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Thursday, June 30 @ 8PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
With special musical guest
CJ Boyd
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection:
There's no better way to enjoy film!
Tonight's film schedule:
The Gruffalo
by Jakob Schuh & Max Lang
United Kingdom
Tolerance
by Fanny Ardant
Italy
Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg's Howl
by Tiffany Shlain
USA
Jaukka Bro's
by Peter Grönlund
Sweden
Pass the Salt, Please
by Tatjana Najdanovic
USA
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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CANCELLED!
Friday, July 1
(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Present
Henry Miller Library
Alela Diane/Cancelled
&
Dylan LeBlanc
Due to a scheduling conflict Alela Diane @ HML on Friday, July 1, 2011 has been cancelled.
We hope to have her return in the future to play for her Central Coast fans.
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Presents
An Acoustic Evening with
Jackie Greene
Gate at 6PM
Show at 8PM
Will Call at the gate.
No need to print out anything.
Please bring matching ID to show.
No refunds.
CARPOOL to this event.
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Thursday, June 23 @ 7PM
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
Under the stars, a beautiful screen, excellent sound and projection: There's no better way to enjoy film!
Special musical guests:
Johan Seige and Caroline Aiken
From 'bio' on Johan's website:
Johan Seige, the grounder and the main man in the band “Johan Seige Band” is a pretty nice guy! Not only that, he makes pretty good songs also, and performs them with an enthusiasm that rubs off on the audients like honey on serial! Or should that be “mixes”?
Caroline Aiken: (from Aiken's Press Release):
Caroline Aiken, often sighted as one of the cornerstones of the Decatur folk movement, has long been at the forefront of modern folk and acoustic expression. To her credit, she’s never compromised her vision, weakened her stance or sold out her muse for monetary or social gain.
Tonight's film schedule:
Lost Paradise
by Mihal Brezis
Israel
Aux Timides Anonymes
by Eric Ducher
France
I Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life With You
by Manuela Moreno
Spain
At Home
by Nenad Mikalacki
Serbia
Water Lillies In Bloom
by Emil Stang Lund
Norway
Do come early and enjoy some pre-show music
friends and our famous pop-corn!
Free entry. Donations appreciated.
CARPOOL to this event.
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TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY @ HIGH NOON!
(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Presents in Big Sur
Henry Miller Library
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Bill Callahan
support by
Light in the Attic Records'
Michael Chapman
gates 6pm
show 7pm
tickets $25 plus venue fees
Artist link
RECENT ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORKER
SOLD OUT!!!
Will Call at the gate.
No need to print out anything.
Please bring matching ID to show.
No refunds.
CARPOOL to this event.
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MOVED TO JUNE 12 due to rain.
(((folkYEAH!))) & Henry Miller Library
Present in Big Sur
Camper Van Beethoven
performing their classic LP
"Key Lime Pie"....
...and more
outdoors in Big Sur.
doors 4:30pm / show 6pm
Tickets Here ($28 - plus fees)
there will be ticketss at the door as well...
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Tuesday, June 7th
(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Present in Big Sur, CA.
J MASCIS (solo)
+ special guests TBA
gates 6pm / show 7:30
tixs $25 plus fees at NOON May 20.
TICKETS AT THE DOOR
CARPOOL to this event.
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Sunday, May 29th
(((folkYEAH!))) & The Henry Miller Memorial Library Present:
Chris Robinson Brotherhood
+ very special guest
HOWLIN RAIN
Doors @ 2pm
Show @ 2.30pm
SOLD OUT!!!
Tickets are $22 (plus fees) - no tickets over the phone.
NO REFUNDS
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SOLD OUT!!!
(((folkYEAH!))) & Henry Miller Library
Present in Big Sur:
An evening with Gillian Welch
(outdoors under the stars)
Monday, May 30th (Memorial Day)
gates 6pm / show 7:30pm
SOLD OUT!!!
PAPERLESS TICKETS.
ALL TICKETS ARE WILL CALL- PER ARTIST AND VENUE REQUEST - PLEASE DO NOT PRINT ANY TICKET OR PROOF OF PURCHASE.
Your name will be on the will call list - just bring a form of ID to claim your tickets.
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"the soundtrack to our lives"
Friday, May 27 at 7.30 PM
A very special presentation and screening of
The Wrecking Crew
by the films Director, Denny Tedesco
with DJ selections by DJ C-LO!
Good blog on the subject here
“The Wrecking Crew” was the name given to a loose group of about 20 to 30 studio musicians used in the LA recording industry during the 1960's. They recorded more number one singles than the Beatles.
They cut records with Elvis Presley, Herb Alpert, the Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound, and the Monkees among many others.
“Good Vibrations,” “California Dreamin’,” “Mr. Tamborine Man” - all Wrecking Crew.
Wine and Beer will be served.
$ 10 plus fees here.
$ 15 the night of the screening.
A wonderful, touching and hilarious film about the unsung stars of so many records that you carry in your heart. - Elvis Costello
This info below is from http://www.wreckingcrew.tv/index2.html
The film asserts that they provided "the soundtrack to our lives".
This documentary was made by Denny Tedesco the son of one of the most famous of The Wrecking Crew, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, who passed away in 1997. Tedesco has assembled interviews with many of the living members: bass player Carol Kaye, Glen Campbell, drummer Earl Palmer, and Hal Blaine to name a few. He provides personal footage of his dad that he filmed and a conversation with four of the wrecking crew, including his father.
I hovered in the room near the ceiling as I watched this inspiring movie about the musicians who made the songs that continue to lift me higher than ever.
- Nancy Wilson (Heart)
If I'd known they were available, I would have used those guys on my records. 'The Wrecking Crew' is the best documentary yet about the recording scene. I loved it.
- Steve Miller, Gangster of Love
That's really how it was. These were The Greats the best of the best! They made the music to the sound tracks of our lives. This offering gives us insight into the minds, the art and the soul of these creative musicians.
- Jose Feliciano
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Thursday, May 19
The big Big BIG Sur
Fashion Show
pre-show starts at 6:30
show starts at 8: 30
The big Big BIG Sur Fashion Show is a creative community showcase of couture clothing art, designed using non-traditional materials. This year's theme is "Back to the Future".
The evening starts with a masquerade Pre-Show from 6:30-8:30 pm, with food, drink, local vendors selling handcrafted and unique wares, music, and interactive art projects.
The... Show itself will start at 8:30 pm and finish up by 10.
Official After Party begins at Fernwood Resort at 10 pm.
BLOG and LINKS about Fashion Show
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≠(((folkYEAH!))) & HMML Present in Big Sur
SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011
S. CAREY
doors 5pm - show 6pm
tickets $20 (plus fees)
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Thursday, May 12 @ 7PM
CINEPOETRY
Curated by Francesco Levato and Maria Teutsch.
See poster below.
Music by Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us starting at 7PM.
SCHEDULE BELOW
Cinepoetry Festival Schedule
First Hour 8.45 - 9.45:
Variations on Want: Sequence II, by Francesco Levato (run time: 10:00)
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, by Antonello Faretta, poem by John Giorno (run time: 3:07)
Mirror, by Kylie Hibbert, poem by Sylvia Plath (run time: 3:22)
Love Song for Cells, by Jillian Brall (run time: 1:50)
Sucks Her with Fiddle, by Jillian Mukavetz (run time: 1:19)
Two films from The Pond, by Zachary Schomburg (run time: 2:52)
The Inventor’s Last Breath, by J. Hope Stein (run time: 10:00)
The Three Organizations of L.R. Levato, by Chris Hefner (run time: 4:23)
Die Pretty, by LaDonna Witmer (run time: 3:00)
Who Says Words with my Mouth, by D J Kadagian, poem by Rumi (run time: 6:05)
Chronicles on Violence, by Maria Garcia Teutsch (run time: 5:00)
Passage, by Kurt Heintz, poem by Quraysh Ali Lansana (run time: 5:18)
Tyger, by Guilherme Marcondes, based on The Tyger by William Blake (run time: 4:31)
Short Intermission/Poetry Reading by Christine Hamm
Second Hour: 10.00 - 11.00:
Entanglement, by Ed Bowes, poem by Anne Waldman (run time: 62:00)
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Saturday, May 14th
Movie screening and Concert
7.30PM - 8.45PM
Music by Gabe Rosenn Band w/ Big John Hurt.
9.00 - 10.00PM Screening of the film:
HOT TUBS
followed by Q&A with Director Gabe Rosenn
10 - 11 PM
Music by Gabe Rosenn Band (with Big Joe Hurt) time allows.
Hot tubs make you wet. They make you sweat.
They conjure up images of steaming cauldrons bubbling over with bikinis and pull-tab beer cans.
Very possibly the sounds of Foghat.
And of course, mind-altering substances to meld it all together.
Celebrate this noble pursuit with the Big Sur premiere of Hot Tubs, a skinny-dipped look at the rise of tub culture in '70s Santa Barbara.
The legendary Bohemian community that launched the Jacuzzi trend (and counted Jack Kerouac and Jimi Hendrix as visitors) is captured with rare footage from the era. Which means a lot of classic rock and NSFW revelry.
After the movie, filmmaker/guitarist Gabe Rosenn and his band keep it real, performing tracks featured in the film by Zeppelin, Clapton, and more...
To top it off, they're accompanied by a multimedia lightshow. So pack your prescription.
Come steam a while...dream a while - with the group that revolutionized the way we relax and gave birth to the modern day spa.
This is the story of....Hot Tubs!
Tickets $15 in advance (plus fee's) here.
$20 at the door.
About the film:
Hot Tubs premiered at the 26th Annual Santa Barbara Film Festival in January 2011 to rave reviews. The film is a warm-hearted look at the hot tub scene of Santa Barbara in the 70's, and the book Hot Tubs, published by indie publisher Noel Young (publisher of Henry Miller and Raymond Carver) which gave rise to the modern day spa industry. The film features 16mm film from that era, rare Japanese video broadcasts, and rare interview footage with Noel Young. This new expanded cut features never ten minutes of never seen before footage- 35 minutes.
For more info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764371, www.gprfilmsonline.com
1973 was a turbulent time. The world was overcome with war and social change. Yet on Mountain Drive, deep in the hills of Santa Barbara, California- the good times were rollin'. The redwood tub was in and clothes were out. Author, publisher, Noel Young, was there to document it in Hot Tubs, the book that launched a movement. Come steam a while...dream a while - with the group that revolutionized the way we relax and gave birth to the modern day spa. This is the story of....Hot Tubs.
Big Joe Hurt
Hailing from LA, Big Joe Hurt has thrilled audiences at legendary clubs on the Sunset Strip including the Viper Room, the Whisky A Go Go, the House of Blues, and at local festivals and benefits.
In 2009, the Big Joe Hurt Band won Single of the Year for their timely song "War" by the LA Music Awards. In 2010, the band released their cd "While You Were Away" which was nominated for Album of the Year.
www.bigjoehurt.com
"Rosenn has put together a great short doc based on the late Santa Barbara publisher Noel Young’s book Hot Tubs, focusing on the Mountain Drive tribe back in the 1960s. Plenty of naked flesh, plus a few (clothed) shots of Rock Hudson during the filming of Seconds. " - Barney Brantingham, Santa Barbara Independent
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Sunday, May 15 @ 1 - 3.30 PM
Making the Documentary
A seminar presented by Gabe Rosenn
1:00 - 3:30pm, $15 admission
In this afternoon seminar, visiting producer/director Gabe Rosenn, takes you through the steps to make your own documentary. With the advent of new technology such as iPhones, Flip cameras, and digital video, editing software including iMovie and Final Cut Pro, and distribution opportunities such as youtube and other online venues, it has never been easier to have your story be seen by the masses. Rosenn, a freelance director/editor, and former New York Film Academy Digital Instructor, will detail the ways he brought his film, Hot Tubs, to life, and show several other short documentaries he has made- from subjects as diverse to boxing to personal family stories. In addition, he will help you write a treatment for your film and take you through the steps needed to make your documentary dreams a reality.
Rough Syllabus:
1-2 pm
Introduction.
Capabilities of Documentary discussion.
Class intros- each student explains their doc idea.
Clips from Hoop Dreams, Dogtown and Z Boys, King of Kong.
Discussion of music in documentary and editing.
2:15- 3:30pm
Brother to Brother: A Family in Boxing Screening.
Early cuts of Hot Tubs viewings.
View 5 page treatment for the film.
Formatting a treatment.
Writing the treatment.
Emerging technlogy discussion.
Closing/ Summing up.
Limited to 12 participants. www.gprfilmsonline.com
Fee $15/person
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Friday, May 6, 2011
doors @ 6:30 / show @ 7:30pm
Rhett Miller (of The Old 97's)
solo acoustic
+ Robert Francis
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Sat April 23 @ 7PM
An evening of music in our great indoors acoustics!
Jascha Hoffman and Spiff Wiegand
with support from Big Sur's own
Zack Salaz.
Jascha Hoffman is a journalist and songwriter in San Francisco. His
debut album A Cure for Sleep has been praised for its "deceptively
simple, deeply weird pop songs” that earn him comparisons to Sufjan
Stevens, Magnetic Fields and “Leonard Cohen without the attitude.”
Jascha has played keys and percussion with many groups. He performs regularly at intimate venues such as the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City. His next recording, due in late 2011, is The Future Limited.music.jaschahoffman.com |
Spiff Wiegand is best known for his one-man-band concerts. Juggling up to seven instruments simultaneously without loops or technological trickery, he creates complete textures that are as unexpectedly musical as they are visually impressive.
He has been compared to artists like Hank Williams, The Mountain Goats, Buddy Holly, Hot Hot Heat, Devo, and They Might Be Giants. Spiff is also part of The Whistling Wolves, New York City’s premier American roots band.
spiffwiegand.com |
$5-10 donation sliding scale.
Zack Salaz is a Big Sur, CA based Musician, originally from Indianapolis, IN. Zack has performed in a wide variety of genres that span from performing with the Louisville, KY Orchestra to recording with Chris Chew of the North Mississippi All-Stars. Salaz's style knows no bounds.
Zack is most recognized for his vocals with the blues/rock band Seven Acres.
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CANCELLED DUE TO ROADCLOSURE
(((folkYEAH!))) & Henry Miller Library Present in Big Sur.
Monday, April 11, 2011
YACHT
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PLEASE NOTE PRIORITY ENTRANCE FOR BIG SUR TIX HOLDERS info below.
JUST ANNOUNCED!!!!!
DUE TO THE ROAD CLOSURE THE SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED...
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents in Santa Cruz
@ The CATALYST
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
+ very special guests Sun Araw
Thursday, April 14, 2011
doors 8pm / show 9pm
*Please note: Only 2 tickets per person and all tickets are WILL CALL... you will need a valid ID to claim your ticket on the night of the show!
FYI- Big Sur ticket holders will get priority entrance from 7:00 - 7:30pm into the Catalyst.
PLEASE NOTE: Refunds (less fees) available until Friday at Noon. E-mail if you need a refund.
Tickets $30 plus service fee
Only 600 TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY, APRIL 7th @ HIGH NOON.
tickets and more:
http://www.folkyeah.com/
http://www.catalystclub.com/
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Sunday, March 20 at 7PM
CANCELLED DUE TO ROAD CLOSURE.
Ancient Future Duet In Concert
Featuring:
Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard and fretless guitars) and
Mariah Parker (santur)
Indoors in the beautiful acoustics of our library - limited to 60 tickets - please get yours soon.
Ancient Future Website
Click here for: Poster (400k)
Tel: 831-667-2574
Tix: $20 adv/$25 door
This rare concert by the pioneering world fusion music group Ancient Future features scalloped fretboard guitarist Matthew Montfort and santurist Mariah Parker. They will perform music from Ancient Future's broad repertoire, including three current releases on Ancient-Future.Com Records celebrating 30 years of world fusion music: Planet Passion by Ancient Future (remastered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band), Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar by Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort, and Sangria by Mariah Parker.
Saturday, February 19 at 7.30 PM
Thusday, March 3 @ 7.30 PM
The Cache Valley Drifters
For those of you not familiar with the Cache Valley Drifters, they are easily identified by their driving rhythm, beautifully textured ballads, unique acoustic arrangements, and signature vocal harmonies.
They have been performing their music together for 35 years and were the original back-up band for legendary folk artist Kate Wolf.
They perform a wide range of material from folk to bluegrass, acoustic renditions of rock tunes and originals. There’s an element of jazz mixed in there as well.
The group has become a mainstay at KCBX’s Live Oak Music Festival and can be enjoyed each Father’s Day morning at the Hot Licks Café at Live Oak Camp.
The band consists of original founding member Bill Griffin - mandolin, guitar & vocals
Wally Barnick - Acoustic and Fender bass & vocals. Wally (aka 'Lefty') is a Big Sur local and also a member of the outstanding band 'Songs That Hotbox Harry Taught Us'.
Mike Mullins - guitar, mandolin & vocals
Video of CVD can be found here: Cache Valley Drifters
$20.00 suggested donation.
C.J. Boyd in concert.
Coming back to Big Sur!
Limited to 60 people - indoors in our great acoustics!
$ 10 minimum suggested donation.
CJ has been to the HMML twice before so some of you already know... but...if you haven’t heard CJ please take a moment to read below what others are saying about him. Each of us have our own sense of what is ‘good.’ I suggest you come down for this on Friday night and find out if CJ’s music fits in the ‘good’ category for you...
...I bet it will.
“...the tones that Boyd produces from his bass(es) are as delicate as notes resounding from a classical guitar...” Leicester Bangs
“His arrangements are equally simplistic, breath-taking and haunting as they slowly burn their way into your psyche....” Sound As Language
“C.J. Boyd is as expressive as he is talented...his vision (is) to push simplicity into another realm that is filled with beauty without being overtly boastful in presentation.” ZapTown
“Armed only with four strings (electric or contrabass), a looping station, a gob iron, and occasional vocals that will haunt your sleep...Boyd has a great ear for developing and exploiting subtle tensions...his most recent solo release, Aerial Roots, is a thing of ambient beauty. “ Creative Loafing
“A musical experience... the music seems to float out into eternity...it’s an experience that you become a part of.” Ikon 1931
“Its dreamy, stream-of-conscious meanderings are as fascinating as they are inconclusive. The way the music seems to be on its own quest...there’s a pattern to it all hidden within its gentle cadence, but sometimes the question and the curiosity they provoke are more important than the answers.” Rochester City News
...Boyd’s playing conjures tension, build, and the specter of the unknown, staying away from major keys and the easy glory of bursting crescendos... CJ Boyd has the power to envelope, and he uses it.”
Delusions Of Adequacy
“CJ Boyd coaxes ambient, swooning mountains of sound from his upright bass.” Cincinnati City Beat
Monday, January 31st
Kath Bloom and Levi Strom
This concert will be recorded.
“Bloom sounds like a woman who has spent years in the wilderness... An
earthy, unpretentious presence, she can snap a heart like a twig”
Pitchfork
“One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking.” Devendra Banhart
“Devastating songwriting.” NPR
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Emily Mann Proudly Presents
at the Henry Miller Library:
Monday, January 24 at 6.30PM
"Back by Popular Demand"
THE BEE EATERS
Suggested donation $20
We'll serve tea, coffee and cookies!
The Bee Eaters combine chamber music’s finely calibrated arrangements with Bluegrass’s playful virtuosity and pop music’s melodic resourcefulness.”
- The Boston Globe
"It is a joy to hear both the exploration of this music and the grounding of it simultaneously. Also, I love the emphasis on the simple beauty of the acoustic instruments." - Edgar Meyer
The Bee Eaters are the instrumental cream of the brand new string nation." - Darol Anger
The Bee Eaters trace their roots back to musical traditions as diverse as bluegrass, Celtic, jazz and old-time. While today’s new breed often produces an amalgamation of sounds and styles based on a distant view, the Bee Eaters were raised embedded in these traditions… raised to mold, meld, shape them and carry them forward, leaving their own indelible marks in the process.
Brother-sister duo Tristan and Tashina Clarridge, long known and lauded by those steeped in the American fiddle tradition are joined by hammer dulcimer virtuoso Simon Chrisman and masterful mandolinist Dominick Leslie.
Tashina, the 2005 Grand National Fiddle Champion, has toured with Mark O’Connor and Tony Trischka and has performed at Carnegie Hall as a part of MacArthur Fellow/Grammy-winning bassist Edgar Meyer’s Young Artists program. Multi-instrumentalist brother Tristan is an innovative cellist and 5-time Grand National Fiddle Champion. His talents have been sought by Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Bruce Molsky and Cape Breton fiddle phenomenon Natalie MacMaster. In addition to performing with The Bee Eaters, he tours internationally with Crooked Still.
Hammer dulcimer virtuoso Simon Chrisman brings an unusual style to (what has heretofore been thought of as) an instrument of limited range and technique. His inventive virtuosic touch and sophisticated rhythmic sensibilities are redefining the instrument and earning the attention of musicians from all over the world. He has performed with Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, opened for Bill Frisell and, at the tender age of 16, was a scholarship guest artist at the prestigious Augusta Heritage Festival.
Though only 21 years old, mandolinist Dominick Leslie has spent every one of those years immersed in bluegrass and acoustic music, and his innovative style and musical curiosity are informed by these deep roots. He has studied with mandolin masters David Grisman, Mike Marshall and Chris Thile, won numerous mandolin championships, and performed in France as a member of Mike Marshall's Young American Mandolin Ensemble. He has toured with Missy Raines, and currently performs with The Deadly Gentlemen and the Grant Gordy Quartet.
