Singer-songwriter Willy Porter returns to Chico on Wednesday, but this time at a new venue. North Valley Productions is hosting its first show at the new Grilla Bites, 196 Cohasset Road. Porter is one of those rare performers of his genre who is both a technically accomplished acoustic guitar player and a pretty deep songwriter.
Usually, you get either one or the other. Porter's also comfortable experimenting and breaking from the expected folk music mold, as he does on "Where are My Keys," a tune with heavily processed electronic sounds and rhythm loops that closes out his new CD, "Available Light." Among Willy's fans are Tori Amos and Jethro Tull flutist Ian Anderson.
The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18.
Seating is limited to 100. Visit www.chicotickets.
com Always looking to be on the cutting edge, AS Presents tries to bring performers to campus who are on the verge of breaking out. And 24-year old singer-songwriter Matt Costa might just be one of them. As a teen, Costa became a professional skateboarder, but shattered his leg in a skating accident.
During the ensuing 18 months of recovery and rehab, Costa turned his energy and talents toward playing the guitar and writing songs. Soon, a demo wound up in the hands
Los Angeles indie rockers Satisfaction open the show at the BMU. The show starts at 8. Tickets are $8 for students; $10 general admission at University Box Office.
Call 898-6333. At Laxson Auditorium on March 8 Chico Performances brings The San Francisco Jazz Collective, an all-star ensemble of the finest performers and composers in today's jazz world. Under artistic direction of saxophonist Joshua Redman, the Collective each year performs a new set of compositions consisting of works by a modern jazz master, in this case Thelonius Monk, and a new piece by each of the Collective's eight members.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $14-$23 at University Box Office.
Call 898-6333. Back on Jan. 25, country star Crystal Gayle had her tour bus stolen by a fugitive who drove it from Nashville, Tenn.
to Florida in an effort to see his ailing mother before she died. (Sounds like fodder for a new song). After a few minor repairs, the bus is on the road again bringing Gayle out west, including a stop at Feather Falls Casino on March 9.
Known, of course, for her floor-length brunette locks and 1977 crossover hit, "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," the Paintsville, Ky. native -- and sister of Loretta Lynn -- scored 18 No. 1 hits on the country charts between 1976 and 1987.
Although that period of productivity and chart success has stopped, she remains a popular draw and released her first DVD, "Crystal Gayle in Concert," last year. Show Starts at 8. Tickets are $25 and $35 and are available at Ticketmaster or by calling 533-3885 ext.
510. It's been 11 years since the untimely passing of Jerry Garcia. Dead heads everywhere still mourn the loss.
The Grateful Dead itself took some time off before ultimately re-forming as The Dead in 2003. During that hiatus and since, Garcia's main side project, the Jerry Garcia Band, carried on under the leadership of the band's long-time master of the Hammond B-3 organ, Melvin Seals. Now known as Melvin Seals and JGB, the spirit of the music remains alive, as suggested by the title of the 2006 release "Keepers of the Flame," although Seals is the only alumnus from the Garcia days.
The Cascade Theatre in Redding once again welcomes the band on March 9. Show starts at 8 (Dead heads can begin to flock much earlier). Tickets are $20 and $25 at the Cascade Box Office.
Call 243-8877.
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