Checking in: SAMMIES 2020 winners and nominees
We’ll be checking in on some 2020 SAMMIES winners and nominees to see how they’ve stayed creative over the last year.
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Take a ‘Friday Art Break’
Today, Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Office of Civic Engagement unveiled “Friday Art Break,” a weekly video series intended to keep Sacramentans in touch with the community’s artists while traditional arts venues are shuttered as a part of COVID-19 precautions.
Justin Farren’s Pretty Free gets pretty DIY
Local musician Justin Farren will donate record proceeds to Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross.
Taking the BBQ online
Popular Burly Backyard event expands to raise money for Sac music venues.
This year, NorCal Noisefest is completely online and free. Tune in this weekend.
If you’re a regular attendee of Sacramento’s monthly noise-brunch, Audio Waffle, you’re well aware that Norcal Noisefest begins Friday night and continues through Sunday evening….
Pandemic Heroes
Cover by Serene Lusano SN&R highlights arts groups, businesses, nonprofits and people who have gone above and beyond for the community during the COVID-19 crisis…
Fifteen Minutes: Musician Danny Schneider
Joshua’s House Hospice, a nonprofit offering hospice care to terminally ill unhoused Sacramentans, will soon receive the proceeds of a unique fundraiser by Sacramento musician Danny Schneider.
New-old oldies for night owls
Unless you’re looking for it—and that’s if you listen to terrestrial radio at all—you’ll probably miss KJAY 1430 AM/98.1 FM on your dial. But the…
A prayer for janky Sacramento
Will downtown’s beloved hangouts come back? As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country and shut down California’s capital city, small watering holes that withstood Prohibition,…
15 Minutes: Carrie Hennessey, soprano and voice instructor
When not performing in operas worldwide, Carrie Hennessey helps students find their voice. As an in-demand opera and theater performer, Carrie Hennessey has taken her…
Learn to draw
Put your artistic skills to the test
Turn up the volume
Sacramento musicians are still creating music, so here are new albums to vibe to Clevers’ self-titled album released May 2. CleversAlbum: Clevers Jam: “Hazel &…
Connected through music
Sacramento hip-hop scene honors dear friend through music and art Local rapper Paul Flames is torn up as he flips through photos on his phone….
Streetalk
Asked at Sunday Farmer’s Market at 8th and X streets: Which musical act would you like to see come to Sacramento? “Well obviously Billie Eilish…
Switching up the beat
Zach Van Dyck shoots for pop stardom There’s a certain infectious, “on-repeat” quality to Zach Van Dyck’s latest single, “Give It All.” It’s a pop…
15 Minutes: Augie Maravilla, owner of Rocket Records
It’s safe to say nearly every music lover has dreamed of owning a record store. Rocket Records opened three years ago in a low-visibility storefront…
On motherhood and country music
It’s a weekend night at the Opera House Saloon where a sea of audience members donning cowboy hats and flannels crowds the stage as The…