Rio Theatre Past Events 2004
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Friday
and Saturday, January 2nd and 3rd, 2004
A
"WHITE" CHRISTMAS IN SANTA CRUZ
Postponed due to the Flu
THE WHITE ALBUM (LIVE) RETURNS TO
THE RIO THEATRE
After two sold out weekends this year, first at the Rio in May,
then at the Henry Mello Center in Watsonville in September, the
White Album Ensemble is bringing back their live re-creation of
the Beatle's "White Album” to the Rio Theatre for the
Performing in time for the Holidays, a joint production of the
Ensemble and the Rio. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Santa
Cruz Music in Schools Programs. The December shows were close
to selling out when the group decided to “pull the plug”
and reschedule two weeks later, they just didn’t feel right
about limping through the show, unable to hit the notes, or give
a proper show due to illness.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel's front- page review of the performances
said "If you missed the White Album show, start kicking yourself
now", and "The best concert in Santa Cruz in years".
A follow-up article by the Sentinel’s Wallace Baine stated,
"Both Rio shows — benefiting local schools and anti-violence
programs — were sold out. Many people felt they would enjoy
the concert. But a common response in the wake of those shows
was that people weren’t merely entertained, but transformed".
The "White Album Ensemble" has been working all through
2003 refining the show, which realizes the Beatle’s famous
1968 “White” Album, beginning to end. Each show will
start with side 1, cut 1, "Back in the USSR", with an
intermission after "Julia", then Side 2 will be reproduced,
starting with "Birthday", and concluding with "Good
Night". Most of today’s CD
listeners will only notice “Disc 1” and “Disc
2“.
The performance will be enhanced with choreography by Sara Wilbourne,
a troupe of 12 Dancers, era Video projections, Stage Lighting,
and additional vocalists.
Show time:8:00
PM Doors at 7:00
Tickets are $24 general admission,
and $38 “White” circle, plus 5% Santa Cruz City Entertainment
tax.
Tickets will be available at Streetlight Records, Santa Cruz (831)
421 9200, or the Rio Theatre Box Office, 1205 Soquel ave. (831)
423 8209,
Come dressed a la 1968!
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Saturda,
January 10th, 2004
TOM CURREN BAND / BROTHER
DOWN & A SURF VIDEO BY PETE GARAWAY
Christian Surfers United States Awards Ceremony
The Christian Surfers United States is hosting their annual surf
contest on January 10th at Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz. Following
the contest, the award ceremony will take place at the Rio Theatre
where CSUS will premier a new surf video from Peter Garaway, host
the Tom Curren Band and close the night with Brother Down.
Doors open @ 7:30pm
Tickets ($6 in advance, $8 at the
door) at Oneill's shops
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Wednesday,
January 14th, 2004
THIRDBREAK.ORG WIFI MEETING
* meets Next: Door to the
Rio 1207 Soquel Ave.
Santa Cruz ThirdBreak is a not-for-profit project to develop a
community broadband wireless network in the Monterey Bay region.
Use of inexpensive, widely available and user friendly equipment
makes it possible for a network to grow from the grass roots level,
based almost entirely on a wonderful combination of self interest
and community spirit.
Time 7-9pm
Tickets: free
More info at www.thirdbreak.org
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Friday,
January 16th, 2004
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN
Broadway Musical
Ain’t Misbehavin’ -- the Tony award winning musical
-- is a journey through the Fats Waller Songbook and Harlem in
its heyday. With snazzy period costumes, complete with bowlers,
spats, ermine, and pearls, the dynamic five-member cast transforms
the theater into a Harlem jazz hall. When Ain’t Misbehavin’
opened on Broadway, it made history by winning every Tony Award
including best musical. “The opening night audience almost
knocked the roof off with cheers” reported William Glover
in the Associated Press. Time Magazine called it a “stompin’,
struttin’, high hattin’ smash” and Clive Barnes
predicted Ain’t Misbehavin’would be “A joyous
celebration that is going to cross the world.” That time
is now, with this exciting new production.“Ain’t Misbehavin’has
a first act that will knock your ears off and a second that will
come back for the rest of you.” said Walter Kerr of the
New York Times after Ain’t Misbehavin’ opened.
What a great way to celebrate the Martin Luther King Birthday
holiday weekend!
Admission $29.50 advance or $32.50
at the door. Special Cotton Club Cabaret Seating down front at
cabaret tables with sparkling water and a pastry are $50. As the
show is set in part at the Cotton Club, these seats put patrons
right in theshow!
Tickets are available at the Santa
Cruz Civic Center Box Office, 831.420.5260; Street Light Records
- 941 Pacific Avenue; or through www.ticketweb.com & Ticket
Web phone sales: 1.866.468.3399
Advance Tickets available online www.riotheatre.com
Show
time: 8:00 pm
Tickets:$29.25 General
$50.00 Cabaret
Advance Tickets: On-Line
Tickets Here
Presented
By Artbeat
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Wednesday,
January 21st, 2004
INTRO TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
WITH ART DURAND
* meets Next: Door to the Rio Theatre at 1207 Soquel Ave.
Did Santa bring you a digital camera this year? Come learn the
basics and a few sophisticated tips and tricks for making great
pictures, indoors and out with local photographer Art Durand.
Time: 7-9 pm
www.artdurandphoto.com
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Friday,
January 23rd, 2004
"THROUGH THE LOOKING
GLASS"
Stedfast Films presents an east coast surf documentary, "Through
The Looking Glass" with Live Music by Crosby Loggins and
the JRB.
Show Time: 8:00pm
Tickets: $12 at the door
Check out www.stedfastfilms.com www.crosbyloggins.com and www.thejrb.com for more details. A benefit for The Nabila Project.
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January
24th, 2004
ALAN CLEMENTS:
SPIRITUALLY INCORRECT
Alan Clements Live, Raw, Immediate, Unpredictable Performing An
Improvisational Spoken Word Performance Combining Comedy, Drama,
Satire, Art, and Activism. A Benefit for Burma's Imprisoned Nobel
Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. A former director of Amnesty
International called Alan Clements "one of the most important
and compelling voices of our times." Clements was the first
American to become a Buddhist monk in Burma, where he lived for
the better part of a decade, before disrobing and becoming a spiritual
maverick. Now, it's as a performer of improvised spoken word in
a radical new genre of spiritual entertainment that he has been
called a Lenny Bruce for the post-New Age.
"Alan Clements is Krishnamurti meets Michael Moore."
~ Lloyd Kandell Taboo Records
Advanced Tickets available by phone or in person at the Santa
Cruz Civic Auditorium Box Office / Handling All Major Credit Cards
/ 307 Church Street / Tel: (831) 420-5260
Tickets also available in person at Streetlight Records / 941
Pacific Avenue / Tel: (831) 421-9200
Show
time: 8:00 pm Doors
Open 7 pm
Tickets: $20 General Admission / $10
Students & Seniors at the Door
Advanced Tickets from The Rio Theater
box office
Advanced
Tickets Online
Telephone: (831) 429-1812
"Alan Clements is pioneering a radical new genre of spiritual
entertainment; funny, witty, and intensely real. His show is an
existential feast of unrehearsed honesty." ~ Liliane
Versailles (theater critic, The Altered Stage
"Alan Clements is a spiritually comedic provocateur.
Mix Noam Chomsky, Lenny Bruce, Terrence McKenna, and Alan Watts
together and you get a sense of his hilarious, outrageous, and
deliciously irreverent one-person show." ~ Jon Woodhouse,
Arts and Entertainment critic, The Maui News
A World Dharma
Production
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Sunday,
January 25th, 2004
"BREAD
COMES TO LIFE"
A new film by Santa Cruz independent filmmaker George Levenson,
narrated by LILY TOMLIN with music by GEORGE WINSTON on piano,
harmonica and guitar. BREAD COMES TO LIFE is the whole grain story
of the staff of life from a garden of wheat to as loaf to eat.
With live action footage, time-lapse photography and animations,
it was filmed over two years, mostly in Santa Cruz, and features
many local children and bakeries. From a backyard wheat patch
and home kitchen to a large scale farm and production bakery,
this is the tell-all tale of the sowing, growing, threshing, milling,
mixing, kneading, shaping, rising, baking and breaking of bread.
You’ll never look at a loaf the same way again.
BREAD COMES TO LIFE is for ages 3 and up. Filmmaker George Levenson
will be on hand to respond to questions about the making of the
movie with one screening at 11am at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz.
Show time: 11:00am
Tickets for this family program are
$4 for children and $6 for adults. Rock Lerum, juggler extraordinaire,
will be featured at the event with a flying bread and dough show.
Door prizes, too!
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January
31st, 2004
Habib Koité
Guitarist/Singer/Composer,
Habib Koité, one of West Africa ’s brightest stars,
will be sizzlin' the Rio stage once again with his stellar band
Bamada, to celebrate and promote their new release FOLY.
Habib is from the noble Khassonké griot lineage of Mali.
His stirring, evocative music resonates with the emotional depth
and spirit of the modern African experience. Habib's artistry
and powerful personality earned him the adoration of fans such
as Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, both of whom ended up visiting
Habib in Mali. Habib takes some unique approaches to playing the
guitar. He tunes his instrument to the pentatonic scale and plays
on open strings as one would on a kamale n'goni. At other times
Habib plays music that sounds closer to the blues or flamenco,
two styles he studied under Khalilou Traoré a veteran of
the legendary Afro-Cuban band Maravillas du Mali. Unlike the griots,
his singing style is restrained and intimate with varying cadenced
rhythms and melodies.
Tickets: $24 Advance / $28 At the
Door
Showt time: 8 pm
Tickets available at: Streetlight Records
online: www.zookbeat.com/events/
Info: 427.5531
www.zookbeat.com
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Thursday,
February 5th, 2004
THE HAWAIIAN SLACK
KEY GUITAR FESTIVAL
Once a year a group of Hawaiian slack key guitar masters visit
the West
Coast, and this year the tour stops at the Rio Theatre with
three well-established artists: Cindy Combs, Cyril Pahinui
and Dennis Kamakahi. Slack key is the traditional solo fingerpicked
style unique to Hawaii. This tour has also showcased the vocal
talents and humor associated with the art form. Dennis Kamakahi
is one of Hawaii's most prolific and popular songwriters,
having toured with the Sons of Hawaii and pursued a solo career
more recently. Cindy Combs, although born in SanDiego, followed
her parents room back to Hawaii. She learned slack key from
some of the great masters and now tours regulary throughout
Hawaii and the United States. Cyril Pahinui grew up in Oahu.
His father was one of Hawaii's most influential slack key
guitarists. Schooled in the music since an early age continues
to win awards for his traditional and contempory music. Playing
solo and together, the three artists will present an evening
of memorable music and humor.
