Page 68 - Sonoma County Gazette July 2018

Cheap Thrills
Jul 1 ~ Gypsy Serenade Concert - Gypsy themed music from Italy and France. FREE, 5p, Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707-795-7868, redwoodcafe.com
Jul 14 ~ Two Lions Band - Folk rock repertoire of singer and guitarist, Mitchell Slade. $20, 7:30p, Cloverdale Performing Art Center, 209 N. Cloverdale Blvd., cloverdaleperformingarts.com
Jul 18 ~ Bach Jam - Violinists,violists, cellists, and bassists play Bach pieces from the Suzuki books. FREE, RSVP requested, 7:30p, The Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg, 707-836-0816, Joella Olsen, raventheater.org, jo.olsen@ sbcglobal.net
Jul 21 ~ Mariah Parker’s Indo
Latin Jazz Ensemble - Global fusion jazz led by composer, pianist & santurist Mariah Parker, with woodwind virtuoso Paul McCandless, guitar master Matthew Montfort, bassist & cellist Kash Killion, and percussionist, Ian Dogole. $22-$26 8p - 10p, Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, 707-874-9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Jul 22, Aug 26 ~ Concerts at Museums of Sonoma County - Dirty Cello, $15-$20, 6p, Museums of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St., Sculpture Garden, Santa Rosa, 707-579-1500, museumsc.org
Saxophonist Maceo Parker, songwriter Eric Lindell and the Grand Nationals, and powerhouse vocalist, Deva Mahal. $25, 2p, Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, gmc.sonoma.edu
Jul 29 ~ FREE Community Concert at the Green Music Center- Santa Rosa Symphony. Tickets required, available Jul 10, 10a, Maximum of 4 per person, 7p, Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Weill Hall and Lawn, Rohnert Park, 866-955-6040, gmc. sonoma.edu
Jul 29 ~ Three for Silver Band - with Got Balls Meatball Factory food truck. FREE, RSVP requested, 6-9p, The Sandman, 3421 Cleveland Ave., Santa Rosa, 707- 293-2100, rsvp@sandmansantarosa.com
Aug 4 ~ Petaluma Music Festival - All proceeds benefit the music education programs public schools. Kids under 12 FREE, Kids 13 - 18 $20 (at the gate), Adults $55, 11:30a- 9:30p, Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Dr., Petaluma
ONGOING
Thru Dec 24 ~ Bluegrass Jams - 2nd and 4th Mon at 7p unless otherwise booked. Peter, 829-9052, to confirm location. FREE, 7p, Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Ave., Hwy 12, Sebastopol, sebastopolgrange.org/
Thru-Dec27~RandBMusicJamsEvery Thurs. unless otherwise booked. Peter, 829-9052, to confirm location. FREE, 7p, Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Ave., Hwy 12, Sebastopol, 707-829-9052, Peter, sebastopolgrange.org/
- Sebastopol Farmer's Market, FREE to explore, $20 monthly donation. 10-1:30p, Sebastopol Farmer's Market, 6908 Weeks Way, Sebastopol, 707-889-5199, Jason Cool, musicalinstrumentlibrary.com/ home.html, jasoncoolips@gmail.com
Big Brother and the Holding Company was born during the foggy days
of 1965, from a gleam in the eyes of Chet Helms of Family Dog and Avalon Ballroom fame. Helms organized the emergent band from jam sessions in an old Victorian house in Haight-Ashbury, says Dave Getz, their drummer since 1966, during our June interview.
Wild Jane & The Guys - Dynamic Vocalist Janie Roberts, John Simon - Piano, Tom Shader - Bass, Kendrick Freeman - Drums. Jazz, Blues, Ballads & Bossa, wildjanes.com/gigs
Jul 6 ~ Warming up the West side...
