This Saturday, the Empress Theatre in Vallejo will be hosting a Battle of the Bands competition, but the acts featured are not your typical upstart bands. Instead, two acts will be paying tribute to two of the great bandleaders of the 1940s and audiences will get to vote on which ones they like best. It’s […]
Benicia Chamber Players to perform special Mother’s Day concert at Capitol
The Benicia Chamber Players are playing a show at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park this Mother’s Day. The Chamber Players were formed 15 years ago by Clif Foster with a little help from Stan Houston of ABC Music– now Mozart, Einstein & Me. The Chamber Players’ first gig was at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, […]
Scottish-Irish band returns to Benicia for museum concert
The Benicia Historical Museum’s 2018 Spring Concert Series will come to a close this weekend. Throughout the season, audiences have been treated to the Celtic folk stylings of The Black Irish Band and Golden Bough. On Saturday, they will get to experience another museum concert mainstay: Men of Worth. For nearly 20 years, the folk […]
VOENA shines on Carnegie Hall stage
Not everyone can say “I got to perform at Carnegie Hall,” but then again, not everyone is a current member of Voices of Eve ’N’ Angels (VOENA). Seventeen members of the Benicia-based youth choral group received the experience of a lifetime Sunday when they got to perform at the iconic New York City concert hall […]
Benicia Middle Schoolers to sit in on exclusive performance of Vallejo Symphony Orchestra concert
Benicia Middle School’s band students will be joining more than 800 pupils from area schools to attend a pair of special Vallejo Symphony Orchestra performances at the Empress Theatre on Monday. The best part? They will have the auditorium just to themselves as they take in the sounds of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony. According […]
Delfonics, Ohio Players among acts on tap for Downtown Theatre in coming weeks
Two big-name groups in the ‘70s soul scene are set to touch down in Solano County in the coming weeks, care of concert promoter and Glen Cove resident Jeff Trager. Soon, Fairfield’s Downtown Theatre will be filled with the sounds of the Delfonics and the Ohio Players. The concerts are part of Trager’s goal to […]
Celtic folk band returns to Benicia tomorrow
For almost 40 years, Modesto’s Golden Bough has played Irish-inspired music all across the world. On March 24, the band returns to the Benicia Historical Museum for a night of music and fun. Made up of band members Kathy Sierra, Margie Butler, Paul Espinoza Golden Bough has ventured to Benicia for nearly 20 straight years. […]
World-renowned mandolinists to headline free St. Paul’s concert Sunday
Acclaimed mandolinists Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg have come all the way from Germany to instruct people in Benicia on how to play the plucked string instrument. It will all culminate in a free concert at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Sunday. This is the third time Marshall and Lichtenberg have come to Benicia to […]
Black Irish Band returning to Benicia Historical Museum for concert
Like clockwork, the Black Irish Band is returning to Benicia. The quartet is playing a concert of traditional Irish & Scottish, Italian and American folk music, along with Gold Rush-era songs at the Benicia Historical Museum on Saturday, Feb. 24. The Sonora-based group has been performing for nearly three decades and has been performing […]