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Hogan’s Heroes
Mar 2 ~ Analy High School Pasta and Music Night! Enjoy pasta, salad, bread, drinks & dessert while being serenaded by student ensembles. $20 per adult, $5 for children 6-12, 5:30p - 9p, Masonic Lodge - Sebastopol, 373 N. Main St., Sebastopol, 707-824-2337, Janis Snyder, analybandwagon.org
Mar 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 ~ Live Lunchtime Music Fridays - Join Donny & Levi Fridays. Free, Fridays 11:30a-2:30p, 4:00p - 6:00p, Oliver’s Market Tavern, 9230 Old Redwood Highway, Windsor, 707-687-2050, oliversmarket.com
Mar 1 ~ Haute Flash Quartet - No cover, 6:30p Main Street Bistro, 16280 Main S, Guerneville, hauteflashquartet.com
Mar 10 ~ Poet Meets Pianist: A Concert for Healdsburg Jazz - Dana Gioia & Helen Sung, an exclusive fundraising concert. $250, 4 -6p, Voigt Family Ranch, Geyserville, healdsburgjazzfestival.org
Mar 10 ~ Wild Jane and The Guys - Jazz Vocalist Janie Roberts with John Simon on Keys, Tom Shader on Double Bass. No cover, Tips appreciated, 6:00p - 8:00p, Ukiah Brewing Company, 102 South State St, Ukiah, wildjanes.com
Mar 14 ~ The Garcia Project with special guest Maria Muldaur Nationally touring Jerry Garcia Band tribute performing classic set lists from 1976- 1995. $20 / $30 seated +fees, 7- 11:30p, Hopmonk Tavern - Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Avenue, Sebastopol, 707-829- 7300, thegarciaproject.com
Mar 15 ~ North Bay Sinfonietta- Chris Krive performing Gaetano Donizetti’s Concertino for English horn $10, 7:30p Church of the Incarnation, 550 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa
- Santa Rosa Symphony concert. Conductor Emeritus Jeffrey Kahane returns. $24, Sat & Mon evenings 7:30p, Sun 3p, Green Music Center, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707-546-8742, srsymphony.org
Mar 16 ~ DGIIN - high energy dance band. $15 Advance / $20 @door, $10 students, Children under 10 free, 7:30p Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, sebarts.org/
Mar 21 ~ Roy Zimmerman - Rize up!- Roy Zimmerman - Rize Up! Funny Songs about Peace and Justice-! Doors open 7p. $20 per adult, 7:30- 9-p, dhyana Center, 186 N. Main Street, Sebastopol, 707-861-9873, kows.fm-
Mar 23 ~ The Red and Black Ball with Gradina and Druzhina - Balkan dancing- wear red & black! Kids free; share snacks. $5, 7-- 10-p, Monroe Hall, 1400 W. College Ave, Santa Rosa, 707- 824-1008, marilynsmithrazzmatazz. blogspot.com
Mar 24 ~ Soul Cafe with Kevin Russell & Friends - Benefit with Kevin Russell & Some Dangerous Friends playing the Americana songbook. Free. Soup & Salad Dinner: Adults $10; Children $5.; Under 5 years old eat free., 5:00p - 6:30p, Forestville United Methodist Church, 6550 Covey Rd, Forestville
Mar 31 ~ April Foolery benefit for SoCo Dance Beat - features Levi Lloyd and Friends and The Rhythm Rangers. $10 adv, $15 door, 5-9p, Redwood Cafe, 8240 OldRedwoodHighway,Cotatiited¬if_ id=1550640880977423
Apr 7 ~ “The Composer is Dead” - Santa Rosa Symphony Family Concert - Nathaniel Stookey’s orchestral with children’s author Lemony Snicket’s story. $18 adult, $12 child (12 and under), 3 - 4p, Green Music Center, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 707-546- 8742, srsymphony.org
As the clock strikes March, it’s again time for the annual Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival. The pickin’ and grinnin’ occurs Mar. 9 at the Sebastopol Community Center from one to nine p.m.
Local Americana duos Nina Gerber/Chris Webster, and Pam Delgado/Jeri Jones of Blame Sally, together calling themselves the Duo Quartet, will pair up, then come together for guitar jams and harmonies.
Cowboy singer and horseman Mike Beck, who has toured with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Ian Tyson, will perform onstage and will join Nina’s brother, Scott Gerber, in leading a workshop; swapping songs while discussing and showing a film about the lives of working cowboys.
