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LATE ADDITIONS (latest up-top):
1) Saturday noon-4 pm acoustic music benefit for horse rescue, in Ojai. (See events listings.)
2) Saturday 7:30 pm monthly Contra Dance w/ live music in South Pasadena. (In events listings.)
3) Fri & Sat, Oct 12 & 13, FESTIVAL:
The annual "AV UKULELE FESTIVAL" kicks-off with a gala concert FRIDAY at 7:30 pm at the Performing Arts Theatre at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster. Details in "Festivals" section, just below.
4) Added info, with schedules for both stages at Saturday's Kaleidoscope. Details are with the original write-up in "Festivals" section, just below.
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This weekend the roots-acoustic and Folk-Americana emphasis are up north. Which is two kinds of north. Meaning west up the 101, and real north, up the 14 Freeway to the closest desert. (And -- late addition -- it's dry -- no rain -- up the 14 in the desert.)
Things will be delightfully realized with annual music festivals almost on the beach in Ventura and just north of Santa Barbara in Goleta; and in Woodland Hills at the FOLK ALLIANCE Conference; and in Lancaster at the UKE FESTIVAL, and Palmdale with full sets of great Folk-Americana from three groups on the main stage at the annual KALEIDOSCOPE MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL, which is the only FREE festival.
True, big media is awash in reporting about this weekend's "Desert Daze" festival which has moved closer-in, to Lake Elsinore. We have nothing more to say about that one, since it's all about atonal electronica, dischordant sonic crashes, and whatever passes for pop performance masquerading as rock with a cadre of dubiously-musical pseudo celebrities-du-jour.
Quickie descriptions of ALL FIVE of "our kind" of festivals are right up front, just below.
Plus, we bring you the CONCERT LISTINGS in the events calendar AFTER the news features.
Here's a fresh heads-up, plus the news.
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FESTIVALS!
The Guide has attended four of the five of these festivals in previous years, and we enthusiastically endorse and recommend each of them to you -- including the Uke Fest, the only one we haven't yet seen and heard.
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FESTIVALS -- First up: Saturday & Sunday in Ventura
All weekend, it's the "SEASIDE HIGHLAND GAMES" at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. There's Celtic music on multiple stages, clans in tartan kilts, competitively marching bagpipe and drum corps in individual and massed performances, haggis and bangers and other food of the British isles and Scotland and Ireland.
And there's the astonishing excitement of the officially sanctioned "Scottish Heavy Athletic" competition. That is most aptly described as large people throwing things, ranging from telephone poles to big hammers.
You'll also find sheepdog herding demonstrations, a fiddle contest that's part of the national circuit, a Celtic harp petting zoo and performance area, and more than you can reasonably enjoy in a full day. Music stages have seating both indoors and outdoors, so you'll get a good mix of fresh salt air and shade.
You'll also see how artists integrate their music with Amtrak's passenger trains, which pass a few feet behind one stage, air horns, passengers gawking at performers, and all.
It's at Seaside Park, aka the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W Harbor Bl, Ventura, CA.
Full info at: http://www.seaside-games.com
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Sidebar...
"Training" to two Festivals
You can do more than watch the trains roll past one of the Seaside stages. Ride Amtrak to Seaside Highland or the Old Time Fiddlers festivals, or ride from one to the other. You can get there from 'purt near anywhere, from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. Just take any of the many "Pacific Surfliner" trains. All make stops at Los Angeles Union Station, in the SFV, and in OC. (Be careful: the Seattle-L.A. train, the "Coast Starlight," does not make either stop.)
Amtrak's Ventura Station is literally across the street from the SEASIDE HIGHLAND GAMES. For the event described next, the Goleta Station has a shuttle van up the hill or it's an enjoyable short hike from the Amtrak platform. Take note of the last train home, or you'll be an overnight resident at the beach.
Of course, those addicted to their gas guzzlers can drive to either of these festivals. Note that it's always pay-to-park at the VC fairgrounds.
