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Introduction to Indian Vocal Music

Eight-class series: mondays, April 30-July 2, 10:30-11:45am
A basic introduction to North Indian Ragas. Awaken your morning and join us in singing beautiful Songs from the Maihar Senia Tradition of Baba Allaudin Khan, guru of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. Enrich your Singing, Playing and Creativity! Can also be done on instruments!

Bart & the Bedazzled with Scott Hirsch

friday, April 27, 2018, 7-10pm
Bart is a Bay Area (now Los Angeles based) legendary song writer, singer and musician. Anglophile pop meets West Coast yacht rock with occasional sci-fi weirdness. Scott is a musician and sound fixture among the New York independent film scene.

TOWSE

TOWSE Record Release

Sunday, April 29, 2017, 7-10pm
we are honored to be hosting the amazing young artist, grace fellows, who’s musical name is “towse,” as she releases her first full length album, “change.” grace was born & raised here in ojai. she is a recent cal arts graduate & all around badass musician, writer, & singer. her music is surprising, earnest, melodic, & meaningful.

footsoak

foot soak & story

Tuesday May 1, 2018, 7-10pm
Come with a friend or partner and be ready to enjoy giving and receiving a foot soak while listening to stories, folk tales and myths being told by heart.

Healthy Deliberations

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7-9pm
Technology: Helpful or Hindrance? Join Heath Perry and Dan Malloy as we discuss pertinent questions around Technology.

Prayer Flag Workshop

thursday & friday, april 19 & 20, 2018, 3:30-5:30pm
in honor of earth day, we will be co-hosting a couple of prayer flag workshops with our neighbors from arrow heart yoga. bring some scrap fabric or use what’s on hand.

Roughhousing, Emily Hay & Sahba Sizdahkhani

thursday, april 19, 7pm
free jazz with legendary saxophone player jack wright’s current project, roughhousing (saxes, guitar, objects, double bass). opening the evening will be two of ojai’s freest jazz birds: emily hay (flute/voice) & sahba sizdahkhani (drums). music to grow with!

Mayan Families Fundraiser

Saturday, May 12, 2018, 6:30pm
Talk, Slideshow, & a short film Rosa-These Storms. Meet Rosa, featured in the feature length film Living on One and the award-winning short film Rosa-These Storms. Hear her stories as an indigenous Guatemalan woman and learn about her journey towards her dreams.

Phoenix Cycle Mandala

friday, april 20, 2018, 6:30pm
an evening to celebrate the seven-week phoenix cycle series that river sauvageau & susan kelejian facilitated, which culminated in the creation of a beautiful mandala.

Ojai Earth Day at Libbey Park

saturday, april 21, 11am – 5pm
come out & celebrate our mother earth ! we will have a booth with some interactive family crafts, including handmade prayer flags.

Tammy Scheffer & Katie Seiler

Thursday, April 13 7pm
greater goods is glad to be included in the west coast tour of these two amazing vocalists! as always, this is an all ages, donation based show. hope to see you there!

earth night with ella & sage

sunday, april 22, 7:30pm
cap off a grounding weekend with the ever delightful, earthful, songful, muse infused duo supremo : ella anders & sage stoneman.

Bay Station & Cindy Kalmenson

Friday, April 6, 7:00pm
Join us for a night of melodic & original americana with bay area artists Bay Station Band & ojai treasure Cindy Kalmenson.

We Will Rise! Community Sing.

Ojai Rancho Inn, 615 W Ojai Ave
Sunday, April 7, 2018, 6-7:30pm
Please join us for a community singing circle in collaboration with greater goods’ Folk Steady Communal Concert & Family Picnic at Ojai Rancho Inn.

Hannah Jobus, Jessica Malone, & Nick Foster

wednesday, April 11, 2018, 7-10pm
Join us in welcoming folk singers Jessica Malone and Nick Foster as they swing through Ojai during their current double solo tour. Based out of a little town just east of Sacramento, their performance is dynamic and full of powerful vocal harmonies!

Benefit Concert with Nina Jo Smith, Alan Thornhill, & Martin Young

Friday, March 16, 2018, 7-10pm
Ojai native Nina Jo Smith performs March 16 at Greater Goods with Alan Thornhill and Martin Young. Nina Jo will play her songs about Ojai and beyond on ukulele and guitar. Concert benefits Ojai Raptor Center and Help of Ojai as a thank you for their work helping during and after the Thomas Fire.

Herbal Medicine Workshop

Saturday, may 10, 2018, 2-5pm

join dan de lion of return to nature ( www.returntonature.us ) for a class on how to easily make your own herbal remedies with common plants growing in just about any yard or landscape.

Ian Richie, Mike Parson, Ross Keck

Saturday, March 3, 2018, 7-10pm

country, blues, ballads, & chamber folk. all ages, all donations welcome

Folk Steady at Ojai Rancho Inn

Sunday, March 4, 2018, 2:00pm
5 years now & this first sunday tradition is still going strong. big thanks to our friends at the ojai rancho inn for supporting local culture & community all these years!

Benefit Concert with Chris & Michael VonTanner

Friday, March 9, 2018, 7-10pm

Chris and Michael VonTanner will perform original songs of laughter, compassion and political consciousness for a family audience at Greater Goods. Chris (Tanner) VonTanner has been a performing singer-songwriter for decades. He wrote and performed the acclaimed song “The Sensitive Little Boy” which is documented on Folkways Record’s ‘Walls to Roses’ album and now housed in the Smithsonian.

Beatles Sing-Along

saturday, march 10, 2018, 7:00pm
with a little help from your friends! All lyrics provided.

sunfoot (chris johanson!) & mike donovan

Thursday, march 1 at 9pm,
Chris Johanson was born in suburban San Jose, California in 1968. He grew up skateboarding, attending punk rock shows, drawing, and with a dry yet sharp sense of humor.

Healthy Deliberations Series

One Wednesday Each Month
Healthy Deliberations is a monthly gathering with an intention to develop a place and a protocol where disagreements are discussed in a friendly manner, with the goal of understanding and appreciating other’s perspectives when we are in opposition.

Tom Brosseau, Shelley Short, Aaron Embry

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 7-10pm
This February and March, Tom Brosseau will be hitting the road with singer-songwriter Shelley Short. Seattle to San Diego with some great stops in between. Joined by the wonderful Aaron Embry for their Ojai stop-in, expect a great evening of song and story.

mikael jorgensen + isaac koren’s “expandards”

saturday, february 24, 2018, 7:00-10:00pm
experimental tweaking & stretching of standards from the american songbook. special guest: drum & lace

The Prana Brothers

Sunday, February 25, 2018, 6:00-10:00pm
join us for a night of groovy acoustic jams with The Prana Brothers! bring the kids, your hips, knees, & dancing feet! we’ll also be celebrating prana sister, Liesel Rigsby’s, birthday!