Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the spring-in-my-step B9:
- OK, so you’re ready to stick a toe in the pool when it comes to a vegan/cruelty-free/plant-based lifestyle? VegFest 2024 awaits you at the Cocoanut Grove.
- Yeah, it’s sold out. But I can’t very well leave out a show from the electrifying guitar god John Scofield, could I?
- The East Bay-based musician Xavier Dprehpaulezz was reborn as Fantastic Negrito, one of the most inventive bluesy singer-songwriters you’re likely to ever encounter.
- Gardening in foggy coastal Northern California is an art and a craft. Let author Pam Peirce help you master it.
- Grammy-winning jazz pianist Tammy L. Hall wants you and me to learn more about the unjustly forgotten late jazz singer Shirley Horn. Kuumbwa’s the classroom.
- How about an April Saturday afternoon enjoying some fine hand-crafted adult bevs in the picturesque splendor of the Santa Cruz Wharf? It’s “Ales for Whales.”
- Gotta say it: The New Zealand power-pop band The Beths surely know their way around a sunny pop hook.
- The man is bigger than life, in more ways than one. The great “Hillbilly Love God” himself, the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, is gracing Santa Cruz with his presence Saturday.
- J.S. Bach and the cello go together like April and wildflowers. Hear cellist Erik Anderson explore the world of Bach on Saturday up at UCSC’s Recital Hall.