The third annual Switchboard Music Festival is an 8-hour, non- stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event. This is a concert designed for an audience grown accustomed to the boundary-free world of the internet and the iPod, where all music is equal and must meet only one criterion: It must sound good.
The Switchboard Music Festival will feature some of the Bay Area’s most original performers, including Thorny Brocky, Kate Campbell, Teslim, Sqwonk, Sabbaticus Rex, Real Vocal String Quartet, Billygoat, Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, Zoë Keating, and miRthkon. The festival will also present living composers whose work challenges traditional ideas of notated music, including Gerard Beljon, Cornelius Boots, Ryan Brown, Luciano Chessa, Ruby Fulton, Missy Mazzoli, Marc Mellits, Aaron Novik, Belinda Reynolds, and Jonathan Russell.
Cost: $10-40