Show time: 7:30pm
Tickets at the door are $22.
Advance Tickets are $20 and are
available from Streetlight Records 831-421-9200, and from ticketweb.com.
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Friday,
February 6th, 2004
THE
BOOK OF MORMON MOVIE
Written, Produced and Directed by Gary Rogers
Two screenings: 5pm and 8pm
At the door tickets $9 adults /
$7 kids
Advance tickets $8 adults / $6
kids from www.bookofmormonmovie.com
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Friday,
February 13th, 2004
An evening with HAPA
Featuring Hawaiian Chanter Charles Ka'upu
and hula by Ms. Jackie Booth,
and the Hula School of Santa Cruz
“Hapa combines a bracing blend of American folk and
Polynesian lilt that proved absolutely breathtaking.” —The Orange County Register
With a pulse and energy that make it entirely of today, Hapa’s
groundbreaking music connects firmly to the Polynesian past,
featuring poetic ballads about the sea, the lushness of the
land, and favorite chiefs — all told through melodies
rich in harmony and backed by virtuoso guitar. Add a dose of
American acoustic folk/rock, celtic and world influences and
you have the essence of what Hawaii and Hapa music is: “beautiful,
fragile, spiritual, powerful…” (LA Times).
Show time: 8:00pm
Tickets: $22 Advance, $25 at the
door, $12 Children (12-under), $15 at the door, $30 limited
Gold Circle Seating available.
Tickets
available at Streetlight Records in Santa Cruz, and on-line at www.ticketweb.com (keyword: Hapa).
Info: www.hapa.com or call 831.423.5491.
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Saturday,
February 14th, 2004
THE
VAGINA MONOLOGUES
As part of the 2004 V-Day Worldwide Campaign, Santa Cruz is
proud to present a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues
to raise awareness and funds for local organizations working
to end violence against women and girls. This live stage presentation
of the Vagina Monologues with a cast of 14 local women benefits
The Santa Cruz Women's Health Center.
Show time: 8:00 PM
Tickets price: $25, student price
available on request
To purchase tickets: Ticket hotline
(credit card only), 831-425-4480, or Herland Bookstore, 1014
Cedar St., Santa Cruz, Ca. 831-429-6636 (cash & credit card.)
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February
20th, 2004
THE BEST OF THE SECOND
CITY
"A comedy powerhouse!" – Chicago Tribune
"Unforgettable!" – University of Iowa
Chicago’s legendary comedy theater performs some of the
greatest scenes, songs, and improvisations from the vast archives
of The Second City’s forty-plus year history! Since 1959
The Second City has proven to be the training ground for the
comedy world’s best and brightest. The alumni list of
this comedic ivy league lists like a who’s who of American
comedy, including Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Alan Arkin, Joan
Rivers, Robert Klein, Peter Boyle, Harold Ramis, John Belushi,
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, George Wendt, Martin
Short, John Candy, Shelly Long, Chris Farley, Mike Meyers and
countless others. A night with The Second City’s seven
member touring company is an opportunity to see comedy stars
in the making in absolutely hilarious satire and cutting edge
improvisation. No topic or subject matter is off-limits for
this bunch of smart, silly, sophisticated and irreverent 21st
century jesters!.
Show time: 8pm
Gold Circle: $40 / $35*
Adult: $25 / $22*
Students & Seniors with ID: $20
UCSC Students with ID: $12
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Saturday
& Sunday, February 21 & 22, 2004
BANFF
MOUNTAIN FILM FEST
Faster, steeper, higher, deeper! The best films and videos from
the Banff Mountain Film Festival will thrill and inspire you
with big-screen stories and adventures when they come to the
Rio Theatre on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 21 & 22 at 7pm.
Be moved. Be inspired. Climb the highest peaks, paddle the wildest
waters and journey to some of the most enchanting and beautiful
places on the planet. Don't miss out. Get your tickets now.
Each evening a completely different set of films will be shown.
The World Tour brings a selection of the best films from the
Banff Mountain Film Festival to enthusiastic audiences in more
than 20 countries each year. The Tour generally offers about
30 films, including many of the award winners from the festival.
This collection of films is chosen to provide a diverse range
of subjects, styles, lengths and activities. Feedback from the
tour audience and our host organizations influence our film
selection process. Our local hosts use our information to create
their program; they try to choose films that they feel are best
suited to their particular audience. Audience comments are appreciated
and we encourage people to contact their local host to let them
know what types of films they most want to see. Host contact
information can be found by checking the appropriate location
on the tour schedule.
For twenty eight years, The Banff Mountain Film Festival has
celebrated the spirit of adventure and the mountain environment.
Each November, the world's best films on mountain themes draw
an international audience to the town of Banff, Canada. From
its grass roots beginnings in 1976 when approximately 450 people
gathered to view 10 films, the festival now attracts audiences
of 10,000 with over 300 films submitted from 38 countries.
Showtime: 7pm
Cost: $12 General Admission, $10
Students
Tickets available now at Bugaboo
(831) 429-6300, Pacific Edge Climbing Gym (831) 454-9254, and
UCSC Box Office (831) 459-2159.
Local Sponsors: UCSC Recreation,
Bugaboo & Pacific Edge and Adventure Sports Benefit for
the UCSC Wilderness Orientation Scholarship Program and the
UCSC Recreation Adventure Outing Scholarship Fund.
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Tuesday,
February 24th, 2004
THE ULTIMATE REALITY
DATING GAME SHOW
The Ultimate Reality Dating Game Show premieres it’s first
of five series live runs on February 24, March 10 and March
24, at the Rio Theatre. Thus the dawning of a creatively sophisticated
"social" and night of amateur theater.
Valued as the "appearance base" for realistic interesting
dating prospects, The Ultimate Reality Dating Game Show also
presents the unattached single, married and unmarried couple,
stimulating ideas for Santa Cruz inspired dating activities
and romance.
The Ultimate Reality Dating Game Show stages a comical revival
and blend of the 70’s and 80’s classic game shows
with today’s popular reality shows, thereby creating a
wholesome, yet wildly different entertainment for everyone,
no matter what your marital status happens to be. Audiences
can revel in the humor and spontaneity of the evening’s
three unrehearsed contests, lead by a local celebrity guest
host and contestant presenters. The "Date Determinator,"
an eligible bachelor or bachelorette, asks questions and chooses,
site unseen, one of four pre-selected passionate singles vying
seriously for a date. The newly formed "Contestant Couple"
win an exclusive all expense paid Romantic Date, Adventure Date
or Mystery Date in Santa Cruz. A pre-show movie, noisemakers,
music, dancers, video imagery, singles exhibit of the Daisy
Powered NAC and GCUTAP, Benevolent Hug Booth, and real life
matchmaking on and off the stage at the Rio, ensure a memorable
evening of fast paced fun and unexpected surprises!
Event’s producer, Miss Gera Schmidt of Gerz Communications
Unlimited, will contribute 20% of all the evenings proceeds
to benefit the adopted guest charity, the St. Francis Soup Kitchen.
Schmidt, a self described, "Comedian and yenta" says,
"if you’re on the loose and in the market, or just
appreciate high-spirited camaraderie, this is the right place
and the right time to meet the right people for all the right
reasons." She also says, "Our show is 100% smut free
with no cruelty. Go for the fantastic fun of it all!"
Showtime: 7:30-9:45 PM Doors Open
at 6:45.
Tickets: $11.50 Advanced (includes
city tax), $14 at the door.
Tickets are available at Streetlight
Records, 941 Pacific Av., SC, and online @ www.ticketweb.com
For more info call 465-9042 or
239-9555 and visit: www.GCU.biz
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Sunday,
February 29th, 2004
LEAP
DAY LOOPERS
International Live Looping show featuring
Koorosh Daryiae (Persia) and DARK NUMBERS
Rick Walker's L()()p.p()()L with a Santa Cruz CD release party
for his new recording FAUX VOIX and in an improvisatory trio
collaboration with special guest artists: DEEPAK RAM (Classical
Indian Bansurai Flute Master), DAVID TRISTRAM (World class
Live Digital Video Animator)
Next: D()()R 1207 soquel avenue@seabright
Show time: 8-11PM
Tickets: $10 / DOOR
"NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS"
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Friday,
March 5th, 2004
ARLO
GUTHRIE
Everyones Favorite Folksinger!
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets $25 adv/ $ 28 door
Available at Streetlight Records
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Saturday,
March 6th, 2004
THE
LAST WILDERNESS: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Presentation by internationally renowned
wildlife photographer KENNAN WARD
Adventurer-naturalist Kennan Ward photographs and writes about
wilderness and wildlife. He has dedicated his life to capturing
the rare forms of nature on film. A world-class photo-documentation
of a threatened wilderness, Kennan Ward gives us the insiders
peek at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "Observing
natural behavior and life on its own terms is the incredible
gift to us all in 'The Last Wilderness'. Kennan Ward's recollections
and photographs, taken over the past 13 years, convey the very
heartbeat of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
Show time: 7:00 p.m.
General Admission: $18
Student and Senior (60+): $14
Museum Members: $12
Tickets available only through
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History on sale January 28th. Charge
by phone: 831-420-6115
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Sunday,
March 7th, 2004
"ISHMAEL"
West Coast Premiere of New England Winter Surfing Documentary
Waking up to a wind chill of 15 below, scraping a foot of snow
and ice from your car, wrapping yourself in so much neoprene
only your eyes and nose show and then plunging into an ocean
so cold that icicles form on your eyelashes in a matter of seconds
… and that’s before the first set breaks on your
head. It’s winter surfing in New England, and Maine filmmaker
Ben Keller has captured it on film for his documentary "Ishmael".
Filmed, edited and produced in the winter of 2002-03—one
of the coldest in decades—Ishmael features 10 surfers
from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts talking about what
it’s like to surf—and then surfing—northern
New England’s moody winter seascapes. “This isn't
your average surf flick,” says Keller. “New England
might as well be the Sahara to most people who surf. But there’s
a small, dedicated core of New Englanders that patiently wait
for the waves, no matter the season, and Ishmael captures that
vibe, uncovering what exactly compels someone to trudge through
waist-deep snow to surf in 35-degree water.” Taking its
name from the main character in Herman Melville’s “Moby
Dick,” "Ishmael" echoes the connection between
surfing and New England’s maritime history. Shot along
the coast of New Hampshire, Cape Cod and Maine, the film alternates
between mesmerizing winter footage and first-person accounts
from men and women ages 12 to 52. "These surfers aren't
out there for the hype,” says Keller. “They’re
doing it for the love of sea and surf and place. It's in their
blood."