Amtrak Pacific Surfliner schedules and info: https://www.amtrak.com/pacific-surfliner-train
FESTIVALS part 2 -- Sunday's Festival
On Sunday, it's the "SANTA BARBARA OLD-TIME FIDDLER’S FESTIVAL" in Goleta, at the picturesque Stowe House and Museum. Tours of the historic buildings and strolling about the historic and picturesque grounds are the perfect accompaniment to the delightful music and workshops.
Featured stage performances by Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham, Frank Fairfield & Tom Marion, Skillet Licorice,
Eric & Suzy Thompson, Plaid Strangers, David Bragger & Susan Platz, Echo Mountain, Clinton Davis, and Have More Fun Stringband.
This one began as an instrumental prowess contest. It still has that, too, and it's inclusive of high-level players.
It's at Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N Los Carneros Rd, Goleta, CA 93117
Full info at: http://fiddlersfestival.org/
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FESTIVALS part 3 -- the Friday-through-Sunday conference
The 15th annual "FOLK ALLIANCE FAR-WEST CONFERENCE" returns to Southern California this year after its time in the Pacific Northwest.
Featuring "official" and "guerilla" individual / band performances and showcases, it has characteristics of both a festival and a conference, not unlike the Americana Music Conference. FAR West has workshops and plenty of events for music fans as well as for members.
It runs Fri-Sun, Oct 12-14, at the Warner Center Marriott, 21850 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, CA 91367.
Full info on concert tix, attending showcases, and full event registration, at: http://www.far-west.org/far-west-2018.html
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FESTIVALS part 4 -- Saturday's FREE FESTIVAL in Palmdale
The annual "KALEIDOSCOPE MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL" in Palmdale is FREE. It features full sets of great Folk-Americana from three groups on the main stage. There's Grammy-nom Cajun-zydeco band Lisa Haley & The Zydecats, Irish band Paddy's Pig, and fiery acoustic string ensemble Incendio. Plus, performances by Stone Soul, High-D Boys, Megan Tibbits, and Black Eye Affair.
There's also plenty of visual art in many mediums, from dazzling sidewalk chalk artists working large-scale to painting, sculpture, and more.
It's FREE with free parking and runs Saturday only, 10 am-6 pm, at the Palmdale Amphitheater, 2723 Rancho Vista Bl, Palmdale, CA 93551
You'll never find their schedule online, and we don't want you to miss Lisa Haley, Paddy's Pig, the High-D Boys, or Megan Tibbets. Plus there are singer-songwriters all day on another stage, so we have that schedule, too.
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TAPESTRY STAGE (Amphitheatre Main Stage) schedule:
* Megan Tibbits, 10:30 am. ABC’s "Rising Star" Top 12, she plays guitar, harp, oboe and saxophone and brings "distinctive acoustic harmonies." Her recently released debut album is “Until I Fly.”
* High-D Boys, 11 am. Banjo, guitar, washtub, 4-part harmony -- musical comedy group. We've heard em, they're good.
* Paddy’s Pig, 12:30 pm. Irish band, plays big festivals and dark clubs, ranging from folk traditionalism to rock-n-roll energy, with authentic original songs. Old faves at The Guide.
* Lisa Haley & The Zydecats, 2 pm. Grammy-nominated Lisa Haley is a fiddler, dancer, vocalist, and songwriter who, with The Zydekats, brings heartwarming Louisiana Bayou rhythms, traditional stylings and original songs that speak to all ages. They've even played a festival in Borneo. Warning: Zydecosis is contagious.
* Jungle Fire, 3:30 pm. Afro/Latin Funk.
* Stone Soul, 5 pm. Classic Soul and Motown, with horns. Solidly entertaining.
