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Your guide to rockin’ around the Christmas tree by G re g Cahill
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Narada Michael Walden, shown here with Felecia Gaston and her Performing Stars of Marin, goes little drummer boy on us this Saturday at 142 Throckmorton.
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proudly presents 26th Annual Holiday Concert
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2013 5pm
Angelico Hall, Dominican University 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Ticket information: www.marinchorus.org
Brandon Brack Amanda Hahn Denise Wharmby
Artistic Director Associate Director Associate Director
P.O. Box 905, Novato, CA 94948 | www.marinchorus.org | 415.827.7335
14 Pacific Sun December 13 - december 19, 2013
here’s something about the Christmas holiday season that sparks irreverence and a charitable spirit, sometimes all wrapped in the same package. Case in point: the North Bay rock band The Sorentinos have released a new Christmas EP that includes such nontraditional holiday fare as “Santa’s Sex Slave” and “Beatnik Christmas.” Irreverent enough? Check. To promote the release (available on iTunes and CD Baby), the band will throw a special Rock and Roll Christmas Show on Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Hopmonk Tavern in Novato. All of the band’s proceeds from that show will benefit the Marin Food Bank and the Marin Humane Society to help feed hungry people and their pets. Black Cat Bone will open the show at 8:30pm. Charitable enough? Check. Meanwhile, in Mill Valley, Grammywinning record producer and drummer extraordinaire Narada Michael Walden will host his 17th annual Holiday Jam Dance Party, a Dec. 14 benefit concert at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre to support music education. Special guests include Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers, his daughter Lara Johnston, soul and gospel singer Lester Chambers of the Chamber Brothers, his son Dylan Chambers, and Hope Briggs, among others. It’s a chance, Walden promises, to get your funky groove on (believe it—
Walden is fresh from a two-year tour as a member of the Jeff Beck Band and who has just released his own rockin’ album Thunder 2013). This is no little drummer boy— Walden can really pound those skins! Irreverent enough? Check. Proceeds from the holiday dance party
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The spiritual side of Wynton Marsalis (Columbia/Sony Classical/Legacy)
Here’s the perfect soundtrack for either a secular or sacred holiday. This 15-track compilation gathers material from throughout jazz trumpet master Wynton Marsalis' career and includes the previously unreleased song ‘Precious Lord, Take My Hand,’ by the late gospel great Marion Williams. New Orleans second-line rhythms and Dixieland swing strut side-by-side with traditional gospel songs, redemption choirs, Sunday service peaching and straight-ahead jazz ballads. Some of these tracks can fit nicely on a playlist beside Vince Guaraldi’s seasonal songs. It’s an interesting and inspiring mix— alternately soothing and stimulating— that can carry you to lofty heights on the sound of Gabriel ... er, Wynton, blowing his horn.—GC