Music

Promotores Collaborative of San Luis Obispo County presents Celebrando Nuestros Antepasados (Honoring Our Ancestors), a Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on November 2 at 2 p.m. at…

You can meet the most interesting people at the Laguna Lake Dog Park in San Luis Obispo. Case in point: a young singer-songwriter named Jamie Pennelly, whose sultry voice gives…

In the film Blue Moon, director Richard Linklater has given actor Ethan Hawke a play-like stage for his performance as the musing musical lyricist Lorenz (Larry) Hart. Hart was the…

Festival Mozaic's 2025 Artist-in-Residence, cellist Sophie Shao, completes her residency with a chamber music concert on Sunday, October 26, exploring three works of intimate chamber music.  In the organization’s first…

The Clark Center in Arroyo Grande is bringing Whitney Houston’s musical legacy to life on Sunday, October 26 in a critically-acclaimed live tribute show described as “mind-blowingly spot on.”  …

In my September interview with Opera SLO director Brian Asher Alhadeff regarding the company’s October production of Hansel and Gretel, I closed by noting “A ginormous gingerbread house and a…

Following its stellar 50th anniversary spectacular presented in August and September, The Great American Melodrama has returned to its usual fare—but not to the tried and true melodramas of the…

Opera fans in San Luis Obispo who have followed coloratura soprano Alba Franco-Cancél will be pleased to know that she is returning to the area this month to perform in…

Central Coast Theatre Company presents Hadestown (Teen Edition) in three performances October 17-18 at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts. Step into a haunting and hopeful world where ancient…

Certain rock 'n' roll genres have more staying power than others. Some, like yacht rock, went away for decades before recently making a triumphant return. Since the early 1970s, when…