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Winona Rajamohan on June 15, 2018
Redwood City is serving up a new outdoor entertainment series this summer with Pub in the Park. Pack your picnic blankets and lay out your lawn chairs for an afternoon of free live music—courtesy of Americana and bluegrass trio The Jones Gang—and quality brews under the sun. Beers will be poured from…
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Kaylee Lawler on June 15, 2018
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli stops at San Jose’s SAP Center on his world tour. With 15 solo studio albums and three greatest hits albums on his list of achievements, Bocelli will serenade his audience with songs like “Because We Believe” or his rendition of “The Prayer.” In the past Bocelli has performed…
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Wallace Baine on June 14, 2018
It sounds incongruous at first, to check out a prog-rock legend at 10 in the morning. That’s the hour of the day when, we’ve come to believe, that most rock stars are just crawling into bed for a few hours of half-sleep before soundcheck.
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Wallace Baine on June 14, 2018
Santa Cruz-based singer and songwriter Marty O’Reilly is often thought of as a folk and Americana act, but make no mistake: in his heart, he’s channeling the blues. Possessed of an otherwordly old-soul singing voice, O’Reilly and his band, the Old Soul Orchestra, have been charming Bay Area audiences for years with…
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Winona Rajamohan on June 14, 2018
After the 2008 housing crash, tiny homes made a big splash, as many aspiring homeowners achieved their dreams by downsizing. Most tiny homes aren’t much bigger than a standard college dorm room. TinyFest is a weekend-long showcase of tiny homes in all their surprising little forms. There are houses on wheels, van…
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You and your weak cohorts rolled up at the corner of San Carlos and Third streets and chose to unload pellet gun shots at me and my friends before “speeding” off. Were you my ex-girlfriend, and now after our breakup you’re some wildin’ gangsta? Baby, I’m sorry I kept the George Foreman…
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Dominoe Ibarra on June 9, 2018
For 10 years now, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra—aka SLOrk—has been reimagining orchestral music. Instead of playing strings, woodwinds and brass, the ensemble builds its arrangements with laptops and new computer-generated instruments. In celebration of a decade of composing on computers, SLOrk is holding a concert. Directed by Ge Wang, an associate professor…
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Winona Rajamohan on June 9, 2018
Last year’s International Fingerstyle Guitar Champion, Christie Lenée, brings her impressive fret-tapping and fingerpicking techniques to Redwood City this weekend. The Florida-born guitarist is comfortable wearing a multitude of hats when performing live—slapping the body of her guitar to create rhythm, while also strumming chords, tapping out lead melodies and singing. Renée’s…
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Wallace Baine on June 7, 2018
Kirk Joseph is easy to spot on stage with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. He’s the guy under the biggest horn, the one you probably think is a tuba. In fact, Joseph is one of the jazz world’s most accomplished sousaphone players.
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Mike Huguenor on June 7, 2018
Within the world of heavy metal there is a magic word. Once it’s heard, it is impossible to go back. It is a single word capable of changing reality entirely, twisting the once-familiar into something mystic, epiphanic, otherworldly. That word is Dopesmoker. The third album by San Jose stoner metal trio Sleep,…
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