Ukiah >> The Mendocino College Recording Arts and Technology Club presents multi-instrumentalist, singer and award winning educator Joe Craven as the college’s artist-in-residence for 2016. He brings a new band, Joe Craven and the Sometimers, to the college performing arts center theater for workshops on today and a concert on Saturday.
Craven is the director of RiverTunes Music Camp and plays a variety of string instruments, including fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, tres, cavaquinio and balaliaka, as well as a world of percussion, including anything he can get his hands on, such as a pickling jar, a credit card or a jawbone. He has served as master of ceremonies at acoustic music festivals and, for many years, was violinist and percussionist for the David Grisman Quintet.
His Sometimer bandmates are Bruce MacMillan on guitars, dobro, lap steel and vocals and Jonathan Stoyanoff on standup and electric basses and vocals.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. with special guest opener,The Thin Air String Band.
Call (707) 468-3000 for workshop information. Concert tickets cost $20 at the door, $15 for student/seniors and are available at Ukiah’s Dig!Music, Mendocino Book Company.
Mendocino College is located at 1000 Hensley Creek Road in Ukiah.
