The Monterey County Weekly lists the top shows of 2016 in Monterey County — check it out!! We can’t help but concur with this entry:

Soberanes Fire Benefit at Golden State Theatre • Aug. 12

“One of the thankfully-more-minor things disrupted by the Soberanes Fire was a handful of music shows in Big Sur.

Sharon Van Etten’s show moved to downtown Monterey’s Golden State, which was then turned into a benefit show for fire victims. Joining Van Etten on bill was Big Sur local and original Beach Boy Al Jardine, Mike Nesmith of The Monkees, Johnny Rivers and others.

Van Etten was so overcome by the moment she could barely talk, babbling words of gratitude into the mic after singing backup for Jardine on “Sloop John B.””