The four-piece band plays a range of jazzy stuff, from Creole and Orleans to sassy West Coast. They keep it lively and real with jokes, whistles and even some raps. There's a keyboardist who has no problem switching to slide guitar or bamboo flute, a bongo drum player giving an island-accented rhythm, an upright bass player in gray beard and headband supplying the back bone and Dennis Steele going nuts on the drums. June Hartman down at Comma Coffee has a special poetry performance planned for Friday, June 1. The evening will include the genius of the Virginia City Theater Muckers, the Downstairs Poets and Reno's 4th Street Honkies.
Admission is only a dollar for the show.
In fact, a show of original, refreshing pottery will open at Planet X Pottery outside Gerlach on Saturday. Famous ravioli, land speed records, Burning Man and some of the West's most cutting edge ceramics to boot. The show runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Monday. Carrot Top Armed with trunks full of wacky props and that notorious mop of neon red hair, the cartoon-like Carrot Top will bound onto the stage at Reno's Silver Legacy Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Carrot Top, the son of a NASA engineer, got his start painted black in college doing a Michael Jackson impression, and just last week he was on Bill Marr's Politically Incorrect. He's the infamous Carrot Top and he'll be here Friday and Saturday.