For more information, call Emily at (831) 667-2212
The Ping•Pong West Coast Launch Party will take place at the Beat Museum on Friday, November 12th and will feature MC Magnus Torén, with featured reader Kim Addonizio. There will be readings by the Ping•Pong editors: Christine Hamm, Jessica Breheny, James Maughn and Maria Garcia Teutsch, as well as contributors, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts and Tom Marshall. Readings will begin at 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
The 2010 issue of Ping•Pong features international collections from Italy and Romania as well as the USA.
Ping•Pong offers the finest in American writers including Cynthia Cruz, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Joanna Fuhrman, Douglas Piccinnini, and Joanna Cooper, among many other luminaries.
Ping•Pong’s award winning writers and artists have been featured in Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, Time, The New Yorker, and Newsweek and have exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, The National Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Beat Museum Website w/ directions etc.
GRAND PUBLIC TASTING & BOOK SIGNING
(official Big Sur Food and Wine website here)
Wine tasting at the Henry Miller Library! It's hard to imagine a better place for it. Miller is known to have enjoyed a fine bottle of wine, preferably off a womans breast, on many occasions. In and on other places too of course! But...
Please join us for a magical afternoon on the lawn (or what's left of it!) at the Library as a passel of incredible food and wine authors will present and sign their books.
OF SPECIAL INTEREST: Jim Gordon, Editor-in-Chief of the new wine bible Opus: Vino will be on hand to discuss and sign his work. This is his first West Coast book-signing.
Add to that 32 incredible wineries including Windy Oaks, Thomas Fogarty, Michaud, Wrath, Testarossa and Margerum plus a magnificent display of cheeses from around the world, courtesy of Whole Foods Monterey.
Also at this event we'll have TreeBonesMundaka in Carmel! A Silent Auction will feature donations from various local fans. Please come and enjoy, and experience the Henry Miller Library in a new way. Over 21 only please.
Tickets and more info here: http://www.bigsurfoodandwine.org/tickets.html
Cat Power...MOVED
Yes, scroll down...
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents
CAT POWER LIVE!!! VENUE MOVED
Due to rain we have moved the concert to:
Hidden Valley Music
88 West Carmel Valley Road
831-659-3115
Link: http://www.hiddenvalleymusic.org/
NEW START TIME:
DOOR: 7.30
SHOW: 8PM
LIMITED # of tickets will be available at the door.
DIRECTIONS to the NEW VENUE
CAT POWER
+ very special guests
SIC ALPS
DJ- Zoë Gholson
DOORS @ 6PM
SHOW @ 7PM
SOLD OUT!
No tickets will be sold at the gate.
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(((folkYEAH!))) and HML Present in Big Sur!
Friday, October 15th @ 7pm
Phosphorescent
&
Howlin Rain
American Recording Artist working with producer Rick Rubin on the their next full lenght release scheduled for 2011.
HEADLESS (featuring members of Earthless & Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound) making a psych rock- tex mex rock n' roll stew like no other.
Phosphorescent on Pitchfork
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Saturday October 16
honeymoon
EP -Release Party
7.30PM Gate for concert.
honeymoon
will release their debut four song EP After The Flood at Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, California. The album features original songs: After The Flood, Processional, Find Me and Nick Drake song Black Eyed Dog which showcase powerful female vocals, dueling violins, piano, banjo, accordion, acoustic guitar and a strong bass and drum rhythm section. The release party will feature an intimate showcase of the four Folk/Americana tracks, additional honeymoon originals as well as songs written by each individual lady. The evening will also include a surprise special guest, copies of the EP with every ticket, and a special multimedia showcase.
Be prepared to be reeled into the call of the siren at the show, and as the EP is released for the general public on Tuesday October 20 via online and local distribution.
Tickets here:
Read the press release pdf for the EP.
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Sunday, October 10 at 2PM - 6PM
The Big Sur Event of the Season!
Be Kind to the Earth!
Music, Food and Outsider Art.
Outsider Art show presented by B-SAGE: Big Sur Advocates for a Green Environment.
Booksigning and presentation of:
The Homesteader's Kitchen: Recipes from Farm to Table. Robin Burnside will be here to sign and present her recent book.
Special appearances by:
Alisa Fineman, Kimball Hurd and City Folk!
"Two of my favorite performers... Alisa and Kimball's music sends shivers through me with the rise and fall of sweetly paired voices and compelling lyrics. Expect to hear strong harmonies and Hurd's technical prowess on guitar, mandolin and dobro. Treat yourself." - Santa Cruz Good Times
City Folk!
In 1989, Keith Greeninger, Kimball Hurd and Roger Feuer, three talented Bay Area musicians, formed City Folk. City Folk was an acoustic trio known for their rich introspective song writing; tight three part vocal harmonies and expanded musical arrangements. The group quickly rose to the top of the Bay area folk scene and was soon enjoying immense popularity on the National Folk and Americana circuits. City Folk recorded and released three albums and, in 1995, won KFOG's Best of the Bay music award. That year would also mark the end of City Folk and their final national tour.
Now they're back, in Big Sur, at the Henry Miller Library.
"Local musical treasures, Alisa Fineman and City Folk have been performing in Big Sur for more than two decades. Alisa literally began her distinguished musical career in the Henry Miller Library's garden, and City Folk earned a devoted local following by playing on the deck of the old Cafe Amphora on weekend afternoons. Alisa and City Folk bring together what's best about American folk music. Their sound is at once intimate, accessible, haunting, heartfelt and ultimately, uplifting. Like so many great folk artists who came before them — from the Dust Bowl balladeers of the 1930s to the coffee house singer-songwriters of the 1960s — there is a timeless quality to their music, which takes us back in time to a place where we long to go ..." Chris Counts the Pine Cone
The event will be free (donations will be gratefully accepted).
Delicious snacks and drink will be served at reasonable rates.
More details TBA.
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GATE AT 7.00 PM
DJ: Britt Govea
Show at 8.00 PM
Friday, October 8
co-presenter: (((folkYEAH!)))
'A Postcard from California'
An historic event: At home in Big Sur, Rock'n'Roll Hall of Famer, Beach Boy and good neighbor, Al Jardine, LIVE IN CONCERT!
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Please join me in the celebration of my new release, A Postcard from California, on Friday October 8th at 7.30 PM at the Henry Miller Library.
I will be giving a concert for our community, backed up by a five piece band of stellar musicians. Including members from the original Beach Boys touring band.
I look forward to seeing you there.
--Al Jardine
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The first ever public concert at home in Big Sur by Al Jardine.
Get your tickets early.
Additional event details TBA. Please carpool!
Tickets here. $35 plus fee's
($40.00 at the door if any left)
We do accept tickets purchased over the phone for this show: 831-667-2574
Guests on 'A Postcard from California' include Neil Young, Stephen Stills, "Flea," Steve Miller, David Crosby, Brian Wilson and several more.
PRESSRELEASE FOR A POSTCARD FROM CALIFORNIA HERE: PDF
Tuesday Oct 5
(((folkYEAH!))) and Henry Miller Library Present in Big Sur
An evening with Arcade Fire!
doors @ 6:30pm show @ 7:30pm
After party!
See below.
Tickets on sale Wednesday, August 18th @ High Noon (PDT) - Here on this page.
SOLD OUT: NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR.
No food or Drink / No Cameras
Sign up to our e-mail list!
Only two tickets per person (if you buy more than two then your tickets will become void and not honored and you will be re-funded). All tickets are WILL CALL and the purchaser must be there to claim the tickets (with ID) on the night of the event. Once you get your tickets you must enter the venue. You can not go out and come back in and you must enter when you get your tickets, no exceptions.
Arcade Fire online.
Just Announced:
ARCADE FIRE in BIG SUR
After-Party
@ Fernwood Resort
(11pm - 1:30am)
featuring
The Fresh & Only's!
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Thursday September 30 at 7.30PM
Poetry Reading w/ a fire in the wood stove!
Featuring guest poet
John Walsh
John is from Ireland and is a cross between a page and performance poet. (He does sing and play guitar as well). With dramatic energy he brings his poetry alive, fixes you with his gaze so that what he has to say gets home to you.
Originally from Derry in Northern Ireland - the topic of the Troubles is one of his recurrent themes - he now lives in Connemara, County Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The rugged and natural beauty of this landscape feeds him with inspiration.
He is organizer and MC of a monthly performance poetry event in Galway City - aptly titled North Beach Poetry Nights - at which he hosts the monthly poetry slam. He himself took the crown at the Cork Spring Festival Poetry Slam this year.
John has published three collections of poetry, the latest is - Chopping Wood with T.S. Eliot (Salmon Poetry)
(www.salmonpoetry.com)
Find out more at www.johnwalshpoet.com
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Sunday, September 26th
(((folkYEAH!))) and HML Present
DUNGEN (from Sweden)
Entrance Band
and
Lumerians
doors @ 6pm
show @ 7pm
Advance Tickets here:
NO FOOD OR DRINK ALLOWED IN.
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Thursday, September 23
(((folkYEAH!))) & HML Present
A Very Special Evening with
Band of Horses
doors @ 6:30pm (DJ sets)
show @ 8.00
TICKETS ARE $30 plus VENUE FEES & EVENTBRITE FEES
NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD
AT THE DOOR..
No food or Drink.
No cameras.
ALL are WILL CALL
NO REFUNDS or TRANSFERRING OF TICKETS TO ANOTHER NAME (NO EXCEPTIONS!)
SOLD OUT!
Welcome!
Only two tickets per person (if you buy more than two all of your tickets will become void and not honored and you will be re-funded).
All tickets are WILL CALL and the purchaser must be there to claim the tickets (with ID) on the night of the event.
Once you get your tickets you must enter the venue. You can not go out and come back in and you must enter when you get your tickets, no exceptions.
Band of Horses online.
We will not accept printable tickets. They are all WILL CALL and the person who purchased the two tickets (from eventbrite) must be there to pick them up (w/ valid ID) on the night of the show and will need to directly enter the venue.
These rules are made because:
it is a very small venue and it is not fair to have someone buy 4 tickets. Also the wristband ID/ equation should be obvious, it is to prevent scalping. that is why you must have a matching ID and enter the venue as soon as we put the wristband on you and your guest.
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(((folkYEAH!))) Presents w/ HML
Sunday, Sept 12th
Tallest Man On Earth
+ VERY SPECIAL SUPPORT
S. Carey (of Bon Iver)
+ DJ sets
gates at 5pm
show at 6pm
Tour Info on Pitchfork
http://www.myspace.com/thetallestmanonearth
Tixs are $23.50 plus venue and eventbrite fee
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Monday, Sept 6th
(((folkYEAH!))) & HML Present
4pm doors
show @ 4:20pm
COLD CAVE
VETIVER
LA VAMPIRES
ABE VIGODA
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actual set times:
4:20 - 4:50 LA Vampires
5:30 - 6:30 Vetiver
7:00 - 7:40 Abe Vigoda
8:15 - 10:00 Cold Cav
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Workshop: Friday August 27 and Saturday August 28
Concert : Saturday 28th at 7PM. (Details TBD)
Songwriting Workshop, Dinnerparty and
Concert with...
DAN BERN w/
Common Rotation
Workshop Friday: 5PM - 8PM
Dinner Friday night: 8PM - 10PM
Workshop Saturday: 10AM - 5PM
Concert Saturday, 28 @ 7PM
For the workshop: You can bring instruments but you don't have to.
You should bring a pad of paper, and a pen or pencil.
The workshops will be fun, it will be participatory - we are a songmaking species.
If you've never written a song in yout life - no problem.
We'll have a dinner party together and we'll sing, play with words, pen, paper, piano, guitars...
Price for the workshop including concert and dinnerparty $125.00
Limited space so register asap by
calling 831-667-2574
Tickets for the concert here:
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Sunday, August 29
Workshop, talk and booksigning with
Writer, Teacher and Raconteur
Paul McHugh
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
10AM - Noon
"Art of the Short Memoir" a story-telling workshop.(Limited to 15 participants)
Reserve a spot now by calling 831-667-2574
The workshop fee is $60 .
1PM - 2:30PM
Booksigning and a talk on exploring California’s coast and the need to maintain vigilance on public lands, and a reading from his new novel, “Deadlines,” a book with the tagline, “a novel of murder, conspiracy, and the media.”
Booksigning and Q&A to follow.
Paul McHugh is a fiction writer, and a writing teacher. He’ll bring those skills to the Henry Miller Library to display his story-telling workshop, as well as a reading from his new novel, “Deadlines.”
McHugh’s workshop, “Art of the Short Memoir,” helps participants utilize the craft of story-telling to create and invigorate personal tales of major and minor events, family anecdotes and histories, in order to build enduring accounts of life’s key moments to share with relatives, friends and descendants. This clinic runs 10 a.m. to noon on August 29, costs $60, and is limited to 15 participants.
Dorothea French, director of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Santa Clara University says: Paul McHugh, “is an excellent instructor—dynamic, charming, articulate, well-prepared, and knowledgeable. He creates a relaxed, enjoyable learning environment, which is crucial for writers.”
Professor Raquel Scherr, U.C. Davis, said: “Several students came up to me after class to tell me how much you had inspired them. . . student journals referred to your talk as ‘inspiring,’ ‘engaging,’ ‘fantastic,’ and ‘brilliant.’”
“Deadlines,” a book with the tagline, “a novel of murder, conspiracy, and the media.” Set in Northern California in 2007, this gripping story brings readers into the chaos of a modern metropolitan newsroom as reporters try to solve the killing of a land-use activist on a gorgeous stretch of shoreline that’s being seized for development as a wealthy enclave. Free and open to the public, his talk and reading occurs 1-2:30 p.m.
Famed TV anchor Dan Rather says: “Every reporter worth his or her notepad is a sleuth at heart. Paul McHugh brings this truth to life with crackling suspense.
NY Times best-selling author John Lescroart says: “A companionable, rock-solid and soul-satisfying mystery. ‘Deadlines’ could not be more modern and relevant.”
During a Category III hurricane, Paul McHugh was born near the Florida Keys. As if still impelled by its winds, he blew through a few years of studying for the Catholic priesthood, chose instead to earn an honors degree in poetry, then rode around the USA on a motorcycle, searching out a new home. He found it in California. Here he celebrated a newfound sense of place – and of adventure - over 22 years as outdoors writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
For more information or to register for the workshop contact The Henry Miller Library, call (831) 667-2574, or E-mail
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Friday, August 20 at 8PM
Film screening and presentation by the films director.
HUXLEY ON HUXLEY
AN INTIMATE DOCUMENTARY GIVING ACCESS INTO THE 1950’s AVANT-GARDE LIFE WITH FAMED AUTHOR ALDOUS HUXLEY
Directed by Mary Ann Braubach
Narrated by Peter Coyote and featuring interviews with such luminaries as John Densmore, Michael Murphy, Nick Nolte and Ram Dass, HUXLEY ON HUXLEY offers a compelling glimpse of Laura Huxley’s life with Aldous Huxley (literary giant, author of Brave New World), as well as the revolutionary and provocative work that had a major influence on American and contemporary cultural history and such key figures as The Beatles, The Doors and Timothy Leary.
Director Mary Ann Braubach (who will be here to present her film) says of her filmmaking experience, “When I first started, I did massive research on them, reading all of Huxleys’ books, listening to audio interviews with Laura and navigating through her thick accent. The more I learned about this amazing woman, the larger than life she became. My hope for people who find themselves in Laura’s story is to enlighten a new generation of audiences to the Huxleys’ fantastic achievements and their fascinating life together.”
CAST:
John Densmore, Aldous Huxley, Laura Huxley, Nick Nolte, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, Michael Murphy, Igor Stravinsky, Vera Stravinsky, Mike Wallace, Don Bachardy, Walter Cronkite, Piero Ferrucci, Herman Harvey, Gerald Heard, Christopher Isherwood, Tim Leary, Edward R. Murrow, Jawaharlal Nehru, Karen Pfeiffer.
FILMMAKERS:
Narrator: Peter Coyote
Directed, Produced and Written by: Mary Ann Braubach
Editor: Josh Beal
Directors of Photography: Chris Burrill, Nancy Schreiber
Consulting Producer: Jonathan Dana
Composer: Andrea Morricone
We will serve Coffee and Tea and the event is FREE
(Donations gratefully accepted)
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Saturday August 14 late PM and into the evening...
Benjamin Gibbard and Jay Farrar and much more
One Fast Move...screening, food, drink...
SOLD OUT!
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Sunday, August 15 @ 3PM
The Henry Miller Library is proud to present an afternoon with:
Black Francis (aka Frank Black of the Pixies).
In a solo acoustic show.
Tickets $25 (plus fees) here:
GATES @ 2.30 PM
MUSIC @ 3:00 PM
Black Francis (solo acoustic show)
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Monday, August 16
4th annual
FreakFest - From Hell.
IMPROV COMEDY
August 13 @ 7.30 PM
(Gate at 7PM)
A night of Theatre and Music together on stage.
Razowsky, Collins w/ music by Al Rose
Going Along as They’re Making it Up!
David Razowsky and Mo Collins, two of the country’s finest comedic improvisers, pair up for an evening of unscripted comedy at The Henry Miller Library. Shooting from the hip, these navigators of the streams of consciousness will bring to the Henry Miller Library a night to remember. Each of these acts alone would be a worthy event at the Miller Library...but TOGETHER will be a show of epic proportions. Collins, a veteran cast member of MADtv, has been seen in numerous television and film appearances including Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and NBC’s hit Parks and Recreation. Razowsky, a veteran performer and former Artistic Director of the world famous Second City, has performed with Steve Carrel, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Jeff Garlin. This will be Mo’s debut appearance in Big Sur, while Razowsky is returning after 2009’s appearance in Varoom.
AL Rose
Thanks to Al Rose this event is happening (THANK YOU AL for bringing this to Big Sur!). So...instead of this websites' editor pouring out words of admiration, gratitude, and awe let's see what a few others have said (there are many more like this):
"With Warren Zevon-like wordplay, Chicago's Al Rose may be one of the cleverest singer-songwriters you've never heard of." -Sea Of Tranquility
“Al Rose tells, with wonderful flair, his remarkable stories which are often truly little masterpieces.” Rocktimes, Germany
“Every once in a while, a folk artist takes a genuinely new viewpoint and carries it to its limits” – New England Folk Almanac
“With a mixture of irreverence and soul, this veteran singer-songwriter just gets better, funnier and more plaintively incisive with each release. His latest, "My First Posthumous Release", mixes blues, country and rock influences with off-hand ease, while crafting indelible imagery. How, after all, can anyone resist a song that begins, ‘The X-rays were embarrassing’.” One of The Best Chicago Indie Releases of 2008 –Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
Spontaneous and passionate in the spirit of Henry Miller, the music of Al Rose and the improv theater of Razowsky and Collins. 2 acts. Each act will open with a music set by Al Rose followed by Razowsky and Collins. There will be an intermission in between acts.
TICKETS HERE ($15 plus fees). $20 at the door if there are any left.
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Saturday, August 7 at 7PM
John Doe with Folkband featuring Cindy Wasserman.
Opening sets by:
7.20PM Mira Parfitt
7.45PM Matt Denman with Lisa Goettel & Tracy Chesebrough
Tickets $15 (plus fees):
At the door $20.00
John Doe is the founder of the seminal Los Angeles punk group X, a solo artist and an actor. He is a friend of the Henry Miller Library, one of the finest songwriters in the US. Recently he recorded an honest country music album with The Sadies Country Club.
Bring something to eat and drink. We'll have coffee and tea.
John Doe on MySpace
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(((folkYEAH!))) Presents with HML
Saturday July 31
Show at 8 PM (Gate at 6.30PM w/ DJ sets and social time until show.)
FRUIT BATS
and
These United States
Tickets $15
(plus $5 venue and processing fees)
All tickets are will call and can be transfered.
No ticket sales over the phone.
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Friday, July 23 at 7.30PM
A talk and a book signing w/
Ann Louise Bardach author of
"Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington"
“Without Fidel is news between hard covers by a relentless reporter who writes like a dream." Tom Wolfe
"Without Fidel is superb -- a phenomenally enlightening, engaging read." Eason Jordan, former CNN Chief News Executive
The Miami Herald's Best Books of 2009
“In her clear-eyed and well-researched new book, Bardach charts the political ripples radiating from the shock wave of the maximum leader's semi-retirement, not only in Havana but also in Miami and Washington. An intrepid reporter.” Miami Herald 11/15/09
Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington
and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
. She is also the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro
as well as Cuba : A Travelers Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companion, 8)
and she serves on The Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project.
She was a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair for ten years and has written for New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Daily Beast. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, CNN, Nightline, The O’Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, National Public Radio and PRI's Marketplace. She created and wrote the Global Buzz column for Newsweek International and the Interrogation column for Slate.
She has won the PEN USA Award for Journalism in 1995 for her reporting on Mexican politics, and was a finalist in 1994 for her coverage of women in Islamic countries. Her book Cuba Confidential was a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and the PEN USA Award for Best Nonfiction, and named one of Ten Best Books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times. She was a finalist for the 2005 PEN USA award for Journalism for the ground-breaking story on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ties with the tabloids- published in Los Angeles magazine.
She started the International Journalism class at UCSB's Global Studies Department and is on the board of PEN USA and UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media and is a Resident Scholar with the Orfalea Center at UCSB.
Several of her articles have been anthologized in KILLED: Journalism Too Hot To Print and Mexico in Mind
(Vintage).
