From a chic wine nation crooner to some ghostly enjoyable in Pleasanton, there’s a lot to see and do within the Bay Space this week and past.
Here’s a partial rundown.
Fuller revisits the ‘Dream Bowl’
Kellie Fuller is one in all Wine Nation’s most interesting vocalists. So it’s all the time price shopping for ducats when she has a gig developing.
Her subsequent present, nonetheless, sounds particularly attractive.
We’re speaking about “A Night at the Dream Bowl,” which Fuller will carry out together with her longtime musical accomplice — pianist Mike Greensill — on Oct. 10 at Blue Word Napa.
Fuller seems to be to move attendees again to the Forties as she leads a seven-piece band — that includes Greensill, Ruth Davies on bass, Jack Dorsey on drums, Mary Fettig on the alto sax and flute, Charlie McCarthy on tenor sax, John Gove on trombone and Dave Bendigkeit on trumpet — via best hits from that period.
The present’s title references the famed Dream Bowl, which was an iconic ballroom situated simply south of Napa that hosted such all-time greats as Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Rely Basie and Tommy Dorsey. In a while, the Grateful Useless would additionally arrange store and carry out there. The venue closed in 1969, however the constructing continues to be standing.
Particulars: 7 p.m.; $20-$45, bluenotejazz.com/napa/.
— Jim Harrington, Workers
Rejoice Pleasanton’s ghostly historical past
Of all of the locations within the Bay Space, who would’ve guessed probably the most haunted is Pleasanton? However it’s true, say many individuals who imagine in g-g-ghosts: Again through the Gold Rush, when it was referred to as Alisal and nicknamed the “most desperate town in the West,” the enclave noticed a lot drunken violence, shootouts and sickness that it’s now haunted by extra spirits than reside within the “Scooby-Doo” universe.
This Halloween month, folks can discover Pleasanton’s spectral aspect with the Museum on Major’s annual Ghost Stroll. You may encounter the “lady in blue” who haunts an 1860s constructing now referred to as – of all issues – Homosexual Nineties Pizza, the place the phrase “Boo” mysteriously seems within the restaurant mirror irrespective of how usually it’s scrubbed out. Or maybe will probably be the clanging poltergeists who shove objects round on the Blue Agave Membership — featured on ABC’s “20/20” for its mysterious phenomena — or the ghost of an 1870s prostitute stabbed to demise within the outdated Pleasanton Resort. Heck, even Bigfoot’s reportedly been noticed within the space.
Regardless of all this horror, the excursions are described as “family friendly” with costumes inspired, so count on to be no less than equal components scared and entertained.
Particulars: Two-hour excursions supplied Friday and Saturday and Oct. 18-19 starting on the Museum on Major, 603 Major St., Pleasanton; timed tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for youngsters; museumonmain.org/ghost-walk.
— John Metcalfe, Workers
Classical picks: Canadian Brass, famend baritone
This week’s classical music calendar incorporates a recital by baritone Lester Lynch, a wide-ranging live performance by the Canadian Brass, and an informative introduction to one of many world’s all-time nice operas.
A singer of poise and energy: Bay Space operagoers will bear in mind Lester Lynch from his efficiency as Crown in San Francisco Opera’s manufacturing of “Porgy and Bess”; all through his profession, the powerhouse baritone has additionally sung Wotan in “Das Rheingold” and the title roles in “Macbeth” and “Rigoletto.” This weekend, he returns to the Bay Space for a recital at Cal Performances. Accompanied by pianist Kevin Korth, this system features a vary of repertoire, with works by Schubert, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Ives, and Gordon Getty included.
Particulars: 3 p.m. Oct. 13; Hertz Corridor, UC Berkeley; $69-$74; calperformances.org.
Reside, from Canada: Based in 1970 by Chuck Daellenbach and the late Gene Watts, the Canadian Brass continues to be making music; so far, the group has produced an astonishing 100-plus albums and appeared in live shows all over the world. Protecting a spread of classical works along with in style music, the group involves Livermore on Sunday afternoon.
