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Steve Poltz plays the Old Steeple Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m.

Music Tonight: Wednesday, Feb. 5

By Collin Yeo on February 5, 2025 at 4:00AM

Steve Poltz is a unique case study of the type of musician who found a way to forge a livelihood with his art right before the industry cratered into the rare mega-wealth and mass poverty model that is currently destroying the soul of American music. Coming up from the SoCal indie music scene of the early ’90s, he linked up with fellow singer-songwriter Jewel to co-write some of her more massive hits in that last decade of record deals, MTV and oddballs in the arena spotlights.

Music Today: Sunday, Feb. 2

By Collin Yeo on February 2, 2025 at 4:00AM

The Eureka Woman’s Club is hosting a fundraiser for our fabulous Eureka Symphony today at 3 p.m. ($30).

Music Tonight: Saturday, Feb. 1

By Collin Yeo on February 1, 2025 at 4:00AM

Being raised by hippies who met in a cult — not the horrible kind, but still — I have generally avoided getting too invested in pagan holidays and astrology in favor of my own more traditional religious practices that I won’t elaborate on here for a variety of reasons, one of which is a desire to not be a public hypocrite about the temple of devotion. Consequently, I had to be informed by the mysterious La Neutra that tonight is Imbolc, the Gaelic holiday which either celebrates the beginning of the spring, or the time right between the more modern notion of winter solstice and spring equinox.

Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 31

By Collin Yeo on January 31, 2025 at 4:00AM

Master violinist Andrew Finn Magill has taken the time he lived and played in Brazil and created Canto, Violino!, a trio which slithers and pulses between the funnels of choro music, the early fusion ancestor of samba, jazz, and bossa nova. The rest of the group are world class musicians, with Brazilian percussionist Clarice Cast and guitarist Edhino Gerber.

Music Tonight: Thursday, Jan. 30

By Collin Yeo on January 30, 2025 at 9:28AM

Let January slip away with some vocal jazz courtesy of the Claire Bent Quintet. I’ve always enjoyed Ms. Bent’s versatile voice and her choice of a top backing band, which, last I checked (forgive me if I’m wrong) includes her dad Jim on drums.

Movie Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 29

By Collin Yeo on January 29, 2025 at 4:00AM

Forget a bad moon. There is no moon rising tonight, at least not one we can see, which makes it a perfectly safe evening to indulge in one of the greatest werewolf films ever made, An American Werewolf in London.

Music Tonight: Tuesday, Jan. 28

By Collin Yeo on January 28, 2025 at 4:00AM

Malibu rapper Shwayze has a career going back into the mid-00s, with summer jams, beach anthems, and summer grooves dominating the overall vibe of his career. If you would like a little bit of that sunshine during our fairly bipolar winter, then come by the Arcata Theatre Lounge tonight at 7 p.m.

Comedy Tonight: Monday, Jan. 27

By Collin Yeo on January 27, 2025 at 4:00AM

Dual headlining comics from Los Angeles will be taking over Savage Henry Comedy Club tonight at 9 p.m. Come join Justin Lentz and Curtis Taylor III as they work the mics and sing for their supper for a mere $5 at the door, quite a deal for a show so far from home.

Zug Consort: top row, L to R; Virginia Ryder, George Epperson. Middle row, L to R; Phil Sams, Dr. Gil Cline, Doug Hendricks. Bottom row, L to R; Greg Quast, Dick LaForge

Music Today: Sunday, Jan. 26

By Collin Yeo on January 26, 2025 at 4:00AM

The Chamber Players of the Redwoods presents a 2 p.m. matinee trio of programs for the public. The Zug Consort will be playing music from the Renaissance, followed by Humboldt Harmoniemusik performing a piece by mid-20th century English composer Ruth Gibbs, and capping the show will be pieces by former Cal Poly music professor John Carr, performed by Trombones @ 5.

Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan. 25

By Collin Yeo on January 25, 2025 at 4:00AM

Trumpeter Nicholas Talvola and company return with a redux of their popular appreciation of the music of jazz and world genre bender and multi instrumentalist Yusef Lateef at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 8 p.m. ($15).

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