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MOSAIC STAGE schedule:
* Crosby Morgan (singer-songwriter) 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, 3:30 pm
* Janell Crampton (singer-songwriter) 11 am
* Ellie Aguilar (singer-songwriter) 11:30 am and 4 pm
* Black Eye Affair (singer-songwriter) 12 pm and 4:30 pm
* Megan Tibbits (singer-songwriter) 1 pm
* Jessica Mae Ross (singer-songwriter) 2 pm and 5 pm
* RoRo (singer-songwriter) 2:30 pm and 5:30 pm
* Adelynn Mejia (singer-songwriter) 3 pm
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This year they've also added 3-D Wall Paintings, "Living Masterpieces," Brush Strokes Live Studio Classes, Young at Art, Upcycled Art, ArtLight ExpoLive Music, and the Fresh Made Market.
More at: http://www.palmdaleamphitheater.com/#nav
Info: http://www.palmdaleamphitheater.com/event/04dd48aceb9bf19928b1b1148d22ece2
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Sidebar...
"Training" to the festival in Palmdale
You can TAKE THE METROLINK TRAIN to Palmdale on a $10 Saturday "Day Pass," then use your train ticket for a FREE bus ride to the festival. Metrolink's "Antelope Valley Line" runs, with plenty of intermediate stations, through the SFV and Santa Clarita from Union Station in downtown L.A.
METROLINK train schedule and info: https://www.metrolinktrains.c om/ schedules/
Bus schedule from Palmdale METROLINK to festival: http://www.avta.com/index.aspx?page=3
(HELPFUL TIP: The local bus site is challenging. You want Maps and Schedules, Local Transit, Route 7, Route 7 Schedule. You're riding from Palmdale Transportation Center to Marie Kerr Park. And when you're riding to the festival, hit the schedule rack on the bus for a paper schedule to know the return time options.)
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FESTIVALS part 5 -- LATE ADDITION: the Uke Fest
Fri & Sat, Oct 12 & 13, FESTIVAL:
7:30 pm Friday - annual "AV UKULELE FESTIVAL" gala concert at the Performing Arts Theatre at Antelope Valley College, 3041 W Ave K, Lancaster, CA 93534
* Friday is a benefit concert with great players, and it raises money for music education in local schools.
* Saturday is a full day of music workshops and clinics in classrooms.
* Friday Concert Lineup features
• FRED SOKOLOW
• THE NAKED WAITERS
• JASON ARIMOTO
• CALI ROSE
• LISE LEE
* Legendary musician Fred Sokolow, well known for his instructional materials, has played with the likes of John Herald, Frank Wakefield and Jerry Garcia. Through his storied career, he's opened for the Grateful Dead, the Doors, B.B. King, Country Joe and the Fish, and countless other acts. Meet Fred at https://www.sokolowmusic.com/
* Friday Headliners Concert, 7:30 pm, $30
* Saturday Workshops & Clinics, 10 am to 5 pm, $45
* All-Access Two Day Pass, $60
* full event info, with music vids, and tix link, at: www.avukefest.com
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NEWS FEATURES...
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# 1 feature...
"International Day of the Girl" brings music -- and questions -- to TV
Thursday, October 11 marked the annual "International Day of the Girl." In an alternative to the traditional "take your daughter to work day," or the much improved "welcome girls exploring careers," NBC's "Today" show went for music.
That is, they went for music that reinforced the commercialism and marketability of the pop diva who was promoted as every girl's hero and role model -- whether or not it fit the meaning of the special day.
We should say that former First Lady Michelle Obama was also a guest who promoted her new foundation's purpose of supporting and funding causes that empower girls. But she stuck around for the obligatory fawning and gushing over entertainment celebrities -- something that characterizes NBC's "Today" more than any other morning show.
So, was the music anything special? Yes and no.
Meagan Tranor opened the one-song-apiece "concert" with some soundalike pop tome that was lyrically a repetition of three hook lines and nothing more. Anybody paying fifty percent attention knew the entire song on a single run-through and could sing and perform it. If there was any reason to.
