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An Evening with Karla Bonoff

by Josh James
October 31, 2023

Getting her start in the flourishing music scene of Southern California in the ’60s and ’70s, Karla Bonoff is one of the leading singer-songwriters of her generation. Her impressive career, which has spanned over four decades, includes opening for James Taylor and Jackson Browne, touring with Bonnie Raitt, as well as writing and recording songs for iconic films. Bonoff has enjoyed critical acclaim, enduring popularity, and the unwavering respect of her peers.

In addition to her own chart success with recordings such as “Personally” and the Footloose single “Somebody’s Eyes,” she has penned chart-topping hits for megastars such as Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood and Linda Ronstadt, with many of her ballads becoming pop classics. Performing sold-out concerts worldwide, Bonoff invites audiences to enjoy her greatest hits in an intimate format, where she will deliver many of her popular ballads, such as “All My Life,” “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me,” and “Tell Me Why,” as well as originals from her 2019 album, Carry Me Home. Enjoy this rare evening showcasing a versatile artist’s impressive music legacy.

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Fly Fishing Film Tour 2024

by Gina Graham
October 27, 2023

Join the Santa Barbara Flyfishers for the Central Coast premiere of the Fly Fishing Film Tour 2024. Come early to browse our raffle prizes, learn about our conservation and community partners, enjoy some food and drink, and learn about the clubs’ upcoming fly fishing adventures! Seating is limited; get your tickets early!

The event comes to the historic Lobero Theater showing a series of short films featuring amazing fly-fishing experiences from around the globe. Attendees will experience wrestling peacock bass in the Amazon, conservation efforts in the Bahamas, a look at growing up with a fly rod in the Pacific Northwest and many more. It’s a movie night that promises to reel you in!

Beyond the films, the event is about community connection and conservation. Our Community partners: The Mayfly Project (https://themayflyproject.com), Merito Foundation (www.meritofoundation.org), and Casting for Recovery (https://castingforrecovery.org) will be present on the Lobero patio from 5:30 pm to raise awareness of the work they are doing to introduce foster children to fly fishing their local waters, teach conservation to students and teachers inside and outside of the classroom, and host fly fishing retreats for women with or recovering from cancer respectively.

We want to thank our amazing corporate sponsor, We Are Airstream Santa Barbara, for helping to make this event possible. https://www.weareairstreamsuperstore.com/

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The Magical Music of Motown – 2024

by Gina Graham
October 23, 2023

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Be quick; their previous shows SOLD OUT early !!!

Don’t miss this SUPERBAND with internationally acclaimed artists who faithfully recreate the dynamic performances of: The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and The Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Jackson Five, Smokey Robinson and many more MOTOWN Legends.

This amazing show presents many classic MOTOWN hits including: Reach Out, Stop In The Name Of Love, Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, Heatwave, Get Ready, Dancing in The Street, Signed Sealed Delivered, You Can’t Hurry Love, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, My Girl , Can You Feel It , I Want You Back and many more

CHECK OUT the amazing performing credits of our world class band who love to pay tribute to the wonderful music that inspires them. 

They have collectively played or recorded with: Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Jacksons, The Supremes, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight, Bill Withers, Boz Skaggs, Bobby Womack, Earth Wind and Fire, Isaac Hayes, J LO, Aretha Franklin, David Foster, Rose Royce, The GAP Band, Englebert Humperdinck, Sheila E, Usher, Teena Marie, etc.

 

themagicalmusicofmotown.com

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Hallelujah Project 9 2023

by Gina Graham
October 21, 2023

Join the Santa Barbara Choral Society for our Hallelujah Project 9, an annual community tradition for all ages.  This year will feature Justin Fox of Dishwalla, Music Academy SING! Children’s chorus, a full orchestra, and a visit from jolly old St. Nick.  We’ll celebrate the season together with an eclectic mix of holiday favorites, including select choruses from Bach’s Magnificat, A Christmas Carol from Scrooge: The Musical, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet, classic carols, and an audience singalong of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah.

