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This powerhouse sax sextet (yes really!) returns with another genre-bending, high-energy, and hilarious mix of jazz, classical, ragtime, and pop brilliance.

Latin GRAMMY-winner and returning festival favorite Diego Garcia fuses Spanish guitar, American roots, and rockabilly flair.

The Simi Valley Mandir Hindu Temple is hosting this year’s Feast of Faiths. This will be our 1st vegetarian dinner in the finest Indian Cuisine since our annual Feast of Faiths began in 2006. First we’re seated at round tables of 8 to 10 people. Then officials from various religions give a blessing and offer some encouraging comments. Then we dine with new friends as we learn from each other and teach each other about our beliefs.

The Mandir Temple asks for modest dress: shoulders and knees should be covered. The Ventura County Interfaith Community [VCIC], who sponsors this event, asks that you not proselytize your religion.

There’ll be a tour of the Temple after the dinner. Shoes may be worn at the dinner but must be removed to enter the Temple.

The Santa Barbara Chamber Players will be performing on Sunday, October 12th at 3pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N LaCumbre Road. It is a fundraising chamber concert featuring local musicians performing the Bliss Quintet for Oboe and Strings, Woodwind quintets by Debussy and Agay, a duet between horn and double bass by Deterling, and a brass quartet for two trumpet, horn and alphorn! Tickets are $20 and are available at https://sbchamberplayers.org/. Don’t miss it!

The Santa Barbara Chamber Players will be performing on Saturday, October 25th at 7:30pm at First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu. It will feature the Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Kodály Summer Evening, and Prokofiev Classical Symphony. They will be joined by the Westmont College Choir for Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden and Haydn’s Te Deum. Tickets are $20 and are available at https://sbchamberplayers.org/. Don’t miss it!

Marnina Schon and Micah O’Konis had a pitch-perfect wedding, minus the venue burning down. Oh, and the bed bugs. And the judgmental couples therapist. Now they’re on their honeymoon, in Edinburgh Fringe chasing off existential dread with catchy songs and Muppet-y energy.

They seem to narrowly escape calamity at every turn, guitar and fiddle in hand. Are they cursed? Are they blessed? Can one wedding change the world?? With catchy songs and Muppet-y energy, “there’s nothing they can’t sing and laugh their way through” (New York Times). Think Flight of the Conchords… if they had sex.

A Jewish, genderqueer couple — whose folk-pop anthem “People Think We’re Straight” will, well, set people straight — sing smartly stupid songs that are full of heart and packed with jokes in this gloriously positive, funny, and original hour of musical comedy.

Directed by another actual married couple, Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe veterans Chris Grace and Eric Michaud.

This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American musical theater, graphic design, marketing, image branding and audience engagement. Far more than advertisements, they reflect the artistic, social and commercial contexts of their time—revealing how productions were first introduced, how stars were celebrated, and how visual trends paralleled theatrical innovation. As ephemeral objects, their preservation provides rare evidence of the material culture surrounding performance. By examining these posters through an academic lens, we can better understand Broadway’s influence on American theater, music and popular culture. The exhibition invites viewers to explore how theater has been represented and remembered, and how visual media contributes to the construction of cultural memory.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a lecture featuring Nicholas van Hoogstraten, author of Broadway Poster Art: 1945–1969 (Schiffer Publishing, 2024).

About the Richard C. Norton Musical Theater History Collection:
The Richard C. Norton Musical Theater History Collection consists of materials documenting musical theater including 25,000 playbills, 800 typescripts, and 1,500 published libretti, as well as sheet music and 78rpm records. Norton is the author of A Chronology of American Musical Theater (Oxford UP, 2002) a landmark work with details on thousands of Broadway productions. The collection was assembled to support the research for his book.

A new happy hour featuring Twenty-Four Blackbirds chocolates and beverages by WineCult!

Have "Dessert First" during our first ever Happy Hour event!
As the aroma of chocolate surrounds you, relax and unwind in the Twenty-Four Blackbirds shop while enjoying truffles and chocolate covered treats. WineCult will be pouring delectable drinks, which pair perfectly with all chocolate delights. Savor the day with a glass (or bottle) of wine and welcome in the weekend. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available.

Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience! This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar. Taste cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.
A non-alcoholic pairing option is available, but this event is for those over the age of 21.

Join us on a beautifully paired wine and chocolate experience! This guided tour walks you through the chocolate making process, from bean to bar. Taste cacao every step of the way and finish with a chocolate and beverage tasting that excitingly pairs three truffles with three sustainably-made, small production wines, selected and poured by our local wine partner, WINECULT.
A non-alcoholic pairing option is available, but this event is for those over the age of 21.