Thu 4/17 7:00 PM Piedmont Piano Company [1728 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
Trio M

Mark Dresser, Myra Melford, Matt Wilson  More...

Thu 4/17 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Featuring talented and experienced Bay Area improvisers (David Boyce, Richard Howell, David Ewell and Sameer Gupta) impressively, everything in the music is uncharted each time The Supplicants perform.  More...

Fri 4/18 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents B-Side Galaxy  More...

Fri 4/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Crossing Boundaries ~ Traveling Without the Footprint: Music of Denmark, Argentina, Austria and Siberia. The Earhart Trio performs the evocative piano trios of Bent Sørensen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Astor Piazzolla, Franz Schubert and Lera Auerbach.  More...

Fri 4/18 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA Presents: Everything Everywhere All at Bing | Concert 1

When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely team of musicians must channel their newfound sonic powers to collect bizarre and bewildering sounds from the multiverse as the fate of two concerts hangs in the balance.  More...

Fri 4/18 8:00 PM Hertz Hall [UC Berkeley campus near corner of College and Bancroft Berkeley]
Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective & Goldberg-Melford-Davis-Glenn Quartet with Special Guests  More...

Fri 4/18 8:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
rob reich Quintet  More...

Fri 4/18 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
SMARTBOMB x The Lab: Fatboi Sharif / Icky Reels, Mars Kumari, Squadda B  More...

Sat 4/19 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th St Oakland]
Scott Amendola + Michael Manring + Karl Evangelista

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Sat 4/19 7:30 PM Bing Concert Hall [327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305]
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CCRMA Presents: Everything Everywhere All at Bing | Concert 2

When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely team of musicians must channel their newfound sonic powers to collect bizarre and bewildering sounds from the multiverse as the fate of two concerts hangs in the balance.  More...

Sat 4/19 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids: Artistic Being  More...

Sun 4/20 1:30 PM Prelinger Library [301 8th St San Francisco]
greensatan, Thom Blum and Kattt Atchley now play music as Resonant Margin.  More...

Sun 4/20 6:30 PM Bolinas Calvary Chapel [5 Brighton Avenue, Bolinas, CA, 94924]
Fred Frith Trio supported by Phipps Pt at the Bolinas Chapel with live visuals by Keith Evans.  More...

Thu 4/24 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [809 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Join us at wyldflowr arts for a three-night workshop for aspiring Carnatic musicians focused on improving their renditions, stage presence, and improvisational instincts, curated and lead by roopa mahadevana.  More...

Thu 4/24 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents Eric Frye and Michael Flora in two live performances of multichannel audio.  More...

Thu 4/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Success of the last Night Gwaffle show leads us to MORE!

Gourmet Thai styled corn fritters served!
This show will be over before 10pm, & will be action packed with sonic oddments.  More...

Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Pete Schmitt  More...

Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Roopa Mahadevan presents a Carnatic concert, featuring some of the Bay Area's amazing South Indian classical instrumental talent.  More...

Fri 4/25 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27

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Sat 4/26 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
thingamajigs performance group

contemplating the breathing life of a snake  More...

Sat 4/26 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
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Roopa Mahadevan explores her versatility and identity as a diasporic musician with crossover material from jazz, R&B, film music, and more.  More...

Sat 4/26 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27

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Sat 4/26 7:30 PM Vernon Salon Series [Pop-up location in Albany!]
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Transdisciplinary artist Judit Navratil and musician Anne Rainwater present ATtension - Growing Roots and other compasses, a site-specific work in Albany, CA. In a time of rapid change and overwhelming noise, ATtension invites you to pause, root yourself in place, and reconnect with what makes a home. This performance in Judit’s backyard brings together musician Anne Rainwater, Judit Navratil, the Redwood Tree, the rhythmic pulse of BART, and the gentle stream, weaving a soundscape that balances the contrasts of movement and stillness, nature and urban life, inner and outer worlds.  More...

Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Accidental Composers Collective returns to the C4NM with new music for trio (clarinet, violin, and cello), and trio and soprano.  More...

Sat 4/26 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Arab.AMP x The Lab: DISCOSTAN ft. Checkpoint303 + DJ ariB  More...

Sun 4/27 1:00 PM Dolores Deluxe [3500 22nd St., San Francisco, CA]
The Holly Martins play at Dolores Deluxe  More...

Sun 4/27 2:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27

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Sun 4/27 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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Wooden Fish Ensemble – Piano and Strings – Sunday, April 27 at 4 pm

Two world premieres by San Francisco’s own Hyo-shin Na are presented alongside Ruth Crawford’s String Quartet, a selection of piano works by the 20th Century master Ferruccio Busoni, and a new, re-imagined version of Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Banjo by the ensemble’s pianist, Thomas Schultz.

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Tue 4/29 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out: Evangelista Quintet Album Release, Bafus/Raskin/Johnston Trio
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Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.

