Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Saturday, May 13

Sat 5/13 2:00 PM All Saints’ Episcopal Church [555 Waverley St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA]
To Burst to Bloom celebrates spring, awakening, and the joy of vibrant life.

Sat 5/13 5:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Beyond the Grave: Writing Ghosts // performances evoking the personal and the sociological, the historical and ever-present hauntings

5/12, 5/13, 5/19 & 5/20 at 5pm at Evergreen Cemetery
Performances by Ghost Ensemble, LuLing Osofsky, Tasting Menu, & Isola Tong

Sat 5/13 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Matt Renzi Quartet

Sunday, May 14

Sun 5/14 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Clarinetist Matt Ingalls performs two iconic solo “Musique Concrète Instrumentale” compositions:
SALVATORE SCIARRINO – “Let Me Die Before I Wake” (1982)
HELMUT LACHENMANN – “Dal niente (Intérieur III)” (1970)

Monday, May 15

Mon 5/15 7:30 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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Mon 5/15 8:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Black Editions & eremite records Present
An Evening with William Parker New Heart Trio

Tuesday, May 16

Tue 5/16 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
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 Andrew Jamieson Solo
7:45pm Saki Minamimoto Plays the Kenny Wheeler Songbook
(Ian Carey – trumpet, Mark Clifford – vibraphone, Safa Shokrai – bass, Jon Arkin – drums)
8:30pm Quartet
(Raffi Garabedian – sax, Ben Goldberg – clarinet, Ben Davis – cello, Danny Lubin-Laden – trombone)

Thursday, May 18

Thu 5/18 7:00 PM St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church [1661 15th St, San Francisco, CA 94103]
New York’s Ghost Ensemble fosters groundbreaking music that blurs borders of genre, style, and scene, expanding perceptual horizons through shared immersive experience. Ghost Ensemble’s May 18 performance at St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California presents new works commissioned for the 2022-23 season by composers Sky Macklay, Ben Richter, and Catherine Lamb.

Thu 5/18 7:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Ami Dang + Beast Nest at Kuumbwa Jazz // The already evocative vocal harmonizations transmit a gut-wrenching mixture of mourning and hope

Thu 5/18 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Hassan Estakhrian presents his album “Butterflies in Disguise”.

Friday, May 19

Fri 5/19 5:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Beyond the Grave: Writing Ghosts // performances evoking the personal and the sociological, the historical and ever-present hauntings

Fri 5/19 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce And Friends

Fri 5/19 7:00 PM Manilatown Heritage Center [868 Kearny St SF]
An interdisciplinary work featuring poetry, dance, and music in dialogue with the public art piece Comfort Women Column of Strength Memorial in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco Chinatown.

Fri 5/19 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
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New Arts Collaboration presents a multimedia piano concert featuring pianist Ting Luo, collaborating with living composers to present a total of eight piano pieces, which includes four world premiere multimedia piano works by emerging composers. This innovative and experimental piano concert will feature new works by Xuesi Xu, Dylan Findley, Sarah Wald and Cole Reyes, performed by pianist Ting Luo alongside multimedia projections and electronic sounds.

Fri 5/19 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Ghost Ensemble + Tasting Menu at Wind River // Ghost Ensemble performs Sky Macklay & Ben Richter

Saturday, May 20

Sat 5/20 2:00 PM St. Mary’s Square [San Francisco Chinatown]
An interdisciplinary work featuring poetry, dance, and music in dialogue with the public art piece Comfort Women Column of Strength Memorial in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco Chinatown.

Sat 5/20 5:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Beyond the Grave: Writing Ghosts // performances evoking the personal and the sociological, the historical and ever-present hauntings

Sat 5/20 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Electronic musicians r beny and George Hurd each perform sets of deeply emotional and personal ambient music, filled with towering walls of harmony, entrancing melody, and immersive visuals. r beny’s mastery of modular synths draws inspiration from the ineffable wonder of nature, while Hurd delves into densely layered electro-acoustic sounds.

Sat 5/20 8:00 PM Piedmont Piano Company [1728 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA 94612]
Wil Blades & Scott Amendola

Sat 5/20 8:00 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Noel Kennon (Seattle) in an improvised first meeting with locals Danishta Rivero, Wilson Shook, Matt Ingalls, Kevin Corcoran, Jacob Felix Heule
Aine E. Nakamura & Adrian Montufar
Foot SOS (Theresa Currie, Dianne Lynn, Angela Roberts)

Sat 5/20 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Ghost Ensemble + Laura Cecilia at Wind River // Ghost Ensemble performs Catherine Lamb