Saturday, August 12
Sat 8/12 11:00 AM Fairmont San Jose [170 South Market Street, San Jose, CA]The Neo Jazz Men, featuring Charles "The Xman" Xavier and Clifford “CB3” Brown III. Expect the unexpected from abstract and augmented voicings created through electronica, percussion and trumpet.
More... Sat 8/12 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St
SF]G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S
Hora Flora---------The Zero Collective (L.A.)---------Dr. Xiin (Bejing)---------Horseflesh------
Foreskin Shashimi in Paradise-------Foot SOS
Experimental sounds, gourmet vegan pancakes ----Noon until 2pm SHARP.
More... Sat 8/12 4:00 PM Fairmont San Jose [170 South Market Street, San Jose, CA]The Neo Jazz Men, featuring Charles "The Xman" Xavier and Clifford “CB3” Brown III. Expect the unexpected from abstract and augmented voicings created through electronica, percussion and trumpet.
More... Sat 8/12 7:00 PM Mission Dolores Basilica [3321 16th St., San Francisco CA 94114]SUMMER OF LOVE, San Francisco Lyric Chorus will perform choral music by Eric Whitacre, Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo and Verdi at Mission Dolores Basilica on Saturday, Aug 12 at 7pm and Sunday, Aug 13 at 5pm.
More... Sat 8/12 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704]Jenny Maybee’s “eloquent and heart stopping” piano playing and vocals have been hailed as “expertly balanced,” with her voice described as “exquisite” and “in the same league” as Billie Holiday, and her piano stylings compared to Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Cecil Taylor. Jenny’s trio, featuring Shimpei Ogawa (bass) and Hamir Atwal (drums), will bring an evening of innovative music to The Back Room. Rooted in the jazz and classical traditions, yet always breaking new ground, the trio will present original compositions and arrangements of favorite jazz standards.
More... Sat 8/12 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Cafe)
Oakland, CA 94612]Pro Arts presents a night of three contemporary experimental music duos at the top of their game: Ahleuchatistas, touring from North Carolina, and locals, IMA and Voicehandler.
More... Sunday, August 13
Sun 8/13 11:00 AM San Jose Museum of Art [110 S. Market, San Jose, CA]The Neo Jazz Men, featuring Charles "The Xman" Xavier and Clifford “CB3” Brown III will perform new electronica arrangements of jazz standards and original compositions. Regarded for their high level of creativity and new interpretations, the pieces from this series are influenced by Chick Corea, Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett. Expect the unexpected from abstract and augmented voicings created through electronics, percussion and trumpet.
More... Sun 8/13 4:00 PM caffe frascati [315 South First Street, San Jose, CA]No cover or admission for this free music sponsored by the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. The Neo Jazz Men, featuring Charles Xavier "The Xman" and Clifford Brown III “CB3,” two Bay Area musicians together again with experimental arrangements of acoustic drums, electronica and the clear, sheer tones of the trumpet.
More... Sun 8/13 5:00 PM Mission Dolores Basilica [3321 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco]San Francisco Lyric Chorus SUMMER OF LIGHT concert at Mission Dolores www.sflc.org
PROGRAM
Eric Whitacre Sainte-Chapelle • Glow • Lux Nova
Ola Gjeilo Northern Lights • The Ground
Eriks Esenvalds Stars
Giuseppe Verdi Four Sacred Pieces
More... Thursday, August 17
Thu 8/17 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street
SF]8:00 pm TD Skatchit (Tom Nunn & David Michalak - skatchboxes) with Polly Moller (bass flute) and Doug Carroll (cello)
8:40 pm
Bad Luck (Seattle)
Neil Welch tenor saxophone/electronics, Chris Icasiano - drums
9:20 pm
Ignition DuoRamon Fermin and David Gonzales - guitars
“Bad Luck bears down on you like a cyclone of fire” -The Stranger Magazine..."fearless, raw improvisations" -Seattle Times
More... Thu 8/17 10:00 PM KFJC 89.7 and kfjc.org [Foothill College Campus
Los Altos Hills, Calif
radio: 89.7
internet: www.kfjc.org]DIPW Quartet (
Tom Djll,
Matt Ingalls,
Tim Perkis, Scott Walton) maestros of electronic and acoustic sounds ( clarinet, violin and much else) bend the airwaves live in the KFJC PIT. LIsten in and watch live from the live cam at www.kfjc.org or 89.7 FM.
More... Friday, August 18
Fri 8/18 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Drum Dialogues: Jim Santi Owen and Sameer Gupta
Jim Santi Owen and Sameer Gupta represent diverse backgrounds in multiple percussion traditions including North and South Indian classical percussion, Jazz, and New Music. Owen and Gupta, along with special guests, will a present an evening of duet and solo percussion compositions and improvisations on tabla, kanjira, morsing, thavil, drumset, and other percussion.
More... Saturday, August 19
Sat 8/19 7:00 PM Chalaca Annexo [428 Third St. (@Broadway)
Oakland, CA 94607]Celebrate the Bay Area’s own rich Latin Jazz heritage with habanero-hot flavors of Afro-Cuban Jazz as Steve McQuarry presents Tribu August 19th from 7-10 pm at Chalaca Annexo located at 428 Third Street (@Broadway) in Oakland.
More... Sat 8/19 8:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]Free on Our Outdoor Screen!
Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Refreshments available.
The spectacular, one-of-a-kind musical Passing Strange was developed and premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and went on to be a Broadway hit, winning multiple awards including a Tony. Spike Lee captured the show on film, retaining its energy while also taking us behind the scenes. The semi-autobiographical story of a young black man's coming of age was conceived and composed by rock musician Stew, who narrates and directs the show. Hilton Als wrote of the musical, "Passing Strange is a brilliant work about migration—a geographical migration but also its hero’s migration beyond the tenets of 'blackness' and toward selfhood." For Roger Ebert, “This is not a traditional feature, but it's one of Spike Lee's best films."
More... Sunday, August 20
Sun 8/20 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street
Oakland]Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)
The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm.
More... Sun 8/20 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Cafe)
Oakland, CA 94612]An evening of short sets by musicians incorporating electronics in unique and innovative ways with percussion, violin, and voice. Matt Weston, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Bran(...)Pos,
Christina Stanley More... Monday, August 21
Mon 8/21 9:00 AM Exploratorium [Pier 15 Embarcadero at Green St
SF]Total Solar Eclipse Sonification 9:15-12:15 am featuring Kronos Quartet
Live video from a telescope array in Caspar, Wyoming, with a computer sonification.
Kronos Quartet joins the live score at 10:30 am (for 30 minutes.)
live at the Exploratorium, in the Kanbar Forum!
Sonification Starts: 9:15am PDT
Kronos Quartet Live: 10:30am PDT (to 11:00am)
Sonification Ends: 12:15pm PDT
https://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse
More... Mon 8/21 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Honor Monaco & Joel Nelson Duo + Joel Nelson & Friends
A revolving group of close collaborators exploring the compositional and improvised music of Joel Nelson. The music, in constant flux, rarely settles into one singular direction as the rotation of musicians (or "players") and new ideas invariably shift.
More... Wednesday, August 23
Wed 8/23 7:45 PM The Bindery [1727 Haight Street]Henry Kaiser, Neha Spellfish, Drought Spa, Filthmilk
Henry KaiserWith a mind as wide and grin as cracked as an ice cap,
Henry Kaiser doesn't try to be an iconoclast; it's just categories themselves failing to encompass his strange fascinations and unrestrained expression.
http://www.henrykaiserguitar.com
Neha Spellfish (Oakland/Madrid)
With low frequency waves washing up on a beach of dark noise ambience, Neha Spellfish delves into the shared space of interspecies communication and paramnesia, invoking the spectral measure of waking consciousness and noospheric cognition.
https://soundcloud.com/spellfish
Drought Spa
The boundary splitting duo of Alex Cruse and Kevin Ck Lo infuses the inhuman digital with intuition, combining randomized interactions of layers and language until all patterns implode only to reconfigure as breathing rubble.
http://www.blunderbussmag.com/virus-in-paradise/
Filthmilk
For seventeen years, the sideways smile of Filthmilk's Erich Fendler has tilted the earth on which San Francisco live music slips and slides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnDiWpC6-JU
More... Wed 8/23 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Danish pianist Søren Kjaergaard performs solo piano improvisations from an ongoing artistic research project that looks into solo performance as an expressive format for multi-layered and multi-directional improvisation. As a pianist and improviser Søren Kjærgaard is engaged in how one can open a field of possibilities within the natural limitations of the solo format and the core relation: Player – Piano.
