Berkeley Arts Festival Calendar

08/15/2015

Watkins Family Hour, hosted by Sean & Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek

Featuring Fiona Apple, Don Heffington, Sebastian Steinberg & More Special Guests. $28-$40. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org

12 midnight to 8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States


Green Huse and Friends

Sing the Songs of
Joni Mitchell

Longstanding East Bay songwriter Green Huse heads up a night of Joni Mitchell songs. She will utilize the concert grand, as well as her third arm, her Martin 28 guitar to interpret and celebrate songs from Blue, Ladies of the Canyon, Court and Spark and For the Roses. She will be joined by Friends Shelly Doty, Maggie Forti, Eileen Hazel and Helen Chaya from Portland offering their own favorite songs. Green is celebrating one her her most profound influences in Joni, influences that can be heard in the duo Green and Root (www.greenandroot.com), her main songwriting vehicle. Green and Root's songwriting has been called intimate, unique and especially perceptive. Their upcoming recording Rise' will be released soon. Green is also an accomplished improvisation ensemble singer. Her group The Elements has been lauded as a leader in Bay Area Improvisation.

www.theelementsmusic.org
For more information, contact, [email protected].
$20

8pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave.