Wed 5/16 8:00 PMBerkeley Arts Festival [2133 University Avenue Berkeley] Wednesdays @Berkeley Arts Presents 8 pm Ashley Bellouin solo 9 pm Bush of Ghosts: Phillip Greenlief - alto & tenor saxophones; Jason Hoopes - bass; Spirit - percussion; special guests David Boyce - tenor saxophone TBA - trumpet Thursday, May 17
Thu 5/17 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8:15pm: Dapplegray (April-Jeanie Tang - electronics & Nava Dunkelman - percussion) 8:45pm: Tiny Owl (drums/bass/electronics/electronics) 9:30pm: Kadet Kuhne (electronics) Sunday, May 20
Sun 5/20 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30 Karl Evangelista/Robert Lopez Duo 8:30 C.O.M.A. John Vaughn saxophones Dax Compise Drums, Percussion Brian Clark, doublebass The California Outside Music Associates "C.O.M.A. does with jazz what Kronos Quartet does with chamber music: they update and expand the tradition" - Greggory Moore, Long Beach Culture Wednesday, May 23
Wed 5/23 8:00 PM Shotwell Studios [3252A 19th Street San Francisco, CA] Music in Motion with the Cardew Choir, the Free Reed Vibrating Society, Mary Jo Price and Laurie Amat in a seamless series of sonic vingettes dealing with the dynamics of space and sound.
Thu 5/24 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm: Thomas/Levin duo Oluyemi Thomas - Bass Clarinet, Saxophone, Percussion Ike Levin - Saxophone, Bass Clarinet 9pm PAS Music (NY) Robert L. Pepper, Amber Brien, Jon "Vomit" Worthley, Michael Durek, and Will Seesar
Composer, teacher & multi-reed musician (bass clarinet, saxophones) Oluyemi Thomas brings elements of life and work to the flow & he believes: "The musician's art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise..." Ike Levin, originally from Chicago is now a contributor to the improvised music scene in his new home town of San Francisco. Ike performs on tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and percussion instruments.
Thu 5/24 8:00 PM El Valenciano Restaurant & Bar [1153 Valencia St SF] Born of a passion to celebrate the unique creativity and diversity of the local jazz scene, SF Offside Festival has gathered together some of the Bay Area’s most exciting musical talent for an event unlike any other. The three-night festival showcases notable local musicians and composers, like Marcus Shelby, David Boyce, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacappa, Larry Ochs, Erik Jekabson, Aram Shelton, Eric Garland, and many more. Friday, May 25
Fri 5/25 7:30 PMBerkeley Art Museum [2626 Bancroft Way Berkeley] Join us in celebrating what would have been the ninety-fifth birthday of the brilliant and innovative California composer Lou Harrison. Our galleries reverberate, shimmer, and shake with no fewer than three choruses (the UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Sacred and Profane, and the USF Classical Choral Ensemble) and a large battery of handcrafted percussion instruments known as the American gamelan. The evening features a performance of Harrison’s powerful La Koro Sutro, conducted by Marika Kuzma, and two chamber works, performed by the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio. Please come early for best seating. A limited number of chairs will be available; please bring a pillow and make yourself comfortable on the gallery floor.
Fri 5/25 8:00 PM50 Mason Social House [50 Mason, San Francisco] Born of a passion to celebrate the unique creativity and diversity of the local jazz scene, the SF Offside Festival has gathered together some of the Bay Area’s most exciting musical talent for an event unlike any other. The three-night festival showcases notable local musicians and composers, like Marcus Shelby, David Boyce, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacappa, Larry Ochs, Erik Jekabson, Aram Shelton, Eric Garland, and many more. Saturday, May 26
Sat 5/26 8:00 PMTrinity Chamber Concerts [Trinity Chapel 2320 Dana Street Berkeley, CA 94704] Lisa Sangita Moskow, virtuoso electric sarod player and East-West composer, will present an evening of imaginative creations with special guests from her ensembles. Sangita has been charting new territory with her music for 30 years, combining her long training with Ali Akbar Khan with modern sensibilities. Thursday, May 31
Thu 6/7 8:00 PMLuggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF] 8pm Retro Blue Jim Ryan - saxophone, vocals Tim Orr - drums Bob Marsh on bass 9pm Solar Dynasty Micah O'Malley - Saxophones, Mark Brumwell - Clarinets Joseph Burke - Bass, Bob Hubbard - Drums Saturday, June 9
Sat 6/9 8:00 PM Old First Church [1751 Sacramento St San Francisco 94109] Composer and pianist Sheli Nan performs with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in a rare concert appearance. Composer Sheli Nan has the unique ability and skills to understand the aesthetics of both the Baroque world of music and the contemporary world of music. In keeping with her classical focus, Nan’s latest work, "SAGA-Portrait of a 21st Century Child" is an achingly beautiful social commentary told through a musical lens.
Sat 6/9 8:00 PMTrinity Chamber Concerts [Trinity Chapel 2320 Dana Street Berkeley, CA 94704] Sabbaticus Rex (Karen Stackpole & Cornelius Boots) is an ensemble rooted in the supremacy of sound over music, the triumph of tone over time and thought. This process uses haunting and beautiful acoustic instruments and methods: overtone gongs, shakuhachi (bamboo Zen flutes), Taimu (bass) shakuhachi, and throat-singing. The group is completely acoustic; no electronics or amplification. This is sound, but not music. It is primordial easy-listening for dinosaurs: slowly shifting elemental improvisations from fat flutes and huge gongs, completely acoustic. Sunday, June 10
Sun 6/10 7:30 PMSIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF] 7:30 Jordan Glenn's Mindless Thing featuring Jim Ryan Michael Coleman- piano, percussion, Damon Waitkus- hammer dulcimer, Robert Lopez- vibraphone, percussion, Karl Evangelista- electric guitar, Jim Ryan- words, flute, Jordan Glenn- conduction, compositions, percussion 8:30 Bloom Project Thollem McDonas - piano, Rent Romus - saxophones, Chloe Jane Scott - flute
Sun 6/10 8:00 PMBerkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue (between Shattuck & Oxford) Berkeley, CA - walking distance from downtown berkeley BART - wheelchair accessible venue] sundays @berkeley arts presents: 8pm - sheldon brown quintet plays herbie nichols 9 pm - Ben Goldberg school Thursday, June 14