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Journey USA

by Gina Graham
October 17, 2023

Journey USA is the closest thing to ‘70s & ‘80s Journey music you’ll ever hear!

Start with a singer who was hired to do vocal work for Steve Perry during his solo career.  Add the rest of the band—a guitarist who played and penned multiple hits for Grammy nominee, Great White in the ‘80s MTV era, a drummer who also toured with Great White, and a veteran multi-instrumentalist with 3 appearances on AXS TV’s World’s Greatest Tribute Bands, the thundering precision of bassist Jeffrey Bretz—and you have Journey USA!

With an emphasis on crowd participation and high energy performances, this talent-packed Journey tribute band captures the signature sound of the supergroup with hits like Don’t Stop Believing, Open Arms, Separate Ways, and Any Way You Want It, every song executed with stunning precision!

Since its inception, Journey USA has delivered dynamic performances to thousands of fans at casinos, fairs, festivals, private functions and corporate events, its members frequently appearing on AXS TV’s World’s Greatest Tribute Bands. In 2022, Royal Caribbean jumped onboard, signing Journey USA to a long-term contract.

If you want the best possible Journey experience out there, look no further—it’s Journey USA!

journeyusaband.com

 

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Gary Gulman

by Gina Graham
October 17, 2023

Over 25 years in comedy, Gary Gulman has established himself as an eminent performer and peerless writer. In addition to countless TV appearances as both a comedian and an actor, Gulman has made four masterful TV specials. His latest universally acclaimed stand-up special for HBO, “The Great Depresh,” is a tour de force look at mental illness, which is equal parts hilarious and inspiring. In 2019, he appeared in the international blockbuster “Joker.” Gulman can most recently be seen co-starring with Amy Schumer in the hit Hulu comedy series, “Life & Beth.”

His first book published by Flatiron Books is titled “Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ’80s”, a memoir based on his life from kindergarten through twelfth grade. It was released in September of 2023. Today, Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters around the country, including the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City. Gary’s current tour, “Misfit: A Gary Gulman Stand Up & Book Tour,” will feature material based on his book, but not a repeat of the book.

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Judy Collins 2024

by Gina Graham
October 14, 2023

Judy Collins has long inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Five decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic body of work, and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.

The award-winning singer-songwriter is esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own poetically poignant original compositions. Her stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” from her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers, has been entered into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame. Judy’s dreamy and sweetly intimate version of “Send in the Clowns,” a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical A Little Night Music, won Song of the Year at the 1975 GRAMMY® Awards. She’s garnered several top-ten hits gold and platinum-selling albums.

Judy is as creatively vigorous as ever, writing, touring worldwide, and nurturing fresh talent. She is a modern-day Renaissance woman who is also an accomplished painter, filmmaker, record label head, musical mentor, and an in-demand keynote speaker for mental health and suicide prevention. She continues to create music of hope and healing that lights up the world and speaks to the heart. Her 2022 release Spellbound, which marked the first all-original collection of her career, was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Folk Album, her second in the category.

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Sarah Jarosz 2024

by Josh James
October 3, 2023

With her captivating voice and richly detailed songwriting, Sarah Jarosz has emerged as one of the most compelling musicians of her generation. The Texas native started singing as a young girl and became an accomplished multi-instrumentalist by her early teens. After releasing her full-length debut Song Up in Her Head at 18-years-old, she went on to deliver such critically lauded albums as Follow Me Down, Build Me Up from Bones, and 2016’s Undercurrent.

The four-time GRAMMY® winner has announced her new album, Polaroid Lovers, set for release on January 26, 2024 via Rounder Records. The seventh album from Jarosz finds the highly decorated songwriter at the apex of change. Sarah spent most of her adult life living in New York City, but shortly before writing the album, Jarosz left her adopted home to join her soon-to-be husband in Nashville, TN. Polaroid Lovers is an album-long meditation on those strangely ephemeral moments that indelibly shape our lives.

