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Fri 7/3 9:00 PM $10 Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
Terrence McManus & Phillip Greenlief / Theresa Wong & Gino Robair
Sun 7/5 7:30 PM $10/8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound presents
7:30pm Terrence McManus
8:30pm Ralph Carney - saxophones, etc./Mike Elias - guitar/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Dave Mihaly - drums
Sun 7/5 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding scale Studio 1510 [1510 8th Street Oakland]
Michael Vatcher (Amsterdam) in two trios w/ Philip Greenlief, Scott R. Looney, Richard Saunders, and Damon Smith
Mon 7/6 8:00 PM free Makeout Room [3225 22nd St San Francisco, CA 94110]
The Monday Makeout presents:
The Spirit Moves Us: Jim Ryan / Bob Marsh / Spirit
Admiral Ted Brinkley and Friends
Tue 7/7 7:30 PM First Tuesdays at Tom's [3111 Deakin St. Berkeley, CA ]
Terrence McManus Solo, Polly Moller/Amar Chaudary duet and RTD3 [Nunn/Carroll/Heglin trio]
Tue 7/7 8:30 PM free Socha Cafe [3235 Mission Street (@ Valencia) San Francisco]
Tony Dryer (double bass), Jacob Felix Heule (drum set), Aram Shelton (saxophone), Josh Berman (Chicago) (cornet)
multiple sets, 8:30-11:30
Wed 7/8 7:00 PM FREE (Donations adored) Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
HUMP DAY JAM
A guided trek through uncharted realms. Electric organ and small drumkit available.
Thu 7/9 8:00 PM $8 sliding scale admission The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Miya Masaoka, Tomas Phillips
Thu 7/9 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Blessing Moon
8 PM Free Rein
9 PM Valka (Agnes Szelag + Marielle Jakobsons) with Noah Phillips
Fri 7/10 8:00 PM $10 suggested donation Works San Jose [works/san jose art and performance center 451 south first street san josé, ca 95113]
1st Set: "The Spirit Moves Us" Free-Style Jazz Trio Bob Marsh cello, Jim Ryan a&t sax/flute/kalimba, Spirit percussion
2nd Set: "The Left Coast Improv Group" Experimental Chamber Ensemble. Doug Carroll cello, Michael Cooke bassoon/sheng, Ron Heglin trombone, Daren Johnson trumpet, Scott R. Looney electronics, Bob Marsh cello, Jim Ryan horn/flute/percussion, and others TBA
Fri 7/10 9:00 PM Various prices Various venues [Various addresses]
WHAT: 13th Annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival
WHEN: San Francisco and Oakland venues – Friday, July 10, through Saturday, July 25
ABOUT: Mission Creek Productions is pleased to announce the 13th season of San Francisco’s beloved Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival.
This year, the festival will present such varied artists as Ann Magnuson, Evangelista, the Oh Sees, Extra Action Marching Band, Jessie Evans, and Ty Segall with its renowned focus on local musicians and performers. Film, dance, art, and multimedia programs will be featured in a variety of Bay Area venues, both big and small.
Sat 7/11 1:00 PM free 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
It's the gazillionth annual Transbay Skronkathon, moved to Saturday and starting a little later.
Sat 7/11 7:30 PM $10 general; $5 students/seniors Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
To honor ten years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance, and the 20th Anniversary of Meridian Gallery, Meridian will host the Arab Orchestra of San Francisco, performing a blend of traditional pieces with modern arrangements, modern art music pieces from around the Arab world, original pieces, and improvisation in several idioms, under the direction of oud player Saed Muhssin.
Sun 7/12 8:00 PM $8 sliding scale admission The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Foot Village, Death Sentence: Panda!, KIT, Lucky Dragons, and Former Ghosts curated by Club Sandwich
Tue 7/14 9:00 PM $10 - NO ONE TURNED AWAY Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
Jacob Felix Heule + PREHISTORIC HORSE
Local boy plus Newyorkish noise trio
Wed 7/15 8:00 PM $8 sliding scale admission The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Wednesday, July 15 - Saturday, July 18: Jeff Ray of Mission Creek Music festival curates Collision, including Ann Magnuson, Darwin’s Bitch, Zachary James Watkins, and more.
