Sun 5/19 7:30 PM $10/$8 SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30 Trio ē
Markus Hunt - double bass, David Boyce - saxophone, Timothy Orr - drums
7:30 Trio ē
Markus Hunt - double bass, David Boyce - saxophone, Timothy Orr - drums
8:30 DistrictSF
Tom Solinger- violin, Keith Cudback- keyboardist, Ray Schaeffer- electric bass, Andrew Scott- drums/percussion

Mon 5/20 7:00 PM No Cover The Layover [1517 Franklin St. Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents:
Third Monday Monthly Residency! Lisa Mezzacappa Trio (7-10pm)
John Finkbeiner, guitar / Jordan Glenn, drums / Lisa Mezzacappa, bass

Mon 5/20 8:00 PM $10-20 sliding scale Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley between Shattuck & Oxford, walking distance from downtown Berkeley BART]
Ear Spray: Carlos Jennings - electronics; Ann O’Rourke - very strange vocals; Ann O’Rourke & Mark Pino - electronicized cymbals, Tom Nunn’s resonant plate, found objects
and
Music for Hard Times: Tom Nunn - resonant plate, skatchplate, Lukie tubes and ghost plate, Sonoglyph II, and harmonic rods (on balloons); Paul Winstanley - very extended electric guitar. Music for Hard Times is a free-improvisation noise band, and donates all their proceeds to poverty relief charities.

Tue 5/21 12:00 PM Free United Nations Plaza [San Francisco]
The Center presents Rova Saxophone Quartet in a free 30-minute outdoor performance at United Nations Plaza. Their appearance is part of Summer of Art, a weekly series at that brings together dance, music, theatre and spoken word from the Tenderloin, SOMA, and Central Market. The series is coordinated with the Off the Grid food truck services that come to UN Plaza each Tuesday from 11-2pm. Enjoy an outdoor lunch while watching a free concert of music, dance, theater and spoken word. The second half-hour on this date will be a performance by our Taylor Street neighbors The Cutting Ball Theater.

Wed 5/22 8:00 PM $10-20 sliding scale Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Thollem / Ackley / Stackpole Trio - 8:00 PM
Thollem – piano
Bruce Ackley – soprano and tenor saxes, Bb clarinet
Karen Stackpole – gongs and percussion

Michael Vlatkovich 5tet - 9:00 PM
Michael Vlatkovich - trombone
Steve Adams - saxophone
Tom McNalley - guitar
Scott Walton - bass
John Hanes – drums

Wed 5/22 8:30 PM 5 Dollars Legionnaire Saloon [2272 Telegraph Oakland CA]
The 3 Muhammed's ( Josh Allen, sax, Tim Orr, drums, Tarik Kazaleh, oud) collide Arabic Music with Free Jazz. Key West ( Brian Pedersen, sax, Rent Romus, sax, Randylee Sutherland, drums/sax, Mark Blatnik, cello, Sun Kim the hare/ nun's horn/ holy sprinkler, David Dupuis, bass) open the evening with fierce free improv.

Thu 5/23 8:00 PM $10-20 sliding scale Awaken Cafe [1429 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612]
2nd ANNUAL SF OFFSIDE FESTIVAL - Night 1

New collaborations, new directions.

WIENER KIDS FAMILY BAND
MUCHO STEREO
WAYSTANDERS

Thu 5/23 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm Eclectic Emergency String (X)tet
This version of the Emergency String (X)tet features
Bob Marsh - cello/violin, Doug Carroll - cello
David Michalak - lap steel guitar, Kanoko Nishi - bass koto
9pm Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
Jack Curtis Dubowsky on Roland Jupiter Six and bass, and Fred Morgan on drums and percussion

Fri 5/24 7:30 PM $15 General, $10 Members  Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Center For New Music presents new music for duos focusing on harmonic tunings and hybrid scores by composer Zachary James Watkins.

Fri 5/24 9:00 PM $10-20 sliding scale Duende [468 19th Street, Oakland, CA 94618]
2nd ANNUAL SF OFFSIDE FESTIVAL - Night 2

Leading-edge local jazz

HOWARD WILEY TRIO
MADS TOLLING QUARTET

Sat 5/25 7:30 PM Sliding Scale: $0-$15  Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Voicehandler performs their song cycle - open scores inspired by mythology and literature - on voice, percussion, electronics, and the Hydrophonium (an electroacoustic percussion instrument).

Zeek Sheck will be performing music from the fifth and final part of their musical narrative, JOINUS, about a young man trying to find his way out of a vast and complex underground maze.

Sat 5/25 8:00 PM $10-20 sliding scale Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF, CA 94110]
2nd ANNUAL SF OFFSIDE FESTIVAL - Night 3

“The traveler hastens toward the town…”

DAVE MIHALY & THE SHIMMERING LEAVES ENSEMBLE
SHELDON BROWN GROUP
LIZA MEZZACAPPA-STEVE ADAMS DUO

Tue 5/28 7:30 AM $10 - Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
T.D. Skatchit & Co. Ear of the Storm CD Release Show
T.D. Skatchit/Aurora/Gino Robair/Bruce Ackley in performance plus a surround sound playback of the title piece!

Tue 5/28 7:49 AM $10/7 Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
sfSoundSalonSeries! - Selected Compositions by Maggi Payne, John Ingle, and Edgard Varèse

Thu 5/30 7:30 PM $10-20 donation Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
NO MORE TWIST!, the art duo of Charles Celeste Hutchins and Polly Moller will share the evening with special guest from Berlin, KONGRAD SPRENGER, who has composed a piece for self-tuning electric guitar.

