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The Night Life North Bay & Beyond


SONOMA COUNTY, CA. ~ Fasten your seat belts....Napa Valley is going to see a music festival the likes of which we have never seen before: The festival will run from May 8th -12th at the Napa Expo with an incredible


line-


up. Are you ready for this??? Here’s a sampling of the 60 bands that will be there: Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Furthur (Bob Weir & Phil Lesh),


The Shins, Jane’s


Addiction, The Black Crowes, Ben Harper, Primus, Dwight Yoakam, Cake, The Flaming Lips, Bad Religion, Mavis Staples, The Wallflowers,


Charlie Musselwhite, Blues Traveler, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetics, Alabama Shakes and more.


I know a few of these bands


have been on my wish list for some time such as The Black Keys & Alabama Shakes.


The 1st ever(hopefully annu- al) festival will take place on three stages and 26 acres at the Napa Expo, and feature food and wine from local produc- ers. Doors will open around


noon, and performances will start around 12:30 p.m. each day. I’m really looking forward to this one.


tlerocknapavalley.com. complete schedule.


Go to www.bot- for the


While you are in Napa, there


are a few shows at the Uptown Theater you might like to catch: Dead Can Dance on April 17th,


Helen Reddy on April 20th, Rattle and Hum on the 26th


and Foghat on the 27th. At the new Hopmonk in Novato they’re lining up some


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Photo is Axl Rose, Neil Young, and Slash. great bands.


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on the 14th, Taj Mahal Trio on April 20th, and Joan Osborne on the 24th. Up in Santa Rosa at the Last Day Saloon this month we have Zulu Spear on the 6th, and if you’re in the mood for some good laughs Comedy Night presented by Holy City Zoo, Johnny Steele, Brendan Lynch and Samson Koletkar on the 13th. Now, this sounds like it’s going to be a special show:


Dave’s Comedy Roast and Retirement


Party with Commander Cody and his Modern Day Airmen opening


the On April 5th


Zydeco Flames, and on the 12th & 13th Hot Buttered


Rum and guaranteed 2 special nights on the 19th and 20th, Jefferson Starship (67’ electric surrealistic set).


Now over to Petaluma...There are going to be some really awesome shows at McNear’s Mystic Theater this month that I can highly recommend: It’s a Beautiful Day featuring David Laflamme on Violin on April 6th, Toad the Wet Sprocket


show will Bill Kirchen and Austin de


Lone Band. (Bill used to be the Commander’s guitar player back in the day) they’ll be there on the 28th.


Nicasio we


Heading down to Rancho have Stompy


Jones on April 6th, Freddy Clarke on the 7th, and Shana Morrison (Van’s


Johnny Allair birthday dance party.


On the 12th grab some laughs


At the Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa with Kathy Griffin. There will be 2 shows that night. Then on the 13th, laugh some more with Brian Regan.


At the Filmore on April 22nd you can catch the Black Rebel


Motorcycle Band and on the 26th & 27 Yonder Mountain String Band.


At Yoshi’s in San Francisco there are a bunch of good shows this month like: on the 13th &


14th Leo Kotke, on the 16th


Molly Ringwold CD release Party, on the 18th.


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