From the always-fun Mosswood Meltdown to Radio Day within the Bay Space and the acclaimed Music@Menlo classical competition, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this weekend.
Right here’s a partial rundown.
Devo set for main Meltdown
Devo is on its solution to the East Bay.
The extremely influential new wave band — which fashioned in Akron, Ohio, in 1973 — is about to headline the primary day of the Mosswood Meltdown competition in Oakland. So, activate out on July 19 to listen to Devo carry out such fan favorites as “Girl U Want,” “Planet Earth, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Secret Agent Man,” “Uncontrollable Urge,” “Gates of Steel,” “Freedom of Choice” and, after all, “Whip It.”
Wanting past Devo, the Mosswood July 19 lineup additionally options Osees, Exploding Hearts and different acts. The July 20 invoice — sure, Mosswood Meltdown is a two-day affair — is topped by legendary riot grrrl act Bratmobile and in addition boasts Shannon and the Clams, La Luz, Oakland vocalist Kreayshawn and extra.
Devo’s Mosswood Meltdown look is a part of the band’s ongoing (and prolonged) farewell tour. Followers could have one more probability to wave goodbye to Devo when it returns to the Bay Space for a efficiency on Oct. 16 at Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View. That South Bay date is a part of a co-headlining run with The B-52’s, the Athens, Georgia pop-rockers who’re additionally within the midst of an ever-extending farewell jaunt.
Particulars: Mosswood Meltdown runs 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; two-day competition passes begin at $176.28, single-day VIP tickets are $227.83 for Saturday and $135.05 for Sunday; mosswoodmeltdown.com.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Tune into Radio Day
Who mentioned radio is useless? In a single Bay Space metropolis — the charmingly locked-in-time Alameda — the more-than-a-century-old medium is given a celebratory bash that will get larger and extra elaborate with every passing 12 months.
The 2025 Radio Day by the Bay Pageant, going down July 19 on the headquarters of the California Historic Radio Society, fetes radio broadcasting’s golden age and its hopefully vivid future. What can be “on the air?” Effectively, there’s a stay jazz orchestra to maintain the crowds swinging and stay radio performs to ship suspense and thrills. An public sale affords the possibility to personal classic gems like a Fifties “Lone Ranger” AM radio and a wood-paneled Zenith shortwave from 1939.
The radio society is giving excursions of its museum with all its Inspector Gadget-type widgets and gizmos — remember to take a look at the “Ham Station,” which doesn’t characteristic smoked meat. And there’s a surplus-electronics sale, a boombox-building contest and meals vehicles, all set to the melodious commentary of native radio hosts Hoyt Smith and Sylvia Chacon.
Particulars: Occasion takes place 8 a.m.-3 p.m. July 19 at 2152 Central Ave., Alameda; californiahistoricalradio.com.
— John Metcalfe, workers
Classical picks: Music@Menlo, Zimmer’s best hits
The Bay Space’s classical music scene doesn’t take summers off – removed from it. With festivals, particular occasions and extra on the calendar, listed here are three can’t-miss points of interest coming our method.
Music@Menlo: Based in 2003 by the dynamic husband-and-wife administrators cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, this annual chamber music competition all the time attracts a formidable roster of prime artists to the Bay Space. With the corporate’s twenty third season opening this weekend, “Constellations: Ensemble Magic” options occasions together with 40 performing artists in seven mainstage packages, Carte Blanche live shows, pre-concert talks and way more.
Particulars: Friday by way of Aug. 9, Menlo Faculty’s Spieker Middle for the Arts, Menlo Park; $25-$90; musicatmenlo.org.
Film Music: So many nice works by classical composers discover their method into the movies we love, and composer Hans Zimmer has confirmed some of the prolific. This week, choices from his film scores, together with “Gladiator,” “The Lion King” and others are heart stage in “Movie Music of Hans Zimmer.” The occasion is offered by the San Francisco Symphony in two places, with particular visitor contralto Sara Couden as soloist.
Particulars: 7:30 p.m. immediately at Frost Amphitheater, Stanford College; 7:30 p.m. Friday at Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $69-$199; sfsymphony.org.
