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JANUARY 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
EVENT:
[M] Boca Do Rio plus
Z’Amico at The Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community
(in City of Berkeley, Alameda County, San Francisco Bay Area, State of California, USA, Earth)
TIME(S): 9pm / 21:00
DATE(S): Saturday, January 28, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
The colorful San Francisco band Boca do Rio makes its Ashkenaz debut playing original Brazilian-based dance music. The group takes its name from the Portuguese "mouth of the river" – the place where myriad streams and sources converge into one powerful, flowing, physical energy. Inspired by the countless Brazilian musicians who came before, Boca do Rio explains its music as "the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish." Kevin Welch is Boca's leader, composer, guitarist, and vocalist. He has lived in the Amazon and became fluent in Portuguese as well as immersed in – and transformed by – samba. In the mid-1990s he started the group Vivendo de Pão, which became a mainstay on San Francisco's club. Welch calls his style música orgânica, music that is explicitly influenced by his connection to Brazil but filtered through the sensibilities of his California base, which he shares with his versatile accompanists and musical partners. Along with Welch, Boca do Rio is Alex Calatayud on pandeiro, bassist John Evans, drummer Scott Johnson and saxophonist Larry De La Cruz.
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Location:
Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community
1317 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
USA
Telephone: +1 510-525-5054
(International Dialing Codes)
Tickets: $10.00-Up Sliding Scale
($-U.S. Dollars)
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
EVENT:
[M] Subterranean Arthouse presents: A Series Of Circles: An Evening of Butoh and Butoh-Inspired Performance at Subterranean Art House
(in City of Berkeley, Alameda County, San Francisco Bay Area, State of California, USA, Earth)
TIME(S): 9pm / 21:00
DATE(S): Sunday, January 29, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
Instrument inventor/improviser Tom Nunn offers a unique sonic imagery with his Skatchboxes and Lukie Tubes providing opposite extremes of articulated noise and hovering ghostly tones. He has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1976, and has built over 200 instruments. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity.
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Featuring: Christina Braun with live music by Tom Nunn, Martha Matsuda with live music by Mark Deutsch, Shelley Cook, and Molly Barrons
Presented by Subterranean Art House
Location:
Subterranean Art House
2179 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, California 94704
USA
Telephone: +1 510-981-1281
(International Dialing Codes)
Tickets: $10.00 - $15.00
($-U.S. Dollars)
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FEBRUARY 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
EVENT:
[M] Piano Masters Series: Simone Dinnerstein at Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center
(in City of Saratoga, Santa Clara County, San Francisco Bay Area, State of California, USA, Earth)
TIME(S): 7:30pm / 19:30
DATE(S): Sunday, February 26, 2012
DESCRIPTION
"Unadorned but profound bliss" --San Francisco Chronicle
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been praised by TIME for her "arresting freshness and subtlety." The New York-based pianist gained international recognition because of the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she raised the funds to record, and which was released on Telarc in 2007.
Dinnerstein has since signed an exclusive agreement with Sony, and her first album for that label - Bach: A Strange Beauty - was released in January 2011, immediately earning the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart and making the Billboard Top 200, which compiles top selling albums in all genres. In conjunction with the release, Dinnerstein was featured on CBS Sunday Morning.
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Program:
Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat Major, Op. 27
Daniel Felsenfeld's The Cohen Variations (West Coast premiere)
Johannes Brahms' Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 2 in A
Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor
Franz Schubert's Four Impromptus, Op. 90
Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major
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Location:
Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road
Saratoga, CA 95071
USA
Telephone: +1 408-961-5800
(International Dialing Codes)
Tickets: - Buy Online - $42.00 / $37.00 General | $37.00 / $32.00 Members | $10.00 Students with ID | $20.00 Subscription (when purchasing 3 or more dates from this series)
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MARCH 2012
March, Friday 2 and Saturday 3, 2012
EVENT:
[M] John Santos Sextet: Caribe / Brazil at Yoshi's Oakland
(in City of Oakland, Alameda County, San Francisco Bay Area, State of California, USA, Earth)
TIME(S): 8pm / 20:00 and 10pm / 22:00
DATE(S): March, Friday 2 and Saturday 3, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
Latin-jazz icon and 5-time Grammy nominee John Santos in a rare club setting with special guests: Jovino Santos Neto - piano, melodica and Anthony Blea - violin
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Dr. John Calloway - flute, piano
Melecio Magdaluyo - saxophones
Saul Sierra - bass
Marco Diaz - piano, trumpet
David Flores - drums
John Santos - percussion
Five-time Grammy-nominated percussionist and US Artists Fontanals Fellow, John Santos, is one of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the world today. Born in San Francisco, California, November l, l955, he was raised in the Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean traditions of his family, surrounded by music. The fertile musical environment of the San Francisco Bay Area shaped his career in a unique way. His studies of Afro-Latin music have included several trips to New York, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and Colombia.He is known for his innovative use of traditional forms and instruments in combination with contemporary music, and has earned much respect and recognition as an educator, composer, and record and event producer. He’s been a prolific performer, composer, teacher, writer, radio programmer, and record/event producer whose career has spanned over 35 years.
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Location:
Yoshi's Oakland
510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
USA
Telephone: +1 510-238-9200
(International Dialing Codes)
Tickets: - Buy Online - $26.00 8pm Concert | $22.00 10pm Concert
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