Small venues with Sun Ra in 1986 and Fabio Gouvea in 2026

In Fall 1986, I saw Sun Ra and His Arkestra at a third-floor venue in Oakland, California, with room for about seventy-five people, including twentyish performers in the band. The place was crowded, the music was hot, the crowd was sweaty, and it was magnificent. Yet it seemed sad that

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