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02/24/2009 - 04/10/2009
Tuesday, February 24
Tue 2/24 8:00 PM
Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series
[Compound Gallery 6604 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and
Outsound Presents
:
8pmThe Lords of Outland -
Rent Romus
/ CJ Borosque / Philip Everett / Ray Schaeffer
9pm The
Spirit
Moves Us" Bob Marsh /
Jim Ryan
/
Spirit
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Tue 2/24 8:00 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
21 Grand resumes live programming with this concert featuring eai luminaries, kai fagaschinski and michael thieke (the international nothing) and
Fred Frith
performing with members of the Mills Music Improvisation Ensemble: Zeina Nasr (voice), Jason Hoobes (contrabass), and Karl Evangelista (acoustic guitar).
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Thursday, February 26
Thu 2/26 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
8pm:
Marco Eneidi
- saxophone (Vienna, Austria)
CD release tour
9pm
Rick Walker
- electronics/fuzz/distortion
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Friday, February 27
Fri 2/27 7:00 PM
Cafe Bastille
[22 Belden Place (below Kearney, between Bush and Pine) San Francisco]
Cafe Bastille Presents Michael Gold Quartet: Michael Gold - Saxophone; Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert - Guitar; Ken Lenga - Bass; Casey Smiley - Drums
The quartet plays sets from 7 to 11 pm - come down for fine food, or just sit at the bar and have a drink and enjoy live jazz.
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Fri 2/27 8:00 PM
ODC Dance Commons
[351 Shotwell SF]
sfSound Presents
a microFestival of New and Improvised Music:
the !nternat!onal noth!ng
(Ka! Fagasch!nsk! & M!chael Th!eke, clarinets from Berlin, Germany) performs compositions and improvisations.
Plus
sfSoundGroup
performs
John Cage's
" Music For____" (1984-7), and
Morton Feldman's
"Projection 2" (1962).
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Fri 2/27 8:00 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Festival 2009: Muhal Richard Abrams with Roscoe Mitchell
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Saturday, February 28
Sat 2/28 7:00 PM
In The Mood For Food
[Private Residence]
n the Mood for Food's dinner/concert series, now in its third year pairs world renowned musicians with gourmet vegan cuisine in private locations in the east bay. February 28 featuring
Pamela Z
- voice, electronics
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Sat 2/28 8:00 PM
ODC Dance Commons
[351 Shotwell SF]
sfSound Presents
a microFestival of New and Improvised Music:
Lê Quan Ninh
&
Michel Doneda
Duo
(percussion and saxophone from France)
sfSoundGroup
performs 2 works for ensemble and tape:
Robert Erickson's
Pacific Sirens
(1969) and a new composition by
Kyle Bruckmann
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Sat 2/28 8:00 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Festival 2009: Darius Milhaud's Brazilian Connection
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Sat 2/28 8:00 PM
Old First Concerts
[1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94109]
If you are looking for an invigorating new musical experience ranging from new through-composed gems to electronic music and free improv with graphical scores; have we got a deal for you! SFCCO, the only orchestral ensemble comprised of compsers, has the largest selection of new and pre-owned new-music premieres
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Sunday, March 1
Sun 3/01 6:00 PM
Cafe Royale
[800 Post St. @ Leavenworth SF]
Nathan Clevenger Group plays 2 sets of sideways original jazz compositions, wIth Kasey Knudsen (alto & tenor sax), Mitch Marcus (tenor & alto sax, clarinet), Sylvain Carton (baritone sax, clarinet),
Lisa Mezzacappa
(bass), Eric Garland (drums), and N.C. (compositions & guitar).
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Sun 3/01 7:30 PM
SIMM Series
[Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents
7:30 PM Steven Baker - Inventor of sonic drone instruments & Dan Ake - Inventor of sonic percussion instruments
8:30 PM
Paolo Angeli
, (Barcelona) - 'Giant' Sardinian prepared guitar
"Extraordinary player - extraordinary instrument. Paulo plays a highly modified and treated Sardinian Guitar - in many styles, some of them apparently impossible. Innovative techniques, a deeply musical sensibility and a rich, occasionally baffling, palette of sounds." Jazz Loft
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Sun 3/01 8:00 PM
ODC Dance Commons
[351 Shotwell SF]
sfSound Presents
a microFestival of New and Improvised Music:
Domenico Sciajno
/
Gene Coleman
/
Marina Peterson
Trio (electronics, bass clarinet & cello from Italy and U.S.)
sfSound performs a graphic score by
Sciajno
, a composition by
Coleman
for koto, bass clarinet and cello,
and
Elliott Carter's
monumental "Triple Duo".
