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Saturday, April 11th – 1 pm
Avotcja, 2015 Jazz Hero!
Join saxophone titan John Handy, jazz diva Denise Perrier, master trumpeter Eddie Gale and the Dynamic Miss Faye Carol (2014 Jazz Hero) — along with Modúpue bandmates Yancie Taylor, Sandi Poindexter, Jon Jang, Heshima Mark Williams, Val Serrant and Baba Ken Okulolo  — in honoring “2015 Jazz Hero” Avotcja on Saturday, April 11th at 1…
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Wednesday, April 8th – 7 pm
Gallery opening!
Greg Adams & Tom Baxter
Gallery Ex Libris, in the recesses of Bird & Beckett, features work by Greg Adams (assemblages) and Tom Baxter (drawings) through the end of April. Â Wednesday night at 7pm is the opening, and we hope to see you there! Gallery Ex Libris is curated by Jack Whittington. Visit galleryexlibris.com for information regarding submissions and past…
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Monday, April 6th – 7 pm
Poets Mike Tuggle & Bill Vartnaw
Two Laureates on one stage… and you in the open mic… Mike Tuggle, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Emeritus (2008-9), is celebrating the upcoming publication of The Motioning In, New & Selected Poems by Petaluma River Press due this spring.  He is also the author of Absolute Elsewhere (2004, Philos Press) & The Singing Itself (2009, Running…
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Sunday, April 5th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Eugene Pliner Trio
Eugene Pliner, piano Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, drums A classic piano trio, led by one of the key players on the local scene for decades, often heard at Les Joulins Jazz Bistro. Eugene began his musical career at an early age in Riga, Latvia (formerly Russia). In his early twenties, he migrated to the…
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jazz club!
Saturday, April 4th – 8-11pm
Smith Dobson Quartet
Smith Dobson, tenor sax   and vibraphone Luke Westbrook, guitar Noah Schenker, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Smith Dobson debuts a new quartet to explore some of his own writing and aspects of the jazz canon that inform his sensibility. Without doubt, Smith is one of the key players on the San Francisco jazz scene…
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Sunday, March 29th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Misisipi Mike Wolf covers Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger
On March 29, local folk ‘n’ country songwriter of some small note, Misisipi Mike Wolf and his musical pals will perform live and in person, for all those who wish to be entertained, the classic 1975 Willie (Hugh) Nelson concept album “Red Headed Stranger.” Considered one of the best albums all time, “Red Headed Stranger”…
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