Lou Fancher

The 36th San Francisco Jazz Festival offers a diverse range of musical acts from all walks of jazz life.

When polio struck the aspiring pianist, she had to retrain her body how to engage with her instrument and make music in new ways.

The smorgasbord dance extravaganza celebrates its 40th anniversary in July.

The conceptual artist died in 2015, but a trust ensures that her works find currency and collaboration with contemporary artists.

The California composer addresses headline topics with latter-day lieder imbued with classical, jazz, and rock influences.

Laura Kaminsky's Today It Rains explores the artist's transformational journey to New Mexico.

It’s a band that can go from blues to Bach and back to bluegrass and folk. And the audience is growing.

An unassuming jazz great is still a jazz great.

Malian griot, Egyptian chaabi, dan bau, rock 'n' roll, sound artists - and one very unusual string quartet.

The new-music festival devotes six days to text-sound compositional work using "speech" as a musical medium.