The Shasta String Trio, featuring violinist Cherie Gans, will perform at 6 p.m. today at the Redding Library’s community room for this month’s “Musical Tuesdays at the Library.”
The “Musical Tuesdays” program presents free performances by musicians from different genres the first Tuesday of each month. The Dec. 1 concert will feature holiday music by the vocal octet Wednesday Night at Our House.
For more info on “Musical Tuesdays” and the many other programs at the library, click here.
- A memorial concert for harmonica legend Norton Buffalo, who died last Friday, is scheduled for Nov. 22 in Paradise, but it was all but sold-out by the time I heard about it. Roy Rogers will be among the performers. Another tribute concert is being planned for Jan. 23 in Oakland, and it’s attracting many of the big names with whom Buffalo played over the years: the Steve Miller Band, the Doobie Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood and more. The Chico Enterprise-Record has the details here.
- Mark Your Calendars for this Saturday because it’s ShopHop and local stores will anticipate the holidays with refreshments, prizes, raffles and more. Holiday ShopHop runs from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. For a list of participating stores and a map, click here.
- After being closed six days for emergency repairs, the Bay Bridge has reopened and Bay Area commuters now face only the usual traffic snarls. Full story here.
- Snows of Kilimanjaro: The glaciers atop the famous mountain in Africa are in full retreat, and there may be no snow atop Mt. Kilimanjaro by 2022, according to researchers. The Tanzanian peak has lost 26 percent of its ice cover since 2000. Full story here.
- What I’m Reading: A fascinating alternate-reality novel called “The City & The City” by China Mieville. The story’s essentially a police procedural, but it’s set in two enemy cities that abut (and even overlap) each other. A book that will make you think about how we all live together, especially in urban areas, and the pains we take to “unsee” those who disagree with us.
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