San Lorenzo Valley Post

Floratura with Olemano
2023-01-06 20:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Felton Music Hall, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, 95018, United States
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

New Year's Eve w/ Fishhook
2022-12-31 21:30 - 2023-01-01 02:00 | The Crow’s Nest, 2218 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
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. Come on out and bring your friends too. You know we deliver the best Rock and Roll in town. Let’s Party!

New Year's Eve with Quinn Becker and The Spacemen
2022-12-31 21:30 - 23:30 | Joe’s Bar, 13118 Highway 9, Boulder Creek, CA, 95006, United States
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 originals draw from a variety of genres, encompassing a modern as well as classic tone, and the band’s novel renditions of your favorite covers will have you up and dancing!
Artist sites and sounds: https://quinnbecker.rocks

New Year's Eve w/ UTurn
2022-12-31 21:00 - 2023-01-01 02:00 | Bruno’s Bar and Grill, 230 Mount Hermon Road #G, Scotts Valley, CA, 95066, United States
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 Year than staying in town and celebrating with all the fun crew at Bruno’s!

No cover charge, 21 and over only please.

New Year's Eve w/ Bundy Browne and Friends
2022-12-31 21:00 - 2023-01-01 02:00 | Apple Jack’s, 8790 La Honda Road, La Honda, CA, 94020, United States
Bundy and Friends will be rocking us into the New Year at Apple Jack’s La Honda!

New Year's Eve w/ Cats on the Moon
2022-12-31 21:00 - 2023-01-01 02:00 | Cafe Mare, 740 Front St #100, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
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
multiple bars

Tickets in advance: https://catsonthemoon.eventbrite.com

New Year's Eve with Marty O'Reilly and Quinn Deveaux
2022-12-31 21:00 | Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA, 95065, United States
A special New Year’s Eve celebration at Moe’s Alley with Marty O’Reilly and his band plus special guest blue beat soul man Quinn Deveaux! We’ll have the big countdown, a champagne toast, and a photo booth! Let’s ring in the new year together!

Doors: 8:00 pm
Show: 9:00 pm
$30 in advance / $35 day of the show
21+

MARTY O’REILLY
Explaining Marty O’Reilly’s music is like describing a dream. It feels familiar, but at the same time unchartered. His songs sound bluesy but not blues, folk but not folk, soulful but not soul. Marty’s voice is beautiful and unique, his lyrics stark yet lush over gritty electrified guitar, melding beautifully into genre-defying music within the vast definitions of Americana. One can hear an urgency and complexity in the songs, expressing something elemental and perhaps contradictory: love and anger, joy and pain, real and imagined.

The live performance is at the core of Marty’s projects. On stage, whether accompanied by a band, or alone, he enters a trance and the music is born again as something new every night. It’s what his followers call “magic”. He goes from raw gospel blues to cinematic epics, from heavy driving grooves to delicately arranged folk songs. Marty leaves the stage out of breath and sweaty, his audience in awe. It’s hard to describe, impossible to categorize. Yet people who know the music will try to explain it to you, just as you might struggle to explain a dream in the morning. The details might slip away as you recount them, but the feeling remains.

QUINN DEVEAUX
The origin story is almost too good to be true. A teenaged Quinn DeVeaux, raised on a healthy diet of his mom’s 80s R&B favorites and dad’s classic rock leanings, left his hometown of Gary, Indiana, and was driving across the country when he really heard Muddy Waters for the first time. He recalls, “I couldn’t believe it. Didn’t seem real – that bone-raw emotion.”

After playing in a number of configurations that explored all corners of his musical passion, Quinn DeVeaux assembled his Blue Beat Review, which merged his diverse tastes into a rollicking itinerant house party, demolishing venues and releasing several acclaimed records featuring Quinn’s ever-swelling writing and performing skills.

Pausing briefly to work with old SF friends and bandmates The California Honeydrops on a stellar 2022 single, “Take You Back” / “Very Best Thang”, found Quinn building on Book of Soul’s momentum and marked a particularly prolific period in his songwriting, seemingly plucking from the air a wide variety of songs.

New Year's Eve with The Joint Chiefs Band
2022-12-31 21:00 | Chaminade Resort, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz, CA, 95065, United States
The Joint Chiefs Band – Bay Area Funk and Classic R&B. The Joint Chiefs are one of the most versatile and exciting dance bands currently performing on the Northern California music scene. Dance in the New Year with The Joint Chiefs Band!

