Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the earthquake-anniversary B9:
- If you love marching-band music, welcome to your Lollapalooza: The Santa Cruz Band Review (with 55 bands!) drops into the Beach Boardwalk.
- Talk about a big part of 20th-century American musical history – the Kingston Trio (the next generation) performs live at the Kuumbwa.
- Say, what? Is hip-hop luminary KRS-One really coming to Santa Cruz to perform at Woodhouse Blending & Brewing? Yes!
- Día de Los Muertos is bearing down on us, and what better way to celebrate than the colorful Calavera Ball at the VFW Hall in Freedom?
- Out-and-proud queer culture slams into 1940s glam at The 418 Project’s zany new theatrical whodunit, “Who Killed Simon Braggart?”
- Shawn “Barney” Barron was a stone-cold legend in Santa Cruz surfing circles back in the day. See a new documentary on the life of the late surfer/artist next week.
- Billed as “Songs for People of Conscience,” Saturday’s concert at Cabrillo brings together Rabbi Micah Lapidus and singer Melvin Myles of Atlanta’s famous Ebenezer Baptist Church.
- Atlas Obscura is a “global community of explorers,” and writer Cara Giaimo comes to London Nelson to enchant fellow explorers with tales of the planet’s most amazing living things.
- French-born vocalist Cyrille Aimée has Dominican heritage and New York experience. The way she blends all those influences makes up her unique Latin/bossa style.