6-9pm @ Gravenstein Grill, 8050 Bodega Ave., Sebastopol 707-634- 6142
Aug 24 ~ Hot to Go!! ~ 7-10:30pm, @ Main Street Bistro, 16280 Main St. Guerneville 707-869-0501
That year, Getz met original member Peter Albin in a café in the Mission District, downstairs from Getz’ loft, and went to listen to the band, declaring them “outasight.” “I was never hired. It wasn’t like that in those days. We played together and looked at each other - it was like ‘yeah,’” Getz says.
The band had lost their drummer, and with a gig at the Matrix that night, they hired Getz “out of desperation.” Three months later, Janis Joplin joined the band.
Jul 7, 8 ~ Chamber Music Weekend with Roy Bogas and Friends - Featuring violinists Cordula Merks, Amy Hiraga, violist Nancy Ellis, and cellist Peter Wyrick, $30-$55, ages 7-17 FREE, 4p, Gualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Hwy, Coleman Hall, Gualala, 707-884- 1138, gualalaarts.org
Jul 7 ~ Buck Thrifty - Americana sounds from Sonoma County. $20, 7:30p, Cloverdale Performing Art's Center, 209 N. Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale, 707-894- 3222, tickets@cloverdaleperformingarts. com
Jul 8 ~ Isle of Klezbos - Neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing. $10-$30, 7-9:30p, ,707-664-8622, shalomevents.ticketleap.com
Jul 8 ~ Those Were The Days - William Florian - An upbeat musical journey through America’s favorite folk songs of the 60’s. $15- $20,4p - 6p, Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. 707-874-9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Jul 12 ~ Adey Bell Summer
Benefit Concert for Ceres
Community Project - Wine, and cedar enzyme footbaths. $75, 6p-9p, OsmosisDay Spa Sanctuary, 209 Bohemian Hwy., Meditation Garden, Freestone, 707-823-8231, osmosis.com
Jul 13 ~ The Water Brothers - Americana, FREE, 8:30p-11:30p, Twin Oaks Roadhouse, 5475 Old Redwood Hwy., Penngrove, 707-795-5118, twinoaksroadhouse.com
“We were down and out at the beginning,” he says. They all lived together in a house in Haight-Ashbury, and when recording in L.A. they stayed together in one motel room. Led by her impossible to believe voice, they reached their pinnacle in 1968, with the release of the album, Cheap Thrills. “We were at the top of the rockheap. Then we broke up.”
July 11, at a Peacetown concert in Sebastopol’s Ives Park, with Getz drumming and Albin on bass, Tom Finch and Dave Aguilar on guitar, and Darby Gould singing lead, Big Brother will appear. She’s sung with Big Brother since 2013 and is also known for her work with Jefferson Starship. The show will predominantly be 1960s music, including most of the Cheap Thrills album. “I can play those songs in my sleep,” says Getz.
After the breakup, with Joplin gone, hard times hit the band. Getz and Albin joined Country Joe & the Fish in 1969 at a time when that band was flying high. “It was one of the best gigs a musician could ever have.” They quit the following year. Getz calls that “the stupidest thing I ever did.”
In 1987, Big Brother came together for a Summer of Love 20-year reunion. “It’s been nonstop since,” he says. Over the years they’ve had 30-40 female singers. “We didn’t want a Janis clone. We wanted women who could sing the material with their own authority.”
Getz began drumming as part of his interest in Native American culture, while growing up in Brooklyn. “By the time I was 17, I was playing with a lot of jazz cats in New York.”
On a parallel plane, he studied art, eventually receiving a Fulbright fellowship in painting from the U.S. government to go to Poland, where he exhibited his artwork while playing drums with some of the finest jazz musicians in Europe.
Thru - Dec 30 ~ Musical Instrument Library
As to the Sebastopol show, “The music will be within the same feeling, the
same spirit of what the band was in the 60’s,” though “I’d rather quit than have Jul 14 ~ Bastille Day at
to play them note for note.”
“You can’t be 27 again,” Getz says, adding, “We’re much better musicians
now.”
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Occidental Center for the
Arts - La Guinguette plays French cafe music. $20 - $23 8p-10p, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, 707-874-9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.
Jul 28 ~ Blues at the Green Music Center