Chris Brown opens with a performance of his 2003 improvisational work "Retrospectacles", for piano and interactive electronic signal processing.
More... Saturday, August 26
Sat 8/26 2:00 PM Alley Cat Bookshop [3036 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110]Del Sol String QuartetAlley Cat Bookshop Album Release Event (San Francisco) Aug 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Del Sol performs selections from their latest album “Dark Queen Mantra”, featuring music of Terry Riley, with some discussions and album signing.
with composer Luciano Chessa as moderator
More... Sat 8/26 7:00 PM Chalaca Annexo [428 Third St. @ Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607]Celebrate the Bay Area’s own rich Latin Jazz heritage with habanero-hot flavors of Afro-Cuban Jazz as Steve McQuarry presents Tribu August 19th from 7-10 pm at Chalaca Annexo located at 428 Third Street (@Broadway) in Oakland.
More... Sat 8/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Alone/Not Alone #1 – Marian Yang, violin and electronics
“Alone/Not Alone”, a concert series by curator Emma Logan, explores the performer’s role in a sonic world created between acoustic and electronic elements. Part one of the series features the talented Bay Area violinist Marian Yang, performing works for violin and electronics by living women composers.
More... Monday, August 28
Mon 8/28 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Sven Edward Olbash, baritone & Kevin Korth, piano: The New Music
Baritone Sven Edward Olbash and pianist Kevin Korth present a recital of songs and arias by Caccini, Monteverdi, and Benjamin Britten as a benefit for Lacuna Arts, a 501(c)3 nonprofit choral music organization in San Francisco
More... Wednesday, September 6
Wed 9/06 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]Full: Ritual
Programmed by Land and Sea
Local author Cedar Sigo performs a reading among altars, colored lights, and descending tones. Voicehandler (
Jacob Felix Heule and
Danishta Rivero) play intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the human voice and percussion, but juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. And New York–based performance artist Frank Haines brings us his trademark magical musical montage.
More... Thursday, September 7
Thu 9/07 6:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Opening Reception: shiver me timbres
Phil Dadson's sonic objects and instruments from the occupation of Building 961 during summer 2016 while Phil Dadson was a resident at Headlands Centre for the Arts, Sausalito. 6pm doors, 7pm brief talk and demonstration with the artist.
More... Thu 9/07 6:45 PM The Contemporary Jewish Museum [736 Mission St
SF]Modern Jewish Minimalists: The
William Winant Percussion Group Performs Steve Reich
In conjunction with The 613 by Archie Rand, contemporary classical musicians perform works by twentieth-century Jewish minimalist composers. The concerts take place in the galleries among the painting. The
William Winant Percussion Group performs Steve Reich's "Pieces of Wood," "Marimba Phase," and an excerpt of "Drumming."
More... Friday, September 8
Fri 9/08 7:00 PM Diesel Bookstore [5433 College Ave
Oakland, CA 94618]Del Sol String QuartetDel Sol performs selections from their latest album “Dark Queen Mantra”, with some discussions and album signing.
with musicologist Derek Katz as moderator
More... Fri 9/08 7:00 PM De Young Museum - Wilsey Court [Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118]Roscoe Mitchell x Number 197
This special performance will pair the orchestral works of
Roscoe Mitchell with Leonardo Drew’s site-specific installation Number 197 as backdrop, engaging similar ideas of the interplay between structure and improvisation in composition. An iconoclastic figure in contemporary music whose work ranges from classical to contemporary, from wild and forceful free jazz to ornate chamber music, Mitchell is an internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator dubbed one of the most important musicians in jazz by The New York Times.
Roscoe Mitchell has assembled a 34-piece orchestra comprised of local musicians, many colleagues and former students of his from Mills College, including
James Fei and
William Winant. Also joining Mr. Mitchell will be guest soloist Thomas Buckner, baritone, and Giovanni Trovalusci on flute and bass flute. The orchestra will perform works from his newly-devised, groundbreaking series Conversations for Orchestra, conducted by Steed Cowart. Selections from the series have been performed world-over, with premieres in New York City as well as Iceland, Scotland, and Italy. This event will mark the first time any of this music has been performed in the Bay Area, and inaugurates a new stream of contemporary performance programming at the de Young.
