A performance art installation with live music by
Bobb Saggeth, the world's most fabulous Black Sabbath Cover Band
HAWKMOON is a live art event created through the collaboration of over 20 Bay Area artists. With outlandish costumes, flamboyant makeup, sound art, photography, drawings, collage, and a live band, HAWKMOON offers magical realism through a glam rock lens. The performance installation spans three rooms with character-driven environments exploring gender, misogyny, PTSD, and schizophrenia – a healthy dose of modern American culture! Two Nights Only
$12 Advance. $15 at the door. Advance Tickets available at: www.shotgunplayers.org, 510.841.6500.
12 midnight to 10pm, Shotgun Studios 1201 University Avenue
Warm up with a high-energy jazz concert when pianist and composer Erika Oba returns to Claremont Branch Library. Ms. Oba’s original compositions have explored various Japanese music forms such as the Okinawan sanshin tradition, taiko drumming and contemporary folk music. This intimately arranged duo set with bass player Chris Bastian, her collaborator on the CD, Carry On, presents Erika’s most recent material.
for more information please call 510-981-6280.
Erika Oba is a composer, performer and educator born and raised in the SF Bay Area. She received a Bachelors in Music in Jazz Piano Performance at Oberlin College and Conservatory and an MA in Music Composition from Mills College. She is active in a variety of settings including big bands, indie rock bands, funk bands, original jazz groups, and theater companies.
This free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library
4pm to 5pm, 2940 Benvenue Avenue
$20 adv / $22 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
7pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
Please join Folk This! and Friends (Marcus Duskin, Carol Denney and Jim Nelson) for a community sing-a-long in honor of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Join us for an evening of songs dedicated to peace and freedom.
Suggested donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds.
For more info contact [email protected].
7pm to 9pm, 2133 University Ave