SF music

SF music

"When I began this, I had no idea the 19th amendment represented seventy-two years of struggle," says Andrea Ramsey, composer of Suffrage Cantata.

"It cheers me up," said Edward Young of San Francisco. "I try to slow down my dementia."

Duboce ParkJam is a free event sponsored by Friends of Duboce Park, encouraging attendees to bring blankets, chairs, and picnics for an enjoyable afternoon of music.

In 1976, musician and neuroscientist Manfred Clynes proposed that each emotion is expressed through a precise, biologically programmed dynamic form he called a 'sentic shape.'

Takanaka, who sold out the 3,000-capacity Masonic with resale tickets going for upwards of $300, is one of the best examples of a renewed interest in the sounds of 1970s and '80s soft rock from Japan known as city pop.

Jim "Kimo" West is a slack key guitarist whose work exemplifies (and ventures beyond) Hawaiian musical traditions.