From one of many world’s most interesting slack-key guitarists to an exhibit about balloons and a jazz/fusion in San Jose, there’s a lot to see and listen to within the Bay Space this weekend.
Here’s a partial rundown.
All-world guitarist involves Yoshi’s
Patrick Landeza is popping out of (semi) retirement to carry out a giant Bay Space present.
Having just about stayed out of the efficiency highlight in recent times — whereas concentrating on his many different endeavors, together with selling reveals — the acclaimed Hawaiian music vocalist-guitarist is ready to play a gig on Could 1 at Yoshi’s in Oakland.
The East Bay musician ranks among the many most interesting slack-key guitarists within the enterprise, one who has labored with such Hawaiian music masters as Cyril Pahinui, Raymond Kāne, George Kuo and Dennis Kamakahi.
Landeza can be a two-time Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winner — the primary artist born and raised on the mainland United States to attain this prestigious award, which could be thought-about Hawaii’s equal of the Grammy.
For this Oakland gig, the vocalist-guitarist will probably be main his Patrick Landeza & Sons ensemble. The group options Hawaiian metal guitarist/keyboardist Justin Firmeza, who’s the director of bands at Moreau Catholic Excessive College in Hayward, and bassist Danny Landeza, a tenth grader at Moreau Catholic.
Particulars: Showtime is 8 p.m.; $25-$49; yoshis.com.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
All about balloons
Balloons are mild, enjoyable and ethereal — till rapidly they’re deep.
An artwork exhibit in San Francisco examines the profound aspect of those rubbery joy-blobs, from nostalgia to non-public reflection to emotional longing. Sure, all from in … balloons.
“EmotionAir: Art You Can Feel” runs till Sept. 7 on the so-called Balloon Museum, which is extra of a global touring affiliation of curators working within the medium of air. The setting for the present is the beauteous grounds of the Palace of Nice Arts, which has been tricked out to accommodate all types of interactive and balloon-based wonderment.
The controversial centerpiece is a sound-and-light-filled work referred to as “HYPERFEELING” that reimagines a ball pit for adults, dominated over by tons of of balloons. “Playground Love” is an amusement park-type house that’s dwelling to large, transferring spheres and inflatable tigers. And “Black Hole Horizon” converts sound waves into cleaning soap bubbles.
A go to lasts about an hour and a half, and guests are inspired to the touch the balloons. However keep in mind — no popping allowed.
Particulars: Open each day at 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco; $41-$51; balloonmuseum.world
— John Metcalfe, Workers
Classical picks: Cal Symph, NCCO, Costanza
This week’s classical music calendar brings three can’t-miss performances, with a live performance devoted to bounce music by various composers, a program of actions from two unfinished masterworks, and one of many Bay Space’s most achieved cellists.
Unfinished enterprise: In its season-ending live performance, the California Symphony below music director Donato Cabrera leads the orchestra in a pair of unfinished masterworks: the 2 surviving actions of Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, and the three accomplished actions of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday; Lesher Middle for the Arts, Walnut Creek; $50-$95; californiasymphony.org.
Really feel Like Dancing: Below music director Daniel Hope, the New Century Chamber Orchestra presents alternatives from its new album, “Dance!,” a wide-ranging program of dance music from composers together with Bartok, Bizet, Gluck, Handel, Florence Value, and Astor Piazzolla.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. at the moment at First Congregational Church, Berkeley; 7:30 p.m. Friday in Tiburon; 2 p.m. Saturday on the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco; and a pair of:30 Sunday Could 4 at Bing Live performance Corridor, offered by Stanford Reside; $35-$80; NCCO.org.
Costanza on the Presidio: Cellist Christopher Costanza makes a particular solo look as a part of the brand new Beischer Household Sunday Strings collection on the historic Presidio Theatre. His program options Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6 in D Main, and Britten’s Cello Suite No. 2, Op. 80. Arrive early for a stroll across the Presidio’s attractive grounds, admire the view and take a look at the big selection of meals vehicles on the scene.
Particulars: 3 p.m. Sunday; Presidio Theatre, San Francisco; $45-$60; sfperformances.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
3-way jazz fusion
Worldwide Jazz Day was technically April 30 however San Jose Jazz is celebrating the day this weekend. And it’s onerous to think about a greater headliner to mark the vacation.
