Archive for August 2016
Friday, October 21st – 5:30-8 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet
plays jazz in the bookshop, The City’s longest running jazz party!
Scott Foster’s band this time around features saxophonist Larry Delacruz, bassist Adam Gay and drummer Bryan Bowman. Scott’s a brilliant guitarist, His sidemen are equally adept, deep & swinging, as called for. This is jazz as it’s played in San Francisco in 2016.
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Thursday, October 20 – 8-10 pm
The Seducers play country music
in the canyon moonlight
The Seducers play classic country music from Bakersfield to Nashville and tread the outlaw path as called for. Â They’re a fantastic band, led by Joe Goldmark, a master of the pedal steel guitar, and fronted by Mitch Polzak, just a kid gas jockey from Fremont or Hayward who dedicated himself to music one day and…
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Monday, October 17th – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Avotcja and Dan Brady — open mic follows
Jerry Ferraz, m.c.
Avotcja, the name conjures up feelings of wisdom and strength. Her voice and music have given life to several instances of social injustice, propelling her audiences to be inspired and to make change. Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is…
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Saturday, October 15th – 7:30-10 pm
Idris Ackamoor ☥ the Pyramids
We Be All Africans – the new album!
bon voyage show! hosted by Rhodessa Jones
last chance to hear The Pyramids before their European tour
jazz club! when lights are low…
Featuring Idris Ackamoor on saxophones; Sandy Poindexter, violins and vocals; Skyler Stover, acoustic and electric bass; Sandor Moss, drums; Raul Ramirez, congas & drums; Bobby Cobb, guitar. Hosted  by Rhodessa Jones. Idris Ackamoor continues his intergalactic musical odyssey with the release of “WE BE ALL AFRICANS” by Idris Ackamoor ☥ the Pyramids, incorporating Fela-like African rhythms, George…
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Sunday, October 16th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Kurt Ribak Quartet
Saxophonist Lincoln Adler, keyboard player Greg Sankovitch and drummer Randy Lee Odell join bassist Kurt Ribak for a couple sets of originals and standards. This quartet has years of experience working together and playing throughout Northern California, and it shows! Kurt Ribak (pronounced REE-bok, like the shoes) showed a penchant early on for finding rhythm…
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Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice
a reading by editor Odilia Galvan Rodriguez and contributors
Sunday, October 16th – 2 pm
Odilia Galvan Rodriguez, Sharon Elliott, Jabez W. Churchill, Avotcja, Antoinette Nora Claypool, James Downs, Cathy Arellano, Genny Lim and Cesar Love read to celebrate this new anthology, edited by Rodriguez and Francisco X. Alarcon (University of Arizona Press, 2016). On April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona…
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