Bill Lewis, Owner of Muddy Waters Cafe, Brings Eclectic Live Music to Santa Barbara
Megan Sullivan
Last year I meant to sit down with Bill Lewis -- the owner of Santa Barbara's Muddy Waters Café and music venue -- and talk about music. Bill and I never had the conversation I'd hoped for before I moved north to San Francisco (Bill called me a sell-out when I told him I was leaving), but luckily, Dave Mount of Awesome Stuff That Rules was fortunate enough talk candidly with Bill as I would have liked to. Dave moved to Santa Barbara from Boston in September 2008, and he started his blog Awesome Stuff That Rules to familiarize himself with the Santa Barbara music scene. It's not quite as accessible as Boston's, he learned, but he's been excited to find some great music in unexpected places.
AshEL Eldridge, Spoken Word - Eco Art from Oakland California
Ryan Andersen
In addition to my work with One Night Music, I work for the California Student Sustainability Coalition. This awesome organization hosts two Convergences a year during which they bring together hundreds of students from across the state representing dozens of campuses to build community and plan action to transform our education institutions into models of sustainability. AshEl gave a brief spoken word performance after the keynote address and I was blown away by what he had to offer. I quickly found him shortly after and asked if I could record him doing a more intimate performance of a song. He agreed, and this beautiful video is the product.
Here is some information on AshEl, quoted from the Alliance for Climate Education website:
AshEl Eldridge, a native of Chicago, is currently an Oakland, California based artist, educator, organizer and spiritualist. He was Outreach Associate and a Cultural Director of Green For All's Public launch called Dream Reborn and Spotlight Events Coordinator for Green Jobs Now: A National Campaign to Build the New Green Economy.
He performs spoken word, rap and sings nationally with conscious Hip Hop, Dub, Reggae and Electronica bands including Wisdom and Bassnectar. He has shared stages with Steel Pulse, KRS-One, STS9, Michael Franti, Midnite, Ozomatli and more. In addition to being a music, poetry, and meditation facilitator with Art in Action, where he works to empower low-income youth from urban communities, AshEL also combines the world of art, music and community healing with ecological sustainability within the CommuniTree Movement.
His work aims to cultivate the links between both local and global movements for social justice, spiritual awakening and ecological healing through "edutainment" and other compelling ways to captivate youth and hard to reach populations.
16th & Mission Open Mic - Poetry in San Francisco
Elia Vargas
Mission & 16th - poetry in San Francisco, oh, there is poetry in San Francisco. Pigeon wings, and chalk exhaust. Poetry in the streets, poetry in the night, poetry in the faces of the passer-by. Neon lime, and short red skirts. There is poetry at the 16th and Mission Bart station. Ukuleles, and little piano players. Ordinary people stop on Thursday nights after Food Not Bombs to shout and sing, to read and recite. There are common smells, recognizable odors, and inflamed olfactory systems. Homeless people, drunk people, old and young people neutralized by the shadow and grime. Standing united by the great equalizer, the grand leveler of night and sidewalk and street-side-stench. 16th and Mission Open Mic is alive and beautiful on Thursday nights.
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