Event

Little Charlie & The Nightcats

Arena Theater is pleased to present blues, swing and jump masters Little Charlie & The Nightcats. One performance only, Friday August 24. Doors at 7:00PM, Music at 8:00PM. Tickets are $20.00 in advance, $25.00 at the door and are available at The Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore, and The Sea Trader, Gualala; The Record Cafe & Market, Pt. Arena; Tangents, Ft. Bragg; and online at Brown Paper Tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com). This concert is being underwritten in part by Gualala Chevron and Du Pont's Mendocino Mercantile.

Their new CD, Nine Lives, is the ninth album of their remarkable career. As on their previous recordings, Little Charlie & The Nightcats combine unsurpassed musicianship and inventive lyrical vision with their deep understanding of blues and jazz traditions to produce music that is both technically brilliant and soulfully streetwise. "Endlessly impressive," raves the Associated Press. "Marvelously entertaining and brilliantly played," agrees the San Francisco Examiner. This is Little Charlie & The Nightcats only scheduled Mendocino coast appearance this year.