Menlo Park music events

West Bay Opera's Otello

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Lucie Stern Community Theatre, Palo Alto

West Bay Opera's all new staging of Otello, a collaboration across the centuries by two great geniuses of the stage: Verdi and Shakespeare...

Opening Gala Concert for San Jose's 14th Annual International Russian Music Piano Competition

Friday, Jun 7 7:30p

Le Petit Trianon Theatre, San Jose

The Opening Gala Concert features distinguished members of the competition jury who are also world-class pianists: Antonio Pompa-Baldi: President of the Jury and Van Cliburn Medalist (http://www...

Opera Classics 2013

Sunday, Jun 23 4:00p

Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, Atherton

A gala concert to benefit West Bay Opera. A selection of best moments from your favorite operas, sung by a star-studded cast, with orchestra...

Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble with Ray Vega

Sunday, May 26 8:00p

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

Special guest Latin jazz trumpeter Ray Vega joins the Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Murray Low. An established innovator of jazz and Latin music, Mr...

John Mayall

Sunday, May 26 7:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

John Mayall is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. His musical career spans over fifty years but the most notable episode in it occurred during the late '60s...

Winner's Concert with Awards Ceremony Followed by a Champagne Reception

Sunday, Jun 16 5:00p

Le Petit Trianon Theatre, San Jose

The top prize winners in each of 4 different age categories (ages 6-32), perform highlights from their performances from the 10 day competition...

Dave Mason Acoustic Trio

Saturday, May 25 8:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

Dave Mason is a living rock legend...

Brenda Russell

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

With a unique musical perspective, intimate voice and prolific treasure-trove of lyrics, singer-songwriter Brenda Russell proves that a truly glowing talent only deepens with time...

Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band

Thursday, May 23 8:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

When Jimmie Vaughan says “I have the best job in the world,” he isn’t kidding...

8th Annual Funk Out with R.O.C.K.

Friday, May 31 8:00p

Mighty, San Francisco

Funk out with R.O.C.K. is in its 8th year as an over-the-top event with 100% of proceeds benefiting San Francisco nonprofit Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.)...

Redwood Symphony to offer Sweeney Todd in two performances

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

Cañada College Main Theatre, Woodside

Stephen Sondheim’s rollicking Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will be presented by Redwood Symphony in two semi-staged performances Saturday, June 1, at 8 p.m...

Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Ravel, who heard jazz in Harlem with Gershwin, was dumbfounded by the dazzling Rhapsody in Blue, which Gershwin played at a birthday party for the French composer...

Robert Henke: Dust

Friday, May 24 9:00p

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Berlin-based artist Robert Henke brings Dust to the Bing Concert Hall Studio, an exploration of textures and very slow movements of seemingly static sonic material, shredded into particles...

Stanford Wind Ensemble

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

Giancarlo Aquilanti and guest conductor Wesley Broadnax present the world premiere of a Stanford Wind Ensemble commissioned work, The Explorer, a symphonic poem for mezzo-soprano and concert band w...

Miguel Zenón's 'Identities Are Changeable: Tales from the Diaspora'

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco

As a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective in 2004, Miguel Zenón was a conspicuously talented, largely unknown 27-year-old saxophonist getting set to release his second album...

Miguel Zenón Rhythm Collective

Thursday, May 30 7:30p

SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco

As a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective in 2004, Miguel Zenón was a conspicuously talented, largely unknown 27-year-old saxophonist getting set to release his second album...

Final Round of International Russian Music Piano Competition Advanced Category w/Chamber Music Trio

Saturday, Jun 15 7:00p

Le Petit Trianon Theatre, San Jose

Over 100 pianists from 12 different countries compete for ten days starting on June 1st. Final Round of Competition determines Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists...

Bernhoft plus Sun Rai

Tuesday, Jun 25 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Since releasing his sophomore album "Solidarity Breaks" in early 2011, Norwegian retro-soul singer/multi-instrumentalist Bernhoft has thrilled crowds around the world with his stripped-down yet amp...

Big Moves presents: En Masse

Saturday, May 25 8:00p

Laney College Theater, Oakland

Big Moves' emFATic DANCE will be hitting the stage with all-new fabulous, fun, dramatic, and daring jazz, lyrical, and musical theater pieces with over ten dancers.....

Joan Soriano

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

Born in the rural countryside near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Joan Soriano fashioned his first guitar from a tin can and fishing line and has never looked back...

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