Jerry Wicentowski & the Wiseman Institute will play the bluegrass of Mac Wiseman, Wicentowski’s way of expressing gratitude for the inspiration he received from him.
Mar 1 ~ The Marcus Shelby Quintet
Plaid Stranger, a duo focusing on the old-time genre, will perform onstage and their fiddler, Karen Celia Heil, will lead an old-time fiddle workshop where attendees who bring instruments will be able to jam.
- Kim Nalley & the HJF Freedom Jazz Choir. $15, 7p Raven Performing Arts Theater, 115 North Street, Healdsburg, healdsburgjazzfestival.org
The Bloomfield Bluegrass Band will show why they won the 2018 NorBay award as Best Acoustic Band. Nu-Blu is a husband and wife duo from the
Mar 2 ~ Analy High School Pasta and Music Night! - Enjoy pasta, salad, bread, drinks & dessert while being serenaded by student ensembles. $20 per adult, $5 for children 6-12, 5:30- 9p, Masonic Lodge - Sebastopol, 373 N. Main St., Sebastopol, 707-824-2337, Janis Snyder, analybandwagon.org
small town of Silver City, North Carolina.
with the California Bluegrass Association and the Sonoma County Folk Society in the 1970s, “to promote and perpetuate the music,” he said in our interview. According to their new website (socofoso.com), the latter’s mission is “to revive and promote knowledge of, an awareness of, an enjoyment of, and the performance
of, both traditional and contemporary
sound. Bluegrass wasn’t indigenous to California, but there was an emerging subculture. It was like nothing I’d ever heard, like the anti-rock ‘n’roll.” He describes having to cut his long hair to attend festivals like the Brown County Jamboree in Bean Blossom, Indiana, where he saw all the first-generation bluegrass bands, and then getting “crap” from friends back home for his new look.
Mar 2 ~ Batacha Quintet will be back Rhythms. $10 Cover, Showtime 7p-10p,
Mar 3 ~ Celebrate Mardi Gras Nawlins Style 2019 - Put on your best carnival mask, beads, and come down early for a good seat. No Cover 4- 6p, Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati, 707-795-7868
Mar 3 ~ Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra Family Concert: Bring the whole family to this Sunday matinee concert. $8, Free for SSU students, 2- 3p, Weill Hall, Green Music Center, Sonoma State University, 1801 E. Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, music.sonoma.edu
Mar 4 ~ Monte Rio Supper Club - Featured Chef: Bree Ann Leighton. Music by Small Hat. $15 per adult, 6 -8p, Monte Rio Community Center, 20488 Hwy 116, Monte Rio, friendsofmonterio.org
Mar 4 ~ The Girls Choir of Hamburg - $5 advance / $10 @door, 7:00pGualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, gualalaarts.org
Mar 9 ~ Healdsburg Community Band: Showtunes- Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton, and more. Free Donations Welcome, 7:30p Raven Theater Healdsburg, 115 North Street, Healdsburg, raventheater.org
Mar 9 ~ Herstory in The Making- Celebrate HERSTORY In the Making w/comedian Sherry Glaser & Kym Trippsmith. $20, 7-11p, Graton Community Club, 8996 Graton Rd., Graton, 707-684-0177
Mark Hogan
folk music.”
Hogan first heard the genre in the late 1960s. “I was a convert, I loved the
Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, Hogan (who plays mandolin and banjo), performed with bands like Done Gone and the Two Rock Ramblers, making a living which “kept me from making any serious decisions about life,” he said. For a time, he played six or seven nights a week, “from San Diego to Port Townshend to Reno.” He currently lives in Sebastopol, and until three years ago worked as a “maintenance guy” for the West Sonoma Union High School District.
Currently, Hogan works at Sebastopol’s People’s Music and has a bluegrass/ folk/Americana show on KOWS Radio (92.5 FM or kows.fm online), Mondays 6-8 p.m.
For more festival info, contact Hogan at 707-479-5529 or email hogiemoon@comcast.net
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“I think we’ve covered the bases,” says event organizer Mark Hogan, President of the Sonoma County Folk Society. He’s organized all but one of these 19 annual presentations.
Mar 16, 17, 18 ~ American Dreams
Hogan, who grew up in Concord
and moved to this county in 1972 to
attend Sonoma State, became involved playing their lively Afro-Cuban
Red Brick Restaurant, 101 2nd St., Mirabel Rd., Petaluma