Thu 7/16 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: Lance Grabmiller (laptop) with Sebastian Krawczuk (ashbory bass)
9pm: George Chen
Fri 7/17 7:30 PM Donation Book Zoo [6395 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, California 94609]
dj cypod presents "Rock and Read" featuring : Polly Moller and the Flip Quartet
Sun 7/19 7:00 PM Free Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
The Outsound New Music Summit TOUCH THE GEAR EXPO
free public event that allows audiences to roam among the artists and their sonic inventions, asking questions, making noise and learning how these often one-of-a-kind set-ups work. electronics, inventions, sound devices and more! Presenting Artists to Date: Amar Chaudhary, Bob Marsh, Cheryl Leonard, CJ Borosque, Conure, Crank Ensemble, Dan Ake, Ferrara Brain Pan, Jim Kaiser, Lx Rudis, Philip Everett, Richard Waters, Rick Walker, Steven Baker, Thomas Dimuzio, Tom Duff, Tom Nunn, Travis Johns
Sun 7/19 8:00 PM $10/5 ODC Dance Commons [351 Shotwell, SF]
sfSoundSeries: Milton Babitt's All Set (1957) and music by Alvin Lucier, Olga Neuwirth, Hans Thomalla, ma++ ingalls, and sfSound
Mon 7/20 9:00 PM Free Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
Featured act: Ross Hammond, John Hanes, and Lisa Mezzacappa
with curated sets by Matt Lebofsky, Suki O'Kane/Michael Zelner, and Moe! Staiano/Gino Robair/Jacob Felix Heule
Tue 7/21 9:00 PM free, donations solicited Uptown [1928 Telegraph Ave @19th St Oakland]
21 Grand's Avant Garde Night - Weasel Walter Large Ensemble - Weasel Walter, William Winant - drums; Darren Johnston - trumpet; Aram Shelton - alto, soprano sax; Kristian Aspelin, Ava Mendoza - guitar; Aaron Bennett - baritone, tenor sax; John Gruntfest - alto sax; Devin Hoff, Damon Smith - bass.
Made possible by a grant from SFFCM's Musical Grant Program
Wed 7/22 7:00 PM FREE (Donations adored) Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
HUMP DAY JAM
A guided trek through uncharted realms. Electric organ and small drumkit available.
Wed 7/22 7:15 PM $12/6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
The Outsound New Music Summit Free Improvisation | Free Composition a night of legendary artists who straddle the line between composed and improvised works, featuring... Alicia Mangan & Spirit, Rova Saxophone Quartet w/Bruce Ackley, Larry Ochs Jon Raskin, Steve Adams, Vinny Golia w/thollem Mcdonas, Rent Romus, Damon Smith, Noah Phillips, Garth Powell. Q&A Sessions 7:15. Performance Starts @ 8:15
Thu 7/23 7:00 PM submission [2183 Mission St. SF]
the emma goldman bust-out brigade featuring Mike Watt and Devin Hoff
in a benefit for Leonard Peltier
(with special guest musicians and speakers)
Thu 7/23 7:15 PM $12/6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
The Outsound New Music Summit Industrial Soundscapes a night of uninhibited electronics and noise from Los Angeles and San Francisco featuring...Forms of Things Unknown, Peter Kolovos, Conure, Hans Fjellestad, Thomas Dimuzio. Q&A Sessions 7:15. Performance Starts @ 8:15
Thu 7/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
No show tonight - our staff is co-presenting the Outsound New Music Summit. Come see us @ SF Community Music Center!
