ON the Beat | A Power of Two, at Hahn Hall
Dynamic piano duo Anderson & Roe ride the Mariposa wave, Spencer goes Ojai, and Midori returns to the 805.
Josef Woodard
Recent Stories
American Treasure Rhiannon Giddens Continues 805 Trend
Silkroad Ensemble performs in Santa Barbara on November 9.
Opera Santa Barbara at 30
Opera Santa Barbara has become an important cultural fixture in its three decades, but the post-pandemic struggle for solidity continues.
Art Gone Musically Tubular
Rod Lathim’s often music-related neon sculptures plumb fresh ideas, at Helena Mason Art Gallery in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone.
ON the Beat | Openings Week on the Serious Music Front
On season openings for the Symphony and CAMA, a new parade in town, plus jazz that matters out of town.
Review | ZZ Top, Still the Tops in their Boogying Game
ZZ Top, 54 years on, still brings its special — and tongue-in-cheek — power to the stage, at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara.
Shadows and Angles Beyond the Calm, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
A survey of abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly’s photographs at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the first such museum show, quietly dazzles.
Pat Metheny Comes “Home” to Santa Barbara’s Lobero, Again
Amiable jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny returns to one of his favorite venues, the Lobero, in solo mode.
Review | The Documentarian Who Came in from the Cold
Unique documentarian Erroll Morris is up to new tricks with his new John le Carré doc, “The Pigeon Tunnel,” now at the Riviera Theatre.
ON the Beat | The Season of Public Pianism
The annual “Pianos on State Street” project continues, inducting any and all as street musicians, plus ZZ Top wins Friday sweepstakes.