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Monday, March 2
Mon 3/02 8:00 PM
CNMAT
[1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
OpenSound West
Improvisation Series Presents:
A concert of experimental improvisation featuring Gene Coleman (bass clarinet), Domenico Sciajno (bass + electronics), Marina Peterson (cello), and Ken Ueno (voice).
March 2nd, 8pm.
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Tuesday, March 3
Tue 3/03 7:00 PM
New Langton Arts
[1246 Folsom Street SF]
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club - A conceptual club with Anne Colvin and guests, presents:
Fred Frith
and The Music Improvisation Ensemble
with excerpts from the film Surface and Time - Heike Liss and
Fred Frith
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Tue 3/03 8:00 PM
Herbst Theatre
[401 Van Ness Ave SF]
Tom Buckner, Baritone with Joseph Kubera, Piano; Ted Mook, Cello; Fred Ho, Baritone Saxophone; JB Floyd, Disklavier; and Tom Hamilton, Electronics.
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Tue 3/03 8:00 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
21 grand presents improvised music
a kaleidoscope of shorts sets, featuring:
paolo angeli, prepared sardinian guitar (barcelona)
Phillip Greenlief
, saxophones
shoko hikage, koto
jon raskin, saxophones
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Tue 3/03 8:30 PM
Temescal Arts Center
[511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
First Tuesdays @ Temescal presents we like flutes
-The Amen Seat [Maryclare Brzytwa & Jon Liedecker]
-Lisa Mezzacappa,Kjell Nordeson, Darren Johnston & Aram Shelton
-Phil Gelb, Ma Jie & Tim Perkis
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Wednesday, March 4
Wed 3/04 7:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts
[3301 Lyon San Francisco, CA 94123]
10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project
Frisell introduces his latest investigation into the American soul with Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project, featuring a band of longtime collaborators. Inspired by Mike Disfarmer’s disarming photographs documenting the lives of his neighbors in rural Arkansas circa 1939-45, Frisell provides a vibrant, sympathetic score for large-scale projections of Disfarmer’s revelatory images.
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Thursday, March 5
Thu 3/05 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
Full Moon Concerts - Storm Moon
Guitars gather and launch the storm!
8 pm - Ronnie Cramer (Denver), solo guitar/electronics
9 pm - Lumper/Splitter
Ronnie is currently producing a 20-30 minute film, "Storm Moon", and writing its accompanying score. The constantly shifting images and music are designed to represent the calendar as we sweep winter aside and prepare for a fresh start in the spring.
Lumper/Splitter will attempt to answer the musical question, "What the fuck is a storm moon?", possibly in the key of G.
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Thu 3/05 8:00 PM
Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall
[3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
The 14th Other Minds Music Festival continues its annual tradition of bringing together in conversation and concert the most creative voices from across the musical spectrum. Opening night includes the world premiere of
The Tavern
by Ben Johnston, the Amsterdam Cello Octet performing pieces by Mauricio Kagel and Arvo Part, two works by Bent Sorensen performed by the Trio Con Brio Copenhagen, and Del Sol String Quartet in a work by Chinary Ung.
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Thu 3/05 9:00 PM
bluesix acoustic
[24th street, @treat street, san francisco 94110]
bluesix acoustic presents improvised music, with
Phillip Greenlief
-saxophone; matt nelson-saxophone; ava mendoza-guitar; ross hammond-guitar
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Friday, March 6
Fri 3/06 7:30 PM
Oakland Public Conservatory of Music (OPCM)
[1616 Franklin St., Oakland, CA ]
FREE-JAZZ/FREE-IMRPOV OPEN MIKE & OPEN STAGE, First Fridays Monthly at Oakland Public Conservatory of Music (OPCM), 1616 Franklin St. Oakland (near 19th St./Broadway BART). 7:30-10:00 PM. Open to all musicians who embrace the sounds and spirit of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, John Cage, and so many others. Also open to vocalists, dancers, artists, photo/videographers, poets.
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Fri 3/06 8:00 PM
Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall
[3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
The 14th Other Minds Music Festival continues its annual tradition of bringing together in conversation and concert the most creative voices from across the musical spectrum. The second concert features a world premiere commission by LA composer Catherine Lamb, a work for large ensemble by Brazilian Chico Mello, and the Del Sol String Quartet in pieces by Linda Catlin Smith (Canada) and Dobromila Jaskot (Poland).
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Fri 3/06 8:00 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Daniel Healey and Damon Smith One night art show, music by Damon Smith and Tony Dryer
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Saturday, March 7
Sat 3/07 8:00 PM
Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall
[3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
The 14th Other Minds Music Festival continues its annual tradition of bringing together in conversation and concert the most creative voices from across the musical spectrum. Closing night includes performances by John Schneider of works by Harry Partch as well as his own pieces, "de-composed" Brazilian classics by Chico Mello, a recent work by Chinary Ung, and the world premiere of Michael Harrison's
Tone Clouds
for just-intonation piano and Del Sol String Quartet.