Thu 7/23 8:30 PM $8-15 sliding scale 21 Grand [416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland]
William Hooker - Oluyemi Thomas duo with film: darfur(night and day) by matt kohn(firewalk films) + the trio of Jorrit Dijkstra, Ava Mendoza and Jacob Felix Heule
Fri 7/24 8:00 PM $12/6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
The Outsound New Music Summit InterMedia a night of performances infused by theater, movement and media arts with Jess Rowland & The Dreamland Puppet Theater, Gilbert Guerrero and Kathleen Quillian, Bonfire Madigan. Q&A Sessions 7:15. Music Starts @ 8:15 pm
Fri 7/24 8:00 PM $10 general; $5 students/seniors Meridian Gallery [535 Powell Street SF]
Meridian Gallery presents a concert featuring Trevor Healy (guitar and electronics) with Aram Shelton (saxophones and electronics) and Kyle Bruckmann (oboe and live electronics) with James Fei (saxophone and live electronics).
Sat 7/25 7:15 PM $12/6 Community Music Center [544 Capp Street Btwn 20th and 21st SF]
The Outsound New Music Summit Introspection & Improvisation a night of deep listening and long notes with Natto Quartet w/ Phillip Gelb, Shoko Hikage, Chris Brown, Kyle Bruckmann Ghost In the House featuring Richard Waters w/David Michalak, Karen Stackpole, Kyle Bruckmann, Tom Nunn, Left Coast Improv Group Tom Nunn, Doug Carroll, Michael Cooke, Ron Heglin, Jeff Hobbs, Darren Johntson, Scott R. Looney, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Karen Stackpole. Q&A Sessions 7:15. Music Starts @ 8:15
Wed 7/29 8:00 PM FREE New Nothing Theater [16 Sherman Street (off Folsom, between 6th & 7th Streets SF]
Visual Music Series--
Maia Cybelle Carpenter and Anna Geyer present 16mm abstract films with live music.
Thu 7/30 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: James Devane - computer
9pm: Jorrit Dijkstra (NL)
Sun 8/2 7:30 PM $10/8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Darren Johnston - trumpet/Aram Shelton - saxophones, clarinets/Lisa Mezzacappa - bass/Kjell Nordeson - percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie Chamber Ensemble: Annelise Zamula - flute/Amber Lamprecht - oboe/Bill Noertker - bass/Lisa Mezzacappa - bass/others TBA
Mon 8/3 8:00 PM free Makeout Room [3225 22nd St San Francisco, CA 94110]
The Monday Makeout Presents:
Cory Wright Group + Devin Hoff Platform
Thu 8/6 8:00 PM $10 - NO ONE TURNED AWAY Flux 53 [5306 Foothill Blvd. at Fairfax Oakland]
UP FROM L.A. - THE MUSIC OF VINNY GOLIA
Performed by a string ensemble and by the Touch & Go Sextet (Vinny Golia, Sheldon Brown, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacappa, Bill Horvitz, and Vijay Anderson)
Thu 8/6 9:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents: Full Moon Concerts - Corn Moon
8 PM: Grex (Karl A.D. Evangelista and Margaret Rei Scampavia)
9 PM: Phillip Greenlief and David Boyce tenor saxophone duo
Sun 8/9 8:00 PM $10/5 ODC Dance Commons [351 Shotwell, SF]
sfSoundSeries: Karlheinz Stockhausen's KREUZSPIEL (1951) and music by Anthony Braxton, Beat Furrer, Chris Jones, Chris Burns, Kyle Bruckmann, Erik Ulman, and sfSoundGroup
Mon 8/10 9:00 PM Free Kingman's Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany]
August 10 9pm (Free) Kingman's Ivy Room - 3 Sets: 1. Go-Go Fightmaster = Bennett, Finkbiner, Mezzacappa, Anderson // 2. 'Ava's Thrash Jazz Band = Ava Mendoza gtr, Devin Hoff db, Weasel Walter d // 3. The Spirit Moves Us = Ryan, Marsh, Spirit
Thu 8/13 6:00 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
Lisa Mezzacappa & Nightshade perform a new series of wordless chamber songs in the YBCA galleries inspired by the visual work of artists Yehudit Sasportas and Edgar Arceneaux ... with Cory Wright, clarinets, John Finkbeiner, guitar, Kjell Nordeson, percussion, Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass, and Tim Perkis, electronics.
