From a star-studded Bay Space live performance benefitting L.A. wildfire aid to one of many world’s high trumpeters and an iconic classical work in San Jose, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this weekend. Right here’s a partial rundown.
Musicians collect to learn hearth victims
Gifted acts from across the Bay Space are uniting to assist help Los Angeles wildfire aid efforts.
Incredible Negrito, The Brothers Comatose, Terrier, The Sam Chase, Laurie Lewis & The Proper Palms, Poor Man’s Whiskey, John Elliott, Megan Slankard, Shana Morrison, Danny Click on, Sean Hayes, Petty Theft, strolling mirrors, Greg Loiacono and Ben Morrison are set to carry out in the course of the L.A. Fireplace Division Basis Profit Live performance on Sunday at HopMonk Tavern in Novato.
The live performance is being produced by native promoter KC Turner Presents.
“When communities suffer like the folks in L.A. are right now we have to come together,” Turner says. “I’m grateful for the artists that have graciously agreed to volunteer their time and art for this very special benefit concert. I’m also thankful to be able to pull something like this together so quickly.”
As one would possibly count on provided that prolonged lineup, the profit is an all-day live performance — with a comparatively early begin time of 12:30 p.m.
Particulars: Tickets are $50-$5,000, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the Los Angeles Fireplace Division Basis, which helps hundreds of firefighters, paramedics and different first-responders personnel; for tickets and different info, go to kcturnerpresents.com.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Blanchard blows his horn
Terence Blanchard is ready to take middle stage on the SFJAZZ Heart.
The vastly completed trumpeter/bandleader/composer — who additionally occurs to be SFJAZZ’s govt inventive director — shall be performing along with his Grammy-nominated E-Collective on the San Francisco efficiency venue at the moment via Sunday.
Blanchard and his E Collective — that includes guitarist Charles Altura, pianist/keyboardist Julian Pollack, bassist David Ginyard Jr. and drummer Oscar Seaton — shall be joined for the run by the Turtle Island Quartet, that includes violinists David Balakrishnan and Gabriel Terracciano, violist Benjamin von Gutzeit and cellist Naseem Alatrash. They’ll be joined by one very particular visitor — immensely proficient vocalist Dianne Reeves — on the final evening of the run.
Right here’s a have a look at this system: On opening evening (at the moment), Blanchard will lead the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet via music from his 2005 Grammy-nominated album, “Flow.” Then the musicians will showcase music from Blanchard’s 2007 Grammy-winning effort, “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” on Friday and Saturday. Reeves and her superb vocal work arrive on the scene on Sunday.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. at the moment via Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday; $25-$105; sfjazz.org.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Santa Cruz celebrates Wes Anderson
When you’ve ever walked down the Santa Cruz boardwalk, with its saltwater-taffy paint scheme and nostalgic carnival rides and assume, “This is like a Wes Anderson movie” — you’re not alone. The idyllic metropolis by the ocean strikes so many as Andersonesque it’s celebrated in a brand new native images present, “Accidentally Wes Anderson.”
Working Friday via Might 18 on the Santa Cruz Museum of Artwork & Historical past, the exhibit crowdsources images of places from around the globe that, whereas not all the time showing in Wes Anderson movies, share the identical quirky structure and colour palettes. It’s a bodily embodiment of the net phenomenon often called “Accidentally Wes Anderson,” began by Wally and Amanda Koval and embraced by vacationers who share social-media photographs in themes like “pink,” “turquoise,” “classic facades,” “gardens and greenhouses” and “on the rails.” (There’s since been a New York Occasions best-selling guide with the identical title.)
“Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson,” write the organizers of the present, which is endorsed by the filmmaker himself. “Bright, vivid and often slightly jarring to reality, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location.”
The exhibit is supposed to pay tribute to the centennial celebration of the very Anderson-like Big Dipper curler coaster out on the seashore, so after you’re finished possibly head on over for an exciting experience.
Particulars: The museum is open noon-6 p.m. Thursday via Sunday; 705 Entrance St., Santa Cruz; $10 instructed admission, santacruzmah.org
— John Metcalfe, Workers
Classical picks: Denks & Takács; ‘Firebird’
This week’s classical music calendar has lots to select from: together with a world-class pianist and “The Firebird” chickening out.
Takács and Denk in Berkeley: It’s all the time excellent news when the Takács Quartet returns to Cal Performances, and this weekend brings the celebrated quartet welcoming a buddy. Joined by pianist Jeremy Denk, they’ll give two performances of Brahms’ Piano Quintet, together with works by Beethoven and Janáček; the Takács gamers additionally return subsequent month with music by Beethoven, Haydn, and Britten.
