July and August, shows by Earthwise Productions, in Palo Alto parks, plazas and public facilities:

and my lips cannot quite form the sounds of Otis Redding outro to “dock of the bay” as I try to land back here on the table, at Coupa. 

Adam Levy & Mint Imperials Lytton Plaza, Monday July 10, 2o23 7 pm Free

Jim Campilongo Ben Davis Duo Lytton Plaza, Sunday, July 16, 7 pm, free

Lydia Lunch, Eugene Robinson, Saturday, July 15, 2023, Mitchell Park Community Center, 8 pm. $25. 

Leon Timbo, Josh Thurston Milgrom Quartet featuring Dawn Clement, Thursday, July 20, 2023, California Avenue “Third Thursdays”. 

Matt the Electrician, Sony Holland Duo with Jerry Holland, Megan Slankard, Friday, July 21, Johnson Park Tickets on sale May 11. 

Jorge Glem Sam Reider Duo, Lytton Plaza, Wednesday July 26;

Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express, Emma CatherineSunday, July 30, 2023 Mitchell Park Bowl, 2 pm. 

San Francisco Mime Troupe “Breakdown” Sunday, August 6, 2023, 2 p.m. Mitchell Park Bowl, free

Lisa Mezzacappa’s DuoB, Vinicius Gomes Fabiana Cozza, Mitchell Park Community Center, Friday August 18, 2023, 8 p.m.. 

Shamarr Allen, The SticklerPhonics, Sunday, August 2o, 2023 2 pm, Mitchell Park Bowl, 2 pm. free

Sam Burton Lytton Plaza in August — I noticed in Mojo magazine recently that the new Molly Tuttle record got a *** review but Sam Burton’s got a ****  

DaShawn Hickman, Destiny Muhammad, The Mitch, August 25. 
That’s 12 shows  

On a personal note, I’ll also be checking out Andrew Bird in July, Rebelution reggae in August, at Frost, plus Stanford Jazz Workshop, especially the CoHo jams. Tammy Hall plays SFJazz second stage the evening of my matinee with SFMT. And Stanford Theatre is back 4/7s of the time with Cary Grant movies. 

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edit to add:

Stephen J. Cohen just interrupted my morning flow at The Coup to tell me that he had texted me a couple days ago but my fucking smart phones had been hacked by Putin’s trolls — Wired mag says that anyone who has ever run for public office here in USA! USA! is being hacked by fucking Putin and yes I qualify — to say that Eugene S. Robinson will be on KFJC later this week talking about me and his obsession over me. Eugene and Steve were housemates … old Alpha Delt house which not coinkydinky is very …and yes it was “Angel” the song by Oxbow and not the Cary Grant movie playing tonite at David Packard’s movie place palace “Only Angels Have Wings” which Apple or the fukcing huskies want to call “poorly” or …. and now have plausible deniability. So Eugene is the front man for Oxbow — and write as I say that a gorgeous song young thing in short shorts walks by me and my head turns and I type song not young — I was Oxbow’s manager for about three months the year they went to SXSW and Eugene insisted on being paid in wristbands not cash and this precipitated a dispute that was not curable and he fired me as his or their manager. So he is the first former client to appear as talent in my series. And as I was saying, Lydia Lunch sang or spoke on an early Oxbow record — I wounded not would not remember — and on cue the amazon blondie thing probably USA Water Polo –…- so I type song not young agin — Lydia Lunch sang on Angel — and I think Angel is one of the few Oxbow songs I would recognize but they played it a lot live during the era I was Oxbow’s manager. ….. and a guy who like Steve Cohen, Eric Cohen, Dan Adams, Marsh McCall and I — and I think the last time I saw Eugene in person was just after Marsh passed and Eugene’s daughter was graduating Gunn ….- and so was my quasi-godson SR was walking……Did I finish the thought that Matt Nelson is an excellent sax player about half my age — his father is Mark Nelson I met her at Coupa which indirectly created this chain of connection — Matt and Battle Trance played on Halloween at Lytton Plaza and he told me subsequently that he was part of a Lydia Lunch project and and the second one should be emphasized…..-….and this is probably a weird place to say that Dick Fregulia is in MoJo mag recently with a singer from San Francisco circa 1978 — dick was Palo Alto’s original Bohemian and held the piano chair at Saint Michael’s Alley when it was on University in 1958 or so and came to my (Not)Tom Harrell show October 2018. So Matt Nelson is part of a trio with Tim something – -and Jim Campilongo tweeted something about the bandmates of Adam Levy — and I should add that to the text per se. My computers are acting very oddly. So I am dropping a few lines and missing a stitch. Eugene  says he is appearing in Palo Alto this week but does not mention “Earthwise”. which is exactly like mentioning Eugene Robinson but not Oxbow. {Note: a year later I redact this passage; writing is never as easy as it felt that day…)