Assorted Desserts

Champagne Toast

Balloon Drop at midnight

Cash bar

$25.00

New Year's Eve w/ Tsunami and Vintage Point
2022-12-31 20:00 - 2023-01-01 00:30 | Back Nine Grill and Bar, 555 Highway 17 Inside the Inn at Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
NYE with Santa Cruz’s own Tsunami and Vintage Point! A full night of dancing to two great bands playing generations of music. Libations and small plates by The Back Nine. Lights, sound and DJ by Otis Coen w Hear the Call AV. This will be fun! Get your tickets now!
https://tinyurl.com/VPNYE

New Year's Eve w/ Hillbilly Jazz
2022-12-31 20:00 - 23:30 | Over the Hill Gang Saloon, 3530 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062, United States
Ring in the New Year with Hillbilly Jazz at Over the Hill Gang Saloon.

Hillbilly Jazz plays a mix of old country, western swing, 30s & 40s jazz, and folk. The combination of guitar, vocals, saxophone and fiddle get the crowds hollerin’ and boot scootin’.

Hillbilly Jazz is Mike Johnson rhythm guitar and vocals, Louie Zamora on sax, Steve Joynes on fiddle, Tim Houchin on mouth harp, Randall Rogers on standup bass. Fiddle player Joynes said, “That’s us. Sometimes we’ve a few special guest musicians. George Oakley on clarinet, Paul on harp or keyboard, and maybe Anna sometimes on keyboards.”

#newyearseve #nye #santacruz #hillbillyjazz #livemusic #newyear #swing #jazz #overthehillgangsaloon #mountainmusicproductions

New Year's Eve w/ Night Train
2022-12-31 20:00 - 23:30 | Cork and Fork, 312-B Capitola Avenue, Capitola, CA, 95010, United States
Night Train – playing good ole fashioned rock & roll, country, blues and overall dance songs! From the 50’s to the present, from Elvis to the Rolling Stones. Playing recognizable songs you can dance to and sing along with!

New Year's Eve with the China Cats
2022-12-31 20:00 - 23:30 | Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
A Grateful celebration! Ring in the New Year with the China Cats at the historic Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building on Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 8:00 pm. You are cordially invited to dance the night away with friends and community in Chris G. Matthews Hall, a 1930s era ballroom with soaring ceilings, a gracious wooden floor, and balcony overlooking the revelry.

Tickets are $45 in advance:
https://www.eventbrite.com/…/china-cats-new-years-eve…

Happy New Year from the China Cats and Mountain Music Productions!

#newyearseve #nye #celebrate #newyear #chinacats #gratefuldead #grateful #jamband #veterans #champagne

New Year's Eve Party w/ Ted Welty
2022-12-31 19:00 - 23:30 | CA
Countdown to 2023 at Capitola Wine Bar! A special night of friends and fun with Ted Welty LIVE! Make your reservation online soon as seats are already filling up! www.CapitolaWineBar.com

New Year's Eve Bash with Mokili Wa, Mak Nova and Phreeborn
2022-12-31 18:30 - 23:30 | Abbott Square Market, 725 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Ring in the New Year with style! We will have music starting at 6:30pm with Mak Nova, then Phreeborn, with Mokili Wa finishing up the night. The vendors and bars at Abbot Square Market will be staying open late to ensure you have enough food and drink through the end of the countdown into 2023.

New Year's Eve Day w/ Alex Lucero & The Live Again Band
2022-12-31 15:00 - 18:00 | Woodhouse Blending and Brewing, 119 Madrone Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Alex Lucero and Band will be rocking Woodhouse Blending & Brewing New Year’s Eve from 3-6pm!
This night Alex, “One Take” Jake & Mick Adams will be jamming along with special guests, bass virtuoso Dan Robbins and Justina Lucero on beautiful vocals!!
Woodhouse is an incredible venue Downtown Santa Cruz with killer hand crafted beer and an amazing kitchen! Plenty of parking and room to dance!! This will be our first time playing here as a band and we are so excited to PACK THE HOUSE for the last day of 2022!! Come join us for the fun!
No reservations needed and no cover charge.

