Wobbly World, presented by Earthwise Productions, is the headliner at the second 3rd Thursdays event, which features a World 🎵 Music theme. Featuring Freddy Clarke of Menlo Park
The new 3rd Thursday music series holds its second event June 15 tomorrow along Palo Alto’s Cali Avenue with an evening of World Music, featuring artists Hobbyhorse, Jazz Before Midnight with Nathan Tokunaga, Top Shelf, Rick Sanders, World Harmony Chorus, Fete Musette, The Planka Band and Aprylle Dawn. Peninsula-based band Wobbly World, which boasts an international lineup of musicians playing an array of international music, is the headliner, presented by Earthwise Productions.
Visitors can stroll between performances, which will all be taking place at the same time along California Avenue and several side streets, “creating a community festival vibe as opposed to a concert,” event producer Carol Garsten said in a press release about the event.
Spearheaded by Garsten, a Barron Park resident with longtime ties to downtown Los Altos’ First Friday music event, the series aims to unite the local community and foster joy among Palo Alto residents.
A plethora of California Avenue businesses, including French bistro La Boheme, Calave wine bar, superfood standby Vitality Bowls and pizzeria Terún, will feature 3rd Thursday specials for listeners to enjoy while they absorb the evening’s melodies and rhythms.
People can also check out other local merchants, who may have extended hours or special offers. Gamelandia will open up its collection of over 500 board games for two hours of free open play. Gallery House holds a sale and gallery members will also be on hand to lead participants through a community art sharing project. The event offers an opportunity to take in the three new murals recently completed during the California Avenue Murals Festival
Weiss with mural artist Olivia Losee-Unger
and to make it all official, a 3rd Thursday ribbon cutting ceremony with Palo Alto Mayor Lydia Kou and the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce takes place at 5:45pm at El Camino Real and California Avenue.
Palo Altans, visitors and their children or pets, can emjoy the beautiful summer weather and support local creatives on California Avenue with an evening of fun for the whole family and our collective soul.
3rd Thursday takes place June 15, 6-9 p.m. in the California Avenue business district, along California Avenue between El Camino Real and Birch Street; on Ash Street between California and Sherman avenues; on Birch Street between California and Cambridge avenues; and from Birch Street down to Park Avenue, Palo Alto. Attendance is free. 3rdthursday.fun.(source: Palo Alto Weekly)
Note: on July 20, the third Third Thursday, Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto, is producing a stage at the festival that will feature Leon Timbo band at 7 pm preceded by Josh Thurston Milgrom Quartet at. 6.
Leon Timbo
Josh Thurston Milgrom
🎵 Palo Alto’s “World Music Day” is actually “fete de la musique” / “make music day” which means it takes advantage of the long summer twilight, features multiple stages of local musicians; its “world(wide)” more than that it features music in Spanish or Portuguese or is from below the equator. Wobbly World does, nonetheless, feature people and themes from Central America and the Middle East.
Peets Café at town and country near Stanford, updating my avails log and I recognize Dan Olmsted who played in my concert series in the fall of 1995. He is Cubberley class of 1972. But he doesn’t look a day over 69. His band was called the New Jersey Devils. According to spellcheck. They open for Cake and The Negro problem. And a Black guy started tearing down all our posters. He said they were moving in a more Celtic direction so I asked him to over for the Young Dubliners November 11 at The Mitch. He clarified that he’s married to Kathy, the bass player, not Sheila the fiddle player. He clarified that he washed windows for Gregg Rolie’s mother, not mowed the lawn.
And1: They call me Mr Hanif:
I flipped through the special issue of the Rolling Stone the teacher articles about Mick Jagger — please note the magazine is not otherwise affiliated with the rock band despite the similar names. It was a vain search to see if there was anything by Hanif Abdur Rahim. As spellcheck calls him. (Hanif Abdurraqib) he has a passage in his book about working at a health food store or maybe health insurance and having to constantly correct people on how to say or spell his name. On point he has an essay about the woman who sang the backing parts on Gimme Shelter. He also has an interesting passage about soul train, and the exact outfit worn by someone to War. Which makes me want to hire Aleta Hayes and student Rabiah Kabir to create a live Soul Train tribute. Rabiah has corrected me twice on her name. She plays the flute in a salsa band, and then puts down her axe to axe people to dance.
As the man says: FRIDAY JUNE 9 LYTTON PLAZA PALO ALTO, CA Freddy Jones Band will perform a free concert at 7 pm, presented by Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto.
I made an attempt to reach former KFOG jocks Rosalie Howarth and Renee Richardson to see if they wanted to introduce the band, whose song “In A Daydream” was a staple of KFOG and its “Acoustic Sunrise” show. I did hear back from Bonnie Simmons a former KSAN jock — still at KPFA most Thursday nights — and who managed Cake who were on Capricorn Records, as were FJB.
So far we have 18 RSVPs — there is obviously room for a few more people. (Initially, I thought it we got more than 200 RSVPs at this point I would check back with the City of Palo Alto about the need to possibly shut down Emerson between University and Hamilton).
See you there, all 18 of you — plus the 50 readers of Plastic Alto.
This is a model or maquette of a full-scale and drivable 1969 Camero SS designed and being fabricated in New Mexico by Diego Romero, Mateo Romero and certain accomplices, subcontractors, contributors, influences and producers. I am just a guy writing about it and wiring money down there every now and again.
Diego Romero lived in Berkeley for much of his youth before moving to Santa Fe area where he creates pottery with iconography that references the history of his group, the Cochiti. He is an ongoing “pueblo revolt”. I took this picture recently in Sacramento, CA at the Crocker Museum. His works, donated by a Mr or Dr Lipson are near pots by various Pueblo artists and styles donated by my siblings and parents.
Maria by Rose Simpson is an influence on our project. But Diego was married to Roxanne, who is Rose’s mother — so in some ways Diego is an influence on Maria. Rose’s car has been displayed since 2014. It would be good to know the exhibition history of the car.
Rose in NYT — part of the stream of texts I send Mateo about this project
I had a fairly extensive talk with the creator of this car and the distinction between being a Raiders fan and cosplay
I’m not sure how things I see influence how Mateo and Diego make the car — Palm Springs, December, 2021
I’m in love with my car; Got a feel for my automobile
I reported earlier that I am producing 12 concerts free in the parks of Palo Alto or the plaza or in the case of three artists on two evenings in the streets. Meanwhile, I noticed the Palo Alto weekly has a story about a new mural going up on the side of Izzy’s bagels by Olivia Losee Unger that features flowers of a trumpet shape. Perhaps I can cross pollinate by licensing from Losee, her art for my series, for a poster. another question would be why are they calling this a temporary mural with a five year lifespan. When Joey Piziali installed his mural is part of the triptych 20 years ago it was permanent, same street.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 