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The Currant Bun & HML Present
Saturday, July 24 @ 8PM (Gate at 7PM) Back again!
Promo video here
Another night of music, lights and wizardry!
This time two sets with a new improved lightshow and DJ sets in-between.
THE HOUSE OF FLOYD
HOUSE OF FLOYD, a reverent tribute to Pink Floyd, captures the sights and sounds of the original for even the most discriminating fan. HOUSE OF FLOYD pays the highest tribute by accurately recreating all of the nuanced musical complexity and powerful visual imagery of Pink Floyd. The result of this obsessive attention to detail is a total Floyd production...music, lights, lasers and video. HOUSE OF FLOYD will transport you back to that mystical moment when you first discovered the enthralling world of Pink Floyd.
Tickets available now at $ 25.00 (plus venue and ticket fees)
All tickets are will call and can be transfered.
No ticket sales over the phone.
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July 10 starting at 8PM
Viral Videos in the Redwoods
Eddie Codel and Jamie Wilkinson * will take you on a trip of some of the Internet's most insane videos that have caught fire over the last year. These videos are idea factories in themselves, spawning parodies, knockoffs, remixes and sub-memes. What is it about these videos that catch the public's imagination and then mutate? We will take you down the rabbit hole, following these videos as they morph into new strange unpredictable forms becoming pop cultural phenomenas, a result of millions of eyeballs with the means to participate and modify the very media they consume. What you'll see is nothing short of epic! And entertaining, we promise."
Eddie Codel cofounded Geek Entertainment TV, makes stupid fun videos in his spare time and currently heads up production services for Ustream.TV. You can find him at home at eddie.com.
Jamie Wilkinson is a member of the copyleft FAT Lab and lead R&D at Rocketboom, where he's created Know Your Meme and Mag.ma. He also teach the Internet Famous Class at Parsons, where your grade depends on your online popularity.
Cost will depend on expenses - we'll update as we find out - we will accept donations.
Please check back here.
* please visit the sites of these guys - you'll understand why we're excited to have them here!
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Sunday, July 11 at 2PM
Harmony in the Garden with honeymoon
honeymoon is a new collaboration between singer/songwriters Lauren Shera, Andrea Blunt, Christina Bailey, and Sara Bollwinkel. These four young women, with accompaniment from Matt Bailey on drums and Matt Bollwinkel on bass, have come together to combine their exquisite talents and eclectic influences, creating a sound all their own. Combining elements of traditional folk and americana with an indie rock and pop sensibility, honeymoon utilizes their various talents comprising four part harmonies, acoustic guitars, violins, accordion, piano, banjo, and ukulele.
honeymoon at wordpress
Tickets $15 in adv. (plus fees)
$20 at the door.
More details TBA.
GET YOUR TICKET HERE AND NOW:
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VINYL IN THE WOODS
Saturday, July 3 at 11AM - 11PM
a Vinyl Record Trade Fair!
Go here for more!
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Saturday, June 26 at 8.30PM (it has to be dark for the slideshow)
DARWIN SLEPT HERE
a book signing, talk and slideshow w/ author Eric Simons
A twentysomething adventurer retraces the voyage of the Beagle, recapturing a young Darwin, and the growing pains of a continent.
Eric: A few years ago, I was fleeing my first attempt at post-college employment via a six-month wilderness backpacking tour of South America, and I washed up in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, the self-proclaimed southernmost city in the world. Ushuaia is a waterfront city, on the shores of the Beagle Channel, and I started wondering about Charles Darwin’s travels there. I was struck by the rather sudden realization that I had absolutely no idea what the guy had done, apart from the visited-Galapagos-discovered-evolution-grew-miserable-great-beard thing...
Article in SEED magazine.
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Saturday, June 12, 3PM - 11PM
(((folkYEAH!))) & The Henry Miller Library Presents
WOODSIST FEST BIG SUR
Tixs $22.50 each plus HML venue and ticket fees.
All tickets are will call and can be transfered.
No ticket sales over the phone.
We will release some tickets at the door.
Please call 667-2574
doors @ 2pm
show from 2:20 - 11pm
2:20 - 3:00 Spectre Folk
3:20 - 4:00 Art Museums
4:20 - 5:00 Mantles
5:20 - 6:00 Eat Skull
6:20 - 7:00 Kurt Vile
7:20 - 8:00 The Fresh and Onlys
8:20 - 9:00 Moon Duo (w/ projections)
9:20 - 10:00 Woods (w/ projections)
10:20 - 11:00 Real Estate (w/ projections)
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Sunday, June 13th @ 3 pm
SugarBeat
“Nice blends of jazz, blues, pop, and swing. Inventive backup vocals with sophisticated harmonies, framed by crisp, hooky rhythms and tasteful riffs of their electric guitars.”
Ron Browning, Nashville Performance Coach
**Tune in to KPIG’s “Please Stand By” Sunday morning, June 13th for a live preview! 107.5 FM or online at www.kpig.com/listen. Check SugarBeat website for time.**
We'll have coffee and tea.
Please bring your own picnic and drinks!
TICKETS HERE:
Gate at 6.30PM Show at 7.30PM
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(((folkYEAH!))) presents
Wednesday, May 26th
Outdoors under the ancient redwoods!
Ed Sharp & The Magnetic Zero's
ALL AGES
Mia Doi Todd 6:20-6:55
Dawes 7:25-8:10
Ed Sharp 8:45- ?
+ DJ sets
afterparty at fernwood with Honeymoon + DJ from 10:30-1:00am
DOORS @ 6PM
SHOW @ 6.20PM
JOIN US FOR THE AFTERPARTY AT FERNWOOD!
TIXS Sold Out! Some on waitinglist here:.
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Thursday, May 13
Big Big Big Sur
Fashion Show
Local Designers, Models & Entertainment.
Food, Drink & Great stuff
for Sale.
Party Starts At 6PM
Free/Donations welcome!
Fashion Show on FaceBook
After Party @ Fernwood
Wear what makes you feel fabulous.
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Saturday May 15, exact time TBA
Book Launch Party for Big Sur's own Tiger Windwalker.
The book: WALK IN BEAUTY
Event details TBA.
The Mystic's Truth
I have prospered far more
from the things that I have given up
than from the things that I have achieved.
“Walk in Beauty” with the author as he journeys to many powerful places in Nature and the human spirit. Enjoy the refinement of these experiences in his poetry, aphorisms, fables and drawings.
This wonderful book is presented as a compilation of poems, aphorisms and fables gathered over a twelve year period. Beautiful line drawings support an ambience which is both inspirational and fulfilling as they convey the majesty of natural settings that are available to all.
Brief Author Biography
Tiger Windwalker is a project manager, builder, artist, poet and musician who lives in Big Sur, California. He has journeyed extensively through many wild places within the seven western states and Hawaii. He also guides people on “Walks in Beauty” across the western U.S. including Hawaii. These experiences often focus on topics ranging from “being present”, “seeing”, healing issues, personal empowerment and one’s sense of spiritual connection. Tiger maintains that everything that we need for our health and well-being already exists within ourselves and our immediate environment.
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Saturday, May 15 @ 7.30PM
Eric Taylor in concert
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/
A couple of youtube clips:
Nancy Griffiths w/ Eric Taylor
Eric Taylor solo
Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.
I’m always the opening act when I’m around Eric. I love his voice, and he has a great narrative quality and sense of detail. He sort of takes you out of your own reality and into the reality of his songs. It’s good writing no matter how you cut it.
Lyle Lovett
He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
Steve Earle
Tickets here $ 15.00 (plus fees)
All tickets are will call and can be transfered.
No ticket sales over the phone.
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Sunday, May 16 @ 3PM
Jonathan Richman
In Concert w/ Tommy Larkin.
Tickets $15 here:
All tickets are will call and can be transfered.
No ticket sales over the phone.
$20 at the door.
BYOB and pic-nic please.
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Friday May 7th at 7.30PM
Finding Dylan Thomas
A synergistic program of poetry, drama, music, and stories marking the sixtieth anniversary of the first visit of the great Welsh bard to Carmel and Big Sur in 1950. Thomas met with Robinson Jeffers and Henry Miller.
The program will feature poet Peter Thabit Jones of Swansea, Wales, an authority on Thomas’s life and work. Included also will be poets Stanley H. Barkan (New York), Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, and John Dotson, with dramatic and musical performances by Deanna Edwards, Carol Daly, and Martin Shears (!).
Free/by Donation event.
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Saturday, May 1st at 3PM
$10 suggested at least...
Philip DeGruy in a dehab/retox solo concert.
From Philip:
I will wear my priest attire and play protesticle music.
I won't hold back...
Call the lawyers now!
i want it ALL....
Phil de Gruy is one of the most astounding talents to ever touch strings. He commands his instrument, the harp guitar, or guitarp, passionately, flawlessly and with a sense of artistry that only a few fall out of bed with.
Other artists have used the harp guitar as a concert novelty, and in varying degrees of seriousness, but Phil de Gruy, like Earl Scruggs, George Van Eps, Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian has taken his instrument into new dimensions.
Jim Carlton Author of Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists (Bill's Music Shelf)
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Saturday, October 3, 6:30—8:30 PM
Welcome to the celebration of the publication of
Vagabond Dawns
by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
Join us amidst the redwoods to celebrate the publication of Vagabond Dawns by Big Sur author and artist, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. Carolyn will read from, and sign copies of, her latest poetry collection, accompanied by Martin Shears on the guitar. Music and dancing will follow, with Mediterranean fare adding to the evening’s festivities.
Vagabond Dawns is Carolyn’s tenth book, and is published by Cross-Cultural Communications in Merrick, New York. The book includes a CD of Carolyn reading selected poems, accompanied by musicians Barry and Shelley Phillips, who have played for Coleman Barks’ readings of Rumi. The poetry in Vagabond Dawns ranges from cyclical rhythms of nature, to the passions and complexities of love, to the timeless spiritual potentialities of the human mind and soul.
Also recently published: Carolyn Mary Kleefeld: Visions from Big Sur
Please call Magnus Toren at the Henry Miller Library (831) 667-2574 or Linda Parker at (831) 667-2226 for more details.
This is free. Donations will be gratefully accepted.
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Wednesday, September 30 at 7.30PM
A special screening, discussion and booksigning presented by the author and film director Rod Stoneman
The Revolution will not be Televised
A case study of politics and the media.
(Wallflower Press, Book and DVD, November 2008)
I met Rod Stoneman as he and his family stopped by the Library last summer. We had a nice chat and we have stayed in touch since. Currently Mr. Stoneman is in the US presenting a talk and a screening of his controversial film 'The Revolution Will Not be Televised.' This is the film we will view together. The controversy around the film raised many fundamental questions about bias and objectivity in film making and prompted Mr Stoneman to write the book that is now available with the DVD of the film included. (we will have copies available at the Library). I bet we will have an interesting discussion about this important topic. (Magnus)
Rod Stoneman is Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Galway, Ireland. Before coming to Galway, he was Chief Executive of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board and previously a Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 Television.
Book
From Wallflowers website: 'The Revolution Will Not be Televised' is a powerful and dramatic film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez. It charts the seven-months run-up to the dramatic attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eye-witness account of the coup d'etat and the extraordinary return to power of Chávez some 48 hours later. Unique footage of Chávez, the new icon of the Left and thorn in the side of the US administration, is assembled in this electrifying documentary. This book outlines how a popular and prize-winning documentary fast became controversial and subject to extensive attack including a formal BBC enquiry. It describes the production and reception of a documentary that shocked an entire country, in the context of the contemporary global economy of the media. The book and DVD of the film illuminate contemporary politics in Latin America and raise key questions for documentary filmmaking and film studies.
On its release in 2003, a documentary that fortuitously caught the coup ousting Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for all of a weekend, caused a furore in that country and elsewhere for its apparent bias. Rod Stoneman was the executive producer on Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and, on first reckoning, may not be the best person to write a book about objectivity in the media.
However this book (which comes with a DVD of the film) is at its best when not resolutely defending the filmmakers, but taking apart the counter arguments levelled at the film. Many of these arguments come from vested interests in Venezuela and the US, and Stoneman picks away at the nature of these interests, as well as exploring the assumptions behind documentary filmmaking, and what is and is not acceptable in a form that can hardly claim categorical objectivity anyway. Tony McKibbin 'the List' U.K.
This is free. Donations will be gratefully accepted.
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Saturday, September 26
gates@4PM
show @ 5PM
Set times TBA / DJ between sets
The Dodos
Papercuts
The Ruby Suns
The Mumlers
Stream the new DoDos' album here
Tickets will be available at the door.
Or call 831-667-2574 for event tickets and info.
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Sunday, September 27 at 6 PM
A Very Special Screening and presentation of
FOOD Inc.
Presented by Eric Schlosser, writer/producer and Robert Kenner, Director, to benefit Don Case in his efforts to rebuild after a total loss of his home in the Basin Complex Fire.
Buy your ticket here:
The proceeds go directly to the Don Case rebuild fund.
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Friday and Saturday, September 25/26, 2009
(((folkYEAH!))) and HM Library present:
OUTDOORS IN BIG SUR
Friday, September 25
Gates at 3.30 PM
Show at 4.00PM
Set times TBA / DJ between sets.
MV&EE
Expo 70
Cotton Jones
Seventeen Evergreen
Doug Paisley (of Dark Hand and Lamplight!)
Jeffertitti's Nile
Big Eagle
Tickets for Friday $13.00 (plus fees) Minimum two tickets/transaction please.
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Thursday, September 24 at 7PM
Folkyeah! Henry Miller Library and Cinespia present
Fruit of Paradise
Experimental films by surrealist women.
An evening of feminine psychedelia..
Featuring films by Melissa Auf Der Maur (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins)
Maximilla Lukacs and Sarah Sophie Flicker (The Belles of the Black Diamond Field)
Ashley Connor and legendary Czech filmmaker Vera Chytilova director of "Daisies"
and pioneering filmmaker of the Czech New Wave.
*West Coast premiere of new music video for "Lookout" by The Entrance Band (Ecstatic Peace)
Music by DJ Carlos Nino
Live Music by Warpaint
Suggested $8.00 donation a the door.
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Saturday, September 19.
Launch Party for Ping Pong issue # 3.
Ping-Pong Tournament 3-5PM!
(Yes! The actual game! Come a few minutes before 3 to sign up).
5:00PM - Wine and Cheese Reception.
6:00PM - Readings begin featuring
Kim Addonizio and Alan Jude Moore.
Ping-Pong journal of art and literature published by the Henry Miller Library will host a party and reception with readings by Irish poet Alan Jude Moore and California poet extradonaire, Kim Addonizio.
Kim Addonizio is the author of four poetry collections including Tell Me, A National Book Award Finalist. Her fifth collection, Lucifer at the Starlite, will be published by W.W. Norton in October 2009. Addonizio has also authored two instructional books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux), and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, both from W.W. Norton. Addonizio's awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship,a Pushcart Prize, a Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal, and the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award. She teaches private workshops in Oakland, CA, and online.
Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin. Two collections of poetry, Black State Cars (2004) & Lost Republics (2008), are published by Salmon Poetry. His third collection, Strasbourg, will be published, also by Salmon, in 2010. His fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing. His website. We’d like to thank Culture Ireland for its support of this event.
Buy Ping-Pong 2009 here!
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Sunday, September 20 at 3 PM
An afternoon with the legendary
Dan Bern
Tickets $15 at the door.
Recent announcement from Dan's website:
...some cool film projects coming out soon. "man from plains," the jonathan demme documentary about jimmy carter, prominently uses the song i wrote for the picture, "the ballad of jimmy carter/man from plains." mr. demme is a very cool guy. i got to meet the prez at the toronto film festival, where i sang the song before the screening. it was worth missing the u.s. open final....there will be a soundtrack album, with all 3 versions of the song i recorded in new york, with mike viola producing, and paul kuhn, among others, playing. in december, sony pictures will release "walk hard: the dewey cox story" starring john c. reilly as dewey cox. it was written and directed by jake kasdan and produced by judd apatow. i spent well over a year writing songs for this movie, and wrote more songs than i can count, many of them with mike viola. it was the most fun project i've ever been associated with. the movie will have several songs i wrote or co-wrote, and there will be a double-album of dewey cox songs, which will have a bunch more that i wrote or co-wrote. so, see these movies! get the soundtracks!
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FolkYeah - Kemado - Mexican Summer presents
BIG SUR FESTIVAL 2009
Saturday, August 29 @ Noon - 11PM
Advance tickets SOLD OUT!!!
(a limited amount of tickets will be available ONLY for Big Sur residents (w/ ID) at the door)
Six Organs of Admittance tickets (for fernwood on friday, august 28) Check it out here!
Schedule: (DJ sets between bands)
Woods
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Farmer Dave Scher
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Kurt Vile
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Wooden Shjips
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
VietNam
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Gang Gang Dance
6:45 PM - 7:45 PM
Dungen
8:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Saviours
9:45 PM - 10:45 PM
Scroll down below for special deal on 'Six Organs of Admittance' on August 28 at Fernwood.
Over the past 7 years, NYC's Kemado Records has been home to a variety of bands and artists ranging from Metal to Psych Rock to Folk. In this time of growth, we as a label have proven lasting worth and stand as a destination for acts strong, stoner, and sunny. In conjunction with the signing of a slew of new exciting artists, a vinyl-only imprint named Mexican Summer was born and embraced with amazing response and a-list press accolades that included Pitchfork, Billboard, Wired and V magazines.
Though the label is based in NY, our love for the West coast is quite apparent with the artists we work with within the bands, album art, music videos, and events we host and produce. It's always been a dream and goal for us to curate a day in the magical space of Big Sur, California where a special community of patrons drink, flirt, and happily commune to a slew of great musical performances. What could be better then a weekend of amazing jams and good friends in one of the most beautiful venues in North America? Sold!
To warmly counter act the wave of blockbuster festivals occurring all summer, we decided it would be a fine opportunity to collaborate with the lovely people at Folk Yeah! to produce a mini-festival with bands we work with plus some we love. (((folkYEAH!))) have been promoting festivals in Big Sur for years now.
The talent for the festival is already nothing short of splendid including Dungen, the newly reunited VietNam, Kurt Vile, and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. With tons of great bands from our label, the lineup also includes bands that we’ve grown to know and love over the years. Most feel like family. The styles run the gamut from hard rock to folk, and a bunch of everything in between, including some of the most talked about bands this year.
For more information, please contact
Jess Rotter – Publicist (Kemado Records) – 212.242.8883
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Sunday, August 30
Starting at 7.30 PM
Gala Finale of the 2009
Big Sur Int'l Short Film Screening Series.
Pizza, Wine, Beer, Chocolates, Pop Corn, and the best films of the 2009 series.
Come in your finest clothes but dress warm. Free event! (donations gratefully accepted)
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(((folkYEAH!))) and Henry Miller Library presents:
Pearly Gate Music
Sparrows Gate
J Tillman
Tuesday, August 25th, 7pm (gate at 6.30)
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Sunday, August 23 at 10-5PM
Writing Workshop
"Working Through Your Inner Dark Side!"
Instructor: Jill Kleiss
For reservation please go here.
From Jill Kleiss' website:
Welcome to the dark side of writing, a process that encourages writers to examine their own darkness of pain and suffering in order to achieve the benefits derived from self-exploration.
More detail on: kleissink.com
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Friday, August 14
(((folkYEAH!))) and Henry Miller Library are proud to present a very special evening with
Black Francis (of the Pixies).
GATES @ 7PM
MUSIC @ 7:30PM
Black Francis (solo)
plus support: Mere Mortals and Marie Sioux
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Saturday, August 15 starting at 7.30PM
The sci-fi comedy StarStruck
A Lance Roger Axt & Play it by Ear/AudioComics Production.
A one-time only opportunity!
StarStruck: a benefit for "Gentleman Gene" Colan
On August 15, 2009, the off-Broadway science-fiction comedy StarStruck by Elaine Lee, Susan Norfleet Lee, and Dale Place, basis for the 1980’s comic book series by Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta (who provided set and costume designs for the original production), will be presented for the first time in 25 years as an audio theatre-style live reading here at the Henry Miller Library. Tickets available now at $12 plus service fee = $ 12.80. Minimum two tickets/purchase. Click below or call 831-667-2574
Or call 831-667-2574 for event tickets and info.
Original Playbill: Courtesy of Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta
Starstruck creator Elaine Lee will be in attendance for this special performance, as will painter Lee Moyer, who supplied colors for the new Starstruck revival from IDW Publishing (schedule subject to change) and members of the original off-Broadway production of Starstruck from 1983!
A silent auction (see list of items below) will feature comic book and fantasy related prints from artists Tom Fleming, Todd Klein and Alex Ross, and Lee Moyer, limited edition jazz prints and original concert posters from the Fillmore Auditorium, wines, gift baskets, and an original one-of-a-kind commissioned piece from artist Frankie B. Washington.
Proceeds from this performance will benefit comics legend Gene Colan. Colan, best known for his artwork on Iron Man, Daredevil, Batman, and Tomb of Dracula (from which the character Blade was introduced), was diagnosed with liver failure in 2008.
The reading will employ pre-recorded sound effects and live effects performed by a team of foley artists, coupled with composer Dwight Dixon’s music from the original production.
Play it by Ear Productions, an audio theatre company in Pacific Grove, CA, will produce the event under the direction of Producing Director Lance Roger Axt. “I’m absolutely ecstatic that this is finally going to happen; speaking as both a longtime comics fan and a theatre artist, I’ve wanted to do something with this play for over a decade. And helping Gene and Adrienne Colan is an added bonus; I’m more than happy to lend a hand.”
