Tickets are $25. Proceeds will be donated to support the non-commercial programming on Public Radio KCBX (90.1 FM).

The show features KCBX on-air hosts Sonnie Brown (Minstrel Song Show,) Glenn Horn (Basically Bluegrass) with Better Late Than Never, Rob (Little Robbie) Kimball (Pickin' Up the Tempo and Classical Showcase) and special guests. Join us for an evening of great live acoustic music!

Sonnie Brown will be Master of Ceremonies.

The submission deadline is November 1st, 2007.

For rules regarding presentation and information regarding compensation, please call Kelli Reynolds at KCBX at (805)549-8855 or stop by KCBX at 4100 Vachell Lane in San Luis Obispo for a flyer.

Brioche is a French oxymoron: A mouth-watering light dough yet rich with butter.
Learn about working with the dough and the variations of brioche you can make.

WHEN: Thursday, September 6 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm
The fee for the class is $20.00
WHERE: The City of San Luis Obispo Parks & Recreation Ludwick Community Center at the corner of Santa Rosa & Mill.

Pastry Chef Matthew Mimmack, a pastry chef at the Madonna Inn, brings 30 years of experience to his baking and pastry classes at the Ludwick Community Center, through The City of San Luis Obispo Parks and Recreation Department.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.dessertdemos.com

FALL 2007 SCHEDULE - ALL CLASSES MEET FROM (6:00-8:30pm)
THE COST FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL CLASS IS $ 20.00

Thursday, September 20 - HOLIDAY BAKING - GINGER COOKIES
Decorate ginger cookies for any occassion! Ginger cookies will be brought to the class, ready to decorate and frost with royal icing.
Thursday, October 4 - QUICK BREADS - from Banana Nut to Zucchini
Thursday, October 18 - CAKE DECORATING
Thursday, November 1 - WORKING WITH CHOCOLATE
Thursday, November 15 - ALL ABOUT PIES
Thursday, November 29 - SWEET DOUGH - Danish, Coffee Cakes and Sticky Buns
Thursday, December 13 - HOLIDAY COOKIES

For more information email at dessertdemos@charter.net or click this link for additional information

The exhibition titled "Gongzo: Instruments of Sound" includes aluminum wheel gongs, doorbell chimes, golf club shaft chimes, aluminum bell lids and stainless steel pot gongs. Hobbs, who has been a drummer for over 50 years invites the public into ARTS Space Obispo during the course of his exhibition to play the instruments. Call ARTS Obispo at 805-544-9251 for more information.

Event site: ARTS Space Obispo in the SLO Creamer, 570 Higuera St., Ste. 165

Tickets may be purchased online at www.santamariahometour.com or at the museum, TRIO Home and Garden Store in Santa Maria, and Ron’s Nursery in Grover Beach. EVENT SUMMARY Saturday, September 8, 2007 11a.m. – 3p.m. Home and garden tour; garden tea; prize raffles Tickets $25.00 (included tour and tea) Sponsorships $100.00 (includes two tickets and a “flower” in the Sponsors’ Garden) Ticket/Sponsorship purchases: www.santamariahomestour.com, The Natural History Museum - 412 S. McClelland, Santa Maria; TRIO Home & Garden Store - 2345 S. Broadway, Santa Maria; Ron’s Nursery – 1207 S. 13th Grover Beach. Important Information: These private homes and gardens are not handicapped accessible. No children under 12 are allowed. On event day, ticket will be exchanged for tour guide booklet at the museum For additional information, call 925-5725 or go to the website. Press contact: 928-5725 or lynn@ypp.com

Over three hundred guests coming from as far away as Washington State attended the West Fest. The concert has limited seating and tickets are sold in advance by the participating wineries. Parking will be available at JanKris Winery and Castoro Cellars and the Grapeline will shuttle you down to the West Fest at Peachy Canyon. JanKris Winery and Castoro Cellars are located on Bethel Rd right above Peachy Canyon Winery.

The Tom Nolan Band will be playing Blues all afternoon. With a world class rhythm section, great singers and soloists, and an intense stage show. TNB brings people to their feet. Soul, Blues, R & B and Jazz -TNB does it all. Playing a great mix of their own origionals and classic dance tunes.

13 Wineries gather at Peachy Canyon Winery to pour their award winning wines

1480 N. Bethel Rd Templeton CA 93465

Purchase Tickets at westfest.eventbrite.com/ or at any of the 13 particpating wineries. $40/person $75/couple

The central Coast Low Vision Council (CCLVC) is a local non-profit organization serving persons with visual impairment / blindness living on the Central Coast.

This fundraiser helps to print our FREE Low Vision Resource Directory, and to help fund sending a CCLVC representative to the biannual California Council of the Blind statewide conference.

