Aroma Restaurant presents the solo guitar magic of Claudio Melega every Friday night from 5:30 to 8:30 pm beneath the stars on our comfortable heated patio in the heart of Ben Lomond, California. Claudio Melega is an eclectic and exciting vocalist and guitarist with a vast repertoire of classic rock, blues, jazz, bossa nova, flamenco, and traditional Italian music. Originally…

Slingshot plays the Historic Brookdale Lodge on Friday, May 26 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. With a big map and no planned destination, this trio of seasoned improvisers from the jazz and jam band worlds use song and structure the way spacecraft use planets: not to land and stay, but to SLINGSHOT around and be propelled back out into the…

The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay presents Scotland supergroup Daimh at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz on Friday, May 26 at 7:30 pm. Tickets: $25 Adv / $30 Door. Celtic Society members receive a $3 discount. Purchase tickets: www.celticsociety.org Daimh, pronounced "Dive," are un-challenged champions of straight-in-the-eye Highland music based in West Lochaber and the Isle of Skye.…