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SF Ballet raises $5 million for pandemic relief fund, releases quarantine short film
Ellen Rose Hummel and Daniel Deivison-Oliveira in Millepied’s Dance of Dreams. Courtesy: San Francisco Ballet. Not many Bay Area arts organizations can say they’ve been able to keep employees paid during the pandemic, but the San Francisco Ballet recently announced that it was closing its employee relief fund after…
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Slim’s rock club becomes DJ venue under new ownership
The concert hall formerly known as Slim’s photographed in March, following its closure. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. The venerable former music club Slim’s was sold to an ownership group that plans to turn it into a primarily DJ and electronica venue, radio station KQED reported on Wednesday. Slim’s. According KQED, which…
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The Chapel to host physically distanced outdoor show Saturday with The Red Room Orchestra
San Francisco’s Red Room Orchestra will perform on Saturday at a special outdoor fundraiser show produced by The Chapel and folkYEAH! The Chapel’s parking lot will be transformed into an intimate supper club. Related story: Independent concert venues centralize as NIVA, lobby for federal COVID-19 support The ticketed, seated dinner…
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Metallica to record NorCal performance for national drive-in event
Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2019. Mike DeWald/STAFF. Metallica will perform and film a concert in the Bay Area to be shown at a nationwide “Encore Drive-In Nights” event on Aug. 29. The Bay Area metal band becomes…
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Outside Lands joins the pack, goes virtual in 2020 as ‘Inside Lands’
The Outside Lands windmill arch on Aug. 10, 2019. Adam Pardee/STAFF. Joining festivals throughout the country like BottleRock and Lollapalooza, Outside Lands is going virtual in 2020, with a streamed two-day event on Aug. 28 and 29 that will include a mix of archived performances, new live performances, and…
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Classical Tahoe fest adapts to chamber format, with audience, following maestro’s death to COVID-19
Courtesy: Classical Tahoe. Two San Francisco Symphony musicians are among the performers at Classical Tahoe’s annual summer music festival at Incline Village, Nevada. The festival, which has presented top-caliber orchestra shows for three weeks each summer since 2012, is switching formats to chamber orchestra performances that will be played…
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass goes virtual in 2020, creates fund for local roots artists
The producers of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have officially canceled the 2020 festival in Golden Gate Park. In its place in October, an online broadcast will include live performances by numerous artists, as well as archival streams. Additionally, the festival has launched a $1.5-million relief fund to support the local music community…
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Burger Boogaloo drops name, association to Burger Records in wake of scandal
Fans at Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park in Oakland on June 30, 2018. Karen Goldman/STAFF. The producer of Oakland’s annual Burger Boogaloo festival announced today that his company, Total Trash Productions, has broken off its relationship with Burger Records. The label is facing allegations of fostering a culture of…
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Alameda County Fair announces more drive-in concerts for this weekend
Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Live music is again returning to the Alameda County Fairgrounds, with two days of concerts featuring tribute bands playing the Pretenders, Fleetwood Mac and…
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Los Lobos to play Hardly Strictly livestream Saturday; festival’s status to be announced
Margo Price performs at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. Los Lobos, who have performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2007, 2013, 2015 and 2018, will play a live-streamed concert Saturday and participate in a live Q&A session, during which…