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Sat 3/07 8:00 PM
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
[Stanford University Palo Alto]
SCHICK MACHINE (World Premiere)
A Paul Dresher Ensemble Production
The Dinkelspiel stage becomes a captivating laboratory of sound as percussion innovator Steven Schick gives the world premiere of Paul Dresher’s new major work of solo musical theater.
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Sunday, March 8
Sun 3/08 3:00 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Festival 2009: Arditti Quartet
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Tuesday, March 10
Tue 3/10 8:00 PM
Yoshi's San Francisco
[1330 Fillmore St SF]
Secret Chiefs 3: Play The Music of Masada Book II (Part of John Zorn's Yoshi's Residency)
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Wednesday, March 11
Wed 3/11 7:30 PM
Meridian Gallery
[535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Travels with Sangita. Lisa Moskow will present songs from her original repertoire—songs about sacred places, legendary figures, paganism and more. She plays a one-of-a-kind electric sarod (a lute from India), developed to accommodate simultaneous instrument and voice. She has expanded the technical vocabulary of the sarod into uncharted musical territory.
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Wed 3/11 8:00 PM
Yoshi's San Francisco
[1330 Fillmore St SF]
Masada String Trio (Part of John Zorn's Yoshi's Residency)
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Thursday, March 12
Thu 3/12 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
8pm:
Jameson Swanagon
- guitar
9pm: The Pmocatat (prerecorded music onto cds and tapes and things) Ensemble
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Thu 3/12 8:00 PM
Yoshi's San Francisco
[1330 Fillmore St SF]
Masada (Part of John Zorn's Yoshi's Residency)
featuring all four original members:
John Zorn: Saxophone, Composer
Joey Baron: Drums
Greg Cohen: Bass
and special guest Trumpeter
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Thu 3/12 8:30 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SIGNAL FLOW 2009 Arts and Music Festival
Come early for sound installations around the campus
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Friday, March 13
Fri 3/13 8:00 PM
Yoshi's San Francisco
[1330 Fillmore St SF]
Bar Kokhba (Part of John Zorn's Yoshi's Residency)
Cyro Baptista: Percussion
Joey Baron: Drums
Greg Cohen: Bass
Mark Feldman: Violin
Erik Friedlander: Cello
Marc Ribot: Guitar
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Fri 3/13 8:00 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Clusterbunny: the combined musical atrocities of Gregory Scharpen, John Scharpen, Jesse Burson, Angela Hsu, Chris Broderick, Jim Haynes, Jim Kaiser, Gregory Hagan, and Amadeus Regucer
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Fri 3/13 8:00 PM
The Red Poppy Art House
[2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Plays Monk
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Fri 3/13 8:30 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SIGNAL FLOW 2009 Arts and Music Festival
Come early for sound installations around the campus
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Fri 3/13 9:00 PM
Temescal Arts Center
[511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
This Here Show
Improvised Variety Performance #3
with: butoh dancer Christina Braun, scordatura violinist Thea Farhadian, artful spectator Kali Grosberg, resolute unraveler Herb Heinz, mercurial impersonator Bob Marsh, guitar man Lucio Menegon, ostentatious songstress Amanda Moody, anti-drummer Gino Robair, video artist Tim Thompson, and featuring This Here Band - Mark Briggs, James Dress, Hakan Guven, Shawn King, Craig Latta, and Richard Smith
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Saturday, March 14
Sat 3/14 4:30 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SIGNAL FLOW 2009 Music and Arts Festival
4:30pm Matinee begins at Chapel and ends at Concert Hall
8:30pm Main event
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Sat 3/14 8:00 PM
Yoshi's San Francisco
[1330 Fillmore St SF]
The Dreamers (Part of John Zorn's Yoshi's Residency)
Joey Baron: Drums
Trevor Dunn: Bass
Marc Ribot: Guitars
Jamie Saft: Keyboards
Kenny Wollesen: Vibes
John Zorn: Alto Sax
Cyro Baptista: Percussion
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Sat 3/14 8:00 PM
Golden Trapperkeeper Lodge
[1687 Hayes St @ Central SF, Ca. 94117]
Improv Lasagna @ the Golden Trapperkeeper Lodge
feat.
Bryce Beverlin II (frm Minneapolis, mit Percussion)
Jon Raskin
/Kanoko Nishi (w. Electronics + Koto)
Korber/Sutherland/Woodruff Trio (saxdrumssax)
Doors at 8, sounds when appropriate, donations for musicians, traveling and otherwise. Lasagna as needed.
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Sat 3/14 8:30 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SIGNAL FLOW 2009 Music and Arts Festival
Matinee 4:30pm starts at Chapel, ends at Concert Hall
Main Event 8:30pm
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Sunday, March 15
Sun 3/15 3:00 PM
Contemporary Jewish Museum
[736 Mission Street (between Third and Fourth streets) San Francisco, CA 94103 ]
Renowned new music composer Alvin Curran performs his latest live electronic work Shofar III. Based on an earlier piece that interprets the spiritually significant Hebrew letter Shin, Curran merges live performance on the Jewish shofar (a ritual horn) with a rich cacophony of sampled natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion and more. Curran's nearly 100 experimental compositions have been performed around the world, garnering numerous awards and critical acclaim.
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Sun 3/15 4:30 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
SIGNAL FLOW 2009 Music and Arts Festival
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Sun 3/15 7:00 PM
Yoshi's San Francisco
[1330 Fillmore St SF]
Electric Masada (Part of John Zorn's Yoshi's Residency)
Cyro Baptista: Percussion
Joey Baron: Drums
Trevor Dunn: Bass
Ikue Mori: Electronics
Marc Ribot: Guitar
Jamie Saft: Keyboards
Kenny Wollesen: Drums
John Zorn: Alto Sax
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Sun 3/15 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
[1510 8th Street Oakland]
21 Grand Presents:
Death of Marat by Krystle Ahmadyar
Live visuals and Cheographer Sarah Boltan
Machinist Manifesto by Krystle Ahmadyar - Computer Music
+
Losperistics (improvisation) by Stephan Moore (Merce Cunningham)
Laptop/electronics
Simon Rose /
Scott R. Looney
/ Damon Smith /
Kjell Nordeson
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Sun 3/15 8:00 PM
KCSM-FM radio
[your radio or online]
Tune In: India Cooke-Bill Crossman Duo on KCSM-FM or kcsm.org Sunday, March 15, 8:00 PM on Jim Bennett's "In The Moment" program. Duo was recorded live at last spring's Berkeley Arts Festival.
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Monday, March 16
Mon 3/16 8:00 PM
Cafe Du Nord
[2170 Market Street near 16th & Sanchez SF]
THE GOOD LIFE FEATURING TREVOR DUNN, BEN GOLDBERG, NELS CLINE, AND SCOTT AMENDOLA (PLAYING THE MUSIC OF ORNETTE COLEMAN, JIMMY GIUFFRE, AND MORE!
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Mon 3/16 9:00 PM
Ivy Room
[860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
Ivy Room Improv Hootenanny
Feature set: Bruce Bennett
Curators: John Shiurba, Amar Chaudhary
Interludes by: Errol Stewart, David Slusser
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Tuesday, March 17
Tue 3/17 8:30 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
8:30 pm Blast of Silence - Phillip Greenlief (alto saxophone), Trevor Dunn (bass), Kjell Nordeson (drums)
9:30 pm The Good Life-Trevor Dunn (bass), Nels Cline (guitar), Ben Goldberg (clarinet),
Scott Amendola
(drums) playing the music of Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Giuffre, and more.
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Tue 3/17 8:30 PM
Artists' Television Access
[992 Valencia Street @21st SF]
An Improvised Movie / plus short "Love Before Breakfast"
Live narrated and musical soundtrack to film clips from the 1930s thru 1960s.
Jon Raskin
, Liz Allbee, Kanoko Nishi,
Gino Robair
,
John Shiurba
provide improvised music, and Steve Benson, improvises commentary and narration on the spot.
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Wednesday, March 18
Wed 3/18 9:00 AM
Hemlock Tavern
[1131 Polk Street Between Post and Sutter SF]
LETS PARTY!
Pink Canoes (
pink canoes
)
Cenk Ergun (
Cenk Ergun
)
Gerritt Wittmer (
Gerritt Wittmer
)
NVH (
Noel Von Harmonson
)
LETS PARTY!
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Wed 3/18 7:00 PM
The Red Poppy Art House
[2698 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94110]
Vinny Golia comes up from Los Angeles with CDs, DVDs and his ebullient self to talk about composing for improvisers in large ensembles, something he has been doing for over 20 years in the USA and internationally. Of course, he will bring some of his many reed instruments along in case the spirit moves him to get into his work for improvising soloists as well.
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Wed 3/18 8:00 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
Music & Movement: Dead Bird Movement - absurdist performance art/dance group from Seattle;
Fred Frith
/matthias bossi duo: a quiet evening at home with two of music's best-known yodeler's; nyc's jeremy udden and his band PLAINVILLE: countryish, rockish, free, and expensive!
