Category: Events

KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1FM , College Eight, and Oakes College bring you a free music festival, on Friday February 26th from 4 to 7 pm. West Fest 2016 on the UCSC's College Eight Upper Lawn, incorporates music from psychedelic space rock and gameboy tunes to a Grammy-nominated cellist Rushad Eggleston. The line-up features acts who have years of experience and some that have only gotten their start in recent months. Check out the long-awaited release of the line-up below!  Also, see the Facebook Event link for more information.

Two stars of Hawaiian music are at the Rio Theatre Thursday February 4th--Keola Beamer, composer, singer-songwriter, accomplished slack key guitar master and Henry Kapono, singer-songwriter, actor, and rocker. Moanalani Beamer will grace the stage with hula. These gentlemen of music brought us many of the original songs that have formed the identity of Hawaiian music since the 1970s.

Nahko and Medicine for the People play the Catalyst in downtown Santa Cruz Saturday, December 12th, with the Wheeland Brothers opening the show up at 9:00 pm. Nahko is of Apache, Puerto Rican and Filipino cultures and adopted into the family of music. With the power of Real Talk Music, Nahko gathers a tribe of truth seekers to each concert and event.

This past week, the Catalyst presented the wonderfully weird indie sounds of Of Montreal and KZSC has exclusive photos from the fanatical festivities. Led by lead singer Kevin Barnes for almost twenty years, Of Montreal has always had a reputation…

There comes a time when The Diversity Center  has an event that we all wish we knew about, so I'm letting it all come out! You guessed it! I'll be revealing all the alluring details about The Diversity Center's Gala, happening…

Debashish Bhattacharya is a master improviser on the Indian slide guitar, and KZSC is proud to host Bhattacharya on this week’s Used Records show, Wednesday September 30th between 9 am and noon. Bhattacharya developed a new system of playing--and teaching--Indian classical guitar centered on three of guitar designs of his own invention. He is in Santa Cruz for a concert on Friday October 2nd, at the Pacific Cultural Center.

Ledward Kaapana, from Hawai'i Island, playing his inimitable slack key guitar style, rallies in the redwoods with Fran Guidry on Wednesday.  These gentlemen of music perform at 7:30 pm Wednesday, August 26th. Led has been entertaining audiences since "small kid…

It’s time again for the Fiesta de Artes, a free annual art and wine festival – in downtown Los Gatos. Featuring food trucks, a variety of live music performers, a play zone for kids, artists selling handmade crafts, and local beer and wine vendors. The Fiesta de Artes is Saturday and Sunday, August 8^th and 9^th, from 10am to 6pm at the Civic Center grounds in downtown Los Gatos.