There’s quite a bit to see and do for Bay Space arts and leisure followers this weekend. Right here’s a partial roundup.
Live performance picks: Patrick Landeza, The Residents, MC5
Listed below are three reveals Bay Space music followers ought to learn about.
Patrick Landeza: The jovial and oh-so-talented Bay Space instructor, creator, author and musician is among the many world’s high slack key guitarists (he was the primary mainland U.S. musician to seize Hawaii’s prestigious Nā Hōkū Hanohano award). He’s again with a brand new album that includes two of his sons, Justin Firmeza and Patrick Landeza Jr. The favored musician and his proficient offspring will have fun the discharge of “Patrick Landeza & Sons,” in addition to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a present at Yoshi’s in Oakland tonight. Particular visitor is Mahealani Lee, a former Miss Universe, who will MC and carry out hula.
Particulars: 8 p.m.; $25-$49; yoshis.com.
The Residents: San Francisco’s famed art-rock band, now in its forty first 12 months of anonymously delivering high-concept satirical recordings and multimedia live shows to the huddled lots, returns to the stage with an up to date reside manufacturing primarily based on its 1988 basic, “God in 3 Individuals.” The present, starring the six-member band in collaboration with video artist John Sanborn, with visitor vocalist Sivan Lioncub and Bay Space porn star Jiz Lee (who performs two “ambiguously gendered conjoined twins”), involves the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco for 2 performances.
Particulars: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; $50; www.presidiotheatre.org, www.residents.com.
MC5: The legendary Detroit pre-punk, rabble-rousing storage rock band, which was nominated however not chosen for induction into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame final week, brings its “Heavy Lifting Tour” to Bimbo’s 365 Membership in San Francisco on Could 13. The present lineup consists of founding guitarist Wayne Kramer, drummer Stephen Perkins, bassist Vicki Randle, guitarist Stevie Salas. Kramer has reportedly mentioned the present model of the band plans to launch a brand new album this 12 months — if that's the case it could be the band’s first new launch in 51 years.
Particulars: Flaming Groovies opens; present begins 8 p.m.; $39.50; bimbos365club.com.
— Randy McMullen, Employees
On stage: Don Reed, Magic Theatre premiere
Listed below are two productions Bay Space theater followers ought to learn about.
Don Reed’s ‘Going Out’: Together with his participating, completely likable stage presence and excellent storytelling abilities, East Bay comic/playwright/actor Don Reed’s reveals are at all times a deal with. He’s again at The Marsh in San Francisco with a revised model of his pandemic-themed “Going Out,” which finds Reed riffing on, as organizers put it, “the collective pleasure and apprehension of being again out on the planet,” from hitting golf equipment and reveals to “combative moments” at a Walgreens retailer. Particulars: By June 4; The Marsh, San Francisco; $25-$100; themarsh.org.
Magic Theatre’s ‘Sloth Play’: Magic Theatre presents the long-delayed world premiere of former San Francisco-based playwright Sam Chanse’s comedy/drama “Monument, or 4 Sisters (A Sloth Play),” that facilities on 4 sisters coping with a devastating loss. The present incorporates a monumental highway journey, the titular speaking sloths and a bunch of cartoon bombs. Giovanna Sardelli directs a solid that features Rinabeth Apostol, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart and Sango Tajima. Particulars: In previews right now and Friday, fundamental run is Saturday via Could 29; Magic Theatre at Fort Mason Heart, San Francisco; $20-$70; www.magictheatre.org.
— Randy McMullen, Employees
Classical picks: Cal Symph, San Jose tribute
New works and repertory favorites spotlight the classical scene this week. Listed below are 5 occasions you gained’t wish to miss.
Cuong’s “Timber”: The California Symphony is closing its season with the West Coast premiere of “Subsequent Week’s Timber” by composer-in-residence Viet Cuong; impressed by a Mary Oliver poem, the work was launched on-line in Could 2021 and is lastly making its in-person debut. Carried out by Donato Cabrera, this system additionally consists of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto, that includes Nathan Chan — a Bay Space prodigy making his hometown return — as soloist. Particulars: 7:30 Could 14, 4 p.m. Could 15; Lesher Heart for the Arts, Walnut Creek; $20-$74; www.californiasymphony.org.
Mozart at New Century: Mozart’s “Sinfonia concertante” for violin, viola and orchestra is the primary occasion on the New Century Chamber Orchestra’s season finale, with violist Paul Neubauer becoming a member of music director Daniel Hope and the orchestra. Two Mozart symphonies, together with the sensible No. 40 in G minor, spherical out this system. Particulars: 7:30 Could 12 at First Congregational Church, Berkeley; 7:30 p.m. Could 13 at First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto, 7:30 p.m. Could 14 at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; $30-$67.50; www.ncco.org.
In Memoriam: The San Jose Wind Symphony’s Sunday afternoon live performance is devoted to the reminiscence of founding director Darrell Johnston, who died in Could 2021. This system options clarinetist Jon Manasse in Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1; works by Bernstein and Rimsky-Korsakov are additionally on the schedule. Particulars: 3 p.m. Could 15; McAfee Performing Arts Heart, Saratoga; $7-$22; www.sjws.org.
Gold Coast and visitors: “Cultural Crossroads” is the title of the Gold Coast Chamber Gamers’ season finale this weekend, with the Alexander String Quartet and Native American artist R. Carlos Nakai in a program that features works by Dvorak, Florence Worth, and authentic works and preparations by Nakai. Particulars: 7:30 Could 14, Don Tatzin Neighborhood Corridor, Lafayette Library; $15-$45; gccpmusic.com.
Bullock’s “Voice”: The elegant Julia Bullock, a San Francisco Symphony collaborative companion, returns to Davies Symphony Corridor with “Historical past’s Persistent Voice,” that includes members of Symphony in an authentic work highlighting “the phrases, work, and experiences of Black American artists.” Carried out by Christian Reif, with video installations by Hana S. Kim, this system options music by composers Tania León, Jessie Montgomery, Carolyn Yarnell, Allison Loggins-Hull, and Pamela Z. Particulars: 7:30 p.m. Could 17, Davies Symphony Corridor, San Francisco; $17.50-$165; www.sfsymphony.org.
— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent