Music

Tax season has arrived and you can be a champion for arts education by making a tax-deductible donation of $1 or more to the Keep Arts in Schools Fund on…

Live Oak Music Festival recently unveiled its official festival artwork for 2026. Northern California artist Gabe Schneider of Sight Study Studio created a piece reminiscent of Art Nouveau posters of…

More than two dozen acts have been confirmed for the 38th annual Live Oak Music Festival June 19-21 at El Chorro Regional Park. Tickets are available now for purchase at…

Photos by B App   Exciting. Eclectic. Exuberant. If you've never seen Urinetown the Musical, those three words are probably not the ones you expect to hear about a theatre…

Orion Weiss, Bion Tsang, Scott Yoo   I enjoy attending Scott Yoo’s “Notable Insights” and Alyson McLamore’s pre-concert lectures for Festival Mozaic. I may not always agree with them on…

Chris McBride has been named president and general manager of KCBX Public Radio, a National Public Radio member station founded in 1975. McBride has been with KCBX since 2023, when…

In the world of entertainment, there are performers, entertainers, and stars. Most are a mix but very few hit the trifecta. Singer/actress Patti Lupone is one of those very few.…

One of my favorite graduate composition classes was "World Music." This was more accurately (if a bit more awkwardly) named "Introduction to the Field of Ethnomusicology"—the study of the musics…

After a recent public administrative review of the use permit for Libertine Brewing Company in downtown San Luis Obispo, one message clearly resounded during the hearing. Don’t mess with our…

Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown the Musical is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. The Tony Award-winning show comes to…