Play it by Ear Productions
...As the play opens, Captain Galatia 9 and the crew of the Harpy blast into space on a mission for the United Federation of Female Freedom Fighters. Flying with the amazon captain are a hotheaded Space Brigader, a renegade nun, an empathic fish-woman and a reprogrammed pleasure droid who serves as science officer. When the Harpy runs into a living ship inhabited by a team of galactic evildoers, the outcome of the battle may well decide the fate of the free universe...
List of items at auction:
1. “COMIC BOOK DREAMS” PRINT BY TODD KLEIN AND ALEX ROSS
2 – 3. SIGNED COMIC ART PRINTS BY TOM FLEMING
4. “THE STEVE RUDE 2009 LIMITED EDITION SKETCHBOOK" (WITH LIMITED EDITION PRINTS)
5. “NEXUS” WATERCOLOR PRINT BY STEVE RUDE
6. “ROOFTOP ROMANCE” WATERCOLOR PRINT BY WILL EISNER
7. OPUS ART BOOK/AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH
8. “TORI AMOS” LIMITED EDITION PRINT BY LEE MOYER
9. ORIGINAL ART FROM “THE PHANTOM” DAILY COMIC STRIP (12/2004)
10. “JAZZ LEGENDS” CONCERT POSTERS OF MONK, CHET, AND COLTRANE
11. RARE BOOKS GIFT SET (OUT-OF-PRINT DC AND ERB HARDCOVERS)
12. DIGGIDY DOG GIFT BASKET
13. “KING CRIMSON AT THE WARFIELD” POSTER, FRAMED AND MOUNTED
14. CABERNET SAUVIGNON FROM CHATEAU JULIEN VINEYARDS
15. CABERNET SAUVIGNON FROM CHATEAU JULIEN VINEYARDS
16 - 19. AUDIOBOOK/AUDIO DRAMA CD GIFT SETS
20. “ERIC CLAPTON AT THE FILLMORE” POSTER, FRAMED AND MOUNTED
21. “TWO HOURS OF RECORDING TIME AT WAVE STREET STUDIOS, MONTEREY”
22. “THEY’RE LOOKING AT US...” ORIGINAL ART BY FRANKIE B. WASHINGTON
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Sunday, August 9.
Second Sunday Concert Series @ 2 PM.
Line-up is announced
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Friday, July 31
Live at the Henry Miller Library
deadMEADOW
sleepy SUN
warPAINT
spinDRIFT
A.H.I.S.S.
moonRATS
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Saturday, July 25 @ 8 PM (Gate at 7 PM)
By public demand, they're back! This year with an even more advanced laser show!
THE HOUSE OF FLOYD - Doing 'THE WALL'
Tickets, $30.00, will be available at the gate tonight.
Food and drink will be available at the show!
HOUSE OF FLOYD, a reverent tribute to Pink Floyd, captures the intoxicating sights and sounds of the original for even the most discriminating fan. HOUSE OF FLOYD pays the highest tribute to the original by accurately recreating all of the nuanced musical complexity and powerful visual imagery of Pink Floyd. The result of this obsessive attention to detail is a total Floyd production...music, lights, lasers and video. HOUSE OF FLOYD will transport you back to that mystical moment when you first discovered the enthralling world of Pink Floyd.
Food and drink by Big Sur Coast Foods.
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Friday, July 24
(((folkYEAH!))) and Henry Miller Library presents:
Friday, July 24, 2009 @ 7pm
STEPHEN MALKMUS and The Jicks
plus very special guests, returning to Big Sur: The Entrance Band
+ DJ sets
Latest Malkmus recording review in Rolling Stone here
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Sunday, July 19th, 3-6 PM.
Rise Up Singing: A Singing Workshop with Lisa Goettel
A super fun afternoon singing workshop for singers, shower singers & wanna-be-singers alike. Local voice coach Lisa G. teaches songs of every genre in the round and guides the way to vocal freedom, connection and joy. $25/person.
For more information about the workshop and Lisa, visit http://thebirdsings.com
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Friday, July 3 & 4
The Crepe Place, Folkyeah and Henry Miller Library presents:
1st Annual Mother Hips Family Hipnic
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!
"The Mother Hips, a Bay Area quartet, hooked up nearly twenty years ago at Chico State. A couple of record deals and sabbaticals later, they continue to deliver a romping strain of countrified psychedelic power pop laced with traces of Merle Haggard, Barry Gibb, and the Eagles. Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacano, the songwriters and front men, know how to sing it sweet and play it dirty."
New Yorker Magazine
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Friday 3pm -11pm
Saturday 1pm - 11pm
Friday 3pm gate
3.15 Emily Jane White
4.35 Citay
5.35 Red Cortez
6.35 These United States(pict on right)
7.50 Moondoggies
9.15 MOTHER HIPS
Saturday 1pm gate
1.15 The Dry Spells
2.15 Travel By Sea
3.15 Nicky Bluhm and the Gramblers
4.15 Sparrow's Gate
5.25 Parson's Red Heads
6.35 Little Wings
7.50 Everest
9.25 MOTHER HIPS
Plus DJ sets and an acoustic stage (back porch) in-between main stage live acts.
Tickets will be available at the door!
LOCAL DISCOUNT! (with BIG SUR ID only)
Kids 10 years old and younger free! Beer and Wine + mixed drinks + BBQ vendor inside the event.
No food and drink allowed in. Call 831-667-2574 for more.
STILL LOOKING FOR LODGING? Go here.
Check in with all the local spots everyday as people do cancel reservations (rooms and campsites) often. bigsurcalifornia.org
Camping: (go here) first come first serve camping (no reservations needed) @ these spots :
Bottchers Gap Campground located 8 miles inland at the end of Palo Colorado Road.
Palo Colorado Road winds its way up a narrow canyon through a Redwood grove, taking you to the campground at 2,100'. The campground is situated in a ridge saddle among Oak and Madrone trees.
Bottchers Gap provides an excellent view of the Ventana Double Cones in the Santa Lucia Mountains within the Ventana Wilderness. The Skinner Ridge trailhead is located at the campground. The campground has 12 units, each with a picnic table, fire ring and pedestal grill. Several of the sites are walk-in sites. Fee: $12.00 per night. 6-8 persons per site.
Bottled water is available from the campground manager. Parks Management Company
(805) 434-1996
Nacimiento Campground is a small campground along the side of a mountain trout stream approximately 11 miles east from Kirk Creek on the Nacimiento-Ferguson Road.
The Nacimiento-Ferguson Road runs from the coast at Kirk Creek on Rt. 1 to the Big Sur high country.
40 miles east of Nacimiento, the road provides access to King City and US 101 via Jolon Road
(County Road G-14), passing through the Hunter-Liggett US Military Reservation.
The campground has 8 units, each with a picnic table, fire ring and pedestal grill.
No Drinking Water is available at this site.Fee: $10.00 per night. 6-8 persons per site.
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Sunday, July 5th, 2 – 4 p.m.
The Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU of Northern California and The Henry Miller Library
Invite You to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the ACLU of Northern California.
Please join us for an afternoon of refreshments, music, poetry, and good company under the redwoods while learning about the remarkable history of ACLU-NC and what's on the horizon for civil liberties during the Obama presidency. Meet Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California. If you want more information, contact us at via e-mail here. Or call (831) 624-1180.
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Sunday, June 28 @ 3PM
'Rain Machine' - aka Kyp Malone of 'TV on the Radio' (TVOTR)
Kyp Malone, as co-writer, guitarist, and co-vocalist, the secret force behind TV on the Radio, 2008's most critically acclaimed band (name Best Album of the Year by Critic's Polls for Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Times, Pitchfork, et al).
Rain Machine is his debut solo project. Showcasing his mournful, four-octave voice, idiosynchratic instrumentals chops, and imagistic, deeply spiritual lyrics, there are already rumblings in the underground that it may be a classic-in-the-making, almost creating a genre unto himself.
June 28 marks a rare solo appearance by this talented artist and the only west coast concert before his official tour in the fall."
Tickets will be available at the door $ 15.00 /
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Friday, June 5th @ 7 PM
The Maiden Pub Presents
Scott Biram
Live Outdoor Concert and Barbecue
Support acts to be announced. Scott Biram at 9pm.
Barbecue by The Maiden.
Tickets priced at $13.00 advance / $15 Day of The Show
http://www.scottbiram.com/
Buy by calling Call 831-667-2574 or here:
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Thursday, May 28, 2009, 4PM - 5AM
Saturday, September 12, 3-6PM
“Let There Be Peace on Earth.”
CD and Book Release Party!
We take pleasure in presenting a book for children and families called, “Let There be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin with Me.” The book includes a CD with that song and other songs for children, written by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller who were the song-writing parents of Jan Tache and the grandparents and great grandparents of Jeannie Ford and Emily and Joe Mann. This book is a family project, a Big Sur family project.
The afternoon will include live music by Palo Colorado and Mountain Jamband, book signing and other events. Everyone is invited!
Jan-Lee Music will soon be releasing a new CD featuring the song, “Let There Be Peace on Earth” and nine other songs written by Jill Jackson and Sy Miller, arranged by 'our own' very talented Nico Georis and performed by himself and friends, Jacob Silver and Robin MacMillan, along with the Big Sur Singers and other musical friends and family.
Tricycle Press, a division of Ten Speed Press will be publishing “Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin with Me,” a book for children and families, illustrated by award-winning artist, David Diaz, which will include the CD.
More TBA.
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Friday, September 11th @ 7.30 PM (gate at 7)
At last! A night of Theatre and Music together on stage at the Henry Miller Library!
'Henry Miller Unscripted' by Varoom with music by Al Rose
2 acts. Each act will open with a music set by Al Rose followed by Henry Miller Unscripted. There will be an intermission in between acts. Each of the 2 acts will be approx. 50-60
minutes.
Each of these acts alone would be a worthy an event at the Miller Library...but TOGETHER will be a show of epic proportions. Vroom will be doing an improvised play as if it was written by Henry Miller. First time ever and at the Miller Library! How cool is that? You can ogle on google about these guys and you'll probably find out that this is something you don't want to miss.
Tickets are $20.00 at the door.
We are honored and excited to welcome: Varoom, an improvisational trio that specializes in unique, long-form improvisation shows, will (for the first time ever!) be performing Henry Miller Unscripted, a completely improvised play inspired by the works of Henry Miller. Varoom has performed at Austin's prestigious Out of Bounds Improv Festival and at i.O., Hollywood's improv mecca.
Members of Vroom are:
Dan O’Connor -Dan is co-founder of the critically acclaimed Impro Theatre as well as its Artistic Director. He is a co-founder of four other American Theatresports companies including BATS in San Francisco. He performed in the Improbable Theatre’s production of Lifegame Off-Broadway and in the SPIKE television series of the same name. Other improv credits include: The long running Wrought Irony at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, Pulp Playhouse at the HBO-American Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and as a guest with Second City at the Murphy's Cat Laughs Festival in Kilkenny, Ireland. He is a frequent guest in The Groundlings' Cookin' with Gas and Crazy Uncle Joe Shows. Dan along with Floyd Van Buskirk and David Razowsky recently performed Varoom for the Out of Bounds Festival in Austin Texas. He is a co-creator and director for UnScripted Rep including Shakespeare UnScripted at the Old Globe in Hollywood, North Coast Rep and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Dickens UnScripted at the Anteaus Theatre, Tennessee Williams UnScripted at Out Of Bounds West and the Livery Theatre in Ventura, Sondheim UnScripted at Theatre/Theater and Chekhov UnScripted at the EdgeFest and at The YESand Festival in New York City. Most recently he co-directed the smash-hit Jane Austen UnScripted at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood with Paul Rogan.
Floyd VanBuskirk - An improviser for over 20 years, Floyd was co-founder and first Artistic director of Seattle Theatresports/ Unexpected Productions. He moved to Los Angeles in 1994 and joined LA Theatresports/ Impro Theatre and was that company’s artistic director from 2002 to 2004. A professional actor for over 20 years, he’s appeared in numerous television programs, including: “The Practice,” “ER,” “Becker,” “The Guardian,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Reno 911,” and “World Cup Comedy.” He can be seen most recently in “Navy NCIS,” “Jake in Progress,” “Las Vegas,” and the new WB pilot “Mindy and Brenda.” He also works extensively in the world of commercials and voice-over. Floyd has appeared in numerous independent feature films, shorts, and in Christopher Guests’ “A Mighty Wind.”
David Razowsky - The former Artistic Director of The Second City Training Center Los Angeles, was a cast member of ten Second City revues where he created material with Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Jeff Garlin, among countless other performers. David has directed Second City Mainstage’s No, Seriously, We’re All Gonna Die, Second City LA’s, Encino Evil, The Second City Untitled Project, The Second City Detroit's acclaimed 19th Nervous Breakdown, and The Second City National Touring Company. David is a freelance consultant for Dreamworks PDI, an adjunct faculty member for California State University, has worked with Steppenwolf Theatre for the California State Summer Arts Festival, and has directed two of Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago theatre’s productions-- RockStars, and their critically acclaimed Live at the Leidseplein - Your Privacy is Our Business. He is a co-founder of Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre, and was the voice of Albert Brooks’ parrot on the David Letterman Show, as well as the voice of Dixon, the world’s coolest adult on ABC’s The Weekenders.
*"Jane Austen Unscripted is a delicious combination of humorous wordplay
and stiff upper lip mannerisms." Entertainment Today
Al Rose is a mesmerizing, challenging, insightful and ultimately delightful songwriter with a unique command of wordplay combined with considerable musical acumen.
Here his website and his MySpace.
“With a mixture of irreverence and soul, this veteran singer-songwriter just gets better, funnier and more plaintively incisive with each release. His latest, "My First Posthumous Release", mixes blues, country and rock influences with off-hand ease, while crafting indelible imagery. How, after all, can anyone resist a song that begins, ‘The X-rays were embarrassing’.” One of The Best Chicago Indie Releases of 2008 –Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
“A tongue in cheek folk rock classic. Offbeat, funny and utterly compelling, it’s a superb introduction to a fiercely individual singer-songwriter.” -Rock N’Reel Magazine, UK
"...A man who writes great, funny and intelligent songs...Highly recommended!!" -Moors Magazine, Netherlands
"With Warren Zevon-like wordplay, Chicago's Al Rose may be one of the cleverest singer-songwriters you've never heard of." -Sea Of Tranquility
“Every once in a while, a folk artist takes a genuinely new viewpoint and carries it to its limits” –New England Folk Almanac
"One of the best of the best in Chicagoland...Rose is an exceptional wordsmith with a penchant for Bob Dylan imagery" -Tom Lounges, Midwest Beat Magazine
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Wednesday, July 1st - 4 PM - 7 PM
Book Launch Party!
“Drinking From a Cold Spring”
a little book of hope by Big Sur’s Own
Erin Lee Gafill
4:45 - 6:30 - Readings by Erin Lee Gafill
Camaraderie, snacks, book signing & Tiny Treasures from Erin’s new painting series
Drinking From a Cold Spring
If you struggle to find the balance between creative work and personal life you know the challenges and distractions that can get in the way. With insight and honesty,Erin Lee Gafill tells the stories that have shaped her personal journey and describes the habits and methods that have helped her forge her path in life and art. More than a “how-to” book, Drinking From a Cold Spring is filled with inspiration and object lessons on how to keep your head in your work and your heart in your life.
Erin is a working artist, born and raised in Big Sur, California. Her paintings are collected internationally, and her essays, originally published in her blog, The Big Sur Fix, are read by thousands.
About the Author
Erin’s roots in the arts run deep. Her great-great grandmother was Jane Gallatin Powers, who had the first artist’s studio in Carmel. Erin’s grandparents Lolly and Bill Fassett built Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur, a legendary watering hole for artist, poets, writers, and bohemians.
Erin is the cofounder of Big Sur Arts Initiative, a nonprofit arts education organization dedicated to nurturing art and culture in the Big Sur community. An award-winning writer and painter, Erin teaches creativity workshops for Esalen Institute, Rancho La Puerta, and her own Studio One in Big Sur.
In 2001, Erin was chosen as the first American artist-in-residence of the Hamada International Children’s Art Museum, Hamada, Japan. Works from this trip were displayed at museums in Japan and California. In California, her work is available through Left Coast Gallery, Studio City; For Love of Home, Brentwood (LA); Portico Gallery, Montecito; Lyonshead Gallery, Carmel Valley; Carmel Bay Company, Carmel; Local Color and the Phoenix Shop in Big Sur; and by appointment.
See Erin’s work at - www.eringafill.com
DUBLAB and FOLKYEAH present:
TONALISM*: An all night ambient music happening.
ON THE REDWOODS STAGE:
Live Performances by:
White Rainbow
Windy and Carl (Kranky)
Pharaohs (members of Languis and Big Swell)
Matt Baldwin
Lyonnais
DJ Sets by:
Obrian System (very special guest)
frosty (dublab)
Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, Postal Service, dublab)
Part TIme Punks DJ Michael Stock
Andy Cabic (Vetiver)
Katie Byron (dublab)
Nanny Cantaloupe (dublab)
Turquoise Wisdom (dublab, Small Town Talk)
matthewdavid (dublab, Leaving Tapes)
Visuals by:
Matt Amato (The Masses)
ON THE CANYON STAGE:
Performances Curated by Carlos Niño for dublab:
Mia Doi Todd (L.A.)
Carlos Niño & Jesse Peterson (L.A., N.Y.)
The Nick Rosen/Brian Green Duo (L.A.)
The dublab Drone-Dreamers
DJ Cool Chris of Groove Merchant (S.F.)
and Special Guests
Set Design by:
Katie Byron
Call 831-667-2574 for tickets, $25.00, or here:
Tickets will be available at the door.
Complimentary tea will be served throughout the night.
Bring pillows, blankets, beanbags, sleeping bags, cushions, lay down and listen.
There will be a fire pit and heat lamps but make sure to bring warm clothes because it can get cold at night.
* from Wikipedia: Tonalism (1880 to 1915) is an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Dark, neutral hues, such as gray, brown or blue, would usually dominate such compositions. During the late 1890s American art critics began to use the term "tonal" to describe these works. Two of the leading painters associated with this style are George Inness and James McNeill Whistler.
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Saturday, May 30TH @ 4:00 PM
Concert: Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd
Slideshow: Don Usner
Open-Mic: You!
Dinner: Deetjen's Chef's, Domingo Special.
Drinks: A wine and beer bar
Details:
"To Kindness!"
A special Big Sur concert event celebrating the release of Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd’s new CD “Faith In Our Love” (recording includes Dennis Murphy, Jimmy Norris, Keith Greeninger, Roger Feuer, Barry and Shelly Phillips, Steve Walters and more….:
Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd w/ special guest:
Author, musician and photographer Don Usner.
And...we’re doing it again - trying to answer the question:
“Where is Big Sur?”
We want you to be here.
Last year, you may remember, we had the event scheduled for June 28, at that time, due to the Fire, the answer to the question was largely: "In Carmel."
This year it feels even more important to come together to answer this question, to share ideas and stories, meet each other, show and tell, and to celebrate; the re-growth, the beautifully intermittent rainfall we've had (so far), the fact that we get to do things like this together.
We're in pursuit of the 'autochthonous' voice and this event will culminate in
THE MAIN EVENT! at 8 PM
"To Kindness!" A special Big Sur celebratory concert:
Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd w/ special guest: Author, musician and photographer Don Usner. (co-author of "The Natural History of Big Sur)
This event will, besides meeting people engaged in working with the ecology of Big Sur in mind, be an excellent opportunity to thank Alisa Fineman for her music and Don Usner for his tremendous work on “The Natural History of Big Sur.” A book surely almost everyone living in and around Big Sur owns, and probably have referred to more than once! Bring your copy for Don to sign.
Organizations we hope to have represented during the afternoon attempting to ‘answer’ above question and join the event in whatever way they see fit are:
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Ventana Wildlife Society
Big Sur Powerdown
Big Sur Arts Initiative
Big Creek Reserve
Pelican Network
Garrapata Creek Watershed Council
Big Sur Land Trust
Big Sur Natural History Association
Big Sur Chamber of Commerce
HOPE
The Program:
4–7 PM: Opportunities for people and organizations to give presentations about their work by using tables for display and/or by using the stage and microphone as well as video monitors set up inside the Library. Concurrent with this we will have an exhibit of Don Usners photographs which will give you a chance to meet Don and have him sign your copy of the Natural History of Big Sur.
6.30-8 PM: A buffet of food brought by Domingo from Deetjen's @ $16/person.
7-8 PM: Open Mic, a chance for YOU to address all present with words, song or dance.
8-9.30PM: “To Kindness.” A concert withAlisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd (Accompanied, after dark, by a selection of Don Usner's photographs on the big screen).
Don Usner will have his photos exhibited in the Library until June 20.
Suggested donation for the concert and Usner slides and reading:
$ 10 - 20.00
About Don Usner:
Born in 1957 in Embudo, near Taos, New Mexico, Don spent his youth in Los Alamos and Chimayo. Growing up in these places fostered in him a love for the natural landscape and a deep appreciation of his cultural roots in the Rio Grande valley - subjects that have remained a focus of his work throughout his life.
Don completed an undergraduate degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz and went on to manage Big Creek reserve here in Big Sur. There he and co-author Paul Henson completed The Natural History of Big Sur, which includes dozens of Don's photographs. Don returned to New Mexico in 1988 to complete a Masters degree in cultural geography and soon after completed his second book, Sabino's Map: Life in Chimayo's Old Plaza, also illustrated with his photographs.
