Eighth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival

From Matthew Sperry in Memoriam, this year’s concert takes place this week in San Francisco and Oakland.

Please join us in a celebration of Matthew Sperry’s life and music with the Bay Area’s creative music community:
June 3 and 5, 2010
Eighth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival: HomeGrown

Handwritten scores from Matthew’s notebook inspire this annual festival of music and remembrance. The Festival begins in San Francisco with a Tag Team Trio Shift featuring dozens of the Bay Area’s experimental musicians performing no more than three at a time. Closing in the East Bay, the renowned sfSoundGroup presents a composition of Matthew’s in a program of exquisite works in contemporary music making.

Thursday June 3 | 8pm | $6 – $100 sliding scale
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
San Francisco
co-presented with Outsound Presents
Tag Team Trio Shift with dozens of musicians refereed by John Shiurba

Saturday, June 5 | 8pm | $6 – $100 sliding scale
21 Grand
416 25th Street
Oakland
sfSound
playing the music of
Matthew Sperry,
Anthony Braxton,
Cornelius Cardew,
James Tenney and
sfSoundGroup

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