Bach in Carmel: One of many prime points of interest of this 12 months’s Carmel Bach Pageant comes this weekend, with a efficiency of Bach’s Mass in B-Minor. This towering work is a specialty for the group, and this 12 months’s soloists are soprano Clara Rottsolk, mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Paz, tenor Brian Gieble, and bass-baritone Dashon Burton.
Particulars: 3 p.m. Sunday; Sundown Middle, Carmel; $37-$98; bachfestival.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
‘My Fair Lady’ returns to roots
Neglect the simmering romance that you simply may consider if you bear in mind the 1964 film musical “My Fair Lady.” Suppose as a substitute of “Pygmalion.”
San Francisco Playhouse’s altogether pleasant manufacturing of the musical, whereas full with Lerner and Loewe’s acquainted songs, takes its gravitas not from Hollywood however from George Bernard Shaw’s unique play and the 1938 film model that adopted.
You recognize the story: Professor Henry Higgins makes a cut price with colleague Col. Pickering that he can take a raggedy road lady — Eliza Doolittle, whom he encounters promoting flowers in Covent Backyard — and rework her, mainly transfer her up a number of lessons, by turning her screechy Cockney into the dulcet tones of a duchess. We watch Eliza develop into a girl, we comply with her relationships with the three males in her new life and we see how confirmed bachelor Henry Higgins is finally modified by his interplay together with her.
S.F. Playhouse’s large-cast play is a deal with for all of the senses: songs accompanied by a small backstage orchestra (music course by Dave Dobrusky); a giant, spectacular rotating set (designed by Nina Ball); terrific performances each comedian and emotional; a number of nice singing voices (Jillian A. Smith’s pure soprano as Eliza, and Nicholas Tabora’s wistful “On the Street Where You Live” because the smitten Freddy); and Abra Berman’s dazzling interval costumes. And look ahead to the ending — it’d shock you, but it surely’s precisely proper.
Particulars: By Sept. 13, San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Submit St., San Francisco; $52-$135; sfplayhouse.org.
— Jean Schiffman, Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Freebie of the week
There’s a lot to like about Crockett, even when there may be not quite a bit to Crockett, the tiny group in northern Contra Costa County. It’s so small its Wikipedia web page refers to Crockett as a “census-designated place,” quite than a village or city or small metropolis. Named for California Supreme Courtroom Justice Joseph P. Crockett, the group has developed a repute as a cool place to go to. There are many espresso outlets, a beloved native bar/restaurant referred to as the Useless Fish, a captivating antiques/speciality retailer that caters to feline fanciers, The Cat Classic, and a few pretty trails to hike in Crockett Hills Regional Park.
On July 20, you may take a look at all this enjoyable stuff or simply head to the seventeenth annual Sugartown Pageant, an outside music competition and road honest whose title references the group’s historical past within the sugar enterprise. The occasion runs 11 a.m. to six p.m. in Crockett’s downtown. You’ll discover artists’ cubicles, meals stands and stay music at Rolph and Pomona streets. The music lineup features a Faculty of Rock youngsters band at 11 a.m., adopted by such acts as Mitch Polzak and the Royal Deuces, taking part in rockabilly and nation from 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.; Salvage Title, taking part in rock covers from 2-3:30 p.m.; and Sacred Fireplace, a Santana tribute band that includes former musicians from Santana, taking part in 4-6 p.m.
Particulars: Admission is free, however if you need a VIP coated seat, you will get one for $20 that comes with a water mister, a drink and a snack bag; extra info is at www.sugartownfestival.com
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
ODC unveils new works at Sampler
ODC/Dance is now in its 54th 12 months of bringing thrilling and provocative works to people within the Bay Space and past. On July 17-20, the corporate is staging its annual Summer time Sampler that includes three works, two of that are world premieres. One is by longtime choreographer and ODC Fellow KT Nelson, whose “Nothing’s Going to Make Sense” marks her first new work carried out by the corporate since 2017. The piece is a response to the sudden passing of Nelson’s husband and, in keeping with ODC, combines “contradictions of loss and love, reality and fantasy, aloneness and togetherness.” The opposite premiere is by firm Staging Director Mia J. Chong, who reportedly received her begin within the dance world in an ODC studio when she was 5 years previous. “Theories of Time” examines how we each react to and attempt to affect the passage of time. The third work on the invoice is a revival of Catherine Galasso’s 2024 piece “10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making,” which, as its title suggests, explores the character of movement and is outlined by precisely 10,000 steps.
