Category Archives: music

if you can hear it and it does not grate your ears, ambient or intentitional with a story melody or not, major and minor chords, the community rather than the industry if possible; if not the answer then a pretty good guess, and the people who live it; basie miller satchmo and the king of all sir duke

June swoon

EARTHWISE FEATURES SEVEN CONCERTS NEXT MONTH, IN THREE VENUES Upcoming concerts via Palo Alto’s Earthwise Productions: Friday, June 3, DaShawn Hickman Sacred Steel featuring Charlie Hunter bass and Wendy Hickman vocals; 8 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA. Tickets … Continue reading

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Earthwise ads in Chronicle Datebook and Sunday Pink for the first time since 1990s

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Jack Cullen (music) VS Jack Cullen (baseball)

 

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Free concert Sunday at Mitchell Park bowl

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Every day is Earth Day: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and, especially Sunday, April 24, with MC Lars and Matt The Electrician, in Palo Alto

  Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered I’m producing an Earth Day concert Sunday 2 p.m. at Mitchell Park Bowl.  I’m writing early Wednesday morning, or Tuesday night, depending how you look at it. So … Continue reading

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August and Everything Up To It

AUGUST AND EVERYTHING BEFORE Kudos to Mountain Winery and Golden Voice for their Mountain Winery season, which was announced in a full page ad in today’s Mercury. I bought tickets for Counting Crows, Michael Franti, Jake Shimbakuro and Trombone Shorty, … Continue reading

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Peace has come to Zimbabwe: vain search for Lew Welch: where the lemonade springs

(Earthwise music series thru August, various parks and facilities) Featuring Dan Bern, Rob Syrett, Or Barakat, Tivon Pennicott, Jeremy Corren, Savannah Harris, Matt The Electrician, MC Lars, Aleta Hayes, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Wayne Horvitz, Sara Schoenbeck, Gaye … Continue reading

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From Ides of March to ‘Whan the Aprille’, earth day, Earthwise, beisbol et al or just giving it a sniff

Shakespeare said or repeated to beware the Ides of March but more significantly it was Chaucer who said “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote/ The droghte of March hath perced to the roote” which 100 years later or more … Continue reading

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Music hall of fame news/noise (after Kahneman, 2021)

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Or: There and Back Again

We love it at the Fillmore and the Music HallThe Earl in Atlanta and the Turf in St. PaulThe Exit, The Basement, The Ryman gotta play ’em allThe Capitol stage where Jerry playedThe Troubadour where dreams are madeLet’s get on … Continue reading

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