Groovy Judy
2022-12-30 20:30 - 23:30 | Joe’s Bar, 13118 Highway 9, Boulder Creek, CA, 95006, United States
Whether she is rocking the stage at some of San Francisco’s longest-running and most popular events or entertaining crowds at the legendary Great American Music Hall, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Groovy Judy has become one of the Bay Area’s most recognizable musicians. Inspired by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, Groovy Judy’s classic riffs and warm personality have endeared her to fans everywhere. In addition to the traditional venue and festival circuit, Groovy Judy has become a popular and consistent musical presence at the annual Bay to Breakers footrace. Through philanthropy, Judy has discovered several ways to use her music to help others. She has donated performances to a number of charities, including the American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, American Leukemia Society and Food Not Bombs & fire relief in California.

Artist sites and sounds: http://groovyjudy.com and https://YouTube.com/groovyjudy

Brotherhood of Freaks
2022-12-30 20:00 - 23:00 | Henflings of Ben Lomond, 8450 Highway 9, Ben Lomond, CA, 95005, United States
Brotherhood of Freaks plays the music of Chris Robinson Brotherhood. If you know the music of CRB, you’ll be stoked to hear it played live again by musicians who love playing these songs. If you’ve never heard CRB, it’s just great danceable music, in the vein of the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, the American rock & roll catalog, and good ol’ psychedelic music. CRB disbanded after the tragic passing of Neal Casal in 2019. Brotherhood of Freaks was formed to keep that treasure trove of musical bliss alive and rockin’.

Based in Santa Cruz County, Brotherhood of Freaks features Steve Sofranko (China Cats, Stu Allen & Mars Hotel) on keyboards and vocals, Mike Cross on vocals and rhythm guitar, Mike Johnson (Cosmic Pinball, Kava Jah) on lead guitar, Paul Garcia (Puffball Collective, Slugs & Roses) on drums, and Kyle Gorath (Velour) on bass. We have embraced the CRB catalog and hope to lovingly play it for your listening and dancing pleasure! “Let the (music of) CRB set you free!”

The Mojo Navigators
2022-12-30 19:00 - 22:00 | Historic Brookdale Lodge, 11570 Highway 9, Brookdale, CA, 95007, United States
The Historic Brookdale Lodge and Mountain Music Productions present the Mojo Navigators in the “Fireside Lounge” on Friday, December 30 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. There’s no cover for this intimate evening of live music.

Ben Lomond’s Page Brownton and the Mojo Navigators are veteran musicians whose repertoire spans a wide range of historically significant musical styles, including acoustic and electric folk rock, psychedelia, traditional Americana, country blues, & original songs. The auspicious lineup is Brownton on vocals and rhythm guitar; Beth Ann LaBarba, vocals; Al Astrella, lead guitar; Roscoe VanHorne, bass; and John Barton, drums.

#newyearseve #nye #brookdalelodge #livemusic #santacruzmountains #mountainmusicproductions

Puffball Collective
2022-12-23 20:30 - 23:30 | Joe’s Bar, 13118 Highway 9, Boulder Creek, CA, 95006, United States
Joe’s Bar in Boulder Creek welcomes The Puffball Collective on Friday, December 23 at 8:30pm. No Cover.

Celebrating the power & healing of music & song, spirit-lifting revival and unifying-revelry, The Puffball Collective is built to lift you up and make you want to dance. Featuring members of the Banana Slug String Band, Slugs and Roses, the Barrelmakers, instrumental funk project Velour, Jim Lewin’s Edge of the West, and a slew of talented Santa Cruz musicians. The band presents this music to soothe your souls, raise your spirits, and rejuvenate & move your bodies so that we all can move forward and do great good in our lives.

Artist sites and sounds: https://thepuffballcollective.com

Rory Lynch
2022-12-23 20:00 - 23:00 | Henflings of Ben Lomond, 8450 Highway 9, Ben Lomond, CA, 95005, United States
Henflings of Ben Lomond welcomes Rory Lynch on Friday, December 23 from 8:00 to 11:00 pm.
Rory Lynch is a guitarist, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer from Philadelphia, PA. Four years ago, Rory migrated to Santa Cruz after a stint in NYC headlining shows at venues like The Bitter End and Pianos. His decision to move provided inspiration for a new collection of songs that showcase classic genres like folk, country, jazz, and pop while blending in classic Americana themes. Rory’s smooth deep croon harkens back to the first days of Country Folk and fits nicely next to modern artists like Orville Peck and Sturgill Simpson. Recently he has been recording at Wind River Studios with plans to release his debut full length album in the Fall 2022.

