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Sebastopol “Dome” Harvest of Music
Sunday, October 13 in Tradition of “Jazz Churches” In the days before Prohibition, the Sebastopol Methodist Church
Oct 5 ~ Kevin Russell and Some Kind of Friends at Murphy’s Irish Pub ~ 8-10p, Murphy’s Irish Pub, 464 First St East, Sonoma, sonomapub.com
Oct 6 ~ Quartet Andoni ~ Great live music featuring top 40 hits, from the ‘20s to today! 12:30p Unity of Santa Rosa, 4857 Old Redwood Hwy, Santa Rosa, 707-542- 7729, andoni.brownpapertickets.com
Oct 11 & 20 ~ Wild Jane & The Guys at Main Street Bistro ~ Jazz Vocalist Janie Roberts, Pianist/Composer John Simon, Double Bass - Tom Shader, Tom Hayashi, Kendrick Freeman- Percussion. 7-10p, Main Street Bistro, 16280 Main St, Guerneville, 707-869- 0501, wildjanes.com
Oct 13 ~ Classical Music Benefit Concert, Love Yourself: A Message of Hope and Help ~ Suicide prevention in Sonoma County. 3p Sonoma Academy, Fitzsimmons Black Box Theatre, 2500 Farmers Lane, Santa Rosa, elizabethmorganbrown.org
Oct 25-26 ~ 2019 Analy Fall Music Festival ~ Over 20 bands & orchestras. 8a-3:30p, Analy High School Theatre, 6950 Analy Ave, Sebastopol, 707-824- 2337, analybandwagon.org
Gualala Arts Center 46501 Old State Hwy, Gualala, gualalaarts.org
Oct 4 ~ 4th Annual Cajun Zydeco Fest ~ 6p Dinner, 7:30p Performance in the Redwood Grove. Beer & wine.
Oct 13 ~ Manhattan Piano Trio ~ Hailed by critics as “a grand departure from the usual” (News Herald).
Weill Hall, Green Music Center, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, 707-546-8742, srsymphony.orgorg
Oct 5 - Oct 7 ~ Unmasking the Stars ~ Santa Rosa Symphony concert ~ Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Matt Browne’s How the Solar System Was Won. $24+, Open Rehearsal Oct 5, 2-4p.
Oct 15 ~ “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band ~ Est. 1798, America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization. Tickets req’d. 7:30p
Oct 25 ~ Take Me to The River Live! ~ The Music of New Orleans. 7:30p
Oct 27 ~ Halloween with Harry ~ Music from Harry Potter. Costumes encouraged. 3-4p
Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental, 707-874- 9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Oct 4 ~ First Friday Live: SambaNoma! ~ An eclectic mix of Brazilian music, and original works. 7:30p
Oct 12 ~ Danny & Essence: Dynamic Americana Duo ~ We’re thrilled to present the Sonoma County debut of this amazing duo! 8-10p
Oct 18 ~ Alan Reid and Rob van Sante: Scottish Folk ~ Traditional Scottish folk songs. 7:30p
Oct 25 ~ Juanito Pascual New Flamenco Trio ~ One of the most acclaimed flamenco guitarists on the international music scene today. 8p
Oct 27 ~ The Quitters: Glenn Houston & Stevie Coyle ~ Having each ‘quit’ some of the best bands, both are late founding members of The Waybacks. 4p
Oct 31 ~ Halloween Bash with The THUGZ ~ Put on your dancin’ shoes and costume, open your ears and join the Halloween party! 7:30-10p
Cloverdale Arts Alliance, 204 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale, cloverdaleartsalliance.org
Oct 3 ~ The Jazz Club featuring Tiffany Austin ~ The fastest rising jazz stars.
