Bluegrass and Beyond

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Sarah Jarosz is a huge talent who writes really beautiful songs and plays multiple stringed instruments with consummate skill and verve. The label of contemporary bluegrass prodigy doesn’t begin to describe the depth and breadth of her musical abilities. She may be grounded in bluegrass, but she has absorbed so…

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Passing Knowledge Part 2

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Another side of Arts & Lectures outreach is masterclasses by visiting artists. KT Nelson, founding member and co-director of San Francisco’s ODC Dance gave one to a lucky few at the Santa Barbara Dance Network. It was an energetic and freewheeling class in which Ms. Nelson created a framework upon…

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Storytime Cubed

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Boxtales Theatre Company’s latest offering of outstanding theater for all ages, “Standup Stories: Multicultural Tales To Live By,” had its premiere in September at the Lobero Theatre. Here is a promo video (by yours truly) hot off my computer editing platform which gives a goodly taste of the four stories.…

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French Twisting in Grand Style

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Opera Santa Barbara’s opening production of the 2017-18 season is Jules Massanet’s “Manon,” their premiere of this beautiful and in the end tragic grand opera. Don’t miss Sarah Coburn’s sublime and powerful soprano in the title role and tenor Harold Meers (last seen in Santa Barbara in OSB’s “Carmen”) being…

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