Friday, April 25
Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Pete Schmitt
Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
Roopa Mahadevan presents a Carnatic concert, featuring some of the Bay Area’s amazing South Indian classical instrumental talent.
Fri 4/25 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27
Fri 4/25 8:00 PM 2727 [2727 California Street Berkeley, CA 94703]
Sonic Cartographies is Klank.ist’s newest performance series, curated by Eda Er, designed to foster bi-monthly gatherings and collaborative encounters with Bay Area-based musicians and artists. The series offers a platform for local artists to engage with, interpret, and respond to works and ideas shared by Klank.ist members across Berlin, Istanbul, Strasbourg, Graz, Yalova, and the San Francisco Bay Area — forming an ongoing, evolving dialogue across geographies.
Fri 4/25 8:00 PM Vic’s Winehouse [1870 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, California 94115]
The Aaron Bennett Trio, featuring Aaron Bennett on sax, Dan Seamans on bass, and Smith Dobson Jr. on drums, plays music by Thelonious Monk and more!
Saturday, April 26
Sat 4/26 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [567 5th St. Oakland]
thingamajigs performance group
Sat 4/26 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706]
Roopa Mahadevan explores her versatility and identity as a diasporic musician with crossover material from jazz, R&B, film music, and more.
Sat 4/26 7:30 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27
Sat 4/26 7:30 PM Vernon Salon Series [Pop-up location in Albany!]
Transdisciplinary artist Judit Navratil and musician Anne Rainwater present ATtension – Growing Roots and other compasses, a site-specific work in Albany, CA. In a time of rapid change and overwhelming noise, ATtension invites you to pause, root yourself in place, and reconnect with what makes a home. This performance in Judit’s backyard brings together musician Anne Rainwater, Judit Navratil, the Redwood Tree, the rhythmic pulse of BART, and the gentle stream, weaving a soundscape that balances the contrasts of movement and stillness, nature and urban life, inner and outer worlds.
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The Accidental Composers Collective returns to the C4NM with new music for trio (clarinet, violin, and cello), and trio and soprano.
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Ugra Deva Loka [1035 22nd ave. Unit 14 Oakland, CA 94606]
CTE- Harsh industrial noise from Sam Torres (Crawl of Time/TCU) Kevin (Sutekh Hexen) and Lucas (Infinexhuma)
Xome- Classick spastick HN
Blood of Chhinnamastika- Occult Cutup/PE
Sterile Garden- Industrial sound collage project of (Eureka, CA)
Sanctuary State- Dark ambient and death industrial
Doors at 8pm
Sound at 8:30pm
@Ugra Deva Loka
1035 22nd ave unit 14 oakland ca, 94606
Sat 4/26 8:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Kurumi Kadoya (Japan)
Mason Jones
Birdspanker
Adult Math
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Sat 4/26 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Arab.AMP x The Lab: DISCOSTAN ft. Checkpoint303 + DJ ariB
Sunday, April 27
Sun 4/27 1:00 PM Dolores Deluxe [3500 22nd St., San Francisco, CA]
The Holly Martins play at Dolores Deluxe
Sun 4/27 2:00 PM SFJAZZ Center [201 Franklin Street (at Fell) SF CA]
Kronos Festival 2025
Good Medicine
Apr 25-27
Sun 4/27 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
The San Francisco Chapter of NACUSA returns to San Francisco’s Center for New Music for an afternoon concert of chamber music written by members of NACUSA/SF.
Sun 4/27 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Streaming and in-person:Click for stream Click to make donation
Wooden Fish Ensemble – Piano and Strings – Sunday, April 27 at 4 pm
Tuesday, April 29
Tue 4/29 12:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS
Tue 4/29 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out: Evangelista Quintet Album Release, Bafus/Raskin/Johnston Trio
Wednesday, April 30
Wed 4/30 12:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS
Thursday, May 1
Thu 5/01 12:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS
Thu 5/01 7:00 PM Shapeshifters Cinema [2021 San Jose Avenue Apartment 6]
Do-Over Music Series @ Shapeshifters Cinema
Set 1: 7pm
Lenny Gonzalez – guitar and electronics
Erik Ellestad – sax and electronics
Set 2: 8pm
Improvised music and film with:
the above plus
Kanoko Nishi-Smith – koto, Ava Lynch – drums/percussion, Jordan Glenn – drums/percussion.
with films screened and manipulated by our Shapeshifters hosts.
Thu 5/01 7:00 PM Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU [1600 Holloway Ave San Francisco]
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS
Friday, May 2
Fri 5/02 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Mimesis Magazine Issue #2: Let’s Spoil!
Fri 5/02 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF]
Other Dimensions in Sound presents Low Grade Infection
Fri 5/02 7:30 PM First Congregational Church [1985 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA]
Let your heart unfurl in empathy, vulnerability, and hope as Peninsula Women’s Chorus’ spring concert, Break Open to Beauty, beckons you to embrace music’s deep, transformative power to awaken emotions!
