Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the Groundhog Day B9:
- It’s 85 years young for the monumental jazz label Blue Note Records, and the Kuumbwa Jazz Center is getting in on the celebration.
- It’s a harmonica throwdown, as bluesman Mark Hummel leads a posse of epic harmonica players into Moe’s Alley.
- The artistic legacy of African Americans in music is as deep as the ocean, and Sunday’s “Prayer for Humanity” event dives in.
- It’s a question that is on everyone’s mind: How Not to Age. Physician Michael Greger says he has answers.
- Big weekend in Aptos — the beautiful spanking-new Aptos branch of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries opens for business Sunday.
- Time for that mad dash through the local theater scene. The celebrated “8 Tens” festival is hitting its stride.
- UCSC’s Leta Miller has a galvanizing story to tell of Black musicians and their fight for fairness. She tells that story at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
- What’s that ruckus going on over at Streetlight Records? Smoke Chaser burns up the place with a live performance Friday.
- Salinas-born Jackie Greene is a NorCal fave, and Santa Cruz audiences know him all too well. His latest visit to town is next week at Moe’s.
