From a famed fiddler to a free dance competition to and a Mozart-fueled live performance in Livermore, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this weekend.
Right here’s a partial roundup.
Wonderful fiddling throughout
Alasdair Fraser, the legendary fiddler and kilt-clad non secular chief of Scottish music within the Bay Space, has introduced that he plans to retire from full-time performing on the finish of the 12 months. Which makes his three live shows with SF Scottish Fiddlers this weekend much more alluring.
Fraser, who turns 70 on Might 14, can be a composer, a instructor who runs a handful of famend fiddling camps, and chief of the Culburnie Information Scottish music label. However he’s greatest recognized for his award-winning expertise on the wee fiddle and his main function with the SF Scottish Fiddlers, a bunch of some 200 musicians who collect often to train their ardour Scottish and Celtic music.
The group additionally performs a number of live shows every year, together with this weekend’s three spring “Stravaig” performances (the title means to stray past limits). The exhibits will characteristic Fraser and a few 70 musicians, together with fiddlers, guitarists, percussionists, cello gamers and extra.
Particulars: 7 p.m. April 25 at Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis; 7 p.m. April 26 at Angelico Live performance Corridor at Dominican Faculty, San Rafael; 1 p.m. April 27 at Jackson Theater at Sonoma Nation Day College, Santa Rosa; $32-$35; sffiddles.org.
— Randy McMullen, Workers
Delights for dance followers
Nationwide Dance Week was based within the U.S. in 1981, as a part of a motion to extend Individuals’ understanding and appreciation of an artwork type that’s so numerous and affords so many issues to so many individuals. The Bay Space didn’t reply with its personal model of Dance Week till 1998, however, wow, what a response. Bay Space Dance Week is actually beautiful in its dimension and scope, and is well known as the largest and better of its type within the nation. Working from April 25 by way of Might 4, the 10-day “week” serves up scores and scores of occasions from greater than 100 dance colleges and troupes involving greater than 2,500 dancers and 20,000 attendees.
The occasions vary from lessons to public-participation occasions to performances and demonstrations and extra. They happen everywhere in the Bay Space. And they’re all free. And given the Bay Space’s broadly numerous inhabitants and sense of inclusion, it ought to come as no shock that wherever you have an interest is represented someplace. Interested by apparatus-based dance? Test Zaccho Dance Theatre and Flyaway Productions’ class titled “Loving the Air,” 5:30 p.m. April 25 in San Francisco. Jonesin’ for an Indian Bhangra dance class? Dholrhythms Dance Firm is providing a category in it 9 a.m. April 26 in Berkeley. West African dance followers can catch an illustration/class by N’Fungola Sino African Dance and Drum Firm Saturday and Sunday in San Jose, an providing tied to sjDANCEco’s two day Spring Competition in San Jose’s Eastridge Middle. The Spring Competition, technically a part of Dance Week, affords two full days of all kinds of dance occasions – from hip-hop to Ok-pop to hula and classical ballet and extra.
Particulars: Yow will discover extra info and register for occasions at dancersgroup.org/badw or www.bopsidy.com/h/badw. And should you occur to be close to San Francisco’s Union Sq. at midday on Friday, try – or higher but, participate in – Dance Week’s annual opening group dance occasion. You may be taught the steps from a video at both Dance Week website.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Famed Floyd flick involves theaters
It’s time for some Floyd.
In fact, the response to that assertion from thousands and thousands of traditional rock followers would most likely be: When isn’t a very good time to crank up some Pink Floyd?
And that’s a darned good query. But this time round we’re planning to get our Floyd repair within the cinema as “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII” will probably be proven in film theaters all through the Bay Space (and past) this month.
This model of the legendary 1972 Pink Floyd live performance movie was digitally re-mastered in 4K from the unique 35mm footage and options enhanced audio that has been newly blended by Steven Wilson (from the prog-rock band Porcupine Tree). In fact, it actually doesn’t damage issues that the 4 band members — guitarist-vocalist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright, drummer Nick Mason and bassist Roger Waters — have been acting at such an extremely excessive stage in the course of the filming.
Plain and easy, the movie remains to be a shocking achievement, capturing Pink Floyd in its full early-’70s grandeur because it performs on the ground of an historic Roman amphitheater in Pompeii, Italy. It’s simply the 4 of them in the home, with no viewers (apart from a barebones movie/manufacturing crew), as they roar by way of such pre-“Dark Side of the Moon” classics as “Echoes,” “A Saucerful of Secrets” and “One of These Days.”
The movie is at the moment set to display April 24-27 at theaters within the Bay Ares and throughout the nation. There can even be an accompanying dwell album launched — on CD, digital audio, Dolby Atmos and vinyl — on Might 2.
Particulars: Go to pinkfloyd.movie for film showtimes and different info.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Classical picks: English Live performance; American composers; Mozart
This weekend brings packages by The English Live performance, San Jose Chamber Orchestra and Pacific Chamber Orchestra. Right here’s a roundup.
Brits in Berkeley: The English Live performance returns to Cal Performances this weekend with “Giulio Cesare in Egitto.” Harry Bicket conducts a live performance efficiency of Handel’s heroic opera, which weaves household drama and political intrigue in thrilling methods. With countertenor Christophe Dumaux within the title function and soprano Louise Alder as Cleopatra, anticipate a dynamic efficiency.
Particulars: 3 p.m. April 27; Zellerbach Corridor, UC Berkeley; $39-$142; calperformances.org.
