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CALENDAR

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02/06/2025 - 03/23/2025

Thursday, February 6
Thu 2/06 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
The Do-Over Music Series, organized by Lisa Mezzacappa and Jordan Glenn, is a monthly series of sound performances presented by a rotating cast of local luminaries and special guests performing creative - improvised - composed - electronic - acoustic music along with live, improvised expanded cinema projections. This month's Do-Over performance will be a multimedia spectacular to benefit Shapeshifters Cinema.  More...
Thu 2/06 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Mayuko Hino + Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela + Thomas Dimuzio  More...
Friday, February 7
Fri 2/07 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound with Maya(solo harp) and duoB(Lisa Mezzacappa-bass Jason Levis-drums)  More...
Fri 2/07 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mayuko Hino + Lucas 'Granpa' Abela + Rubber (() Cement  More...
Fri 2/07 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Vernaculars Plays Wong Works

Bay Area quartet Vernaculars explores the intersection between jazz, improvised music, and Filipino tradition. This special performance centers on Wong Works - a lengthy exploration of the music of Asian Improv aRts cofounder Francis Wong.

Vernaculars is: Jimmy Biala (drums/percussion), Karl Evangelista (guitar), Chris Trinidad (bass), Francis Wong (saxophone)  More...
Saturday, February 8
Sat 2/08 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94123]
A Sun Ra Celebration with musician David Boyce, featuring 1 hour lecture, 1 hour documentary "Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise" (1980), a display of Sun Ra library materials to borrow (books, CDs & LPs), and a limited edition original Sun Ra poster, handmade by library artist staff.  More...
Sat 2/08 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Chapter of NACUSA returns to San Francisco’s Center for New Music for an afternoon concert of chamber music written by members of NACUSAsf.
The program will feature new works by Monica Chew, Dinah Bianchi, James W. Cook, Mary Fineman, Sheli Nan, John Bilotta, Ludmila Yurina, and Amy Stephens.
Performing guest artists include pianist Frank Johnson, guitarist Jeff O’Sammon, and baritone Steve Zimmerman, in addition to works performed by the composers.  More...
Sat 2/08 3:30 PM RE:SOUND [Building 34, Nimitz Avenue, Mare Island, Vallejo, CA]
RE:SOUND enters its 10th year of programming on Mare Island in Vallejo, CA featuring sets by
Mayuko Hino making a rare visit from Japan, and Bay Area (noise)maker Ava Koohbor.
Saturday February 8th at Building 34 in the Mare Island Historic Core. Doors 3:30 pm sound at 4 pm.  More...
Sat 2/08 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Gneiss + Jeff Kolar  More...
Sat 2/08 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Shane Parish + Katsy Pline  More...
Sunday, February 9
Sun 2/09 5:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Improvisers Fred Frith (guitar, etc.) and Theresa Wong (voice, cello) perform a house concert of free improvisation in the Berkeley Hills. There will be two sets: the first set at 3pm, and the second at 5pm.  More...
Sun 2/09 8:00 PM Beauty Supply Arts [Email puddlefootrownca@gmail.com]
Three very different bands presenting their music with enough star power that the fox network is feeling very concerned that the Super Bowl ratings will suffer meaningfully.  More...
Thursday, February 13
Thu 2/13 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Thu 2/13 8:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present
THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank  More...
Thu 2/13 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Elliott Levin Ensemble
Elliott Levin is a Philly legend, poet, master of tenor sax and flute. An ESP-Disk & Ayler Records recording artist, he's played with Cecil Taylor, Odean Pope, the Sun Ra Arkestra and tonight will be joined by the Arkestra's own Kash Killio with Tom Rollison on guitar and the incomparable Jordan Glenn on drums.
https://www.elliottlevin.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0V0x0MmhQ

SO AR
Shanna Sordahl wields cello and electronics while Robert Lopez embraces all manner of sonic percussion. Together they unburden perception, breathing to transform and retune awareness and in the process subverting unexamined conventions, returning potency to music and conviviality to performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vIUz9I0WU

TanukiSpiderCat
Colleen Twitty's solo practice has as many fangs as bright yellow eyes, all of them fixin to sink into you.
https://www.tanukispidercat.com/

Chlorine Aroma
The bleeding edge of noise percussion has been flooding the gutters outside a studio marked K. Francis Messer. It's overflowing now.
https://www.instagram.com/chlorinearoma  More...
Friday, February 14
Fri 2/14 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
electro-acoustic trio with Jean Carla Rodea & Marcus Stephens, & Raffi Garabedian.  More...
Fri 2/14 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Fri 2/14 8:00 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
Ron Heglin/Suki O'Kane/Tom Djll trio
John Bischoff, solo electronics  More...
Saturday, February 15
Sat 2/15 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Sat 2/15 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Opus 7 features returning BAAA artists Stephen Zielinski on clarinet, Armando Atanda on viola, and Marielle Leiboff, soprano. New to the roster is incredible, local superstar pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi. In addition to collaborating with our stellar returning artists, he will play Mark Alburger's Op.7 "Interrupted Interludes" - a fantastic piece rarely heard live. Also featured on this show is local composer Michael Kaulkin's "Zwei Hülshoff Lieder" for vocal chamber quartet.  More...
Sat 2/15 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
John McCowen & Madison Greenstone  More...
Sat 2/15 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Robert Blatt & Michael Winter: Harmonie Universelle  More...
Sunday, February 16
Sun 2/16 6:00 PM Knockout [3223 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
Anything!
Ryan Ebough
Solo Organ
Housewife  More...
Sun 2/16 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Idris Ackamoor Quartet  More...
Sun 2/16 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents Ex-Juncos (Jill Rogers + Andrew K Lau )
Caleb Cobourn solo electric guitar  More...
Sun 2/16 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mundanas + Oakland Reductionist Orchestra  More...
Tuesday, February 18
Tue 2/18 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
JAZZ ON TUESDAYS Series
Rent Romus and Eli Knowles play jazz ballads, slow music, and ambient improvisation
Special Guest set by
Life's Blood Ensemble  More...
Wednesday, February 19
Wed 2/19 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Lia Kohl + Andy Guthrie  More...
Thursday, February 20
Thu 2/20 6:00 PM Green Room, SF PAC [401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco]
Sound & Wine 2025

