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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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.
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Remembering Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records
The longtime Berkeley resident was a tireless ethnomusicologist who seemed to experience life as an ongoing series of musical revelations. He died at 91.
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He’s been bringing downtempo grooves to Berkeley’s Jupiter for 30 years
Alain Grissette aka DJ Delon has been booking bands for the Berkeley club since April 1993. A 30th anniversary celebration will be held Thursday.
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3-night bluegrass festival will have banjos and basses ablazing in Berkeley
The Berkeley Bluegrass Festival — featuring Mr. Sun, Peter Rowan and more — returns to Freight & Salvage this weekend.
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Javanese shadow puppeteer is making rare visit to Berkeley
UC Berkeley musical group Gamelan Sari Raras will accompany this Sunday’s performance on their bronze-forged instruments. English titles will help tell a story from the Indian epic ‘Ramayana.’
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After brush with death, owner of the Back Room is no longer shy to take the stage
Sam Rudin, a blues and jazz pianist, opened the Back Room in 2016. After surviving a stroke, he decided to put humility aside and give himself a monthly gig at his downtown Berkeley venue.
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Malian musician grows gourds into string instruments in Northwest Berkeley community garden
Mamadou Sidibe has been growing gourds into n’gonis — a type of hunter’s harp he popularized in Mali back in the 1980s — in the Karl Linn Community Garden on Hopkins Street.
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A 77th birthday with a 77-piece band is being thrown Sunday in Berkeley, and you’re invited
At Finnish Hall on Chestnut Street, birthday boy Vinny Golia will bring together a “Heptacontakaiheptagon Ensemble.” Its name comes from the term for a 77-sided polygon.
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Remembering Lillian Papkoff, concert pianist, music educator, jewelry designer
Papkoff, 98, was an accomplished classical pianist, accompanist, and frequent Bay Area chamber musician.
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Long-planned Berkeley dance tribute to Burt Bacharach is now suddenly a memorial
The iconic composer died Feb. 8, at age 94. A Cal Performances dance show, scheduled for this weekend and set to Bacharach’s music, has taken on a retrospective aura.
