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"Hot damn, we don't have this back in Lubbock!"*This place has tremendous cultural diversity, with some sort of special event almost every week. If its not one of our famous music festivals, you may come upon an art fair, holiday celebrations, or any number of other things. The chances are good that there's something on the local calendar to interest you. We have two weekly publications which provide up to the minute information on local events. The first is the Monterey County Weekly, which can be found at nearly any streetcorner, gas station, grocery store, or hotel lobby. The other is a tabloid insert in the Monterey County Herald called GO. Both publications come out every thursday, telling everything you need to know for the weekend and beyond. Similarly, Blog Monterey provides weekly updates on quality events, big and small. |
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First, the Entertainment:The Big Exciting Places:
In Carmel, the aforementioned Sunset Center, brings in entertainers of all types, big names and small names, from all over the world. Now and then there'll be a concert at the Carmel Mission. Mr. Toy especially enjoys the Christmastime choral programs there, for which the building's acoustics are especially well suited. Then there are the annual festivals. The Monterey Jazz Festival (September) and Carmel Bach Festival (late July - early August) are the biggest and most famous. There's also an annual Dixieland Monterey Festival (March), the Monterey Bay Blues Festival (June), a Christian music festival called Spirit West Coast (July), and the Monterey Bay Reggae Fest (also July). If you're here for New Years Eve, our First Night Monterey celebration is the place to be, with countless choices of entertainment scattered throughout downtown. There are also plenty of smaller events throughout the year, too numerous to mention here. The Monterey Jazz Festival also sponsors an annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, a high school jazz competition, in April. The music is every bit as good as the big festival in September, but all the events are free! The winners of the competition will appear at the regular festival in September. Throughout the year a number of exceptional jazz musicians perform at a variety of venues. We would caution that few of these are real nightclubs. Most are cramped eating and drinking establishments with a musician crammed into a corner as an afterthought. The aforementioned Monterey County Weekly and GO can give you the specifics in the clubs listings. |
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Getting Here |
If
live theatre is your cup of tea, this is the place to be. We
have a number of excellent theater companies on stages big and small.
Mr. Toy has attended and enjoys the following spots. This is not a
complete list by any means.
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| Finally, we should mention, you can
acquire the works of a mildly famous local photographer without leaving
the comfort of your chair. Visit Mr.
Toy's Photo Gallery
and have a look around. For as little as 99 cents you can download a piece of the Monterey
Peninsula without ever setting foot in
Monterey! It'll help support this website, and save you the travel
expense. |
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*NB: The quote at the beginning of this page was inspired by a friend of ours who, many years ago, upon first visiting the central California coast, made that very comment every time he saw something new, even though he was not from Lubbock. No offense is intended towards the fine town of Lubbock. In the event Lubbock residents manage to take offense anyway, please note that Mr. Toy does not subscribe to any form of political correctness and thus will make no accommodation for them. He expects that true Texans, if they are as thick skinned as they claim to be, would agree that it is not worth wasting time over. |
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