Poi Rogers at Capitola Wine Bar
2022-12-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Capitola Wine Bar, 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola, CA, 95010, United States
Time to celebrate the Holidays with the best wine, and best people. Capitola Wine Bar welcomes you to join them in their warm fireside bar for live holiday music and lots of Cheer! Reservations are recommended as seats are limited. Reservations: capitolawinebar.com
Gerard Egan and Carolyn Sills are both inductees into the Sacramento Western Swing Hall of Fame, and Carolyn is the current Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Female Vocalist of the Year. They front the award winning five piece band, The Carolyn Sills Combo, which has released three albums and one doughnut to date.
Poi Rogers features Gerard doubling on acoustic guitar and his 1954 Fender triple neck steel guitar with Carolyn on standup bass, their timeless harmonies anchoring the show.
Artist sights and sounds: poirogers.com

Ripatti & Rose at the Historic Brookdale Lodge
2022-12-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Historic Brookdale Lodge, 11570 Highway 9, Brookdale, CA, 95007, United States
The Historic Brookdale Lodge welcomes Ripatti & Rose on Friday, December 23 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. There is no cover for this intimate show in the Brookdale “Fireside” Lounge.

A singing and instrumental duo featuring Alisha Ripatti & Dylan Rose, fan Jillian Chesley says, “Amazing voices, guitar playing, harmonies and they’re both not bad to look at. VERY talented musicians!”

The two play regularly around Santa Cruz County and are in demand wherever they go.

#ripattiandrose #mountainmusicproductions #livemusic #brookdalelodge #santacruz #santacruzmountains

Drifting Compass
2022-12-17 20:30 - 23:30 | Joe’s Bar, 13118 Highway 9, Boulder Creek, CA, 95006, United States
Drifting Compass is a high-energy rock band made up of Santa Cruz area musicians with many years of performance experience. Their powerful original music is filled with troubadour wisdom and catchy hooks, blending into a unique yet hauntingly familiar style. Artist sites and sounds: www.driftingcompass.com

!!! (Chk Chk Chk)
2022-12-17 20:00 - 23:00 | Felton Music Hall, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, 95018, United States
Combining punk abandon and tightly-coiled dance music has always been bonded into the band’s DNA. It’s this core plus their growth and mastery of songwriting that has seen them outlive the mid-2000s ‘indie/dance punk’ tag and has allowed them to consistently grow lyrically and sonically from album to album. As If is their most transcendent collection of songs yet. “Each album we’ve made has gotten closer and closer to our live set and this, we’re proud to say, is the closest we’ve come yet. We were heavily influenced by current dance music — Nina Kraviz, Moodymann, Paranoid London, Rrose and Delroy Edwards were frequently referenced — and philosophically by the early ’90s house records we love on labels like Trax and Dancemania and by artists like Romanthony and Green Velvet. Those records sound great because they’re fairly raw attempts to use the technology of the time to ape the New York and Philly disco records that those producers loved. We figured, if those old house records sound like they do because the artists manipulated disco samples with MPCs, why couldn’t we just sample ourselves and manipulate the tracks with Ableton Live? The more raw it came out the better it felt, not only because that’s what excited us about those old records, but because it felt more punk, which always feels good.”
Tolliver is the son of a preacher, but his music is anything but holy. His songs are a gumbo of soul, funk, pop and camp, as funny as they are soul-baring. His recent EP ‘Daddyland’ is about reconnecting with his late father via the astral plane, and realizing that he has more in common with his devout-yet-very-flawed father than he ever knew. The LA-via-Chicago singer is a dance floor demon. Tolliver marries a Midwest work ethic with a never-ending love of parties and poppin off, and those conflicting desires drive his creativity. He makes pop records with frank lyrics about redemption and relapse, and twerking at the altar of one’s mind. Daddyland was recently in KCRW’s top 10 albums, with each song from the project in steady rotation. He’s been compared to everyone from War to Al Green to Andre 3000, an ethereal-yet-gritty soul survivor. In February of 2022 Tolliver made his late-night television debut performing his single ‘Say What’ on The Late Late Show with James Corden. This past summer Tolliver embarked on his first ever west coast tour to support the LP, played a monthly residency at The Echo and headlined KCRW’s SUMMER NIGHTS series in Los Angeles.

