Andres Vadín, Artistic Director for Tablao Zano | Photo: Fritz Olenberger A tablao flamenco is an intimate performance of flamenco music and dance set in a café, using a raised wooden platform (tablao) to amplify the sounds of the dancers' feet. Tablaos f... See more
'The only difference that I see / Is you are exactly the same as you used to be.' That line, from track 5 of The Wallflowers' Bringing Down the Horse album, kept going through my head as I watched the band up on stage at Lobero last week. In what sometime... See more
An ancient discipline. A secret society. Precocious students. A complicated protagonist. These are some of the ingredients that create the world of Mothsblood, a bold debut by Lynn D. Jung. I don't read much in the fantasy genre, but I found myself pulled... See more
As a long-standing tradition in the UCSB Arts & Lectures programming, attention is paid to both western classical music and, to a smaller degree, music of the non-western world, a k a the controversially-monikered realm of 'world music.' With the loca... See more
A decade after her career-making Grammy-winning album Undercurrent — with a successful touring career as both a solo artist and as part of the multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriters trio I'm with Her, alongside Aoife O'Donovan and Sara Watkins — Sarah J... See more
