From ’80s music icons to a mega-talented jazz pianist, there are some nice reveals and live shows — to not point out some basic movie comedies — to catch this weekend.
Here’s a partial roundup.
Lauper farewell tour has 3 NorCal stops
Cyndi Lauper is coming to the Bay Space to say goodbye.
And she or he’ll accomplish that throughout three extremely anticipated stops on her Ladies Simply Wanna Have Enjoyable Farewell Tour: Aug. 23 at Toyota Amphitheatre at Wheatland; Aug. 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View; and Aug. 26 at Toyota Pavilion at Harmony. The swan track trek has consisted of 60-plus reveals in 4 continents since kicking off in Montreal in October.
So end up to at least one — or all — of the above venues to listen to this model new Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer carry out such fan favorites as “She Bop,” “I Drove All Night,” “Money Changes Everything,” “Change of Heart,” “Time After Time” and, in fact, tour-namesake “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” (We’re personally glad to see that Lauper has been taking part in “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” on this tour.)
The opening act for these reveals is Jake Wesley Rogers, the previous “America’s Got Talent” contestant who has beforehand set the desk for Panic! On the Disco, Ben Platt and Kesha in live performance.
Particulars: See livenation.com to get tickets and discover different particulars for all three of Lauper’s upcoming Northern California live shows.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Chestnut returns to Bay Space
His identify, which seems like a personality in a Christmas film, and his joyful look and demeanor could function camouflage, however there isn’t a disguising that Cyrus is likely one of the premiere jazz pianists making the rounds nowadays. And you’ve got 4 probabilities to see him this weekend.
It doesn’t damage that he has spent his profession collaborating with some really gifted artists, together with Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, singer Betty Carter, Roy Hargrove, Freddie Hubbard Chick Corea, and even opera singer Kathleen Battle. Blessed with technical expertise to spare and a ardour for music seasoned with a formidable coaching and training background — together with the Peabody Institute and Berklee Faculty of Music — Chestnut’s jazz stylings are flavored by his roots in gospel, blues and R&B.
This week, Chestnut performs a solo present at Piedmont Piano in Oakland and comes along with his trio the Lesher Middle for the Arts, as a part of the Jazz Walnut Creek live performance sequence.
Particulars: 5:30 and eight p.m. Aug. 22 at Piedmont Piano Firm; $40-$45; piedmontpiano.com; 4:15 and seven:15 p.m. Sunday at Lesher Middle for the Arts, Walnut Creek; $75; www.lesherartscenter.org.
— Randy McMullen, Workers
‘Virgin’ kicks off Alamo comedy classics
The newly opened Alamo Drafthouse Cinema location in Mountain View has some actually attractive programming in retailer for comedy followers in late-August.
For starters, Alamo is celebrating the Twentieth anniversary of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” Judd Apatow’s directorial debut starring a fully hilarious Steve Carell within the titular position. The movie additionally options Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Catherine Keener and the best shoutout to Kelly Clarkson of all time. It screens at 7 p.m. Aug. 22, 4:45 p.m. Aug. 23 and seven p.m. Aug. 24 on the Mountain View Alamo.
Filmgoers may also catch the tenth anniversary of one other Apatow-directed film — 2015’s “Trainwreck” — starring Amy Schumer (who additionally wrote the “pretty autobiographical” script). The jam-packed forged consists of Invoice Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Tilda Swinton and NBA legend LeBron James, who principally steals each scene that he’s in. “Trainwreck” screens on the Mountain View Alamo at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 23 and three:45 p.m. Aug. 24.
And talking of jam-packed casts, Alamo can be revisiting “Clue,” the 1985 whodunnit farce primarily based on the basic board sport. The Jonathan Lynn-directed movie options an ensemble forged for the ages — together with Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren. “Clue” screens at 7 p.m. Aug. 27 in Mountain View. It additionally has showings on the two different Bay Space Alamo areas — Valley Truthful (Santa Clara) and San Francisco — Aug. 23-25.
Particulars: Go to drafthouse.com/sf for extra data.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Goode choreography on view
Bay Space choreographer, author and director Joe Goode is thought for creating and presenting extremely relatable dance works – ones that seize the ache and keenness of on a regular basis life. He’s thought of a groundbreaking choreographer for his knack of weaving spoken phrase, textual content, movie and different sonic and visible imagery into his storytelling works, which have included such lauded dance/theater productions as “Body Familiar,” “Gender Heroes,” “Wonderboy” and extra.
Goode’s works have been integrated into site-specific productions within the cavernous Lilienthal-Haas Home in Pacific Heights, the Yerba Buena Middle for the Arts, the S.F. Mint and different distinctive venues, permitting his environment to play a task within the storytelling course of. Now Goode and his firm – The Joe Goode Efficiency Group – is again with a brand new work, titled “Are You Okay?” One thing of an pressing variant on the “Why Can’t We All Get Along” theme, Goode’s new work posits that togetherness — he calls it “collaborative creativity” — is greater than a lofty notion these days, it could be the one blueprint to humankind’s survival in an unstable world. “Are You Okay” is being carried out in one other site-specific manufacturing in San Francisco’s Rincon Middle, 83 Mission St., by Aug. 31.
