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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Calendar of Events

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Arts al Fresco for Free – August 17 marks the final monthly installment of Mesa Music Nites, which bills itself as a “concert in the park” at its new venue of Elings Park, high atop Las Positas Road. But this is a much smaller and more intimate gathering, with maybe 10 percent of the audience, although food, drinks, vendors, and a raffle, as well as room to dance (and for kids to roll down the gentle hills). Don’t let the name of the band playing on the small makeshift stage scare you, either: Hoodlum Friends is merely a cover band that plays an eclectic variety of classic rock and alternative, modern pop rock, folk rock, and surf instrumentals.

WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm

WHERE: 1298 Las Positas Rd.

COST: free

INFO: www.sbmesa.org

UCSB A&L’s summer film series continues its exploration of the galaxy via cinematic interstellar adventurers in its summer series, Out of This World. This week’s penultimate sci-fi flick is Guardians of the Galaxy, with brash adventurer Peter Quill finding himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. As always, fun is as much about the atmosphere as the movie, partly due to DJ Darla Bea spinning themed music before the screening at the historic Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens.

WHEN: Friday, August 18 at 8:30 pm

WHERE: 1100 Anacapa St.

COST: free

INFO: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

The Music at the Ranch series at the Stow House-Rancho La Patera’s lakeside site comes to a close on August 22 with Down Mountain Lights, the new-ish gender-balanced Santa Barbara cover band known for soulful-funky versions of rock and funk hits of the last several decades. Elubia’s and Sassafrass are the food trucks on hand this week for the finale, but feel free to bring picnics of your own to enjoy on blankets and low-backed chairs in the tree-lined grounds.

WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm

WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta

COST: free

INFO: (805) 681-7216 or www.goletahistory.org/music-at-the-ranch

As two music series end, another fires up as Roar & Pour returns to the plaza in front of the Granada Theatre for weekly free shows from diverse local bands through August. August 17 brings the Dan Zimmerman Band, an instrumental trio featuring the guitarist-composer’s blend of jazz, rock, country, and funk with ambient textures with stalwart SB bassist Jim Connolly and David Garske on drums. Next week (August 24): 1970s-leaning versatile cover-rock band the Doublewide Kings, who three months later will also play inside the Granada with the Santa Barbara Symphony’s support on an all-Van Morrison night.

WHEN: 6-8 pm

WHERE: 1214 State Street

COST: free

INFO: (805) 899-2222 or https://www.granadasb.org/roar-and-pour

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18

Eyes of War – Eyes of Hope – Animation artist Rich Wilkie had already transitioned from his 25-year career in animation and moved to Santa Barbara to focus on fine art painting through emotional lenses. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Wilkie turned his attention to the images of refugees flooding the media, painting portraits of the Ukrainians whose life had been so dramatically upended. At first focusing on sad children whose expressions showed “that thousand-mile stare people get when the events swirling around them exhaust their minds,” Wilkie found himself weighed down by his own emotional involvement and began to also mix in portraits of happier children exhibiting the resilience of youth. Wilkie’s 100 Portraits of Ukrainian Refugees are on exhibit at the Community Arts Workshop alongside art by Alex Gorelik and sculptures by Burt Horowitz as a fundraiser for the refugees of the Ukrainian war. Today’s closing reception features the conclusion of a silent auction for the artworks, with all profits from the sales of the art, food, beverages, and donations earmarked for charitable organizations helping Ukrainian Refugees, including World Dance for Humanity (who will also perform), Direct Relief, Ukrainian Women of Santa Barbara, the First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church of Santa Barbara, and Voice of the Children. The Ukrainian refugee portraits can also be viewed at www.richwilkie.com/ukrainian-refugees-original.

WHEN: 4-8 pm

WHERE: 631 Garden St.

