Target Family Days - LATIN THEME
Sunday, August 8, 2010
11am-3pm
Courthouse Square
Target Family Days will transform Courthouse Square, near the corner of Broadway and Middlefield Road, into a walkable assortment of themed family entertainment this summer. Featuring Cultural Food, themed face painting, hands-on Art Projects, cooking demos, bounce houses and more, there will be something for everyone on three Sundays from July through September. Plus, the street will be closed to through traffic, making a stroll along beautiful Broadway a fun and relaxing family experience.
Featuring:
Latin Rhythm Boys
Andy Z and the Andyland Band
Benny & Bebe's European Magic Circus
Piñata making
Carmen's Taqueria
Heather Rogers – Magician
Bay Area Parent Celebration Booths
Cultural Food
Street Performers
Hands-on Pupusa Making with Chef Steve
Themed Face Painting by Fairy Faces
Hands-on Art Stations with FREE projects!
Bounce Houses & more!

Music On The Square
Fridays through October 8, 2010
6:00-8:00pm
Courthouse Square (map)
Coming up:
August 6 • Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums
August 13 • Rumours Fleetwood Mac Tribute
                     sponsored by KOIT
August 20 • Courtney Lynn & Big Trouble
                      Country
August 27 • Native Elements Reggae

Jayme Stone keeps an ear to the ground. His curiosity and unlikely set of reference points started early with the quirky physics of the banjo, led to a mysterious librarian who stocked his local public library with a vast trove of banjo recordings, and landed him long-lasting lessons with a series of maestros, from Béla Fleck to Bill Frisell. Influenced by Japanese poetry and Brazilian literature and featuring what he calls a “tiny symphony that takes place inside an imaginary light bulb”, Stone’s album, The Utmost, won the 2008 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year. 

The most recent chapter in Stone’s musical travelogue takes place in Africa. He went knowing what’s still news to most: that the hide-covered instrument with an “extra” drone string we call the banjo actually comes from West Africa. He became particularly curious about the music that may not have made it across the ocean on slave ships headed west from Senegal and Mali in the 1700-1800’s. An eight-week trip to Mali was supported by a prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship and found Stone sitting in with Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra in downtown Bamako, lost in circles of Wassoulou polyrhythms and in a rural Dogon village with no electricity where he inadvertently discovered a banjo predecessor unheard of in the West. The resulting album, Africa to Appalachia, featuring kora player Mansa Sissoko, ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate and fiddle pioneer Casey Driessen, won the 2009 Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year.