Rio Theatre Events
05.31.13
Jose Gonzales - Elias Araya - Tobias Winterkom - are JUNIP |
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Jose Gonzales - Elias Araya - Tobias Winterkom - are JUNIP
On An On supports
"In our case, it's never simple." José González is describing the entire process - writing, recording, life - that went into the creation of Junip, the upcoming, self-titled album from the band he fronts alongside drummer Elias Araya and keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn, due for release in spring of 2013 by Mute Records. "All the ups and downs were very 'Junip,'" he adds, "so titling it with our name seemed appropriately iconic. It's truly a band album."
Prior to Junip's first album Fields, the renowned singer-songwriter González found international acceptance with his individual albums, 2003's Veneer and 2007's In Our Nature, which went on to sell over a million albums worldwide; audiences were captivated by the stark combination of González's uniquely haunting voice and sinuous acoustic guitar. They were startled and beguiled, then, by hearing González in Junip's band context, and one with such a propulsive, experimental bent: sprawling away from the stark folk aesthetic of González's solo efforts, Fields teemed with driving motorik rhythms, psychedelic atmosphere, and dense synth textures.
The almost released album Junip expands the stylistic palette yet again with unexpected juxtapositions.
Line of Fire Official Video: www.youtu.be
Without You Official Video: www.youtu.be
For more info go to their website at www.junip.net
Show Time: 8pm, Doors : 7:15pm
Advanced Tickets: $23
Available At: www.ticketweb.com and Tomboy Store, 1207 Soquel Ave: (next to Rio Theatre)
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Guitar festival benefit with Eric Skye and Brett Hallam Holland
Tonight's concert benefits the Santa Cruz County Art of Guitar Exhibit and Festival, a non profit project of the William James Association. www.purrgirl.com
The festival celebrates 20 local high end guitar builders. In addition to a terrific evening of music, the Rio lobby will be transformed into a mini guitar festival, with exhibits, festival information and even more live entertainment. Patrons are invited to bring their used guitar string sets for 'The Second String Project,' which distributes them to musicians in countries where acquiring strings and musical instruments is difficult, if not impossible.
Pacific Northwest acoustic guitarist Eric Skye plays an eclectic and original style with a wide range of influences from bluegrass, to blues, vintage funk, jazz and classical, threaded together with a healthy respect for the groove. Skye's most recent CD, A Different Kind Of Blue, is a solo acoustic fingerstyle guitar re-imagining of the Miles Davis's landmark 1959 recording Kind Of Blue. Acoustic Guitar Magazine named A Different Kind Of Blue one of its top ten acoustic albums of the year. www.ericskye.com
Hailing from New Zealand, composer, guitarist and singer/songwriter Brett Hallam Holland incorporates two hand tapping, slapping, walking bass lines, improvisation, and open tunings into his songs and arrangements that are big on groove, strong on melody and cover a wide range of genres. www.bretthallamholland.com
Special surprise guests are also planned.
Show time: 7:00 pm
Advance tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com or locally at Tomboy, 1207 Soquel Ave., next to The Rio.
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Robert Earl Keen and band
As singer/songwriter Robert Earl Keen has built a reputation as one of the nation's finest musical storytellers, he has been guided by several self-imposed rules and traditions that are often the antithesis of music industry standards.
It¹s a formula that has worked well for Keen since he began performing in 1981 and paving the way for a generation of songwriters and performers who make a living on the road. He paints musical portraits that are as vivid as sunsets over the great Southwest and stories that are as compelling and timeless as Cormac McCarthy novels. But what separates the Americana music pioneer from other songwriters is that he matches this lyrical literature with irresistible melodies, resulting in music that attracts thinkers and dancers alike. His songs are infused with such deep insight and humor that a new meaning and perspective is revealed with each listen, allowing his songs to grow more profound with time. That's why artists including George Strait, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Lyle Lovett and the Dixie Chicks have chosen to record his songs over the years.
Show time: 7:30 PM
General Admission $25.00 (advance)
Gold Circle $40.00 (Advance)
Purchase Tickets www.snazzyproductions.com
Artist's web site: www.robertearlkeen.com
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Friday, June 14th, 2013
The 3rd Annual Sammy Awards
Special Opening Guest: the Terminal Degree Jazz Band (5:30-6:45 pm)
At UC Santa Cruz, our game design students put a tremendous amount of work into developing novel, innovative games. The ingenuity and creativity of every game gives us hope for the next generation of game design. At the Sammy Awards, we celebrate their accomplishments and applaud their work. This event showcases the best student games made this year, including games by senior Game Design Studio students, as well as the best games by aspiring freshmen, sophomore and junior game designers. If you love seeing new, creative games, please join us at the Sammy Awards on June 14th.
Show time: 7:00 pm
Advance ticket reservations required (free): www.sammys.soe.ucsc.edu
For more information: www.sammys.soe.ucsc.edu
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Saturday, June 29th, 2013
Paul Thorn & Band
Before his professional music career began, he was briefly a professional boxer, having fought a nationally-televised fight against former world champion Roberto Durán, and also won the Mid-South Middleweight Championship in Memphis, Tennessee. After a few years of working in a local furniture factory and playing in local clubs, he was discovered by music professional Miles Copeland (brother of The Police drummer Stewart Copeland), was signed to a recording contract with A&M Records and recorded his first album, Hammer & Nail in 1997, followed by seven more albums. In early 2008, he enjoyed national TV performance appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
Show time: 7:30 pm
General Admission $25.00 (advance)
Gold Circle $40.00 (Advance)
Purchase Tickets www.snazzyproductions.com
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Sunday, June 30th, 2013
Madeleine Peyroux – The Blue Room
"… distinctive and intriguing." – The Washington Post
Madeleine Peyroux has come a long way from her days of singing on the streets of Paris. Originally inspired by the great Billie Holiday, Peyroux has matured into a creative vocalist whose artistic curiosity knows no bounds. Recently, she has found a new muse in the legacy of the late Ray Charles, specifically Ray's most popular (and at one time controversial) album: Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music. Her latest project, The Blue Room, conceived and produced by the legendary GRAMMY-Award winner Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Herbie Hancock), revamps the music from Charles' landmark recording, along with choice gems by songwriters Randy Newman, Warron Zevon, John Hartford, Leonard Cohen, and Buddy Holly. The album recently debuted as the #1 bestselling jazz album on Billboard, iTunes and Amazon. For Peyroux, music categories are irrelevant. As she puts it, "The only thing that matters is the song."