All-American program: San José Chamber Orchestra returns on April 27 with a program of American composers, together with works by Samuel Barber, Amy Seashore, Valerie Coleman, George Gershwin, and John Harbison. Barbara Day Turner conducts the live performance, which features a particular look by the award-winning quintet Tangent Winds.
Particulars: 7 p.m. April 27; St. Francis Episcopal Church, San Jose; $15-$75; sjco.org.
“Mozart Rocks!”: The Pacific Chamber Orchestra presents the most recent installment of its Mozart collection, with Lawrence Kohl conducting works by the grasp. The occasion options particular visitors soprano Shawnette Sulker and flutist Leslie Chin performing excerpts from “Cosi fan Tutti” and Mozart’s Flute Concerto. Capping the live performance is the composer’s mighty “Jupiter Symphony.”
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. April 26; Bankhead Theater, Livermore; $50 normal, $25 pupil; livermorearts.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
The pile of ( what) is again
Brian Copeland’s hard-charging comedy “The Great American (Expletive) Show” has developed from a manufacturing that was very well timed when it got here out a number of years in the past to a manufacturing which will by no means be not well timed.
That’s not a very good factor.
Described as “therapy for progressives,” Copeland’s “(Expletive) Show” was created in the course of the loopy hazy days of the primary Donald J. Trump presidency, which appear nearly docile in comparison with as we speak. Copeland, a extremely widespread comic and solo stage performer, is little question well-aware of this, and has revised the stand-up present to present it a extra up to date really feel.
Whereas a lot of Copeland’s stage catalogue covers autobiographical materials, “(Expletive) Show” is a no-holds-barred plunge into political comedy. Notice: If you’re spirited supporter of President Trump, our hunch is you’ll not discover these things even remotely humorous. For everybody else, Copeland is bringing “(Expletive) Show” to the Marsh in San Francisco for one efficiency April 24.
Particulars: 7 p.m.; $40-$100; themarsh.org.
— Randy McMullen, Workers
‘Crumbs’ involves Berkeley
When a Florida household experiences a painful change – the demise of the matriarch – the daddy and his two daughters relocate to Brooklyn, New York, the place, effectively, all the pieces is altering. That’s the fundamental storyline in “Crumbs From the Table of Joy,” a comedy/drama by the award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. There’s somewhat little bit of all the pieces in “Crumbs”: The daddy, Godfrey Crump, is on a quest to carry extra faith into his household, however Brooklyn has so much else occurring – racial upheaval, crime, intercourse, politics and far more. Plus, there’s Aunt Lily, a booze-loving Communist who makes herself at dwelling with the Crumps.
Nottage, who herself was born and raised in Brooklyn, has mentioned she set the story in 1950, at a time when the town was starting to expertise large societal modifications. However somewhat than strategy the story as a chapter in a historical past ebook, “I wanted to make it colorful. So I started writing ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy’ to try to understand that era.” Now, in a time equally filled with main change, “Crumbs” is touchdown at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre. It’s directed by Elizabeth Carter, a famend Bay Space theatermaker who has helmed exhibits at Middle Rep, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, African American Shakespeare Firm and plenty of extra.
Particulars: “Crumbs” performs April 26 by way of Might 25; tickets are $10-$68. Go to www.auroratheatre.org
Going for the inexperienced
“Shrek the Musical,” based mostly on the image ebook by cartoonist William Steig that impressed the DreamWorks film traditional detailing the adventures of the lovable title inexperienced ogre, his pal Donkey, sweetheart Princess Fiona and others, couldn’t be a greater choice for the SFArtsED Gamers.
Sponsored by the nonprofit San Francisco Arts Schooling Mission, the troupe, now in its twenty fourth season, options quite a few devoted 9-to14-year-old thespians who really are prepared for his or her musical theater close-ups. With music by Jeanine Tesori and ebook and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, the 2008 Tony-nominated “Shrek the Musical” certainly lives as much as its supply materials. The Gamers’ forged options Julia Torre as Fiona, Cole Quince as Shrek, Marco Salan as Lord Farquaad and Joss Pearlman as Donkey. Performances are at 7 p.m. April 25, 3 and seven p.m. April 26 and midday April 27 on the Presidio Theatre on Moraga Avenue in San Francisco’s Presidio.
Particulars: Tickets are $20-$25 normal, to $100 for the ultimate present, a fundraiser with an public sale and a post-performance gala, at presidiotheatre.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Meet 5 robust wind gamers
Shaped on the Juilliard College after they have been all college students, the Tangent Winds, bronze medal winners on the Fischoff Nationwide Chamber Music Competitors, probably take their title from the second definition of the phrase – “a completely different line of thought or action.” That model of individualism could also be on show at St. Francis Episcopal Church in San Jose on the night of April 27, after they function visitor artists for the San Jose Chamber Orchestra’s live performance of music by all American composers. On their program, which begins at 7 p.m., are Samuel Barber’s evocative “Summer Music” from 1956, George Gershwin’s jazz-influenced Three Preludes, Amy Seashore’s calm-inducing “Pastorale,” Valerie Colman’s dazzling “Tzigane” and John Harbison’s advanced “Quintet for Winds,” a 1979 piece that has change into a staple for the woodwind quintet repertoire. The Tangent members are Steven Palacio, bassoon; James Blanchard, flute; Tamara Winston, oboe; Alec Manasse, clarinet; and Cort Roberts, horn.
Particulars: Tickets are $15-$75; sjco.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Foundstion
