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Sunday, Sept. 27th – 7:30-10 pm
Misisipi Mike Wolf’s Glen Park Hayride
~~Canyon Moonlight Music Series~~
Misisipi Mike is all over the San Francisco country/Americana scene, writing songs left and right, fielding more than a few bands and working in ten more as a hired gun & ringer. Not to mention turning out hundreds of stylish, eyeball pleasing show posters with an alacrity nobody can match — including a lot of your…
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Sunday, September 27th – 2:30 pm
Walker Talks!
“Deities and Tricksters: Notions of god in Native American mythology”
Trickster & Deities: Â Walker Brents discusses native american conceptions of god.
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Saturday, Sept. 26th, 7:30-10:00 pm
You’d be so easy to love:
The Vinnie Rodriguez Quartet
plays the music of Cole Porter
jazz club… when lights are low!
Cole Porter wrote a good portion of the most elegantly clever songs in the halcyon days of Tin Pan Alley. Drummer Vinnie Rodriguez leads a fine quartet through just a few of his most memorable numbers, and a few rediscovered chestnuts. Lyle Link – alto saxBen Stolorow – pianoAdam Gay – bass Vinnie Rodriguez –…
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Sunday, September 20th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Karl Evangelista: Taglish Suite
Filipino American composer and improviser Karl Evangelista is joined by a slew of Bay Area jazz stalwarts to present Taglish, a musical journey through 21st century immigrant culture. The project synthesizes jazz, American song, 20th century experimentalism, and Filipino folk melody into a sound that is at once universal and starkly personal. This will be…
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Sunday, Sept. 20th – 2 pm
Book event!
The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice
A talk by author Nicholas Baham III
Nicholas Baham III, Ph.D., professor of Ethnic Studies at CalState East Bay, presents his new book on the John Coltrane Church. Â Subtitled Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice, Dr. Baham’s book looks at the church’s role in the community, its focus on John Coltrane’s music as spiritual text, its view of Coltrane as a…
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Saturday, September 19th – 7:30-10 pm
Erik Jekabson Quintet
Erik Jekabson, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, sax Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass Hamir Atwal, drums A stellar line up. Two rich sets. Don’t miss out! And be sure to look for the brand new CD, “Cheap Rent,” from the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which holds forth at Doc’s Lab under Erik’s leadership on Sunday nights. Â A…
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