Gaviota Gathering 

An interdisciplinary event on a much smaller and more local scale takes place at the Lobero on January 30 when Scojo and The Keel hosts a record release concert for their new album, Gaviota. The evening is planned as a celebration of the Gaviota Coast with poets, painters, wildlife experts, geologists, and surfers who, along with the band, have been inspired by this unique stretch of nearby California. Scojo is led by Scott Claassen, a lifelong multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who has penned hundreds of songs and appeared on dozens of records as well as the soundtracks of Grey’s Anatomy and several films. Claassen is joined by 10 other musicians for the concert, while the speakers include artists Chris Chapman and John Iwerks, former preserve managers of Arroyo Hondo Preserve; Guner Tautrim, a sixth-generation rancher-farmer in Gaviota; Meighan Dietenhofer, wildlife biologist and district representative for supervisor Joan Hartmann; Tanya Atwater, UCSB emerita professor of geological sciences; and Doyle Hollister, a poet, therapist, mystic and member of a multigenerational family on the Gaviota Coast. A blessing by the Coastal Chumash will launch the event.