“Ishmael really captures the depth of surfers’ relationship
to the ocean in a place where surfers wouldn't normally think
about it,” says Jeremiah S., Chairman of the Santa Cruz
Chapter of Surfrider Foundation. “And that close relationship
is exactly what the Santa Cruz Chapter of Surfrider is about,
to help keep the oceans and beaches clean and accessible. We’re
honored to be teamed up for this screening.”
Show time: 7:30pm
T ickets: $5
In conjunction with the premiere, a percentage of the proceeds
will benefit the Santa Cruz Surfrider chapter, a nonprofit membership
organization dedicated to protecting the waves and beaches of
Santa Cruz and environs. All ticket purchasers will be entered
into a drawing for a free ‘fish’ surfboard, which
will be given away at the end of the screening.
For more information about Ishmael, visit www.ishmaelsurfs.com
For more information about Santa Cruz Surfrider, visit www.surfridersantacruz.org
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Wednesday,
March 17th 2004
MOLLY'S
REVENGE / WAKE THE DEAD
Oakland's Wake the Dead, www.wakethedead.org,
is known for blasting away the boundaries between Celtic music
and the songs of the Grateful Dead. Flowing seamlessly from
jamming rock grooves to spellbinding Irish reels, Wake the Dead
romps its way through the Grateful Dead's most beloved repertoire.
Songs like Sugaree, Bertha, and Friend of the Devil are launched
into startling new directions that thrill Deadheads and Celtic
enthusiasts alike.
Show time: 7:30 pm
Tickets for the show are $20 in
advance or $22 at the door and we've set up a PayPal account
so you can buy them now. Just click on the PayPal button below
to get yours while there are still some left, then pick up your
tickets at will-call on the night of the show! You'll need to
set up a PayPal account if you don't already have one, but it's
free and totally secure. If you live in the Santa Cruz area
you can buy your tickets at Streetlight Records on Pacific Avenue
or Sylvan Music on Mission Street.
If you prefer, just click here to send your reservation request
by email. Please
include your full name and how many tickets you want to reserve.
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Friday,
March 19th, 2004
Steinberg Thrasher Presents...
a spoken word concert:
HENRY ROLLINS
An accomplished and experienced spoken word performer with several
albums to his credit, Rollins' often hilarious style is in direct
contrast to his musical persona, and he has drawn comparisons
to Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks and Dennis Leary (although, in contrast,
he implores his audience not to destroy themselves with poisons
like alcohol and tobacco). Despite the humour there is a serious
edge to his words, best animated in the harrowing story of the
murder of his best friend, Joe Cole, within feet of him. Rollins'
workaholic frame also levers his own publishing company, 2.13.61
(after his birth date), which has grown from small beginnings
in 1984 to publish a wide range of authors, including Rollins'
own prolific output. He also has a music publishing enterprise
Human Pittbull and co-owns a record label (Infinite Zero) with
Rick Rubin dedicated to classic punk reissues - Rollins himself
having graduated from the infamous late 70s Washington DC "straight
edge" scene and bands such as SOA. He has additionally
broken into film acting, appearing in The Chase and Johnny Mnemonic.
In the new millennium, Rollins has released further spoken word
recordings alongside solo work and outings with the Rollins
Band, in addition to pursuing his acting and television career.
All Ages.
Show time: 7pm
Tickets: $20.00
Advance tickets available from www.tickets.com www.ticketweb.com
and Streetlight Records in Santa Cruz.
www.thrasherpresents.com
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Saturday, March 27th, 2004
TODD
SNIDER
"Brings his trademark satire and lyrical spins ... Texas
Juke Joint & southern soul sounds" to the Rio theatre...
Show time: 1 show @ 7:30pm
Tickets $22 (plus service charges)
www.snazzyproductions.com or 831-479-9421
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Thursday,
April 1st, 2004
BAABA
MAAL
Senegalese superstar
Baaba Maal has long been recognized as one of Africa's greatest
singers. Backed by a special traditional acoustic ensemble,
Baaba returns with his simmering blend of high-energy African
grooves and contemporary influences. A rare chance to experience
the pure, vital intensity of one of the world's most powerful
musicians in an intimate setting!
Show
time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $25 at Streetlight Records
online at ticketweb.com
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Saturday,
April 3rd, 2004
CONCERT FOR GEORGE
A feature film of the Tribute to George
Harrison under the musical direction of Eric Clapton at the
Royal Albert Hall, a year after George's death, Nov. 29, 2002.
Featuring Joe Brown, Eric Clapton, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne,
Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Billy Preston,
Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, Ringo Starr, Monty Python, and local
cellist Barry Phillips!
Show times: 3PM & 7:30PM
Tickets: $10.
Advance Tickets available at Westside
Stories (457-2021), in the Almar Shopping Center, next to Safeway
on Mission Street on the Westside. They will also be at the
door. All proceeds benefit the Community Music School of Santa
Cruz.
www.communitymusicschool.org
For
more information call 426-9155
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Friday,
April 9th, 2004
Mariza
The queen of Portuguese fado music returns to Santa Cruz for
one show. The London Times recently wrote, "by the end
of the year, she should have established herself as an international
star to rank among the greatest non-English-language divas of
our time." That prediction is coming true, as audiences
and critics worldwide attest. Blessed with a soul-shaking voice,
a transfixing stage presence and a profound understanding of
the material she sings, Mariza simply has to be seen--and heard--to
be believed. Mariza will be accompanied by a superb trio of
fado musicians on Portuguese guitar, classical guitar and acoustic
bass guitar. Her last Bay Area appearances sold out quickly,
so purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended.
Show time: 8:00 PM / doors at 7:30
Tickets: $25 advance / $30 night
of the show
Tickets On Sale At:
-Streetlight Records--939 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz (831-421-9200)
-Furtado's Jewelers--1412 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose (408-293-0401)
-Select Bay Area locations
More info: (831) 335-3207 or MarizaShow@baymoon.com
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April
10th, 2004
SHOGHAKEN ENSEMBLE
Traditional Armenian music and dance
"There may be no instrument that can sound as richly inconsolable
as the duduk, the double-reed flute that is Armenia’s
national instrument. Mr. Dabaghyan plays right up to the brink
without ever slipping into it." – The New York Times
Following Armenian duduk virtuoso Gevorg Dabaghyan’s collaboration
with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in the celebrated Silk Road Project concerts,
Dabaghyan’s 8-piece Shoghaken Ensemble comes to the Arts
& Lectures series with its extraordinary ancient Armenian
musical tradition of exhilarating folk dances, lullabies and
haunting love songs. The group also features two of Armenia’s
most renowned folk dancers – the sister and brother duo
Hasmik and Aleksan Harutyunyan – who sing and perform
intricate centuries-old dances from the villages of modern and
historic Armenia with stunning virtuosity.
Since its formation in 1991 the Shoghaken Ensemble has aimed
to revive traditional Armenian folk music and preserve it from
foreign influences. The ensemble uses only traditional instruments:
duduk (double-reeded flute), kamancha (spiked fiddle), kanoon
(lap harp), d’hol (percussion) and other woodwind instruments
indigenous to the region. Shoghaken’s music can be
heard on the sound track to Atom Egoyan's film Ararat (2002).
The group’s latest CD, Armenia Anthology (Traditional
Crossroads, 2002), was recorded in their hometown of Yerevan,
the Armenian capital.
Show time: 8pm
Gold Circle: $40 / $35*
Adult: $25 / $22*
Students & Seniors with ID: $20
UCSC Students with ID: $12
Presented
by UCSC Arts & Lectures. Tickets available at the UCSC Box
Office (831) 459-2159 More information HERE
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Easter
Sunday, April 11th, 2004
Ian Brennan presents 77 year old bluegrass-legend and pioneer
DR. RALPH STANLEY & HIS CLINCH MOUNTAIN
BOYS
in an exclusive Santa Cruz appearance. They'll be rendering
scared songs on at the Rio Theatre. The star of the "O'
Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack and "Down from
the Mountain" tour & documentary appears in the intimate
confines of a 685 seat venue.
Show time: 7pm
Tickets are available exclusively
at www.TicketWeb.com (866) 666-8932 and start at just $28.50. This is an early show
(7 PM), a perfect way to celebrate the holiday for the whole
family.
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Thursday,
April 15th, 2004
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING
BAND
Show time: 8pm
Tickets $21.00
www.snazzyproductions.com or 831-479-9421
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Saturday,
April 17th, 2004
TRAILER PARK TROUBADOURS
Just who are these Sons of Hitches? On the east side of a small
Kentucky town called Screamin' Holler, between the railroad
tracks and Route 7, there's a trailer park called Pine View
Heights. It's a quiet little community where you can leave your
door unlocked at night and walk down to the County Seat Grocery
for a can of snuff, an RC Cola, and a couple of lottery tickets.
Neighbors watch out for each other. Children play carelessly
through the streets and cul de sacs. And elderly people watch
your every move, and talk about you at the Post Office. Emerging
from this small town atmosphere are two young men named R.J.
"Antsy" McClain and Stephen Foster Fleming III. (His
friends call him "Flem" for short.) Antsy and Flem
are third cousins twice removed, and grew up four trailers down
from each other in Pine View Heights. Their songs are original,
written by McClain, with an occasional Antsy/Flem collaboration.
"I write out of my own experience," McClain continues,
"Woody Guthrie sang about trains. Red Sovine sang about
trucks. We sing about trailers. It's who we are." Playing
a style of music they call "folkabilly," the duo has
played throughout the country, taking their act to appreciative,
easy-to-please audiences. Now touring with a three-piece back-up
outfit called The Sons of Hitches Band, they have expanded,
giving their audiences the same old Troub sound, only louder.
The Trailer Park Troubadours maintain a desire to widen their
horizons. Flem states, "We have a vision. We hope one day
to take our music to exotic, far-away places like Idaho or Wyoming."
Antsy adds, "We're on an adventure that will take us where
we never dreamed of going. Kind of like Star Trek, but with
a lot more bathroom stops."
SHOWTIME: 8:00PM
TICKETS: $20.00 Advance / $23.00
Door
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Sunday,
April 18th, 2004
AMY GOODMAN
Bookshop Santa Cruz, Capitola Book Cafe, and KUSP are pleased
to welcome award-winning journalist AMY GOODMAN to the RIO THEATRE.
Goodman, host of the daily hour-long talk show Democracy Now!--a
beacon for passionate, critical, and hard-hitting news--will
discuss her new book, "THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULERS: Exposing
Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them."
On subjects ranging from the deceptions of the Bush administration
to the corruption of media monopolies and corporate influence
over the government, Goodman attacks and exposes the lies and
hypocrisy that put democracy at risk.