Photos below by Don Usner are of (clockwise from the top): Frank Trotter, Sam Harlan, Esther Ewoldsen/Pfeiffer, Hans Ewoldsen and Walter Trotter.Back to top of page
Wednesday May 27
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
6 - 7 DJ Turquoise Wisdom
7 - 7:40 Grouper
7:40 - 8:30 DJ Turquoise Wisdom
8:35 - ??? Animal Collective
10:30 - 1am DJ after party @ Fernwood Resort
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Sunday May 24th at 3 PM
Book Signing with Robert Greenfield
author of the classic S.T.P.: A Journey through America with the Rolling Stones and Exile on Main St.: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones.
There will be music, drinks and snacks served up during the afternoon.
In A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the 60s, Robert Greenfield delves into the world of 1960s upper class London, charting the disintegration of a young couple who lost themselves in drugs, free love, and unfulfilled dreams—a couple who represented a generation in transition. The Webers appeared perfect for each other: both raised in privilege, clever and reckless, seeking adventure they could ill-afford. Their lifestyle threw them into a glamorous set with icons like Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Jimi Hendrix, but as they gravitated toward different aspects of the decade, they grew drastically—and dangerously—apart.
A Day in the Life is a thoroughly researched and complete account of the couple’s courtship and marriage, the events leading to Puss’s death in 1971, and Tommy’s desperate attempt to continue raising his sons as he wandered through Europe and then returned to England only to end up in the notorious Wormwood Scrubs prison. Using interviews with their sons (one of whom is Jake Weber of NBC’s Medium), family, friends, and the movers and shakers of the scene that was “Swinging London”—as well as numerous heartfelt letters written by Puss—Greenfield pieces together the tragic story of how London’s fairytale couple collapsed under the pressure of a society in transformation as the psychedelic 60s gave way to the cold reality of the 70s.
Robert Greenfield is the author of the classic S.T.P.: A Journey through America with the Rolling Stones and Exile on Main St.: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, as well as critically acclaimed biographies of rock promoter Bill Graham, Grateful Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, and acid guru Timothy Leary. A former editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone magazine, he lives in California.
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Thursday, April 30th
The Big Big Big Sur Fashion Show: Paper Dollz
Doors open at 6pm
Free Admission, with cash Dessert and Mimosa Bar
After-party with local DJs at Fernwood
Watch out Milan! More than forty local artists have come together to create a truly unique Big Sur event at the Henry Miller Library. The show features accessories by local designers who will have products available for sale, a dessert and mimosa bar, local musicians, dancers and models, and dozens of never-before-seen outfits made by local designers made with "anything but fabric." Watch for bubble wrap, muffin cups, wet kelp, knitted licorice and much more. Come ready to play, and wear something that makes your feel FABulous.
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Sunday, April 26
Bob Cosgrove Benefit Soiree and Auction
2:00 pm - Dusk
Come Celebrate Spring, Being Alive and Bob Cosgrove with a soiree featuring a little music and a little vino.
Here’s a list of some of the items available at the auction:
A night at Post Ranch Inn
River Inn; Lunch for 2, 2 times
Road House; Dinner for 2
Nepenthe; Lunch for 2
Heart Beat "something naughty"
A cord of firewood
Flower arrangement from Kate Healy
Massages from various practitioners
A day at Esalen for one with message and lunch
A case of Pietra Santa EV olive oil
Gift certificate from Sweet Elaina's Bakery
Custom jewelry
Rachel Fann painting
Vertical Tasting: Five bottles of Trevisiol Brut Vino Spumante years 85, 86, 87, 88, and 89 from the Veneto region in the province of Treviso, northeastern Italy. They were released as a twenty year anniversary of the passing the reins from father to son. 100% Chardonney.
‘05 Mendelson Pinot Noir, Sleepy Hollow Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands.
‘01 Bodegas Fuentespina, Ribera del Duero, Reserva Especial.
100% Tempranillo. The growing region is in north eastern Spain.
‘00 Ristow Cabernet, Quinta De Pedras Vineyard, Napa.
100% Cabernet
For information or to donate to the auction call 831.998.0344 or you can donate by
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Sunday, April 19 @ 3PM
Eric Taylor in concert
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/
Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.
I’m always the opening act when I’m around Eric. I love his voice, and he has a great narrative quality and sense of detail. He sort of takes you out of your own reality and into the reality of his songs. It’s good writing no matter how you cut it. Lyle Lovett
He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. Steve Earle
Tickets $ 15.00 by calling 831-667-2574
Music samples here:
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Hollywood_SB.MP3
December 20 at 7 PM
'Theatre de la Liberte' and the "Prague Project' presents:
Comedy about the Star
An interpretation of the 19th century Czech folk winter play Incoming Star with physical performance art, christmas carols, 100 year old puppets and the classic humor of the czech fieldworkers.
The Prague Project is a small cultural exchange program with the Czech Republic. This past few months they have been honored to host Radek Tuma, an exchange student from FAMU, (Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). Radek is also a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Department at University of California Berkeley.
In the few months Radek has been in San Francisco, he has renovated a garage into a beautiful theater space, built an amazing classic Baroque puppet theater, (a sculpture made of drift wood), written and produced ten excellent performances, each with a larger audience, and assembled a crew of other performers for a tour. These ongoing performances are a mix of myth, tradition, the classics and physical performance art. Audiences have much appreciated this rare experience of the 1,200 year old culture of the Czech Republic. Now we get a chance right in Big Sur.
"Theatre de la Liberte", tours Northern California in late December with Radek's version of a traditional Czech Christmas puppet show, titled, "Comedy About The Star". A subtitle could also be, "Performance Art With Czech Antique Puppets".
We will serve Gløgg and Ginger Breads!
Donations gratefully accepted. Welcome!
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Saturday October 11 @ 8 PM (Gate at 7 PM)
A fitting ‘end of the season’ event at the Henry Miller Library:
THE HOUSE OF FLOYD
An Audio Visual Delight with a special tribute to Richard Wright
founding member of Pink Floyd.
HOUSE OF FLOYD, a reverent tribute to Pink Floyd, captures the intoxicating sights and sounds of the original for even the most discriminating fan. HOUSE OF FLOYD pays the highest tribute to the original by accurately recreating all of the nuanced musical complexity and powerful visual imagery of Pink Floyd. The result of this obsessive attention to detail is a total Floyd production...music, lights, lasers and video. HOUSE OF FLOYD will transport you back to that mystical moment when you first discovered the enthralling world of Pink Floyd.
Tickets available now at $ 19.50
Food and drink by Big Sur Coast Foods.
(Please do not bring food and drink)
TICKETS $ 20.00 at the door.
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Wednesday Oct 8 at 7 PM
Welcome to the Premiere of a Never Released Documentary About Big Sur
“The Innkeeper”
Grandpa Deetjen. A name that conjures up many memories and colorful stories for anyone who has lived in Big Sur or has had the experience of being a guest at his fabled Big Sur Inn.
Helmuth Deetjeen passed away in 1972 and only a handful of people still remain who were personally acquainted with Deetjen, the Innkeeper. Who was Helmuth Deetjen and what kind of person was he?
When Mr. Deetjen passed on, the management of the Inn fell into the hands of one of his employees, a young traveler and seeker named Ed Gardien, who rode his bicycle through Big Sur in 1964 and never left after an intriguing encounter with Mr. Deetjen. Ed Gardien was captivated by Grandpa and, after his death, Ed’s fascination with Deetjen and the Inn only grew with each passing year. Mr. Gardien believed it was his calling “to continue the management of the Inn the way Grandpa would have wanted it”.
In 1983 two documentary filmmakers, Hanna Wajshonig and James Seligman, arrived in Big Sur and they too became entranced with the beauty and magic of Big Sur and the myth of the Inn. For the next nine months they filmed sublime scenery, historical places, and candid interviews with many of Mr. Deetjen’s neighbors, employees and guests. What was revealed was surprising, disturbing and poignant.
This 48 minute video documentary has never been released and never been shown in public. For the first time in 24 years the video will be screened just up the road from Deetjen’s Inn here at the Henry Miller Library.
Filled with insights and revelations, this compelling portrait features interviews and stories from Ed Gardien, Emil White, Walter Trotter, Roger Newell, Rosa & Bob Nash, Bob Skiles, Mike Anderson and many other notable characters who knew both Mr. Deetjen and Mr. Gardien.
We invite you to join the first audience to ever see this inspiring and historical work of art.
Refreshments (courtesy Deetjen's Big Sur Inn) and storytelling will follow the screening.
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Saturday, September 27 @ 3 PM
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
ALL PHOTOS © MAGNUS TORÉN. Summer 07.
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(((folkYEAH!))) presents
Sunday, September 28th @ 3 PM
A Benefit for The All Volunteer Big Sur Fire Brigade
(All artists are donating 100% of their performance fee)
SOLD OUT!
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (full set!)
Pegi Young Band (full set!)
plus special guests
Alela Diane
Anthony Crawford
doors 3pm
show 4
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Sunday, September 21 @ 3 PM
Bill Frisell and Nels Cline!
Tickets available now! $ 27.50 (plus $ 1.50 fee) Advance, $ 30.00 at the door.
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Friday, August 15 @ 8 PM in a benefit show
presented by Jesse Goodman:
Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky
That Subliminal Kid!
Musician, conceptual artist, producer and cutting edge audio innovator DJ Spooky performing a Live multimedia sound, music, & visual collage, remixing cultural personae incorporating recently discovered Ginsberg 1950's recordings, as well as audio of Henry Miller tuned specifically for the Redwood forest's acoustics.
Tickets available at the door $ 25.00 or call 831-667-2574
Photo by Tobin Poppenberg.
Check out Sound Unbound Paul’s new book discussing the art of the remix. Recently released the collection has quickly become one of publisher MIT Press's top sellers. It has essays and interviews with people as diverse as Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Chuck D, Pierre Boulez, Saul Williams, Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Sterling, Daphne Keller and more.
We will have copies available for sale at the event.
Get your copy signed by Spooky.
If you don't already know DJ Spooky here's some form his website:
Miller has recorded a huge volume of music and has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kronos Quartet, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Pierre Boulez, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth among many others. He also composed and recorded the music score for the Cannes and Sundance Award winning film Slam, starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams.
In addition to his numerous records and articles released under the DJ Spooky name, another important project was a collaboration with Bernard Tschumi, Dean of Columbia University's architecture department, and author of Praxis: Event Cities. This piece debuted at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2000.
Miller continues to add to his creative output across a broad cultural spectrum. He traveled to Antarctica in December 2007 to gather sonic and visual materials for his next large scale work Terra Nova: The Antarctic Suite, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival, Dartmouth College, and Change Performing Arts in Milan.
DJ Spooky WEBSITE HERE!
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Saturday, August 2 @ 7 PM
10 PM Bonfire Madigan
9 PM Conspiracy of Beards
8 PM Apple Pie Hopes
7 PM Rock Ceremony
Bonfire Madigan play baroque-folk punk grounded on frontwoman Madigan Shive's soaring lullaby vocals and virtuoso cello skills. Shive, a master of tone and mood, crafts songs with raw, emotional melodies and powerful, unexpected dynamics. - New York Press
About Conspiracy of Beards are a 30 member acapella male choir performing exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen. Their gritty, uplifting renditions of Cohen songs have been performed in front of enthusiastic audiences around the Bay Area including recently at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Café duNord and on West Coast Live radio program.
About Apple Pie Hopes: A guitar, mandolin, banjo, accordian, washboard & 5 voices brim-filled with sunshine & soul! Showcasing original compositions reminescent of Traditional Appalachian, Country Blues, True-Folk Americana & Sweetwater Ballads as well as faithful interpretations & one-of-a-kind arrangements performed with authentic Vaudvillianesque showmanship.
About Rock Ceremony: Valis has been playing drums since he was 2 and a half. He is ten years old now. Do the math. He does!
The howls of a wounded cello and the voice of a tormented angel suffuse the blood-soaked tragedy on the American Conservatory Theater's stage. Above all - literally, seated high amid the massive organ pipes of Walt Spangler's industrial-baroque cathedral set - composer, cellist and vocalist Bonfire Madigan Shive is an electrifying one-woman heavenly choir. - San Francisco Chronicle 6/13/08
Show up for this, we'll have fun!
Tickets at $ 5.00 - 20.
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Saturday July 26 @ 8 PM
A late night party under the redwoods with
Blame Sally
Tickets available $ 18.00 at the door.
Or call 831-667-2574
“Blame Sally's artful, intelligent songwriting, strong harmonies and skilled musicianship shone brightly from our stage, drawing a crowd that danced, sang along and leaped to their feet to demand an encore.” ~ Marisa Waddell, Entertainment Coordinator ~ Live Oak Music Festival
Check it out! Blame Sally video “If You Tell A Lie” on Neil Young’s Living With War Website
“An amazing collection of talented local musicians has banded together and released a stunning new CD. "Severland," the latest from San Francisco's Blame Sally, should bring this female foursome universal acclaim ... "Severland" carves out a strong identity on the indie-pop edges of Americana.", Paul Freeman, Palo Alto Daily News
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Rizidence! July 20 - July 27
An "all-strings roots-music camp" @ HML
Several years back Riz stopped by the HM Library, I was playing guitar at the time. He listened and encouraged me to play more. I felt he paid attention. At that moment I thought to myself "This guy is a good teacher of music." He's since become a regular visitor and an inspiration for all of us here at the Library. Magnus
We're now able to bring him here for a week of RIZIDENCE!
Anyone will benefit from joining in this camp. Beginners as well as seasoned players.
You'll get private instructions and, most of all, you'll be learning how to play with others.
Ages 12 and up are welcome. Bring a lunch and a string instrument.
5 Day camp - $ 50.00 (includes 30 minute private instruction each day)
1 Day camp - $ 15.00
1 Day camp with 30 minutes private instructions - $ 20.00
Details on times etc. TBA. Limited availability. E-mail to reserve your spot now!
Riz plays guitar, dobro, vocal, fife, kazoo, hi-hat, bass drum simultaneously! He is a person who knows how to 'play' music - it is hard not to get inspired by him. His repertoire consists of early blues, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs and novelty songs, with the additional insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, european classical music composers, musical theater and film music, in original compositions and improvisations. Read and listen to Riz here:
http://www.myspace.com/rizorkestra
http://www.youtube.com/rizorkestra
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(((folkYEAH!))) and Arthur Magazine presents
Saturday, July 19 @ 2pm -11pm
Starts at 2 PM sharp. DJ inbetween live sets.
Proceeds will benefit the Henry Miller Library - Thank You!
(much needed after a grueling three weeks of firefight!)
9:20pm Beachwood Sparks
7:40pm Howlin Rain
6:30pm Skygreen Leopards
5:20pm Whalebones
4:20pm Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
3:20pm Sean Smith
2:30pm The Shivas
2:00pm Royce Haven
Buy your tickets at the door! $ 25.00
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Sunday, July 20 @ 3 PM
John Doe in concert, tickets available!
$ 15.00 advance (plus $ 1.00 fee, $ 18.00 at the door)
Opening act Lysa Flores!
Or call 831-667-2574
John Doe. As a founding member of punk monoliths X, he seized his rightful place as one of the most influential musicians in American alternative music in the 1980 s, clearing a path for the revolution in that genre that would take place a decade later. Since launching his solo career in 1990 with the dusty road-poetry of Meet John Doe, John has produced six stunning roots rock albums of frightening honesty and vision. A Year in the Wilderness is no exception. Now with musicians and singers at Dave Way’s Way Station in the hills of Los Angeles he sings and plays, with hardly any “fixes,” over-dubs or auto-tune, everything is given to the moment of the song and its players.
Come party with Hollywood megastar Rob Schneider!
Schneider's website
Schneider will present his latest, not yet released, Comedy CD: “Yeah, it is”
Exactly how he will do this remains to be seen – but we have a big stage!!!
Mr. Schneider will also present a ‘sneak preview’ of his directorial debut feature film:
“Big Stan.”
There will be a unique event specific CD available with selected tracks from the upcoming “Yeah it is”. Limited quantity, first come first serve.
Rob Schneider is doing this as a benefit for the Library. 75% of proceeds goes to our archives preservation work and 25% goes towards general operations of the Library.
Film screening starts at 8.30 (when it is dark enough)
Food and drinks will be available.
Call 667-2574
Don't miss the after party at the Big Sur Bakery!
GET YOUR TICKET NOW! $ 25.00 incl. all fees. (this will sell out).
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Saturday, June 28TH @ 3:00 PM
CANCELLED/POSTPONED DUE TO FIRE
“Where is Big Sur?” followed by "To Kindness."
Organizations represented during the afternoon attempting to ‘answer’
above question; "Where is Big Sur?," in whatever way they see fit, are:
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Ventana Wildlife Society
Big Sur Powerdown
Big Sur Arts Initiative
Big Creek Reserve
Pelican Network
Garrapata Creek Watershed Council
Big Sur Land Trust
Big Sur Natural History Association
Big Sur Chamber of Commerce
HOPE
All are welcome to join in this get-together of folks doing good work in Big Sur: the idea is for people to meet, exchange info, search for the 'autochthonous' voice, share stories, and have a picnic dinner (provided here), culminating in a concert and presentation @ 8:00 PM:
"To Kindness!" A special BIG SUR celebratory concert:
CANCELLED/POSTPONED DUE TO FIRE
Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd w/ special guest:
Author, musician and photographer Don Usner.
(co-author of "The Natural History of Big Sur)
Music, poetry and the exceptional Usner photography exhibited in the Library and, after dark, on our big screen.
Food and drink served by Big Sur Coast foods..at reasonable prices.
Don Usner will have his photos exhibited in the Library until July 10.
Suggested donation for the concert and Usner slides and reading: $ 10 - 20.00
Read on below...
Organizations represented during the afternoon attempting to ‘answer’
above question; "Where is Big Sur?," in whatever way they see fit, are:
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Ventana Wildlife Society
Big Sur Powerdown
Big Sur Arts Initiative
Big Creek Reserve
Pelican Network
Garrapata Creek Watershed Council
Big Sur Land Trust
Big Sur Natural History Association
Big Sur Chamber of Commerce
HOPE
This event will, besides meeting people engaged in working with the ecology of Big Sur in mind, be an excellent opportunity to thank Alisa Fineman for her music and Don Usner for his tremendous work on “The Natural History of Big Sur.” A book surely almost everyone living in and around Big Sur owns, and probably have referred to more than once! Bring your copy for Don to sign.
We will of course make sure to have copies available for sale here at the Library.
About Don Usner:
Born in 1957 in Embudo, near Taos, New Mexico, Don spent his youth in Los Alamos and Chimayo. Growing up in these places fostered in him a love for the natural landscape and a deep appreciation of his cultural roots in the Rio Grande valley - subjects that have remained a focus of his work throughout his life.
Don completed an undergraduate degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz and went on to manage Big Creek reserve here in Big Sur. There he and co-author Paul Henson completed The Natural History of Big Sur, which includes dozens of Don's photographs. Don returned to New Mexico in 1988 to complete a Masters degree in cultural geography and soon after completed his second book, Sabino's Map: Life in Chimayo's Old Plaza, also illustrated with his photographs.
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June 22
CANCELLED/POSTPONED DUE TO FIRE
Big Sur International Invitational
Ping Pong Championship!
$ 10.00 entry fee - winner takes all!
Tournament starts at Noon!
E-MAIL HERE TO REGISTER
Local advantage apply - all players need to live with that.
Tournament possibly followed by Beer-Pong, for those who want, at the Maiden Publick!
NOTE: The suggested pastime following the tournament does in no way mean
we're taking this lightly. Make no mistake this is a SERIOUS championship!
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June 13
Grumbling Ginger @ 7 PM
Gillen and Turk @ 8.30 PM
Grumbling Ginger play original songs in a Celtic- flavoured Folk/Rock style. Their shows recreate the atmosphere of the British Folk Club music scene. They use a variety of instruments including Guitar, Dulcimer, Mandolin, Doumbek and Bodhran. Beautiful vocal harmonies and humorous story telling... Grumbling Ginger features lead singer and songwriter Jana Heller. About her latest release:
Virtuoso dulcimer, fine acoustic guitar, a moving powerful voice and really memorable songs with great hooks. Jana Heller has a product here that could make her a big star - a singer/songwriter a la Kate Bush...this is a brilliant piece of work. A contemporary rock album which sits neatly alongside Springsteen and Alanis Morrisette.
- Tradition magazine
Gillen and Turk
Singer-songwriters Fred Gillen Jr. and Matt Turk are two of a kind. Genuinely multi-instrumental and song-infected, they are descendents of both cosmic cowboys and crusading poets. Plug them in for best effect.
Mainstays of the fertile Hudson Valley singer-songwriter scene, Matt Turk (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Fred Gillen Jr. (guitar, bass, harmonica, washboard, vocals) joined forces as Gillen & Turk (www.gillenandturk.com) a year ago and have quickly made a name for themselves as fearless folk-rockers who mean what they sing.
$ 10 - 20 donation
Full bio is here: gillenandturk.com
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June 15 @ 3 PM - Fathers day!
LIVE! ON STAGE JONATHAN RICHMAN
featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums! (On Jonathan here)
Opening the show: Lysa Flores!
