Best Bay Area Events 4/9-4/29
A Perusing Playlist
by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor
We’re trying another new thing! We now have weekly playlists where you can sample upcoming bands and comedians that are listed in our events newsletter. Here’s what I’m most excited about for the week of 4/9 and beyond…
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CIIS Presents: An Evening with Black Forager: On Food Justice Through Foraging
4/12 | First Unitarian Universalist Center | 1187 Franklin St, SF | 7 p.m. | $25-$45
Join CIIS Public Programs, forager and an outdoor educator Alexis Nikole Nelson aka Black Forager, and CIIS associate professor, activist, and licensed creative arts therapist Britton Williams for a joyful and engaging conversation about Alexis’ life and work, food justice, and foraging.
Hubba Hubba Revue’s Goth vs. Emo
4/14 | DNA Lounge | 375 11th St, SF | 7 p.m. Doors | $15-$35
Brush those bangs down over your eye-liner, and buckle-Up your witch boots! San Francisco’s world-famous burlesque & variety show is going to settle this once and for all! Goth or Emo, everyone’s a winner at this gloomy, glammy, all-star evening of tease!
This Week’s Events
Tuesday, 4/9
Erika de Casier
4/9 | The Independent | 628 Divisadero St, SF | 8 p.m. | $22/advance – $25/door
Erika de Casier is a Portuguese-born Danish singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her take on 90s/00s R&B became a slow-burn success story.
Kid Francescoli
4/9 | Great American Music Hall | 859 O’Farrell St, SF | 8 p.m. | $25-$30
In 2000, Mathieu Hocine started his project “Kid Francescoli”. Behind the omnipresent melody, Kid Francescoli offers intimate lyrics in English and Italian.
Wednesday, 4/10
The Cactus Blossoms
4/10 | The Chapel | 777 Valencia St, SF | 8 p.m. | $20-$24, All ages
The Cactus Blossoms is an American alternative country and indie folk band composed of brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum with a touring act including their older brother Tyler Burkum, their cousin Phillip Hicks, Jake Hanson, and Jeremy Hanson.
Thursday, 4/11
Miss Monique
4/11 | 1015 Folsom | 1015 Folsom St, SF | 9 p.m. | $25-$30, 21+
Get a taste of one of the leading women in techno! From Ukraine to the rest of the globe, Miss Monique has left crowds enamored by the unmistakable sound & energy that she delivers in every set.
Fungus Among Us NightLife
4/11 | California Academy of Sciences | 55 Music Concourse Dr, SF | 6 p.m. | $23.95
Make room for ‘shrooms because fungi are taking over! Enter the mystical world of mycology at this annual NightLife fave.
Friday, 4/12
Art Explosion Spring Open Studios
4/12-4/14 | Art Explosion Studios | 744 Alabama St, SF | 7 p.m. | Free
Come see over 100 artists as they open their studios to exhibit their work. The opening reception is Friday at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday the studio opens at 12 p.m.
International Ocean Film Festival 2024
4/12-4/14 | Fort Mason Center | 2 Marina Blvd, SF | 7 p.m. | $10-$350
The 21st Annual International Ocean Film Festival at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture makes waves with three days of exhilarating, ocean-themed independent film screenings, filmmaker question-and-answer sessions, and free panel discussions.
Polish Ambassador, An-Ten-Nae + more
4/12 | Public Works | 161 Erie St, SF | 8 p.m. | $35, 21+
Musician. Producer. Beatsmith. Recording artist. Composer. Dance-floor general. Label-head. A mystery man of many hats, The Polish Ambassador rocks more than just a trademark jumpsuit, authoring sublime, intentional artistic works, animated safaris in technicolor sound.
Dirty Loops
4/12 | The Regency Ballroom | 1300 Van Ness Ave, SF | 8 p.m. | $30-$39.50
Dirty Loops is a band from Stockholm, Sweden, made up of Jonah Nilsson (keyboards and lead vocals), Henrik Linder (bass and backing vocals) and Aron Mellergård (drums and backing vocals). Their arrangements borrow from jazz and jazz fusion, gospel, funk, electronica, pop, and disco.
