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"Weekend of Delight!"

Check out GlenMuse.com for the details on these two great events...

Friday March 9
Triple Bill World Music Concert

Incendio: Latin guitar world fusion
“whizzing through a musical virtual reality”

HuDost: alternative world rock "Country & Eastern"
a rich, eclectic blend of traditional Sufi music, Bulgarian and Balkan adaptations, Farsi, Turkish and Arabic pieces with elements of folk, pop, rock and Southern Gospel

Lisa Lynn: Celtic harp
Windham Hill and New Earth Record labels; her last 4 CDs have been among top 20 on the Billboard music charts

Saturday, March 10
"Radical Ecstasy" All Day Workshop

Based on Sufi teachings that have been evolving for over a thousand years, we work with music, sound, breath, energy, and magnetism, to develop an awakened sense of self (which in meditation is often oriented beyond life) directed toward creative action in the world.

These techniques ignite a power source in your body, emotions, and mind, to let you virtually explode with creativity in your actions, what you bring to life, and how life responds to you.

Improvisational Music and Ecstatic Dance

From a reader...

Session of Improvisational Music and Ecstatic Dance coming to Ojai March 9th
Contact:    Philip Novotny
(805)  748-3815
email:  philiption@aol.com
What:    The ŸUM Session from San Luis Obispo
Where:     Sacred Space Studio - -  410 Bryant Circle #A, Ojai
When:      Friday, March 9th   8 pm to 10 pm
Details: The ŸUM Session is an inter-play between dancer and musician, musician and dancer with an open invitation to playful, artistic, spontaneous movement.  The ŸUM Session is a practice of attaining heightened body awareness through breath, through beat, through dance, through movement.   It’s Live, continuous, improvisational music blending East / West grooves with ambient sound landscapes moving you through an energetic wave into a blissful stillness at journey's end.
No experience required...
$15 to $20 sliding scale @ the door…   

Weekend Events in Ojai

Ojai Film Festival - all weekend long at venues around Ojai

Tonight, Friday October 13 - Julie Christensen CD Release at Ourovoros Art Gallery

Saturday, October 14 - Movie: "March of the Penquins" at Krotona Theosophical Society

Saturday, October 14 - From Jail to Jewel: HELP of Ojai Open House at the new HELP West Campus

Saturday, October 14 - The Robben Ford Guitar Clinic at The Womens' Club

Sunday, October 15 - APPLES & MORE! Cooking Class at Lavender Inn / Ojai Culinary School

Monday, October 16 - City Council Candidate's Forum at Chapparal Auditorium

17th Annual Barn Dance in Uper Ojai

also posted at OjaiEvents.com...

Upper Ojai Summit School’s 17th Annual Barn Dance, Saturday, Oct. 7, 6-11 p.m.
Musician Jonathan McEwan.
At the Perry residence, 12050 Sulphur Mountain Road, Upper Ojai.
Music, dancing, beverage bar, dinner, silent auction.
$25 per person presale; $30 at the door. For tickets, call 525-2019 or 525-1522.
Must be 21 to attend.
Child care for ages 3-12 provided at Summit School during the event.

Psychedelic Weirdness

Not for the faint of heart, Circus Spoc returns September 30, 7:30pm - midnite.  Hide the children and stash your valuables, as you experience a trip with the Inter-Galactic Council of the Intergon.

Music at The Hub

From Howard Presents - this looks fun...

Original singer/songwriter BUDDHA'S SISTER will team up with THAMAJICBULLETTHEORY, a jazz/blues/jam band that will leave you wanting more!

Opening the day of music will be originals and classic rock covers by FRENCH & KEY, some quality local entertainment for your enjoyment                

HERE'S A WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW!

• BUDDHA'S SISTER & THAMAJICBULLETTHEORY
  FRENCH & KEY
• FREE PARTY AT THE HUB!
• SATURDAY  SEPTEMBER 2
  5pm to 1am
• THE HUB IN DOWNTOWN OJAI
• FREE ADMISSION!   $ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH

Get it on, bang a gong

From Howard Presents...

Saturday September 30 - The OJAI CLASSIC ROCK FESTIVAL IV will be our finale for 2006, and possibly forever at LIBBEY BOWL. I want to be sure that we GO OUT WITH A BANG!

See tributes of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Eagles and Led Zeppelin.  Each band will blow you away! You know all the songs, you love all the bands, it'ojaibs a FANTASTIC place to see a show, and it's the last show of they year (possibly forever here)! DON'T MISS IT!

50% of all proceeds from the OJAI CLASSIC ROCK FESTIVAL IV will benefit KIDS' ARTS OF VENTURA. This terrific organization provides music, art, and theater to at-risk children in the Ventura area. Not only do you get to have a good time, but you help a great cause too!

space rock Circus Spoc

My buddy Dept. is rocking the house on Saturday, August 26th.  His music is an adventure much like his Circusspoc.com website - think Timothy Leary meets Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Good luck, we're all counting on you.

Ojai Summer Fest

A little more related info on this weekend's Ojai Summer Fest from promoter Howard Frieberg...

Performing Friday August 11 at The Drink (located at 281 West Main Street in Ventura) will be Orange County Grateful Dead tribute band Delilah Jones.  This show will be an extension of the Ojai Summer Fest at Libbey Bowl on August 12-13, with free admission to anyone who purchases a 2-day pass to the Ojai festival.  August 18 will bring true-to-life reproductions of Neil Young & Crazy Horse and The Allman Brothers by veteran acts The Neil Deal and Midnight Rider.  On Friday August 25, tie-dye will be traded in for leather with the hard driving rock of AC/DC clones Bon Fire, and Moby Chick, a crowd favorite all-girl tribute to Led Zeppelin.