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Thursday, March 19
Thu 3/19 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
Music by the Eyeful:
Inventions in Visual Audio with
Jean-Luc Sinclair
[encoded form] /
Bridget Batch
[physical form] (NY),
Agnes Szelag
with
The Norman Conquest
and
bLakcPulletGrimoire
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Thu 3/19 8:00 PM
CounterPULSE
[1310 Mission Street (btw. 9th & 10th) San Francisco, CA 94103]
Gravity presents Maria Francesca Scaroni & Jess Curtis with live music by Klaus Janek in:
The Symmetry Project—Study #14 - (re)Presentation
Thurs.–Sun. March 19-22 & 26-29, 8:00pm Pay-What-You-Can Thursdays, $20 Fri-Sun
After sold-out performances of Symmetry Study #7 last year, Gravity returns with Symmetry Study #14, (re)Presentation, a full-evening version of this sparse, otherworldly duet. A journey through perception, two naked bodies interact through a highly structured improvisational score. Revealing the body’s awkwardness, it’s monstrosity, its potential failure & finiteness, they create space for the unknown, the ecstatic, & the infinite. Buy Tickets Now!
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Friday, March 20
Fri 3/20 8:00 PM
Great American Music Hall
[859 O'Farrell St SF]
10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents
Will Bernard with John Medeski, Andy Hess and Stanton Moore
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Fri 3/20 8:00 PM
New Langton Arts
[1246 Folsom Street SF]
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, curated by Anne Colvin, presents: Steve Roden and Loren Chasse
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Fri 3/20 9:00 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Two Short Films w/live scores by
Host Family
Featuring: Jordan Glenn, Jason Hoopes, Karl A.D. Evangelista, Michael Dale, Jacob Zimmerman, Christopher M. Skebo
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Saturday, March 21
Sat 3/21 8:00 PM
Trinity Chamber Concerts
[2320 Dana Street (Durant/Bancroft) Berkeley]
Two Cherries presents an evening of original music. Annie Lewandowsi will perform her works for voice and prepared piano and MaryClare Brzytwa will perform compositions for flute, prepared piano and electronics.
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Sat 3/21 8:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts
[3301 Lyon San Francisco, CA 94123]
10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE
Commissioned exclusively by SFJAZZ, the Collective’s 2009 repertoire will include new arrangements of the work of legendary pianist McCoy Tyner and original compositions by Collective members. The all-star roster includes tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano; alto saxophonist and recent MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Miguel Zenón; trumpeter Dave Douglas; trombonist Robin Eubanks; pianist Renee Rosnes; bassist Matt Penman; and drummer Eric Harland.
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Sat 3/21 8:00 PM
SIMPLE PLEASURES CAFE
[3343 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA]
SoloBasura
Alan Anzalone (saxophone/clarinets), John Betteo (Piano), Christopher Brown (Bass), Curtis Hollenbeck (cornet)
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Sat 3/21 8:00 PM
Flux 53 Theater
[5300 Foothill Blvd., Oakland]
OUTFLUX
From Jazz to the Outlands
Featuring:
- Love Gamble (
Phillip Greenlief
, Noah Phillips, and Tim Perkis)
-
Lewis Jordan
- Max Griffith and friends
- And YOU! (Jam after the third set!)
Door 7pm - Show 8pm - $10 online / $15 door
More info at flux53.com
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Sat 3/21 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
[1510 8th Street Oakland]
trio -Simon Rose w/ Ava Mendoza, Weasel Walter +
Rent Romus
/ Thollem McDonas Bloom duo
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Sat 3/21 9:00 PM
Bluesix
[3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
Slumgum and Jascha Ephraim
Making their Bay Area debut, Slumgum arrives packed with the exuberance and unbridled imagination of an emerging Los Angeles indie jazz scene. The band will be joining forces with a San Francisco original, composer and filmmaker Jascha Ephraim. Combining elements of jazz, free improvisation, world music, and contemporary classical music, this night is guaranteed to be a unique sonic spectacle.
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Sunday, March 22
Sun 3/22 7:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts
[3301 Lyon San Francisco, CA 94123]
10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE
Commissioned exclusively by SFJAZZ, the Collective’s 2009 repertoire will include new arrangements of the work of legendary pianist McCoy Tyner and original compositions by Collective members. The all-star roster includes tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano; alto saxophonist and recent MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner Miguel Zenón; trumpeter Dave Douglas; trombonist Robin Eubanks; pianist Renee Rosnes; bassist Matt Penman; and drummer Eric Harland.
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Sun 3/22 7:30 PM
SIMM Series
[Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents
7:30 PM The
Spirit
Moves US
Jim Ryan
/ Bob Marsh /
Spirit
8:30 PM
Bloom Project
(
Thollem McDonas
&
Rent Romus
)CD Release performance of "Sudden Aurora" Edgetone Records
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Monday, March 23
Mon 3/23 9:00 PM
Ivy Room
[860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
Ton Trio featuring Aram Shelton on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Kurt Kotheimer on bass and
Jordan Glenn
on drums (subbing for our man in Paris Sam Ospovat).