Please Note: This event will be
off-site and ticketed. With every purchase of "The Exception
to the Rulers" at Bookshop Santa Cruz or Book Cafe, you
will receive two tickets to the event. If you prefer, you may
purchase individual tickets for $15.00 each. Seating is limited
so get your tickets early. A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT
KUSP. Please call 831-423-0900 for more information.
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Thursday,
April 22nd, 2004
Third annual
SANTA CRUZ DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL
Digital Video, and Mulitimedia Presentations from festival submissions.
With live music by DEEP FRIED.
Show time: 7:30pm
Tickets: $5-$25 Sliding Scale All
proceeds benefit the festival and artists. No one turned away
for lack of funds.
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Friday,
April 23rd, 2004
WAVES OF LAUGHTER III
COMEDY FUNDRAISER
NOTE!! Waves of Laughter will have Adult Content! "R"
Rated!!
Benefiting the RIDE-A-WAVE Foundation
Show time: 7:30pm
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Saturday,
April 24th, 2004
FUELED
Powerline Productions presents a big wave surf documentary.
Showtime: 7:30pm
Tickets: Adults $7 Kids $5
www.mavfilm.com
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Thursday,
April 29th, 2004
SUPPORTING THE TRUTH
In this election year these films are a must see!
Screening:
"UNPRECEDENTED" -- documents the extraordinary 2000 election debacle (see www.unprecedented.com)
7pm
"THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT
BE TELEVISED"--candid footage of the 2002
coup against Venezualan president Hugo Chavez (see www.chavezthefilm.com)
8:30pm
This is a FREE show.
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Friday,
April 30th, 2004
"Suspended Animation"
A presentation by Timmy O'Neill
Forget the "gnarly man vs. gnarly mountain" approach
to climbing film. Prepare yourself for stomach cramps and watery
eyes as climber, comedian and "Urban Ape", Timmy O'Neill
gives his own Monty Python inspired approach to a major climbing
expedition.
Show time: 7:30pm
Tickets: $7/student, $9/general
Tickets available at Bugaboo, Pacific
Edge Climbing Gym and the UCSC box office.
For more information call 459-2806
This event is sponsored by UCSC Recreation, Outdoor Magazine,
Bugaboo and Pacific Edge Climbing Gym. This event is a benefit
for the UCSC Recreation Scholarship Fund.
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Saturday
May 1st,
2004
MAY DAY LABOR FILM FESTIVAL
2004
International Workers Day
SCREENING:We Are The ILWU (Produced by ILWU, 1997, 29 min)
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks.
AND
The Harry Bridges Project
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks.
WITH
Speaker: Ian Ruskin, actor portraying Harry Bridges
SHOW TIME: 7 pm
Admission at all events is by voluntary donation
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Sunday,
May 2nd, 2004
ORCHESTRA BAOBAB
Orchestra Baobab, the seminal Senegalese dance band in the '70s
which reunited in 2001 after a 15-year hiatus, presents its
exuberant blend of Cuban rhythms and Afropop. The group, which
brilliantly revitalizes the classic Afro-Latin sound, features
several original members, including vocalists Balla Sidibe and
Rudy Gomis, saxophonist Issa Cissoko and guitarist Barthelemy
Atisso. Their recent recording, Specialist in All Styles (World
Cicuit /Nonesuch) was hailed as one of the best CDs of 2002
and is nominated for the 2004 Grammys for Best Contemporary
World Music Album.
"...one of the great bands in the
history of West African music..."
Billboard
Show time: 8:00 -- doors at 7:15
Tickets: $25 adv/ 28 door
Advance tickets available at Streelight Records and online at www.zookbeat.com
Info: 427.5531
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Tuesday,
May 4th, 2004
The Bicycle Trip Presents
RED BULL RAMPAGE 3
Join us for some R&R! Tune in and kick back for Enormous
Cliff Drops! Awesome Back Flips and Huge Gap Jumps in this Technical,
Demanding Downhill Mountain Bike Film on the Big Screen. Check
out our website www.bicycletrip.com for a sneak preview!
Showtime: 7pm
Tickets: $5
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Thursday,
May 6th, 2004
LEO KOTTKE
In the genre of acoustic guitarists who have stretched folk
traditions since the '60s, Leo Kottke stands above the rest
as one of the most original and consistently inspired. Since
his first album in 1969, Kottke has developed a distinctive
sound and style, with his rolling thumb patterns, his blend
of rootsiness and mysterious musical turns, with touches of
bottleneck playing and periodic vocals along the way. And yet
Kottke has also taken efforts to expand his musical horizons,
creating a body of work that sounds like an organic mixture
of folk, country, blues and jazz, with hints of classical ideas,
as well.
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Tickets: $22.00
www.snazzyproductions.com or 831-479-9421
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Friday,
May 7th, 2004
THE WAYBACKS
The Devil Makes Three (opener)
Just as mandolinist Dave Grisman is the seminal newgrasser,
The Waybacks are the seminal jamgrassers. These San Franciscans
have super-humanly fleet fingers, wide open minds, endless humor,
spark, and ‘no respect whatsoever for standard operating
procedure’, as Rick Anderson approvingly wrote in Bluegrass
Unlimited. The quintet playfully ranges across genres, with
songs & tunes brand new & newly-refreshed.
Showtime: 7:30 PM
Tickets: $21.00
www.snazzyproductions.com or 831-479-9421
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Saturday,
May 8th, 2004
WomenCARE's 3rd Annual Spring Event
WOMEN'S VOICES: A NIGHT OF BLUJAGO
(blues, jazz & a little gospel)
The third annual spring fundraiser for WomenCARE. Women's Voices,
a fundraiser series, aims to celebrate the musical talents of
local Santa Cruz women. This years event will highlight local
vocalists PAULA ALDER, SHARON ALLEN, VALERIE FIDDMONT and Special
Guests! WomenCARE, cancer advocacy, resources and education,
is a local non-profit organization that offers Free cancer support
services to women with cancer and their loved ones in Santa
Cruz County. WomenCARE also has expanded their support services
to our Latina community with the Entre Nosotras program.
Showtime: 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 advanced, $22 door,
$12 student (door only), $50 gold circle (front row)
Tickets on Sale at Streetlight Records, Bookworks and Paradise
Surf Shop
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Wednesday,
May 12th, 2004
UCSC Regents' Lecturer, SYLVIA
POGGIOLI, will give a public lecture on
"Transatlantic Tensions: The Growing
Divide"
Ms. Poggioli is the Senior European Correspondent for National
Public Radio's (NPR) Foreign Desk, reporting from Rome, Italy;
the Balkans; other parts of Europe; and the Middle East.
The event is sponsored by UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood,
the UCSC Committee on Regents' Professors and Lecturers, the
Department of Literature, the Institute for Advanced Feminist
Research, the Institute for Humanities Research, the Center
for Justice, Tolerance, andCommunity, the Center for Cultural
Studies, and the Department of History.
Show
time: 7:30PM
The event is free and
open to the public.
Please contact Pam Lawson, Department of Literature, UCSC, 459-4129,
for more information.
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Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, May 14th, 15th and 16th, 2004
RUBBER REVOLVER
The new show by The White Album Ensemble
After six sold out performances of “The White Album Live”
this past year, first at the Rio in May, then at the Henry Mello
Center in Watsonville in September, then again in January, 2004
at the Rio, the White Album Ensemble is focusing their energy
on “Rubber Revolver“, performing the Beatles’
“Rubber Soul”, and “Revolver” albums
live, as well as the singles which were released simultaneously
with each album (“We Can Work It Out”, Day Tripper”
with Rubber Soul, Paperback Writer”, and “Rain”
with Revolver), as was customary for the Beatles.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel's front- page review of the White Album
Live’s performances said: "If you missed the White
Album show, start kicking yourself now", and "The
best concert in Santa Cruz in years".
Adam Cotton of the Santa Cruz Metro remarked, “It’s
not just a re-creation, it’s an experience. I was utterly
blown away”. A follow-up article by the Sentinel’s
Wallace Baine stated, "Both Rio shows — benefiting
local schools and anti-violence programs — were sold out.
Many people felt they would enjoy the concert. But a common
response in the wake of those shows was that people weren’t
merely entertained, but transformed".
Many people consider “Rubber Soul”, and “Revolver”
the pinnacle of the Beatles’ songwriting and recording
career.
These records symbolize the transformation of the Beatlemania-
driven Fab Four’s cheery visages into more sophisticated,
mature artists who used the recording studio as their paintbrush,
exploring much darker, deeper themes than “She Loves You”,
or “Please Please Me”. Granted, they had said “Can’t
Buy Me Love” before, but Rubber Soul’s “Nowhere
Man”, “I’m Looking Thru You”, and “Think
For Yourself” hint at an existential questioning of the
way we view reality in a way Rock and Roll had not previously
addressed.
Revolver took that new stance one step further, as was evidenced
by its scathing view of bureaucracy and greed in “Taxman”
the loneliness portrayed in “Eleanor Rigby” (string
section arranged by producer George Martin, whose musical presence
and orchestral leanings really began to become noticeable at
this point as well), “Love You To”, with its traditional
Indian instrumentation and modes, hinting at belief in higher
consciousness, ending with the enigmatic “Tomorrow Never
Knows”, with its backwards vocals, tape loops and “surrender
to the void” lyrics .
Bob Dylan, the Vietnam War, the Beat and Avant Garde movements
all influenced their point of view, in that pre- Summer of Love
era. The Beatles themselves, in numerous references, stated
that they felt that Rubber Soul and Revolver were as one work,
a double album concurrent, but released separately due to contractual
obligations.
John Lennon called the two records “Bookends”.
The White Album Ensemble: Jason Schimmel (Guitar, Keyboard and
Vocals) Tiran Porter (Bass, Vocals) Dale Ockerman (Keyboards,
Guitar, Mandolin, Trumpet, Vocals), Ken Kraft (Guitar and Vocals,)
Alan Heit, (Vocals, and Guitar) Michael Daugherty (Drums, vocals)
Bob Bliss (Keyboards, Guitar and Vocals) Richard Bryant (Vocals,
and Percussion) With the addition of:
timb harris (violin, trumpet)
String Quartet- “ Eleanor Rigby” String charts by
Barry Philips (Cellist, “Concert for George”): Timb
Harris - violin, Ben Blechman - violin, Sarah Hart - viola,
Renatta Bratt – cello
Indian instrumentation “Love You To”: Steve Robertson
(Tablas) Ernest Baber (Sitar, Tamboura)
These musicians have performed and recorded with the Doobie
Brothers, Estradasphere, Snail, Jerry Miller Band, Quicksilver
Messenger Service, the Little River Band, Page/Plant and many
others!
