Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group Marin resident Jerry Harrison, center, performs at the Remain in Light show on Friday at the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz. Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group Adrian Belew, center, performs at the Remain in Light show on Friday at the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz. Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group People arrive at the Quarry Amphitheater for the Remain in Light show on Friday.
Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group People listen and dance to the Remain in Light show at the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz on Friday. Marin resident Jerry Harrison, center, performs at the Remain in Light show on Friday at the Quarry Amphitheater in Santa Cruz. What a stunner.
Oh, sure, the band was also great. But the real star of this show — at least for this first-timer to the venue — was the unbelievably beautiful Quarry Amphitheater. And most people in Northern California don’t even know this place exists.
Thankfully, the friendly folks at Noise Pop — the organization that puts on the same-named festival in San Francisco in late-winter each year — is helping to change that by hosting such cool shows as the Remain in Light Tour featuring Marin resident Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew that touched down on Friday night at the 2,600-capacity amphitheater tucked away on the lovely UC Santa Cruz campus. The 10-piece band, which featured three horn players and four singers trading off on lead vocals, did a splendid job entertaining the crowd with a 14-so.