Live music silenced at Rite Spot Cafe, as venue seeks entertainment license

Feb 11, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

On Monday night at Rite Spot Cafe on Folsom and 17th streets, 7-year-old Issac Swanson was...

Alex Conde’s flamenco bebop will perform at Red Poppy Art House and elsewhere in the Bay

Feb 9, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Music

Breaking through on the U.S. jazz scene is tough enough for American-born musicians. European...

A Lisbon music pioneer brings Fado to the Red Poppy Art House

Jan 13, 2020 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Music, Newsletter, Today's Mission

As the first woman to professionally take up the Portuguese guitar, Lisbon’s Marta Pereira da...

People We Meet: Speaking through music

Aug 18, 2019 | People We Meet

The Argentine native Gustavo sat on a concrete bench, banging on his drum in Dolores Park with gusto.

“I cannot speak English [very well], but I can communicate with music,” he said as he played an afro-Caribbean style of drumming that he learned at the Community Music Center on 21st and Capp St.

Gustavo, who moved to San Francisco in 2000 and currently cleans houses and lives with a friend in Bernal Heights, said this style of was new to him and part of the neighborhood’s past.

Musician Lester Chambers boogies his birthday away

Apr 14, 2019 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Local History, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Richard Segovia walks around the music studio basement of his house wearing a grey ball cap with...

DJ Lamont — and his 14,500 records — come to SF’s Mission

Apr 9, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Video

It was a rainy morning at 20th and San Carlos, and Lamont Bransford-Young was combing his 12-inch...

The Elbo Room calls it quits, and musicians lament

Dec 31, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

As of Jan. 1, 2019, the Mission’s Elbo Room will be no more. It will slip into the realm of memory...

Noe Valley Chamber Music Presents: Anderson & Roe Piano Duo

Oct 9, 2018

Join us for our 26th season opener with Anderson & Roe Piano Duo on Sunday, October 14 at 4pm. With Billboard chart-topping albums, Emmy-nominated music videos, and an extensive international touring schedule, Anderson...

NVCM’s Classical Kids Presents: Anderson & Roe Piano Duo

Oct 9, 2018

We are thrilled to have Anderson & Roe open our 2018-19 season here at NVCM. Not only are they some of the best pianists in the US, but also they are some of the most engaging. They love helping audiences of all ages find...