More... Saturday, September 9
Sat 9/09 12:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [2169 Mission St
SF]G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S
September 9---Saturday
Noon until 2pm SHARP!
R K Faulhber---------------Mod Life Crisis-------Ape Parts-------
---Kevin Lo----------Wooly Mari's Guillotine
More... Sat 9/09 4:00 PM River Bank [332 Georgia Street, Vallejo CA 94590]David Dunn,
Cheryl E. Leonard, Jen Boyd, Jorge Bachmann and
Kevin CorcoranRe:Sound is part of the 2017 Visions of the Wild Festival. The theme of this year’s festival is Changing Landscapes. Artists will engage with ecological change through sound, multimedia performance, and lecture.
More... Sat 9/09 7:30 PM COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS [Tateuchi Hall, Mountain View Community School, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View, CA]Sarah CahillSarah returns to CSMA for another performance of recent and rarely performed music by American composers, including George Lewis, Ann Southam, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Ingram Marshall, Paul Dresher, and Ruth Crawford.
More... Sat 9/09 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Hastings, Mayock, and Smith: Textural Resonance
Textural Resonance features three artists (John P. Hastings, Ben Mayock, and Andrew C. Smith) utilizing text as the focus of their musical works. The performances explore the anthropocene, semantics, and guestbooks via the deconstruction of language and the operatic tradition.
More... Sat 9/09 9:00 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave,
Oakland]In Too Deep is a new monthly curated by electronic music duo KYN (Josh Casey & Yari Bundy) in association with Studio Grand. Occurring every 2nd Saturday, the series will feature local artists specializing in the darker side of experimental dance music. Incorporating Bay Area experimental traditions and the sounds of Berlin’s underground dance scene, In Too Deep seeks to create a space for those left wanting more from the current sound of commercialized electronic music, and to present an audiovisual landscape incorporating rhythm, noise, and atmosphere.
More... Friday, September 15
Fri 9/15 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Timothy Johnson: Solo Piano
Timothy Johnson composes patterned based compositions for piano that are mixes impressionism with minimalism. He will be performing pieces from his last album as well as new unreleased works.
More... Fri 9/15 7:00 PM Presidio Officer's Club [50 Moraga Ave
SF]Farallon Quintet
The Farallon Quintet, founded in the summer of 2012, is a dynamic Bay Area ensemble and the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the clarinet quintet string quartet plus clarinet repertoire. In addition to playing the classics, the quintet seeks to perform rarely heard works, innovative arrangements, and new music by living composers.
More... Fri 9/15 7:30 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street
Berkeley]A human improviser,
Ken Ueno, meets a machine improviser in live performance. After encountering this strange double of human musical interaction in live performance, the human improviser is invited to discuss their experience of engaging with a musician made from computing machinery. How did the machine compare to a human player? In what ways did it satisfy human expectations? In what ways did it fail? In what ways did it succeed? And in what ways does its playing resemble, for better or worse, how human improvisers get along with one another?
Opening set by the great Chicago cellist, Fred Lonberg-Holm.
More... Fri 9/15 7:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]“Music is our refuge,” says a student at the Sainte Trinité Music School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “With music . . . we feel we are in another world, far from troubles.” Owsley Brown’s vibrant documentary recognizes the troubles but celebrates the refuge, testifying to the role that music can play in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances. Shot in Port-au-Prince over a period of years both before and after the 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands and reduced much of the city to rubble, Serenade for Haiti finds a locus of continuity at Sainte Trinité, which has been training young people in classical European and Haitian musical traditions since the 1950s. Replete with vivid images and sounds, the film focuses on interviews with students—most of them poor, some orphaned by political violence—and their teachers, many former students themselves. All speak eloquently about how the discipline of music has helped them discover their own voices and value in the world. After the quake, with the school’s stately white buildings in ruins, lessons and practice continue outdoors, maintaining a rhythm of resilience. In one teacher’s words, “The country is destroyed. All the buildings are destroyed. Music must go on. Life goes on.”
More... Saturday, September 16
Sat 9/16 6:30 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]Music composed by the American expatriate polymath Paul Bowles will be performed by Irene Herrmann, pianist and curator of the Bowles music estate, with soprano Sheila Willey. Songs feature texts by Bowles’s friends William Saroyan, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams. Owsley Brown’s documentary Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles screens in the Barbro Osher Theater after the performance.
