ON the Beat | Lofty Prospects in the Land of the Ampersand
UCSB Arts & Lectures is off and running for its 2025-26 season, as the retiring game-changer Celesta Billeci passes the director torch to Meghan Bush.
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ON the Beat | Dive on the Hill on High, Academy Action in Motion
Lake Street Dive’s retro-modern R&B revue seizes the Bowl, Music Academy notes, organ-ic finery.
ON the Beat | Sound Garden Meditation, Public Bacchanal, Pipeline Sublimity
The columnist leaps into the Solstice fray, sinks into a Lotusland escape, confesses pipe organ fandom.
ON the Beat | Post-Modern Madhouse Party, Academy Notes Begin
The Crosby Collective, joined by Jackson Browne, bedazzles and inventively medley-mashes a boomer setlist at the Lobero, and Music Academy of the West hits its first concert downbeat.
ON the Beat | Dynamic Sibling-Powered Duo, Live Oak Festival Calling
Isata Kanneh-Mason and Sheku Kanneh-Mason return in duo mode, closing out notable A&L season, Live Oak Festival calls from SLO.
ON the Beat | Ojai Beckons, Choral Closing, Blocked Party
Ojai Music Festival promises a special edition, Choral Society closes season with a rich polychordal program, and a city block bristles with life on a Saturday night.
ON the Beat | Blues Beach Town
It may come as a surprise to outsiders that an affluent and tourist-flocked beach town like Santa Barbara — basking
ON the Beat | A Happy Traffic Jam of Serious Concertizing
Last week’s extra-busy concert action on the classical-jazz fronts, including season-closers, was a rewarding feast.
ON the Beat | Frivolity in Serious Clothing
Major jazz icons Bill Frisell and Wynton Marsalis hit town, amid the last busy burst of action on the fall-to-spring concert season calendar.
ON the Beat | Frivolity in Serious Clothing
Opera Santa Barbara ends an inspired, if traditional, season on a comic operatic high note, with ‘The Daughter of the Regiment.’
