Page 66 - Sonoma County Gazatte May 2017

OSo You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star
Open Mic
May 3 ~ 1s Wed. Teen Open Mic at Aqus Café - Sign-up 6:30. Music 7pm Aqus Cafe, 189 H St., Petaluma, 707- 778-6060, aqus.com/event/teen-open- mic/2017-04-05/, Music@aquscafe.com
May 18 and 20 ~ Cloverdale Performing Arts Center Open Mic - Sign up 707-508- 8339 by 5p Thur., Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N. Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, cloverdaleperformingarts. com/open-mic-nights
Outdoor Concerts
May 26 ~ Funky Fridays - Lawn Concert at the Historic Hood Mansion $10 Kids Free. $10 per vehicle or FREE with a Regional Parks pass., Hood Mansion, N Pythian Road off Hwy 12, SR, 707-833-6288, funkyfridays.info/, funkyfridays@sonic.net
By Date
May 6, 7, 12, 13, & 14 ~ DNA - Music: It’s in our Genes - Occidental Community Choir Spring Concerts - Mostly original works. $15 Kids 12 and under Free, Occidental Center for the Arts (Occidental), and the Glaser Center (SR), 707-874-8622, occidentalchoir.org/tickets
Apr28~AlanReid&RobvanSante:Scottish Folk at Occidental Center for the Arts Old and new music in the Scottish tradition; reidvansante.com. $20/$23, 8p Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. 707-874-9392, brownpapertickets.com/event/2908118, info@occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Apr 28 ~ Narayan & Janet Baltzo - with Rene Jenkins...Ancient Indigenous Instruments Artist. $15/$10 student, 7:30p Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, brownpapertickets.com/event/2831508
Apr 29 ~ Greenhouse – Celtic Fusion - Traditional Irish, Scots, and English 7- 9p, Aqus Cafe, 189 H Street, Petaluma, 707- 778-6060, aqus.com/event/greenhouse- celtic-fusion/
Apr 29 ~ Hermitage Piano Trio - Redwood Arts Council - 7:30p Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, brownpapertickets.com/ event/2593838
Apr 29 ~ Rock Show - Sweet Addiction and MSG - $10, 8p Arlene Francis Center, 99 6th St, SR, 707-696-3306,
Apr 30 ~ SR Youth Ensembles Concert
ver 60 years ago, rock n’ roll was a battleground between generations, with entrenched bastions of puritanism and racism doing their best to pull the plug on a “new” musical style. None suspected it would one day be taught in college.
$15/Youth $5 (pre-sale) or $20/Youth $10 at the door, 3p Jackson Theatre, Sonoma Country Day School, SR, srsymphony. org/EventDetail/86
John Palmer, Associate Professor of Music at Sonoma State University, organized a rock music seminar there in 2011, which led to an experimental ensemble titled
the SSU Rock
May 4 ~ Kellye Gray Jazztet - The Jazz Club at the Cloverdale Arts Alliance $15 members/$20 non-members, 7:30p Cloverdale Arts Alliance, 204 N. Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, 707-894- 8500, cloverdaleartsalliance.org/
Every Fri. & Sat. in May ~ Olivers in Windsor Live Music Free, 11-6p Olivers in Windsor, 9230 Old Redwood Hwy., Windsor, 707-687-2050
May 5 ~ Teresa Trull, Cris Williamson & Barbara Higbie Reunion Tour! - New Zealand, gutsy blues/rock/vocal dynamo. $27 advance, 7- 9p, Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental, 707-874- 9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org/
May 5 ~ Two Lions Band - a unique fusion of Folk and Rock. $10 to $15, 7:30 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, 707-829-4797, brownpapertickets.com/event/2915202
May 6 & 7 ~ Next Level Music Industry Conference & Grants for Musicians - Creative Sonoma – Speakers, panels & workshops on regional booking, legal management issues, controlling your online image. $20-$30, register online, 707-565-6121, creativesonoma.org/ nextlevel/, creativesonoma@sonoma- county.org
May 6 ~ Bells Ringing in an Empty Sky – From Australia, Featuring the shakuhachi - the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. $15-$20, 7p, The Church of One Tree, 492 Sonoma Avenue, SR, brownpapertickets.com/event/2905068
May 6 ~ Celebrate Spring Concert - The Etude Women’s Chorus - Sacred and secular choral works. Free 3p United Methodist Church, 1551 Montgomery Drive, SR, 707-546-0145
