Music & Concerts

Spend New Years Eve with Cafe Mare in Santa Cruz Music by DUNKS (of the Funk Hunters and Lazy Syrup Orchestra) Dunks Solo DJ sets are things of legend, we are stoked to have him ring in our new year! Little John (Raindance founder) Rudeskool (Raindance/Santa Cruz's undercover rockstar) Androyd (If you know you know) SoWutt Champagne toast / Funktion Ones…

Bundy and Friends will be rocking us into the New Year at Apple Jack's La Honda!

Come early and have dinner in the dining room. We'll be serving our regular menu and have a Prime Rib Special! Head upstairs afterward to ring in the New Year dancing to live music from UTurn. We'll have complimentary hats, crowns and blowers for you and champagne available for purchase for a toast at midnight. What better way to celebrate the New…

Quinn Becker and the Spacemen deliver a stunning combination of tight vocal harmonies and fantastic instrumentation that you won’t want to miss. 22-year-old songwriter Quinn Becker brings together a crew of talented Santa Cruz musicians, including Jacob Bayani (The New Horizons) on guitar and bass, Wyatt Troxell on drums, and Aiden Santa Cruz (Sonic Architect) on the keyboard. Quinn’s unique…

Hey, Fishhook Fans! We have been invited to perform the legendary Crow's Nest - New Year's Eve Party - 2022. Let's ring in the new year in an epic fashion. For those who witnessed when we performed there in 2019, you know it will be a special night. We can't wait to see you all! The show starts at 9:30 PM.…

Floratura is an emerging Santa Cruz, CA based band beloved for its unique blend of flavors. Weaving genre defying musical tapestries made of diverse rockin' funky grooves, psychedelic adventures, and blissful soul. Featuring Tatiana Peña (mandolin, vox), Treetop (guitar, vox), Jack Reed (keys), Noah Mogor (bass), and Jacob Gilmore (drums). Artist sights and sounds: floratura.bandcamp.com

Led by the baritone sax of Ben Herod, the slinky, jazz-groove bass lines of Heath Proskin, and the songwriting of Ryan Masters (Smoke Chaser), The Suborbitals have been delighting and confusing the greater San Francisco Bay Area since 2003. Variously described as Morphine-like low rock, alt-folk and noir jazz-rock, The Suborbitals have been defying categorization for two decades. Don't miss your…

Float down to Shanty Shack Brewing on Friday the 13th of January for the debut performance of Bionic Squid! Blending influences as diverse as Thievery Corporation, The Meters, and Ozric Tentacles, BIONIC SQUID swims through psychedelic soundscapes with big phatt beats and funky grooves to keep you dancing like an octopus hailing a taxi. Bionic Squid is Dave Faulkner (Shady Groove)…

The Historic Brookdale Lodge welcomes the Beach Cowboys on Saturday, January 28from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. No cover for this show in the cozy "Fireside Lounge." The funky, raucous Santa Cruz classic country rock cover outfit The Beach Cowboys was co-founded by Sammy Roye, whose first bass lesson was taught by Jerry Garcia. The band is completed by guitarist Jack…

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. Jean recently won the 2022 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriting contest with her deeply personal and timely song “Animal”. Her latest full-length record as a bandleader, Sisterly, produced by longtime collaborator Liam Robinson, won best Adult…

Kitchen Dwellers twist bluegrass, folk, and rock through a kaleidoscope of homegrown stories, rich mythology, American west wanderlust, and psychedelic hues. The Montana quartet—Shawn Swain, Torrin Daniels , Joe Funk , and Max Davies —have captivated audiences at hallowed venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre and performed alongside everyone from Railroad Earth and Twiddle to The Infamous String Dusters in…