Jennifer Hudson followed a convoy of commercials with her song, "I'll Fight." Her song surprisingly centers on its substantive lyrical content, exceeding rare in modern pop. The song, released in May, does have its linguistic incongruity -- "I'll help your back when your backs to the wall" -- but it is otherwise quite strong. And it invokes a strong female character who is there to take action and actualize her ethics on behalf of others. That made it a perfect choice for the day. Check out the lyrics at: https://genius.com/Jennifer-hudson-ill-fight-lyrics
After another avalanche of commercials -- which ran at least as long as the content segment -- we got the third and final musical performance.
Kelly Clarkson brought along an energetic horn section and tried to stylistically evoke Aretha Franklin in Clarkson's own song, "Whole Lotta Woman." Though most of the lyrics were unintelligible, it was clear there was a disconnect between the event's message of empowering girls and the song's theme. This one is about a woman asserting her physical desirability -- speaking to an unnamed man in a competitive situation where she sees other women vying with her to be the prize in the meat market.
We take the time to report all this for a reason. First, because music is influential. And because that performance, as much as anything about "International Day of the Girl," tells us how much this society needs to truly empower our girls. Really empower them -- to be what each and every one of them wants to be -- to achieve their own potential. And not to seek validation of their identities by attaching themselves to some hunk or to the dreams of someone else.
Speaking as a male of the species, we find any female who is not in touch with her own self-actualized girl power just isn't very interesting as a conversationalist, companion, cooperative partner, or competitor. Musically and otherwise. Is that just us, or do some guys still want to oppress women and keep them as playthings? In the wake of "metoo," "Day of the Girl" should raise questions and awareness for all of us -- about our music, and more.
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# 2 feature...
Fascism in our time?
We hear that word, "fascism," tossed around so casually of late that it's a good idea to take time for a brief presentation of what it really is, and the extent to which we are headed for it.
Jason Stanley, professor at Yale, is author of "How Fascism Works: the Politics of Us and Them." He was a guest with plenty to say in the closing segment of "Democracy Now" on Thursday.
With no nonsense or the breathless BS of corporate cable's echo chamber narrative, Prof. Stanley quickly and clearly brings the characteristics into focus, with an assessment of American government and societal behavior. It was absolutely compelling in the 7 am hour when it ran live.
You can watch it on demand on the web. Host Amy Goodman has more with the professor than what aired on TV. The show and the extended conversation are on the show's website, at: https://www.democracynow.org/shows
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# 3 feature...
A NARROWLY-AVERTED SPACE DISASTER -- AND WHY MORE DISASTERS ARE INEVITABLE IN OUR TIME
Every artist we know is interested in space exploration. Maybe it was the influence of David Bowie.
By now, you've likely heard that a NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut safely made a hair-raising emergency landing early Thursday. Their Soyuz booster had an engine failure just three minutes after what appeared to be a perfect launch to the International Space Station, or ISS. Traveling 4,700 mph, the Soyuz crew was 30 miles high when the automatic abort system detached their spacecraft to fall back to Earth 400 km from the launch site.
Space launch failures are thankfully rare. This is only the second for a Soyuz launch. In 1975, two Soviet cosmonauts crash-landed in the Altai Mountains after an aborted launch. They required medical care. Today's crew fared better.
We visit what happened today because convoluted and nonsensical US policy is at the center of this, and as we'll explore, It's a metaphor for a whole lot of things. America is running a paltry shadow of a once-robust space program and doing it on a dangerously thin shoestring. It makes no sense because America's taxpayers paid for the ISS, and our government's budget-cutting zealots eliminated our ability to get there unless we bum a ride with the Russians. Yet we spend more on the aerospace sector of "defense spending" than on any other aspect of deadly technologies.
While the arrangement has produced close ties and cooperation between the two nations' space agencies, it flies in the face of deteriorating US-Russian relations in every other arena. As trade is stifled by political and economic sanctions, reliance on Russian rockets for US crew to come and go from the ISS is a politically risky proposition. Indeed, NASA's contract for rides on Soyuz expires next July, and it's far from certain whether Boeing or Space-X will be ready to take its place.
