The UPside Dance Company will present "Strum," a music and dance peformance with an original score by composer Mark Growden, at 8 p.m. Saturday (April 5) and 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday (April 6) at the Healdsburg SHED, 25 North St. Healdsburg. Co-directed by Kate Ahumada and Tanya Tolmasoff, the [...]
Master mandolinist David Grisman of Petaluma will perform next summer and fall at the new City Winery restaurant and concert and event venue in Napa.
The veteran Sonoma County reggae and Caribbean music band Midnight Sun Massive will travel to Los Angeles to audition Saturday (Feb. 8) for the NBC television series America's Got Talent. The band, formerly named Midnight Sun. was founded 25 years ago in Cotati by Milo Karobi and Andre [...]
Tickets go on sale Saturday, Jan. 18, for the Country Summer music festival running June 13-14 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. The show stars Hunter Hayes, 2014 Grammy nominee for best country solo performance, and four-time Grammy nominee Joe Nichols. The line-up also includes Darius Rucker, former lead [...]
The lineup for this summer’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival will include “Celebration of the Blues,” a two-day mini-festival May 31-June 1 at Santa Rosa's Jackson Theater. The festival within a festival will star blues harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite of Geyserville and jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman. The overall Healdsburg Jazz [...]
When the Los Angeles heavy metal band, Ratt, plays Wednesday, Jan. 22, at Petaluma’s Phoenix Theatre, the players are going to get some local support. The Sonoma County rock quintet Shotgun Harlot, which recently released its debut CD, “Crescent Moon,” will open the show at 8 p.m. at [...]
Big-name rappers performing in Santa Rosa aren’t all that common, so Friday’s (Jan. 10) appearance by Gift of Gab is worth noting. Under the stage name Gift of Gab, Timothy Parker of Oakland is half of the Bay Area hip-hop duo Blackalicious, with DJ Chief Xcel. On addition [...]
Sebastopol’s HopMonk Tavern will host the fifth annual Johnny Downer Memorial Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 4, honoring a local musician and raising money to support music education. A popular local guitarist, Downer died in 2009. The Johnny Downer Music Memorial Fund was set up by his mother, Carol Esonis. Over [...]
'Tis the season for holiday concerts. Unfortunately, it's also the season for colds and flu. The Festival Consort ensemble’s “Renaissance Glory” concert scheduled for Friday (Dec. 20) at the Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa has been postponed until 4 p.m. Jan. 5, because one of the performers is [...]
Local rappers Bobo and Really Real have teamed up with San Quinn to produce a new video called “Candlestick,” in honor of the San Francisco stadium that's scheduled for demolition after the end of the football season.
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.