May 6 ~ Dead Again and Tin Foil Hat at the Forestville Club - 8p Forestville Club, 6250 Front St, Forestville, 707-887-2594, facebook.com/events/779406518890267/
May 5 & 6 ~ KOWS Radio moving to 92.5 FM - Celebrate community radio. Free Speech...No Bull. Coming soon to 92.5 FM ,kows107-3.org/
May 6 ~ PI Jacobs Redwood Café - $10, 9p-11:59p, Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati, 707-795-7868, pijacobs.com/
May 6 ~ The Tonewoods - Cloverdale Ale Company - Acoustic trio. No cover, 7p - 10p, Cloverdale Ale Company, 131 E. First Street, Cloverdale, 707-894-9610, cloverdaleale.com/
May 7 ~ Come Dancing - Healdsburg Community Band - Free, 3p Healdsburg Community Church, 1100 University healdsburgcommunityband.org/
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Collegium. Currently, they
perform publicly
every semester,
with the next
show occurring
on May sixth at
SSU’s Schroeder
Hall in the Green
Music Center. The
approximately
70-minute show
will contain a more
hit-oriented array
of rock numbers
than previously. Selections will be from the 1980s, some performed exactly as on the record, some adding improvisation. There will be several complete songs,
a medley of ‘80s tunes, and a medley of Christmas songs. Noting the unusual timing of the latter, Palmer says “there’s a joke to that,” but he’s not telling. “There’s a surprise in it. It will turn into an ‘80s kind of thing.”
Three new songs, composed by students, will be delivered. Expect music from the Eurythmics, the B-52s, Rush, and King Crimson. Spicing up the show will be some Red Hot Chili Peppers.
“We’ve performed music from the 1950s to yesterday,” Palmer says. “Many of the students don’t like the pop music that’s coming out now. Rock music has more of that real performance esthetic to it. Pop is made more by producers using electronic manipulation, than by musicians.”
Palmer, who plays with the ensemble, on keyboards and electric bass, expresses amazement that so few general education students have ever heard live music. “Every day I hear actual voices and instruments. For most people, everything they’ve ever heard is recorded. MP3s sound terrible, with their the little speakers and headphones.”
“Individuality is part of my ensemble,” he adds. “I take input from everyone, on arrangements, song selection, and the way rehearsals go. It’s a mutually creative process.” Since the ensemble consists of ve groups, Palmer is constantly running around between practice rooms, where a wide array of instruments are available.
“Technology can be helpful, but there’s no technological substitute for people being able to hear and make music with their hands.” Laptops and phones
are not permitted in his classrooms. “It’s an old way of teaching composition. They learn more taking notes by hand. People who read music always have an advantage.” Most rock songs have no scores,” Palmer says. Students must learn to “hear music and be able to write down the notes or play them back on an instrument.”
Apr 29 - Apr 30 ~ Healdsburg Chorus
Music education leads to a teaching credential, he says, after which students become eligible to teach in California. “Ninety- ve percent start a job within a year. All the music graduates I run into are working, some playing in multiple bands, and teaching. It’s a very interesting life.”
$15, 4:p Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg, healdsburgchorus.com/
Tickets at sonoma.edu/music/concert_calendar/ay2016-17/collegiums17.html To hire students for a private event: sonoma.edu/music/about/gig/gigform.html
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Apr 30 ~ Larry Vuckovich Septet: Swing Era Hits! With vocalist Jackie Ryan. $25, 3pTucker Farm Center, 1201 Tucker - Summit Drive, Calistoga, brownpapertickets.com/event/2888482
Apr 30 ~ Presto Mambo Family Concert
Platypus Theatre joins SR Symphony $17 $12 Children 12 and under, 2p Weill Hall, Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, 707-546-8742