Particulars: Performances are 7:30 p.m. July 17-19 (with July 19 Saturday marking LGBTQ+ Evening) and 5 p.m. July 20; $30-$100, odc.dance.
A buffet of dance kinds
This can be a nice weekend for dance followers. In addition to ODC/Dance’s annual Summer time Sampler (see earlier merchandise), the Peninsula Worldwide Dance Pageant returns for its fourth installment in San Mateo on Saturday and Sunday. Title your favourite model and it’s most likely on show throughout this occasion: Flamenco, classical ballet, Indian Kathak, Chinese language classical and people dance, and way more. Taking part troupes embrace the American Dance Theatre, which performs such U.S. dance kinds representing Appalachia, Cajun, and swing period revival; Charya Burt Cambodian Dance, which is devoted to reviving genres that at one level had been banned by the Khmer Rouge; Affiliation of Ramaytush Ohlone, presenting Native American kinds; the Parangal Dance Firm, which presents conventional dances from the Philippines; Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco, which makes a speciality of conventional Mexican dance; Ballet Nlolo Kongo, performing Congoles/Brazzaville kinds; Peninsula Ballet Theatre; and Taiko Sobo, presenting Japanese works. All informed, the occasion options 21 firms and a few 250 dancers and musicians. The occasion is benefitted by session by choreographer Carlos Carvajal, who was co-artistic director of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Pageant from 2005-2018.
Particulars: Performances are 2 p.m. July 19-20 on the San Mateo Performing Arts Middle; $40-$70; go to www.peninsulalivelyarts.org.
— Bay Metropolis Information Basis
Three will not be a crowd: Music@Menlo, that venerable competition dedicated to the richness, class and intimacy of chamber music, launches its twenty third season this week, with some 50 occasions offered over its three levels in Atherton by way of Aug. 9. Sunday afternoon’s 4 p.m. live performance within the Spieker Middle of the Arts appears an particularly intriguing one. Dubbed “Trio Transformations” and given a repeat efficiency within the Stent Household Corridor on July 22, this program to spotlight how three primarily solo artists working in collaboration can quantity to greater than the sum of their elements, will deploy, in various mixtures, violinists Stella Chin, Jessica Lee, Richard Lin and Arnaud Sussmann, violist Aaron Boyd; cellists David Finckel (Menlo’s co-founder) and Jonathan Swensen and clarinetist David Shifrin. On their program can be Antonín Dvorak’s Terzetto in C Main for Two Violins and Viola; Johannes Brahms’ Trio in a Minor for Piano, Clarinet and Cello; Joseph Suk’s Elegy for Piano Trio and Bedrîch Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor. Efficiency time is 4 p.m., with tickets, “$65-$87 ($26 for these underneath 30), out there at [email protected].
Byrd is the phrase: Revel within the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, maybe the best and definitely most influential of all of the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that certainly would have felt residence to him, as a composer of sacred songs. San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral is internet hosting two live shows they’re calling “Secret Byrd” to honor the 400-year-old-plus legacy of this big of early music. Aided by the string gamers of the Bay Space-based ensemble The Wildcat Viols and with the inside lit by dramatic candlelight staged by Live performance Theatre Works, Nice Britain’s vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six will discover Byrd’s oeuvre in depth. Cubed “weavers of rich and plangent tapestries” by BBC journal, the six are directed by baritone Owain Park and embrace countertenors Man James and Alasdair Austin, tenors Joseph Wicks and Josh Cooter and baritone Simon Grant. Efficiency instances are 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. Thurday and Friday; discover tickets, $60-$75, at www.sfems.org.
