From a revered NorCal onerous rock band to a beloved annual harmonica-thon, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this week.
Right here’s a partial rundown.
The Deftones come house
It’s all the time a wild experience when the Deftones take the stage of their native Northern California.
See what we imply when the experimental metallic act — which rose out of Sacramento to superstardom within the second half of the ’90s following the discharge of the debut “Adrenaline” — performs two large native exhibits on its 2025 tour.
The Deftones — that includes vocalist Chino Moreno, guitarist Stephen Carpenter, drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist/turntablist Frank Delgado — carry out an enormous homecoming present on March 1 at Golden 1 Middle in Sacramento, and a live performance at Chase Middle in San Francisco on March 4.
The group has been onerous at work within the studio in preparation of dropping its hotly anticipated tenth full-length report. So, fingers crossed that followers will get to listen to some cool new cuts alongside all these Deftones classics (“Change (In the House of Flies), “My Own Summer (Shove It”),” and so forth.) in the course of the Sacramento and San Francisco exhibits.
Particulars: Showtime for each concert events is 7 p.m.; tickets begin at $46 (topic to alter); ticketmaster.com.
— Jim Harrington, Employees
Harp custom in Berkeley
The 70-year-old harmonica participant Mark Hummel has had a considerable impression on the native music scene and blues music typically since settling within the East Bay within the early Nineteen Seventies. He’s collaborated with such blues icons as Charlie Musselwhite, John Mayall, Elvin Bishop, Nation Joe MacDonald, Duke Robillard, Angela Strehli and lots of extra whereas releasing greater than 20 albums underneath his title and contributing to numerous others.
However maybe his most beloved accomplishment – at the least amongst blues followers – is the annual Blues Harmonica Blowout live performance he based and has been working since 1991. As a broadly revered musician who’s a favourite within the blues neighborhood, Hummel by no means fails to draw A-Listing musicians to the annual Blowout. This 12 months’s version is not any exception: Visitor artists embrace the extraordinary musician and blues/soul singer Curtis Salgado; the acclaimed Alligator Data duo Nick Moss and Dennis Gruenling; Marta Sune, aka Candy Marta; guitarist Bob Welsh and extra. The occasion returns to the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley this weekend.
Particulars: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Freight & Salvage Espresso Home, Berkeley; $54-$59; thefreight.org/exhibits
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Match made in inventive heaven
Expertise and textiles have all the time been joined on the hip, from the invention of the loom round 5000 BC to IBM’s first computer systems, mentioned to be impressed by a French “jacquard” weaving machine. A brand new exhibition in Palo Alto examines the enduring hyperlink between the disciplines, that includes virtually 20 artists working in every thing from 4K HDR screens to 24-carat gold thread to one thing known as “digital weaving.”
“Cut From The Same Cloth: Textile & Technology” pushes the boundaries of what defines a textile. “Emerging technologies in artificial intelligence, data collection embedded in threads and new production methods are currently being applied to the apparel industry,” says curator Christine Duval. “At the same time, weaving and tapestry are making a return as a vital art practice of the 21st century.”
Tara de la Garza weaves collectively plastic waste strips and LED lights for “Monument to the Plastocene (Tartan),” for instance, a commentary on our looming ecological disaster. Guillermo Bert creates functioning QR codes from dyed wool that mimic the textile crafts of Chile’s Mapuche individuals, and Wendy Chien’s macrame examines gender and the advanced arithmetic behind knots. In different phrases, that is fascinating stuff — not your grandma’s knitted socks or quilt wall.
Particulars: By way of April 6; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays by way of Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays; 1313 Newell Highway, Palo Alto; free, cityofpaloalto.org/artcenter.
— John Metcalfe, Employees
Classical picks: Vienna Philharmonic; ‘Alceste’
Classical music followers have particular occasions arising; with the Vienna Philharmonic, French soprano Natalie Dessay, and Handel’s “Alceste” on Bay Space levels, listed here are three performances you received’t wish to miss.
Vienna Philharmonic occasions three: Below star conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the revered Vienna Philharmonic returns to Cal Performances with three applications on the schedule. First, on March 5, comes a live performance that includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1; the second program, on March 6, options Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” and Schubert’s Symphony No. 4, “Tragic.” Pianist Yefim Bronfman joins Nézet-Séguin and the orchestra on March 7 to play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3; Richard Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben” completes this system.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. March 5-6; 7 p.m. March 7; $120-$275; calperformances.org.
Dessay at Stanford: French operatic soprano Natalie Dessay returns to the Bay Space on March 1 as a part of the Stanford Dwell collection. Showing in Bing Live performance Corridor with pianist Philippe Cassard, she’s going to sing a program together with works by Ravel, Poulenc, Andre Previn and others.
Particulars: 7:30 March 1; Bing Corridor, Stanford College; $18-$100; stay.stanford.edu.
