live music

Willa Mamet visited me in the #KALW studio back in November BC (Before Covid) and played piano and sang and told stories. I thought I'd run that show…

Paul Griffiths as well as Jim Bruno dropped by Saturday to sing a set of songs before their gig at The Lost Church. You can hear them on our Local Music…

The Kingston Trio will perform live on A Patchwork Quilt this Saturday at 5pm. No, not the original Kingston Trio from the 1950s and ‘60s. Josh Reynolds,…

Today’s local music is performed by Patrick Galvin. A San Francisco native, he performs classical violin recitals, both solo, and in chamber settings. And…

The local music you’re hearing today is by Nell Maynard & the Ampersands. They were drawn together from different sections of San Francisco “by a common…

The local music you’re hearing today is by Nell Maynard & the Ampersands. They were drawn together from different sections of San Francisco “by a common…

Here’s a quiz for you. If you have an Irish rock band, that’s really from San Francisco, what would you call it? How about The Shams...as in “the sham…

Have you ever wondered what becomes of members of boys choruses once they grow up? Well, in the case of Berkeley native Kurt Ribak, he became a jazz…

Today’s local music is by the Adrian West Trio. They take on serious topics in a lighthearted way in their original tunes, which feature acoustic rock and…

This music is by Aireene Espiritu, a singer/songwriter living in Oakland. She mostly plays original songs incorporating Latin and African rhythms, folk,…