Show time: 7:30 pm, Doors: 6:30 pm
General Admission: $30 Advance / $35 Door *
Gold Circle: $45 Advance *
Purchase Tickets: www.kuumbwajazz.org
Presented by: Kuumbwa Jazz
Media Sponsors: KPIG 107.5 FM and Good Times Weekly
* Ticket prices does not include Santa Cruz Admission Tax or Service Charge.
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Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Rickie Lee Jones
Show time: 8:00 pm
Advance Tickets: www.pulseproductions.inticketing.com
Artist website: www.rickieleejones.com
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Friday, July 12th, 2013
Bruce Cockburn
Show time: 8:00 pm
Advance tickets www.pulseproductions.inticketing.com
Artist website: www.brucecockburn.com
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Saturday, July 13th, 2013
Jorma Kaukonen and Keith Greeninger
In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar, one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. He was a founding member of two legendary bands, The Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna, a Grammy nominee, a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame .
For this special Santa Cruz show, our own Keith Greeninger opens at 8 pm.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $25 GA/ $38 Gold circle
Advance Tickets at Streetlight records 831-421-9200 and www.pulseproductions.net
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
CARAVAN PALACE
Here we go, let's take the Caravan for another tour. Same Palace, with a brand new customized flavor. On the shelves and on the road. The surprise breakout band of the last decade, the apostles of Electro Swing and precursors of a laidback yet terribly upbeat trend, is coming up with an evocative second album: Panic! This time, Caravan Palace takes us even farther than their first album (that sold more than 150,000 copies) and continues an amazing adventure almost started by accident.
Show Time: 8pm, Doors : 7:15pm
Advanced Tickets: $16
Available at: www.ticketweb.com and Tomboy store, 1207 Soquel Ave: Facebook Page
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
AVI BUFFALO
Avi Buffalo was once just the kid named Avi (short for Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg). Years of 12-hour days attacking the guitar (plus lessons-to-mentoring with seriously iconoclastic local blues guys) revealed a pretty preternatural talent for making a very special kind of bent but lovely pop song.
He spent the mid-2000s singing quiet yet resolutely sophisticated songs into whatever free programs he could put on his PC. And they were about as lovely and scruffy as the songs analog guys like Pollard, Barlow, and Fox would sing into tape decks during their own long late nights.
A solo show at a much-loved vegan restaurant magnetized Avi Buffalo into a full band; full-band Avi Buffalo magnetized L.A's Eastside musicians (plus they hit all the major press in the city before they had ANY kind of record out at all); and engineer Aaron Embry (Elliott Smith and Emmylou Harris sideman, among others) invited Avi Buffalo to help him test out the new studio he'd built in his house. This was the big leap-except for some after-class time at a local recording school, Avi Buffalo had never existed anywhere but a laptop or a really good house party. One of the first songs recorded just for fun was "What's In It For?"; it was also one of the first songs Avi put up on MySpace ("Because that's all it takes," says Avi, still a tiny bit shocked). And once Sub Pop came inquiring, What's In It For? became the first single from the album (which hadn't even been thought of as a possible album until all this). This all happened within a few months. And then, says Avi, everything got kind of freaky!
Avi Buffalo is: Avi Zahner-Isenberg and Sheridan Riley
Show Time: 8 pm, Doors : 7:15 pm
Advanced Tickets: $11
Available at: www.ticketweb.com and Tomboy store, 1207 Soquel Ave: Facebook Page
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Wednesday july 31, 2013
RX BANDITS
with Northern Faces
Tickets: $17.50 advance & $20 dos
Advance Tickets: at ticketweb.com & streetlight 831-421-9200
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Monday, August 26, 2013
THE BREEDERS
Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson played their first show together on Friday, June 19, 1992 in a snooker hall behind Warrington Rugby Club in the north of England, near Manchester. Two days later, they supported Nirvana in Dublin and Belfast, and then played at Glastonbury. Back in the U.S., after playing 27 sold-out shows that fall, they made their way to San Francisco to record Last Splash.
Released August 30, 1993 on 4AD, reviewers described the Platinum-selling Last Splash as "effervescent," "blistering" and "incoherent." At its center is the infectiously appealing, instantly recognizable "Cannonball." Propelled in part by the video directed by Kim Gordon and Spike Jonze, the song was voted Single of the Year by the NME. After more than two years of touring, they played their last show on September 5, 1994, at Lollapalooza in Los Angeles.
In 2013 they will play together again for the first time, performing Last Splash live. 4AD will release LSXX, a deluxe anniversary edition of Last Splash in May 2013.
Show Time: 8pm, Doors : 7:15 pm
Advanced Tickets: $27
Available At: www.ticketweb.com and Tomboy store, 1207 Soquel Ave: Facebook Page
Artist's Website: www.tiny.cc/niqmrw