NOK Entertainment

The Hippodrome
321 Alvarado Street
Monterey, CA 93940-2458
(831) 262-2704

For now though, we’ll work on getting the streams back up, getting some new bands promoted, featuring some new music in our On Demand Player, and hopefully setting up some more shows!

Friday January 15th at Sly McFly’s
700 A Cannery Row Monterey, CA 92940 — (831) 649-8050
OMANI is proud to be the FIRST EVER REGGAE BAND AT SLY’S
FREE SHOW — 9pm til 1am — Food and Alcohol available

The music, and band name, symbolizes “Positivity”.  It’s a message with a strong sense for finding one’s own happiness, balanced with thoughtful awareness.  With hypnotic grooves and satisfying positive vibes, OMANI‘s uplifting reggae music makes you think, makes you wanna move, and makes you have a good time.

Performing mainly original songs, as well as spontaneous improvisational dub jams, yet sometimes also a tasty selection of a few cover songs by Dennis Brown, Tenor Saw, Bob Marly, and even the Eagles, and Steve Miller.

This band does not rely on stereotypical tactics such as fakin’ jamaican patois, preaching the bible, or singing about ganja.  Instead they provide the audience with a broad texture of sound featuring catchy hooks, horn lines, and vocal harmonies, delivered with a contagious and familiar yet refreshing feeling of pure musical pleasure.

The last time OMANI performed in Monterey was for the 14th annual Monterey Bay Reggaefest on Labor Day weekend 2009.

Learn more about OMANI at omaniband.com

"Got Your Herbs" CD Cover

Remember, we are still offering RastaFarOUT’s EP absolutely free for SalinasRadio.com listeners!!!

Click here to download the entire EP and album artwork.

“Available to all SalinasRadio.com listeners, we have partnered with RastaFarOUT to offer you all their new EP, “Got Your Herbs” absolutely free as a digital audio download. The download includes all of the songs on the EP, and album artwork of the front and back, including an awesome shoutout to SalinasRadio.com.

Show your support and spread the word on RastaFarOUT, and if you’re in the Big Sur area, show your support by picking up his hard copy CD in stores.”

Soledad High School Students inside the SoMoCoCAT mobile audio recording studio.

Grassroots organization, South Monterey County Center for Arts & Technology (SoMoCoCAT), is offering digital media workshops for the first time in Monterey County’s ‘salad bowl of the world.” A ‘lettuce curtain’ isolates residents of rural Salinas Valley from opportunities in a 21st century creative workforce.  SoMoCoCAT has therefore started a movement to cross the a ‘digital divide’ and part the ‘lettuce curtain” to bring free arts and technology training to underserved, mostly Latino, agricultural communities in South Monterey County.

SoMoCoCAT recently crossed the ‘digital divide’ to introduce arts and technology training to residents in Monterey County’s rural communities south of the ‘lettuce curtain.’ Until now there were no outlets where local residents could learn the digital media technology skills that are increasingly in demand among employers.

Communities in South Monterey County suffer from problems such as poverty, drug use, high unemployment and school dropout rates, gang violence, and few employment and education options. Lack of transportation and limited English skills further prevent many South County residents from attending training programs that are located 25-35 miles away.

Director of SoMoCoCAT (http://www.SoMoCoCAT.org) Megan Heath, works for L-3 GS&ES Language Technology Services in Monterey, California, a company that employs artists and designers who use digital technology to create instructional materials.   Heath is also involved in Monterey County economic development efforts that capitalize on local creativity and technology (http://www.cfmco.org/CAA/pdfs/mntry_cult_plan01.pdf). “I know first hand that there are viable career opportunities for people who know how to blend art and technology to earn a living, but we have a hard time finding well-qualified candidates in [the Monterey] area,” says Heath.  She believes that “if we really want to develop a strong creative economy in Monterey County, we must invest in the tremendous human potential that lies in the oft neglected South County.”

Heath created SoMoCoCAT in 2008 after she produced a media project that explored the socioeconomic division between the Salinas Valley and the rest of Monterey County that is sometimes referred to as the ‘lettuce curtain.”  She vowed to bring digital media training with an emphasis on career development, directly to these communities at no cost to the students.

Sara Papineau, from the Gonzales Parks and Recreation Department sees SoMoCoCAT  as good for the community.  “Anytime we can offer free quality programs to our residents both young and old we enhance the quality of their life.  The classes that SoMoCoCAT are offering in South Monterey County are opening people’s minds through creativity and diversifying their interests,” she says.

Among South County’s farmworker communities many do not have computers, or if so they often find the unfamiliar technology intimidating.  Dr. Drew Waters at California State University Monterey Bay’s Music and Performing Arts Department, volunteered to teach a SoMoCoCAT audio recording workshop for South County teens.  He believes this project “demystifies the technology and literally puts it under the hands for those people that can be most creative with it and benefit most from it in their future.”

SoMoCoCAT has already implemented several workshops–in Spanish and in English–and they are planning more.  So far the workshops have been possible due to many volunteer hours, two small grants, and modest corporate support from technology training firm, QuarterPoint, Inc., and L-3.

