This Weekend in the People’s Republic

Don’t let the clouds, wind, and rain keep you indoors this weekend.  Get thee outside and frolic with the rest of the humans.

After the jump, more deets… still looking for a cultural correspondent to tell us what to do…

Friday, 28 March 2008

Cool as Folk presents… (MUSIC)
8pm, Delta of Venus
$5

Beatbeat Whisper is Davyd and Ayla Nereo, two siblings currently residing in  Oakland. Their melodic voices weave beautifully and the instrumentation is varied and often involves many found  percussion objects. You might even be asked to join  the band for a night. “Dreamy, poignant renderings of life’s breathless moments. Brother and sister duo wrap delicate melodies in Nick Drake-like guitar weavings.  Fans of Devendra Banhart and Jolie Holland will find this friendly territory, but they’ll wish they sounded more like this. If hummingbirds made music, this is what they’d sound like.”  ~Richard Rice, San Francisco Free Folk Festival

Musee  Mecanique‘s songs build on artifact-centric ideas using layers of new and old sounds—Old World instruments such as saw, pedal steel, cello and oboe, mingled with space-y synth.

“Musee Mecanique’s songs revel in the mysterious, never fully  articulating the memories or myths on which they are based. The end result is a collection of beautiful anachronisms, grounded in no    particular time. It’s atmospheric, music-box folk that unearths only a  pinhole view into other worlds—worlds that glow restlessly with an irreconcilable modernity that’s, well, perfectly unsettling.”
-Willamette  Week

Travis Vick uses a lot of different instruments: Piano, Guitar,  Accordian, Banjo, Bass, Mandolin, Harmonica, Ukelele, Trombone, Clarinet and Drums.  Call it “melodic folk rock.”

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Guided Tour: Spring in the Native Plant Garden
11:00  am,Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center
FREE

Late March  is peak bloom season for the native plant collection.

John Ferrera for Yolo County Supervisor, Campaign HQ Opening & Walk (POLITICAL)
9:30am,  Anderson Apartments, 1850 Hanover Drive, Head Start Building.

FREE

Join with other Ferrera supporters for breakfast, official opening of the Headquarters, and knocking on your neighbors doors and tell them why you’re voting for him in the upcoming election.

Sunday, 30 March 2008

Whole Earth Festival Presents Sunday Sol
1-6pm, UCD Quad
Celebrate life, dance, and music with DJ’s spinning the best in electronic, funk, international, and reggaie/dub grooves.