Broken Shades
2022-12-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Historic Brookdale Lodge, 11570 Highway 9, Brookdale, CA, 95007, United States
Back by popular demand, the Historic Brookdale Lodge welcomes the return of Broken Shades on Saturday, December 17 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. There’s no cover for this free show in the Brookdale “Fireside” Lounge.

Richie Cowan is a mean guitar picker and vocalist. He’s been supplying his soulful and bluesy lead and slide guitar to various bands he’s played with over the years here in Santa Cruz. Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie McTell, Blind Man Blake and numerous other legendary acoustic guitar players all figure into his funky mix of blues guitar. He hosted the Blues Jam in Capitola for many years at the Fogbank, and co-wrote the songs on Jewl’s CD “Harp in Heaven.”

Jewl Sandoval, a California native, has been rock’n the Bay Area and Santa Cruz for several years. He’s written a number of blues tunes, produced three CDs, and has hosted countless blues jams. In the process he has mixed it up with many of today’s blues stars, Coco Montoya for one. His blues harp and soulful vocal style has brought smiles to folks of all ages.

#blues #brookdalelodge #livemusic #santacruzmountains #santacruz

Blue Ocean Rockers
2022-12-16 20:30 - 23:30 | Joe’s Bar, 13118 Highway 9, Boulder Creek, CA, 95006, United States
A Rock N’ Roll dance band somewhere in Santa Cruz with a real crush on the classics, but also more modern 80s, 90s, and New Millennium rock and dance music. Blue Ocean Rockers is a 6-member band with four harmonizing singers, a rockin’ guitar player, keyboards, a bass player extraordinaire, and a drummer that keeps us tight in the pocket every time. Artist sites and sounds: www.facebook.com/BlueOceanRockers

Ganstagrass
2022-12-16 20:00 - 23:00 | Felton Music Hall, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, 95018, United States
Gangstagrass combines great American traditions of bluegrass, hip-hop, and beyond to create a whole new musical genre that is more than the sum of its parts.
As latest album No Time For Enemies climbed to #1 on the Billboard bluegrass chart, Americana Highways magazine proclaimed Emmy-nominated Gangstagrass “America’s Band” because they take so much of what’s amazing about this country — ingenuity, creativity, freedom, unity across differences, people’s individual strength and struggles — and distill it into a message of common ground in the form of original songs that have everyone up & dancing!

Alex Lucero at the Historic Brookdale Lodge
2022-12-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Historic Brookdale Lodge, 11570 Highway 9, Brookdale, CA, 95007, United States
The Historic Brookdale Lodge and Mountain Music Productions are pleased to present Alex Lucero on Friday, December 16 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. There is no cover for this intimate show in the Brookdale “Fireside” Lounge.

Alex Lucero & The Live Again Band is a 5-piece outfit crossing genres ranging from Soul, Funk, Jazz, Americana and beyond. Band members age-range spans over four decades with generational talent led by lead singer Alex Lucero. The band has independently released five all original albums comprised of studio and live performances. Alex Lucero & The Live Again Band have received incredible response across Northern California and are played regularly on multiple radio stations and on permanent rotation on the well known KPIG 107 “oink” 5.

You won’t want to miss this show.

Artist sights and sounds: www.liveagainband.com
#alexlucero #brookdalelodge #livemusic #liveagain #mountainmusicproductions #santacruz #santacruzmountains

Alejandro Aranda from Scarypoolparty
2022-12-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Felton Music Hall, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, 95018, United States
Alejandro Aranda, known by his stage name Scarypoolparty, is an American singer, musician, and reality television personality from Pomona, California, and runner-up on the seventeenth season of American Idol. His debut album Exit Form was released on November 22, 2019.

Mike Renwick's Holiday Deluxe
2022-12-14 20:00 - 23:00 | Felton Music Hall, 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, 95018, United States
Wednesday December 14th 2022 @ Felton Music Hall
Mike Renwicks Holiday Deluxe
21+
Doors 6pm / Show 7:30
Prices: $20
