Events for Friday, April 3 - Monday, April 20

Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

An Evening with Tom Skinner

Friday, April 3 @ 7:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $34.97
Advance Member Ticket: $31.50
Door Ticket: $36.75
Student Ticket: $18.50

Upon the release of Kaleidoscopic Visions, the second album that Tom Skinner has made under his own name, the drummer-composer will be 45 years-old. Skinner is already in possession of […]

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Mark Lettieri Group

Monday, April 6 @ 7:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $40.79
Advance Member Ticket: $36.75
Door Ticket: $42.00
Student Ticket: $21.00
All-in Pricing

Mark Lettieri is a six time nominated, five-time GRAMMY-winning guitarist, composer, producer, and instructor based in Fort Worth, TX. He creates acclaimed guitar-based instrumental music, and is a member of […]

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Lee Ritenour & Friends – 7:00 PM

Thursday, April 9 @ 7:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $69.93
Advance Member Ticket: $63.00
Door Ticket: $73.50
Student Ticket: $36.75
All-in Pricing

For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. A California native, Ritenour started on guitar at the age of eight. By sixteen, he was in the Los Angeles […]

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Lee Ritenour & Friends – 9:00 PM

Thursday, April 9 @ 9:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $52.45
Advance Member Ticket: $47.25
Door Ticket: $57.75
Student Ticket: $29.00
All-in Pricing

For Lee Ritenour, there aren’t many ‘firsts’ left to achieve. A California native, Ritenour started on guitar at the age of eight. By sixteen, he was in the Los Angeles […]

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Independently Produced Event

Sin Sisters Burlesque & Drag: 15 Year Anniversary show!

Saturday, April 11 @ 8:30 PM
Advance Ticket: $33.85 - $44.52

Sin Sisters is celebrating their 15 year anniversary! Get your seats now and help fill the room with glitter, love, and community! This show has always been about creating a […]

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Emmet Cohen Quintet – Miles & Coltrane at 100 – 7:00 PM

Tuesday, April 14 @ 7:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $58.28
Advance Member Ticket: $52.50
Door Ticket: $63.00
Student Ticket: $31.50
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Multi-faceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen has emerged as one of his generation's pivotal figures in music and the related arts. Downbeat observed that his "nimble touch, measured […]

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Emmet Cohen Quintet – Miles & Coltrane at 100 – 9:00 PM

Tuesday, April 14 @ 9:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $46.62
Advance Member Ticket: $42.00
Door Ticket: $47.25
Student Ticket: $23.50
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Multi-faceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen has emerged as one of his generation's pivotal figures in music and the related arts. Downbeat observed that his "nimble touch, measured […]

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Independently Produced Event

Santa Cruz County Youth Poetry Celebration

Thursday, April 16 @ 7:00 PM
Free

Join teen poets from across the county. Celebrate the voices of the Youth Poet Laureate program, hear poems from the newly published Rising Voices Anthology, and meet the 2026-27 Santa […]

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Independently Produced Event

George Kahumoku Jr. & Jim “Kimo” West

Friday, April 17 @ 7:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $42 - $55
Door Ticket: $52 - $65

Known as “Hawai‘i’s Renaissance Man,” George Kahumoku Jr. is beloved for his soulful vocals, masterful slack key guitar playing, and warm storytelling rooted in Hawaiian tradition. Jim “Kimo” West—renowned both for his own […]

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Gary Bartz

Monday, April 20 @ 7:00 PM
Advance Ticket: $52.45
Advance Member Ticket: $47.25
Door Ticket: $57.75
Student Ticket: $29.00
All-in Pricing

NEA Jazz Master Gary Bartz has been one of the best purveyors of what he calls “informal composition” (as opposed to improvisation) on alto saxophone since the 1960s, working with […]

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