WEEK OF Dec 9–Dec 17
Please check back later this week for Calendar updates. Clicking on the display ads, left, will take you directly to the advertisers’ event pages.
CLASSICAL, NEW & SEASONAL
Dec 11, 12:30pm: CABRILLO COLLEGE SMALL ENSEMBLES Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, Click HERE
Dec 12, 7:30pm: “CELEBRATING COMPOSERS’ BIRTHDAYS” A piano concerto. Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos. Click HERE
Dec 13, 7pm: WHOLEHEARTED CHORUS Hidden Valley, 104 W Carmel Valley Rd., Carmel Valley. Click HERE
Dec 13 & 14, 7:30pm; Dec 15, 2:30pm: CHRISTMAS WITH THE CAMERATA SINGERS Dec 13: St Paul’s Episcopal, Salinas. Dec 14 & 15, First Presbyterian, Monterey. Click HERE
Dec 14, 2pm: PG POPS ORCHESTRA Performing Arts Center, 835 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. Click HERE
Dec 14 & 15, 8pm: “CONCERT FOR A WINTER’S EVE” Cantiamo! Dec 14: Carmel Mission, 3080 Rio Rd., Carmel. Dec 15: Holy Cross, 210 High St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 15, 3pm: PIANIST KEIKO SHICHIJO Music by Komitas, Mompou, Debussy, Schubert & Rozalie Hirs. St John Episcopal, 125 Canterbury Dr., Aptos. Click HERE
JAZZ & BLUES
Dec 12, 7 & 9pm: STERN-LORBER FUSION FEAT Kuumbwa Jazz, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 12 & 13, 8pm: CABRILLO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLES Cabrillo Black Box, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, Click HERE
Dec 14, 7:30pm: CABRILLO JAZZ COMBOS Cabrillo Black Box, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, Click HERE
Dec 15, 3pm: ALONG CAME BETTY Cherry Center, Guadalupe & 4th, Carmel. Click HERE
R&B, GOSPEL, ROCK, POP, WORLD, SEASONAL
Dec 9, 7pm: CHESTER THOMPSON QUARTET Kuumbwa Jazz, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 9, 8pm: GUITARIST TOMMY EMMANUEL Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 9, 8pm: WESTSIDE FOLK & GOSPEL CHOIR Cabrillo Samper Recital Hall, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos. Click HERE
Dec 12, 8pm: CHRIS ISAAK CHRISTMAS Golden State, 417 Alvarado, Monterey. Click HERE
Dec 14, 7pm; Dec 15, 3pm: “MESSAGES THROUGH SONG” Pacific Voices. Peace United, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 14, 7:20pm: ANDY VARGAS & SOULEROS Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 15, 3pm: THE MUSICAL JOURNEY OF JEWS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Zirzuvi Sephardic Band. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 15, 7:30pm: “A GOSPEL CELEBRATION” CSUMB Choral-Gospel concert. Wellspring Church, 141 14th St., Pacific Grove. Click HERE or on ad, left.
Dec 16, 6pm: BEDOUINE Henry Miller Library, 48603 California 1, Big Sur. Click HERE
Dec 16, 9pm; CHARLIE HUNTER & LUCY WOODWARD Kuumbwa Jazz, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 17, 7:30pm: THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA CHRISTMAS Golden State, 417 Alvarado, Monterey. Click HERE
DANCE & PHYSICAL THEATER
Dec 13 & 14, 7pm; Dec 15, 2pm: DANCE KIDS NUTCRACKER With Monterey County Pops. Sunset Center, San Carlos & 9th, Carmel. Click HERE
Dec 14, 11am: WOWIE-ZOWIE WITH JEFF RAZ Former Cirque du Solei artist presented by Tandy Beal & Company. Veterans Memorial, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. Click HERE
Dec 14 & 15, 1 & 4:30pm: THE NUTCRACKER Santa Cruz City Ballet & International Academy of Dance. Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos. Click HERE
THEATER
Dec 12-13, 7:30pm; Dec 15, 2pm: Kander & Ebbs’ CHICAGO Golden Bough Playhouse. Monte Verde between 8th & 9th, Carmel. Click HERE
Dec 12 & 13, 8pm; Dec 14, 2 & 8pm; Dec 15, 2pm: LA PASTORELA El Teatro Campesino, 705 4th St., San Juan Bautista. Click HERE
Dec 13, 7pm; Dec 14, 2 & 7pm; Dec 15, 2pm: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA Paper Wing Theatre, 320 Hoffman St., Monterey. Click HERE
Dec 13 & 14, 8pm; Dec 15, 2pm: Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD Park Hall, Ben Lomond. Click HERE
Dec 13, 7pm: THE BOLD, THE YOUNG & THE MURDERED The Performing Otters. World Theater, 5260 Sixth Ave., Seaside. Click HERE
Note: All phone numbers are 831 Area Codes unless otherwise indicated