Ojai Music Festival: 80 Is the New… 80
World-renowned, contemporary-leaning Ojai Music Festival celebrates 80 years, with the master Esa-Pekka Salonen as the focus and music director.
Author: Josef Woodard
ON the Beat | Shoegazing and Other Musings Around the County
On our musical radar: Sun Kil Moon, Jalama Ranch, Willie Nile, Ojai Festival calling.
One Space Battle After Another
Action trumps story in ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’, but Baby Yoda oozes charm.
Review | Jim Messina: Country-Pop-Latin-Yacht-Rock Vet, Coming “Home”
Longtime Santa Barbaran and now outta Nashville, Messina pays a nostalgic, career-spinning return visit to the Lobero Theatre.
Heartbreak Hotel
The haunted hotel genre is keenly tapped and rebooted in the Adam Scott-starring ‘Hokum’.
ON the Beat | Blues We Can Use
Santa Barbara Blues Society brings the good stuff, on a Thursday; Lotusland becomes pianoland for a spring afternoon.
Scott Kellaway Express, on State
The Grand on State, the buzzed-about new jazz venue, hosts jazz notables Tom Scott and Roger Kellaway, on Saturday, May 23.
Music About Land, Environment, and Being in a Time and Place
Nathan Sherwood Liang caps off residency at Jalama Canyon Ranch with public performance, on May 23.
ON the Beat | Seasons’ Closing Notes, Symphony and Chamber-sized
Santa Barbara Symphony and Camerata Pacifica close out seasons; Mads Tolling, Lotusland sounds, and Flight of the Conchords tickle ears.
Bright Size Life in Continuing Progress
Kindly jazz guitar hero Pat Metheny returns to the Lobero Theatre, this time with his latest project, Side-Eyed III+.
