The Stylistics
2025-09-20 21:30, 2025-09-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Yoshi’s Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
In 1966, “The Stylistics” was formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by combining local high school rival singing groups, “The Percussions” and “The Monarchs”. When members from each of the groups answered the then United States draft call and higher education endeavors after graduation, the remaining members under the guidance of English teacher, Beverly Hamilton joined forces and officially created the name “The Stylistics”.
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"Saturday Night Mic" Late Night Comedy Show / San Francisco
2025-09-20 22:00 | The Function SF: Comedy Club & Cocktail Lounge, 1414 Market Street, San Francisco, 94102
Check out THE FUNCTION – San Francisco’s new black-owned comedy club bringing back stand-up comedy and nightlife to Market Street.
Don’t miss this Saturday late night wild showcase with the Bay Area’s top rising comics plus singer-songwriters, magicians, jugglers and more.
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The Jazz Room: A Journey to the Heart of New Orleans
2025-09-21 - 2025-12-21 | The Palace Theater, 644 Broadway, San Francisco, 94133
⭐ Come on down to The Jazz Room in San Francisco! With a mix of carefully chosen classics and spontaneous improvisation, this feel-good live music performance takes you on a journey to the roots of this revolutionary genre. Get your tickets now for The Jazz Room: A Journey to the Heart of New Orleans in San Francisco!
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Sunday Streets: Western Addition Community Block Party
2025-09-21 12:00 - 16:00 | Western Addition, 1201 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, 94115
Sunday Streets Western Addition is your opportunity to experience the neighborhood in a whole new way—free from cars and full of community connection, activities, and fun! As part of San Francisco’s open streets movement, this event transforms the streets of Western Addition*, into a vibrant space for recreation, culture, and engagement. Join us from 12 PM to 4 PM on September 21st and be part of the celebration!
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San Rafael PorchFest
2025-09-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Gerstle Park Neighborhood, San Rafael Ave, San Rafael, 94901
Hosted in Gerstle Park, one of San Rafael’s oldest and most cherished neighborhoods, PorchFest draws thousands of attendees and dozens of different musical acts. People stroll from porch to porch, mingle with old friends and new, and listen to local Marin County artists. Attendees can fuel up and cool down with gourmet food trucks or bring a picnic lunch to enjoy while the kids play at Gerstle Park.

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Kinderfest
2025-09-21 12:00 - 18:00 | San Francisco Tourist Club, 30 Ridge Ave, Mill Valley, 94941
Celebrate with great food, drink, live music, and dancing at our traditional German festival, Kinderfest!
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Spotlight Sundays: A Conversation on Black Fatherhood
2025-09-21 13:00 - 14:30 | OMCA | Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
This month’s Spotlight Sundays invites you to a powerful exploration of Black fatherhood through the lens of three visionary artists, each offering a unique perspective on its complexity and depth. Through film, conversation, and artistic reflection, we’ll engage with some of the most nuanced and resonant realities of Black fatherhood today.
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Mad Hatter's Tea Party
2025-09-21 13:00 - 15:00 | United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Avenue, San Francisco, 94116
Join us for the 15th Annual Mad Hatter Tea Party! This popular and festive event is a fundraiser for our beloved Patrick J. Dowling Library which is staffed by volunteers who work tirelessly to promote Irish/Irish American literature, history, and culture by preserving and modernizing the collection of books, periodicals, and multimedia and by providing public access to the collection. In addition, the Dowling Library at the United Irish Cultural Center sponsors many cultural events throughout the year from art exhibits to genealogy and language presentations, from literary events to special exhibits.
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Empowerment Weekend: Family Fun Day
2025-09-21 13:00 - 17:00 | OMCA | Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Honoring Educators, Celebrating Community
Join us for a delightful Family Day, hosted by the Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area, as we celebrate the essential contributions of educators in our community! This joyful gathering will feature a variety of fun and engaging activities for all ages, creating a day filled with connection, appreciation, and community spirit.