“Alceste” across the Bay: The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale has an alluring Handel double invoice arising. Conductor Peter Whelan leads the composer’s opera “Alceste,” that includes soprano Lauren Snouffer and tenor Aaron Sheehan; Valérie Sainte-Agathe directs the Philharmonia Chorale. Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Main, Op. 6, No. 1, opens this system.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. March 5 at Bing Corridor, Stanford College; 7:30 p.m. March 7 at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; 2:30 p.m. March 8 at First Congregational Church, Berkeley; $18-$132; philharmonia.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
Bandshell is again in motion
The 122-year-old Golden Gate Park Bandshell, one of many oldest and largest of its type in North America, is understood for an ideal many issues. With its Italian Renaissance structure, it is without doubt one of the most distinctive landmarks in a park that is stuffed with them. Additionally it is distinguished as one of many metropolis’s most respected items: The bandshell is formally named the Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of sugar magnate Claus Spreckels, who donated the $80,000 construction (in 1900s {dollars}) to town on the urging of his son, Adolph B. Spreckles who was town’s Parks Fee president on the time. Principally, nevertheless, the bandshell is understood for internet hosting greater than 100 free concert events in the course of the 12 months, ranging in style from jazz to classical to roots music, rock, R&B and extra. This weekend, the bandshell kicks off its 2025 season with a free gig that includes Bay Space jazz/blues/soul singer and activist Christie Aida and her band The Free Press; Afro-Latin band Batuki; ecologically minded singer Anna Karne; NorCal singer-songwriter Ben Lang; and the Stephanie Woodford Duo. Reportedly some or all the acts will likely be performing covers of Beatles/Paul McCartney songs, in celebration of the exhibit “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm,” which opens this weekend on the de Younger Museum in Golden Gate Park.
Particulars: Midday to 4 p.m.; Golden Gate Park; Extra info is at illuminate.org
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Unhealthy concepts are humorous
Endgames Improv is a scrappy San Francisco troupe that provides comedy and improv courses in addition to frequently occurring concept-driven comedy exhibits which can be large on viewers participation. The corporate’s overriding aim is to coach a lot of younger humorous entertainers after which put them on a stage the place individuals don’t must pay so much to listen to their comedy. In all probability Endgame Improv’s finest identified common present is “Your F***ed Up Relationship,” which takes of us’ actual tales of relationship woes and makes use of them as inspiration for improv comedy bits. You possibly can catch the roughly one-hour present at 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Endgames can also be serving a once-a-month present that appears like a blast – “Go Tech Yourself,” through which comedians act out viewers members’ descriptions of, as organizers put it, the “craziest, absurd and most unnecessary app ideas” individuals can give you.
Particulars: ‘Tech Yourself’ is 8 p.m. Feb. 27; 2965 Mission St., San Francisco; $17.35; endgamesimprov.com.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Downfall of the don
Lots of Mozart’s operas are frothy delights, with some semi-serious themes expertly woven in — “The Marriage of Figaro” being an indicator living proof. However his vastly standard, virtually as regularly carried out “Don Giovanni” is a special breed altogether — a tragedy within the traditional Greek custom, the place the protagonist’s deadly flaw brings about his personal undoing, however which is nonetheless shot by way of with some actually comedic episodes. Livermore Valley Opera brings the composer’s masterwork to life on stage on the Bankhead Theater this weekend for 4 performances with that duality absolutely in thoughts.
American baritone Titus Muzzi III makes his LVO debut within the title position of the swaggering, lecherous nobleman whose proud and cussed defiance of authority results in his spectacular and fiery demise. And at his facet by way of a lot of the opera and offering many of the comedian aid is his long-serving servant Leporello, sung by bass-baritone Samuel Weiser, whose hilarious “catalogue” aria concerning the Don’s multitude of amorous conquests is a determined spotlight of the work. Cuban-American soprano Meryl Dominguez sings as Donna Anna, and soprano Cara Gabrielson is Donna Elvira, each making their LVO debuts. Kirk Eichelberger returns to the LVO stage to deploy the thunderous bass that finally drags the doomed Don down.
Particulars: The opera’s run kicks off at 7:30 p.m. March 1, with repeat performances at 2 p.m. March 2 and a pair of p.m. March 8 and 9; $25-$110; livermorevalleyopera.com.
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A crush of lush music
Two highlights of the Romantic period of music are on faucet this weekend, as visitor conductor Robin Ticciati, the present music director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, steps to the rostrum in Davies Corridor to steer the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra by way of performances of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s standard Symphony No. 2 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s exquisitely lovely Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Main. On the bench for the Beethoven, which was accomplished in 1806, is Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, making his San Francisco Symphony debut. Tickets for all three performances can be found in restricted quantities.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 1, 2 p.m. March 2; Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $49-$225; sfsymphony.org and 415-864-6000.
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