Quartet featuring Cory Wright on saxophones, Noah Philips on guitar, Nate Brenner on bass and Vijay Anderson on drums.
Third set TBA
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Tuesday, March 24
Tue 3/24 8:00 PM
Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series
[Compound Gallery 6604 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and
Outsound Presents
: The Compound Gallery Experimental Music Series by jimzeen productions and
Outsound Presents
: (Electronics & Soundscapes)
Scott R. Looney & Scot Gresham-Lancaster Duo . . . Dryer/Heule/Lindsay Trio . . . from Portland, OR THICKET free form jazz
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Tue 3/24 9:00 PM
Uptown - 21 Grand's Avant Garde Night
[1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland]
Avant Garde night - moved this month to the 4th Tuesday - Ladies' Night of Noise: with Bandlands, Liz Allbee, Ava Mendoza and more, organized by Ryan J (Sixes).
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Wednesday, March 25
Wed 3/25 8:00 PM
Yoshi's Oakland
[510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
Cryptonight: Myra Melford and Be Bread/Alex Cline Continuation Quintet
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Thursday, March 26
Thu 3/26 4:00 PM
Heron's Head Park
[Cargo Way & Jennings St, San Francisco]
club sandwich endorses:
Didimao
Thicket (portland free jazz)
Cull (portland)
Weltschmertz
Exhausted Prayer
(from 3rd Street, take Cargo Way toward the Bay to Jennings Street)
EARLY SHOW!
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Thu 3/26 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
8pm:
Animal Vegetable Television
9pm:
Yoyo Mama
9:30pm: Aaron Drake (Los Angeles)
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Thu 3/26 8:00 PM
Yoshi's Oakland
[510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
Cryptonight: The Nels Cline Singers / The Jeff Gauthier Goatette
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Thu 3/26 8:00 PM
CounterPULSE
[1310 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103]
Gravity presents Maria Francesca Scaroni & Jess Curtis in:
The Symmetry Project—Study #14
A journey through perception, two naked bodies interact through a highly structured improvisational score. Live music by Klaus Janek (doublebass/electronics)
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Thu 3/26 9:00 PM
Fox and Goose Pub
[1001 R Street Sacramento, CA 95811]
Fox and Goose Pub Presents
The Lost Trio
& Ross Hammond Group
9 pm -
The Lost Trio
: Phillip Greenlief - saxophones; Dan Seamans - bass; Tom Hassett - drums * 10 pm - Ross Hammond Group, featuring Randy McKean
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Saturday, March 28
Sat 3/28 3:00 PM
Mariposa Bakery
[5427 Telegraph Ave, Unit D3 Oakland, California]
Cory Wright/
John Schott
/Nate Brenner
reeds/guitar/bass trio playing songs at the gluten-free mecca of the bay area.
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Sat 3/28 8:00 PM
Community Music Center
[544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
Composer/pianist David Rhodes and the Capricollis String Quartet premiere Rhodes' new and unusual work.
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Sat 3/28 8:00 PM
Golden Trapperkeeper Lodge
[1687 Hayes St. ]
A night of circuit bending, no-input radio feedback and experimental music featuring:
Pink Canoes (guitars and homebuilt instruments and whatnot, from oakland, mostly)
Aaron Drake (radio feedback, from los angeles)
italic indian (drone dirges, also from los angeles)
white leopards (synthesizers and circuit bent mayhem, also also from los angeles)
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Sunday, March 29
Sun 3/29 2:00 PM
Dance Mission Theater
[3316 24th Street @Mission SF]
The Switchboard Music Festival is a non-stop, 8-hour marathon concert with performances by the ADORNO Ensemble, Classical Revolution, Edmund Welles, Japonize Elephants, Melody of China, Moe! Staiano,
Pamela Z
, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Ted Brinkley and Neptune's Rogue Apothecary, and Zoyres; and music composed by Mason Bates, Ryan Brown, Jonathan Russell, Max Stoffregen, Ken Thomson, and Damon Waitkus.
2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Come and go as you please.
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Sun 3/29 3:00 PM
NOHspace
[2840 Mariposa St. (between Florida & Alabama) San Francisco, CA 94110]
What do a shakuhachi (traditional Japanese vertical bamboo flute) player, a classically trained percussionist and a flamenco guitarist all have in common? Memorable collaborations with Theatre of Yugen! In part to look at this distinct page in Theatre of Yugen’s history, in part to celebrate 30 years of ground breaking work, and in part to have a good time while listening to some really good music, Theatre of Yugen offers a benefit concert featuring some of their many exciting Bay Area musical collaborators.