Saturday, 4/13
The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws
4/13-6/23 | The Palace Theater | 644 Broadway, SF | 8 p.m. | $65-$275
Marking its 10 anniversary, the celebrated show transports audiences back to the Roaring 1920s inside an intricately designed space complete with a two-story cabaret, three bars and a casino, as well as secret passageways and disguised entrances.
2024 Cesar Chavez Day Parade & Festival
4/13 | Mission Dolores Park | 2575 Mission St, SF | 10 a.m. | Free, All ages
Join the annual Celebration of Cesar Chavez Day San Francisco on Saturday, April 13th, 2024! Parade starts 11am at Dolores Park on 19th street and the Festival is between 11am – 6pm on 24th street between Folsom and Bryant street.
Low Cut Connie
4/13 | The Fillmore | 1805 Geary Blvd, SF | 8 p.m. | $25.50
Low Cut Connie has been a rolling DIY caravan with an explosive live act bubbling under the surface of the music industry for 5 years, building an obsessive fanbase from all walks of life…white and black, straight and gay, young and old…salty lunatics of every persuasion.
SF Brewfest n’ Vegan Eats Invitational
4/13 | Terra Gallery | 511 Harrison St, SF | 12 p.m. | $45–$89
Unlimited pours from the best Craft Beer Breweries in California, the very Best Food, that just happens to be vegan, Games and so much more!
Sunday, 4/14
Golden Gate Park Bandshell Psychedelic Rock Show 2024
4/14 | Golden Gate Park Bandshell | 75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, SF | 12 p.m. | Free, All ages
Illuminate Live Presents: Golden Gate Park Bandshell Psychedelic Rock Show 2024 featuring The Spiral Electric, My Dallas Teens, and The Love Dimension.
Ledisi, Raheem DeVaughn
4/14 | Fox Theater | 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland | 6:30 p.m. Doors | $60.50-$130.50, All ages
A vocal powerhouse, Ledisi’s venture into jazz with “Ledisi Sings Nina” garnered acclaim, with The New York Times hailing her bravura self-assurance and included a sold-out show at the prestigious Carnegie Hall. With 14 Grammy nominations, 3 Soul Train Music Awards, and 19 NAACP Image Award Nominations, Ledisi’s impact spans music, film, and television.
Monday, 4/15
Celebrating 75 Years of KPFA
4/15 | Freight & Salvage | 2020 Addison St, Berkeley | 8 p.m. | $30/advance, $35/door
KPFA’s 75th birthday musical celebration is a momentous occasion that will bring together our loyal supporters and local allies of independent media to celebrate in song our extraordinary legacy as a beacon of independent thought and community engagement for over seven decades.
Next Week 4/16-4/22
Tuesday 4/16
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
4/16 | Cafe du Nord | 2174 Market St, SF | 8 p.m. | $18, All ages
The Chicago-based band ingeniously spans genres and eras, merging the lavish romanticism of mid-century pop with the frenetic energy and spiky intensity of early millennium indie-rock. Centered on Leavins’ hypnotically crooning vocal work, the result is a rare convergence of sophistication and style and unabashed sincerity.
Keith Lowell Jensen
4/16 | Punch Line SF | 444 Battery St, SF | 7:30 p.m. | $20.25-$28.25
Storytelling comedian Keith Lowell Jensen has performed around the world. His latest comedy special “What I Was Arrested For” is out now from 800 Pound Gorilla Media.
Wednesday 4/17
TWRP
4/17 | The Independent | 628 Divisadero St, SF | 8 p.m. | $29.50 /adv, $30/door, $89.50/VIP, 21+
The sound of the future as imagined in the 1980s. The nostalgic theme song to your favourite childhood cartoon that may have never existed. The hopefulness of someone from the future describing the utopia of tomorrow. Like a paradox of time travel, TWRP is all of these things and yet none of them.
Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area
4/17 | Cobb’s Comedy Club | 915 Columbus Ave, SF | 7:30 p.m. | $67.10-$95.75, 18+
Come join us at Cobb’s and enjoy food, drinks, and laughs with friends while helping grant wishes for children with critical illnesses in the greater Bay Area.
Louis Katz
4/17-4/20 | Punch Line SF | 444 Battery St, SF | 8 p.m. | $22.25-$32.25
Louis Katz’s comedy deftly combines the highbrow and the lowbrow, creating a truly unique style that has been described as “cerebral filth.”
Thursday 4/18
Discovery Sessions 2024
4/18-4/19 | The Midway | 900 Marin St, SF | 9 a.m. | $102.90-$182.93, 18+
Join us and immerse yourself in breakthrough panels on ground-breaking science, therapeutics, culture, and business, a captivating psychedelic art gallery, and unique live performances.
Steel Pulse
4/18 | UC Theatre | 2036 University Ave, Berkeley | 8 p.m. | $37.50
Bearing witness to the accelerating negativity of global affairs, Steel Pulse emerges with musical vengeance to halt the disarray of humanity.
John Crist
4/18 | San Jose Civic | 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose | 7 p.m. | $29.75-$49.75
John Crist is one of today’s fast-rising stand-up comedians. He is widely known for viral videos like“Honest Football Coach,” “Every Parent at Disney,” “Brands that need to be Cancelled” plus hundreds more.
Friday 4/19
Pussy Riot, Boyfriend & Pleeay
4/19-4/20 | Kilowatt Bar | 3160 16th St, SF | 8 p.m. | $51.50, 21+
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style.
Tech N9ne w/ Special Guests !Mayday! + Kung Fu
4/19 | The Guild Theatre | 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park | 8 p.m. | $66-$202
Tech N9ne is known for his dynamic rhyme schemes, and speed rap abilities known as the Chopper style.
Deon Cole
4/19-4/21 | Cobb’s Comedy Club | 915 Columbus Ave, SF | 7 p.m. | $42.75-$87.75
Deon Cole is a comedian, writer, and actor, who can currently be seen as Charlie on ABC’s BLACK-ISH and Freeform’s GROWNISH.
Saturday 4/20
2024 Bay Area Brew Fest
4/20 | Presidio Lawn | 42 Moraga Ave, SF | 12 p.m. | $65-$80
Over 70 breweries, 200 beers, food trucks, lawn games and live music!
The New Mastersounds
4/20 | The Fillmore | 1805 Geary Blvd, SF | 8 p.m. | $25.50
The New Mastersounds are a four-piece band based in Leeds, England, whose modern take on vintage soul-jazz, funk and rock draws influences from Jimmies McGriff, Smith, and Hendrix, as well as their most closely-associated mentors, The Meters.
Bill Maher: The WTF? Tour
4/20 | San Jose Center for the Performing Arts | 255 S Almaden Blvd, San Jose | 8 p.m. | $49.50-$69.50
For more than twenty-five years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television.
White Denim
4/20 | Great American Music Hall | 859 O’Farrell St, SF | 9 p.m. | $24-$26
White Denim’s sound is influenced by dub, psychedelic rock, blues, punk rock, progressive rock, soul, jazz, experimental rock with home-based recording, jamming approach, intense looping work and unusual song structures.
Sunday 4/21
Yoasobi
4/21 | The Warfield | 982 Market St, SF | 8 p.m. | $240-$775
Made up of composer Ayase and vocal ikura, they are the “Unit that turns novels into music.”
SESSANTA: Primus, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle
4/21 | Greek Theatre | 2001 Gayley Rd, Berkeley | 5:30 p.m. Doors | $49.50-$159.50
Sessanta is a special 2024 concert tour with Puscifer, Primus and A Perfect Circle in celebration of singer Maynard James Keenan’s 60th birthday.
Bayside
4/21 | UC Theatre | 2036 University Ave, Berkeley | 7 p.m. | $32.50
At their core, Bayside is a band that has constantly proved that music is not about gimmicks and ephemeral trends, but a timeless reflection of our lives and our times. It is through this timelessness and consistency that they continue to cultivate a cult-following that lives and breathes everything the band creates.