But then, America is no stranger to crises of its own creation or to stupidity, in many arenas, for a lot of reasons. Often, chief among them is because when the chips are down, we get cheap.
More accurately, it's because we're easily manipulated by the idea that we're too much in debt to afford things that enable higher aspirations, higher thinking about higher purposes. It's because we are conditioned to default to austerity, while spending ever greater sums on wars of foreign occupation, drone wars, proxy wars, secret wars, contingencies for wars, proliferating overseas bases, and supplying weapons to nations who flagrantly use their military power to subjugate their own people and those of neighboring nations.
It's made us cheap -- largely because we're maneuvered into fear-based thinking. We believe we're desperately in debt and can't afford anything. Anything else, that is.
Our infrastructure is deteriorating to the point of a third world country. Our schools cancelled arts and music education, along with shop classes and drivers ed, about two decades ago. What used to be part of everybody's education is now available only to a few who get into "STEM" or so-called "STEAM" curriculums, the latter where arts has shoehorned itself into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
Military bases on US soil dramatically decreased in the 1990s, crippling local economies from coast to coast. We were supposed to gain a "peace dividend" from reduced military spending after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. That "dividend" was supposed to have been available to improve education, create a new 21st century infrastructure, produce medical advances and assure health care for all -- and enable a vigorous space program.
But we got none of those things. Instead, we got an American Empire bent on controlling the world's oil supply through military domination.
It's all in the name of "keeping us safe." Because we live with the threat of terrorism. With which we are, and must be, at war. We are constantly admonished to Honor The Troops. An entire generation has grown up believing "God Bless America" is a tradition at every baseball game.
And so an incalculable amount is spent on "weapons systems," from the most cyber sophisticated to the most rudimentary of dumb bullets.
Even as Russia announced Thursday it was grounding the Soyuz fleet, pending a full investigation? Simultaneously on Thursday, our military quietly announced it was grounding all of the F-35 stealth fighter planes.
The F-35 is the trouble-plagued, much delayed, most expensive aircraft of all time. It's "needed" to keep us safe. And to buy favor with foreign regimes who can be given them in gold-plated military "aid" packages, provided their "leaders" (i.e., rulers) click all the buttons to "like" us. Even if they torture and kill their own people. And starve the children of Yemen. And murder a critical reporter seeking to become an American citizen. Or use their snipers to shoot unarmed civilians protesting their lack of civil rights because they are Palestinians whose land is under military occupation.
The multi-trillion-dollar US aerospace industry could be building vessels for exploring and settling the planets and their astonishing aquatic moons. But the American Empire won't spend our tax dollars on that. Instead, we spend far more for aerospace to be the chief expression of things you didn't see coming that go bang in the night. And kill people. Then we justify it on the basis of job creation, and our corporate media protects the disconnect between that, a generation of severly wounded troops, and why so many people in various parts of the world don't like us.
Thus, the dream of an enlightened humanity, working cooperatively, pursuing a Star Trek future of exploration, discovery, learning, understanding and enlightenment? Well that's ridiculous. It's too expensive. We'd be fiscally irresponsible to pursue that pie-in-the-sky stuff. Or to reverse the climate chaos we are causing. Or to reverse our obsession with incarceration of more people than all other nations combined. Those things would cost too much. We can't afford to do any of those crazy altruistic things. We must be responsible and put everything -- except militarism for empire -- on the cheap.
So Star Trek is off the budgetary table in favor of a Star Wars future. Which, at present, is embodied in the dangerously idiotic notion of creating yet another military branch, to be dubbed the "US Space Force."
NASA -- our civilian space agency -- first envisioned landing humans on Mars during the heyday of the Apollo Moon landings. The first Mars crew was to land in 1987. Instead, the final three Apollo missions were cancelled by the Nixon administration, despite the fact that all the hardware had been built and paid for. An innovative NASA turned one leftover Saturn V into Skylab, the world's first space station. It had a bigger workshop interior than anything launched by anybody, since. But Skylab was allowed to burn up in the atmosphere, because we were too cheap to save it. The other two flight-ready Saturn V Moon rockets were laid on their sides as displays, to quietly deteriorate and pay witness to capability lost -- murdered, really -- by being too cheap to launch them.