Enjoy live entertainment, games, delicious snacks, and family-friendly festivities while honoring the educators who shape our future every day. With special recognitions, hands-on activities, and opportunities to learn more about the Urban League’s impact, this is a day you won’t want to miss.
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Canyon Fest 2025
2025-09-21 13:30 - 21:00 | Wildcat Canyon Community School, 3800 Clark Road, El Sobrante, 94803
Join us on our beautiful outdoor campus in the East Bay hills for this family friendly (but not kid-focused) benefit! With headliner Sugar Candy Mountain, and special guests Vetiver, Indianna Hale, Joel Robinow, Barrio Manouche, Banda Kafuné, plus sets from DJ Lisa and DJ Easy Reiter. Rooted in community and sunshine, it will be a fresh air music festival not to miss! There will be local food and coffee by Xulo, Picnic, Heavenly Acai and Cute Coffee, an Artisan Maker’s Market, closing with a DJ dance party under the stars.
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Book Launch: Jennifer Love with Lauren Parker and June Martin
2025-09-21 14:00 | Book Passage, One Ferry Building 42, San Francisco, 94111, Bangladesh
Sixteen-year-old Smidge is on the run, burdened with a shameful secret. Together with her fellow runaway, a performance artist called Violet, she travels through the underbelly of America, desperately searching for a way to rise above her past. On meeting a travelling circus filled with misfits and drifters, they think they might have found a home. But as Violet is drawn under the influence of its sinister ringleader, Smidge learns that belonging comes with a price.
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Melanie Charles fT. Ignabu & Paul Wilson Bae / Mark de Clive-Lowe, & MORE
2025-09-21 16:00 | SFJAZZ, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Headlining our first full building activation of the season with Oakland’s SMARTBOMB curatorial arts collective will be Melanie Charles with Ignabu x Paul Wilson Bae, and Mark de Clive-Lowe in Miner Auditorium, with DJ sets by E Da Boss, and live visuals by Erik Wilson.
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7th Annual Blues, Brews & BBQ
2025-09-22 12:00 - 18:00 | Washington Park, 740 Central Ave, Alameda, 94501
Alameda’s favorite Blues festival returns on Sunday Septmber 22nd from 12-6pm with an ace line up including Grammy Award nominee Mark Hummel and Bay Area legend the Dynamic Miss Faye Carol. Head over to the park, find a spot in the sun and enjoy the finest California craft brews & mouthwatering BBQ. Kids can try their hand at making their own DIY instruments at the Kids Crafting Zone. This west end staple is the principal fundraiser event for local arts nonprofit West End Arts District. Come and enjoy, safe in the knowledge that the next drink is funding a good cause!
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Railroad Square Music Festival
2025-09-22 12:00 - 19:00 | Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square, 9 4th St, Santa Rosa, 95401
Eight years running, the Railroad Square Music Festival is a FREE day of music in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square. The Railroad Square Music Festival is a project of The Lost Church, a non-profit organization dedicated to the belief that people need beautiful, intimate performance spaces to share their ideas, stories and arts. Their Santa Rosa theater opened in 2020 and is on a mission to help ensure that the arts have a place in the future of the North Bay.
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Arte y Alebrijes: Creating an Alebrije Workshop with Balam
2025-09-22 18:00 | San Jose Jazz, 310 S First St, San Jose, 95113
This hands-on workshop offers attendees the unique opportunity to craft and personalize their own Alebrije sculpture. Led by instructor Carolina, this bilingual course will also delve into the historical background of Alebrijes and their connection to Zapotec traditions.
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Community Screening on IN THE RED Changing Lives to Save Lives
2025-09-22 18:30 | Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Eleven years in the making, IN THE RED is a feature documentary about transformation, about growing up poor in one of the wealthiest areas in the United States and getting into trouble early on. Some find their way to a free program in Oakland, California that offers a lifeline – rigorous training to become firefighters and first responders. But the streets keep calling. What makes one kid heed that call and another ignore it? IN THE RED – raw, intimate and at times funny – follows the lives of six young people for more than a decade. Not everyone succeeds. But for those who do, their lives are forever changed.