Bay Space musician, composer and arranger Noriyuki Ken Okada, who’s performing on the San Jose Jazz Break Room on Saturday, will carry a singular Japanese/fusion sound flavored by his life’s journey — born in New York, with time spent residing in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Yokohama, Japan. Oh, and did we point out he’s actually into video video games? They affect his sound, too.
Okada jumped into music at an early age — he may play the bass, piano and drums earlier than he was 12 — and since finding within the Bay Space in 2002, he’s collaborated with such native jazz mainstays as John Worley, Future Muhammad, Kristen Strom and Akira Tana. He’s carried out at Monterey Jazz Competition, San Jose Jazz Summer time Fest and the Stanford Jazz Competition in addition to such venues at Yoshi’s and Kuumbwa Jazz Middle.
He lately shaped a band that includes the teenage world percussion sensation Yoyoka Soma — who earned a shout-out from Robert Plant after he watched her cowl of a Led Zeppelin tune on YouTube — and has launched a brand new album, “Square One.” The Ken Okada Group will showcase the brand new recording with a Saturday present on the Break Room.
Particulars: 8 p.m.; $27; the present will probably be obtainable for streaming; sanjosejazz.org/occasions.
— Randy McMullen, Workers
Take a look at Asawa exhibit at no cost
The San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork’s ongoing Free First Thursdays (as within the first Thursday of the month) creates an excellent alternative to take a look at considered one of largest reveals the museum has ever hosted, “Ruth Asawa: Retrospective.” The gathering dedicated to the famed San Francisco artist (1926-2013), greatest recognized for her looped-wire sculptures and summary creations, options greater than 300 works displayed in a dozen gallery rooms. She additionally had a expertise for portray and creating prints of flowers, fruit, greens and different objects of nature.
In an essay included within the exhibit, Asawa’s granddaughter Lilli Lanier recollects her grandmother inviting her for paintings and dinner: “Come over tomorrow. We’re going to draw eggplants. And then we’re going to eat them.” Asawa’s philosophy gave the impression to be that on a regular basis objects and folks have been the have been the rightful heroes of the artwork world – “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special,” she as soon as stated – though one her most well-known works is the mermaid fountain she created at Ghiardelli Sq.. The exhibit, which runs via Sept. 2, additionally re-creates a room from Asawa’s longtime Now Valley Home. So compelling is the exhibit that it’s a cut price even should you have been to be charged admission. However on Thursday, you may see all of it at no cost.
Particulars: Midday-8 p.m.; 151 Third St., San Francisco; www.sfmoma.org.
Artwork, artwork and extra artwork
The San Francisco Worldwide Arts Competition, operating via Could 11 at venues and efficiency areas everywhere in the metropolis, is so huge and interesting which you could simply learn the schedule of occasions and really feel such as you’ve achieved one thing monumental. There are 80-odd performances, panel discussions, demonstrations and occasions that fall someplace in between relating dance, music, comedy, theater and extra. A number of the occasions could strike you as hopelessly eclectic or esoteric, however that’s sort of the enjoyable – you simply could by no means get the possibility to expertise something prefer it once more. Helen Wicks’ “Radio Vision” (8 p.m. Friday, 3:30 p.m. Sunday) is an acrobatics/dance solo efficiency impressed by the creator’s great-grandfather, a Hollywood music supervisor; Duance Forrest’s “Bob Marley: How Reggae Changed the World” (8:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday) is a component live performance, half historical past lesson; “The Last Supper Party” (6 p.m. Saturday) is the most recent installment of a music/spoken phrase efficiency impressed by the long-lasting portray of the identical identify; the vocal group Conspiracy of Venus’ newest efficiency (2 p.m. Sunday) will ship distinctive a capella performances of songs by PJ Harvey, David Bowie, Chris Cornell, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison and extra. After all, we’re simply scratching the floor right here; the Worldwide Arts Competition is a welcome reminder that San Francisco’s evolution in recent times has not robbed town of the daring creative vitality at its coronary heart.