As for the money "saved" by cancelling the final three Moon missions? It was devoured in explosions in the jungles of Vietnam. Where America should have learned lessons about the arrogance of Empire, but didn't.
Thing is, back when we were immersed in Vietnam, we were also building a fabulously innovative and capable space program. And building an enormous interstate highway system that went everywhere. And our libraries were open all the time, and our schools taught math AND music and visual and performing arts, to EVERY student in our recently desegregated public schools.
We paid for all of it. Or, rather, the generations who prevailed at the time paid for it. They did it because they taxed the rich. And that didn't exactly prevent the development of Beverly Hills or Miami Beach, or the Lear Jet, or the yacht building industry. That was before the rich were proclaiming themselves as "job creators" whose success could not be penalized by being taxed. Seems we could pay for everything until that happened.
Fast forward to now. Being cheap has been discovered as a tool of political manipulation.
It starts when "we" realize "they" aren't paying and feel no responsibility. That might make us outraged. But the Occupy Movement was a flash in the pan. It was replaced with the imposed idea that if "they" are admired for being smart and getting away free, we should all feel smugly pleased if we can do it, too. Except that can be, and is, manipulated, cynically using a sense of societal guilt.
Case in point? The November California ballot contains Proposition 6. Millions of dollars in TV ads tell us it must be defeated, lest our being cheap will cause the collapse of our decaying infrastructure and starve our "1st responder" police and firemen. That is clever manipulation by those who seek to reap the money they're set to get unless Proposition 6 passes. Construction is the domain of very big corporate interests. Police and Firefighter unions are powerful lobbying forces.
It all hinges on whether voters will see they are continually fleeced by the nation's highest gasoline prices, due in part to California's high fuel taxes and high vehicle registration fees. It's that, or whether the fear of unfilled potholes will prevail. Passage of Proposition 6 -- a yes vote -- will empower the people to decide on future gas tax and vehicle registration hikes, and stop the pending implementation of shockingly high increases in both that will financially cripple many Californians.
With soaring rents being too damn high -- which the people can empower themselves to stop by passing Proposition 10 -- Southern California residents are, increasingly, commuters. Likewise, the expense ratio of commute costs to saving on higher rents closer-in, seems always to be eaten by rising expenses, somewhere. That brings us right back to astronomical gasoline prices and high license plate fees.
Most of us can't even consider our impact on global climate change caused by more time on the road. What should be the primary priority of the entire human race is knocked far down the list by personal economics. All a function of those able to manipulate things on a large scale, for growing enrichment of their bloated fortunes. Power begets the ability to amass and increase power. And to make pawns of the rest of us.
And so, when we flock to the theatres or our Netflix screens to savor Hollywood's latest thrillride of a future of spacefaring, that's as close as we are likely to come. The nebulous notion of going to Mars "sometime in the 2030s" will slip ever farther into a future when there is no money for anything but militarism and Empire.
The "unexpected" and "unanticipated" costs of responding to evermore hurricanes and tornadoes -- and earthquakes caused by fracking, and water poisoned by failing old pipes and frack chemicals -- will consume everything we have. Along the way it will collectively end the ability of most students to afford college, and most people to afford adequate medical care (except for addictive prescription drugs).
And with all that comes the end of the ability to pursue a Star Trek future. It brings evermore needless risk to everything that isn't hardwired to megagiant profitabilty for megagiant, overmerged, cyberspying corporations. Because we are cheap? Partly, but increasingly that idea will be used to manipulate us. Because we fail to see we are rendered that way by the vampires of the military-industrial-cybersecurity complex who safeguard not us, but their Empire.
