A new concert promoter has emerged in the hills of southern San Mateo County.

Coast Live Music gives chamber music concerts for a variety of ensembles at venues around Portola Valley. It also brings music to hospitals and other locations where people can’t get out to formal concerts.

Coast Live’s second calendar year season of four public concerts concluded on Thursday, Oct. 2, with a special event at the Thomas Fogarty Winery up on Skyline Boulevard. The 90-minute concert featured a wind octet which its leader and emcee, oboist James Austin Smith, informally dubbed “The Blowers.” This is what the late violinist Geoff Nuttall — husband of Coast Live artistic director Livia Sohn — called all wind players.

This grouping — two each of oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn — was a standard wind

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