The HopMonk Tavern marks its One-Year Anniversary Celebration starting at 5 p.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 23) with free hors d'oeuvres and live music. Champion finger picker Keith Richman will play an acoustic set starting at 5 p.m. And popular singer, guitarist and bandleader Pat Jordan, who played at [...]
If you like your music homegrown, this is for you. Jen Tucker's first CD is titled "Something I Didn't Do," but the new album is, in fact, something she did do. The album was produced by Tucker and Santa Rosa's Doug Jayne, co-owner of the Last Record Store, and released [...]
Four-time Grammy winners Little Joe y La Familia bring their Tex-Mex musical style to the Last Day Saloon in Santa Rosa for a one-night performance at 8 p.m. Nov. 26. Regarded as one of the pioneers of Tejano music, Little Joe has recorded more than 50 albums during [...]
The Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco has hosted many of the top names in comedy — Woody Allen, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, the Smothers Brothers and Phyllis Diller. Juan Carlos Arenas, a 32-year-old construction worker from Santa Rosa, will admit he’s not a star — at least, [...]
How often does one annual festival stage a fund-raiser for another festival in a different town? That is what will happen Thursday, July 28, when the kickoff party for Petaluma’s Rivertown Revival doubles as a benefit for the the Handcar Regatta, to be held Sept. 25 in Santa Rosa’s Railroad [...]
If you’re looking for laughs this weekend, you’ve got a couple of choices. “Monkey Fight Comedy Night” starts at 8 p.m. Saturday night, June 4, at the Rapture nightclub, 528 Seventh St., Santa Rosa. Hosted by Tony Sparks, the lineup features Jabari Davis and includes Matt Morales, Lydia [...]
Here is a story about one musician who helped another, and a lot of other musicians who decided to help them both: Dave Broida, a Santa Rosa Junior College teacher and the harmonica player with the Lake County band Blues Farm, suffered kidney failure and needed a transplant. Broida's friend [...]
Friends of local artist and musician Timothy Dixon plan an acoustic benefit concert for him at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Sonoma from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 20. Musicians scheduled to perform include Faith Ako, Scott Gerber and Cori Wood, Dan Hicks, Steve Kahn, Tommy Thomsen, Ted Macklin, David [...]
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.