8 pm
Ross Hammond - guitar
Sacramento guitarist
Ross Hammond has played on large stages and in small corners throughout the United States. His sound is equal parts jazz, folk, blues, spirituals and world music. His latest release is "Humanity Suite," a live, long-form jazz suite written for sextet and recorded at the Crocker Art Museum
9 pm Eat the Sun
Noah Phillips - guitar
Gretchen Jude - koto
Jason Hoopes - bass
Eat The Sun is a trio of free improvising musicians, each of whom studied in the graduate music programs of Mills College. They played their first official gig in Oakland, in the light of the solar eclipse of 2012, what the band's name represents. Their music traverses a delicately balanced landscape of noise and tonality. At times very light, empty, and accessible. At other times dark, dense, and impenetrable. This is the terrain of Eat The Sun.
Cost: $10 - $20, sliding scale