More... Sat 9/16 7:30 PM south Berkeley community church [Fairview at Ellis, Berkeley
Two blocks from Ashby BART]Music for string trio and clarinet duets by
Dan Plonsey. Masha Albrecht, violin; Sarah Willner, Iola; Mary Artmann, cello;
Cory Wright and Plonsey, clarinets. Approximately 90 minutes. Eastern European South Asian Schubert .
More... Sunday, September 17
Sun 9/17 4:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]Music Makes a City begins with news reports of the near-total devastation of Louisville, Kentucky, in the winter of 1937, when the Ohio River flooded 70 percent of the city. In an effort to rebuild the city’s spirit, visionary Mayor Charles Farnsley and conductor Robert Whitney established the Louisville Orchestra, which would become a renowned international center for commissioning and recording works by living composers (Elliot Carter, Chou Wen-chung, and Lukas Foss among them). With its beautiful location cinematography by Marcel Cabrera and its careful attention to sound and orchestration, this film, like the others in Brown’s music trilogy, deserves be seen—and heard—in BAMPFA’s Barbro Osher Theater.
More... Sun 9/17 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Portato Portato: Feldman, Andriessen, Lane, Myers
Bay Area chamber trio Portato Portato present works by Morton Feldman, Louis Andriessen, and debuts new works by member-composers Jacob Lane (piano) and Jon Myers (percussion), with Michelle Lee (flutes).
More... Sun 9/17 7:30 PM First Presbyterian Church San Anselmo [72 Kensington Rd
San Anselmo, CA 94960]ECHO Chamber Orchestra presents Motion and Stillness: J.S. Bach: Concerto in E major, Daniel Lewin violin soloist; Erik Satie: Three Gymnopedies; F. J. Haydn: Symphony No. 88 and Maurice Ravel: Fanfare from L’éventail de Jeanne.
Sunday, September 17th at 7:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church, 72 Kensington Road, San Anselmo, 94960
Suggested donation $20
Info 415-300-7962 https://www.echorchestra.com/
More... Wednesday, September 20
Wed 9/20 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]GOGO PENGUIN, SEP 20 - SEP 21, 7:00pm, 8:30pm, Joe Henderson Lab
The piano trio has been one of the most durable, beloved, and flexible formats in jazz history, evoking illustrious names like Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Ahmad Jamal, among others. Manchester-based GoGo Penguin turns this most venerable jazz construct on its ear, infusing direct influences from contemporary electronic music and modern classical concepts into their singular ensemble approach.
More... Wed 9/20 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Brooklyn Raga Massive: Raga Jazz Messengers
The Raga Jazz Messengers (along with Special Local Guest collaborators) features a dynamic lineup of NYCs finest improvisers whose music bridges the cultural heritage of South Asia and America. From the American Jazz songbook to Indian Classical Music, their original compositions draw on these melodic, harmonic and rhythmic traditions, which gives the Raga Jazz Messengers a propulsive swinging pocket as well as a lush melodic beauty.
More... Wed 9/20 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street
SF]curatorial takeover of the Peacock Lounge by Dania Stacian!! featuring....
LEXAGON, WOE, FAMOUS TECHNO, TYPE-B
Wed, Sept 20 at The Peacock Lounge 552 Haight, SF
$5 Doors 7:45pm, bands 8-10:30pm, 21+
More... Thursday, September 21
Thu 9/21 7:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]GOGO PENGUIN, SEP 20 - SEP 21, 7:00pm, 8:30pm, Joe Henderson Lab
The piano trio has been one of the most durable, beloved, and flexible formats in jazz history, evoking illustrious names like Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and Ahmad Jamal, among others. Manchester-based GoGo Penguin turns this most venerable jazz construct on its ear, infusing direct influences from contemporary electronic music and modern classical concepts into their singular ensemble approach.
More... Thu 9/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Suspended Belief: Nine Films from Northern California
A selection of films (all created in Northern California 1966–2016) reflecting direct physical engagement with the tools of cinematic expression and a turn toward intimacy, introspection and anti-linguistic exploration. Includes films by Malic Amalya, Bruce Baillie, Nathaniel Dorsky, Will Hindle, J.M. Martinéz, Gunvor Nelson, Vanessa O’Neill, Ken Paul Rosenthal and Karly Stark.
