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Illicit concert series goes legit, but secret maps and moonlit merriment are here to stay
A Berkeley composer has been organizing hike-in covert concerts since 2018. Last weekend, blessed with city funding, he hosted Moonstruck’s first legal performance.
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Berkeley drummer Scott Amendola and pals to play Saturday at California Jazz Conservatory
After two years lying low, Amendola hit the road for a brief tour. Now he’s back in the Bay Area fray, starting with a performance of his trio SticklerPhonics.
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It’s a new chapter for Charlie Winton, Berkeley book publisher turned rock ‘n’ roller
Winton’s songwriting ambitions remained dormant for decades, but he released his first album at age 66 and is now out with his second, ‘The Soul and the Shadow.’
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Front Row Festival celebrates with musical performances Saturday
Seven musical performances are scheduled at the Berkeley BART Plaza.
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Rhonda Benin’s all-women musical revue will ‘celebrate being alive’
‘Just Like a Woman,’ an annual showcase for female artists launched in 2014, is back after a two-year hiatus this Sunday at Freight & Salvage.
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Berkeley-reared pianist Michael Wolff pens memoir of ‘jazz, tics and survival’
Wolff’s autobiography, out this week, shows how music served as salvation for a precociously gifted pianist with undiagnosed Tourette’s Syndrome.
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Berkeley jazz scene gets boost from energy bar company
The 25-year-old California Jazz Conservancy is launching a major new concert series with help from energy bar maker JAMBAR.
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Upcoming concerts showcase the East Bay’s thriving Brazilian music scene
Performances by Oakland Samba Revue, SambaDá, and others in Oakland and Berkeley highlight the region’s talent.
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Your Kids Are So Berkeley: 3 tell how growing up here shaped their values
The children of the McDonalds, Santiagos, and de Leons each absorbed Berkeley values from their parents and expressed them in their own unique ways.
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Berkeley musician’s drunken odyssey through ‘Russialand’ is amazing but alarming
The scion of an old Berkeley family, Alex Carlin comes off as a bit of a holy fool in his new documentary. The film shows the 64-year-old rock ‘n’ roller’s bacchanal by rail from Siberia to the Black Sea.
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Remembering Richard Hadlock, renowned jazz master and Berkeley kindergarten teacher
His weekly KCSM show, ‘The Annals of Jazz,’ ran for over 60 years, one of the longest-running single-host shows in radio.