Page 68 - Sonoma County Gazette January 2017

HONK!
Auditions & Opportunities
Thru Jan 14 ~ Talent Show Small Town, Big Talent - Auditions have been extended - 12 Semi-Finalists, 3 Finalists, 1 $500 Grand prize winner Event will be on Feb 11 at Sebastopol Community Center. Go to: sebastopoltalentshow. com/audition.html for more information.
Healdsburg Jazz Festival Organization invites area high schools to participate in a new, free program for high school musicians: the Student Jazz Combo Competition (SJCC).The competition, takes place 4/2017, is a friendly one, emphasizing feedback and poise in performance rather than strict judgment. healdsburgjazzfestival.org/wordpress/ wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Student- Jazz-Combo-Competition-Program- Overview-.pdf
By Date
Jan 6 - 28 ~ Red Hot Mama - The Sophie Tucker Songbook ~ starring Sharon McNight and presented by Cinnabar Theater. The story of the first lady of show business, the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas”, whose remarkable career spanned sixty years. cinnabartheater. org. Tickets $35- General Admission/ $25- Youth Online at- cinnabartheater. org/red-hot-mama/ OR by calling 707-763 8920. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. N, Petaluma, CA 94952
Afrobeat 10 Piece Ensemble, unfiltered- deeply-grooved FELA inspired-horn- blasted tribal funk rhythms + Dance; also playing is Loralax and The Aftobilly Allstars. Tickets: $15 in advance/$18 at the door; Doors open at 8PM. Hopmonk Sebastopol 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol
Jan 15 ~ KOWS Celebrates Martin Luther King Day ~ Music by Tami Gosnell, Rachel Tree, and Kym Trippsmith w/ guest backups. Party with our deejays, win money in the raffle, enjoy an extensive selection of beer and food. 6:30 p.m. Barley and Hops 3688 Bohemian Hwy. Occidental KOWS free speech radio provides a mix of music and talk produced by volunteers. No commercials. INFO: kows107-3.org
Jan 18 ~ Songwriters in the Round - Four selected songwriters from the North Bay balladates and banters in rotational fashion that puts all the songsters on the stage at once. $8 at the door Doors open at 7p Show starts at 7:30 - HopMonk Tavern - Sebastopol 230 Petaluma Ave Sebastopol
The Sonoma County marching band, the Hubbub Club, which has been compared to a Fellini movie, will be part of a January 16 Martin Luther King Day event, “A Day On, Not a Day O ,” at Santa Rosa’s Community Baptist Church. The event will include “traditional folk/
spirituals and New Orleans-type songs,” says baritone horn player, Dan Bosch.
David Green plays at the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Showcase
Jan 21 ~ Sebastopol Center for the Arts Music Committee presents: Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Showcase Several outstanding young soloists will perform movements of concerti with piano accompaniment. 7:30PM, Tickets: $15 General/ $10 Students. Sebastopol Center for the Arts 282 S. High Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 - Sebarts.org
Jan 22 ~ Rob Catterton A Grand Piano Tribute to the Grateful Dead: this is a solo piano exploration of classic GD jams including Dark Star, Morning Dew, Bird Song, The Other One and more. $15 General. 4:00PM Occidental Center for the Arts 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental 707-874-9392.
Jan 22 ~ Folk Artist Holly Near @ Cinnabar Theater Holly Near is a fascinating folk artist has been at the forefront of activism and the arts for decades. 7:30PM, One night only! Tickets: $25/General Admission $15/ Youth For more information and for tickets - cinnabartheater.org Cinnabar Theater | 3333 Petaluma Blvd. North | Petaluma, CA 94952
Jan 22 ~ Song Writers in the Round - Steve Seskin, Craig Carothers, Don Henry. The "songwriters in the round" format of this concert, perfected at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Tickets: $21-$25 - 730pm - Sebastopol Community Cultural Center -390 Morris St, Sebastopol
Jan 22 ~ Creative Arts Series - John Boyajy, Pianist @ Resurrection Parish 303 Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa CA $15 Suggest Minimum Donation. 3:30 p- 707-824-5611 bethzucchino@aol.com CreativeArtsSeries.com
Bosch joined the band in 2008, with his daughter, then a high school freshman. After having played baritone horn, a member of the tuba family, in his public school band, he dropped it for 20 years, before renewing his interest at an annual Villa Grande Fourth of July parade.
He describes the Hubbub Club’s beginnings in 2007, founded by Jesse Olsen Bay and Frida Kipar Bay, who are no longer members. The rst show occurred at Graton’s Ace in the Hole Pub. The following year, they began an ongoing streak of marching in Occidental’s Fools Day Parade.
The Hubbub Club states on their website, “We believe that music is a powerful tool for social change, and strive to help heal the earth and her people in all aspects of our art.”
They’re a “consensus, egalitarian group,” says Bosch. “No one is indispensable. We have several people who can Doodah,” (become the bandleader at any given moment). The event coordinator is the Poobah. Individual members refer to each other as “bubs.”
Jan 13 ~ Lagos Roots Afrobeat Ensemble,
A core of about a dozen players can increase to 20 or more at some events, he says. “We have a range of musical abilities and experience. The band has developed to the strengths of the members. You have to know how to play.”
The Hubbub Club draws from “expected traditional sources,” Bosch adds, including New Orleans, Balkan, Mexican, Cuban, Italian, and even some Rolling Stones or Michael Jackson pop. Instruments vary, but come from “three main sections – percussion, bass, and melody.” There’s no ampli cation. Look for almost every possible horn instrument and lots of drumming, sometimes a ute, accordion, or banjo, occasionally vocals.
Then there’s the second line, consisting of dancers, hula hoops, stiltwalkers, and puppeteers, who “expand the spectacle,” says Bosch. Onlookers, like moths to a ame, join in the parade, sometimes with their own instruments.
The Hubbub Club has performed at the Cotati Accordion Festival (with ve accordions), the Apple Blossom and Guerneville Pride parades, the Progressive Festival, the Gravenstein Apple Fair, and numerous farmers markets, bene ts, and rallies. They rely on donations, usually expecting compensation only for private events. All participants are volunteers, and money collected goes into a common fund for purchasing and repairing instruments, and travel expenses.
The Hubbub Club has attended Seattle’s HONK! Fest West – an annual street band convergence - several times. Bosch describes it as “a huge, free event,” involving 20-30 “activist bands” from all over, playing in parks and marching in the streets, “dovetailing” with each other. “The seeds of some of these bands were in the political struggle. The constant music lifts everybody’s spirits.”
More info at: hubbubclub.org/ MLK event: cbcsr.org/default.asp?sec_id=180019014.
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