@caption:David Grisman plays a benefit show Sunday in Palo Alto.
David Grisman is best known for two things: his virtuoso mandolin playing and his long partnership with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995. Perhaps he also should also be known as one heck of a nice guy.
Grisman headlines an acoustic jazz show at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Palo Alto Unitarian Church, 505 E. Charleston Road. The concert is a benefit for the Lucy Marsh Fund, with proceeds helping drummer and Palo Alto resident George Marsh and San Carlos resident Cynthia Lenssen pay the expenses of their daughter's long battle with cystic fibrosis. Lucy died in October at the age of 15.
Grisman will be joined on the bill by Marsh, acclaimed jazz pianist/composer Denny Zeitlin, singers Nate Pruitt and Gayle Dobson, guitarists Rick Vandivier and Julian Lage, bassist Mel Graves, pianist Smith Dobson and percussionist Jennifer Wilsey.
Suggested donation is $20. For more information, call 593-1084.
@caption:Adam Bernstein stars as Go Go and Zoe Bogart plays Rapper the Parrot in "Go Go the Blue Gorilla."
"Go Go the Blue Gorilla" kicks off the Palo Alto Children's Theatre's Hotdog Suppertime season this evening on the Roy Ginsberg Magic Castle stage. The Mike Olmstead and Peter Derge musical tells the story of a singing and dancing gorilla who is taken from his rainbow jungle home by Smoggy Brown and Hunter and transplanted to a jungle of cement and steel. But, never fear, things end up just fine for Go Go.
The show is at 6:30 p.m. today and Monday through Thursday in the Secret Garden adjacent to Children's Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Tickets are $4 adults; $2 children. For more information, call 329-2651.
@caption:An exhibition of Kate Curry paintings and monotypes opens next week at Stanford. (Pictured: Curry's "Arisen")
"UP/Rising," an exhibition of recent paintings and monotypes by Kate Curry, can be seen at Stanford University's Serra House Tuesday through Sept. 23. The exhibition is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. A reception for the artist will be held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. July 9.
Paint and porcelain
New paintings by Kirt Hardcastle and stoneware and porcelain by Pat Oyama are on display Tuesday through July 24 at Gallery House, 538 Ramona St., Palo Alto. A reception for the artists will be held Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Oyama trained in both Japan and New York and now works out of her studio in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Her new slab and wheel-thrown pieces show the influence of both Japan and her present surroundings. Hardcastle works in acrylics on a grand scale. His new work contemplates Dante's "Inferno."
For more information, call 326-1668.
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