Dixon High Band Night

Music Director Adrian Coulson and the Dixon High School Music Boosters will feature Peter Petty on Friday, April 22, at 7 pm in the high school auditorium.

Petty will join The Dixon High Concert Band and Jazz Band for a highly entertaining concert.

Peter Petty is a Sacramento based band leader who swings out with the frenetic elegance of a Tasmanian devil in a tuxedo, leading some of the finest stewards of traditional jazz in the Sacramento area in the jumpin’est, jivin’ist, great-gosh-alive-inist Swing experience available today, according to a Coulson announcement.

He piggybacks on the colossal, still-reverberating shoulders of such giants of the genre as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, Cab Calloway and Joe Williams. Then he leaps over to stomp on and ride the coat-tails of indisputable legends like Ray Charles, Louis Prima, Roy Orbison, Shirley Bassey, Tom Waits, and David Bowie, singing every note of his 3 2/3 octave range with inexhaustible power and captivating control.

“Throwing out novelized lyrics, and a steadily growing repertoire of original tunes, it’s an infectious, eclectic, electric, acoustic mash-up that not only connects the dots between seemingly disparate musical genres, and artists, but does it with an originally adventurous and unpredictably hilarious theatricality that entertains the ‘swell’ out of audiences of all ages,” it continued.

Peter Petty is the 2018 recipient of the Sacramento Area Music Award in the category of “Best Live Performer.” You can currently see him as a member of the nationally touring Rat Pack Tribute band, The Deanoholics, and as the singing, swinging leader of his own 12 piece orchestra, Peter Petty and his Titans of Terpsichore!, and 7 piece genre"'bending Peter Petty & his Double P Revue!

Museum Speaker

Local farmer, Fred Barry, will be speaking about the Impact of the Bracero Program in California’s Central Valley at the Dixon Historical Society Membership Meeting on Sunday, April 24, from 2 to 4 pm at the Dixon United Methodist Church.

Barry’s father managed a Labor Camp a short distance from Dixon for young men that traveled to the area from their homes in Mexico to provide agricultural labor during the spring, summer, and fall. The young men returned to their families in Mexico for the winter months. That program began in 1942, due to the labor shortage caused by World War II and ended in 1964.

The program will be videoed and available for streaming from the DHS website. Kim Schroeder has put together an amazing list of programs for the upcoming year and will share them at the business meeting that will follow the program.

Zumba, Easter Market

At the new Creative Space at 160 West A Street, there is much planned, including a Zumba class starting on April 15, at 6 pm and taught by Milanie Thomas. An Easter Market with over 30 vendors will be on Saturday, April 16, 11 am to 3 pm, too. There is a Mom’s Night coming up and soon, an After School Kids Craft Class. Go online to CreativeSpaceDixon.com or see their Facebook page.