Before we plan our Wednesday, let’s talk about Saturday and how you — carefree, whimsical you — used to love to play in the sand.
Remember sand? You love it! It's great. And you can immerse every part of your being in it this weekend if your inner child is courageous enough to sign up for Friends of the Dunes’ annual Sand Sculpture Festival occurring this weekend at the Manila Dunes Recreation Area. It’s ridiculously cheap to enter and proceeds help keep them dunes sparkly. More info here. Dig, you.
OK, about tonight. We don’t feel like we’d be risking too much by suggesting that more total musical notes will be played/sang/inferred within the confines of the Arcata Playhouse this evening than in any other building in Humboldt. (Maybe some Dead cover band in their garage, but they’ll be playing for 11 straight hours or more.) Anyway, long story short, Italian folk/jazz sextet OU (pronounced "oo") will dizzy your ears tonight if you so allow them. Get an aural glimpse of what they bring to the table in the clip below.
Arcata Theatre Lounge
/ 6 p.m.
/ $5
In order to placate the angry gods who’ve allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece.
613-3030 /
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Mad River Brewery Tasting Room
/ 6-9 p.m.
/ Free
Here's to aging gracefully! Trifecta will play rock and blues at a benefit for the Humboldt Senior Resource Center. The Mad River Brewing Company will donate $1 for every beer you purchase.
443-9747 /
jruprecht@humsenior.org /
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Arcata Playhouse
/ 8-11 p.m.
/ $18
/ $15 Playhouse and RJA members, students and seniors
"The Italian sextet's original sound is created by the sublime collision of rock and jazz, improvisation and street music."
822-1575 /
david@arcataplayhouse.org /
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Six Rivers Brewery
/ 8-11 p.m.
/ Free
Country singer/songwriter and Nashville based touring artist.
839-7580 /
6rbmusicbooking@gmail.com /
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SCRAP Humboldt
/ 6:30-7:30 a.m.
/ Free
/ 18+
"As a nonprofit creative reuse center, volunteers are essential to the services that SCRAP Humboldt offers."
822-2452 /
volunteer@scraphumboldt.org /
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Highland Park
/ 6 p.m.
/ Free
Like horse polo minus the stable fees.
541-531-6671 /
daryl_witmore@yahoo.com /
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Labor Temple
/ 6:15 p.m.
Supporters of the Eureka initiative to require employers with more than 25 employees to provide a $12 minimum wage gather.
443-3731 /
The Ink Annex
/ 7-10 p.m.
/ $7
/ $5 members
With bands Crutches, Frustration, Volatile Substance, The Rebel Set and Dandruff.
The Jam
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ $5
/ 21+
Every Wednesday Jambalaya makes with the whompity whomp.
822-5266 /
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Toby and Jacks
/ 10 p.m.
/ 21+
Were you just thinking, "Is there anyplace that has Dancehall Wednesdays?" Here it is!
