Tag archives: SB Revels

Seasonal Revel-ry
By Richard Mineards   |   October 8, 2024

Susan Keller’s Santa Barbara Revels threw a Revels Equinox concert in the Lobero Theatre Courtyard, celebrating the changing seasons. In December, the group – under new musical director Dauri Kennedy – will host its 9th annual equinox concert, The Ghosts of Haddon Hall, at the Lobero (which I last saw 11 years ago). Music to […]

St. Pat’s Revelry
By Richard Mineards   |   April 2, 2024

Santa Barbara Revels’ 16th annual Pub Sing on St. Patrick’s Day was really up the creek! More than 60 warblers, including founder Susan Keller, joined in the merry mayhem at the Creekside Restaurant & Bar in Goleta singing a selection of Irish tunes, sea shanties, familiar folk songs, traditional favorites, and novelty ditties with Andrew […]

Revels Tales Told This Winter
By Steven Libowitz   |   December 19, 2023

With its 2024 annual Christmastime show, Santa Barbara Revels becomes the first of the regional Revels companies to present the organization’s newest endeavor: The Revels: A Winter Solstice Celebration – Tales from Ellis Island. Inaugurated in Cambridge just last year, the story finds a Mexican medical supervisor informing the newly-arrived immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and […]

St. Patrick’s Day Revelry 
By Richard Mineards   |   April 4, 2023

Just 96 hours after St. Patrick’s Day at Dargan’s, the popular Ortega Street Irish pub was bustling for the Santa Barbara Revels 15th annual Vernal Equinox pub singalong with guitarist Josh Jenkins and the group’s song leader, flutist Erin McKibben. The only thing “Dublin” more than Ireland’s capital city was the volume of rain that […]