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Sonoma County, CA. ~ This Festival of Stand-up, Improv, and Sketch Comedy Starring Comedians from Popu- lar TV Shows and Amy Poehler’s Upright Citi- zens Brigade, is Back for the 3rd Year in Sonoma, and is in Santa Rosa and Healdsburg for the First Time. Tickets are now on sale for Sonoma Laughfest 2017, a 3-night comedy festival featur- ing 50+ comedians from Amy Poehler’s Upright Citizens


Brigade, Los


Angeles, New York, the Bay Area, and all over the U.S.A. in 3 evening binge-watches of stand- up, improv, and sketch comedy. Scheduled to appear in Sonoma, Santa Rosa, and Healdsburg are co- medians who’ve been on these TV shows: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW), Parks and Recre-


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SONOMA LAUGHFEST COMES TO SONOMA, SANTA ROSA, AND HEALDSBURG OCTOBER 13-15 by Brooke Tansley ~ brooke@sonomalaughfest.com


ation (NBC), Veep (HBO), Californication


The Mindy Project (FOX), (Showtime),


Grandfathered (FOX), Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Cen- tral), You’re the Worst (FX), Party Over Here (FOX), Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC), and many more. Each


ticket gets you


admission to a whole evening of shows and dozens of comedic perfor-


mances. Created


Modern Family (ABC), Lopez (TV Land), Growing Up Fisher (NBC), Playing House (USA), Broad City (Comedy Central),


by Brooke Tansley (a Transcen- dence The- atre Com- pany alum) and Kristen Rozanski (both from Upright Citi- zens Brigade), Sonoma Laughfest began in Sonoma as a comedy festival for the local community that features comedic talent across multiple


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comedy forms from all over the United States. “I’m thrilled that this


one-of-a-kind event has


continued to grow in Sonoma (we’ll be at the Sebastiani The- atre this year), and that now we get to come to the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa and the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg


for the fi rst time,”


of Sonoma Laughfest


and Sonoma County resi- dent,


comedians were hand-selected


“These among


hundreds of acts nationwide for Sonoma County audiences to enjoy, and now even more Sonoma County folks can en- joy them.”


The festival runs October


13th at the Sebastiani Theatre in Sonoma, October 14th at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, and Octo- ber 15th at The Raven Perform- ing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. Tickets are $27 online or $32 at the door. All tickets can be purchased here: www.Sonoma- Laughfest.com. For more info, visit www.SonomaLaughfest. com. Tell them you heard about it through the Upbeat Times!


said


Brooke Tans- ley, execu- tive


producer Weird Facts & Trivia - 5


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The birthstones for October are the tourma- line and the opal.


The zodiac signs for October are Libra (Sep- tember 23 - October 22) and Scorpio (October 23 - November 21).


The birth fl ower for Oc- tober is the calendula.


On October 1, 1896, free rural delivery of mail started in the United States.


On October 7, 1816, the Washington (fi rst double-decked


steamboat) arrived at New Orleans.


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