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Sun 3/29 7:30 PM
SIMM Series
[Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents
7:30pm
William Winant
(drums+percussion)/
Jacob Felix Heule
(drums)/Liz Allbee (trumpet)/Kanoko Nishi (piano, possibly koto)
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie: Annelise Zamula (tenor sax, flute)/David Beck (baritone sax)/
Bill Noertker
(contrabass)
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Wednesday, April 1
Wed 4/01 8:00 PM
21 Grand
[416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
21 grand presents an evening with frank gratkowski (berlin): 8pm - fpr trio: frank gratkowski - Bb clarinet, alto saxophone;
Phillip Greenlief
- alto and tenor saxophones; jon raskin - sopranino and baritone saxophones
9 pm - quartet: frank gratkowski - reeds; kjell nordeson - percussion; tim perkis - electronics; damon smith - contrabass
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Thursday, April 2
Thu 4/02 6:00 PM
Mechanics' Institute
[57 Post Street San Francisco]
John Clare's Composing Thoughts LIVE - Kevin Puts
An in-depth discussion with Kevin Puts about composing and his latest work, Lento Assai. Lead by radio announcer and classical music aficionado John Clare, this interview-style event will include a live performance by the Cypress String Quartet as well as the opportunity for questions directly from audience members.
FREE!
http://www.cypressquartet.com/educators/CallandResponseActivities.html
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Thu 4/02 7:00 PM
Exploratorium
[3601 Lyon Street San Francisco, CA 94117]
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and Elan Vytal (DJ Scientific) present solo and duet works from DBR's recent album etudes4violin&electronix and from the critically acclaimed Sonata for Violin and Turntables.
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Thu 4/02 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
8 PM 3 solo sets: Bruce Anderson, A.C. Way, James Kaiser
9 PM 1 group set: French Radio
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Thu 4/02 8:00 PM
Studio 1510
[1510 8th Street Oakland]
CD Release Concert for Mimetic Holds:
Frank Gratkowski (Germany) - Alto Sax,Clarinet /
Scott R. Looney
(USA) - Prepared and Unprepared Piano / Damon Smith (USA) - Double Bass /
Kjell Nordeson
(Sweden) - Drums, Percussion
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Thu 4/02 11:59 PM
KPFA
[94.1 FM, Berkeley]
titter
--
--
Aurora Josephson
: voice
-- Kanoko Nishi: piano
-- Tony Dryer: double bass
--
Jacob Felix Heule
: drums
live on KPFA's Crack O' Dawn, hosted by Barbara Golden.
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Friday, April 3
Fri 4/03 7:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts
[3301 Lyon San Francisco, CA 94123]
10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project
Frisell introduces his latest investigation into the American soul with Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project, featuring a band of longtime collaborators. Inspired by Mike Disfarmer’s disarming photographs documenting the lives of his neighbors in rural Arkansas circa 1939-45, Frisell provides a vibrant, sympathetic score for large-scale projections of Disfarmer’s revelatory images.
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Fri 4/03 7:30 PM
Oakland Public Conservatory of Music (OPCM)
[1616 Franklin St. Oakland downtown close to 19th St. & Broadway BART]
Open-Mike/Stage FREE-JAZZ/FREE-IMPROV First Fridays April 3, 2009 at Oakland Public Conservatory of Music. Open to all musicians--also to vocalists, dancers, artists, photographers, poets and others who want to be in/with the music. Host: Bill Crossman, pianist & member OPCM Faculty.
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Fri 4/03 8:00 PM
The Space
[1132 NE Broadway Salem, OR]
Scott Pinkmountain and the Golden Bolts of Tone on tour with Rollerball
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Fri 4/03 8:00 PM
Herbst Theatre, War Memorial Building
[401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco]
Call & Response - Cypress String Quartet
Mendelssohn Bicentennial Celebration
Mendelssohn, String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13
Kevin Puts, Lento Assai (2009)
Beethoven, String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
Tickets from $7-$25 (+ ticket fee)
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Saturday, April 4
Sat 4/04 8:00 PM
The Red Poppy Art House
[2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
The Darren Johnston Quintet - CD release party!!