Over $10,000.00 has been raised for area school music programs,
and the non-profit organization Guitars not Guns, in the past
year by the Ensemble, from profits of their shows.
As with the White Album shows, there will be a raffle at intermission,
with proceeds benefiting Guitars, not Guns, a non-profit organization.
An Epiphone guitar (John Lennon frequently played an Epiphone)
has been donated for the Raffle, by Epiphone
For more info go to guitarsnotguns.org
20%
of the gross of the Sunday Matinee will benefit Santa Cruz Music
in Schools Programs.
Show
times Friday,
and Saturday, May 14, and 15, 2004 8:00 PM , Doors at 7:00,
with a Sunday Matinee, the 16th 3:00PM Showtime, Doors at 2:00
Tickets are $25 general admission,
and $40 ‘Rubber” circle, which includes 5% Santa
Cruz City Entertainment tax.
Tickets will be available April
1st at:
Streetlight Records, 941 Pacific ave. Santa Cruz (831) 421 9200
Etc. Etc. Etc., 1900 Commercial way , Santa Cruz (831) 479 9421
or online at ticketweb.com: Friday
Show, Saturday
Show, Sunday
Show
Come dressed a la 1965-‘66!
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Friday,
May 21st, 2004
SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL
3:00 pm
Sidewalk Debut & Reception in celebration of the new permanent
murals on the side of the Rio by artist, Darryl Ferrucci. Movie
about the artist to follow.
4:30 pm
DF41: Portrait of an Ex-Artist
Jesse Rose DeRooy (51:05 dvd) $6.00
Forty-one, flat broke, and self-obsessed, Santa Cruzian Darryl
Ferrucci agreed to have this non-fictional video character portrait
made about himself. When he watched it he had a good time...so
will you. Made by a close personal friend, and featuring more
than a dozen interviews, this delightful romp through one guy's
life will make you feel like having a refreshing cocktail and
a conversation with a good friend!
6:00 pm ROCK GRRRLS $6.00
EDGEPLAY: A FILM ABOUT THE RUNAWAYS-Victory
Blue-Tischler (90 min. dvd) This World Premiere chronicles the
rise of the band, including the unknown future rock stars Lita
Ford and Joan Jett, its hope an dreams, and its eventual disintegration
as the result of media belittling, in-fighting and drug use
amidst rumours of verbal and emotional abuse by the band's management.
"I was mesmerized by VB's wonderfully raw look at what
a group of young teenaged girls went through in the late 70's
and early 80-'s. It is a real and unvarnished account of a truly
dysfunctional band. This incredibly honest rock documentary
goes to 11"-Rob Reiner
HOLLYWOOD TRASH AND TINSEL Cheri Lovedog (8min. Mini DV)
Hollywood Trash and Tinsel is a mock-umentary currently in production.
The Film uses a wonderful blend of reality, satire and humorous
home video shot while making the movie "Prey for Rock and
Roll" to provide a behind-the-scenes look at film making
from the writers perspective. Principal cast members, producers,
men in suits and others will share their stories and experiences
about fighting the "Art v Commerce" war-an often funny,
but never pretty battle for honesty and integrity in the morally
and ethically bankrupt business we call show biz. "Prey
for Rock and Roll" had its world premier at the Sundance
Film Festival, Tribeca and Toronto Film Festivals, and won the
Best narrative Feature Award at the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
None of which appears in the marketing or promotion of the film.
Huh...an interesting or stupid business decision? We want answers,
damn it!
8:30 PM CLOSING
NIGHT $15.00
EVERGREEN/INDUCTION-Ray
Manzarek (10 min/ 2 min Beta SP)
These two are from the archives and definitely stand up against
the test of time. Ray Manzarek's student films from UCLA deal
with many of the universal laws of life, love arts and freedom.
LOVE HER MADLY-Ray
Manzarek (80min Dvd)
Love Her Madly; inspired by a Jim Morrison short story is a
tale of sexual obsession, madness and murder set amidst the
campus community of the exclusive California College of the
Arts. At the film's outset, an unidentified body draped by a
blood-spattered sheet lies center stage within the school's
Greek amphitheater, and the story-in-the-main unfolds over the
course of the twenty-four hours leading up to the murder.
The four characters at the heart of this thriller are all artists:
a professor of drama and former winner of the Pulitzer Prize,
his two young protégés, a sculptor and a video
artist, and the untamable actress who casts her hold upon all
three men but can be held by none. This intrigue of tangled
relationships offers ample reason for any of the leads to be
suspected as either killer or killed; it is a whodunit in the
finest noir tradition. Yet, directed by and mated to a soundtrack
scored by Doors keyboard wizard, Ray Manzarek, Love Her Madly
christens a new millennial genre- hip-hop Hitchcock. Director
and Rock Icon Ray Manzarek of The Doors will play following
the screening of Love Her Madly. Look for special guests to
accompany him.
www.santacruzfilmfestival.com
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Saturday
May 22nd, 2004
ENDLESS SUMMER II
Now celebrating its ten-year anniversary and its release on
DVD, “Endless Summer II” will once again be shown
on the big screen to the delight of veteran surfers and grommets
alike. Starring local longboarder, Wingnut, and professional
shortboarder, Pat O’Connell, the film records the pair’s
unique expedition as they travel through Indonesia, Costa Rica,
Africa, Australia, and France and encounter different waves,
people and cultures. The film is being shown as a benefit, the
proceeds going to both Santa Cruz Montessori School and Ride-A-Wave.
Show times:
4:00 Family Showing $5.00
in advance, $10.00 at the door
8:00 General Showing $8.00 in advance,
$10.00 at the door
Tickets available at: Freeline
Design, 821-41st Avenue, Santa Cruz
Paradise Surf Shop, 3961 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz, Cowell’s
Beach n’ Bikini Surf Shop, 30 Front Street, Santa Cruz,
O’Neill Surf Shop, 1115-41st Ave, Santa Cruz & 110
Cooper Street, Santa Cruz
www.scms.org , www.rideawave.org
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Wednesday,
May 26th and Saturday and Sunday, May 29th and 30th
FASTER
Two wheels. 200MPH. Every man for himself.
FASTER is the first feature-length documentary to go inside
the MotoGP world since television took a sport watched by a
few thousand spectators at race tracks and turned it into prime-time
entertainment for over 350 million people worldwide. The MotoGP
world championship is the pinnacle of motorcycle sport, a series
of sixteen races on five continents contested by twenty-four
of the world’s top riders. Filmed around the world during
the 2001 and 2002 seasons, FASTER asks this question: How do
you go faster than the rest, how do you win at this glamorous,
dangerous game? The movie could be subtitled: How do you beat
Valentino Rossi? The 24 year old Italian, world champion in
2001 and 2002, currently dominates MotoGP. He is the biggest
star the sport has ever seen and the charismatic centre of the
film. In addition to Rossi, FASTER focuses on three other MotoGP
riders: Rossi’s bitter rival Max Biaggi; the brilliant
but injury-prone Garry McCoy; and the rising teenage star John
Hopkins. All of this makes FASTER much more than a film about
the current MotoGP scene. It is the definitive story of motorcycle
racing at the highest level, and of the handful of men who have
what it takes to win. Narrated by Ewan McGregor. Starring Valentino
Rossi, Max Biaggi, Garry McCoy, John Hopkins. Music by tomandandy
and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Written and directed by Mark
Neale. Running time: 103 minutes. "This film fucking rocks"
- Ewan McGregor. Presented in association with Santa Cruz Vampires
Motorcycle Club.
OPENING NIGHT! Wednesday,
May 26th, 8pm
Saturday, May 29th at 2pm &
8pm
Sunday, May 30th at 2pm & 6pm
Tickets: All screenings $7 at the
door
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Thursday,
May 27th, 2004
Benefit Film Premier
OIL ON ICE
a Dale Djerassi/Bo Boudart Production
in association with Lobitos Creek Ranch
with Special Guest Adeline Peter Raboff: EATING CARIBOU
OIL ON ICE is an hour-long documentary film about the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge and the controversy about drilling
for oil there. From the perspective of inextricably linked issues,
OIL ON ICE illustrates what is at stake in the battle between
conservation and energy extraction.
EATING CARIBOU is a presentation by Neets'aii Gwich'in Indian
formerly from Arctic Village, Alaska, featuring the importance
of caribou as a subsistence resource for the Gwich'in people
both in the past and in the present. Ms. Raboff will recount
tales of hunting with her father, the butchering and cooking
in the field and at home, and give a description of how to make
a caribou hoof rattle.
Showtime: 7:00pm
Tickets: $10 SCMA Members/$12 Seniors
(60+)/$15 Nonmembers
Gold Circle Tickets: $20: reserved
seating + reception with filmmakers and Adeline Peter Raboff.
Proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Tickets available at the Museum
or charge by phone: 831-420-6115
See this special premiere just before the film travels to the
MOUNTAINFILMS Festival in Telluride, Colorado.
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Friday,
May 28th, 2004
ON SAFARI AGAIN
Longboarding in the third millenium. Benefits Ride-A-Wave.
Showtime: 7pm
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Monday,
May 31st, 2004
TORTOISE
Beans
The Eternals
Throughout their 10-year history, TORTOISE have been one of
the most singularly dynamic bands in modern music. Bridging
the gap between rock, jazz, and electronic music, with each
record they have not only redefined their own sound, but helped
to nudge music itself in unique and exciting new directions.
Their members are perpetually involved with multiple projects,
thus it is quite noteworthy that It's All Around You, Tortoise's
fifth full-length, is the first album that the band has ever
made without a single lineup change. The results of this are
a record that is the product of five distinctly visionary musicians
who are able to synergistically unite like never before. BEANS:
Since being part of Anitpop Consortium, BEANS has emerged as
a solo artist, presenting a tight combo of intricate verbal
patter and streetwise, yet always experimental beat attitude,
he is the perfect mergence of rugged hip-hop bravado and well-crafted
poetic brilliance. THE ETERNALS, a Chicago based post-rock group
featuring Damon Locks, Dan Fliegel and Wayne Montana.
Showtime: 8:00pm
Tickets: $15 advance $17 day of
show Available at Streetlight Records and www.ticketweb.com
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Saturday,
June 5th, 2004
2004 SANTA CRUZ BODYBUILDING & FIGURE
CHAMPIONSHIPS
NATIONAL QUALIFIER FOR THE 2004 MR./MS
AMERICA CHAMPIONSHIPS
This event will feature some of the best Western Region bodybuilding
and figure competitors attempting to qualify for the most prestigious
title in amateur bodybuilding and figure, the MR./MS. AMERICA
TITLE. Along with this event will be the WBFA 2003 Athlete of
the Year Awards Ceremony. Also meet Mr. America, Dan Elam, who
will be available for autographs and photos. This event is locally
sponsored by Max Muscle-Capitola and Dr. Eric Soltanoff Chiropractic
Offices, Santa Cruz.