Tickets

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players - Fundraiser  More...
Thu 2/20 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Thu 2/20 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Lia Kohl  More...
Friday, February 21
Fri 2/21 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound with Red Fast Triple Luck(David Boyce and Francis Wong-horns, PC Munoz-percussion, Chris Trinidad-bass)  More...
Fri 2/21 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Fri 2/21 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Swerve Control  More...
Saturday, February 22
Sat 2/22 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Coagulator (L.A.)
Courtney Doorhinge
Decision/Fatigue
Dovetail
Clarke Robinson
G N Pancakes now in it's 25th year. Come on, it's a big deal ...so eat some food!
Gourmet vegan pancakes with entrance fee!  More...
Sat 2/22 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Sat 2/22 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Rick Prelinger, Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar: The Other Spectrum  More...
Thursday, February 27
Thu 2/27 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
INSECT LIFE with Ben Goldberg, Danny Lubin-Laden, Ben Davis, & Raffi Garabedian featuring Hamir Atwal.  More...
Thu 2/27 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Thu 2/27 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Elizabeth Costello - reading from her debut novel
The Good War, from Regal House
with
Suki O'Kane - percussion
Rent Romus - alto sax  More...
Thu 2/27 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Byron Westbrook + Thomas Dimuzio  More...
Friday, February 28
Fri 2/28 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound is our Friday music series curated and hosted by Boohaabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of sonic sustenance.  More...
Fri 2/28 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Saturday, March 1
Sat 3/01 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [Oakland]
Raffi Garabedian quartet featuring Dahveed Behroozi, David Ewell, & Hamir Atwal.  More...
Sat 3/01 7:30 PM Audium [1616 Bush St. SF]
Audium: New Voices IV featuring Briana Marela, Phillip Laurent, and Shanti Lalita  More...
Sunday, March 2
Sun 3/02 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.  More...
Tuesday, March 4
Tue 3/04 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rent Romus and Eli Knowles  More...
Thursday, March 6
Thu 3/06 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Guitarist and Composer Aaron Larget-Caplan explores contemporary American compositions in ‘A Modern American Guitar Celebration.’
New solos and arrangements, a genre bending micro-opera, and a premiere for electronics and guitar that push the envelope of the guitar and performer and challenges the position of Art in today’s world.
American composers include the California connected: John Cage, Ken Ueno, and Daniel Felsenfeld, as well as California premieres by Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Douglas Knehans, Ian Wiese, and Larget-Caplan.  More...
Friday, March 7
Fri 3/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Ben Goldberg and Scott Amendola have been playing music together for over 3 decades. Tunes, improv, who knows what's going to happen, but their long storied history will for certain make it for an interesting evening. Both utilize electronics and have a deep love of Thelonious Monk. Stretching the boundaries of jazz, and improvisation, at one minute there could be a stream of sound. The next a composition. The deep intuitive nature of Ben and Scott can only make for an evening of deep, fun, and joyous music.  More...
Thursday, March 13
Thu 3/13 7:00 PM Dharma Collective [2929 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
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The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums are an internationally renowned all-female saxophone quartet with drums. Formed in 1988 in Seattle, WA by Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame member Amy Denio (alto sax, clarinet, voice), she is joined by co-leader Jessica Lurie (soprano/alto/tenor sax, voice), Sue Orfield (tenor sax, voice), Tina Richerson (baritone sax, voice), and Rick Wabbies (drums, percussion), the Tiptons' material ranges from micro-Big Band to Gospel, Bluegrass to Balkan, whimsical Chamber Jazz, and nocturnal Funk to Free Jazz Improvisation.  More...
Saturday, March 15
Sat 3/15 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
UC Berkeley Wind Ensemble I  More...
Sat 3/15 8:00 PM The Back Room [1984 Bonita Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704-1038]
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The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums are an internationally renowned all-female saxophone quartet with drums. Formed in 1988 in Seattle, WA by Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame member Amy Denio (alto sax, clarinet, voice), she is joined by co-leader Jessica Lurie (soprano/alto/tenor sax, voice), Sue Orfield (tenor sax, voice), Tina Richerson (baritone sax, voice), and Rick Wabbies (drums, percussion), the Tiptons' material ranges from micro-Big Band to Gospel, Bluegrass to Balkan, whimsical Chamber Jazz, and nocturnal Funk to Free Jazz Improvisation.  More...
Sat 3/15 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Chihei Hatakeyama + Billy Gomberg  More...
Tuesday, March 18
Tue 3/18 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rent Romus and Eli Knowles  More...
Saturday, March 22
Sat 3/22 8:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Still House Plants + Kathryn Mohr  More...
Sunday, March 23
Sun 3/23 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
Satoko Fujii & Kappa Maki + Motoko Honda & Ben Davis  More...