Warren Hellmans gift to all the music lovers in the Bay and beyond! Molly Tuttle October 2-4 was a gorgeous weekend of music for about 800,00 attendees, over the three days, in sunny San Francisco! Mellow and super friendly are usually my descriptives of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival. This year was no exception!

Warren Hellmans gift to all the music lovers in the Bay and beyond! Robert Plant October 2-4 was a gorgeous weekend of music for about 800,00 attendees, over the three days, in sunny San Francisco! Mellow and super friendly are usually my descriptives of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival. This year was no exception! Chuck Poling HSB emcee As soon as I entered the park I heard the voice of my friend Chuck Poling through the speakers at the Towers of Gold stag

Many Nor Cal neighborhoods left burned to the ground October 2017 Welcome to October. This month brings back memories for those in and around the fires of 2017. The beginning of October in 2017 was not so nice. First, Tom Petty died and shattered fans' hearts all round the world. Then just a few days later, my neighborhood, and many others in Northern Ca burned down to the ground.

As far as DJs go, Bill Bowker is a jewel in the crown of DJs in this area. Bill is so full of music knowledge and a true lover and supporter of the arts and everything music. Bill at the Hopmonk Benefit On September 27, 2026 KC Turner and Bill DeCarli arranged a beautiful day of music and love at the Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol to benefit the lovely human we have all come to know and love behind the mic, Bill Bowker. Recently, Bill has been suffering with health issues aft

Written by Jamison Smeltz Markus Reuter, Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin - Stick Men Stick Men returned to the Mystic Theater in Petaluma, 9/21/2026. They are a trio playing complex, hard, mostly instrumental music (and by ‘hard’ I don’t mean ‘difficult’, although that is also true. I consider it prog-fusion-metal, with a healthy dollop of math.) Tony Levin and Markus Reuter take the wings, both playing stringed instruments that allow for both bass and treble excursions played

The guitarist that was named as one of the best, by the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and Don Everly is none other than British born Albert Lee. And this 82 year old legendary finger-style and hybrid picking guitarist played a 90+ minute set at the Hopmonk in Novato to a packed standing room only audience last weekend. Carol Casey and her Sonoma Shakers opened the show Local favorites, Sonoma Shakers opened the show with a stunning set of music to get the