Music festival
The Hog Farm Hideaway, presented by Shooting Star Events, will take place June 10 to 12 at Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville.
This music fest features three performances by The String Cheese Incident, plus a lineup of 30-plus other bands, including The Infamous Stringdusters, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Keller Williams, Fruition, Ghost Light and more.
The Hog Farm Hideaway is a women-owned, family-friendly music festival. Patrons will also enjoy interactive art installations, an eclectic assortment of 75 artisan and food vendors, a bar featuring craft beers, wines and adult libations, a cannabis lounge featuring locally produced products, a kids zone with entertainment and activities, a silent disco, an activist area where nonprofit organizations will showcase their work, a healing sanctuary offering various modalities to restore well-being and more.
Festival passes are on sale at www.hogfarmhideaway.com. A limited number of tickets are still available.
Playhouse concert
W.I.T.C.H will perform June 12 from 8 to 11 p.m. at Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St., Arcata. The show is sponsored by Richard’s Goat and Humboldt Hot Air.
W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc) was the biggest rock band in Zambia in the 1970s and spearheaded a new genre dubbed Zamrock, fusing influences that ranged from the Rolling Stones to Black Sabbath and mixing them with traditional African rhythms and bush village songs.
In 2012, Now Again Records reissued the band’s entire discography, which spurred the band’s lead singer Jagari to begin performing outside Africa for the first time. In 2016, he began a collaboration with Dutch musicians Jacco Gardner and Nic Mauskoviç, and together in September 2017 W.I.T.C.H. headed out on its first-ever European Tour.
In 2019, W.I.T.C.H. embarked on its first North American tour, including a performance at Desert Daze. Now, the band is returning to the U.S. and Canada for a spring 2022 tour.
Tickets for the Arcata show are $32.50, available at https://miniplex.ticketleap.com/witch/dates/Jun-12-2022_at_0800PM.
Also performing that night is L’éclair, described as a “cosmic instrumental six piece from Geneva, Switzerland.”
