There's a bevy of Fourth of July celebrations with music around the San Francisco Bay Area this summer. Head for your favorite place to enjoy the festivities: Happy Fourth of July!
Skip Saturday morning cartoons this week and bring the family to hear young fiddlers bow bluegrass and jazz at the 17th annual fiddlekids concert matinee at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.
Pirate Jack Sparrow (played by Johnny Depp) will make his way across a big screen as Marin Symphony Music Director Alasdair McNeale leads orchestra members in the score to the rollicking film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
The Crowden Music Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a benefit concert featuring the world premiere of a new work from the composer Samuel Carl Adams, an alumnus, UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall.
This year's Mountain Play production of South Pacific will make a lasting impression on audiences of all ages, introducing the musical to some, and reacquainting others with songs have become American Songbook standards.
On Mother's Day, fans of Alison Faith Levy can hear her Big Time Tot Rock Band, in a program at the Contemporary Jewish museum, which opens early, at 9:45 a.m., for pre-schoolers and their families.
A bevy of S.F. Bay Area youth orchestras offer a spring bouquet of concerts, and more, this May. From an ice cream sundae social to a 50th Anniversary, here's your SFCV hit list.
