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Camille Miller on June 21, 2017
Expert pianist and flutist Chin-Fei Chan has a doctorate degree in flute performance, over 10 years of teaching experience and actively performs worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician and piano accompanist. Her philosophy: to have fun and enjoy herself while she plays. Accompanied by pianist Meng-Hua Lin, Chan will play the flute…
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Camille Miller on June 21, 2017
In 2006, the Dukedom of Illyria became the elite boarding school setting of a contemporary teenage drama that catalyzed Channing Tatum’s evolution from male stripper to movie star. This year, playwright Max Gutmann reinvents the beloved Elizabethan era comedy by rearranging thousands of snippets from the original play and shifting savvy sea…
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It’s hard to think of another celebrity as uniquely positioned to pull together an event like this weekend’s ID10T Music Festival + Comic Conival as Chris Hardwick.
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There’s nothing new under the sun. That’s what the preacher man said. What has been will be again. So it was at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Monterey International Pop Festival.
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Payje Redmond on June 16, 2017
Country heartthrob Brad Paisley brings his Weekend Warrior World Tour to the South Bay. The concert comes on the heels of Paisley’s latest album, Love and War, which features contributions from legendary rock musicians, including Mick Jagger and John Fogerty. Always eager to strum a different chord, Paisley ups the ante on…
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Camille Miller on June 16, 2017
San Jose-based ambient alt-rock band A Skyway View have been compared to The Cure and The Psychedelic Furs. Their fourth album, The Victoria Trap, delivers a simultaneously melodic and aggressive sonic attitude. Featuring operatic vocals—which at times recall the forceful delivery of former Foxy Shazam frontman Eric Nally—atmospheric keys, driving bass lines…
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Yousif Kassab on June 16, 2017
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson. The Palo Alto Players present a stage production of this classic coming-of-age story. Based on the 1963 film starring Dustin Hoffman, the plot follows a young Benjamin Braddock as he tries to make sense of the world after finishing college. Braddock is soon seduced by the wife…
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The 2017 Bridge School Benefit Concert has been canceled and Neil Young—the rock star behind the star-studded charity show—has announced he will no longer be performing at the shows. In a letter from Young, posted on the Bridge School website, the singer and songwriter—known for his work in Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and…
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Yousif Kassab on June 14, 2017
The 36th annual Fountain Blues Festival is just a week away. But for blues fanatics, there’s plenty more free-form jamming, harmonica solos and hard living to celebrate during “Blues Week,” which runs from this Sunday until the main event at Plaza de Cesar Chavez on June 24.
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Bill Kopp on June 14, 2017
After decades as a successful touring musician and recording artist, Jakko Jakszyk is fronting the band he discovered in 1969, when he was 11 years old. The British guitarist and vocalist recalls the first time he heard King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man.”
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