More... Friday, September 22
Fri 9/22 7:00 PM Conservatory of Flowers [Golden Gate Park
San Francisco]Long toning in the Long Tone Choir, which convenes as part of Dan Gottwald’s curation of a tunnel in Golden Gate Park leading to the Friday evening illumination of the san Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
Dwell, interact, and immerse yourself.
More... Saturday, September 23
Sat 9/23 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell)
SF
CA]TIM BERNE’S SNAKEOIL, SATURDAY, SEP 23, 7:30PM, 9:00PM, Joe Henderson Lab
Since Tim Berne first emerged on New York’s roiling Downtown scene in the late 1970s the alto saxophonist has created one galvanizing ensemble after another. In recent years his primary vehicle has been Snakeoil, introduced on an acclaimed self-named 2012 quartet session for ECM.
More... Sunday, September 24
Sun 9/24 12:00 PM The War Memorial Veterans Building [401 Van Ness Ave
SF]Join us for the 10th anniversary of
SF Music Day, the Bay Area’s free homegrown music festival in downtown San Francisco, presented by InterMusic SF. SF Music Day celebrates the diverse and dynamic music of our region, from string quartets to jazz combos, new music pioneers to chamber groups steeped in the sounds of Brazil, India, Argentina, and the Philippines. With repertoire that spans inventive new works and timeless classics, ensembles that range in size from duo to big band, and fresh young talents sharing the stage with seasoned veterans, SF Music Day presents a kaleidoscopic vision of Bay Area music making. Come with open ears, to experience all that our vibrant music community has to offer.
More... Sun 9/24 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St
SF]Phonochrome: Banned Books Solidarity Concert
Join Phonochrome for Sunday coffee and a musical exploration of censorship in solidarity with Banned Books Week. This thoughtful and creative program features works by notably blacklisted artists Aaron Copland and Dorothy Parker, controversial songs made famous by Billie Holiday and Maya Angelou, and music inspired by banned literature such as Alice in Wonderland and Pierre Louys' sensual Chansons de Bilitis, among others. Post-concert book reception by The Green Arcade.
More... Sun 9/24 3:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St.
Berkeley]“Music is our refuge,” says a student at the Sainte Trinité Music School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “With music . . . we feel we are in another world, far from troubles.” Owsley Brown’s vibrant documentary recognizes the troubles but celebrates the refuge, testifying to the role that music can play in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances. Shot in Port-au-Prince over a period of years both before and after the 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands and reduced much of the city to rubble, Serenade for Haiti finds a locus of continuity at Sainte Trinité, which has been training young people in classical European and Haitian musical traditions since the 1950s. Replete with vivid images and sounds, the film focuses on interviews with students—most of them poor, some orphaned by political violence—and their teachers, many former students themselves. All speak eloquently about how the discipline of music has helped them discover their own voices and value in the world. After the quake, with the school’s stately white buildings in ruins, lessons and practice continue outdoors, maintaining a rhythm of resilience. In one teacher’s words, “The country is destroyed. All the buildings are destroyed. Music must go on. Life goes on.”
More... Sun 9/24 5:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Stranded presents: Grouper / Sarah Davachi
Stranded presents: Grouper / Sarah Davachi
To celebrate Stranded's 5th anniversary, we're excited to present two great artists Grouper and Sarah Davachi at The Lab, San Francisco. Each artist will perform individual sets for early and late shows.
Early show: Doors at 5pm / Music at 5:30
Late show: Doors at 8:30 / Music at 9pm
Tickets: https://www.strandedrecords.com/tickets
There will be a limited amount of $12 tickets available for members of The Lab, but they must be reserved in advance. Please email thelabsf@thelab.org to have your name added to either show's member list.
More... Sun 9/24 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St
SF]Stranded presents: Grouper / Sarah Davachi
Stranded presents: Grouper / Sarah Davachi
To celebrate Stranded's 5th anniversary, we're excited to present two great artists Grouper and Sarah Davachi at The Lab, San Francisco. Each artist will perform individual sets for early and late shows.
Early show: Doors at 5pm / Music at 5:30
Late show: Doors at 8:30 / Music at 9pm
Tickets: https://www.strandedrecords.com/tickets
There will be a limited amount of $12 tickets available for members of The Lab, but they must be reserved in advance. Please email thelabsf@thelab.org to have your name added to either show's member list.
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