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Community Mondays: Spontaneous Creations with Bryan Dyer
2025-09-22 19:30 | The Freight, 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Vocalists! Come improvise with Bryan Dyer, Freight instructor and member of Bobby McFerrin’s Motion.
During this Spontaneous Creatons session, Bryan will lead improvisation collaborations in duos and small groups, some based in pure improvisation and others by suggestion.
Parking
Center Street Garage, next door to The Freight, is currently open nightly until 1am except Sunday. More details here.
Public Transit
The Freight & Salvage is BARTable! Downtown Berkeley BART station is a half a block from the Freight. Details at bart.gov. Many AC Transit bus lines stop within a few blocks of the Freight. Details at actransit.org.
Nearby Favorites Bars/Restaurants
Revival Bar + Kitchen | 2102 Shattuck Avenue, (510) 549–9950
Comal Next Door | 2024 Shattuck Ave, (510) 422-662
Gather | 2200 Oxford Street @ Allston, (510) 809-0400
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Jorge Luis Pacheco Trio Plays the Buena Vista Social Club
2025-09-22 19:30 | San Jose Jazz, 310 S First St, San Jose, 95113
Hailing from Havana, Cuba, Jorge Luis Pacheco is a virtuoso pianist, singer, composer, percussionist and arranger. His music has been described as a confluence of Afro-Cuban and American jazz and classical music, with a measure of contemporary pop and soul.
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Quartet San Francisco: Motown Unplugged
2025-09-22 20:00 | Yoshi’s Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
The Bay Area’s premiere crossover string ensemble, Quartet San Francisco, was founded in 2001 by classical and jazz violinist Jeremy Cohen. “QSF was born out of the desire to create a genre of string chamber literature that gathers its material from popular music elements of recent decades,” Cohen explains, “still maintaining the integrity and spirit of traditional chamber music.” Joining him in the group are Cullen Luper (violin), Chad Kaltinger (viola), and Tyler DeVigal (cello). “I like to tailor textures and lines that maximize the strengths of the players in the group. I really do think about the distinct musical personalities around me in the quartet, and I write very specifically with my three colleagues in mind,” says Cohen.
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Jorge Luis Pacheco Trio featuring Andrea Barrera
2025-09-23 18:30 | Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Jorge Luis Pacheco, is one of the leading pianists of the new generation of jazz in Cuba.
He was a First Prize Winner of the International Contest for Young Jazz Musicians (Jojazz_2007). He is a Pianist, percussionist, composer and musical director. He studied piano and percussion at the music school “Alejandro García It Caturla “later graduated percussionist in the conservatory “Amadeo Roldán” and worked as a professor at the conservatory “Guillermo Thomas “.
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Pino Palladino & Blake Mills Featuring Sam Gendel & Chris Dave
2025-09-23 20:00 | The Freight, 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Bassist Pino Palladino (D’Angelo, Nine Inch Nails, Erykah Badu, John Mayer) and guitarist and producer Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Perfume Genius) reunite with That Wasn’t a Dream, their second collaborative instrumental album that builds on the deep chemistry they first explored on 2021’s Notes With Attachments, expanding it into a meditative, boundary-pushing sonic world. The record blurs lines between composition and improvisation, melody and abstraction. With contrapuntal interplay by sometimes unidentifiable instruments, it’s a project defined by ambiguity, restraint, and the radical beauty of listening closely. Palladino and Mills recorded That Wasn’t a Dream over two months at Los Angeles’ Sound City Studios. The new album has contributions from drummer Chris Dave and saxophonist Sam Gendel.
Parking
Center Street Garage, next door to The Freight, is currently open nightly until 1am except Sunday. More details here.
Public Transit
The Freight & Salvage is BARTable! Downtown Berkeley BART station is a half a block from the Freight. Details at bart.gov. Many AC Transit bus lines stop within a few blocks of the Freight. Details at actransit.org.
