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Now in its seventh year, the Petaluma Music Festival is one of the most popular and community-friendly festivals in the North Bay. The headliner this year is New Orleans funk and jazz jam band Galactic. Rock and soul favorites the Mother Hips, country-and-western act Brokedown in Bakersfield and the Brooklyn funk and soul band Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds round out the bill. These performers will appear on three stages throughout the day. There will also be a silent auction, Lagunitas beers and specialty foods. All proceeds benefit music education programs for Petaluma area public schools. The Petaluma Music Festival takes place on Saturday, Aug. 2, at the Petaluma Fairgrounds, 100 Fairgrounds Drive, Petaluma. Noon. $40; $85 VIP. Petalumamusicfestival.org.
For the last eight years, photographer Penny Wolin has traveled the United States documenting and interviewing other American photographers of Jewish ancestry, chronicling the culture and different artists’ reactions to their heritage. Her previous photo documentary on the subject, The Jews of Wyoming, exhibited solo at the Smithsonian Institution, and now Wolin has a new project that she will be discussing and previewing called Descendants of Light. Wolin examined the works of photographers like Annie Leibovitz and Joel Meyerowitz, and a selection of Wolin’s photos and her new book will be on display when she gives a special arts lecture on Saturday, Aug. 2, at Calabi Gallery, 456 10th St., Santa Rosa. 6pm. Free. 707.781.7070.
San Francisco’s Avi Vinocur and North Carolina’s Patrick Dyer Wolf are blue-collar songwriters playing roots and country, who began collaborating after meeting in San Francisco in 2007. While looking for an appropriate name for their dusty, catchy melodies, they landed on an unincorporated town in Texas that lay exactly halfway between their respective hometowns. Goodnight, Texas was born and immediately hooked audiences with a blend of hard-rocking stompers, lonesome ballads and dynamic live performances. This week, Goodnight, Texas comes to the North Bay when they play as part of the Summer Concert Series on Sunday, Aug. 3, at Long Meadow Ranch Winery and Farmstead. 738 Main St., St. Helena. 2pm. $25–$35. 707.963.4555.
Described as “animated sounds for cartoons that never happened,” the wild, unpredictable jazz of Dr. Abacus comes to Smiley’s Saloon for a night of crazy sounds and zany antics. The five members of Dr. Abacus don festive costumes, wield a cacophony of horns and percussion and blare a loony blend of hyperactive music and imaginative compositions—look no further than their old-timey “Banana Peel Two Step” to hear the wildness. Their live shows never fail to “animate” audiences. Dr. Abacus plays on Thursday, July 31, at Smiley’s Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas, 8pm. Free. 415.868.1311.
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