Show time: The event will begin
at 7 pm.
Ticets: $20 admission.. General
seating.
Tickets may be purchased the night of the event at the Rio Theatre
Box Office. For more information contact the WBFA office at
(916) 423-8668 or visit www.worldbfa.com
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Friday,
June 11th, 2004
ELECTRON
SALON # 8
An evening of theater, songs and electronics. The show premieres
a multimedia operetta coming from France. Songwriter Matthew
Embry and improv theater group PUREE add some Zappa-esque absurdity
while headliner AMY X NEUBURG brings her combination of Laurie
Anderson, Kate Bush and Maria Callas. Matthew Embry (Santa Cruz,
CA) Amy X Neuburg (Oakland, CA) Banjamin Hamon (Paris, France)
Nathan Levine (Seattle, WA) from the WOODSTOCKHAUSEN family
Hosted by KZSC - DJ Vanick ( Santa Cruz, CA) "French Connection"
Show time: 8 pm
Tickets: $14
Advance tickets are available at
Streetlight Records in downtown Santa Cruz: $10/$7 (students)
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Thursday,
June 17th, 2004
Oliver Stone's
COMANDANTE
See the film HBO won’t air in the US - Oliver Stone’s
Comandante is an intimate portrait of Fidel Castro. Thursday,
June 17 at the Rio Theatre. One man has maintained Cuban independence
from US domination for over 45 years – a leader who has
outlasted 9 US presidents, escaped over 600 attempted assassinations,
and persevered despite the stranglehold of the US blockade.
For anyone interested in Fidel, Comandante is a must see.
Showtime: 7 pm.
Tickets: $5 suggested donation
at the door.
For more information call 465-8272
Sponsored by the Cuba Study Group of Santa Cruz County and The
Meridian
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Saturday,
June 19th, 2004
INFUSION
A Dance Concert
Scotts Valley Dance Center formerly known as Sheri Lynn's Scotts
Valley Dance Center was the first dance school located in Scotts
Valley and founded by Sheri Lyn Vandervoort. It has a thirty-eight
year history of providing dancers and instructors with an environment
of learning and just plain fun. Many students have gone on to
become Instructors, Choreographers and Professional Performers.
We are proud to present our annual June Dance Concert. "Infusion"
it means Joy, Essence, Preparation, Solution, Fluidity, Concentration,
Abstract, Cutting, Passage, Mixture and more. We hope you delight
in the growth and presence of the children as well as teens
and adults in a celebration of the art of movement. A mixture
of Lyrical, Ballet, Hip Hop, Breaking, Jazz, Modern, Tap and
more. Artistic Choreography by Gary Kendall, Ryan Curren, Eva
Grady, Annie Harris, Teresa Kester, Carmela Woll, Nadia Lewis
and more.
Showtime: 2:00pm
Tickets are available st the studio
438-6744 in advance for $8 and $10 a the door kids 6 and under
are free.
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Sunday,
June 20th, 2004
ROBERT
EARL KEEN
Delving into Texas songwriters and trying to put a new spin
on such ingrained lore in a few soon-to-be crumpled pages is
like trying to tell the gist of the Old Testament while munching
on popcorn and fingering the remote control: You're bound to
miss some crucial folks. And Robert Earl Keen might find himself
beneath your radar, despite nine seminal Americana albums and
tens of thousands of fans flocking to his shows with the fervor
of Deadheads.
Show time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $23.00
www.snazzyproductions.com
or call (831)479-9421
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Friday,
June 25th, 2004
GREG
BROWN
Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather
played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the
Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are
a way of life. Brown's songwriting has been lauded by many,
and his songs have been performed by Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana,
Michael Johnson, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Greg's
most recent release "If I Had Known: Essential Recordings,
1980-1996" was published by Red House Records in 2003.
Show time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $23.00
www.snazzyproductions.com or call (831)479-9421
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Friday,
July 16,
2004
YOUSSOU
N'DOUR
AND THE SUPER ETOILLE DE DAKAR
Youssou N'Dour is one of the most celebrated African musicians
in history. A renowned singer, songwriter, and composer, Youssou's
mix of traditional Senegalese m'balax with eclectic influences
ranging from Cuban samba to hip-hop, jazz, and soul has won
him an international fan base of millions. In the west, Youssou
has collaborated with musicians Peter Gabriel, Sting, Neneh
Cherry, Wyclef Jean, and others. In Senegal, Youssou is a powerful
cultural icon actively involved in social issues.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $23.00
www.pulseproductions.net
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Saturday,
July 24,
2004
ROBIN'S
HOOD
Filmworks7 and local Santa Cruz director Sara Millman are screening
their internationally acclaimed film Robin's Hood, a lesbian
"Bonnie & Clyde" take on the more familiar 'steal
from the rich to give to the poor' tale. Having appeared in
over 5 continents, Robin's Hood is finally making it's Santa
Cruz premiere. Come join us for the screening of this movie
that the press dubbed "the little film that could".
This event is a fundraiser to benefit Filmworks7 next production
and the Diversity Center. Support GLBT cinema!
7-8pm Silent Auction and Dessert Next Door
Show time: 8pm Film
Tickets: $10.50 advance $12.50 - $20.00 Sliding Scale at the door
Available Herland Bookstore 1014 Cedar Street & The Diversity
Center, 177 Walnut Ave
Q & A with filmmaker and lead
actress to follow the film.
Join us for a mixer following the screening of the film. Join
the director and lead actress afterwards for hors d'oeuvres,
drinks, and fabulous door prizes.
Location: Next Door to the theatre
Time: approx. 9:30pm
Tickets: $25.00 advance (includes
ticket to the screening)
$30.00-$50.00 (sliding scale at the door)
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August
7, 13 & 14, 2004
The Pacific Players of Santa Cruz Present
A Community Theater production of
“The Who’s TOMMY” - A Rock
Opera
Written by The Who and originally released in June, 1969, TOMMY
was chosen as a piece that would relate to a wide audience on
many levels and deals with a number of significant issues. On
the negative, topics cover social issues such as child abuse,
cults and consumerism. On the positive, it deals with the beauty
of the hidden inner child, the ability to rise above adversity,
the healing properties of music and the yearning for belonging.
As an art project, much will be offered. TOMMY is a musically
powerful experience for both the artists and the audience. Recently,
most of the company’s production team worked on HAIR and
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW which enjoyed popular and critical success.
TOMMY should be no different.
With each production, the Pacific Players has fine tuned the
creative staff and the performers with the purpose of making
an ‘in house’ performing arts group which would
have its base at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz. The Players
plan on becoming a very visible arts group with the intent of
using local talent to produce professional grade shows.
It should be noted that this version of TOMMY will not be just
a rendering of the Broadway musical. Rather, it reaches into
the roots of the original version created by The Who in 1969
and works in elements of both the film and final stage versions.
The intent is to create a narrative which is clear, powerful
and beautiful. A great deal of research has gone into this production
thus far. Articles, interviews, videos of old ‘live’
footage, screenings of the film and Broadway piece, a general
dissection of the lyrics along with investigations into the
metaphysical and philosophical aspects of the piece have all
been brought together to ensure that The Pacific Players’
presentation accurately depicts the original intentions of the
show. This version of TOMMY will be unique and becomes, essentially,
an ‘original adaptation’.
The entire creative staff has a great deal of experience. Director,
Gregory Harbert, is a Production Supervisor for UC Santa Cruz
Theater Operations and the Technical Director for UC Santa Cruz
Arts & Lectures. Other work includes Assistant Director
and Technical Director for the Bayshore Lyric Opera Company
(1998-2001), General Manager for the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
(2000-2001), Co-chairperson for the Cultural Council Associates
(2000-2001), and numerous roles and functions within the Santa
Cruz theater scene since 1989. Ed Levy, Music Director, has
worked on a multitude of musical theater projects. Recent productions
include HAIR in 2002, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW in 2003 and GODSPELL
in 2004. He has assembled a great group of pit musicians who
have worked together on many musical theater projects. Ed was
Stage and Musical Director for TOMMY in 2002 at San Lorenzo
Valley High School.
Show
Time: 8 pm
Tickets: $20
at the door $15
advance at Streetlight Records,
939 South Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz,
or online at: www.virtuous.com
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POETS
AGAINST THE WAR MONTEREY BAY READING
We ask the poets of the world to join us in making an international
day of poetry on September 11. We ask you to think not only
of the innocent victims of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
but also of the innocent victims in the U.S.-sponsored over-throwing
of the Allende government in Chile and of the lives lost in
the Attica prison riots, also events that happened on a September
11th in their respective years. - Sam Hamill
This reading is coordinated by Poetry Santa Cruz and features
poems or statements by approximately twelve local poets and
four local civic figures, including Ellen Bass, Susan Browne,
Diana Garcia, Ilya Kaminsky, Dorianne Laux, Nathaniel Mackey,
Morton Marcus, Maude Meehan, Joseph Millar, Amber Coverdale
Sumrall, Robert Sward, Gary Young.
Tickets: $3 donation requested.
Show time: 7:00pm
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Thursday,
September 23,2004
Felton FLOW (Friends
of Locally Owned Water) is excited to present a FREE showing
of the riveting documentary
"THIRST"
'Thirst' is a new documentary that examines community water
conflicts on three continents. 'Thirst' demonstrates that popular
opposition to the privatization of water ignites remarkable
coalitions that cross partisan lines. When it comes to water,
many people demand local control and fear the arrival of multinational
corporations with large lobbying budgets and little local loyalty.
Thirst also shows that the individual struggles of these communities
raise the same profound questions: Is water a human right for
all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded
in a global marketplace? Come see THIRST and decide for yourself.
The movie will be followed by a question and answer session
with the filmmakers, and representatives from FLOW, Public Citizen,
Local Government and others. The film is a benefit for FLOW
and donations will be gladly accepted.
Showtime: 7:00pm
FREE ADMISSION gladly accepting
donations
FLOW (Friends of Locally Owned Water) is a grassroots organization
in Felton attempting to purchase its water system from California
American Water, a subsidiary of the multinational water giant
RWE. FLOW believes that the community of Felton would be better
served by local ownership, that long term prices will be lower
for ratepayers, and that the fragile ecosystem that provides
water will be better protected.
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Friday,
September 23, 2004
At Next Door
A Work In Progress presents: Chris Wederz (singer, songwriter) supporting her new CD "silver
street", Matthew Embry (composer, plays piano, sings) with his new CD "Live
on Tape", and Brian Kenney
Fresno (warr guitar) playing one-man band extraordinaire,
from Fresno.
