Right here they’re, 9 obligatory know-abouts for the week forward. It’s the summer-warmup B9:
- He lived to be 94 years outdated, and practically each a kind of years was dedicated to celebrating individuals’s lives via music. Locals come collectively to honor the nice Pete Seeger.
- You may hear the exhausting, flinty, flat-as-a-tabletop panorama of West Texas within the dust-covered voice of the nice singer-songwriter James McMurtry.
- Another weekend for the laugh-out-loud enjoyable of “Becky’s New Automobile” at Mountain Neighborhood Theater.
- The Santa Cruz Symphony’s annual Pops live performance is actually a monument to the legendary movie composer John Williams (“Star Wars,” “ET,” “Harry Potter” …).
- Who has collaborated with musicians as numerous as Snoop Dogg, Herbie Hancock and St. Vincent? Sure, it’s sax man Kamasi Washington.
- Take a deep dive into “The Deep Darkish” with graphic-novel writer Molly Knox Ostertag and her literary world of secrets and techniques.
- I don’t suppose I’ll ever recover from the darkish melancholy fantastic thing about the Cowboy Junkies’ 1989 masterpiece “The Trinity Session.” All hail Margo Timmins!
- Wait … 15 native bands, $10, virtually 8 hours of stay music? Wow, the Santa Cruz Scene Celebration delivers bang for the buck.
- For those who love the banjo, you may’t assist however be thrilled in any respect the brand new instructions that virtuoso Alison Brown has taken it.