7pm Trio (from Sacramento)
(Jon Bafus - drums, Jon Raskin - sax, w/Darren Johnston - trumpet)

8:15pm Karl Evangelista Quintet - Solace Angles Album Release Show
(Karl Evangelista - guitar, Jordan Glenn - drums, Rei Scampavia - keys/electronics, Francis Wong + David Boyce - saxophone)  More...

Thu 5/01 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [2021 San Jose Avenue Apartment 6]
Do-Over Music Series @ Shapeshifters Cinema

Set 1: 7pm
Lenny Gonzalez - guitar and electronics
Erik Ellestad - sax and electronics

Set 2: 8pm
Improvised music and film with:
the above plus
Kanoko Nishi-Smith - koto, Ava Lynch - drums/percussion, Jordan Glenn - drums/percussion.
with films screened and manipulated by our Shapeshifters hosts.  More...

Fri 5/02 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let’s Spoil!  More...

Fri 5/02 7:30 PM First Congregational Church [1985 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA]
Let your heart unfurl in empathy, vulnerability, and hope as Peninsula Women's Chorus' spring concert, Break Open to Beauty, beckons you to embrace music’s deep, transformative power to awaken emotions!  More...

Fri 5/02 8:00 PM NOHSpace [2840 Mariposa St. SF]
Powerful shared bill between circus-informed solo performer Helen Wicks that follows ancesteral research in early Hollywood and synthesizes a conversation with Quincy Jones with live accompaniment of Nadia Boulanger Score and a duet with a live violinist and dancer that interweaves Persian and Jewish music and dance traditions to express intercultural harmony.  More...

Sun 5/04 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.  More...

Fri 5/09 7:30 PM Noe Valley Ministry [1021 Sanchez St San Francisco]
Earplay - Season Finale

Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm

Program

Benjamin Sabey, Dream Suite for sextet in six, cyclic, attacca movements (2025). World Premiere.

Edna Alejandra Longoria, El bailongo (2023), for flute, cello, violin and piano. Edna is the winner of the 2024 Earplay Vibrant Shores Composition Competition.

Mei Fang Lin, Friction (2009), for flute and viola. Earplay commission.

Carolyn Chen, Stomachs of Ravens (2018), for solo flute.  More...

Sat 5/10 1:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94123]
Eli Knowles and Rent Romus perform slow music, jazz ballads, and ambient improvisations. This event is part of the San Francisco Public Library Golden Gate Valley Branch's annual Open House, with festive family activities starting at 11am. Concert starts at 1pm.  More...

Sat 5/10 8:00 PM Brava Theatre [2781 24th Street SF]
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

Schedule
6:30 PM - "Under the Hood" pre-concert talk with Artistic Director Eric Dudley, members of the Friction Quartet, and composer Miguel Chuaqui.
7:00 PM - PRELUDE Concert: Paul Mortilla’s Paradiso: "Weavers of Light"
8:000 PM - Mainstage Concert  More...

Tue 5/13 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
T.J. Borden (cello) + Jacob Felix Heule (percussion) + Matt Ingalls (clarinet) + Kanoko Nishi-Smith (koto) quartet

Matt Robidoux  More...

Fri 5/16 7:30 PM Hillside Community Church [1422 Navellier St, El Cerrito]
Quartet Mixus Mundi makes its East Bay debut in “Skylark: jazz, world and contemporary improv for recorder and jazz trio.” Mixus Mundi (Latin for “blended world”) is an ensemble whose voice stretches the boundaries between jazz, early music, world music, new music and improvisation. This eclectic combo unveils the jazz side of recorder, played by early music specialist Frances Feldon, in collaboration with Joyce Todd McBride, keys; Todd Larson, bass guitar; and Jeff Pera, drums. Music by JS Bach, Bela Bartok, Hoagy Carmichael, John Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Steve Kuhn, Joyce Todd McBride, Thelonius Monk, Hermeto Pascoal, Horace Silver and others, as well as an arrangement of an Egyptian melody. The show takes place at Hillside Community Church, 1422 Navellier St, El Cerrito, Friday May 16, 2025. Doors open 7:00, show begins at 7:30. Cash donations gratefully accepted at the door only. For more info: (510)527-9029.  More...

Sat 5/17 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
25 years of mainly showcasing the explosive experimental world of California sounds, with gourmet pancakes!! Bring an appetite, your glassorium blankets, motorhem crashlights, plaid sock rays, & SPACE: 200 B.C.mycosynths. It's a enlightening parade of haybaker yeti scalpiscopes learning to go full nature-thighclops!!  More...

Sat 5/17 2:00 PM San Francisco Public Library, Golden Gate Valley Branch [1801 Green St. San Francisco, CA 94123]
Erika Oba & Scott Oshiro will present a flute duo program featuring flute, pedals, and electronics. Oba & Oshiro will share their original compositions and improvisations drawing on their shared interest in Japanese, Okinawan, and experimental music.  More...