Lowdown: March Fourth This March Sixth

Musically, this Humboldt Friday is as vibrant and rowdy as any.

The most visually stimulating ensemble providing sound to Humboldt is easily the March Fourth Marching Band, a brass band/circus that employs acrobats, stilt-walkers and dancers in addition to its might horn section. You can attempt to understand the MFMB experience in the YouTube clip below, but pixels hardly do them justice. HumBrews is the proper place to educate yourself.
If you heard The HiLL on KHUM today, you know their brand of gritty, outlaw country is no act. Somebody get the Burly Dent reality show started, K? The HiLL shares a bill with local surf/punk/pop thing The Mother Vines at Jambalaya.
Arguably Humboldt’s most accomplished, ambitious funk band, Motherlode will deliver more rhythmic shifts than the Logger Bar is used to. If you like your weekends sweaty...

Also on Friday night’s agenda, the 24th Almost Annual Pun-off at Arcata Theatre Lounge. The fundraiser's reemergence (almost) each year coincides with the following video popping in our news feeds aiming to answer the question “What’s a pun-off?” If you have never personally had that question answered, you know what to do.

—Andrew Goff

EVENTS (SUBMIT YOURS!)

Trinidad Arts Night

Trinidad / 6-9 p.m.

Kinda like Garberville Arts Alive, but in Trinidad.

The Good Body

Humboldt State University Studio Theater / 7 p.m. / $12 / $8 students / 18+

The forbidden pleasure of ice cream, the effects of botox, and the absurdity of the beauty industry all come together in the new work by Eve Ensler.

530-448-9458 / thegoodbody.humboldt@gmail.com /

Bowl for Kids' Sake XXXII: Jungle Bowl

Harbor Lanes / 7 p.m.

Every dollar raised helps to provide professionally supported volunteer mentors for children in our community.

445-4871 / bfks@ncbbbs.org / Web site

24th Almost Annual Pun-off

Arcata Theatre Lounge / 7:30-10:30 p.m. / $17

Cliff Berkowitz MC's The 24th Almost Annual Pun Off Friday, March 6, 2015 Arcata Theatre Lounge. Doors open at 7:30. Punning begroans at 8 pm. The Pun Off benefits Making Headway Center for Brain Injury Recovery. Amy Berkowitz will be one of this years judges.

672-3668 / lornam@mhwcenter.org / Web site

Eureka Symphony Winter Concert

Arkley Center For The Performing Arts / 8-10 p.m. / $29 / $44 Loge / $34 Orchestra Rear / $39 Orchestra Main and Lower Balcony / Free children 12 and under / $10 students one hour before concert

"Johannes Brahms’ Concerto No. 1—one of the 19th century’s most beloved piano concertos—will be performed by Humboldt State’s talented John Chernoff. The remainder of the program is devoted to 20th century orchestral pieces inspired by dance music."

845-3655 / eurekasymphony@gmail.com / Web site

The HiLL, The Mother Vines

The Jam / 9 p.m. / $5 / 21+

The Hill: Humboldt County's own blend of outlaw county and honky-tonk punk. The Mother Vines: Local psychedelic surf punk pop experience. You: stoked.

822-5266 / Web site

March Fourth Marching Band

Humboldt Brews / 9:30 p.m. / $20 / 21+

Dressed in redesigned marching-band-themed costumes, they bring electric bass, 5-piece percussion corps, a 6-part brass section, stilt-walkers, dancers, acrobatics and a very diverse musical repertoire.

826-2739 / Web site

Kindred Spirits

Clam Beach Inn / 10-1:30 a.m. / Free / 21+

Local bluegrass.

839-0545 / Web site

The 21st Social Justice Summit

Humboldt State University / 3-5 p.m. / $20 Non-profits / $25 community members / Free Students

The Social Justice Summit theme this year is ““Re-Visit... Re-Generate... Recommit: Intersectional Analysis Is Imperative for Social Justice.”

826-3364 / summit@humboldt.edu / Web site

Spring's-a-Comin'

Ramone's Cafe in Mckinleyville / 4-6 p.m.

Photos by Herman Bouler.

Live Oil Painting by Steve Helton

Eel River Brewery / 5-9 p.m. / Free

"Helton is a man of many talents; oil painting, ceramics, and manning the BBQ among them."

725-2739 / eelriverevents@gmail.com / Web site

Fortuna's First Friday

Fortuna / 6-9 p.m.

Art, music, fun and great deals from local merchants in the friendly city.

Roller Skating

Eureka Municipal Auditorium / 6-8:30 p.m. / $5.25 Adults / $4.50 Youth

Skate the night away with your family and friends under party lights.

441-9181 / Web site

Public Skate

Blue Lake Roller Rink / 6:30-9:30 p.m. / $5

668-5932 / parks-rec@bluelake.ca.gov / Web site

The 1491s

Van Duzer Theater / 7-8:30 p.m. / Free

the 1491s are a collective of American Indian writers, filmmakers, visual and traditional artists, and advocates of language, culture and community. Founded in 2009, the group's distinctly indigenous brand of satire has drawn a sizable following.

826-3364 / mcc@humboldt.edu / Web site