Page 68 - Sonoma County Gazette April 2018

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Auditions
Thru - Jun 1 ~ Santa Rosa Symphony's Young Musicians Training program 707- 546-7097, Ann Hutchinson, srsymphony. org, ahutchinson@srsymphony.org
By Date
Apr 7 ~ 42nd Cloverdale Fiddle Festival - Carrying the spirit of old time fiddling into the future. $19, $15, Children under 6 are free, 8a Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds, 1 Citrus Fair Dr., Cloverdale, 707-337-3940, Judith Jones, cloverdalefiddles.com/home-page.html, jcjo555@yahoo.com
Apr 7 ~ Celtic & Instrumental Music: Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter Duo - Celtic harps, rare instruments & wondrous stories, $19- $24, 8p, Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, Occidental, 707- 874-9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Apr 8 ~ Roy Zimmerman, A Concert for KOWS - Benefit for KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM or www.kows.fm. $20, 7p The dhyana Center, 186 N. Main St., Sebastopol, brownpapertickets.com/ event/3369145
Apr 8 ~ Sonoma County Dance Beat's 3rd annual April Foolery - Wendy DeWitt with Kirk Harwood and Nancy Wright plus the Rhythm Drivers and Johnny Tsunami and the Hurricanes $10-$30, 2p - 6p, Congregation Ner Shalom, 85 La Plaza, former Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, socodancebeat.com/april-foolery-2018/
Apr 9 ~ Make a Circle with Jennifer Paskow - Sing childhood favorites, play instruments, and laugh under the parachute. Ages 0-5 and families, Free, 10:30a - 11:30a, Petaluma Regional Library, 100 Fairgrounds Drive, Petaluma, 707-763-9801, sonomacounty. libcal.com/event/3921013
Apr 11 ~ Ukulele Beyond the Basics - New songs and music theory. Limited to 20 adults. FREE, 7p - 8p, Central Santa Rosa Library, 211 E St., Santa Rosa, 707- 545-0831, sonomacounty.libcal.com/ event/3825090
Apr 13 ~ Kevin Russell and Some Friends – Americana, Free, 8p, Twin Oaks Roadhouse, 5475 Old Redwood Hwy., Penngrove, 707-795-5118, twinoaksroadhouse.com/
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SOUL
Gaia's Garden, 6:30-8:30p, 1899 Mendocino Ave. Santa Rosa
Music
Apr 5 ~ The Honey Toads with Tin Whiskers at The Big Easy - Free, 7p - 10p, The Big Easy, 128 American A lley, Petaluma, 707-364-1505, bigeasypetaluma.com/event/the-honey- toads-tin-whiskers-no-cover/?instance_ id=2569, thehoneytoads@gmail.com
Apr 5 ~ The Jazz Club - Tolling and Dave MacNab - $15, $20, 7p, The Cloverdale Arts Alliance, 204 N. Cloverdale Blvd., 707-894-4410, info@ cloverdaleartsalliance.org
Apr 6 ~ R. Carlos Nakai Quartet - Native American flutes, concert flute, trumpet and voice, $25-$30, 7:15p, Sebastopol Community Cultural Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol, seb.org/events
Apr 6 ~ Bennett Friedman Quartet - Guitarist Randy Vincent, organist Brian Ho, and drummer Lorca Hart $5-$10, $4 parking, 8p, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Newman Auditorium, SR, 707-527-4255, Bennett Friedman, pr.santarosa.edu/ bennett-friedman-quartet-april-6
Photo by Paul Freeman
Headliner, Oakland’s Terrie Odabi, identifies herself as a “blues and soul woman.” She received nominations at the 2017 Blues Music Awards (the BMA’s are the blues world’s top honors) as Best Soul Blues Female Artist and for Best Emerging Artist Album. Her 2016 release, “My Blue Soul,” largely self-written, made Living Blues Magazine’s Top 50 Blues Albums list for 2016. A highlight of that release is “Gentrification Blues,” a song about the effects on cultural norms as neighborhood populations change.
The Apple Blossom Festival returns for its sixth year at Sebastopol’s Ives Park on April 22 at 1 p.m. Once again produced by Sonoma County’s blues guru, Bill Bowker, the lineup is a spectacular collection of Bay Area artists, some making a big splash nationally.
Odabi will be backed by the seven-piece Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra,
nominated this year for the BMA’s Best Soul Band Award. Paule has been a
leading Bay Area guitarist for many years, touring and recording with such as
Boz Skaggs, Charlie Musselwhite, Maria Muldaur, and Norton Buffalo, as “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and “Already well as his own bands.
Alabama Mike, born in Alabama in 1964, is also on the bill. A military hitch brought him to the Bay Area at age 19, where he later began his live musical career in 1999 in the clubs of Oakland and Richmond. He now lives in San Leandro.
Gone”, $22-$25, 7:30p Sebastopol Community Cultural Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol, seb.org/events
Mike returns to this event for his second consecutive year. He was nomi- nated for a BMA as Best Traditional Male Blues Artist in 2011. His 2014 release with his acoustic band, the Hound Kings, got a BMA nomination for Best Traditional Blues Male Artist.
Apr 7 ~ Cloverdale Old Time Fiddle Festival - 3:30-4:30p, 1 Citrus Fair Drive, Cloverdale.
Apr 7 ~ Beatles Singalong and Dance - Live performance by Pepperland and special guests Mr. Music and Love Choir Dress up as your favorite Beatle a la Yellow Submarine. $15-$20, 7:30p Sebastopol Community Cultural Center, 390 Morris St., seb.org/events
Mike refers to Lightnin’ Hopkins as his main influence, especially Hop- kins’ storytelling, the thing that first attracted Mike to the blues. Mike’s latest release, “Upset the Status Quo,” also made the Living Blues Top 50 of 2016, and includes contemporary social commentary, he says, “Getting things moving forward, not boxing oneself in.”
Apr 5 , 7, 13 ~ The Haute Flash Quartet
Apr 6 ~ Jack Tempchin - Best known for
Th opening act is a Sonoma County band, the Aces, fronted by lead guitarist Derek Irving, who describes the band’s music as “low-fi electric blues.” Irving’s career, prior to the Aces, included gigs with Charlie Musselwhite, Doyle Bramhall II, Mark Hummel, Terry Hanck, and Mitch Woods. As a member of Woods’ band he backed up classic artists Johnny Adams and Earl King in the early ‘90s.
In 1995, Irving says he began working out with Aces harp player Skye O’Banion, before adding rhythm guitar and drums, but no bass, to form the Aces in ’98. In 2010, the band won the Northbay “Best Blues Band” award, shortly before breaking up. They returned to the stage last year.
A quote from a reviewer defines their music as “energetic leftfield punk/ blues combining a heavy-duty growler of a singer with a guitarist who jabs and slashes like a cornered serial killer, and a wailing siren of a harmonica, which says that the cops are coming, but not to rescue you.”
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R. Carlos Nakai Quartet at the Sebastopol Community Center on April 6