Apr 23 Tuesday
Come enjoy singing, keeping a beat, participating with confidence in music and have fun! Playing is learning with Northcoast Music Together.This is a FREE event for children and the parents who love them. Each attendee gets a FREE book!
Cal Poly Humboldt’s 11th Annual Hip Hop Conference: Power to the People, is a three-day event taking place April 23 - 25. Organized by the Critical Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies department, we will be hosting Public Enemy’s Chuck D. as our keynote speaker 04/23. This event is significant as it creates space for the Black and Brown diaspora in Humboldt to build community, and learn about the important cultural and sociopolitical history of hip hop. Join us as we host panelists, student speakers, and come together through food, music, and dancing!
Every Tuesday night Baywater Blues Fusion hosts a half hour dance lesson followed by social dancing. Come solo or with a friend to learn and enjoy partner dancing to Blues and modern music.
Apr 24 Wednesday
Apr 25 Thursday
Join us for special guests & games hand chosen and orchestrated by stand-up super-star Josh Barnes. Come check out the comedic talent right here in our own backyard, on the last Thursday of every month!
Apr 26 Friday
Rockin originals, Central Humboldt musicians: Paul Agpawa (lead electric guitar), Peggy Martinez (drums, Harmonies), Ryan Chamberlain (bass), and Lisa C. Sharry (vocals, rhythm electric guitar)will be playing outside at the Six Rivers Brewery, a family friendly venue with great food.
Friday Night! Scott Yoder really knows how to put on a show, and it involves lipstick, smoke machines, and well crafted songs! Fresh back from his full European Tour, Scott Yoder is hitting the ground running with a new backing band and a full US tour! Don't miss this one! Joining the bill are Eureka's own art garage duo, Clean Girl and the Dirty Dishes!! $5-$10 21+
The Cal Poly Humboldt Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre presents a joint concert of the Humboldt Wind Ensemble and Mariachi de Humboldt. Join us Friday, April 26th at 8:00 p.m. at the Fulkerson Recital Hall. Concert tickets are $10 General, $5 Children, and Free for Cal Poly Humboldt students with ID. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at centerarts.humboldt.edu From the "All Events" drop down menu select "Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre" and select your event.Mariachi de Humboldt celebrates its first year as an official Cal Poly Humboldt university performance ensemble, and will present favorite rancheras such as Cielito Lindo, Arboles de la Barranca, and De Colores. You will hear the upbeat Los Laureles, the heart wrenching Volver, Volver, and the stirring Tata Dios.The Wind Ensemble portion of the program includes La Malagueña de Salerosa featuring Pablo Murcia, tenor. La Malagueña de Salerosa is a well-known Son Huasteco or Huapango song from Mexico. The song is that of a man telling a woman (from Málaga, Spain) how beautiful she is, and how he would love to be her man, but that he understands her rejecting him for being too poor. Scenes from the Louvre, by Dello Joio, comes from a 1964 television documentary produced by NBC News called A Golden Prison: The Louvre, for which Dello Joio provided the soundtrack. The documentary tells the history of the Louvre and its world-class collection of art, which is in many ways inseparable from the history of France. This band version of Scenes from The Louvre is adapted from the 1965 Emmy Award winning original film score. The five movements of this suite pay tribute to the development of the museum and feature thematic material from the Renaissance time period.The ensemble will also perform All Those Endearing Young Charms by Mantia. “Like many virtuoso soloists of his era, Mantia was also a composer and often wrote the solos that served as the vehicle for his prowess on the instrument. Many of these solos took the form of a theme and variations, frequently featuring popular melodies of the time. Perhaps the most enduring of these classic solos is Mantia’s variations on the Irish tune For All Those Endearing Young Charms.” The piece features Nate Heron on euphonium.Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry has stood the test of time for a number of reasons: colorful sonorities, straightforward accessibility, and a memorable climax.The Wind Ensemble Program finishes with Symphonic Dance No. 3 "Fiesta" by Clifton Williams. Fiesta was originally one of Clifton Williams’ five Symphonic Dances, commissioned by the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 1964. In the original suite, each of the five dances represented the spirit of a different time and place relative to the background of San Antonio, Texas. Fiesta is an evocation of the excitement and color of the city’s numerous Mexican celebrations. The modal characteristics, rhythms, and finely woven melodies depict what Williams called “the pageantry of Latin-American celebration – street bands, bull fights, bright costumes, the colorful legacy of a proud people.”
Apr 27 Saturday
Nor-Cal Card Show on Sat., April 27 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) will features vendors selling sports and non-sports cards as well as sports memorabilia and games. It is a fundraiser for the local chapter of Young Life. The card show will be at Telios at 1575 L Street in Arcata, across from Arcata High School.
McKinleyville BMX is hosting a car wash at the McKinleyville Les Schwab on April 27th from 10am to 3pm. Come enjoy a FREE POPCORN and FREE BEVERAGE, try the TikTok Famous Liquid Death Sparking Water or other 7up beverage product, all while we wash your car! Come support McKinleyville BMX as we prepare for the upcoming BMX track & park build in 2024!
Thank you to our sponsors Humboldt Beer Distributors, South Fork Mountain Spring Water, McKinleyville ACE Hardware, McKinleyville 7up Bottling Co., McKinleyville Les Schwab and N.E.R.D Scooters in McKinleyville.