The follow-up to 2020’s studio album World on the Ground (winner of the GRAMMY® Award for Best Americana Album) and 2021’s song cycle Blue Heron Suite, Polaroid Lovers embodies a bold new vitality that has much to do with a deliberate shift in Jarosz’s writing process and sonic approach. A widely beloved musician whose past efforts include teaming up with fellow singer/songwriters Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan to form the GRAMMY® Award-winning trio I’m With Her — as well as appearing on albums by iconic artists like David Crosby and Amy Ray of Indigo Girls — Jarosz derived a particularly profound sense of purpose from the highly collaborative process behind Polaroid Lovers.

 

The Ballroom Thieves

Indie folk-rock duo The Ballroom Thieves hail from New England. Martin Earley and Calin Peters released their 4th album, Clouds, in 2022 via Nettwerk Records, which became an opportunity for the band to mine the challenges of the past three years for creative inspiration. Clouds is a song cycle born of mixed experiences and fueled by the power of imagination. The album is a lush meditation on longing to return to touring – to see different sunsets and cities. But, it’s also a reflection of its difficulties.

 

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Paula Cole

by Gina Graham
October 2, 2023

Join us for an evening with Grammy-winning artist Paula Cole.

Paula Cole has released music for over three decades, from her debut “Harbinger” in her androgynous combat boots and sensitive songs, to the everlasting hits of “This Fire” and “I Don’t Want to Wait”, to her genre-busting “Amen” (a neo-soul-touched tour de force). She has released seven solo albums of original songs, won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1998, and became the first woman ever to be nominated for “Producer of the Year” in her own right in that same year. Cole has been a truth-teller, a provocateur, a feminist, a rebel, and a brilliant autobiographical writer who has pushed for personal honesty and social change.

Paula Cole’s eleventh studio album, “Lo” is devastatingly personal and utterly gorgeous. Lo’s eleven songs, written entirely by Cole, navigate her opening to trust again after indelible blows of life. As the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Producer Grammy in her own right, Paula Cole returns to the helm of recording as sole producer. “Lo” was recorded entirely live, featuring full band performances from Jay Bellerose (drums), Chris Bruce (guitars), Ross Gallagher (upright and electric bass, backing vocals) and Rich Hinman (pedal steel, guitars). It was recorded and mixed by nine-time-Grammy-award-winning-engineer, Mike Piersante, whose unique sound is the canvas for “Lo.”

Morley and Chris Bruce

Morley weaves the threads of jazz, soul, and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor. The singer-songwriter/producer has released six solo artist albums under the auspices of Sony and Universal, as well as independently. She is joined by her husband, Chris Bruce, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, writer, recording, and touring musician.

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Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra

by Gina Graham
September 30, 2023

Ottmar Liebert founded the first incarnation of his band, Luna Negra, in 1989. His music style is a mix of Spanish, Mexican and World elements, strong melodies tinged with a shade of melancholy, balanced with upbeat rhythms. Liebert has since become one of the most successful instrumental artists of the past decades, entertaining audiences around the world and releasing a catalog of 33 classic albums.

ottmarliebert.com

 

 

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Demetri Martin

by Gina Graham
September 28, 2023

Demetri won the Perrier Award at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh for his one-man show, If I. At the Melbourne International Comedy festival, his show Dr. Earnest Parrot Presents Demetri Martin won Australia’sBarry Award. Demetri has released three standup comedy albums and four hour-long standup comedy specials, including his latest for Netflix, The Overthinker.

Demetri created and starred in his own television series for Comedy Central called Important Things with Demetri Martin. His books, This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, are New York Times Bestsellers. His latest book, If It’s Not Funny It’s Art, features a collection of his original drawings. Demetri’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. His first feature film, Dean, which won the Founder’s Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival for best narrative American feature film.

Demetri has brown hair and he is allergic to peanuts.

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Los Lonely Boys

by Josh James
September 19, 2023

Please note: This is a two night engagement, featuring an amplified performance on 1/26/24 and an acoustic performance on 1/27/24

Henry, Jojo, and Ringo Garza have been making bluesy “Texican rock & roll” music together for seventeen years and show no signs of slowing down. The three young brothers formed a band, got signed to a major label, and had a hit single that propelled them to stardom. In the span of their career, they have sold 2.5 million records, won a GRAMMY®, and received five more GRAMMY® nominations.

