Tag: Music & Concerts

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 Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Yule illumination is magically spun and curated by founder healer and head priestess Julie Grant, Santa Cruz Mountain Priestess Temple Boulder Creek California as the wheel turns once again…. Currently Julie is training a circle of 13 moon trainees to be priestess’s under the SCMPT. These goddess’s are helping with execution of event as part of their training. Each one… Read More

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)… Read More

Santa Cruz Ballet Theater presents The Nutcracker at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and December 11. Two shows each day: 1:00 and 4:30 Experience the magic of the holiday season with Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker.” Celebrating 20 years at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium downtown, this holiday favorite is the only Nutcracker production… Read More