live music

Today's local music: Slim Jenkins

Steven Short — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:05:33 +0000

If you’re looking for old-style Voodoo Blues and swing, look no further than Slim Jenkins.

The group is part of this spring’s “Swing in the Square” dance and concert series. They play a free show on Wednesday 24, April, at San Francisco’s Union Square.

Today's Local Music: The Famous

Steven Short — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:39:29 +0000

That’s not Wilco you’re hearing, and it’s not Tom Waits either, although you might detect elements of both is this song by The Famous.

They’ve been perfecting their “raw country meets post punk” sound at live shows throughout the Bay Area since 2003.

You can hear The Famous Sunday, June 24th at 4pm in San Francisco at Thee Parkside.

KALW's On-Air Folk Festival this Saturday 3 to 8 pm

JoAnn Mar — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:12:39 +0000

KALW's Saturday music hosts join forces to present a five-hour folk extravaganza of continuous live music performed by some of the Bay Area's finest talent. Enjoy the Scottish fiddling of Alasdair Fraser, the powerhouse vocals of Teresa Trull and Barbara Higbie, the original songs of Caren Armstrong, and the homegrown bluegrass of Them Boys and the Sycamore Slough String Band. Here's the schedule:

Century-old ballet still pushing boundaries

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:44:53 +0000

One hundred years ago, on a late May evening in Paris, an 11-minute ballet so scandalized audiences that it’s still making waves today.

“Afternoon of a Faun” was choreographed by then-23-year-old Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballet Russes. The dancers were barefoot and the angular movements of the dance rejected the formal constraints of classical ballet. Then there was the issue of the subject matter, which was overtly sexual in a way that audiences of the time had never seen.