Tickets $ 15.00 (1.00 fee)
Or call 831-667-2574
Touring with Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love, his first collection of new material in three years. The album features thirteen openhearted, lovingly crafted songs (fifteen if you count the two unlisted bonus tracks), delivered in spare but often imaginative arrangements built around Jonathan's distinctive voice and guitar. The resulting album captures much of the warmth of Jonathan's exuberant, spontaneous and often hilarious live performances. (from vaporrecords)
Friday May 23 @ 7.30 PM (door at 6.30 PM)
(((folkYEAH!))) and DONUTS presents
CLUSTER and friends:
Wooden Shjips
ARP
Get dinner and drinks @ the show!
Please Note: You can not bring in any food or drinks to the event.
SF Weekly blog
Food only by Big Sur Coast Foods.
Drinks (full bar @ HML) by Fernwood
also, see you at Fernwood Resort, afterparty.
Tickets available at the door! $ 22.00
Or call 831-667-2574
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May 21 @ 8.30 PM
Community potluck at 6.30 PM
Slideshow from a Green Energy Tour of Europe presented by
Juliet Johnson
Esalen's own Sustainability Coordinator Juliet Johnson just returned from a 2 week green energy tour of Europe. Come learn about what the European Union has done with the power of community, cutting-edge design and technology and the world's most visionary energy policy. Come hear tales from the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark.
Juliet Snow Johnson is a member of the Board of Trustees of Esalen Institute. She has a Master's Degree in Environmental Engineering and currently oversees Esalen's Long-Term Development Plan. She is actively involved in many aspects of life at Esalen, including supporting Esalen's efforts to increase ecological sustainability and land stewardship practices. She is passionate about water, the environment and social issues. Before coming to Esalen, Juliet worked as a Project Manager for a national environmental egineering firm specializing in water treatment, reuse and habitat restoration.
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May 22 @ 6.30 PM
Philip DeGruy (His website here)
in "Happy Hour."
This is what "Vintage Guitar" magazine said about Phil.
Phil de Gruy is one of the most astounding talents to ever touch strings. He commands his instrument, the harp guitar, or guitarp, passionately, flawlessly and with a sense of artistry that only a few fall out of bed with. This medley of “Who Can I Turn To?” and “My Romance” will have you hitting the repeat button to be sure you just heard what you did. Other artists have used the harp guitar as a concert novelty, and in varying degrees of seriousness, but Phil de Gruy, like Earl Scruggs, George Van Eps, Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian has taken his instrument into new dimensions.
So show up for this - we'll have fun!
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Sunday, May 11 @ 3PM
Eric Taylor in concert
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/
Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.
I’m always the opening act when I’m around Eric. I love his voice, and he has a great narrative quality and sense of detail. He sort of takes you out of your own reality and into the reality of his songs. It’s good writing no matter how you cut it. Lyle Lovett
He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. Steve Earle
Music samples here:
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Hollywood_SB.MP3
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Carnival_SB.MP3
http://www.bluerubymusic.com/mp3/Highway_Kind_SB.MP3
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Sunday, May 4 @ 8.30 PM
Robert Swan
gives a talk and a slide show.
Robert Swan is a polar explorer and environmental leader, he has earned his place in history alongside the great explorers and adventurers who have tested their physical and mental strength to the limit in the planet's most hostile environments.
By the age of 33, he had become the first person to walk to both the North and South poles. His 900-mile journey "In the Footsteps of Scott," across the treacherous Antarctic ice cap to the South Pole, stands as the longest unassisted walk ever made. The successful completion of his North and South Pole expeditions marked the beginning of a new phase in his life. He has dedicated his life to promote recycling, renewable energy and sustainability to combat global warming, and to the preservation of Antarctica. He will recount his epic journeys to the North and South Poles and outline his passion to motivate, engage and educate industry, business and youth on environmental protection.
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Saturday, May 10
Another great (((folkYEAH!))) presents @ HML
The Entrance Band returns to HML in Big Sur!
www.folkyeah.com (Don't miss this site!)
4 pm - 10:30 pm
DJ in-between live sets and after E Band!
Get dinner and drinks @ the show!
Please Note: You can not bring in any food or drinks to the event.
Food only by Big Sur Coast Foods.
Drinks (full bar @ HML) by Fernwood
also, see you at Fernwood Resort, afterparty.
Tickets available at the door!!!
Or call 831-667-2574
See the artwork for the show here.
A limited amount of these will be available at the show.
SCHEDULE:
4 PM: Ex Reverie
5 PM: Matt Baldwin Electric Band
6 PM: Fern Knight
7 PM: Mariee Sioux
8 PM: Winter Flowers
9 PM: The Entrance Band
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JAMES HURLEY concert on the Library porch
Saturday, April 26 @ 4 PM
jameshurleymusic.com
Anna Bentholm and James Hurley in Big Sur in January 2008.
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Travis Shane Brandon concert on the Library porch
Sunday, April 27 @ 3 PM
Travis has recently been a cable-car musician and entertainer for the tourists wating to board the "Fisherman's Wharf" cable cars. Since then, he has been performing at bars, coffee houses and restuarants in Oregon, Northern California, Los Angeles, Key West - and, now, in Big Sur.
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Sunday, April 13 @ 2 PM
Musical Garden Party with:
Janni Littlepage,
Johan Seige
Robyn Landis
and Magnus Torén
Please bring a picnic and, if you like, a donation to the Henry Miller Library.
Janni Littlepage and Johan Siege at the 'Brett Perkins' Big Sur
Listening Room International Songwriting Retreat'
sponsored by the Henry Miller Library in February 2008.
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Saturday, April 5 @ 7 PM
Book presentation and talk given by author and PAN member Mary Duncan
"Henry Miller is Under My Bed:
People and Places on the Way to Paris"
Mary Duncan will share some highlights of her adventurous memoir with us. She has known people as diverse as Hugh Hefner and IRA gunmen. The places extend from living in a church parsonage to being stranded in Tehran during the revolution to Simone de Beauvoir's Paris apartment. All of this was linked to Henry Miller and living in Paris.
Come and have a glass of wine, cup of tea, meet friends and hear stories about Mary's Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Moscow, her journey to acquire original photographs, manuscripts, correspondence and audio tapes of Henry Miller's memoirs, “My Life and Times,” and “Insomnia.”
Books will be available for purchase and author inscription.
Mary Duncan's own website here.
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Saturday, Feb 2 @ 8 PM (door opens 7.30 PM)
Performing songwriters from Denmark, England, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden and the US in a special presentation of the Listening Room Concert Series.
At the Lodge at Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur.
(The concert will be by the fireplace in the new lobby).
Join us - it'll be fun and inspiring to listen to a group of good song writers from all over the world.
(if you are a song writer yourself you will probably learn something too!)
This event features participants from the 3rd Annual Big Sur Listening Room International Songwriters Retreat, held Jan. 27 - Feb. 2 at the Lodge in Pfeiffer State Park, produced in conjunction with Henry Miller Library, and includes LA Music Award winner Judith de los Santos (Mexico), Los Angeles based songwriter Mark Davis, who's most recent album was ranked among the Top 10 Independent Albums of the Decade by the Orange County L.A. Times.
Doors open at 7:30pm, with an 8:00pm show time. There will be a wine and beer available, free parking and a donation requested. Further info. at: www.listeningroomconcerts.com and by calling 831-667- 2574 ( The Library phone).
This special event is being hosted by Listening Room Concert Serires founder Brett Perkins, who moved to Denmark in 2004 and has since established the series as a monthly event in Copenhagen and Stockholm. Perkins has a long history in the US music scene since the early 80's, from four years as lead vocalist of 80's power pop band The Sneaks, to his later position as C.E.O. of the now defunct National Academy of Songwriters from 1995-96 (Hollywood, CA).
The Listening Room concert series ran from 1993 to 2005 in various venues throughout California.
The 'dedicated listening room event' features local, national and international songwriters, presenting their original works in fully acoustic performances individually, as well as in various configurations, presented along with the stories behind the songs.
Over 1000 artists have appeared on the Listening Room Concert Series since it's inception, with several going on to greater recognition, including Jonatha Brooke, Lisa Loeb, Ron Sexsmith, Teitur and Dar Williams.
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Thursday, Jan. 10 @ 7 PM
Red Pine a.k.a Bill Porter
Reading, slideshow and talk.
Photo shows Red Pine w/ Chinese Zen Master.
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Book Release Party
The book release party for “These Are My Flowers: Raising a Family on the Big Sur Coast --- Letters of Nancy Hopkins” is set for Sunday, November 11, 7 pm at the Grange Hall in Big Sur. The evening will feature a short slide show of 1950s-era photos from the Hopkins Family Collection and a reading and book-signing by Heidi Hopkins, the book’s editor and contributor. Coffee, tea and dessert will be served. Proceeds from the sale of the books will benefit the Henry Miller Memorial Library, which Nancy helped establish in 1981. For information about the event call 831-667-2574.
“These Are My Flowers” is based on letters Nancy wrote to her parents in Berkeley after she married Sam Hopkins and moved into their new home on Partington Ridge in 1948. As such, it offers a “slice of life” view of living in Big Sur in the 1950s, one woman’s view of her world and her time. Henry Miller and his wife Lepska, the children, Valentine and Tony, and later Henry's fourth wife Eve, were close neigbors of whom Nancy writes.
Following is an excerpt from the book:
Here Nancy Hopkins is talking about her neigbor Henry Miller:
"And also, very Henry-like, he describes his horror when someone...some progressive school teacher friend of his...approached him to purchase for Val* a book on sex-instruction for six-and-seven-year-olds and this book had "all the scientific terms for EVERYTHING... no euphemisms...just SCIENTIFIC WORDS! I WAS APPALED!! Teaching those words to children!!!
The rest of us had to chuckle gently, remembering that after all Henry has written books any paragraph of which would be enough to curl your hair, and yet he cannot bear the thought that his daughter should even be able to call the parts of the body by their correct names!"
* Henry's daughter Valentine.
Photo on the right by Sam Hopkins 1957
Buy the book! Please include a note if you like a signed copy. Books will ship asap after Nov. 11. Thank you! (Thanks to a very generous arrangement w/ the publisher/editor we are able to sell this for only $ 24.95. The book is very well put together, high quality paper, photos etc.)
Domestic customers here:
International address (outside continental US) please add $ 9.00 shipping:
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At the Ol'Factory Cafe
Friday, November 2 at 7.30 PM
The Henry Miller Library Presents:
Ellis Paul @ the Ol'Factory Cafe in Sand City
Part of the proceeds benefit the Henry Miller Library.
$ 15.00 cover. Call 831-667-2574 for tickets.
Great food, wine and beer available - make a night of it!
Ellis Paul's website
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Saturday, November 3 @ 7 PM
HA! Man is back. François LeRoux comes back with his amazing Cello, Loops and Dance!
$ 10.00 - 20.00 sliding scale
The HA!Man - a little known phoenix that whisks through the States, through Europe and Southern Africa every year - will be back at the Henry Miller Library on Sat Nov 3, for the third year in a row. Somehow he manages to plant seeds of inspiration everywhere he goes with his energizing electronic mingles of musical styles and sounds, with the closeness that he treats his cello and the wildness in his dances and ocarina playing. Who is the "HA!Man?" The name is Francois le Roux, a far-off descendant of the French Huguenots who settled in a small number in the Western Cape, South Africa, some 300 years ago. Perhaps he's got a little of that Franco flair left, but certainly Africa has invaded his blood, and perhaps this is what makes him so enticing: vigorous European playing and musical finesse, combined by the joy and warm-heartedness of the African plains. He'll be back with more - and fresh - recordings, more spontaneous expressions that makes every one of his more than 200 performances a year unique event. Come be part of this association of gutsy and creative music-making in the natural sanctuary of the the Henry Miller Library.
Cellist, pianist and organist by training, Francois le Roux has decided to make spontaneous creativity the basis of his career. This has shaped his performances into multi faceted creative events, a thorn when trying to describe it and an inspiring surprise to most who experience it.
Please check his website here.
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Sunday, October 21 @ 7 PM
Joel Zoss
Joel Zoss has performed and recorded with a long list of artists including James Taylor, David Bromberg, Bonnie Raitt, John Hartford, Paul Butterfield, David Sanborn, Taj Mahal, Todd Rundgren, and Howling Wolf. Joel's website here.
“American dream songs called in from an area code as yet unspecified” –Rolling Stone
Joel’s songs have sold millions of copies, earning him two gold records, he is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow of Creative Writing and a PEN short story award winner. Since 1994 Joel has been the annual recipient of a Special Music Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). His recordings are currently available on Rounder, Critique, DM, Arista/BMG Japan, and through the Smithsonian. His songs have been covered by many artists on many labels. Joel’s new album Lila was produced by June Millington, leader of the legendary group Fanny.
Details TBA - we will have some wine, cheese, fruit, snacks etc.
Friday October 12 @ 6 PM
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Philip DeGruy in concert!
$ 5 - 20.00 donation
Read about Philip here.
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(((folkYEAH!))) presents
(( 3D )) Picnic: A Music & Visual Arts Gathering
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
High Noon ~ 11pm
2 Stages ::: Lots of Music
Tickets $ 20.00 available at the door! .
:::::: set times ::::::: two stages ::::::
Front Stage
12:00 Black Shirts
1:00 Golden Animals
2:00 VALET
3:00 Residual Echoes
4:00 Donovan Quinn and the 13th Month
5:00 WHYSP
6:00 The Dodo's
7:00 Akron Family
9:30 White Rainbow A/V Performance (with 3D Healing Hut)
Side Stage
1:30 7 come 11
2:35 Landy
3:35 Jeffrey Manson
4:40 Bird by Snow
5:40 Sean Smith
PLEASE carpool to this and all events @ The Henry Miller Library!
Please park to the south of the library grounds as another event will be occuring at the Hawthorne Gallery (just north of HML) at the same time.
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Thursday, September 20 at 7.30 PM
A Special Screening of the Feature Film:
THE CALM AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA
7.30 Music by Mike West
8.00 The Film
Pop Corn, Coffee and Tea - FREE!
Welcome!
Synopsis
The Calm at the Edge of the Sea follows the course of Travis, a young man who leaves a troubled life in Los Angeles to live with an uncle and family he has not seen in years. Using raw and unforgettable imagery, the film delivers a turbulent wave of emotions and life-like situations, from the most intense love to the darkest of temptations; the film is a melancholy drama that faces difficult moral and social issues with modern relationship problems.
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Thursday, August 23:
10th night of our twelve night Short Film Screening Series.
Always starting when it gets dark.(Approx. 8.30 at this time)
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Saturday, August 25 at 3 PM
Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
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Opening the show for Ramblin' Jack: Big Sur's own Mike West!
Mike West, a cowboy from New Jersey, has his feet firmly planted in the western american folk tradition. From Henry Miller Library Open Mic to the Big Stage! Come on time! Don't miss Mike opening up for Ramblin' Jack.
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August 19 at 3 PM
John Doe and Peter Case
John Doe new CD: A Year In The Wilderness
Peter Case new CD: Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
Buy ticktes at the door! $ 16.00 (Gate opens at 2.30 PM)
John Doe goes to the Venice poetry workshop and meets Exene. X band starts, records a single, gets popular, signs to Slash Records but soon the L.A. “punk-rock explosion” is all but over. X’s first two records have poetry and hard rock, X signs to Elektra, make five more LPs, some videos, tour the U.S. and Europe, appear on network TV, make a film (The Unheard Music), abuse body and soul, write about it, connect with more and more varied audiences and the critics move on to someone new. Now with musicians and singers at Dave Way’s Way Station in the hills of Los Angeles he sings and plays, with hardly any “fixes,” over-dubs or auto-tune, everything is given to the moment of the song and its players.
"This is the Muddy Waters record he always wanted to make. This is a record I think Bob Dylan would like. This is a record of songs that have the style of the blues and country w/out the self-conscious modernisms, show-off solos or purist traps." John Doe
As the leader of L.A.'s Plimsouls, Peter Case seemed like just another West Coast hook recycler whose band got signed to a major label during the post-Knack power-pop blitz. But even back then there was reason to believe that Case was capable of more; the most notable evidence of this was "A Million Miles Away," a melodic, romantic rocker of heartbreaking urgency. But Peter Case delivers far more than even the Plimsouls' finest moment ever promised. This album is not just an unusually strong solo debut, it's a pull-out-the-stops masterpiece, an Americanized Imperial Bedroom.
Backed by an eccentric cast of California players, including Roger McGuinn, Van Dyke Parks, John Hiatt, Mike Campbell and Jim Keltner, Case has crafted a stunning song cycle about (as he puts it in his stream-of-consciousness liner notes) "sin and salvation." Like the best work of the Band and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Case's artfully constructed back-roads narratives have a mysterious, timeless quality. Rolling Stone Mag. regarding Peter Case's CD "Peter Case."
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BOHEMIA FEST w/ Mike Beck
August 11 at 2 PM
Emith
Sex Farm
Mike Beck and The Bohemian Saints
Coast Ridge Boys.
$ 15.00 at the door
Emith - Recent press
"Emith... singer/songwriter/guitaristCarol Ann Ives and Stevie Gurr,
Cowboy Junkies atmosphere with the pop sensibilities of Fleetwood Mac and Aimee Mann, the up-and-coming duo Emith have created a winning sound and style that is equally thought-provoking and catchy. Building from a folk, pop and blues foundation, the versatile twosome wander easily from melodic, rootsy, organic creations to more ethereal, darkly cast ballads that dig into deeper emotional terrain."
"The group’s forthcoming full-length debut, 13 Seasons, offers a mixture of electric and acoustic soundscapes, with Gurr’s tasteful guitar and harmonica work never overpowering the subtler vocal dynamics of Ives."
"Gurr, who has toured with Elvin Bishop and Dr. John, plays guitar with the understated grace of Leo Kottke, infusing each selection with his own individuality while still working in service of the song. It’s not hard to see why Gurr and Ives have built a strong word-of-mouth buzz, particularly here in Southern California."
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Wednesday July 25 @ 8:30 PM, $20 adults, bring a date!
Tickets available at the door or by calling 831-667-2574.
Thursday July 26 @ 8 PM The Circus Contraption Orchestra will play music at our regular short film screening series evening. We look forward to a very special night of short films augmented by the multi talented and never-know-what's-going-to-happen - Contraption Band!
Their most recent full-circus show, “Grand American Traveling Dime Museum,” was a smash hit three years running in Seattle, San Francisco (2004) and New York City (2005 & 2006). Circus Contraption’s effect on the audience -- rousing, mesmerizing, and frequently unsettling—creates a deliciously unforgettable live experience.
"...moments of pure genius. DON'T MISS!" - Time Out New York
"Chances to see shows this fun come along rarely at best" - nytheatre.com
"An impressive array of talent, discipline and ingenuity" - Seattle P-I
"Unpredictable, almost unimaginable delight" - The Stranger
"Great finesse" - San Francisco Weekly
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PANDA - Live in concert
August 3 at 8 PM / $ 5.00 donation to the Library.
"Panda is one of the most talented singers I've ever heard."
--Stu Cook, Bass Player for the Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Panda's show is FANTASTIC!."
--Tuck Andruss (Tuck & Patti)
Picking up guitar on a whim, at the age of twenty, Wil 'Panda' Coffey immediately took to the art of song writing and within two and a half years was performing before live audiences. Classifying his music as “Soul Acoustic”, Panda’s style is rare in its compilation of Folk, Blues & Jazz with an unmistakable funk, making even popular cover tunes sound like original improvisations. He has had the opportunity to play on the same stage with acts such as; Taj Mahal, CCR, The Wailers, Tuck & Patti, Michael Hedges, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, David Grisman Quintet and other accomplished performers.
Panda now lives in New Zealand . He is in the USA for a tour w/ a new CD release in the works...so stay tuned!
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 5th AT 2 PM
RUSHAD AND THE BUTT WIZARDS and PALO COLORADO
15$ at the door
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CIRCUS CONTRAPTION COMING BACK!!
"Chances to see shows this fun come along rarely at best" - nytheatre.com
TWO SHOWS!! (and one with the Orchestra)
Tuesday July 24 @ 7PM, $20 adults, $10 children, all ages show.
Tickets available at the door or by calling 831-667-2574
Wednesday July 25 @ 8:30 PM, $20 adults, bring a date!
Tickets available at the door or by calling 831-667-2574.
Thursday July 26 @ 8 PM The Circus Contraption Orchestra will play music at our regular short film screening series evening. We look forward to a very special night of short films augmented by the multi talented and never-know-what's-going-to-happen - Contraption Band!
Their most recent full-circus show, “Grand American Traveling Dime Museum,” was a smash hit three years running in Seattle, San Francisco (2004) and New York City (2005 & 2006). Circus Contraption’s effect on the audience -- rousing, mesmerizing, and frequently unsettling—creates a deliciously unforgettable live experience.
"...moments of pure genius. DON'T MISS!" - Time Out New York
"Chances to see shows this fun come along rarely at best" - nytheatre.com
"An impressive array of talent, discipline and ingenuity" - Seattle P-I
"Unpredictable, almost unimaginable delight" - The Stranger
"Great finesse" - San Francisco Weekly
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Saturday, July 21 and Sunday July 22
Noon - 6 PM both days.
The 10th annual
West Coast Poetry Slam Championship
Featuring: MC Jerry Quickley (see pict.) and Music by DJ Jedi
10 Poetry Slam teams from the Western US
will slam in two bouts of 5 teams apiece for the chance
to become one of four finalists
to slam on Sunday for the chance to be the West Coast champs,
and win up to $2000 in cash prizes!
w/special guests:
Patricia Smith, 4 time National Poetry Slam Champ, author of
"Teahouse of the Almighty" Coffee House Press.
Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Actor, Poet, Playwright who will perform an excerpt from his critically acclaimed one man show "You Want A Piece of Me?"
More info and tickets at: WestCoastSlam
Sponsored by our weekly:
Monterey County Weekly
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Friday July 20 at 8 PM
Conspiracy of Beards w/ Aaron Novik (solo clarinet)
followed by a screening of Short Films by C. Ryder Cooley, Robert Arnold, Malcolm Pullinger, Elaine Buckholtz and more, set to the music of Closer to Carbon.
Showtime 8 PM Tickets at $ 5.00 - 10.00, sliding scale, available by calling 831-667-2574
Conspiracy of Beards are a 30 member acapella male choir performing exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen, their gritty, uplifting renditions of Cohen songs have been performed in front of enthusiastic audiences around the Bay Area including recently at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Café duNord and on West Coast Live radio program.
Conspiracy of Beards website
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Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14th
ALMOST OBSCENE
The Big Event of 2007!
Both nights show start at 8 PM.
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!
We are thrilled, and very thankful, to welcome MAD Magazine Senior Editor, Joe Raiola, in the west coast premiere of his acclaimed and controversial solo show, Almost Obscene. Hailed by Boston Magazine as “an incendiary combination of standup and performance art,” Almost Obscene is an evening of sharp-edged comedy that wages war on the status quo. A hit at the New York International Fringe Festival, the show’s been called “a comic rant against censorship, ‘decency,’ George Bush and God Himself, not necessarily in that order!” Come join us for a provocative evening of social satire! Proceeds benefit the Henry Miller Library.
The performances, which are being sponsored by the Living History Centre (of The Calif. Arts Council), the ACLU of Northern California, the Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU, New Directions Books, Grapes of Wrath Catering and our local radio station KUSP, will be staged on the Library outdoor stage under the stars and the giant redwoods. We will serve good snacks and bevarages. This is the event of 2007 you don't want to miss! Tickets are $ 25.00/person. (plus handling fee). Get yours early! Limited amount of tickets sold!
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
Where's the money going?
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!
The Living History Centre of the California Arts Council
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Friday, March 16
(((folkYEAH!))) and The Henry Miller Library presents:
Ian Svenonius (Weird War) reads from his Drag City Press book "The Psychic Soviet"
Free Admission 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Followed by this event that night at Fernwood:
Special Deejay Event with Selector Dub Narcotic (aka: Calvin Johnson of K Records, Olympia), Ian Svenonius (Drag City, Washington DC) starting @ 9:30PM at Fernwood.
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November 1 @ 7 PM
What We Worry?
MAD-Man - Joe Raiola at Miller Library.
Limited seating, please RSVP here.
We'll serve tea and coffee and some snacks.
Written and performed by Joe Raiola
Now more than ever our constitutionally guaranteed right of freedom of speech is under attack from fundamentalist Christians, the politically-correct left, big media conglomerates, well-meaning parents, special interest groups and the government itself.
In his critically acclaimed program, The Joy Of Censorship, MAD Senior Editor Joe Raiola takes an illuminating, offbeat and at times disturbing look at America's most hotly debated First Amendment issues, including the dramatic effect of 9/11 on free speech. He also sheds light on the endless arguments over the Patriot Act, Internet filters, flag burning, movie ratings, banned books, indecency and the true meaning of obscenity.
Finally, Raiola traces the unlikely and colorful history of MAD Magazine, from renegade publisher Williams Gaines' historic showdown with the United States Senate over comic book censorship to MAD's emergence as a revolutionary satirical force.
The Joy Of Censorship also includes a one-of-a-kind slide presentation spotlighting many of the MAD's most controversial, thought-provoking and outrageous covers and articles, followed with a lively Q+A and/or panel discussion.
A favorite on the lecture circuit for over a decade, Joe Raiola has brought The Joy Of Censorship to countless colleges and professional events around the country, including the American Library Association's National Conference, Yale University and Nassau Community College, where the show was captured live and broadcast nationally on C-SPAN's American Perspectives.
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December 1 - 3
10th (!) Annual Children and
Young Adult Writing Workshop.
This 10th anniversary will be special - Now open for registration! Click Here!.
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October 22 @ 7 PM
Ha Man, Francois le Roux
From South Africa, Francois le Roux, gifted cellist, pianist, organist and composer, made spontaneous music the basis of his career. For something different of the highest quality, come and experience the HA!man.
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((folkYEAH!))) presents:
Saturday, October 28th @ 6 PM
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
with very special guests
Faun Fables
Dark Hand and Lamplight.
Door tickets will be available for $25.00 cash only on
the night of the event starting @ 5:00pm.
The Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series
GALA FINALE, Sunday, Sept. 10
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September 8, 9 and 10
A landscape beyond the brink of I
A weekend of Poetry, Music and Workshops, open mic, movies, seminars, workshops.
Featuring Amalio Madueno, Joanne Kyger and Antoinette nora claypoole.
Workshops: ‘rivers in her eyes’ and ‘between sleeps’ Please click here.
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September 2, @ 7.30 PM
An evening with Kacey Jones
What They’re Saying About Kacey's latest CD: “Kacey Jones Sings Mickey Newbury”
"Mickey Newbury is one of the great American songwriters. Right up there with Stephen Foster. Of all the heroes and peers I admired and worked to emulate in my education as an artist, his music had the most profound and positive effect on my songwriting. We shared a mutual feeling for the sound of the language, the love of alliteration -- even when it broke the rules of normal sentence structure (e.g. "a merchant mad marine"). But the most significant thing I learned from Mickey was the importance of the melody in the attack on the emotions that is songwriting. It's a weapon poetry doesn't have and it goes straight to the heart. I can't hear "What Will I Do" without tears coming to my eyes. I'm leery of tribute albums, but this is a good one. It's nice to see an artist who understands and appreciates the soul of his songs honoring him like this. Thanks, Kacey.
---Kris Kristofferson
Kacey Jones has adopted the songs of Mickey Newbury and made them her own and the results are amazing.
---Delbert McClinton
Newbury’s lush lyrical talents lend themselves to Jones’ lush musical interpretations.
I’m not calling either of them a lush – just a union made in heaven.
---Kinky Friedman
“Anyone who pays tribute to the great Mickey Newbury is a friend of mine. One of the most prolific songwriters ever, his music will continue to touch the emotions of generations to come. Thank you, Kacey."
---Brenda Lee
Mickey Newbury was the wild card in the songwriter revolution in Nashville in the late 1960s and early 70s. Newbury always wrote the lyric you didn’t expect, the one that hit you straight in the heart, the one that stopped you dead in your tracks. I’m gratified that Kacey Jones is paying splendid tribute to some of Mickey’s best songs and keeping them alive and kicking. ---Chet Flippo
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August 25 @ 3 PM
"Twisted Folk Festival "
From San Francisco Bay Area, CA:
Vermillion Lies
Myles Boisen's - Past, Present, Future
DeatHat
Peter Whitehead
From Santa Cruz, CA:
Drunken Boat
From Los Angeles, CA:
The Peculiar Pretzelmen
Kris Angelis
From Olympia, WA:
June Madrona
Onyx of Olympia
Son
Friday Agust 25th 3pm - 12am
$10 in advance/ $15 at the door.
Buy tickets here!Tickets will not be shipped - you'll be on will call at the gate. An e-mail will be sent to you confirming your purchase.
Started in 2005 by sisters Kim and Zoe Vermillion of the band Vermillion Lies, the Twisted Folk Festival is a musical event to celebrate the art of people whose music could, but doesn't quite, fit into the genres of folk, blues, americana, and jazz. Mainly: genres that are/or were traditionally made by people without money or training.Most of the bands featured play 'found objects.' That is: objects that were never meant to be musical instruments but found themselves in the hands of musicians anyway.
New CD "Separated by Birth"
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August 26 @ 3 PM
Lisa Teasley and Friends.
A reading, music, and film event with Jason Luckett and Austin Young. Lisa Teasley is the critically acclaimed author of : Glow in the Dark
, Heat Signature : A Novel
and Dive : A Novel.
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Sunday, August 27 @ 1.30 PM
“Henry Miller’s Battle with the Censors”
The Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU of Northern California and
The Henry Miller LibraryPresent
“Henry Miller’s Battle with the Censors”
a talk given by Magnus Torén, Executive Director, Henry Miller Library.
Free admission
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August 20 @ 3 PM
Greg Graffin
Latest recording: Cold As The Clay
Tickets will not be shipped - you'll be on will call at the gate. An e-mail will be sent to you confirming your purchase.
"Even though I am known as a punk rock singer and songwriter, a world apart from old-time music, the roots of my singing go back to my Wisconsin childhood and family gatherings in Indiana. For most of my life, the old-time music of rural America has served as one of the soundtracks to my life...cont."
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Sunday, Aug 13 @ 4PM - 10PM; Live Auction at 6PM
J.Rocke Productions w/Bob Deford and Sofanya’s Gallery Presents:
“Falling Into Perfection”..an art installation performance film event.
Performances by Janice Rocke, Deanna Ross, Kim Chandler,
Sahra, Chuck Lessler, Brap and you (?)...
Experience a multi-sensory walk through an art installation of assemblages built with recycled wood and other materials imbued with “earth magic”. Some of these pieces are made to contain monitors upon which the artist/filmmaker has created short films reflecting various aspects of Life’s experiences related to the piece of art.
These pieces together create a surreal movie set patina. The audience will become the extras as camera men follow roaming actors, performance artists and musicians. Footage will later be edited for a feature film. A live auction of these art pieces will begin at 6 PM. Some proceeds go to Henry Miller Library. Sahra will perform at 5:00 and again at 7:30. When night falls the short films are to be shown on the big screen on the lawn.
The roaming performance artists will be led throughout the event in experimental movement and dance by This is NOW! founder Deanna Ross. Kim Candler, long time Pennisula actress/diector and one of the co-founders of The Big Sur Players directs two actors engaged in an extended improvisation game. Ambient music performed by local favorite drummer Chuck Iessler and electronic and experimental music of Brap. Please see the following additional info re the performers.
Janice Rocke is an artist-filmmaker, playwright & producer…and a single parent raising her two beautiful children. Her style is a multi-dimensional multi media palette which while engaging many senses at once, also delivers profound messages and Inspiration.
Sofanya is a favorite local artist whose work explores the subconscious dimensions of the mind and soul of humanity with surreal and beautiful imagery. Her exuberant love of Life is a constant inspiration to us all.
Our beloved co-producer, Robert Deford, has created numerous hours of programming at local Access Monterey Peninsula. You can usually find Robert wherever something interesting is going on. His documentary work explores anything and everything from eclectic artists to conspiracy theorists to spiritual and religious controversy.
Deanna Ross, who is a dancer, choreographer and teacher at Monterey Peninsula College where she has recently created a monthly arts exhibition called, “This is NOW!” Performance Salon. She brings with her dancers, Joseph Gilman Pikalek and Kerstin Stuart.
Kim Candler is one of the cofounders of “The Big Sur Players” and longtime actress/director will co-ordinate the improvisation and coach the actors.
Robert Patterson has been a professional auctioneer for over 20 years, selling everything from art to real estate with 250+ auctions to his experience. He will be conducting the live auction at 6PM.
Sahra, a local songwriter described by KPFA radio as "quirky, penetrating, a pleasant surprise for even the most jaded listener" has written and performed music for numerous political and philanthropic projects. Her music has also been featured in numerous films. Laurel Thumpson will accompany her on violin.
Chuck Lessler has been playing drums for many years in Big Sur. He has studied African, Middle Eastern and Brazilian drumming. He currently teaches East African Drumming weekly in Big Sur.
Brap has been making electronic music of various sorts for almost two decades. Sample based music allows a lot of room for experimentation..... from ambient to drum-n-bass to whosawhatsis-- sonic playgrounds are fun.
For More Info, Contact: Janice Rocke and/or Sofanya
Call: 831-667-2130
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Saturday, August 12 @ 3 PM
1st. Annual Bohemia Fest
Original Coast Ridge Boys
Dark Town Rounders
Mike Beck and The Bohemian Saints
Oldspice Girls featuring Tom Ayres
Music starts at 3pm
$ 15.00, get your ticket NOW! Click here:Tickets will not be shipped - you'll be on will call at the gate. An e-mail will be sent to you confirming your purchase.
Please Carpool
Friday, August 11, starting at 4 PM
The Henry Miller Library and ((((folkYEAH!)))) presents:
Quiet, Quiet Forest Spectrum...
A song sharing ceremony curated by Nabob Shineywater
of BrightBlack Monring Light.
SUNROOF! (4:20 - 5:00) United Kingdom experimental sound scapes
GRASS (5:20 - 6:00) Members of Feathers & Espers
RAMBLIN' SECRET COWBOY SURPRISE (6:20 - 7:40)
HUAYLLIPACHA (8:00 - 9:30)
30 MINUTES INTERMISSION
BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT (10:00 - 10:45) Matador Records.
LAVENDER DIAMOND (11:10 - 12:00)
DANIEL ARCUS INCUS ULULAT HIGGS (12:15 - 12:45)
(of Lungfish)
FOOD AND DRINK WILL BE AVAILABLE COURTESY
BIG SUR COAST FOODS.
GET YOUR at the door! $ 25.00:
(((folkYEAH!))) presents a very special evening with:
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
plus very special guest Faun Fables
and Shary Boyle .
Saturday, October 28th
Click here.
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Tuesday August 8th 6:00 PM
Big Sur Powerdown presents Richard Heinberg,
award winning author of six books including The Party's Over: War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Heinberg, widely regarded as America's foremost Peak Oil educator, will discuss the most recent evidence regarding the timing of global production peak, its likely consequences, and what can be done at both the international and local levels to prepare for the event and mitigate the impacts. Free to the public, donations are gladly accepted for the Henry Miller Library, Refreshments will be served. This is an out doors event please dress warmly.
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Friday, July 28 @ 7 PM
Join Big Sur Big Sur Powerdown!
Guest speakers series for Big Sur Powerdown. Our guest will be Brian Weller , co-founder of WELL (Willits Economic Localization)will share how Willits, a small town in Northern CA, is preparing its community for energy independence in the face of the inevitable Peak Oil realities. Brian will discuss the following key areas: Peak Oil, Climate Change, the Willits 'grass roots' emerging "adhocracy," creating economic localization in a community. This is a 60 minute PowerPoint presentation and will be highly interactive, including visuals and Q&A with the audience. Free to the public. Pot luck, call Linda Parker for more info 831-656-0664
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Sunday, July 30 @ 5 PM
Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective!
This will be one of the best! Join the party.
"They call themselves Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective. Their name hails every bit of their style. “It’s all over the place,” says lead singer/songwriter Derric Oliver. And he’s right. The music’s everywhere and so is the Collective. Their intricate appreciation for jazz, country, classical, art-rock and pop keeps fans on their feet everywhere from their hometown in Cali to Colorado.
The San Diego-based duo combines multi-instrumental talents of Derric Oliver (singer, songwriter, guitar, trumpet, tuba, piano) and Louis Caverly (singer, songwriter, violin, keyboard) to create an eclectic countrified indie pop that takes the listener on an unexpected adventure of optimism every time." Flagstaff Live (Leah Scharns) | March 9th, 2006
$ 10.00 donation at the door.
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July 15 and 16 - The 9th Annual
West Coast Championship Poetry Slam w/ host Jerry Quickley
Get Tickets here: Tickets/Registrations/Info
This is probably the most talked about event at the Henry Miller Library.
If you've never been to a SLAM now's the time.
Teams from Seattle in the North to San Diego in the South duke it out in a two day extravaganza on the lawn.
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Saturday July 8 @ 7.30 PM
CJ Boyd Sexxxtet
The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet pound out experimental chamber music for bass and celli. Primal and searching, they take minimalism back to the screen memory of all origins. They incorporate the full dynamic range of superb sex with all its adagios and allegros, pianos and fortes, staccatos and legatos, arias and cadenzas. This is Id-music for your super-ego. $ 10.00 at the door or by calling 831-667-2574.
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Saturday July 1 st
7 PM Enoch Emery
8 PM Garrett Pierce
9 PM Diane Cluck
Diane Cluck has partnered with Bianca Cassidy (Coco Rosie), to release her most recent album, Countless Times. Cluck has created a world wide stir with her quiet, yet powerful sound, and has recently gained acclaim for her work on The Enlightened Family Album, which includes Devendra Banhart, and Antony & The Johnsons, and Vashti Bunyan.
Press:
"I'm so happy to be alive at the same time she is because I get to see her perform" - Devendra Banhart
“Cluck has fashioned a set of songs both stark and haunting, intimate and plaintive - songs that draw the listener still-breathed-close in order to wind themselves tightly round the heart” - Mojo
Garrett Pierce, like Diane, creates a dark acoustic setting that draws the listener toward the lyrics. This San Francisco songwriter has been touring off his latest record, Like A Moth, which flows in and out of quiet compositions and lush instrumentation. The album features several bay area notables including Jolie Holland, and Safa Shokrai (The Drift).
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3 Patriots Celebrate the 4th of July
starting at 2 PM
Ric Masten Elliot Roberts Taelen Thomas
w/ guitarist Steve Mortensen.
Poetry, music, some snacks - there'll definitely be some good cheer mixed with serious carking over matters as they stand. Please join us!
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Saturday June 24 @ 3 PM - Midnight.
Big Sur Bird Bash
A fundraiser for the Big Sur Ornithology Lab.(BSOL)
Come frolic amongst the redwoods with the Ventana Wildlife Society, a local non-profit that has been conducting conservation ecology in Big Sur since 1977. The first two hours are dedicated to your little nestlings, with children’s storytelling, puppet-making, drawing, and face painting. Big Sur Coast Foods will be grilling up a storm, local vendors will display their wares, and there will be tons of raffle prizes. Watch sizzling dance performances by Jamaica and the Big Sur Natives, and groove to music by the Suborbitals, Samba a Go Go, and the Stanimals. You will also hear talks from VWS staff about their songbird monitoring and research, environmental education, and California Condor reintroduction.
3pm-5pm/children’s activites
5:30pm-midnight/barbecue & entertainment.
$10/children under 10 free
See story on BSOL here.
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Sunday, June 18, starting at Noon
FUN - RAISING for/by GAZEBO
Esalen Institute's Gazebo Learning Project invites you to an afternoon of FUN-raising and FUND-raising to benefit the Gazebo School Park, an early education program for children 1-6 yrs., that has served the Big Sur community for over 25 years.
Entertainment starts at 1pm
TICKETS: In advance - $12/adult,
At the door - $15/adult, $10/teens, 12yrs. & under FREE
(More info about tickets, call (831)667-3026)
ENTERTAINMENT:
THE BANANA SLUG STRING BAND< target="_blank"/stro 1pm - Airy Larry & Doug Dirt of will do an interactive session with music and song on "Finding the Magic Outdoors" followed by - Live Auction, followed by - Jayson Fann and band of drummers with Cida Vieira who will lead us in some SAMBA dancing, along with a BELLY DANCING performance.
FOOD & BEVERAGES : A complete lunch, as well as, snacks, beverages, and wine, available for sale starting at 12pm - There will also be a baked goods table (Of course, we're a school)
We'll have clowns, face painting, a play area for children, photo exhibits, the sample film and a silent auction with many fabulous items and services to auction off.
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Friday June 23 @ 7:30 PM:
Join Sustainable Big Sur Coast!
Have you ever been wondering what you can do to help in preparing for a world with very, very expensive gasoline? Come find out. Guest speaker Jerry Mander, (this is very exciting!) author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977) , In the Absence of the Sacred (1991) , The Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local (1996). Admission free and open to all. More detail TBA (food, film, how you can volunteer etc.)
Please call Linda Parker at 831-656-0664 for more info.
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June 11 @ 1 - 5 PM
"Timothy Leary: A Biography."
Booksigning and party with author Robert Greenfield.
with music by Sandy Greenfield and Adam Rothschild.
A former Associate Editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone magazine, Robert Greenfield is the author of S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones
; The Spiritual Supermarket
; Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia
; Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (with Bill Graham), which won both a Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence, as well as two novels, Haymon's Crowd
and Temple
, for which he won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.
Published by Harcourt.
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May 26 @ 7 PM
Vermillion Lies/Cancelled/Not Happening
"Not An Evening of Music for People who Wear Hats"
with Vermillion Lies and DeatHat
New CD "Separated by Birth" still new CD
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May 27 @ 3 PM
Home Among the Swinging Stars : The Collected Poems of Jaime de Angulo.
Booksigning and reading with author and editor Stefan Hyner.
A brand new book with an abundance of Jaime’s poetry Home Among the Swinging Stars includes the out-of-print Coyote's Bones, versions of Shaman Songs, translations of Federico García Lorca, and several previously unpublished poems.