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Sat 4/04 8:00 PM
The Fishtank
[3405 Piedmont Avenue Oakland]
Cougar Chasers (Moe! Staiano duo with Ava Mendoza, plus guest John Shiurba)
Plus: Christy and Emily (NY, featuring the guitar player from the U.K.'s Nightingales)
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Sat 4/04 8:00 PM
Voodoo Room
[1114 Marine Drive Astoria, OR]
Scott Pinkmountain and the Golden Bolts of Tone on tour with Rollerball
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Sat 4/04 9:00 PM
Bluesix
[3043 24th St. @ Treat St. SF]
Folk Songs, Free Jazz and a new Kung Fu film
Jameson Swanagon
(guitar) Jacob Rex Zimmerman (saxophone) and Caleb Nichols (bass guitar) will perform new songs and modest improvisations in a variety of ensemble and solo manifestations. Bob Thayer will show his new film, For Bao Hu, Long Hu, and Hu Hu.
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Sunday, April 5
Sun 4/05 3:00 PM
Mills College Concert Hall
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Mills Music Festival 2009: The Music of Fred Frith
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Sun 4/05 7:00 PM
Palace of Fine Arts
[3301 Lyon St San Francisco, CA 94123]
10TH Anniversary SFJAZZ Spring Season Presents Kayhan Kalhor with Brooklyn Rider
Kayhan Kahlor is Iran’s master virtuoso on the kamancheh (spiked Persian violin), and this performance will feature the fearless young string quartet Brooklyn Rider.
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Sun 4/05 8:00 PM
The Goodfoot
[2845 SE Stark Portland, OR 97214]
Scott Pinkmountain and the Golden Bolts of Tone on tour with Rollerball
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Monday, April 6
Mon 4/06 7:30 PM
Mills College Ensemble Room
[5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
Lou Mallozzi (b. 1957), an audio artist from Chicago presents "Usi scrutati," a series of short low-tech sound performances using text, phonography, and gesture to explore the tensions between live and mediated experience. Mallozzi dismembers and reconstitutes sound, language, gesture, and image in various media. He works in live performance, radio art, sound installation, CD recording, soundtrack design, and visual art.
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Mon 4/06 8:00 PM
Jewelbox Theater
[2322 2nd Avenue Seattle WA 98221]
Scott Pinkmountain and the Golden Bolts of Tone on tour with Rollerball
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Mon 4/06 8:00 PM
Yoshi's Oakland
[510 Embarcadero West Oakland]
AVANT TENOR SAX HEAVYWEIGHTS
AB BAARS TRIO & KEN VANDERMARK
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Mon 4/06 8:00 PM
Makeout Room
[22nd Street between Mission and Valencia, SF]
The MONDAY MAKEOUT:
DOUBLESTROKE
Myles Boisen, guitar / John Hanes, drums
CYLINDER
Aram Shelton, alto saxophone and bass clarinet /
Darren Johnston
, trumpet /
Lisa Mezzacappa
, bass /
Kjell Nordeson
, drums
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Tuesday, April 7
Tue 4/07 8:30 PM
Temescal Arts Center
[511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
First Tuesdays@Temescal presents
-Liz Allbee/Ava Mendoza duo
-Dan Plonsey
-Henry Kuntz
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Wednesday, April 8
Wed 4/08 7:30 AM
Meridian Gallery
[535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Somniloquy by James Goode. Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Somniloquy by James Goode. Somniloquy is an electro-acoustic interpretive musical performance exploring the influence of verbal suggestion on the dreams and hypnagogic experiences of a group of individuals, featuring musicians Carrie Barclay, Dylan Bolles, Jon Fellman, Walter Funk, Rob Gillespie, Canner Mefe, Michael Henning, and Brian Relph.
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Wed 4/08 8:00 PM
Climate Theatre
[285 9th St (at Folsom) SF]
The
Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Ensemble specializes in abstract, spacious, free form, transcendental, electro-acoustic contemporary music. Dubowsky has scored four feature films including That Man Peter Berlin and Rock Haven. Dubowsky has received grants from Meet the Composer, Zellerbach Family Fund, Friends of the SF Public Library, and this year from the American Composers Forum. The
Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Ensemble I album was performed and recorded live with no overdubs; no pre-recorded music is used in concert either.
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Wed 4/08 8:00 PM
Farleys
[1315 18th St SF]
Devin Hoff solo bass
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Thursday, April 9
Thu 4/09 8:00 PM
Luggage Store New Music Series
[1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents
Full Moon Concerts - Wind Moon
The wind and its nocturnal travels through tubes...
Three Trapped Tigers featuring
Tom Bickley
and David Barnett
Dynosoar featuring
Tom Djll
,
Ron Heglin
, and
Karen Stackpole
Edmund Welles: the bass clarinet quartet
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Friday, April 10
Fri 4/10 9:00 PM
Temescal Arts Center
[511 48th Street between Shattuck and Telegraph Oakland]
This Here Show: Improvised Variety Performance #4
featuring...
bassist - Damon Smith
dancer - Micaela Gardner
drummer -
Moe! Staiano
mc - Herb Heinz
reconteuse - Hallie McConlogue
theatress - Catherine Debon
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