SoMoCoCAT’s current workshops in South Monterey County include:

• Digital Photography for adults in Gonzales;
• Animation for students of Frank Ledesma Elementary School in Soledad;
• Audio and Video Production for South County youth at the California State University Monterey Bay;
• Mobile Audio Recording Studio Workshop at Greenfield High School;
• PowerPoint and Microsoft Word Workshops in Gonzales.

Principal of Greenfield High, Rudy Garcia, allowed SoMoCoCAT to extend its mobile audio workshop for a week after he saw great interest among his students.  “It was amazing how excited the kids were when they stepped in the studio and heard themselves on the headphones,” said Peter Meuse, owner and instructor of the mobile recording studio.

Tara Vikjord, the 21st Century and After School Programs coordinator for the Soledad Unified School district in South County said of the animation workshop that SoMoCoCAT brought to one of her elementary schools:  “It was wonderful.  The kids were very engaged and the parents were happy.”  Animation teacher and artist, Andrew Dolan, said the experience was “awesome” and he thought the students seemed “so hungry for something creative to do.”  Jacob Ruelas, Director of the Center for Employment training in Soledad agreed when he said, “let’s get these kids off the street and doing art.”

Simon Salinas, Monterey County Third District Supervisor sees the benefit that SoMoCoCAT offfers South County, especially for  young people.  “Investing in our youth today will return great dividends by strengthening our community in the future,” says Salinas.

For Heath, SoMoCoCAT’s future is a self-sufficient social enterprise that is a pillar of Monterey County’s thriving creative economy. In the mean time they continue to seek ‘investors’ and community supporters who believe in that same future.

The South Monterey County Center for Arts & Technology (SoMoCoCAT) is a workforce investment initiative of the Monterey County Business Council’s Creative Technology Competitive Cluster program (http://www.c2.mcbusiness.org/).  SoMoCoCAT provides digital media arts, technology training and access to South Monterey County’s rural Latino communities.  SoMoCoCAT fosters ‘digital inclusion’ and enables equal opportunities for residents to contribute to Monterey County’s emerging creative economy.  For more information visit: http://www.SoMoCoCAT.org Media Contact:  Megan Heath, (831) 869-6055

Monterey, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2009

Show Flyer

There is going to be a HUGE show on November 13th at Giovane’s Restaurant in Salinas. At MC Cambio’s CD release show, you’ll get to see not only Mr. Cambio himself, but the entire Para La Gente crew, including Bocafloja, straight out of Mexico City, and vocalist Shannon Michele! Realization will also be there along with DJ Mike J (spinning soul and funk) and special guests.

It’s an 18 and over show, and will cost only $7 for entrance.

Location:

Giovane’s Pizza
348 San Juan Grade Road
Salinas, CA
(831) 444-6717

Ken Girardey

On top of the three already available, “A Life on the Road,” “Hollis Brown,” and “A Table for Two,” we have added a bunch of new Ken Girardey songs to the “All Genres” radio stream, the “Rock, Metal, and Acoustic” audio stream, and the On Demand Player!

The new songs added are as follows: “Ali,” “Apache,” “Down in the Hole,” “For a Missing Cat,” “Life’s One Act Play,” “No Mo Joe,” “Smoking Gun,” “World in a Jug,” “Yes it is, it’s True,” and “You Belong to Me (Clara).”

Here is the press release for a few of the songs, written by Mr. Girardey himself.

A Table for Two…. this all original unique CD is a story about the life of Jack Kerouac and his daughter Jan Michelle Kerouac. It’s a fantasy fiction piece about a Father and Daughter who never really connected in life, and although they were like two peas in a pod, they seemed to pass each other like ships in the night. The story takes place after Jack passes away and is on his journey to his final destination where he gets one last chance to connect with the daughter he never took the time to get to know. The original story is narrated by the Author Ken Girardey and features lots of colorful sound effects and original music performed by the author.

Emmy nominated Producer of Thirty Something and Handwritten Theater, Joseph Dougherty, gave it 5 Stars and stated, “Ken Girardey confidently sculpts music, language and wishful thinking to create a contemplation of loss and regret on the road to eternity. Perfect overnight programming, this passes my test for appropriate audio company on a late night drive across the desert.”

Noted Producer and Peabody award winner Marjorie Van Halteren gave it a 4 star review. “Good writing, nice voice, full of music, sound, and humour, and truly from the heart.

- Ken Girardey

You can now contact us at:

email us at: Mike@SalinasRadio.com
Text us at: (831) 275-0477
Leave us a voicemail at: (831) 275-0477

Check out our new On Demand Player! Bands and artists can opt in to allow their listeners to pick and choose which songs they want to hear. After only being up for 24 hours, we had already gathered permission to use over 100 songs! A special thanks for those who have already allowed their music on the On Demand section: August Sky, Bog Iron, Counter Clockwise, Donnie Williams & Park Place, Garibai, Ken Girardey, Para La Gente, Riz Orkestra, RastaFarOUT, and Rondalia Armonia.

Check it out and enjoy some great music, absolutely free, by clicking here.