Folk/Blues/Roots

David Bratman - December 5, 2023

The founder of L.A. new-music group Wild Up leads a spirited concert of Americana, including Jeff Midkiff’s Mandolin Concerto.

SFCV Editors - November 28, 2023

The musical world is teeming with concerts and ideas to help shake off the end-of-year darkness.

SFCV Editors and Janos Gereben - November 28, 2023

The musical world is teeming with concerts and ideas to help shake off the end-of-year darkness.

Lisa Hirsch - November 7, 2023

Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s work is bold and beautiful and couldn’t be timelier.

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City:
Livermore
Price Range:
$30 to $60
Lily O'Brien - October 28, 2023

Fayetteville, North Carolina, is the setting for Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera — and where Raven grew up.

Ilana Walder-Biesanz - October 23, 2023

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s new work, set during the American Civil War, has its characters wrestling with the nature of storytelling.

Date:
Price Range:
$55-$65
Michael Zwiebach - September 26, 2023

The star violinist and entrepreneur arrives in Walnut Creek to play Wynton Marsalis with the California Symphony.

Jeff Kaliss - September 26, 2023

The annual admission-free festival is again taking over Golden Gate Park, with 75 acts on six stages over three days.