16 • May 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


Cotati, CA. ~ Where: Red- wood Cafe, Cotati,


Sunday, May 15, 4:30pm until whenever. Tickets: $25 at the door. Ticket


includes perfor-


mance, CD, and raffle ticket Raffle Prize: electric guitar! Live music performed by


some of the finest musicians in Sonoma County, including Hank Levine, Nina Gerber, Karl Kumerle, Larry Jones, Shanin Jones, Mr. Music Jim


Corbett, Catfish Jack, Daryl Web, Phil Lawrence, and George Chavez.


About Hank:


Hank Levine was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. but spent most of his childhood on a lake in Oakland, N.J., surrounded by the beautiful Ramapo Moun- tains. There he swam, boated, fished, and played ice hockey, but his favorite sport was al-


Upbeat Times 17th


Annual Spring Guide 2016


Local Hank Levine Is Having a CD Release Party at Redwood Cafe, May 15th! When:


they arrived in Santa Rosa, California for a short visit


and


immediately fell in love with


So-


County. He went


noma swim-


ways


baseball. After graduating William Paterson with an Art Teaching Credential, he did his student teaching at Clinton Farms Prison. Oh, the memories!


After that, he took off with a college buddy and went on an extended college coffee house circuit tour up and down the East Coast and the Midwest. Hank shared the same stage with many folk artists of the day:


Dylan, Joni Mitchell,


and Simon and Garfunkle, to name a few. After their last gig in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin, where it was 60° below zero,


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BUYING


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SEATED DOLLARS 1840-1873 $150.00 & up


ming in the Russian River on February 1, 1976. It 70°!


was While


here, Hank opened up shows for Dire Straits on their first USA gig, The Byrds, Emilou Harris, Jimmy Buffet, Bonnie Rait, Taj Mahall, the Neville Brothers and many others. He got married, raised a family, helped raise another and direct- ed child care centers for over 30 years, working with thou- sands of children and families.


Upon retirement, he made a promise to record a CD. Well, it’s about time!


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A group of ferrets is called a “business.”


The first “smiley”


emoticon ever written was in 1982.


Dairy cows produce more milk when they are listen- ing to music.


Cows often form close friendships with one an- other.


American currency once included a 5-cent bill.


Otters sleep holding hands so they don’t drift away from one another.


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land base from about 40 acres to over one thousand acres. Many are forested, potentially a great source for the nuts. But experts are still trying to de- termine why so few trees have yields: Could it be the drought? A unique biological character- istic? Lack of supply has held up product development, but working with the tribe, Tony convinced the California De- partment of Agriculture to modify


its Specialty Crop


Block Grant Program to permit grants for the study of native food plants that are not yet in cultivation. Tat rule change happened just three short weeks before the deadline for grant applications. Tony per- suaded a team from the Univer- sity of California, Davis to give it a “long shot” anyway. Tey gave a great effort, but weren’t able to obtain a grant on this first try. Tat effort, however, has just begun, so let’s envision great success and sustainability for the Kashia, for Cohen, for Umbellularia californica tree –“Bayhem Qhale.“ Shining delight, Marcia


“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.” ~ Lev Grossman


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