Meanwhile, today's politicized economics uniformly aggregates all the wealth to the manipulative few. And it produces a quagmire, a plague of nonsensical, unworkable chaos that creates opportunity for the money manipulators to consolidate ever more power and control while the rest of us stay broke.
Thus, high speed rail gets politicized to death, to the point that unnecessary detours make fast trips impossible between the places most people would ride.
Manipulators have no shame. The governor of Florida, the state most vulnerable to climate chaos, uses an executive order that prohibits his state's employees from speaking or writing, in any form, the words "climate change," under penalty of being fired. And Florida's taxpayers finance his ostrich-head-in-the-sand edicts, even as all taxpayers must fund the disaster relief needed because climate change brings especially catastrophic events to Florida.
And so our precious few spacefarers, relegated to bumming rides, can't catch the only launch vehicle in town -- the Russian Soyuz -- because, as of today, those rockets are one of the two fleets that have just been entirely grounded.
Even as we know that the other thing grounded, the hideously expensive US F-35 warplanes, will be magically cured -- at additional hideous expense to taxpayers -- long before we have any new "space workhorse" capability to replace the Soyuz.
Most Uber and Lyft customers won't ride in an old car that might break down. We don't respect our astronauts enough to give them the same option. Because we're either stupid or cheap. And we will continue to pay the price of being driven, by manipulators of fear, into the epidemic lunacy of austerity.
For those who still believe that capitalism will save us, will Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos save our dreams of space? How will they justify the expenses to their profit-demanding directors and stockholders? It's a different equation than a Hollywood fantasy that might be the next summer blockbuster. And that mannequin of an astronaut orbiting the sun in Musk's Tesla doesn't need oxygen or water or food or shielding from cosmic rays or limits to G-forces. Real astronauts and cosmonauts do. Whether or not our fear of corporate-hyped boogeymen or nebulous terrorists or other justifications for a petroleum empire keeps us thinking we can only afford to be cheap.
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MUSIC THIS WEEKEND -- FESTIVALS & CONCERTS
This weekend's Festivals were reported at the top of this edition. Here, through MONDAY, are the CONCERTS, club gigs, and quick-listing of festivals, all in chronological order by day and start time.
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FRIDAY...
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Fri, Oct 12, MUSIC CONFERENCE / FESTIVAL:
Annual "FOLK ALLIANCE FAR-WEST CONFERENCE" gets underway today with a return to Southern California at the Warner Center Marriott, 21850 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
* see FESTIVALS in the first section for details.
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Fri, Oct 12:
7 pm - LAURENCE JUBER, Grammy winning guitarist, plays the Museum of Making Music, 5790 Armada Dr, Carlsbad, CA 92008; 760-438-5996
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Fri, Oct 12:
8 pm - KACY AND CLAYTON play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Fri, Oct 12:
8 pm - HONEY WHISKEY TRIO plus SHE SINGS, SHE SWINGS, at the Grand Annex, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro, CA 90731; 310-833-6362
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Fri, Oct 12:
8 pm - JD SOUTHER & BROOKE RAMEL play the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675; 949-496-8927
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SATURDAY...
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Sat & Sun, Oct 12 & 13, FESTIVAL:
Annual "SEASIDE HIGHLAND GAMES" at Seaside Park, aka the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W Harbor Bl, Ventura, CA 93001
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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Sat, Oct 12, FREE FESTIVAL:
10 am-6 pm - annual "KALEIDOSCOPE MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL" with Lisa Haley & The Zydecats, Stone Soul, High-D Boys, Paddy's Pig, Incendio, Megan Tibbits, Black Eye Affair, much more, at the Palmdale Amphitheater, 2723 Rancho Vista Bl, Palmdale, CA 93551
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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Fri-Sun, Oct 11-13, MUSIC CONFERENCE / FESTIVAL:
Annual "FOLK ALLIANCE FAR-WEST CONFERENCE" continues at the Warner Center Marriott, 21850 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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LATE ADDITION: Sat, Oct 13:
Noon-4 pm - TEQUILA PICNIC band with superb songwriter J. PETER BOLES plays a benefit for the Calif. Coastal Horse Rescue's "Harvest of Hope" event, at 600 W Lomita Av, Ojai. There's music, kid's activities, food & beer. $10 per person.
