Hindu-Bluegrassy Musical Border Crossing at UC Santa Barbara
Arts & Lectures hosts cross-cultural exchange on November 15 with Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, and Rakesh Chaurasia at Campbell Hall.
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Solvang’s Elverhøj Museum | Visions in the Rearview, in Between Times
Glen Rubsamen’s paintings of distant places focus on twilight skies and shadowy peripheries.
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.
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.