Monday 4/22
The Staves
4/22 | Great American Music Hall | 859 O’Farrell St, SF | 8 p.m. | $25-$30
The Staves are an English indie folk duo of sisters Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor.
Week of 4/23-4/29
Tuesday 4/23
Joe Klocek
4/22 | Punch Line SF | 444 Battery St, SF | 7:30 p.m. | $16.50-$24.50
Joe has appeared on Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham,” and NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”. Joe has also told a story on NPR’s “Snap Judgement” and San Francisco’s own “Bawdy.”
Wednesday 4/24
Art Bash
4/24 | SFMOMA | 151 3rd St, SF | 5 p.m. | $95-$250, 21+
Calling all art lovers, makers, and visionaries: SFMOMA invites you to the museum’s biggest party of the year celebrating art and artists!
Laurie Kilmartin
4/24-4/27 | Punch Line SF | 444 Battery St, SF | 8 p.m. | $22.25-$32.25
Laurie Kilmartin has been doing stand-up since 1987 and has written two books, “Shitty Mom” and “Dead People Suck”. She is currently a writer for CONAN on TBS.
Thursday 4/25
Dethklok & Babymetal
4/25 | The Masonic | 1111 California St, SF | 7 p.m. | $75.50 -$239.55
Dethklok is a fictional melodic death metal band featured in the Adult Swim animated television series Metalocalypse, known for its satirical or parodic lyrical themes.
Black Veil Brides
4/25 | The Fillmore | 1805 Geary Blvd, SF | 7 p.m. | $37.50
Black Veil Brides is an American rock band based in Hollywood, California. The group is currently composed of lead vocalist Andy Biersack, rhythm guitarist and violinist Jinxx, lead guitarist Jake Pitts, drummer Christian “CC” Coma and bassist Lonny Eagleton.
San Francisco Art Fair 2024
4/25-4/28 | Fort Mason Center | 2 Marin Blvd, SF | 11 a.m. | $35-$65
The 2024 edition of the San Francisco Art Fair presents a significant selection of contemporary and modern artworks from returning exhibitors and exciting newcomers. The much-anticipated 12th edition celebrates the San Francisco art scene while featuring an array of compelling installations, events, talks, and performances.
Hot Mulligan
4/25 | The UC Theatre | 2036 University Ave, Berkeley | 7 p.m. | $35
Hot Mulligan have a way of manifesting things into existence, whether it’s name-dropping Michelle Branch and Mark Hoppus in song titles and netting responses from both (only one got the joke) or, true to their word, becoming synonymous with the newest waves of pop-punk and emo–err,post-emo, the genre Hot Mully have claimed responsibility for inventing.
Friday 4/26
Musiq Soulchild
4/26 | The Warfield | 982 Market St, SF | 8 p.m. | $35-$85
Musiq Soulchild is a soulstar who has developed a sound uniquely his own, by fusing together the essence of ‘Soul Music’ with ‘Funk’ rules and ‘Hip Hop’ swagger.
Jerry Seinfeld
4/26 | Luther Burbank Center for the Arts| 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa | 7 p.m. | $84.50–$355
America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.
Saturday 4/27
Jared Freid
4/27 | Cobb’s Comedy Club | 915 Columbus Ave. SF | 7 p.m. | $35.25-$50.25
Jared’s comedy is current and reflects the ordinary daily thoughts of everyone you know, especially if everyone you know is a millennial, obsessed with dating apps, trying to be a real adult and worried about their body.
Sunday 4/28
Adam Ant, w/ special guest The English Beat
4/28 | Fox Theater | 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland | 6:30 p.m. Doors | $49.50-$59.50
Adam Ant, one of the defining musicians of new wave, brings his ANTMUSIC tour to North America in 2024, extending a legacy that stretches back to the heady days of post-punk.
Monday 4/29
AJR: The Maybe Man Tour
4/29 | Chase Center | 1 Warriors Way, SF | 8 p.m. | $49.50+
AJR is a New York City-based trio of brothers who make eclectic indie pop.
See other upcoming events here!
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