Sleights of Hand

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It’s Magic!, at age 62, is “America’s Longest-Running All Star Magic Revue” and it has brought top magicians to perform onstage at the Lobero many times. This April’s edition featured pyrotechincs, comatose doves, old fashioned bottle tricks, lovely women being cut in half, squeezing in to impossible spaces and having…

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The Kid’s Alright

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Indonesian-born sensation Joey Alexander taught himself to play jazz piano at age 6 and by age 10 he was playing with Winton Marsalis. Thus began a career which began in Bali studying his father’s jazz record collection and an uncanny depth of connection with the classic standards of this most…

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Mariachis Cubed

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Since 2006, Viva el Arte Santa Barbara, a central coast collaboration has presented free concerts of high quality latin music and dance of the Americas to venues between Carpinteria and Santa Maria. UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, Isla Vista School and the Marjorie Luke Theatre joined forces…

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Jennifer Koh’s Mad Music

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As we made our way along mulch laden paths that took numerous twists and turns toward St. Anthony’s Chapel at the back of the former Franciscan Seminary nestled behind the iconic Santa Barbara Mission, few of us knew exactly what to expect. The title of the concert by star violinist…

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