Particulars: Most occasions value $20-$30, some are free; competition passes run $40-$150; see the complete schedule and get extra info at www.sfiaf.org
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
It’s greater than Riverdance
The oldsters behind the enjoyable interactive Nice Dickens Christmas Truthful and the unique Renaissance Pleasure Faire are serving up the Marin Irish Competition this weekend in San Rafael. The celebration of Irish music, dance, and heritage gives storytelling, music and dance performances on six phases, in addition to kids’s actions, distributors promoting handmade and uncommon items, and meals vehicles and tents serving corned beef and cabbage, fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, and genuine Guinness, ales and native onerous ciders. New this 12 months is a feis (pronounced “fesh”) a sanctioned Irish dance competitors (in partnership with the Jackie Flynn Irish Dance Academy) that includes performers of all ages vying for the “Champion of Champions” title. Mainstage performers embody the Black Brothers and The Black Irish Band; there additionally will probably be seisiúin (Irish music participation session) contained in the Bearded Goose Pub, the place musicians of all ability ranges can play in a communal setting. If that’s not sufficient, there’s additionally sheep-herding demonstrations offered by the Redwood Empire Sheep Canine Affiliation.
Particulars: 10 a.m. to six p.m. Could 3-4; Lagoon Park on the Marin County Fairgrounds; $30 for adults, $15 for youngsters ages 5–11 at marinirishfestival.com.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Can’t take your eyes off the present
Palo Alto Gamers have a success on their palms with the trendy musical traditional “Jersey Boys.” And on account of well-liked demand, the troupe is including efficiency to the present’s run, which should finish on Could 4. The Tony Award winner, with a e-book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice; music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe, after all, tells the story of Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons. It cleverly goes behind the scenes, exposing the secrets and techniques of the singers’ 40-year friendship and the way they labored their method from the streets of New Jersey to pop music stardom. All of the hit tunes, from “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Dawn” and “My Eyes Adored You” to “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” are there, too! The solid options James M. Jones as Valli, Andrew Cope as Gaudio, Tyler Savin as Tommy DeVito, Justin Kerekes as Nick Massi, and Danny Martin as Crewe. Director Doug Santana calls it “Shakespeare meets the Sopranos…at a live rock concert.”
Particulars: Performances at Lucie Stern Theater, 1305 Middlefield Highway, Palo Alto; $20-$63; paplayers.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
A closing act
San Francisco Performances and the Omni Basis for the Performing Arts be a part of forces on Saturday evening to carry the very first guitarist-in-residence that SFP had a few years in the past again to the Herbst Theatre stage to shut out the group’s present season. Cuban-American star Manuel Barrueco, an artist whose inimitable type the New York Occasions stated “would undoubtedly have made Segovia smile,” emigrated to the USA from his native Cuba in 1967 as a political refugee and has gone on to win numerous accolades and efficiency gigs with main orchestras everywhere in the world. His recital program will incorporate Bach’s Suite in D Main, along with his personal transcription; Ponce’s Sonata Clásica, “Homage á Fernando Sor; two “Tango Etudes” by Piazzolla, the Quantity 2 in C Main and the Quantity 3 in A minor; Villa-Lobos’ Chôros No. 1 and the Prelude No.1 ; and Turina’s Sonata for Guitar.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m.; $55-$75; sfperformances.org
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
A Bach season opener:
Johann Sebastian Bach’s mighty Mass in B minor requires an enormous assemblage of highly effective forces to tug off efficiently, and the San Francisco Choral Society, now opening its thirty sixth season, is as much as the duty. Below the baton of creative director Robert Geary, who has been on the helm for 30 years, the ensemble collaborates with the Orchestra of Cantata Collective and vocal soloists Michele Kennedy soprano; Heidi Waterman, mezzo-soprano; Shauna Fallihie, mezzo-soprano; Michael Jankosky, tenor; and Wilford Kelly bass-baritone, to carry out Bach’s late-in-life masterpiece, thought-about to be considered one of his most interesting works, at 7 p.m. Saturday and 4p.m. Sunday at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco.
Particulars: Tickets, $40-$60, can be found via sfchoral.org or via cityboxoffice.com, and there may be an possibility for a livestream efficiency for the Sunday live performance for $40 via the identical contacts.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
