C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 CCR Founder at CCR – With a career spanning more than 60 years, John Fogerty has become one of the most influential musicians in rock history, one who helped create the soundtrack of a generation and then kept going for decades more. As co-founder and chief musical architect of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fogerty was the writer, singer, and producer of numerous classic hits, including “Born on the Bayou,” “Green River,” “Proud Mary,” “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “Lookin’ Out My Back Door,” and “Bad Moon Rising” over just a couple of years in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. After CCR parted ways in 1972, Fogerty also found success as a solo artist with such singles as “Rockin’ All Over the World,” “The Old Man Down the Road,” and “Centerfield,” the latter still a standard at baseball stadiums across the country. CCR was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while Fogerty came in at No. 40 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 100 Greatest songwriters and No. 72 on the magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Singers (at number 72). The Berkeley- born rocker, who turns
75 in May, returns to the area for a show tonight at the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 3400 Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $79-$139 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino. com SCAPE Coasts – More than 100 artists who comprise Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE) will participate in the eighth annual “Visions of the Gaviota Coast” art show at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, special exhibition and sale that benefits the Gaviota Coast Conservancy (GCC). Forty percent of proceeds from the show – juried by famed Oak Group artist Rick Garcia – will go to the GCC, the nonprofit that works tirelessly to hold the line on development on the last open coastline in Southern California with an off-the-charts biodiversity rating. SCAPE painters help people to see the magnificence of the stunning Gaviota landscapes from the mountain tops to the shoreline, and this is their way of returning the favor. An awards presentation takes place at tonight’s reception, featuring mixing and mingling with the artists, a selection of raffle prizes, the opportunity to
THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Dutton Honey – Philadelphia-born alternative hip-hop specialist Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, is back with the original version of Special Sauce, a trio with Jeffrey Clemens on drums and Jim Prescott on bass that took their simultaneously sloppy yet laid-back sound across the nation back in the mid-1990s to lots of airplay on college and alternative radio stations. After a five-year hiatus since the band’s association with Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records banner, which came after Johnson had been a guest on the Special Sauce album Philadelphonic and included three studio releases as well as three more solo albums by Dutton, G. Love and the boys have produced a new album called The Juice, the latest displaying Dutton’s desire for upbeat and uplifting high-spirited music. “I’ve always tried to make music that’s a force for positivity,” Dutton said as the record – which was co-produced and co-written with Grammy-winning blues icon Keb’ Mo’ and recorded in Nashville with a slew of special guests including Robert Randolph, Marcus King, and Roosevelt Collier – came out in January. “It was important to me that this album be something that could empower the folks who are out there fighting the good fight every day… a rallying cry for empathy and unity… I’m more inspired right now than I’ve ever been before. I feel more thoughtful, seasoned, marinated, confident. I’m making the records I’ve always wanted to make.” Hear those achievements when G. Love and Special Sauce sashay back to SOhO in downtown Santa Barbara tonight. New acoustic blues up-and-comer Jontavious Willis, who some might say recalls a young Keb’ Mo’, opens the show. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $35 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
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EVENTS by Steven Libowitz
FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Piano Prodigy Performs – British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor was just 11 when he became the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition. By 19, he performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Opening Night of the 2011 BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall, one of the country’s most prestigious gigs. Now, just 27, Grosvenor has been described as “the best pianist to come out of England in the last fifty years,” and “one of the world’s most sought-after young pianists.” The accolades seem well-deserved as critics have found his playing reminiscent of the late legendary pianists Rachmaninoff, Schnabel, Rubinstein and Serkin. Grosvenor makes his Santa Barbara recital debut for CAMA’s Masterseries with a program that features Rameau’s Gavotte and Six Variations from Suite in A minor, RCT 5; Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op.16; and Berceuse in D-flat major, S.174 (second version) and Sonata in B minor, S.178, by Liszt. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $45$55 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
view and purchase the approximately 200 pieces of artwork, plus live music, appetizers and local wines. Tomorrow afternoon’s activities include screenings of two documentaries focusing on the Gaviota Coast: Shaw Leonard and Tamlorn Chase’s Gaviota: The End of Southern California and Losing Ground, the latter featuring Gunner Tautrim, a rancher who is also a board member for GCC. The show takes place at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara Resort, the five-star hotel that has hosted the “Visions of the Gaviota Coast” exhibit since it began in 2013. WHEN: 1-8 pm today (reception 5-8 pm); 10 am-5 pm tomorrow WHERE: Ritz-Carlton Bacara, 8301 Hollister Avenue COST: free INFO: (805) 683-6681 or www.gaviotacoastconservancy.org Meandering the Edges – The new exhibit at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is an installation of works on paper and sculpture by Nathan Huff, an associate professor of art at Westmont College whose work has also been featured in solo exhibitions in town at Sullivan Goss Gallery and Lotusland, as well as UCR Culver Museum and Sweeney Galleries (Riverside), D.E.N. Contemporary (West Hollywood), Minthorne Gallery (Oregon), among others. The exhibit examines ways in which we inhabit homes and move through domestic spaces based on memory and emotion. Installed in unconventional ways on the walls, floor, and corners of the AFSB’s meeting space/gallery, Huff’s paintings on paper of furniture, wood floors, tables and shovels are meant to draw attention to the space itself as an important part of the narrative. WHEN: Opening reception 5-7 pm tonight; exhibit continues through May
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.” – Patrick Rothfuss
6 WHERE: 229 E. Victoria St. (in the historic Acheson House on the corner of Garden) COST: free INFO: (805) 965-6307 or www.afsb.org SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Beatunes – Just when it seemed every possible permutation and combination of words and ideas to pay tribute to the Beatles must have been taken already, here comes Beatunes. Perhaps it’s an unfortunate choice for a name as it conjures elevator music rather than rock ‘n’ roll, but The Beatunes have a much more honorable mission, as the four SoCal musicians aim solely to honor and play The Beatles songs as faithfully to the recordings as possible. Eschewing costumes, mop top wigs, backing tracks or anything other gimmicks, The Beatunes simply continue to increase their repertoire and precision in replicating the sound of The Beatles, from the early “Fab Four” days to the final recordings, constantly searching for new ways to bring more realism to the show with the caveat that every sound you hear at a Beatunes concert is played live by the band. Basically, the Beatunes revel in playing the Beatles songs for audiences of all ages to enjoy. In other words, close your eyes and they’ll kiss you with arguably the greatest pop music of all time. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com A Gripping Handel – Joyce DiDonato headlines MET Live in HD’s repeat simulcast of Handel’s brilliant and tuneful comedy Agrippina, in a new staging by Sir David 12 – 19 March 2020
