Today’s topics: first lilac flowers, golden currant, caging vegetables, quick watering comments, succession plantings, and more

This episode of Hello Davis! features Brett Lee of the Davis Downtown Business Association talking with John Natsoulas, a well-known figure in the Davis arts community best recognized as the founder and director of the John Natsoulas Gallery downtown.

Since opening the gallery in 1986, he has helped establish it as one of Northern California’s important spaces for contemporary art. Located on First Street, the gallery functions not only as an exhibition venue but also as a cultural gathering place where artists, writers, musicians, and community members come together.

On tonight's show:

• Blossom Dearie, I Won't Dance
• Art Pepper, Broadway
• Ella Fitzgerald, Rocks in My Bed
• Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller And Yusef Lateef, Flutie
• Anita O'Day, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
• Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg
• Yusef Lateef, Six Miles Next Door
• Al Hibbler & Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bye Bye Blackbird 2
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I'll Be Seeing You
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real
• Gerry Mulligan, Walk on The Water
  

In this episode we talk about the triggers of a melencholy feeling in music. Sometimes music doesn’t make us sad, it reminds us that we have lived. A melody can carry a memory, and when that memory returns, so does the feeling attached to it. That’s the quiet power of music.