For more info, call: 460-0848 or 429-1596
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Thursday,
September 30, 2004
The Rio Theatre presents
LAURA LOVE DUO & FRUIT TRIO
If you like music that fires your imagination! 3 frontline women.
2 wielding guitars whilst the other commands an arsenal of horns.
Each of them sing, write & locks seamlessly to the other.
It’s a vocal blend reminiscent of the great harmonisers
of all time. And now… the inclusion of the velvet voiced
Brian Ruiz & his groove-laden bass adding a euphonious synchronicity
to the Adelaide collaboration known as FRUiT.
Laura Love can be counted among the great success stories in
independent music. With each album, she attracts new audiences
and acclaim with music that addresses important issues—war,
racism, and sexism, to name a few—while remaining clever,
often outright funny, throughout. Her wry wit is as remarkable
as the depth of her insight and the beauty of her voice. Backed
by a band of now longtime musical collaborators, Love deftly
navigates a number of styles on You Ain’t Got No Easter
Clothes, including folk, funk, bluegrass and blues. The album
follows up her highly acclaimed, if controversial, first album
for KOCH, Welcome To Pagan Place, which Out featured in a “100
Greatest Gay Success Stories of 2003” special issue and
provoked Utne Reader to call her one of “40 Artists Who
Will Shake the World.”
Show
time 8pm
All Ages
Advance tickets $16 available at
Streetlight Records,
On-line HERE and Next Door to the Rio, or at the door $18
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Friday,
October 1st, 2004
SPROUT
An exploration into the riding of water mountains and molehills.
A new surf movie via Thomas Campbell. Walk in music by Tommy
Guerro and Ray Barbee.
Show time: 8:00pm
Tickets $10 in advance at Cowell’s
surf shop. 831-427-2355
Tickets will also be sold at the door starting at 7:00
Check out
a trailer at www.trimyourlifeaway.com
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Saturday,
October 9th, 2004
THIRD ANNUAL BURNING
MAN FILM FESTIVAL
What motivates 35,000 people to brave searing heat, freezing
cold and hurricane-force winds to build a city of art in the
middle of a desert each Labor Day week? Find out that and more
at the third annual Burning Man Film Festival on Saturday, Oct.
9 at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz.
This year's lineup includes Chuck Cirino's "Burning Man
'97", filmmakers Dadara and Jesse Limmen's "Fall and
Rise of the Fools Ark" the story of an art piece built
in 2003 and burned in the Black Rock Desert, "AstroBlaze",
a piece on BM04 by perennial favorite Bill Breithaupt, and the
official premier of "Beyond Black Rock." The event,
which drew 400 attendees last year, will also include installations
by local Burning Man artists. The festival is a benefit for
Burning Beach, the Santa Cruz Burning Man regional group.
Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and the first film airs at 2 p.m. If
you'd like to
join us for a post-event outdoor gathering across the street
at The Crepe
Place, please RSVP so we can give the restaurant a head count
and they can staff accordingly.
Show time: 2pm
Tickets: $15 at the door, $12 if
you bring three cans of food, which will be
donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank. $3 of any full price
ticket will be
donated to the Family Shelter Project in the name of local burners.
Children
under 12 are free.
For more info, visit www.burningbeach.com,
email santacruz@burningbeach.com or call (831) 335-9643.n
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Sunday,
October 10, 2004
KPIG Radio and Moe's Alley Present an
over 21 concert at the Rio Theatre
THE SUBDUDES
plus special guest
NINA STOREY
In 1987, four musicians got together for what they envisioned
would be a one-time performance at Tipitina’s in New Orleans.
It was a night of mostly acoustic music -- sparse instrumentation
with a strong emphasis on vocal harmonies. The show far exceeded
expectations, and on that Monday night THE SUBDUDES were born.
Nearly 10 years later, after five well-received albums and several
years of hard touring, the subdudes called it quits in November
1996. Spinoff projects ensued, as did the occasional reunion
show. Finally, in the spring of 2002, three of the four original
subdudes decided to get back together. They recruited additional
longtime friends to fill out the sound and called themselves
the Dudes, but with or without the “sub,” the music
was still unmistakably the subdudes. Today, the guys are once
again called the subdudes. And there’s still nobody in
the world that sounds like them. So, welcome back the subdudes:
Tommy Malone, John Magnie, Steve Amedée, Tim Cook and
Jimmy Messa.
Singer/songwriter from Boulder, Colorado, NINA STOREY, blends
an eclectic sound of blues, rock, funk and pop. She has been
compared to a diverse group of artists such as Janis Joplin,
Chaka Kahn, Tori Amos, Whitney Houston and Billie Holiday. Nina
has just released a new live CD entitled, "24 Off The Board"
which showcases Nina's raw, intimate and explosive voice, as
well as her catchy melodic yet thought provoking lyrics and
music.
SHOWTIME 7:00PM : 21
and over only
Tickets 22.00 advance available
Streetlight Records, Moe's Alley & on-line HERE or by phone after 4pm at 831-479-1854
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Tuesday,
October 12th, 2004
PACIFIC RIM FILM FESTIVAL
Closing Night Event
"ROCKS WITH WINGS"
A documentary film by Rick Derby (USA, 2002)
A
benefit screening for the Pacific Rim Film Festival. This two-hour
documentary by filmmaker Rick Derby traces the journey of Coach
Jerry Richardson, an african american high school basketball
star from Texas, and the Lady Chieftains, a women's high school
basketball team from the small, impoverished Navajo community
of Shiprock, New Mexico. With intense and at times controversial
determination, Richardson molds the shy young women - players
who have experienced more defeat than victory - into fighters
on the basketball court who utimately win the 1989 State Championship.
What results is an inspirational story about the meaning of
winning and losing, set against a complex background of race,
heritage and societal expectations - for the players, the coach,
and the Navajo community.
Filmmaker Rick Derby and former Lady Chieftain team member Cheryl
Lee will here in person for an after-film discussion.
Admission: $10.00
Tickets available at: Logos Books
& Records 1117 Pacific Avenue, Downtown Santa Cruz Bookshop
Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Downtown Santa Cruz
Sponsored by KUSP 88.9 FM Central Coast Radio. Partially funded
by the Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust Foundation. Special
Thanks to the University Inn.
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Friday,
October 15th & Saturday, October 16th
Locally produced feature film
TRANNIES!
Ever been beat down bad by rowdy
locals lookin' to kick some transplant ass? Ever dropped in
on some steroid-amped surf nazi and faced a savage beating back
on the beach? Has your girlfriend gotten jumped by indigenous
chicks eager to claw her eyes out just because she was born
outside the city limits? Then this is the movie for you! Watch
three college pals move to an idyllic Northern California beach
town and face local surfers determined to prevent transplants
from stealing their women and their waves. Can a coalition of
hippies, carnies, beach-flatters, stoners, goths and trannies
stand up to the locals or will the transplants be forced to
face the locals in the big surf tournament at the end of the
summer? Locally produced feature film "Trannies!"
premiers publicly at the Rio Theater on October 15 at 8PM. This
micro-budgeted surf comedy in the vein of early 80's hits "Better
Off Dead" and "North Shore" features a predominantly
local cast and crew and music from local bands from the present
and recent past including The Sub-Mersians, The Steveweisers,
and Cruz Control. The film is loosely based on actual experiences
of a Santa Cruz transplant.
Show times: 8pm Fri. 15th & 9pm Sat. 16th
Tickets: $8 at the door
For additional information please contact: Matt Hals at 323-610-5413
or by email at info@fakefilm.com
www.fakefilm.com
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Saturday,
October 16th, 2004
HIMALAYAN VISIONS & TIBETAN VOICES by BRIAN HARRIS
Himalayan Visions
& Tibetan Voices is a 90 minute digital multi-media show
consisting of over 225 of Brian Harris's award winning images,
and photographs of Seva's sight restoration work in Asia. Along
with the visual components, the show features specially composed
music and recorded narration by Zasep Tulku
Rinpoche and Iain
Marrs.
Brian Harris is an award winning Canadian photographer who has
dedicated his past 15 years' work to using his images to raise
money and awareness for Seva Canada's sight restoration projects
in Tibet, India, Nepal and Tanzania. This well known and extensive
body of photographic images exclusively focuses on Buddhist
Himalayan Culture.
Within this show, the audience is taken on a journey of the
heart into another culture and beyond, into a world of compassion,
humanity and service. Accompanying the compelling images are
specially composed music, environmental sounds, sacred music
and prayer, recorded narration by Zasep Tulku Rinpoche and Harris's
live commentary. There are 45 million blind in the world, 90%
of these live in poverty. 80% of this blindness is either preventable
or correctable and cataracts are the largest cause of correctable
blindness. In Tibet, India, Nepal and Tanzania, Seva Canada
is there, working to restore vision and lives.
Show time: 5 pm
Tickets: $10 admission or call
(510) 647-3423 for advance tickets.
A benefit for the Tibetan Nuns Project and Seva Foundation
www.tnp.org
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Sunday,
October 17th, 2004
INTI - ILLIMANI (CHILE)
ONLY BAY AREA CONCERT
For over three decades Inti-Illimani's music has intoxicated
audiences around the globe, expressing traditional Latin American
roots through more than 30 wind, string, and percussion instruments.
Their delightful synthesis of instrumentals and vocals captures
sacred places, carnivals, daily lives, loves, and pains that
weave an extraordinary cultural mural.
Show time: 7:30 p.m -- doors at
7:00pm
Tickets: Gold Circle: $35 adv /
$40 door ( first six rows)
General Seating: $25 adv / $28 door
tickets at Streetlight in Santa Cruz
online: www.zookbeat.com
INFO: 831.427.5531
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Thursday,
October 21st, 7pm
The Bicycle Trip presents
NEW WORLD DISORDER V: DISORDERLY CONDUCT
The newest in the NWD
series from Freeride entertainment! Tons of schwag giveaways
and and raffle for frames, bicycles and more.
Tickets $5 at the door or in advance
at The Bicycle Trip.
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Friday,
October 22nd, 2004
The Burning Bush Tour 2004 presents
An Evening of Provocative Spoken Word Entertainment
ALAN CLEMENTS LIVE!