The Old Coyote of Big Sur, Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was born in Paris of Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905, found work as a cowboy, and ended up in San Francisco the day before the Great Earthquake in 1906. He set up his homestead, Rancho de Los Pesares around 1915 high up on Partington Ridge, he was a medical doctor, psychologist, renowned linguist, and novelist. As a linguist, de Angulo contributed to the knowledge of many Northern Californian tribal languages, as well as ethno-musicological investigations. He lived among the tribes he studied and tried to become integrated into their daily lives. Much of his life and work exemplifies his recognition of the trickster wisdom in their native 'coyote tales'. Invited by Mabel Dodge Luhan to visit Taos, he turned out to be a vivid chapter in her artistic circle. Brilliant and eccentric, Ezra Pound called him 'the American Ovid'. Bohemian to the core, he was friend and colleague to poets, composers, and scholars such as Harry Partch, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Henry Cowell, Franz Boas, Carl Jung, D H Lawrence, and many others. Renderings of Pit River lore in his book 'Indian Tales' had a distinct influence on Beat literature, especially Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac. Besides prose, there exists an abundance of poetry which is collected in 'Home Among the Swinging Stars' and includes the out-of-print 'Coyote's Bones,' versions of Shaman Songs, translations of Federico García Lorca, and unpublished poems.
Jaime’s radio program, Indian Tales, in 1947-48 was very popular and the Henry Miller Library now has an outdoor listening space where you can listen to the original under the redwoods. (We have the complete radio broadcast series and have had the sound of the old magnetic tapes refurbished) Jaime’s voice is wonderful and the tales he tells are timeless.
Author and editor Stefan Hyner was educated at the Universities of Heidelberg and Taipei where he studied Sinology and East-Asian art history. Author of numerous poetry books and translations from Chinese and English, Hyner is currently at work on the archives of Italian Swiss artist/poet Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995).
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The Old Coyote here.
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Saturday, May 13 @ 8 PM.
A Giant Among the Redwoods!
Henry Rollins in a benefit spoken word performance. Henry Rollins has recently floored the critics and the audiences in Europe and he loves Henry Miller! I bet this will be one for the record books! David Dildine will serve appetizers and some drinks starting at 7 PM. Please join the party, come early. Tickets are almost sold out so quickly call 667-2574 for yours.
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Friday May 19th 7:30 PM:
Join Sustainable Big Sur Coast!
Have you been wondering what the term Peak Oil means? Come find out. Guest speaker Pierre Chomat, author of “Oil Addiction” and co- founder of Sustainable Monterey County will give a talk and present the film “Peak Oil.” Followed by a discussion and refreshments. Admission free and open to all.
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Thursday, May 4 at 4 – 7 PM
“My Life in Big Sur” book signing with Joe Caming.
Joe, known to many in Big Sur as, “Joe The Woodcutter,” has written a short memoir of his life in Big Sur from the time he “tuned in, turned on and dropped out” in 1967 until he moved in 1997. He will be at the Miller LIbrary welcoming all for an afternoon of sharing stories and signing his book.
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March 10 -12
Fiction and Non Fiction Writing Workshop
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April 1
Concert with Ellis Paul (at River Inn)
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April 1 & 2
Songwriting Workshop with Ellis Paul
Three of Ellis' best recordings: American Jukebox Fables
, Translucent Soul
, The Speed of Trees
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006 @ 3.00 pm
Stephen D. Edington
reading from
The Beat Face of God:
The Beat Generation Writers as Spiritual Guides
Stephen D. Edington is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire. He is also a devoted reader and student of the Beat writers who influenced him as a young man, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Whalen, and others in their circle. In his book, The Beat Face of God :The Beat Generation Writers as Spiritual Guides, Edington looks not only at the works, but also at the lives of the Beat writers, as serious spiritual quests for meaning, transcendence, and authenticity. “Thanks to Steve Edington we now have a book that tells about… how spirituality was a central part of our lives during an amazing time, and among an amazing group of people.”—David Amram
This book is an exploration of some of the underlying spiritual and religious currents found in the writings and lives of a loose constellation of writers and poets who came together in America after World War II, and came to be known as the Beat Generation writers. Among their more prominent figures were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to name just a few.
Writing from the perspective of a liberal religious minister (Unitarian Universalist) and a Beat Generation scholar, Rev. Stephen Edington expands upon, and delves into, Jack Kerouac's contention that the Beat Generation was a religious generation. These writers and poets, each in his or her own way, were articulating and setting forth an "alternative spirituality" in the face of the prevailing cultural ethos of the America of the 1950s.
This is not primarily, however, a literary review of a group of writers from over a half-century ago. Their work is as powerful today as it was in their day, especially for those pursuing a spiritual path of their own. Edington weaves much of the spiritual journeys of the Beats into the evolution of his own spirituality.
Also, the ways in which the Beats challenged the culture and politics of America in the 1950s resonates strongly in today's post-9/11 America as well, as this book's concluding chapter demonstrates.
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Wednesday, October 5th @ 7.30 PM
The Y2K5 International Looping Festival
brings a special performance to the Henry Miller Library on Wednesday evening, October 5, as part of a weeklong series of events in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Big Sur. The concert, a benefit for the Henry Miller Library, will feature an international gathering of musicians from Japan, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Each musician will employ Live Loop Recording, a technology that allows the musician to create multi-layered compositions in a live performance setting.
Please join us for a night of musical adventure and innovation, under the stars, and help out the Henry Miller Library as well. The show starts at 7:30 pm, the donation is $10 at the door, and no one will be turned awayfor lack of funds. For more information, check out, or call 831-458-9573.
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Friday October 7th @ 8 PM
SWEDISH SHORTS
“Perhaps the most astonishing moments ever created in a Swedish film" Ingmar Bergman
An evening of short films. We'll be screening 5 shorts, all made in, or by directors from, Sweden. A few of the filmmakers will be present during the night. (details TBA).
Passing Hearts - 14 min.
Johan Brisinger - Director
Audience favorite award (shared) Aspen Shorts Fest 2004
1st Prize: Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
Special Jury Award and the Parents Choice Award at the New York International Children's Film Festival.Winner Berlin, Audience award
Winner Cleveland, Humanitarian award
Winner Deep Ellum, Best drama
Winner Aspen, Audience award, Best cinematography
Winner New York Int. Child Fest, audience award
Meeting Evil – 14 min
Reza Parsa - Director
Disturbing and highly controversial - “Perhaps the most astonishing moments ever created in a Swedish film,” according to Ingmar Bergman. Meeting Evil was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Reza is from Tehran and has been living in Sweden since 1980.
Changing Directions – 22 min
Maria Essen - Director
Premiere Magazine Audience Choice Award for Best Film
First Place Winner, Fort Lauderdale International Student Film Competition
Winner of Best Narrative, Next Frame Festival, Pennsylvania, 2000
Semi-finalist, Angelus Awards, Los Angeles
Semi-finalist, National Student Festival, New York
Faculty Selects, Columbia University
Nominated by Columbia University for the Directorís Guild Student Award.
Nominated for best short at Newport International Film Festival.
Marty & Sven - 19 min.
Mikael Forsberg - Director
By the director of Blue Caviar a film we screened at the Library in 2003. Marty and Sven is new from Mikael and recently screened at Palm Beach International Film Festival and Big Bear Lake Film Festival.
The Mistress - 12 min
Casey Clark - Director
Casey Clark lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he works as an actor/filmmaker. His film, Off Season won Best Directorial Debut and an HBO Award for Best Short Film in 2002.
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Saturday, October 15 @ 8 PM
Big Sur-realism: An evening of Film and Music
Film curators Liz Keim, Nicole Minor and Melinda Stone join forces with Mobius Operandi, an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble, to create an evening of avant garde cinema and sonic improvisations. László Moholy-Nagy’s Lightplay; Black/White/Gray (1930), Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp, and other tradition breaking films will be featured with the driving rhythms and collective clicks of Oliver DiCicco's sonic sculptures.
Films:
Ghosts before Breakfast (1928, film, 9 min.) by Hans Richter. In this early experimental film, clocks, legs, ladders, hats, and people undergo total irrational happenings in unusual settings. Men have beards magically appear and disappear before the viewer's eyes, hats fly around in the air, a man's head comes off and floats in the air, objects and characters move in reverse, and tea cups fill up by themselves.
Vespucciland: the Great and Free (1982, film, 3 min.) by Rock Ross captures a celebratory gathering of the clan of Vespucciland!
Light (2005, dvd, 2 min.) by Michael Rudnick reminds us that when the music’s over, it’s time to turn off the lights.
Diggins (2000, film, 3min) by San Francisco filmmakers Christian Bruno and Natalija Vekic is a hand processed love poem set in nature.
Explore the Endless Secrets of Nature (2002, 2 min. vhs) by Devon Damonte is a lightning speed, perceptual guessing game.
Things I’d Say if I Were Pope (1993, film, 4 min.) by Marion Wallace and Michael Rudnick, brings a pin screen to life in stream-of-conscience style animation.
Papillon d’amour (2003, vhs, 3 min.) by Nicolas Provost is a mesmerizing manipulation of the film Roshomon, expressing the horror that can lie in beauty and pure love.
Anemic Cinema (1926, film, 7 min.) by Marcel Duchamp features rotating images intercut with spinning words in elaborate and nonsensical puns, including a palindrome.
Lightplay; Black/White/Gray (1930, film, 8 min.) by László Moholy-Nagy is an exquisite meditative film that explores the luminescent qualities of light and shadow.
The Vampire (1945, film 9 min.), directed by Jean Painleve is an unconventional animal behavior film which describes the blood-sucking Brazilian bat and includes excerpts from Murnau's "Nosferatu." The first science film with a jazz soundtrack, "The Vampire" features Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "Echoes of the Jungle."
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Liz Keim and Nicole Minor are media arts curators from the Exploratorium, a museum of science and art located in San Francisco. Melinda Stone is a filmmaker and professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco.
Mobius Operandi is an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble. The current members are Jason Reinier, Avidon Rose, Christie Winn, Pamela Winfrey, and the founder/sculptor Oliver DiCicco.
"...Mobius Operandi adapts their textres, drones, chimes, and hums to tunes that are at once accessible and bizarre... a band like no other on the pop or experimental music scenes."
Derk Richardson, SF Bay Guardian
"...The music was both familiar and otherworldly...a refreshing and entertaining synthesis of musical styles, from the most contemporary idioms to ‘vernacular’ music, including jazz, blues, rock, and world beat...There is a playful quality to the music. Möbius’ levity, however, belies considered reflection and commitment to a very American tradition. Inventive, democratic, irreverent, humorous, and unpretentious, this is serious folk music and fun for the whole family..."
Doug Quinn, Music Works Magazine
Mobius Operandi has been performing primarily in the Bay Area since its inception in 1991. They play at many diverse venues but because of the visual nature of the instruments, they specialize in art and university venues. As an ensemble we have played at New Langton Arts, Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts, The Edge Festival at Footworks Performance Space, San Francisco Art Institute, Southern Exposure Gallery, Morphos Gallery, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Security Pacific Bank Gallery, San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University, SOMARTS (South of Market Cultural Center), Dark Circle Lounge, Making Waves Festival, Cell Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur.
www.mobiusmusic.com
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Sunday, October 16 @ 8 PM
Robert Lloyd Webb,
An Evening at Sea with Robert Lloyd Webb
Deepwater songs and shanties, maritime history, art and poetry
Internationally recognized as "King of the Shanty," Bob has presented the history, music and art of seafaring under sail for nearly 30 years. Come listen to, and join, the shanties and "forebitters" once required to sail a square-rigged merchant ship.
Bob will also discuss the sea-painter Charles Robert Patterson, and sign copies of his new biography, Sailor-Painter: The Uncommon Life of Charles Robert Patterson. During the 1890s, Patterson sailed for seven years in merchant square-rigged ships. Before his death in 1958 he was hailed as the most important marine artist in the United States.
Robert Lloyd Webb's previous books include On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest 1790-1967,and Ring the Banjar!: The Banjo in America from Folklore to Factory. Formerly Curator of Maritime History for the Kendall Whaling Museum and curator of the Maine Maritime Museum, Mr. Webb developed the exhibition Patterson in Maine: Marine Art of Robert Charles Patterson.
The program will be free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
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Sunday, October 23 @ 7 PM
The Ha-Man
From South Africa, Francois le Roux, gifted cellist, pianist, organist and composer, made spontaneous music the basis of his career. As the HA!man he infuses new life into the classical style, creates magic with his improvisations and applies technology innovatively. His performance is regarded locally and internationally as one of the most creative and inspiring in existence. His music style is accessible, energetic and moving, and his technique exceptional. For something different of the highest quality, come and experience the HA!man.
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September "Open Mic"
There will be an open reading at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur on
Sunday, Sept. 4th at 3:00 PM. Featured poets will include the "Three
Generations of California Poets," Jim, Geoff, and Maegan Cain; poet and
bohemian extraordinaire, Katrina Jensen; and anyone else who wishes to
sign up to read poetry, prose, or play some music .
Bring a poem, song, a manifesto, or just come by and enjoy an afternoon
under the redwoods of Big Sur at the Henry Miller Library. Arrive early
and sign up to read or play. Admission is free and refreshments will be
served.
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Sunday, August 21, 1:00 p.m.,
The ACLU of Monterey County and The Henry Miller Library present
Banned, Blocked and Besieged:
A Forum on Banned Books, Blocked Internet Access and Current Threats to Civil Liberties
followed by
A Reading of selections from banned books.
~Free admission.
~Bring a picnic lunch and a banned book.
~Open mic for audience members to read from banned books.
Panel Members and Readers include:
Jayanti Addleman, librarian--Monterey County Free Library
Kim Bui-Burton, poet, public librarian
William Rawson, librarian--Hartnell College, ACLU-MC Board member
Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, poet, ACLU-MC Board Chair
Maria Garcia Tabor, poet and fiction writer, editor Homestead Review, HML Board member
Magnus Torén, Executive Director--HML
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The panel members will discuss the threats posed to the 1st and 4th Amendments by the banning of books, the blocking of access to the Internet, and the USA PATRIOT Act as well as ACLU involvement in these issues, the response of public and college libraries to them, and the banning of Henry Miller’s novels. The reading of banned books will include selections from a variety of sources, among them the novels of Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,’ and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, as well works selected by audience members.
Most challenged and banned books 2004.
For more information, call: 667-2574 or 624-1180
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Saturday, September 10
“The Sounds and Visions of the Dreamtime”
Wardaman Aboriginal Elder and Artist Yidumduma Bill Harney, accompanied by Didjeridu player John Villa and multimedia artist Tim Stutts.
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July 16 - 17
The West Coast Championship Poetry Slam 2005
Final results:
1. Albuquerque 117.0
2. San Jose 116.6
3. Ventura 116.3
4. Palo Alto 115.1
Congratulations to: The Winning Team from Albuquerque
The Thrilla' at the Milla'
Gate opens at noon on Saturday, July 16.
Check out the main site for tickets and all info: http://www.westcoastslam.com
Picture to the right shows our Slam Host Mr. Jerry Quickley (Click for an interview w/ Jerry on Democracy Now)
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July 26 @ 8 PM
Laurie Anderson Benefit
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July 29 @ 9 PM
The Blunt Club comes to Big Sur
On Friday 29th the Blunt Club will descend on the Henry Miller Library for a one night only special screening of the very best Underground, zero budget, funny and just plain weird short films from London and the UK.
The Blunt Club was founded in January 2003 by Ben Slotover and Paul Elliott as a regular screening of their own comedy films and the very best that the London short film scene had to offer. From the outset ‘The Blunt Club’ was a success and has become a focus for underground and low budget comedy filmmakers both in London and across the UK.
One of the most popular sections of the Blunt Club programme is a regular ‘3D movie’ slot, in which Slotover and Elliott are proud to present one of their latest films shot on real 3D which the audience are given special glasses to watch. Having developed a system to shoot and project 3D without significantly raising costs, they have made 3D films featuring robots, Kung Fu, zombies, gardening and handbag theft... any subject as long as there’s plenty of excuses for stuff to stick out of the screen.
Another regular feature is the ‘zero budget filmmaking tips’ in which they offer tongue-in-cheek advice to the enthusiastic prospective filmmaker on how to achieve those big budget effects without the big, or indeed, any budget.
Slotover and Elliott have written shows and produced segments for almost every British TV channel, as well as writing and producing a live comedy-and-films show at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, but ‘The Blunt Club’ is their spiritual home, the place where they let it all hang out, and for better or worse it’s all going to hang out in Big Sur...
Admission free (donations welcome)
Pictures here
More about Blunt Here
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July 31 @ 3 PM
Ramblin' Jack Elliott in concert on the lawn!
By your tickets now, click on the ticket - they will sell out.
You proably have these already but if you don't we highly recommend both. Aiyana's portrait of her father, Ramblin Jack, is intimate, honest and very well done. The Sound Track CD includes many classics from Jack's long career.
Good site: http://www.ramblinjack.com
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Sunday, August 14 @ 2PM
Booksigning with Kristin Cameron
Cameron is the author of "Drinking to Kindness: A Decade of Madness on the Big Sur Coast."
There will be some drinks and snacks available.
In a series of humorous vignettes from her journal, Krsitin tells the story of her struggle to make peace with the wild and mytical environment of Big Sur... ISBN 1413762972
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July 9 - an afternoon of Music, Poetry and Friends.
3 PM: A Salute to the Beats
5 PM: Vermillion Lies
Food and bevarages by Big Sur Coast Foods
A celebration of the lives and writings of some of the Beat Generation poets and novelists with Steve Edington, Jerry Cimino, John Cassady and Riz Orchestra(on guitar and other instruments).
Steve will present a short narrative on the story of the Beats accompanied with readings from Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and various others. Jerry Cimino will share some of his favorite Kerouac passages as well, and will bring his BeatMobile with some of his Beat memorabilia to the Library.
Steve Edington is the author of the forthcoming book The Beat Face of God—The Beat Generation Writers as Spirit Guides, to be published later this year by Trafford Publishing. He is also the author of Kerouac’s Nashua Connection and a contributor to Beat Scene Magazine. Steve lives in Nashua, New Hampshire where he is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church and a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Jerry Cimino is a resident of Monterey, and is the owner and operator of The Beat Musuem at 211 Franklin Street in Monterey; and the owner/operator of the BeatMobile as well. Last fall (2004) he and John Cassady took the BeatMobile on a cross-country tour spreading the “gospel” of the Beat Generation writers. A similar 2005 tour is in the works. Jerry will be bringing the BeatMobile to the Library.
Vermillion Lies are: (click here for link to their website)
Gerald Constantine Chiavaras - New to Big Sur, this
singer songwriter has a rich voice and classic folk
sound. Gerry is inspired by the beauty of the natural
world.
Brien Ferguson ~ Brien spent ten years in a rock band
before going solo. A self-title modern beat, Brien
shows that if you give a poet a guitar, you get some
tunes worth sitting down for.
Lauren Shera - This 18 year old Carmel Valley native
has opened for the likes of Greg Brown (who just
played Sunset Center.) Lauren plays guitar and banjo,
has a voice like a earthbound angel and lyrics that'll
snuggle you to sleep while they kick your ass. This
lady is well on her way.
Alela Menig - From Nevada City CA. Alela has been
playing guitar for a little over two years, she is
self-taught and has the edge and inspiration to prove
it. Her unique folk-style songs are powered by her
rhythmic picking style and her jaw-dropping voice.
This lady will steal your heart and then give it back
to you with a shrug. If she doesn't make it BIG
someday then it'll be because she didn't want to.
Really, the girl has got IT. And she sings about
pirates! Yo-ho!
Vermillion Lies - Started by the sisters Boekbinder,
Kim and Zoe. This band is now a seven piece
experience, a scultpure of sound and performance.
Instruments include: Guitars, banjo, 'lectric piano,
toy piano, concertina, drums, violin, cello,
tambourine, gas can, vintage typewriter, flour sifter,
F-18 fighter jet piece, alarm clock, egg shaker,
harmonica......and whatever else we pull out the trash
to play. The sound is what we call 'Twisted Folk' and
the nice thing about inventing a genre is that we get
to sound however we want.
A recipe: 1 cup traditional folk, 1 cup
non-traditional banging about on pots and gascans, 1
cup storytelling, 1/2 cup rythm of rock, 3/4 cup dark
circus, 3 Tbsp strings, 2 Tbsp costumes, a dash of
sequins and feathers, 1 gallon unbound creativity -
Mash together in a garage in Seaside for six months.
Great for whipping up a batch of Vermillion LIes when
unexpected company drops in.
Lots of nice green lawn, bring a blanket and twenty friends.
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11 Bands on the Lawn
From 1pm to 10pm on Saturday, June 18, 2005, nearly a dozen bands and performers congregated at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA to raise money for this beloved institution while celebrating the great writer, who died 25 years ago this summer.
Line-Up
Food courtesy Dan Abbruzzese and Quail Lodge
Wine coutesy Bernardus Winery
Beer courtesy Coastline Brewery
Sound-engineering courtesy UncleFunky Sound
Event production by Ryan Masters of Monterey County Weekly
All proceeds from the Benefit Concert and its ensuing benefit CD will go to the Henry Miller Library.
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May 27-28
Anais Nin Video Diary Festival
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May 14 @ 3 PM
Travis Brandon
Singer songwriter.
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May 14 @ 8 PM
Boston Marriage Cancelled
A live play reading.
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April 27, 7.00 - 9.30 PM
Carl-Johan Calleman
a presentation of new insights into the Mayan Calendar
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May 7
Dane Edmondson
Solo guitar concert @ 7.30 PM
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Thursday, April 14 at 7.30 PM
"Vermillion Lies"
The Boekbinder sisters in a concert!
Their music is beautiful. Come share some wine and snacks and listen to these marvelous sisters before they hit the big time and leave us for stardom, fast cars and "industry" cocktail parties. We'll have a fire in the stove if it's cold.
Donations will be welcomed.
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Saturday, April 9 @ 3.00 PM
Philip DeGruy http://www.guitarp.com
