‘Stars, Stripes & Santa Barbara’ at Santa Barbara Historical Museum

The Santa Barbara Historical Museum is internet hosting Independence Day celebrations, “Stars, Stripes & Santa Barbara,” that includes a profit live performance with Doublewide Kings on July 1 in addition to a pop-up pictures exhibition from their just lately acquired archives from the Santa Barbara News-Press. Open to the general public on July 1, 2, 3, and 5, and displayed within the courtyard, the exhibit will characteristic black-and-white pictures taken by Santa Barbara News-Press photographers from 1955 by the Eighties Santa Barbara summers.

At the profit live performance, the Doublewide Kings will play iconic rock ‘n’ roll tunes with each traditional Nineteen Seventies period songs by The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Van Morrison, in addition to authentic songs to stir the Americana spirit. The five-member Santa Barbara–based mostly band consists of Palmer Jackson Jr., Cord Pereira, Robert Teneyck, Charlie Crisafulli, and John Simpson. They carry out all through the area, together with an ongoing collaboration with the Santa Barbara Symphony. 

The museum just lately bought the bodily News-Press archives, supplies that stuffed greater than 1,500 packing containers, preserving greater than 150 years of native tales and roughly a million pictures documenting the group. “This pop-up is another way we’re keeping our community’s treasured memories alive, and the benefit concert will support ongoing preservation of the News-Press archives so future generations can access and enjoy them,” mentioned Dacia Harwood, the Museum’s govt director. 

The live performance shall be held within the Historical Museum courtyard in downtown Santa Barbara at 136 East De la Guerra Street at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1. Tickets are $55 for basic admission and $45 for museum members. Reserved VIP tables vary from $450 to $2,500. Tickets and data can be found at sbhistorical.org. Museum admission is free.