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Coming to San Francisco

Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, October 20

Fri 10/20 6:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Scott Foster / Sheldon Brown Duo

Fri 10/20 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Rohan Krishnamurthy – solo Carnatic percussion and 4 course vegan menu

Fri 10/20 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends

Fri 10/20 7:00 PM Studio 210 [3435 Cesar Chavez San Francisco]
Bare Bones Butoh Showcase
with Dynamic Master teacher and director Hiroko Tamano

Fri 10/20 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Ian MacPhee / Chris Sollars / Naja Naja

Fri 10/20 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
DILATE ENSEMBLE

Fri 10/20 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto, CA]
Earthwise welcomes Chris Jonas Music From the Deserts Quartet

Fri 10/20 8:00 PM Piedmont Piano Company [1728 San Pablo Ave Oakland]
Helen Sung with special guest Friction Quartet

Fri 10/20 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
TAK Ensemble: In a forest / Interbeing

Saturday, October 21

Sat 10/21 12:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
G|O|D|W|A|F|F|L|E||N|O|I|S|E||P|A|N|C|A|K|E|S

Sat 10/21 6:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. Santa Cruz]
New York-based quintet TAK Ensemble performs Michelle Lou’s In a forest, surrounding the audience with immersive 8-channel sound, alongside Eric Wubbels’s INTERBEING, a slow-moving, ritualized progression through a series of “formations” which visually, acoustically, and theatrically manifest concrete images of connectedness and mutual interdependence.

Sat 10/21 7:00 PM Studio 210 [3435 Cesar Chavez San Francisco]
Bare Bones Butoh Showcase
with Dynamic Master teacher and director Hiroko Tamano

Sat 10/21 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto]
Earthwise presents: Todd Sickafoose’s BEAR PROOF

Sunday, October 22

Sun 10/22 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Cornelius Boots and The Wood Prophets

Sun 10/22 6:00 PM Mission Cultural Center [2868 Mission St San Francisco]
Voices of Silicon Valley perform Pamela Z’s PEN PAL
Bay Area new music chorus Voices of Silicon Valley will perform Pamela Z’s Pen Pal in concert at Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, and at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Sun 10/22 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
CHRIS JONAS: MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS
(with Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, & JASON LEVIS)
HEADBOGGLE
HALLIE SMITH

Monday, October 23

Mon 10/23 8:00 PM Little Hill Lounge [10753 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito]
Rewards Program
A free form live scoring project.

Thursday, October 26

Thu 10/26 8:00 PM Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium [1313 Newell Road Palo Alto, CA]
Earthwise welcomes Larry Ochs REOTREO

Friday, October 27

Fri 10/27 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
David Boyce and Friends

Fri 10/27 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
loscil / Lawrence English

Fri 10/27 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. Santa Cruz]
Oceans Roar 1000 Drums is a musical testament to the words attributed to Heraclitus: ‘We both step and do not step in the same rivers; we are and are not.’ Formed in NYC in 2008, the trio is Todd Capp (drums and cymbals), Bryan Eubanks (saxophone electronics) and Andrew Lafkas (doublebass).


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