Nova Jimenez chose a quiet cul-de-sac in Palo Alto for an impromptu, COVID-era free performance last month (or so says the file, dated, February, 2021).<br /><br />She is an instructor in the music department at Stanford and has done more than 70 shows around Palo Alto recently. <br /><br />My rule of thumb is to play but not advertise, but that’s just me.<br /><br />Thank you musicians and artists for helping us through these trying times.<br /><br /><!– /wp:paragraph –>
Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play