Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the spring-forward B9:
- His career is so much richer and varied than that one song we all like to sing whenever his name comes up. Discover the broader work of Bobby McFerrin.
- The big event at this year’s Watsonville Film Festival is a red-carpet screening of the drama “La Mission,” with the film’s director, at the Green Valley Cinemas. Honey, where’s my tux?
- The unmistakably bluesy voice of Melissa Etheridge is still going strong, and will ring the rafters at the K-P Arena next week.
- The Hive Poetry Collective is back at Bookshop with an eye-opening evening featuring UCSC alum Sarah Ghazal Ali and Stanford’s sam sax.
- The person behind the Impossible Burger lays out the best way forward in getting the planet to embrace a plant-based diet.
- Round and round they go! Lots of action Saturday at the Civic when Santa Cruz Roller Derby presents a doubleheader.
- It’s true, Santa Cruz has a rich Moroccan music scene, centered around the fine local band AZA. On Saturday, AZA performs alongside a new band exploring Moroccan traditional music.
- For a Hitchcock fan, it’s a vertiginous, spellbound, notorious weekend, that’s definitely not for the birds. It’s all about Hitch in Scotts Valley.
- For some reason, March is always busy for Irish fiddle bands. One of the such bands on the North American circuit, Altan, brings the green to Kuumbwa next week.