Send ideas to calendar@montereycountynow.com 28 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY MAY 29-JUNE 4, 2025 www.montereycountynow.com your seat, finding participation in the music just irresistible? Here’s your chance at validation. Choir! Choir! Choir! (exclamation points included!) comprises Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman, who take to the stage to direct you to sing with them. This participatory concert requires only a love of music and willingness to blur the line between audience member and performer; they will teach you so that you can sing along in style. [SR] 7pm Saturday, May 31. Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey. $37-$73.6491070, goldenstatetheatre.com. CUP RUNNETH Baseball, football and most other sports have a regular season, playoffs and a championship game. But soccer clubs have more goals (get it?). There are all of the above, plus the US Open Cup and the USL Jägermeister Cup. Call them seasons within the season. While Monterey Bay FC has been eliminated from the US Open Cup, their USL Cup campaign is just getting underway. The tournament puts USL Championship and League One sides into six groups. Group play runs through July 26, with winners advancing to the knockout rounds. MBFC opened group play on May 28 (after the Weekly’s press deadline). They host a familiar foe, Orange County SC, in cup play on Saturday. [DF] 7pm Saturday, May 31. Cardinale Stadium, 4111 2nd Ave., Seaside. $22-$61. 324-2560, montereybayfc.com. Saturday, May 31- Sunday, June 1 THE BODY’S THE LIMIT Crawling under sharp barbed wire in a mud pit. Leaping over fire. Carrying a 60-pound sand bag up a mountain. Climbing up an inverted wall. For many, this sounds like a form of torture. For the elite athletes who endure this punishment, they live for the experience. But all can agree: The setting is incredible. The Spartan Race makes its return to Toro Park, where the rolling hills and rugged terrain are ideal for such a competition. There are various levels of competitions, varied by the number of obstacles, from 20 to 25, as well as a race for the kids. Yes, you can also arrive at the competition just to spectate. Maybe you’ll be inspired to compete next year. [EC] Registration begins 6am Saturday, May 31-Sunday, June 1. Toro Park, 501 Highway 68, Salinas. $24/spectators; $29-$199/competitions. spartan.com. HOTBOX HARRY’S SONGS What’s on Hotbox Harry’s playlist? Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us is a Big Sur band that at present consists of Magnus Toren, Mike Scutari, Tracy Chesebrough, Rick Chelew, Howe Cochran, Nick Leahy, Daniel Cortes and Jerry Moxley. Their repertoire hovers around 20 rockabilly and country albums, inspired by—the story goes—a song list written on a napkin at a bar in Arcata by “a roly poly drifter-type character,” aka Hotbox Harry. The band is a tribute to his memory and his musical taste. Whatever your musical taste, this band is really all about having a good old time, listening to music and dancing. They bring lively shows to Fernwood and River Inn. [AP] 10pm Saturday, May 31 at Fernwood Tavern, 47200 Highway 1, Big Sur; noon-4pm Sunday, June 1 at River Inn, 46800 Highway 1, Big Sur. Free. 667-2129, fernwoodbigsur.com; 667-2700, bigsurriverinn.com. Sunday, June 1 WINGED VICTORY Condor 171—aka Traveler—is the matriarch of the Central Coast flock HOT PICKS mous region located in the north of Spain, which has its own distinct culture and language from outside of the Indo-European linguistic group. [AP] 8:30pm Friday, May 30. Fox Theater, 241 Main St., Salinas. $81-$123. 758-8459, angel@foxtheatersalinas.com, foxtheatersalinas.com. Saturday, May 31 THE FINALE This is the final concert of Pacific Grove Pops Orchestra’s season, fittingly titled Dance Into Summer. Led by Artistic Director Barbara Priest, the ensemble presents an uplifting program of dance-themed music. The repertoire includes Strauss’ “Thunder and Lightning Polka,” Mendelssohn’s “A Dance of Clowns,” Sheldon’s “Danzas Cubanas,” and Bizet’s “Habanera,” alongside Galante’s “Genesis,” Mendelssohn’s “Nocturne,” Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera” theme, Badelt’s “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and “Minnie the Moocher” by Calloway and Mills. That’s a lot of variety to listen to (and maybe even dance to, or at least tap your toes). This intergenerational community orchestra thrives on bringing people together on stage, and within the audience. [AP] 2pm Saturday, May 31. Pacific Grove Arts Center, 835 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. Free. info@pgpopsorchestra.com, pgpopsorchestra. com. POP AND FOLK The Nashville-born folk duo Haunted Like Human is nostalgic but real. “Darling don’t go digging up graves,” they sing in “Afterlife,” from their 2021 record Tall Tales & Fables. Dale Chapman from Georgia takes care of vocals and lyrics, and Cody Clark from Oregon writes songs and plays guitar, percussion and more. Lyrically, they look into the past with a focus on scene-setting and storytelling, set against beautiful melodies. [AP] 5pm Saturday, May 31. Pop and Hiss, 215 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove. $5. info@popandhiss.net, popandhiss.net. PLAY DAY Theater doesn’t just happen…Um, let’s qualify that, because you can watch all the absurdist theater you want thanks to the Trump administration. Great, provocative theater doesn’t just happen. It takes scripts, actors, a venue, people behind the scenes and—most of all—money. And so the not-for-profit company New Canon Theatre Co. is launching into its fourth season with a fundraising event. “An Evening of Legends” introduces some of their artists and the plays on schedule, such as An Iliad, Othello and Life Sucks. There will be an auction, raffles, live music and more (wine, bites, etc.). All proceeds go toward the productions, and they are hoping to raise $5,000. [DF] 6:30-8:30pm Saturday, May 31. Monterey History & Art at Stanton Center, 5 Custom House Plaza, Monterey. $45; $25/community access. 275-1441, newcanontheatre.org. SING ALONG Are you the kind of audience member who attends a concert and cannot help yourself from singing along, even if it means generating some eyerolls from the people around you? Do you stomp or clap along to the performer from Monterey Bay FC defender Carlos Guzmán tries to distance himself from Miami FC’s Daltyn Knutson during a 1-1 draw at Cardinale Stadium earlier this month. MONTEREY BAY FC The story of Condor 171’s near-death experience and efforts to save her are a moving example of years-long efforts to save California condors from near-extinction. Learn more in a documentary screening about this important bird. COURTESY OF VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY
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