Posts by Heather World

$20 suggested donation; contribute what you can A siren from the shore, Moonshine Maybelline lures you with spellbinding ballads, mesmerizes with moody soundscapes and crashes your broken heart into their country-rock. Catherine Foreman’s vocals and songs are the centerpiece of this 5-piece band from San Francisco. Sparks first flew when she teamed up with twang-rockers…

With the support of Jazz in the Neighborhood’s Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund, the Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… B3B4 $20 cover charge; $10 for students / musicians / low income.   B3B4 is the musical conversation between Bay Area jazz veterans Tom Griesser (tenor sax), Scott Foster (guitar), Kevin Gerzevits (organ) and Dan Foltz (drums). The…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Denise Perrier is celebrated from Havana to St. Petersburg and here at home for her elegant contralto, for her phrasing and swing, for her unparalleled interpretation of tunes drawn from the jazz canon and the Great American Songbook — the timeless popular music that poured out of Tin Pan…

Mark Statmen will be reading from his book Exile Home and will also read from his translations of the Uruguayan poet Martín Barea Mattos, Never Made in America. A native New Yorker, Mark studied under Kenneth Koch at Columbia University in the 1970s, and has published a number of collections of his own work as…

Trombonist Rick Brown! It’s a birthday bash! Rick Brown, trombone; Grant Levin, piano Carl Herder, bass Pepe Jacobo, drums

$15 suggested donation. Dave Tidball, clarinets; Galen Grant, percussion Dave writes, “The name Slug Teacher is derived from a line in the poem Here In This Spring, written in 1933 by iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. I’ve long been fascinated by his work, not least for the sheer musicality of the rhythms, textures and timbres…