Returns to Santa Cruz, performing a radical new show "Spiritually
Incorrect II - Mind Bombs Against the Machine" ~ AN EXISTENTIAL
COMEDY ~
An improvisational metaphysical-political monologue combining
comedy, satire, drama, dharma, and activism. "Alan Clements
is Michael Moore meets Krishnamurti." Lloyd Kandell - Taboo
Records
ONE SHOW ONLY
Showtime 8pm,
doors open at 7pm
Advance Tickets $20 General Admission
/ $25 at the Door
Advanced Tickets Available by Phone or in Person Santa Cruz
Civic Auditorium Box Office
Tel: (831) 420-5260
Handling All Major Credit Cards / 307 Church Street
(additional fees and services charges may apply)
Tickets also Available in Person from Streetlight Records
941 Pacific Avenue / Tel: (831) 421-9200
Or buy online at HERE
Intended to Raise Awareness of Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma's incarcerated
Nobel peace laureate and all other Prisoner's of Conscience,
worldwide. A World Dharma Word of Mouth Production www.WorldDharma.com
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Saturday,
October 23rd
FILM TRIBUTE TO SPALDING
GRAY
Last year, the theater world lost one of its most important
voices - Spalding Gray. Arts & Lectures pays tribute to
him, and to his special relationship with Santa Cruz, with a
special presentation featuring excerpts from his monologues,
film clips and special appearances.
Show time: 8pm
Admission: Suggested donation at
the door.
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Thursday,
October 28th
The Rio Theatre and Elsa Productions
present the west coast premiere of
"MOOG"
plus a post-show LIVE talk and Q&A with ROBERT MOOG
A feature documentary by filmmaker/musician Hans Fjellestad
about Robert Moog, inventor of the modern synthesizer. The 70
minute film explores Moog's collaborations with musicians over
the years, and his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity
and spirituality. Bob Moog (b. 1934) has been inventing and
building electronic musical instruments for nearly half a century.
Still active in his workshop in rural North Carolina, Moog continues
to shape musical culture with some of the most inspiring instruments
ever created. Moog explains that he "can feel what's going
on in a piece of electronic equipment... it's something between
discovering and witnessing." And he is convinced that many
musicians come to "feel" a circuit in a similar way.
"They make contact." In fact, musicians make such
strong emotional connections with the electronics inside a Moog
synthesizer that Moog himself has reached cult hero status.
Moog has not only made prodigious contributions to modern music
and culture, but he has become a character within an unfolding
"American maverick inventor" mythology. Moog certainly
walks and talks the "mad scientist" part, complete
with the fly-away white hair, intense eyes, eccentric mannerisms
and a head full of stories.
The film was shot on location in Asheville, New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Tokyo and London, featuring appearances by Keith
Emerson, Walter Sear, Gershon Kinsgley, Jean-Jacques Perrey
& Luke Vibert, Rick Wakeman, DJ Spooky, Herb Deutsch, Bernie
Worrell, Pamelia Kurstin, Tino Corp. with Charlie Clouser, Money
Mark, Mix Master Mike, and an eclectic mix of performers. Artists
such as Stereolab, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tortoise, Money Mark,
Luke Vibert & Jean-Jacques Perrey, 33, Moog Cookbook, Plastiq
Phantom, Psilonaut, Bernie Worrell & Bootsy Collins, Roger
O'Donnell, The Album Leaf, Pete Devriese, Bostich, Charlie Clouser,
Baiyon, Suzanne Ciani, Gershon Kingsley, Doug McKechnie, Electric
Skychurch and others are contributing original music produced
on Moog instruments for the soundtrack.
Additional discoveries like vintage films borrowed from dusty
private collections round out this stylized, wonderfully strange
story of a true American maverick.
BOB MOOG will appear live at the Rio Theatre for this special
west coast premiere screening for a talk and Q&A after the
film.
Show time: 7:30pm
Admission: $7.00
Tickets available at the door only, beginning at 6:30pm
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Friday,
October 29th, 2004
COWELL'S AND THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Cowell’s and
the New Millenium takes the viewer through the history of surfing
in Santa Cruz, from the original beach boys who began surfing
Cowell’s Beach in the 1930s on paddelboards to the present
day. Surfers features include Jason “Ratboy” Collins,
Noi Kaulukukui, Jay Moriarty, Michel Junod, Rene Ouelette, Jeff
Belzier, and Michelle Scott. The show will benefit O’Neill
Sea Odyssey, the ocean-based science, navigation and ecology
program at the Santa Cruz Harbor.
Farley’s schedule through the Spring will include showing
the film at Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Festival,
and the Miami Film Festival. After a lifetime devoted to surfing
and a stint in Viet Nam, Pat Farley has spent the last four
and half years working full time on Cowell´s and the New
Millennium. He coordinatd all aspects of making the film, he
also wrote, directed, financed, narrated, edited and did the
camera work for it.
Show time: 7:30 pm
Tickets may be purchased at O’Neill’s
Surf Shop on 41st Avenue, and Downtown Santa Cruz.
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Saturday,
October 30th, 2004
BADFISH: STORY OF A
PUNK
Badfish Productions is pleased to announce “Badfish: Story
of a Punk,” a multimedia stage production showing in San
Jose, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz. Badfish tells, through
rare and unreleased music, the story of Bradley Nowell, lead
singer of the band Sublime, and focuses on the last two years
of Brad’s tumultuous and gripping tale of family, success,
and drug addiction. It’s the story of a father, a wife,
a band, and it is ultimately the story of a punk.
The script, written by Jeremy Lipps, is based on factual information
gathered through interviews with Nowell’s father, band
mate, and manager. For additional information, including tickets
and cast, visit www.badfishplay.com
Showtime: 8:15pm
Tickets $15 advance from www.badfishplay.com and at the door night of show only.
ONLINE
TICKETS HERE!
** SANTA CRUZ DATE CHANGED FROM OCTOBER 8TH TO THE 30TH because
Slightly Stoopid is playing The Catalyst on the 8th.
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Friday,
November 5th, 2004
PURNA
DAS AND THE BAULS OF BENGAL
With their flowing saffron robes, long jet black hair, rolling
eyes and swaying hips, there are few more striking sights and
sounds than the Bauls of Bengal as they sing in their high keening
voices to the frenzied accompaniment of their traditional instruments,
the khamak and ektara. While the Bauls have assimilated some
of the tenets, symbols and fables of Sufi Islam, Tantric Buddhism
and branches of Hinduism, they believe that man’s search
for Divine awareness should be unhampered by the elaborate rituals
of temple and mosque.
Show
time: 8:00pm
Adult: $27/$23*; Students &
Seniors with ID: $23; UCSC Students with ID: $15; Gold Circle:
$37/$33*;*subscribers
www.purnadasbaul.org
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Friday,
November 12th, 2004
XOCHIPILLI
Grupo Folklorico de Santa Cruz presenta su
FUNCION DE ESTRENO DEBUT SHOW
Mexican folk dances and music from the states of Nayarit, Guerrero,
Veracruz, Norte, and Jalisco.
Show time: 7:30pm
Tickets $12 advance; $15 at the
door; $8 children.
For ticket information (831) 479-9997
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Saturday,
November 13th, 2004
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM
on tour
The best selections from America's premier festival of mountain,
adventure, cultural, and environmental film and video. The program
will include exhilarating and provocative works from around
the world -- some shorts as well as longer pieces, all featured
during the MOUNTAINFILM Festival in Telluride, Colorado, which
happens each year over Memorial Day weekend. A MOUNTAINFILM
presenter UCSC Recreation along with the Good Times, Bugaboo
and Pacific Edge Climbing Gym will bring the films to life by
setting each in its proper context, weaving a narrative thread
to create a thematically distinct event.
Show
time: 7:00pm
Ticket prices: $10 Students/$12
General. Advance tickets available thru the UCSC Box office,
Bugaboo and Pacific Edge Climbing Gym
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Sunday,
November 14th, 2004
"STOLEN CHILDHOODS"
A number of civic and religious organizations in Santa Cruz
county will sponsor a showing of the landmark feature-length
film on global child labor, "Stolen Childhoods," narrated
by Meryl Streep and featuring 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Wangari Maathai of Kenya. Filmed in India, Indonesia, Nepal,
Kenya, Brazil, Mexico and the United States, "Stolen Childhoods"
powerfully documents the global epidemic of child labor and
the heroic efforts being made to end it.
Show time: 7:00pm
For further information, please call or e-mail Pharis Harvey,
831-768-9248, pjharvey@earthlink.net
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Thursday,
November 18th, 2004
CHUCK D
One of the "fifty most important performers in rock &
roll history." – Rolling Stone Magazine
Best known as leader and co-founder of the legendary rap group
Public Enemy, Chuck D redefined rap music and Hip Hop culture
with the release of Public Enemy's explosive 1987 debut album,
Yo! Bum Rush the Show. His messages addressed weighty issues
about race, rap, rage, reality and inequality with a jolting
combination of intelligence and eloquence. The group became
so popular and well respected it was included in the New York
Times' list of The 25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century.
Most recently, Chuck D has emerged as a major proponent and
the unofficial spokesperson of music on the Internet and he
co-hosts the morning show Unfiltered on the newly launched network
Air America Radio. Chuck D will speak on a range of current
topics.
Show time: 8:00pm
Tickets: Adult: $25/$22*; Students
& Seniors with ID: $22; UCSC Students with ID: $15; Gold
Circle: $35/$32* *subscription discount price
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Friday
& Saturday, December 17th & 18th, 2004
A "WHITE"
CHRISTMAS IN SANTA CRUZ - THE WHITE ALBUM LIVE
Plus- a special show added
RUBBER REVOLVER
Sunday, Dec. 19th 3PM Matinee, Doors at
2:00
After ten sold out performances over the last year and a half,
the White Album Ensemble is returning to the Rio Theatre (where
they debuted) for a three day engagement, December 17th thru
19th. The weekend will include both of the WAE shows, the Beatles’
“White” Album Live on Friday and Saturday; then
Rubber Revolver (the Beatles’ “Rubber Soul”
and “Revolver” albums, as well as the four singles
released simultaneously), on Sunday. Portions of proceeds will
benefit Adopt- a- Minefield, and local music in school programs.
Guitars Not Guns will sponsor a Raffle benefiting their work
at intermission. In the past, fine guitars from respected manufacturers
like Epiphone, and Santa Cruz Guitar Company have been included.
www.whitealbumlive.com
Show time: 8:00pm
Doors at 7:00pm
Tickets: 20$ student with i.d.,
25$ general; 40$ White Circle (Friday and Saturday nights);
40$ Rubber Circle (Sunday matinee) Available at Streetlight
records, Santa Cruz (831) 421 9200,
ONLINE TICKETS HERE
Friday
17th (White Circle)
Friday
17th (General Admission)
Saturday
18th (White Circle)
Saturday
18th (General Admission)
Sunday
19th (Rubber Circle)
Sunday
19th (General Admission)
and at the Rio theatre box office, day of show (unless sold
out).