San Mateo music events

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.)...

Show For Equality: The Stephanie Teel Band

Sunday, Jun 16 7:00p

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

Marriage Equality USA is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization fighting solely for the freedom to marry at the state and federal levels – including successful initiatives in New Y...

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...

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...

Miguel Zenón duos with Luis Perdomo & Paoli Mejias

Sunday, Jun 2 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...

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...

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...

Enrico Rava Tribe ft. Gianluca Petrella

Thursday, Jun 13 8:00p

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

A European jazz patriarch universally esteemed by his New York peers, Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava has collaborated with some of the music’s most creative figures, from Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd...

Miguel Zenón presents Alma Adentro Ensemble

Friday, May 31 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...

Peter White

Friday, May 24 8:00p

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

Over the years, Peter White has maintained a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape...

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...

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...

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...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Friday, Jun 14 8:00p

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

A life full of music is the story of Ricky Skaggs...

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...

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...

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...

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...