Particulars: Takács Quartet with Jeremy Denk, 8 p.m. Saturday and three p.m. Sunday; Hertz Corridor, UC Berkeley; quartet additionally performs 3 p.m. Feb. 16 at Hertz Corridor; $93-$110; calperformances.org.
A primary at Davies: Conductor Mark Elder takes the rostrum this week within the first San Francisco Symphony performances of Hector Berlioz’s 1831 “Le roi Lear Overture.” This system additionally consists of works by Berlioz, Debussy, Richard Strauss and John Adams.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $30-$179; sfsymphony.org.
Firebird in San Jose: This weekend within the stunning California Theatre, Symphony San Jose music director Carlos Vieu leads the orchestra in masterworks together with the Suite from Stravinsky’s “Firebird.” Audiences may also hear Wagner’s Overture to “Tannhäuser,” Sibelius’ “Finlandia,” Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” and “Bullanguera” by Argentine composer Sonia Possetti.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday; California Theatre, San Jose; $24-$121.50; symphonysanjose.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
Celebrating the Lunar New 12 months
The Lunar New 12 months doesn’t formally arrive till Jan. 29, however since we’re speaking about an occasion acknowledged by billions of individuals around the globe, the celebrations arrive early and infrequently. This week and weekend, for instance, you’ve got a number of choices if you wish to get a leap begin on welcoming the yr of the inexperienced snake (or wooden snake, if that’s your choice). And some of them are free. If you wish to get a style of S.F. Chinatown this weekend, despite the fact that the massive Lunar New 12 months parade there’s a few weeks off, you’ll be able to catch the superior Flower Market Honest 10 a.m. to six p.m. Jan. 25 and 9 a.m. to six p.m. Jan. 26, on Grant Road between Clay and Broadway, with its greater than 120 distributors promoting flowers and fruits and rather more, together with performances by magicians, dancers and acrobats.
The San Jose Museum of Artwork from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 25 (sjmusart.org) is providing actions tied to the Lunar New 12 months, together with art-making actions, stay performances and extra. Millbrae is presenting its Lunar New 12 months pageant, with greater than 100 distributors promoting arts, crafts and merchandise and stay leisure together with conventional lion dancing and extra, from 10 a.m. to five p.m. Jan. 25-26 on the 200-400 blocks of Broadway.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
They’ll be pickin’ and grinin’
Apart from being one cool-looking dude whose look and artistry gave the impression to be in good sync, Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) stays one of many extra influential guitarists in jazz and common music historical past. His nimble riffs and phrasing, typically delivered in collaboration with violinist Stephaine Grappelli, basically outlined the musical style often called gypsy jazz and to this present day he stays a kind of traditional artists whose sound is recognizable virtually from the second you hear it. The music and elegance with which it was carried out was a basis of common tradition in Paris within the Twenties.
The style stays as common as ever, and the Bay Space is blessed with among the finest bands going – Le Jazz Sizzling (often known as the Sizzling Membership of San Francisco). The band is entrance and middle this weekend because the Django Reinhardt Birthday Celebration unfolds at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage Espresso Home Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The three reveals additionally function such bands as Sizzling Membership of Cowtown, Christine Tassan et les Imposteures, the Rhythm Future Quartet, San Lyon, Debi Botos, and Sizzling Membership of Los Angeles. The three reveals promise to ship music that’s as enjoyable as it’s head-spinningly spectacular.
Particulars: Every live performance begins 7 p.m.; $54-$59; thefreight.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
The appropriate ‘Choice’
If there’s a extra versatile musical expertise within the Bay Space than Oakland’s Kev Alternative we’re not conscious of it. The person can do all of it. He’s a classically educated pianist who’s greater than snug in jazz, hip-hop, blues, R&B, soul and funk. He’s a songwriter and M.C. and vocalist who’s acquired approval for his lyrics tackling quite a lot of social points whereas favoring optimistic and inspirational themes. He’s additionally a producer and band-leader, and you may toss in trainer and neighborhood activist when you are at it. In the case of musical kinds, Alternative cites as his key inspiration musicians starting from Prince to Rakim to A Tribe Known as Quest to Stevie Surprise to McCoy Tyner to Chopin and Ravel.
Briefly, you would possibly hear absolutely anything and every part when Kev Alternative brings his Trio to Stanford’s The Studio as half the Stanford Dwell live performance sequence on Friday. As he says on his web site “I grew up in the Hip-Hop era, I had love for Hip-Hop before I even knew what classical music really was.” However he provides, “Classical music gave me a broader understanding and appreciation for music beyond Hip-Hop.” On Jan. 18, Kev Alternative was director and a performer at a 16-musician tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., that includes the music of Aretha Franklin.
Particulars: Kev Alternative Trio performs 7 p.m. Jan. 24; $15-$45; stay.stanford.edu.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