Thu 5/30 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm Andrew Jamieson/Robert Lopez duo
9pm Julian Valdi-Vieso EnsembleJulian Valdi-vieso - Synthesizers and guitar , Lucy Trepla - Bass & percussion, Manuel Barenboim - Video projection

Sun 6/2 4:00 PM FREE Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
ArtBeat Foundation presents STUDENT WORK: an afternoon of music and storytelling with Daniel Popsicle, the large creative ensemble led by composer Dan Plonsey and Bay Area K-12 educators sharing stories from the classroom

free show | all ages | food & bar | homework assistance for math students K-postDoc

Sun 6/2 7:30 PM $10/$8 SIMM Series [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm John Vaughn project
duos, trios and quartets for two saxophonists: John Vaughn - saxes / Rent Romus - saxes
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute / Jim Peterson - alto sax, flute / Bill Noertker - contrabass / Dave Mihaly - drums

Sun 6/2 8:00 PM donations Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Pet the Tiger: Rusty Sonatas
Peter Bonos, horns; Ian Saxton, percussion; David Samas, inventions w/ special guests Tom Nunn and Bryan Day, invented instruments.

Three Trapped Tigers: 14th and 21st century recorder music
Ton Bickley and David Barnett, recorders

Tiger in the Tall Grass: Digitalia and Analogues
Amar Chaudhary, aps and electronics; David Samas, voice

Mon 6/3 8:00 PM Free Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Makeout:
Mark Clifford's Dirty Snacks Ensemble (Shelton-Van Loon-Brown-Clifford-Harrison-McGinn-Cumberland)
Karl Evangelista's Grex (Evangelista-Scampavia-Lopez)
Moe! Staiano's Surplus 1980 (Staiano-Wolter-Melne-Lew-Chaudhary-Scandura)

Thu 6/6 6:00 PM $15 general, $10 members (18+ only) Exploratorium [Pier 15 San Francisco, CA 94111]
The Exploratorium’s After Dark returns June 6, 2013 with a special music- and art-focused evening featuring performances by acclaimed cellist Zoë Keating, and highlighting works by artists throughout the museum. One part theater, one part cabaret, one part gallery and one part Happy Hour, After Dark is a unique way to experience one of San Francisco’s most beloved museums. After Dark is for adults 18 years and older. Tickets are $15; $10 for members.

Thu 6/6 8:00 PM $20 Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall [3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
Rovaté 2013

Rova’s ever-exploratory and inquisitive saxophonists are teaming up with world renowned visual artist, Ikue Mori, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Gino Robair to create an ambitious collaborative work, The Grand Electric Skull.

Thu 6/6 8:00 PM $6-10 Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8:00pm Alex Jenkins/Randy Stark duo
World percussion & improvisation
8:45pm Charles Celeste Hutchins - laptop
9:15pm Joey Molinaro - solo violin/electronics
"Discordance-Axis-inspired songs, overdriven poetry, and glitched-out electronics"


Fri 6/7 8:00 PM $20 Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall [3200 California St @ Presidio Ave SF]
Rova’s ever-exploratory and inquisitive saxophonists are teaming up with world renowned visual artist, Ikue Mori, and composer and multi-instrumentalist Gino Robair to create an ambitious collaborative work, The Grand Electric Skull.

Sun 6/9 5:00 PM $15 General, $10 Members  Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
ZOFO Duet presents excerpts from the four works below in a 60-minute program without intermission. The short movements from Urmas Sisask’s Spiral Symphony will serve as a rocket ship to help us get from one planet/star to the other. This is an imaginary journey through space – not a logical one…

Tue 6/11 7:49 PM $10 General, $7 Members Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Local New Music Champions Luciano Chessa and Benjamin Kreith perform Garrett — Confusing Salon Music and Noise since 2013 for violin, piano, bullhorn, saw, piano, Aardvark synth app, harmonica and voice. A concert-length program consisting of original pieces, Erik Satie transcriptions, Futurist noise poetry, Robert Schumann, a Fluxus piece, Carlo Prosperi's "Chant", delicate improvisations, and Albeniz/Kreisler.

Thu 6/13 8:00 PM $6-10 sliding scale Luggage Store New Music Series [Outsound co-Presents @ The Luggage Store Gallery 1007 Market St. SF]
8pm: Crystal Pascucci presents Wild Hen
9pm: Robert Lopez & Mateo Lugo


Fri 6/14 8:00 PM $15 - $20  Garden Gate Creativity Center [2911 Claremont Ave. @ Ashby Ave. in Berkeley CA ]
- Shoko Hikage in a portrait concert of Hyo-shin Na’s music –

Venue: Garden Gate Creativity Center
Date:Fri June 14, 2013 8:00pm
City: Berkeley
Email: info@listenforlife.org
Price Range: $15-$20
Tickets: 510 540 8136

Shoko Hikage, the distinguished Koto (Japanese zither) player, will give a recital of San Francisco based Korean composer Hyo-shin Na’s music. Thomas Schultz, pianist and Narae Kwon, kayageum (Korean zither) will join Hikage. The program will include Five Pieces on Yoshie Hikage's Poems (2012 - 2013) for koto solo, Koto Music (2011) for koto solo, Night Procession of the Hundred Demons (2011) for koto solo, Echos of Harmonious Music (2012) for koto and kayageum, Chrysanthemum Song (2012) for koto and kayageum, Song of the Firewood (2010) for kayageum solo, Near and Dear (2012) for piano solo, and Variations (1990) for piano solo.

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