San Francisco Mime Troupe’s play ‘Breakdown — A New Musical’ is coming to Cedar Rose Park this weekend. It will be in Live Oak Park in late July.
Andrew Gilbert
Freelancer Andrew Gilbert writes a weekly music column for Berkeleyside. Andy, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, covers a wide range of musical cultures, from Brazil and Mali to India and Ireland. A Berkeley-based writer, he contributes features on jazz and international music to numerous publications, including the San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times and Los Angeles Times. His column covering the Bay Area dance scene, Dance Card, runs monthly in the Contra Costa Times. And his CD reviews air regularly on KQED’s “California Report.”
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Around Berkeley: La Peña block party, avian dance, ‘Angels, Devils and Drunks’
Other events include a pride celebration in Downtown Berkeley, a mural painting party and a performance of “A Room with a View’ at John Hinkel Park.
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Around Berkeley: Music & science exhibit at The Lawrence, doggy pride parade, low-tide nature walk
Other events include a punk book talk at 924 Gilman, a mobile children’s museum, and a triple bill of California country music at Freight & Salvage.
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Jazz musician David Murray returns to Berkeley, where he first played sax at church in 1965
Fifty-eight years after a pastor at the Missionary Church of God in Christ urged him to play sax for the first time, Murray will perform at the Back Room on Friday.
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Around Berkeley: A play set under the I-580 overpass, R&B in the park, tiled blue photo prints
Other events include a free outdoor movie showing in Live Oak Park and a cheese and wine party at Alliance Française de Berkeley.
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Where to celebrate and honor Juneteenth in Berkeley and beyond
Berkeley has hosted a Juneteenth festival since 1986. Other events this week include a choral celebration at Oakland’s New Destiny Church and free entrance to EBRPD parks.
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Around Berkeley: Celebrate Pride, Science Fundays, Bay Curious
Other events in Berkeley include a new collection show at BAMPFA, a 3-on-3 Youth Basketball Tournament and pre-World War II Parisian café music.
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Around Berkeley: Geologic history talk, Berkeley Symphony concert, old-timey bluegrass
Other events in Berkeley include an ABBA-themed disco and a performance by Grammy-winning Tuareg musicians.
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Vitamin Em’s free downtown concert on Saturday will support Berkeley’s unhoused residents
The Civic Center Park concert benefitting the Dorothy Day House will include songs inspired by Lizzo, and by a gifted musician who became addicted to heroin and died in the Tenderloin.
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Sing along with Bobby McFerrin in Berkeley this Monday
The 10-time Grammy winner has been leading Monday gatherings at Freight & Salvage that are part performance, part open mic and all play.
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Around Berkeley: Himalayan Fair, bike to work, Green Home Tour
Other events include Scottish fiddling at Freight & Salvage and a cooking demo at the Downtown Berkeley Farmers Market.
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6 dozen Scottish fiddlers are playing together at Freight & Salvage Friday
Led by maestro Alasdair Fraser, the pied-piper of traditional Scottish music, the multi-generational throng of fiddlers includes a Berkeley heart doctor.