Oct 9-Dec 11 ~ Cloverdale Music Workshop ~ Free workshop is open to the public. 7-9p
Oct 17 ~ Americana Night featuring Gwyneth Moreland Band ~ 7-9:30p
Thru - Dec 14 ~ Blues Night ~ A veritable cornucopia of talented musicians. 7-9p
Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma, mystictheatre.tunestub.com
Oct 3 ~ The Human Experience & Gone Gone Beyond ~ 8p
Oct 5 ~ ME/CFS Benefit Concert with Marian Call ~ 7p
Oct 11 ~ Dirtwire ~ A magician’s surprise show ~ Doors 7:30p,
Oct 12 ~ Son Volt ~ with Peter Bruntnell Doors 7:30p
Oct 13 ~ KRS-One ~ The “conscience of Hip Hop”. Doors 7:30p
Oct 16 ~ Gaelic Storm ~ The chart-topping, multi-national Celtic band. 7:30p
Oct18~CollieBuddzwithKeznamdi~8p Oct 19 ~ Monophonics ~ Just hitting
Oct 19 ~ Mustache Harbor ~ A mustache army and a Soft Rock Explosion. 8p
Oct 25 ~ Tainted Love ~ The Best of the 80’s Live ~ 8p,
was burned down, twice, for its stand on temperance. Rebuilt to its present form in 1916, the church interior features “The Dome,” an acoustic feature of the architecture of the church. It is built under a rotunda with curving rows of seats designed to create an open view and sound.
The concert brings together a dozen musicians; Nancy Berger, Gail Bowers, Cheri Buonaguidi, Mary Cornett, Oli Fraenkel, Jim Johnson, Maury Manseau, Michael Ost, Celeste Ray, Mark Reed, India Wade, and Rob Wegner. All previously have played at the church, but in ways often muted by traditional services. According to music director Jim Johnson, they all noticed that the acoustics of The Dome resonated in a way that invited something less reserved. It inspires them to open up without restraint.
The idea of the October 13 concert is to encourage musicians to perform on their own repertoires, Johnson said, with the music drawn from Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Linda Ronstadt, Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Great American Songbook, original compositions; and Johann Sebastian Bach through the church’s 108-pipe 1916 organ.
Instruments will include guitars, brass, drums, piano, dulcimer, voice, and that 1916 organ. The program returns to a period after the middle of the last century in which churches unlocked their musical presentations.
The Dome in Sebastopol also returns to a multipurpose use of a building’s interior from an earlier period in U.S. history. The acoustic space
of The Dome derives from the “Akron plan,” uniform architectural patterns originating from Akron, Ohio used in the late 1800s and early 1900s in a period in which thousands of churches were built across the U.S. They typically featured seating in a modified horseshoe and balcony, under a central rotunda, with the rotunda creating an interior dome, as in Sebastopol.
Oct 13 ~ The Dome Presents A
Harvest of Music ~ 12 Perfomers. 3-4:30p, The Dome at Sebastopol Methodist Church, 500 North Main Street, Sebastopol, 707-793-7835, artxgeorge@yahoo.com
The Akron approach departed from boxy rectangular buildings with seats in straight rows, and was intended to create a less-rigid space in which all could see and hear, as building interiors were multi-purposed as auditoriums, social centers, and for education. Several standardized designs were available, adaptable to a variety of decorative styles, as the “Spanish” look of the Sebastopol building with its “Moorish” bell tower.
The concert is performed from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free, with $10 donation for music programs encouraged. Parking is free behind the church
at 500 North Main Street, on a hill overlooking downtown Sebastopol where Highway 116 turns westward toward the Russian River area.
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their stride. 7:30p
Wild Jane & The Guys!
Jazz, Blues, Bossa, Scat!!
Oct 11 & 20 ~ Main Street Bistro
7-10p, 16280 Main St. Guerneville
707-869-0501 for reservations Available for parties & private events. INFO: wildjanes.com
Nov 2-4 ~ Master of the Modern Banjo
Oct 26 ~ Royal Jelly Jive with Speakease
~ Francesco Lecce-Chong conducts Ravel, Copland; Béla Fleck joins on banjo for hisJunoConcerto. Nov 2 ~ Open Rehearsal 2-4p
~ Rock into uncharted territories. 7:30
Oct 31 ~ Fruition ~ With Bear Market Riot ~ 7:30p