Musical legend Richman coming to NorCal

News release

NEVADA CITY

— Influential singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman will perform a rare show at the Nevada Theatre Wednesday, March 15, as part of Paul Emery’s Nevada City LIVE! Concert series.

Richman has been playing music, recording and touring for most of his life. Richman and his drummer Tommy Larkins win fans wherever they play. In the early 1970s, Richman formed the noted band The Modern Lovers. Larkins was in the groups Naked Prey, Giant Sand and other popular bands in Tucson, Ariz.

“The music we’re doing now works well in quiet places like theaters and performing art centers. We still don’t use a program or a set list so we don’t know what we’ll do until we do it,” Richman said.

“Please do not expect old songs. Many singers my age do a retrospective; this show is not like that,” he continued. “It’s mostly stuff made up in the last three and four years. Some of the songs presented might be in different languages; this is not to be esoteric or clever, it’s because the different languages help me express different feelings sometimes. One last thing, my idea of a good show has nothing to do with applause. It’s about if all the songs I sang that night were ones that I felt.”

A singer and songwriter who has stubbornly (and joyfully) followed his muse in a career that began in the early ’70s,

Richman started out as a primitive protopunk bandleader under the influence of the Velvet Underground who would eventually mature into an acoustic balladeer and who sang his spare, passionate tunes in Spanish as

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B3 often as in English. In the middle, Richman was known for his purposefully naïve music that reveled in a childlike love of the world around him.

Artists as diverse as the Sex Pistols and Joan Jett have covered his song “Roadrunner.” Boston skapunk band Big D and the Kids Table have covered “New England” live and on their Gypsy Hill EP. A version of “Pablo Picasso” performed by Burning Sensations was included in the 1984 cult film “Repo Man.” David Bowie covered “Pablo Picasso” on his album “Reality.” Velvet Underground founding member John Cale has a version of the song on his 1975 album, “Helen of Troy,” and continues to include the song in his live shows. Iggy Pop has performed “Pablo Picasso” live and wrote an extra verse for it. Echo and the Bunnymen covered “She monarchs have declined by approximately 80% since the 1980s due to loss of breeding habitat and coastal overwintering habitat, climate change and the e ects of pesticides. Western monarchs still have a long way to go to recover and the collaborative hopes to make a di erence. The group will identify, adopt, promote and implement

Cracked” in concert in 1984 and 1985 and Siouxsie and the Banshees have a version of the song on “Downside Up.”

Richman’s music has set the tone for many alternative rock bands, such as Violent Femmes, Galaxie 500, They Might Be Giants (“Roadrunner” reportedly inspired John Flansburgh to become a musician), Weezer, Tullycraft, Jens Lekman, singer Frank Black (who composed the tribute song “The Man Who Was Too Loud”), Brandon Flowers, Art Brut, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady & Lifter Puller, Mac DeMarco and Nerf Herder, who composed a song about him, titled “Jonathan”, which appeared on the band’s second album, “How To Meet Girls.” British country rock band the Rockingbirds released the single “Jonathan, Jonathan” in tribute the western migratory population of the monarch butterfly and other pollinators in California.

“I had a chance to witness monarch migration this winter on the Monterey Peninsula, and it moved me deeply,” said California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot. “Butterflies, bees and other pollinators are not only beautiful, but also essential to our environment and food production.

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As a producer himself, Richman and drummer Larkins produced Vic Chesnutt’s final album, “Skitter on Take-O ,” in 2009 which appeared on Vapor Records. Chesnutt opened for Richman at concerts many times during his later years.

The member agencies are CDFW, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Coastal Commission, California Department of Food and Agriculture, California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, California Department of Transportation, Wildlife Conservation Board, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey, National Park Service and California Natural Resources Agency.

The collaborative is basing its priorities on two initiatives: (1) the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ 50-year Monarch Conservation Plan, and (2) the June 2022 Western Monarch Summit, initiated by Senator Je Merkley (D-OR), which laid out a set of shortterm priorities aimed at improving monarch outcomes in the west.

Combined, the member agencies manage much of the state and federal land in California. These public lands comprise nearly 50% of California’s total land area. Due to its broad participation, the group is wellpositioned to maximize its impact on California’s monarch and pollinator habitats.

The collaborative’s work will also be applicable to private landowners and the general public who want to voluntarily engage in this framework.

“Many participating agencies, including the California Department of Food and Agriculture, work closely with private landowners to increase opportunities for pollinator conservation across various land uses,” said Secretary for Agriculture Karen Ross. “Public-private partnerships are today, interracial couples are a part of the normal landscape of society.

Today there are cultural issues and mores to discuss aplenty and a need for open forums. One of these public squares is the annual LUNAFEST, locally hosted by the Soroptimists International of Cameron Park/El Dorado Hills.

LUNAFEST features short films all by, for and about women. The film festival believes that sharing diverse perspectives can spark conversation, connection and change. In a span of 90 minutes, these films tackle universal themes of friendship, bravery and community. The hope is to break down barriers and celebrate the importance of finding joy. The films are screened across the country by a variety of service organizations.

The films contain mature subject matter. Age 16 and up is advised. Some topics are controversial. But that is the purpose of this art: to start conversations within society. To view the list of 2023 films visit lunafest. org/filmmakers.

Doing good

Local funds raised through LUNAFEST by the Soroptimists support needs in the community by providing programs and monetary support for women and children in need. Programs include Live Your Dream educational grants, high school and Folsom Lake College scholarships and Tech Trek camps for girls. The Soroptimists also support local agencies working to stop human tra cking in Sacramento and El Dorado counties. This fundraiser provides their most important a key ingredient to e ective pollinator conservation.”

Agricultural regions of the state have been identified as critical to monarch recovery by the planning documents the collaborative is adopting.

“The Natural Resources Conservation Service proudly assists California’s farmers and ranchers in voluntary implementation of conservation practices, including the planting of many miles of hedgerows over the last decade. Actions like these can support monarchs on California’s agricultural lands,” said NRCS California State Conservationist Carlos Suarez. “NRCS is thrilled to continue work like this in collaboration with the Multi-Agency Pollinator Collaborative.”

To increase the likelihood that conservation e orts will succeed the collaborative is also working to share the most up-to-date scientific and management information.

“We proudly support the collaborative with the best available science to enhance management decisions that target pollinator conservation,” said U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Regional Director Eric Reichard. “Our goal is to proactively share impartial information and methodologies to facilitate our partner’s conservation objectives.”

Ultimately, the goal of the collaborative is to help catalyze monarch and pollinator conservation in California by building on the recent increase of monarch butterflies.

Armando Quintero, director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, added, “This collaborative will provide a venue for us to share knowledge and work together across California to help migratory monarchs and other native pollinators, by focusing our conservation e orts where they are needed most.” community impact.

Two ways to participate

This year’s film festival has virtual and in-person options. Virtually the films will be available for a full 48 hours, from 11 a.m. March 30 to 11 a.m. April 1.

The in-person event is March 30 at 7 p.m. at the Cameron Park Community Center, 2502 Country Club Drive in Cameron Park. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Complimentary desserts are provided and small plates and beverages will be available for sale. The event has a spring theme which will be reflected in ra e and auction items, just in time for Easter.

Tickets for either venue are $25 each. Visit tinyurl.com/lunafest23 to learn more.

The kids will be ‘alright’

Thomas Je erson was a selfproclaimed arts enthusiast. Looking at America’s future, he was an optimist.

“When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches,” he said.

The Great American Experiment continues, right here in El Dorado County. God bless America!

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