Thu 8/13 7:00 PM $10±5 Velma's Sunday Blues and Jazz Club [2246 Jerrold Ave SF]
Lewis Jordan with Music at Large, including John-Carlos Perea (electric bass, cedar flute), Marshall Trammell (drums)
Thu 8/13 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Guest Curation by CJ Borosque
Intersections and connections:
The 8 ball evening: kicking off the series "BEHIND THE 8"
Phogmasheen (trumpet, FX), Jim Kaiser (bicycle wheel)
CJ Borosque (trumpet, FX), Arachnid Arcade (noise FX)
Fri 8/14 8:00 PM $12 OPC, Oakland Public Conservatory of Music [1616 Franklin St. Oakland, CA]
Lewis Jordan with Music at Large, including John-Carlos Perea (electric bass, cedar flute), Marshall Trammell (drums)
Sat 8/15 8:00 PM $25 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum [701 Mission St @3rd SF]
TWO GREAT BANDS:
Tanya Tagaq Ensemble
Larry Ochs' KIHNOUA featuring Joan Jeanrenaud, Dohee Lee, and Scott Amendola
Tanya Tagaq has created a major buzz in the alternative music scene with her experimentation of traditional Inuit throat singing.
“Tanya Tagaq is a compelling artist whose electrifying throat-singing acts as a sonic gateway into the primal essense of humanity…. It is the contradiction of ancient and modern elements in her work that creates a depth and richness few solo vocalists can hope to achieve.”
KIHNOUA is an all-star band composed of trailblazer musicians from the Bay Area formed by the inimitable saxophonist Larry Ochs of Rova Saxophone Quartet. (www.ochs.cc/groups/kihnoua_intro.html)
Sun 8/16 7:30 PM $10/$8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 PM Positive Knowledge feat. Oluyemi Thomas bass clarinet, voice, movement & Ijeoma Thomas voice, percussion
8:30 PM Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey duo (NY)
Thu 8/20 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Guest Curation by Travis Johns
8pm: M. Mara Ann
9pm: TBA
Thu 8/27 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm Tri-Cornered Tent Show Album Release performance of Erase the Past
9pm AnyWhen Ensemble (OR) An ensemble performing original compositions from romantic orchestral music, modernist chamber music, traditional and contemporary jazz, and free improvised music, as well as rock, electronica and folk musics.
Sun 8/30 1:00 PM free Alameda Elks Lodge [2255 Santa Clara Ave Alameda, CA 94501]
The Free Orchestra Arises
The Raven Returns
Thu 9/3 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Harvest Moon
8 pm: RTD3 - Ron Heglin, Tom Nunn, and Doug Carroll
9 pm: Potluck Percussion Harvest and a magnum homage to Neil Young with Gino Robair!
Thu 9/10 7:00 PM 5 senior, 10 student, 15 general Velma's Sunday Blues and Jazz Club [2246 Jerrold Ave SF]
7pm 2 sets . . . The Spirit Moves Us = Jim Ryan saxes/flute/kalimba, Bob Marsh cello, Spirit percussion. Free Style Jazz/Creative Music
Thu 9/10 8:00 PM $6-$10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
Music by the Eyeful: Inventions in Visual Audio
brief works of astounding duration with Ian Winters and Evelyn Ficarra; Bill Hsu and others TBA.
Sun 9/13 7:30 PM $10/$8 SIMM Series [Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 2-Sets
Wiggwaum with Live Feed
feat. Douglas Katelus (Rhodes) Loren Means (Trombone/Vocals/feedback) Randy Lee Sutherland (Percussion)
Scott Davey (visuals) and Lx Rudis (electronics)
Sun 9/13 8:00 PM $5/10 ODC Dance Commons [351 Shotwell, SF]
sfSoundSeries: Xenakis, Birtwistle, Czernowin, Bruce Christian Bennett, Kyle Bruckmann, Luciano Chessa, Erik Ulman, sfSoundGroup.
Thu 9/17 8:00 PM Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
No show tonight - our staff is working at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.
Thu 9/24 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [1007 Market St. @ 6th Street SF]
8pm: Sarah Rose Stiles and Rachel Wood-Rome
9pm: INSTAGON - The Noise Trio