Kira Soltanovich was born in the former Soviet Union and raised by immigrant parents in San Francisco: “Like most kids, my parents took me to Disneyland—not for the rides, for the lines. They assumed there’d be food at the end of them.”
Transatlantic Steel is scheduled to perform a free show at Folk Music Center Sunday, June 10 featuring Appalachian strings and Zimbabwean keys. Joti Rockwell and Tony Perman bring together instruments of southern Appalachia with the indigenous instruments of Zimbabwe using guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and mbira.
See Baldy Mountain Jazz Band at The Press Thursday, May 31 at 8 p.m. Attendees must be 21 or older after 9 p.m. Standing room only after 9:30 p.m. There is no cover charge.