Particulars: 3 p.m. Oct. 13; Bankhead Theater, Livermore; $50-$80; bankheadtheater.org.
Find out about “Tristan”: Opera lovers planning to see San Francisco Opera’s fall manufacturing of “Tristan and Isolde,” opening Oct. 19 on the Struggle Memorial Opera Home, can hear director Paul Curran talk about the opera in a free occasion as a part of the “Directors in Conversation” sequence introduced by the Wagner Society of Northern California. It’s certain to boost the opera-going expertise. The corporate’s manufacturing options tenor Simon O’Neill and soprano Anja Kampe within the title roles.
Particulars: 7 p.m. Oct. 14; Inexperienced Room at S.F.’s Struggle Memorial Opera Constructing; free; Wagnersf.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent
‘Angels’ flies to Marin
The Oakland Theater Challenge is a jewel within the East Bay stage scene with its bold MO of presenting basic and thought-provoking works in imaginative methods aimed toward bridging cultural and socio-economic divides. And now the corporate is presenting Tony Kushner’s game-changing “Angels in America” in San Rafael in a collaborative enterprise with Marin Shakespeare Firm.
The troupe is presenting each components of the epic Tony- and Pulitzer-winning drama that tells a sprawling sequence of tales that includes historic and imagined characters and framed by the AIDS disaster and homosexual existence of the late twentieth century. “Part I: Millennium Approaches” is being staged via Oct. 26; “Part II: Perestroika” will likely be introduced Friday via Oct. 26. For “AIA” purists, Elements I and II may be seen back-to-back Oct. 19 and 26. All performances are at Marin Shakes’ new 165-seat indoor theater at 415 Fourth St., San Rafael.
After all, an enormous a part of any Kushner manufacturing is the legendary playwright’s distinctive fashion of epic storytelling that comes with compelling dialogue and a thicket of concepts each well timed and everlasting. As firm co-artistic director Michael Socrates Moran, who’s helming the manufacturing, places it, “‘Angels in America’ reveals itself as an uncanny prophecy for our political moment, demanding we face impossible hopelessness with hope, agency and action.”
Particulars: Tickets are $10-$60; oaklandtheaterproject.org/angels
— Randy McMullen, Workers
Fleet Week’s musical aspect
Fleet Week, which returns this week, is yearly a excessive level within the Bay Space occasions calendar. Begun in 1981, the weeklong celebration of the women and men who serve in America’s armed forces and associated providers, unfolds throughout San Francisco with a stunning mixture of navy may, civic delight and leisure. Just about everybody is aware of about Fleet Week’s headliners – the eye-popping aerial maneuvers carried out by the Blue Angels pilots, the stately Parade of Ships via the Bay and the annual Fleet Fest bash held on Piers 30/32 Saturday and Sunday. Lesser identified, maybe, is the bounty of free live shows staged by a few of the armed forces’ wonderful musicians at websites and venues all through the town. By means of Monday morning, you may catch the Navy Band Southwest Woodwind Quintet, the NBSW Brass Band, the First Marine Division Ceremonial Band and different outfits in quite a lot of reveals and settings, typically accompanied by a choir or a drill platoon, typically on their very own.
Particulars: Data and an entire schedule of the live shows – to not point out the aerial reveals Oct. 11-13 and the Parade of Ships on Oct. 11 Friday — may be discovered at fleetweeksf.org.
A cross-cultural partnership: Two Western musicians with roots within the East – one in Lebanon, the opposite in Japan – have joined forces for a high-concept collaboration referred to as “Broken Branches,” a 2024 Grammy Award-nominated album that explores blended identities and the shut cultural and musical hyperlinks down via the ages between the East and the West. Now Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman and a number of award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe will likely be enjoying works from that album at a San Francisco Performances-hosted recital on the Presidio Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Described as a “musical traversal of the Silk Road from the Middle Ages to the present,” the various program presents works by Henry Purcell, John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi, Toru Takemitsu, Benjamin Britten and extra, together with conventional works within the Sephardic and Arab Andalusian genres.
Particulars: Tickets are $45 and $60; sfperformances.org.
