Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

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]
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.

Fri 5/19 8:00 PM New Mission Yoga [2415 Mission St. San Francisco, CA]
Thomas Dimuzio
Seymour Glass/Bryan Day
Tanuki Spidercat
Psychobatonikon

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. Filled with antique synths and sampled classical instruments, he “twists the synthetic, electronic material like a bundle of lace” (SF Classical Voice) to explore the elusive halls of memory.

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
Aine and Adrian investigate the voice and the body through collaborative performances of sound and movement. By embracing the body as a site of intuition, they enact practices of collective care, listening and sounding with and beyond the body, and imagining future possibilities of a communal language.

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

Sunday, May 21

Sun 5/21 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th Street SF]
set one Phillip Greenlief solo (tenor saxophone)

set two A bi-coastal trio comprising Dan Clucas (cornet, moxeño, violin), Kyle Motl (double bass), and Nathan Hubbard (drums, percussion).

Sun 5/21 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
Pianist HADLEY MCCARROLL performs several selections from MATTHEW WELCH’S piano music, including many West Coast premieres from his “12 Etudes for Piano” (2015). Concluding is “Orion” (1998), an early piece of Matthew’s in response to Morton Feldman‘s style.

Sun 5/21 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Outsound Presents SIMM Series – Nine Dog Dick, Sharkiface

Sun 5/21 7:30 PM Mitchell Park Community Center [3700 Middlefield Road Palo Alto]
Earthwise welcomes Amendola Vs. Blades, JoVia Armstrong Destiny Muhammad

Friday, May 26

Fri 5/26 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends

Saturday, May 27

Sat 5/27 2:30 PM San Francisco Public Library, Richmond Branch [351 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94118]
Free screening of the DVD of contemporary classical composer Kaija Saariaho’s opera “L’Amour de loin” (2000).

Sat 5/27 7:00 PM Spruce Street Concerts [send email to harry@fullplatemedia.com]
Free improvisation with cellist, vocalist & composer Theresa Wong, Kanoko Nishi-Smith and Haruki Fujii . This is a house concert in the Berkeley hills with limited seating. Theresa Wong performs on cello, electric guitar and voice; Kanoko Nishi-Smith on bass koto and Haruki Fujii on percussion.

Sat 5/27 7:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Karl Evangelista’s “Bukas” with Special Guest Andrew Cyrille
(Evening Performance, FREE ADMISSION)

Sat 5/27 8:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
The Finnish Heritage Society & Outsound co-present Rent Romus’ Life’s Blood Ensemble performing the complete Itkuja Suite, invocations on lament, a deep and rich exploration of the healing music of Finnish Nordic lament and life affirming elements of jazz.
Performing Artists:
Rent Romus – composition, alto & soprano saxophones, flutes, kantele, bells; Heikki “Mike” Koskinen – composition, tenor recorder, E-trumpet, flutes, kantele; Joshua Marshall – tenor saxophone tenor & soprano saxophones, flute; Erika Oba – flute, piccolo Ann McChesney-Young – accordion; Mark Clifford – vibraphone; ; Safa Shokrai – double bass; Cory Combs – double bass; Max Judelson – cello; Eli Knowles – drums, percussion