Nearby Favorites Bars/Restaurants
Revival Bar + Kitchen | 2102 Shattuck Avenue, (510) 549–9950
Comal Next Door | 2024 Shattuck Ave, (510) 422-662
Gather | 2200 Oxford Street @ Allston, (510) 809-0400
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Legally Blynd w/ Special Guest "Agapesoul!"
2025-09-23 20:00 | Yoshi’s Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Legally Blynd is a powerhouse collective reshaping the music landscape with a fearless fusion of gospel, blues, soul, and jazz. Founded by visionary guitarist and producer John “Jubu” Smith, the group transcends genre boundaries to create music that is both timeless and groundbreaking.
The band is comprised of world-class musicians whose résumés read like a who’s who of modern music. Collectively, they have performed with global icons including Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, Garth Brooks, Fantasia, Jamie Foxx, and many more. This all-star pedigree fuels Legally Blynd’s unmatched artistry and magnetic stage presence.
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12-Week Youth Vocal Intensive
2025-09-24 - 2025-12-10 | Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, 410 14th St, Oakland, 94612
This 12-Week Youth Vocal Intensive is offered at no cost for youth participants ages 10-16 of all skill levels. Our goal is to instill and cultivate a love of the arts in each student, with a well-rounded, powerful curriculum in vocal performance. We aim to foster a community based on mutual respect and encouragement so all students can discover and explore their creativity and expression. Our powerful faculty features legendary vocalist and educator Faye Carol, who will guide students of all levels through a life-changing learning experience.

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Exhibition Tour: Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection
2025-09-24 12:15 | BAMPFA, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Graduate students from the Departments of History of Art and Film & Media offer tours of Object Oriented on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
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Pop-up Transit Art Fair
2025-09-24 15:00 - 18:00 | Salesforce Transit Center, 425 Mission St, San Francisco, 94105
​What do art and transit have in common? It moves us.
​Celebrate Bay Area Transit month by shopping and supporting local artists at TJPA’s Salesforce Transit Center, where the Bay Area’s transportation future is taking shape.
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Charles McNeal + Eddie M.
2025-09-24 19:00 | Black Cat, 400 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA, 94109, United States
Two of the West Coast’s finest saxophonists team up for this ferocious double bill. These two saxophone titans will push each other to higher and higher heights on the horn, bringing the swing and the funk in full effect, backed by a trio that’s sure to supply the heat featuring Joe Warner (piano), Michael ‘Tiny’ Lindsey (bass), and Dante Roberson (drums).
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UB40
2025-09-24 19:30 | The Mountain Winery, 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga, CA, 95070, United States
World-famous reggae stars UB40 are set to mark their 40th anniversary with a 2018 US tour and first album release in over four years.
The band will play many of their seventeen Top 10 hit singles, including ‘Kingston Town’, ‘Food For Thought’, ‘One In Ten’, ‘I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You’, ‘Don’t Break My Heart’ and ‘Sing Our Own Song’ and, of course, ‘Red, Red Wine’, amongst many other fan favourites.
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Juju's Burlesque
2025-09-24 20:00 | Yoshi’s Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Jujuana S. Williams, affectionately known as Juju, is a dynamic performing artist with a B.A. in Performing Arts from UC Santa Cruz. Her extensive stage experience includes standout roles in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone with BAM House (Oakland) and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), Beehive with Palo Alto Players, RENT with The Royal Underground (SF), SF Follies Musical Revue, and Dream With Your Eyes Open with Ponchatoula Productions, which toured throughout Louisiana.
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Sonoma Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival
2025-09-25 - 2025-09-27 | Sonoma Valley Plaza, 453 1st Street East, Sonoma, 95476
Since 1897, the Vintage Festival has brought the community together to celebrate the annual harvest season in Sonoma Valley. Our winemakers, grape growers, and community welcome you for a weekend honoring our regions rich winemaking legacy and agricultural heritage in the birthplace of California Wine.
Join us as we commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Sonoma Valley Wine – the Year of the Vintner. Two centuries ago, the first wine grapes were harvested here, and we’ll celebrate with community-wide festivities in the Historic Sonoma Plaza.
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