DNA

Filling in for Brad Kava, DNA welcomes October’s creative bounty, from Open Studios to Porchfest, and invites readers to find connection through local art and music.

Martha High spent decades alongside James Brown and is still carrying the funk at 81. She brings the Funky Divas, Fred Wesley and The New JBs to Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

Santa Cruz band Kentucky Mule mixes country, Americana, bluegrass and roots with a punk-bred energy as it prepares for shows in Monterey and at the Crepe Place.

Poet, comedian and filmmaker Joshua Turek has drawn more than a billion views online. Now the Los Angeles transplant is building a new life—and publishing Notes of a New Dad—in Santa Cruz.

Mischa Richter’s documentary Summer Tour follows Santa Cruz Deadhead Annie Dunn and Jerry Pierce across America during Dead & Company’s final 2023 tour.

Grammy-nominated guitarist Bill Kirchen and acclaimed guitarist Nina Gerber bring decades of roots, rock and folk history to The Landing in Scotts Valley.

Shawn Colvin looks back on her years in New York’s folk and country scenes, her Grammy-winning breakthrough and the realities of life as a touring musician. She plays The Rio August 8.

Three decades after Jerry Garcia’s death, the Grateful Dead’s legacy keeps expanding through musicians, scholars, archivists and generations of Deadheads—with Santa Cruz still caught in the center of its psychedelic orbit.