COST: free admission

INFO: www.richwilkie.com/eyes or www.sbcaw.org

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19

Swamp Blues Meets New Orleans Funk – Grammy-nominated blues singer-songwriter-guitarist Tab Benoit has seen his three-decade career build in popularity based on a foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues delivered via both his Otis Redding-inspired vocals and legendary approach on the ax that eschew any effects in employing a simple Category 5 amplifier. A five-time winner of Blues Music Awards, including the coveted BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice), the Cajun-influenced bluesman Benoit has also been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. The special guest also comes from Louisiana: The Rumble featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. of the Golden Eagles tribe, with trumpet, trombone, guitar, keys, and drums fusing iconic New Orleans funk (The Meters, Neville Brothers) with electrifying brass and the Black Masking carnival tradition. All the members sing, and the band often engages the audience in the classic Mardi Gras Indian-style call-and-response chanting. WHEN: 7:30 pm

WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

COST: $45, $55, $106

INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

Young at the Heart of Country – Chris Young grew up performing in children’s musical theater productions, sang in choirs, and even worked on a show as a mariachi singer, and as the house singer for Cowboys Dance Hall in Arlington, Texas, before he caught his big break by winning Nashville Star in 2006. But since then, his star has risen rapidly, as he was quickly signed to RCA Records Nashville and soon started scoring big country hits with his sophomore album in 2009. “Gettin’ You Home (The Black Dress Song)” was the first of five successive singles to rise to No. 1 on the Billboard Country chart, followed by “Tomorrow,” “You,” “I Can Take it From There,” and “I’m Comin’ Over.” Young’s success hasn’t been quite so singular since Montecito’s own Brad Paisley inducted him into the Grand Ole Opry in 2017, but his 2023 album has still drawn plenty of fans for the songs “Looking for You” and “All Dogs Go to Heaven,” as will tonight’s concert at the Samala Showroom in Santa Ynez. WHEN: 8 pm

WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez

COST: $109-$199

INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

Naked Shakes Sums It up Again – It was back in 2015 that UCSB Theater Dept. chair Irwin Appel, the longtime director of Naked Shakes, the school’s resident Shakespeare company, first conceived of The Death of Kings, his passion project adaptation of all eight Shakespeare history plays into a single theatrical epic relayed by a cast of 13 storytellers and narrators. The work traces the rise and fall of some of history’s most renowned and notorious monarchs, four centuries worth, including such notable characters as King Richard III, Queen Margaret, Prince Hal/King Henry V, Joan of Arc, Sir John Falstaff, King Henry IV, and King Richard II to name a few. Part of the clever conceit of The Death of Kings is that its apt for both Shakespeare lovers and aficionados and newcomers to Shakespeare’s plays, as it doesn’t require any previous knowledge of the Bard or even English history, to enjoy. After undergoing more than five different iterations, the piece is being performed again this summer as part of the Naked Shakes season in advance of staging the epic in Verona, Italy, as the closing act of the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival, part of the European Shakespeare Festival network later this month.

WHEN: 7 pm tonight through August 24

WHERE: UCSB Hatlen Theater

COST: free

INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24

Sa-Roc Rolls into Town – Arguably one of the most vibrant hip hop MCs in the world today, Sa-Roc has attained both acclaim and audiences for her crisp articulation, fiery delivery, and elevated and insightful lyricism for a socially conscious generation. Sa-Roc has been dubbed by Okayplayer as “One of the most formidable microphone mavens in the game” and heralded by NPR (which also showcased her in a Tiny Desk concert) as “A modern day griot whose aura radiates calm in a world of chaos.” Sa-Roc’s most recent release, the deluxe version of her critically acclaimed album, The Sharecropper’s Daughter, features an addition of six powerful new songs including the sagely affirming “Wild Seeds” and the poignant closer, “The Rebirth,” a transcendent collaboration with the late MF DOOM.

WHEN: 9 pm

WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court

COST: $20

INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

Huang on Wong – UCSB English professor and Guggenheim Fellow Yunte Huang is also a noted author whose books include the Edgar Award-winning biography Charlie Chan and Inseparable, the exuberant and vivid account story of America’s most famous 19th-century Siamese twins Chang and Eng, Huang now follows those National Book Critics Circle Award finalists with his latest, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with History. Praised as a trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of 20th-century history, the book employs passion and fervor to celebrate Wong, who 60 years after her death was the first Asian American to be commemorated on U.S. currency, in 2022. Huang discusses and signs copies of Daughter of the Dragon at Chaucer’s Books today in the store’s lone August in-store event.

WHEN: 6 pm

WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center

COST: free

INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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