Author: Mindy Giles

The Side Door creates live concert streaming series

The dire warning “#SaveOurStages – Time is running out” came from NIVA, the nonprofit National Independent Venue Association. According to a July survey of 2,400 independent live music venues and

‘The Frontline’ is powerful anthem of pandemic

Sacramento musician Lori Sacco-Nelson had seen those red-line badges of courage on the faces of nurses and doctors in countless television news reports throughout the long weary month of March.

Side Door concert hall marks anniversary

The Side Door just marked its first anniversary as a concert hall for all ages in what was once a Safeway grocery store. Appropriately ironic, as music is food for

Music keeps going on 78 RPM records

DJ Cactus Pete has loyal following for weekly round-up at neighborhood bar Cactus Pete Stegall, a 78-year-young gent spinning 78s at an unassuming neighborhood bar on Franklin Boulevard, has had