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.A&E
March 27, 2024
Omar Sosa Plays Kuumbwa
Omar Sosa is dedicated to making music that promotes worldwide peace. Sosa studied percussion and marimba, later adding piano.
March 25, 2024
Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern’s debut album is a jagged, overwhelming listen, with dazzling guitar pyrotechnics. The New York Times named her very first release as that year’s most exciting album. Performing Tuesday, March 26, at Moe’s Alley
March 20, 2024
World Festivals Here
Guest soloist, Gaeun Kim will perform during this wide-ranging concert that brings together in a single performance festival music inspired by Japan, Russia, and one of the masters of the Romantic period of European music.
March 20, 2024
Get The Skinny
Last year Skinny Lister released their sixth studio album, Shanty Punk. It’s 11 tracks range from beautiful–like the lamentful yet inspiring “Broken, Bruised & Battered”--to the blistering like “Unto The Breach.”
March 20, 2024
TEDxSantaCruz Returns After Four Years
TEDxSantaCruz is back for its first in-person event since 2019, taking over Cabrillo College’s Crocker Theatre with a stacked lineup of speakers this coming...
.A&E
March 13, 2024
Cold War Kids
hese days, Nathan Willett values the autonomy he and his band, Cold War Kids, have gained over a career that now stretches 20 years and spans 10 albums.
March 13, 2024
Wolf Jett’s Album Release Party at the Kuumbwa.
The mysteries, tragedies and beauty of living in the mountains, infuse the spirit of Wolf Jett’s songs.
March 13, 2024
Melissa Etheridge looks back to move ahead
“One Way Out” opens with the title track, a cut that blisters with smoldering guitar riffs, filthy harmonica runs and a sinewy groove.
.A&E
March 6, 2024
Jim Norton Has a Big Heart
When Jim Norton hits the bountiful stage of The Rio Theatre on March 8, it’s going to be a master class in comedy and performance.
March 6, 2024
Jess Williamson Awakening
Jess Williamson finds comfort as the outsider and strength in the "other" on her current album, Time Ain’t Accidental, an often brutally poignant chronicle
.Film
March 6, 2024
Living in Exile
...Silver was immediately taken with the vitality of the now-80 year old musician. He was moved by his personal story as well as by the larger saga...
.Art
February 28, 2024
Strum and Fret
R. Blitzer Gallery features “Attack of the Killer Guitars,” an art exhibit of electric guitars, painted and decorated by internationally renowned, impressionist painter Eric Hoffman