Too Many Zooz performs at High Sierra Music Festival at Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy on July 5, 2019. Photos: Michael Smyth. QUINCY, California — The High Sierra Music Festival, held annually at the Plumas County Fairgrounds, might seem like an odd place for the epicenter of the West…

Fantastic Negrito performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on June 15, 2018. Photo: Karen Goldman. When 2014 began, Xavier Dphrepaulezz was a former musician. His mid-‘90s music career ended abruptly when a car accident shattered his wrist badly enough that it had to be fused and put him…