Particulars: $48-$60; joegoode.org.
Freebie of the week
On the speculation that 30 flying fingers is perhaps extra highly effective than the same old 10 in relation to chamber music, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Walnut Creek has employed the 26-year-old ensemble the Navarro Trio, resident artists at Sonoma State College, to present a day recital Aug. 24 in its sanctuary, rendered acoustically fantastic as it’s by the predominance of glass, stone and redwood in its design. Co-founded by pianist Marilyn Thompson and cellist Jill Rachuy Brindel, and now together with pianist Tammie Dyer, the ensemble has mastered many of the acquainted repertoire, however likes to deliver works by new or comparatively unsung composers to the fore. To that finish, their 3 p.m. program in St. Paul’s will add a piece by native composer Martin Rokeach to a program that additionally consists of items by Beethoven and Brahms. This system is free, however a prompt donation of $20 is gratefully accepted to assist defray prices. The venue is at 1924 Trinity Avenue in Walnut Creek, and there’s free parking throughout the road on Trinity.
Particulars: You will see extra live performance data and a hyperlink to a livestream at www.stpaulswc/concert-series.
A Maurice Ravel redux
It was 97 years in the past that Maurice Ravel, the nice Twentieth-century pianist and composer from France, made his triumphant grand tour of the USA, and in honor of his a hundred and fiftieth birthday, the San Francisco Worldwide Piano Pageant will re-create the live performance he gave in San Francisco because the opening occasion in its personal eighth annual celebration. On Aug. 22, competition founder Jeffrey LaDeur and fellow pianist Gwendolyn Mok, joined by mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich, soprano Heidi Moss Erickson and violinist Chili Ekman will collect onstage at Previous First Church in San Francisco to current a program that kicks off along with his entrancing track cycle “Shéhérazade.” Additionally within the lineup are the composer’s jazz-inflected Violin Sonata, the “Histoires Naturelles,” the “Pavane for a Dead Infant,” “La Vallée des cloches,” “Habanera,” “Chansons Grecques” and picks from the “Tombeau de Couperin.”
Particulars: Efficiency time is 8 p.m.; 1751 Sacramento St.; $30, prompt donation of $20 for livestream; www.sfpiano.org.
They’re simply fiddling round
Followers of Scottish fiddling in all probability have already got Labor Day weekend circled on their calendar; that’s when the music-rich Scottish Video games returns to the Alameda Fairgrounds in Pleasanton. However you will get your repair on Thursday evening when The Freight in Berkeley hosts its annual Fiddle Summit, that includes two of the most well-liked sources of fantastic fiddling that the Bay Space has to supply. Headlining the who shebang is Alisdair Fraser, thought of one of many high Scottish fiddlers on the planet. Additionally on the invoice is the phenomenon Scorching Membership of San Francisco, revivalists of the so-called “gypsy jazz” music made well-known by such legends as guitarist Django Reinhardt and fiddler Stephane Grappelli. Scorching Membership options loads of fiddle and fretboard fireworks of its personal, to not point out the great singing of Isabelle Fontaine. The Pine Tree Flyers, a famend Americana band from Maine, and acclaimed dancer Nic Gareiss spherical out the lineup. It’s at all times great when sheer expertise and absolute enjoyable share the stage, and that’s within the offing at this present, which begins at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Particulars: Tickets are $37-$39; go to thefreight.org.
All in regards to the ‘80s
If you happen to had been (and nonetheless are) an ‘80s R&B fan, you might well want to be at San Jose Civic Center on Saturday night, when a lineup of once-iconic music acts led by Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam will perform. Lisa Lisa, led by New York singer Lisa Velez, scored with such singles as “I Wonder if I Take You Home,” “All Cried Out,” and more and was a force to be reckoned with on radio and MTV in the ‘80s (even Velez’s headband was iconic). Velez remains to be making new music nowadays – she’s signed with Snoop Dogg’s label – however this Take You Dwelling Tour is all in regards to the fortieth anniversary of Lisa Lisa’s largest hit and the period’s music. Additionally on the lineup are Expose, who’s largest hit was the No. 1 charting “Seasons Change”; The Jets, whose hits included “Crush on You” and “You Got it All”; the Mary Jane Ladies (that includes the unique lineup), whose “In My House” was an ‘80s radio earworm, and more. So, yeah, there’s a variety of Reminiscence Lane music on faucet Friday (shoulder pads and jelly sneakers not included).
Particulars: The present begins 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $80-$182 (topic to alter); go to sanjosetheaters.org.