Make your pledge by midnight, September 17, and you'll automatically be entered in a drawing for a $2,000 Gift Certificate from Daylight Home and Patio on 1234 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, or a Boston Acoustics HD Radio receiver (to experience the new CD-quality digital sound of KCBX.)

Sacha Boutros is noted as being a rare talent reminiscent of the golden days of Jazz. Her sophisticated sultry style is sweeping the attention of Jazz and Latin Jazz listeners everywhere. She has a distinct voice and this is heard not only in her English but her Latin compositions. Classically trained, she has a 4 1/2 octave range. She can sing anything from Blues to Opera, but when asked what her favorite genre is she replies, "I love Jazz, so that's what I sing. It's in my soul."

"Sacha is vocalist like no other besides being a singer she is first and foremost a musician. With practically perfect pitch her musical Sophistication and elegance are timeless." - Frankie Laine

"Sacha..s voice is both sexy, provocative, soulful and smooth... " - Red Holloway

".. A Vocalist of Promise...." - San Diego Union Tribune

"A versatile, original and innovative singer who demonstrates that Jazz is in her soul." - Bitacora Cultural (Mexican Magazine, Baja California)

For more info: http://www.myspace.com/jazzsacha
http://www.myspace.com/mikeraynorgroup

Claudia has as expressive voice that is as much at home on a whispery folk ballad as a full-tilt Buddy Holly styled romp. She plays a style all her own: eclectic folk music with traces of all her musical loves--blues, western swing, rock and county. Drawing from original compositions and, beloved old favorites (some almost forgotten) along with folk and pop classics; Claudia’s performance is truly heartfelt and cleverly entertaining.

Over the past few years since the release of her first solo CD in 2000, “Song Food”, Claudia has stepped away from seeing herself as mostly an interpreter and far more as a songwriter. The folk music radio community has taken notice and truly agrees. From Boston to Salt Lake to Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo she has garnered more airplay in seven years than most folk musicians get in a lifetime.

With hints of an East Coast folk style and attached to a West Coast irreverence, Claudia’s humor, personal stories and her “Who me?” attitude makes her live concerts a delightful social dissertation attached to a wonderful songfest.

During our 1st season there was never a lack of clever and delightful voices and sounds at Música Del Río. We know Claudia’s appearance here will continue this new tradition. For more insights and many good musical samples, you can find links to Claudia’s music at our website. Get a taste!

Claudia can stay at Música Del Río for as long as she likes on September 21st as long as you stay too. It could never be enough.

At the age of seventeen, Donayre enlists to become an airborne ranger, young and unsure of the uncertainties that surround his future. As he becomes immersed in military life, he finds himself traveling, drinking, and meeting women during short, army-allotted excursions. When his four-year contract comes to an end, Donayre spends seven years earning his master’s degree and then decides to do the unthinkable: join the famously liberal Peace Corps.

Assigned to Moldova, a small country in the former Soviet Union, he becomes engrossed in a politically conflicted culture that’s notoriously intertwined with corruption and poverty. Donayre’s two-year stint as a teacher of English as a foreign language at the university level allows him to view, first hand, the effects of a broken nation on an emerging generation of workers. What It Means to Serve: From Airborne Ranger to Peace Corps Volunteer is a memoir that takes its readers through a range of politically charged emotions as Donayre openly engages in the dualities of war and peace.

Robert Donayre currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a far cry from his native city of Imperial Beach, California. He is a teacher of English as a second language for the New England School of English. He has received a B.A. in history from UC Santa Barbara and an M.A. in history from CSU Sacramento. In his free time, Donayre is an avid traveler and reader of nonfiction.

The elegant afternoon will also include live jazz music and a silent and live auction for guests to bid on exciting getaways and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. 100% of the proceeds earned at the event go to support the foster and high-needs children and families served by the Family Care Network.

When: Thursday, September 27, 2007

Where: Atascadero Lake Pavilion

The San Luis Obispo County Community Foundation (SLOCCF) is holding its fifth annual Women’s Legacy Fund Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Katie Tamony, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Sunset Magazine. The luncheon is from 12-2pm. For ticket information contact the Community Foundation at 543-2323 or log onto www.sloccf.org.

This event takes place on Sunday Sept. 30th 2007 From: 9:30-11:30am
Where: Morro Bay Fitness Works (down the road from Albertsons and right next to the Radio Shack & Nibble Nook)
Located at: Quintana Rd. MB 93442
Wear: Comfortable clothing to workout in. Typically Nina classes are done -barefoot.
For more information on this event, please contact: Suraya Breen Smith at 805-459-5988 or Fitness Works: 805-772-7466.
For more information on Nia please go to: www.nianow.com

There are local weekly Nia classes Monday – Saturday in Cambria, Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo. Every Nia class is one hour long. For more information on the local Nia classes taught by Suraya, Calico and Whitney, call Suraya at 805-459-5988 or go to: www.nianow.com