This Friday night, June 15, 6:30-8:30pm Gaia’s Garden Restaurant, 1899 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa http://www.gaiasgardenonline.com/

Duo Giuliani Terry Mills, guitar Richard Heinberg, violin

Terry and Richard return to Gaia’s Garden Restaurant with a pair of sonatas by Nicolo Paganini, tangos, Spanish pieces, and standards from the great American songbook.

Paganini is mainly known for his Caprices and Concerti for violin, which explored the technical limits of the instrument. Paganini was also a fine guitarist; indeed, he wrote over three dozen sonatas and other pieces for violin and guitar, but nothing for violin and piano (the more customary pairing). These compositions typically feature a beautiful and melodious slow movement followed by an exciting, dash-to-the-end fast movement--with the violin delivering the bulk of the pyrotechnics. The one exception is the Sonata Concertata (performed Friday), the first of Paganini's compositions for violin and guitar, which is in standard sonata format (three movements) and gives both instruments equal opportunity to shine.

No cover, good (reasonably priced) food and drinks…and a delightful evening of music! Tell your friends!

Duo Giuliani

Terry Mills, guitar Richard Heinberg, violin

Friday, February 16th, 6:30-8:30PM Terry and Richard return to Gaia’s Garden Restaurant, playing Vivaldi, Giuliani, Spanish light classics, tangos, 'Djangos' and standards from The Great American Songbook.

No cover, excellent (reasonably priced) food and drinks…and a delightful evening of music! Tell your friends!

1899 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa http://www.gaiasgardenonline.com

Just Added! The Farallons at Aqus Cafe, Petaluma, Friday, January 22nd, 7-9 pm As many Farallonians are aware, the Bach family lineage is long and complex. Johann Sebastian Bach started it all when he built on, at the time, traditional western liturgical music and added layers and intricacies that had never been heard before. One could say he baroque the mould (Get it? Not “broke” the mould, but baro . . . never mind). Following in J.S.’s musical footsteps were many of his offspring, his offspring’s offspring, his offspring’s offspring’s offspring, his offspring’s offspring’s offspring’s offspring . . . wait, where were we? Included in that lineage were his son Carl Philipp Emanuel (CPE Bach), Johann Christoff Friedrich (JCF Bach), and PDQ Bach who has been closely studied by Professor Peter Schickele for five decades. After exhausting research, and with the concurrence of experts, we can now announce the discovery of a long lost Bach cousin, Wilhelm Terese Friedrich Bach (WTF Bach). Not a lot is known about WTF except that he is widely credited for writing the passage that lead to the sustaining riff in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and the lyric for the massive Hindu-Surf hit The Beaches of Kathmandu. The literature also refers to WTF’s confusion about his sexual identity which experts (different ones from the experts referenced above) agree most likely stems from his three given names. The Farallons will not be playing works by WTF at their January 22nd appearance at Aqus Café. It’ll be more like channeling. (Text by Tom Richardson, "the other Farallon")