Palo Alto 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...

Afiara String Quartet & Cecilia String Quartet

Sunday, May 19 2:30p

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

The Afiara and Cecilia String Quartets, first introduced to campus through Stanford’s own St. Lawrence String Quartet, collaborate on a unique program of works for quintet and octet...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dave Mason Acoustic Trio

Saturday, May 25 8:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

Dave Mason is a living rock legend...

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...

Charles Neville with Youssoupha Sidibe & The Mystic Rhythms

Tuesday, May 21 8:00p

Yoshi's Jazz Club and Japanese Restaurant, Oakland

Charles Neville & Youssoupha Sidibe with The Mystic Rhythms Band have been astonishing audiences with amazing performances combining New Orleans and West African music with drums and bass creating ...

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...

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...

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...

Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon

Sunday, May 19 2:00p

Club Fugazi, San Francisco

The always-changing Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon is the world’s longest running musical revue...

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...

Carlos Reyes

Thursday, May 30 8:00p

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

Carlos Reyes recording artist, producer, engineer, harpist and violinist has been breaking musical barriers since his first public performance at the age of five. Born in Paraguay South America...

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