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Sat, Oct 12:
2 pm -ANDY RAU plus DENNIS ROGER REED play the Middle Ridge Winery, 54301 N Circle Dr, Idyllwild, CA 92549
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Sat, Oct 12:
3 pm - ECHO MOUNTAIN plus DAVID BRAGGER & SUSAN PLATZ, and CLINTON DAVIS, play a "Pre-Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddler’s Festival Concert" at the Sunday festival venue, Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N Los Carneros Rd, Goleta, CA 93117
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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Sat, Oct 12:
4 pm - DIGGING ROOTS at the California Center For The Arts, Lyric Court, 340 N Escondido Bl, Escondido, CA 92025; 800-988-4253
* note: two events here in different theatres.
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Sat, Oct 12:
7 pm - TIERRA, MAR Y AIRE: FLAMENCO ARANA at the California Center for the Arts, Center Theatre, 340 N Escondido Bl, Escondido, CA 92025; 800-988-4253
* note: two events here in different theatres.
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Sat, Oct 12:
7:30 pm - JOHN YORK (the Byrds) plays the Gelencser House Concerts in Claremont, CA 91711; reservations get directions, at: singfolk@yahoo.com
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Sat, Oct 12:
7:30 pm - Grammy winning Hawai'ian slack key guitar master JIM KIMO WEST, & KEN EMERSON, play the Wooden Hall Concerts at the Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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Sat, Oct 12:
7:30 pm - GRAHAM NASH plays Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Dr, San Diego, CA 92106; 619-523-1010
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LATE ADDITION: Sat, Oct 13:
7:30-11:15 pm - SECOND-SATURDAY CONTRA DANCE with
Briana Bandy and Emil Olguin making the music, Jeremy Korr calling, at the Woman’s Club of South Pasadena, 1424 Fremont Av, South Pasadena, CA 91030
* Admission is $12 adults, $8 full-time students w/ID, age 16 and under free. CDSS members get $1 off.
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Sat, Oct 12:
8 pm - PATTERSON HOOD plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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SUNDAY...
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Sun, Oct 13, FESTIVAL:
10 am-5 pm - Annual "SANTA BARBARA OLD-TIME FIDDLER’S FESTIVAL" at Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, CA 93117
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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Sun; Sat & Sun, Oct 12 & 13, FESTIVAL:
Annual "SEASIDE HIGHLAND GAMES" at Seaside Park, aka the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W Harbor Bl, Ventura, CA 93001
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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Sun; Fri-Sun, Oct 11-13, MUSIC CONFERENCE / FESTIVAL:
Annual "FOLK ALLIANCE FAR-WEST CONFERENCE" concludes today at the Warner Center Marriott, 21850 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
* see FESTIVALS (first feature) for full write-up.
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Sun, Oct 13:
7 pm - J.D. SOUTHER plays the Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University's Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts, 24255 PCH, Malibu, CA 90265; 310-506-4522
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Sun, Oct 13:
7 pm - TERESA TUDURY plus JAMES LEE STANLEY play the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 92675
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Sun, Oct 13:
8 pm - JESSE COOK plays the City National Grove Of Anaheim, 2200 E Katella Av, Anaheim, CA 92806; 714-712-2700
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Sun, Oct 13:
8 pm - THE DEER plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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MONDAY...
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Mon, Oct 14:
8 pm - WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY play the splendid McCallum Theatre, 73000 Fred Waring Dr, Palm Desert, CA 92260; 760-340-ARTS or 866-889-ARTS
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Mon, Oct 14:
8 pm - JOHN McEUEN & CRAIG EASTMAN play their annual show at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA 92675
* John is a founding member of the NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND.
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♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS – and views of interest to artists everywhere – more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.
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