The second-generation sibling band was showcased at Farm Aid by Willie Nelson, who fronted recording time at his famed Pedernales Studio, and guested on their album. Another dream came true for the Boys when Carlos Santana invited them to guest on his 2005 album, All That I Am. They also released Live at the Fillmore that year. Their father and Willie Nelson joined them on 2006’s Sacred, and in 2007, their cover of John Lennon’s “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” became the second single from the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.

With special guests 80HProject for the 1/27 acoustic performance ONLY

“A smoothly vocal heavy positive groove based crew with an amazing feel.” 80Hproject came together in the fertile music hotbed of their native Austin, TX. The band since expanded  their presence to the Nashville, TN music scene and is fast making their mark. The 80HProject are continually ramping up their original, uncompromisingly soulful sound and are breaking through as “just below the radar” sensation. Ady Hernandez, band leader has the tenacity of a new coming artist combined with the history of a seasoned vet. Ady’s live performances has been described as, he “Plays guitar like Carlos Santana and sings like Stevie Wonder”

 

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Rudolph 2023

by Gina Graham
September 16, 2023

Rudolph is the classic holiday tale of a misfit reindeer with a blinking red nose, who makes friends and embarks on a journey through the North Pole to save Christmas. Featuring the students of State Street Ballet Academy as well as the Cold Spring School Choir and Laudate Choir directed by Sara DiSalvo.

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Convergence – 805 Beer

by Gina Graham
September 15, 2023

Convergence is an original 805 Beer film starring Authenticos Conner Coffin, Nate Tyler, and Greyson Fletcher. Directed by Perry Gerkshow, and filmed on location throughout California, Convergence follows three surf icons as they travel up the Golden State’s coast to surf, skate, share cold ones, and reflect on the journey their shared love for surfing and the Californian way of life has taken them on.

6:45-8 PM – Happy Hour on the Esplanade
8:00-9:15 PM – Film Screening

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MARIA CALLAS: The Sacred Flame

by Gina Graham
September 14, 2023

Helena Matheopoulos is a Greek-born, London-based journalist, author, biographer, public speaker and opera specialist. She has worked for a number of high-profile publications including Tatler, The Sunday Times, and Greek Vogue, as well as writing a number of books mainly on opera, but including a biography of Juan Carlos I of Spain. She has also worked in an advisory capacity for the Athens Megaron and the Philharmonia Orchestra and is often asked to speak publicly on opera and related subjects.

Forty five years after her death, Greek born Maria Callas (nee Kalogeropoulos), is still worshipped as ardently as she was during her lifetime: Her records outsell those of any other diva, past or present, and she seems to mesmerize a new generation of opera lovers as potently as she bewitched the audiences of her day; a phenomenon unique in the history of opera. “Not just unequalled –unequalable!” according to the legendary Italian film, opera, and stage director Luchino Visconti. The Italian press perceptively christened  her “La Divina,” thus emphasizing the extra, metaphysical dimension that sets Callas apart from singers of her time and, so far, of all time.

Now, in September 2023, the 100th anniversary of her birth, the Mayor of Athens will inaugurate a “Maria Callas Museum” next to Athens Cathedral; Unesco has named 2023 ”Maria Callas Year”; Opera Houses all over the world are dedicating productions to her memory.“Without doubt”, declares Kiki Morfoniou, who sang Neris to her Medea at Epidaurus in 1961,“Maria was The Voice of the Century.

This lecture is the perfect complement to the November 10 performance by Opera Santa Barbara: LA DIVINA: The Art of Maria Callas. Eleni Calenos and Jana McIntyre sing signature arias of Maria Callas, accompanied by the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra, conducted by Kostis Protopapas.

This is a collaboration between UCSB’s Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies and Opera Santa Barbara, and is made possible through the generosity of the Argyropoulos family and UCLA’s Niarchos Foundation.

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