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Last night we went to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s Holiday Music Show. 

It was great fun and the energy stayed high all evening.  We were the first stop on their holiday music tour and they said they chose Humboldt because they wanted to start in a place that was hip and forgiving.  Interesting way to describe where we live!

Makes me very grateful to live so close to a college town (20 minutes away down the freeway).  We’re so remote up here on the Redwood Coast that the area still remains small.  You can’t go anywhere without running into at least 3 people you know (last night was no exception), and the Van Duzer Theatre doesn’t have a bad seat in the whole place, especially downstairs! 

Yet we’ve seen Joan Baez, David Grisman, Lyle Lovett, the Indigo Girls, Judy Collins, David Byrne (that was a really amazing show!), Leon Russell, Robert Cray, Stanley Clark, David Bromberg, Richard Thompson (coming up Friday), Keb Mo, Leo Cottke, Pink Martini, Dave Brubeck, Martha Graham, Angelique Kidjo, Los Lobos, Alvin Alley, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Ray Charles, Guy Clark (plus many others), and that doesn’t count the performance art of the Peking Acrobats, Momix and the Prague Blacklight Theatre!

In real estate and business they say “location, location, location” is everything.  To us, living in a small town, having a view of (and access to) the Pacific Ocean and having a college town nearby that brings in Artists is probably the best “location” we could chose!