The weekly music series has become part of many North Bay communities during the summer months. Healdsburg has their Tuesday Concerts in the Plaza, Cloverdale their Friday Night Live, Santa Rosa the Wednesday Downtown Market. In Sonoma, there's always a good band at the Tuesday Farmers' Market, and most weekend days finds something musical going on in the Plaza.
Add to those the most rural of weekly music shows, “Funky Fridays” at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. “Funky Fridays is a great opportunity for all of us to show Sugarloaf Ridge State Park a little love by coming out to support the park all summer.,” says docent Bill Myers. “Bring your friends and enjoy your Friday evenings at the park while listening to the music of our favorite local musicians.”
That lineup of local musicians is a pretty good one, too, starting with June 14 and Shade, a great funk-jazz/fusion quartet with deep roots in the Bay Area. The four-man group includes David Schrader on sax, Wayne DeLaCruz on keyboards, Kurt Madeiros on drums and Carl Bowers on bass instruments.
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Next week, and for a total of 12 Friday shows this summer, the musical level is equally high. June 21 brings out the Guarneri Jazz Quartet, with Mario Guarneri on trumpet, Randy Vincent on guitar, John Wiitala on bass and drummer Akira Tana.
Other headliners include Ten Foot Tone (June 28), the Cork Pullers (July 5), JayDub and Dino (July 12), A Case of the Willys (July 19), Michael Boliver and Friends (July 26), The Jami Jamison Band (August 2), StreetWise with Blythe Klein (Aug. 9), Twang ditty (Aug. 16), Tommy Thomsen (Aug. 23) and BackTrax (Aug. 30).
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Team Sugarloaf, the five local parks-supporting nonprofit organizations that have worked together to create a plan to keep the park open, present these fundraising Funky Fridays in the park’s amphitheater every Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are only $10, kids 18 and under are free.
Complete information about the summer series can be found at www.FunkyFridays.info.
