Yerba Buena Gardens Festival This May
/ Ronnie SharpeItβs island time! Celebrating the various cultures of the Asian Pacific islands, including Micronesia and Macaronesia,
Deeply versed in jazz and classic soul music, PHER is equally comfortable in both musical realms, and often brings the techniques and cadences of one idiom into the other.
As the founder, director and guiding spirit of Oakland-based CO-LLAB, Cava Menzies has created a powerful vehicle for bringing musicians together for synergistic collaboration.
In reclaiming the legacy of a Bay Area giant, Beth Wilmurt has uncovered a trove of long-forgotten songs by Malvina Reynolds, the San Francisco-born singer-songwriter devoted to environmental and human rights activism (1900-1978). Directed by Wilmurt, singers from four Community Music Center Neighborhood Choirs perform Reynoldsβ songs, which address topics both serious and lighthearted with sturdy, unpretentious melodies.