Oakland knows how to throw a proper function. The spirit of community resilience courses through Oaklanders’ blood, and getting together to have fun—as we saw with the recent “BBQ’n While Black” protest—is a vital part of the Town’s activism. Plus, what’s more life affirming than getting together with friends and family for a day of relaxation in the sun?
Under-the-radar get-togethers—instead of corporate-feeling festivals—are what makes the East Bay stand out amid the Bay Area’s many cultural offerings. Below, you’ll find street fairs, parties, outdoor adventures, car shows and concerts to fill your summer calendar.
Berkeley Juneteenth
June 17.
Alcatraz-Adeline corridor, South Berkeley. More information.
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Juneteenth celebrates the anniversary of the abolition of slavery—a holiday all Americans should honor, though it’s mostly popular in the African-American community. Berkeley boasts one of the Bay Area’s most popular Juneteenth celebrations. The streets surrounding Ashby BART (which has a great flea market on weekends, by the way) get closed off for a day of music, vendors, food and more in a joyous, inter-generational celebration of black culture and resilience.
Warriors Parade
Downtown Oakland.
TBD.
OK, we know this isn’t set in stone. But have you seen the meme that recasts the Warriors and Cavs players as the characters of Full House? With the Warriors facing off against the Cavs for the fourth year in a row, this playoffs season has felt like the return of a favorite show again. We’ve been so spoiled with Warriors victories the past few years that the parade has basically become an annual tradition. I won’t say too much more to avoid jinxing my hometown team, but if they do win again, definitely make sure to come to downtown Oakland for the unofficial party immediately following the winning game. (Pro tip: wear sneakers and BYOB.) For a more family friendly affair, stay tuned for the officially sanctioned parade, and come early to secure your spot.
If you’re not in a backyard with friends, family and a grill on the 4th of July, the best way to spend it as at the Fam Bam day party in Oakland. Food. Art. DJs. Lake. Sun. Fun. What more do you need? This community gathering attracts a diverse crowd and is family friendly, too. Just note: this is an anti-imperialist party led by Afrocentric Oakland, so expect expressions of community pride and resilience over patriotic flag waving.
Outdoor Adventures
It’s no secret that the Bay Area abounds with beautiful hikes and nature spots, so I’m going to give you a quick-and-dirty rundown of the best spots in the East Bay. For those who don’t have a car: bus or rideshare to Oakland’s Dimond Park; behind its playground, there are trails leading to Joaquin Miller Park and Redwood Regional Park, two gorgeous oases that make it easy to forget you’re still in urban Oakland. If you’re looking for an waterfront adventure without taking a long road trip, Lake Anza is a lowkey place to tan and swim in Berkeley’s Tilden Park, which also has gorgeous trails and even a petting zoo. Further inland is the breathtaking Mt. Diablo, with sweeping vistas, hiking and rock climbing. And Lake Del Valle in Livermore is a hidden East Bay gem; they have pedal boats, kayaks and motorboats for rent, plus two swimming beaches, hiking camping and more.
The lineup for this annual hip-hop fest is typically only announced a week ahead, but the $19.93 presale tickets sell out long before that because Hiero Day has a proven track record of being a good time. Conscious hip-hop pioneers Hieroglyphics founded the fest and headline each year, and they curate a balanced lineup of up-and-coming acts and established OGs. In 2017, Texas rapper Bun B and Oakland songstress Goapele performed alongside the East Bay’s Lil B and Rayana Jay, rising L.A. rappers G Perico and Duckwrth and more.
Albany’s Solano Avenue gets packed with vendors, art, performers and activities every September (when the Bay Area actually gets some sun) for Solano Stroll, a free, family friendly festival in the sleepy town of Albany. Solano Avenue is Albany’s busiest strip and has tons of international food and cute shops. Most of the restaurants set up booths at the Stroll, so it’s a good chance to sample new foods without committing to a sit-down meal. The fair even has face painting, balloons and rides for kids (including a mean potato sack slide that I hear is a thrill even for adults).
Billetproof
Sept. 15.
Contra Costa County Fairgrounds, Antioch. More information.
Dust off your bowling shirt and break out your curlers for that pin-up girl hairdo because Billetproof, the East Bay’s premier rockabilly-themed car show, returns to Antioch in September. Car culture is huge in Contra Costa County, and Billetproof is when local artists show off the vintage Oldsmobiles, Chevys and Cadillacs they’ve been perfecting all year. Expect custom cars of every design, color and theme—it’s a visual feast that feels part amusement park and part museum, and you’ll likely find yourself unable to resist the urge to Instagram everything.
Oakland likes to celebrate whenever just because, and the well known art walk and street party, First Fridays, is especially lit in the summertime, when the sun is out longer and everyone seems to be in a relaxed, happy mood. All the galleries are open late; impromptu dance parties erupt on the street; and there’s plenty of food and local vendors. At one First Friday, I even saw a guy swallowing swords. Third Thursdays is a new street party in Oakland more centered on music than visual art; each month, artists like rapper Gina Madrid and hip-hop-chamber music group Ensemble Mik Nawooj perform in Latham Square.
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One team representative described it as being “Warriors-inspired… \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790392163722772790\">a host of women warriors\u003c/a>.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fittingly, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itszenakeita/status/1790439492991529276\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the team will be hosting a block party in front of Chase Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Saturday, May 18, from 2-6 p.m. with appearances from Kehlani, P-Lo and E-40. Team merchandise will already be available for the earliest diehard fans, as the Valkyries aren’t slated to play their first game until the 2025 season.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790376816840146993\">The Valkyries logo is minimalistic and clean\u003c/a>, with a violet crest anchored by the central tower of the Bay Bridge that flows into a winged V-shaped symbol. The bridge’s cables double as reinforced wings spreading outwards, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnba.com/news/gs-valkyries-2025-identity\">the five spaces on each side represent a total of ten players facing off\u003c/a> against each other.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790376816840146993\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The announcement was made at 5:30 a.m., later accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790360287725674855\">a Kehlani-narrated video\u003c/a> — in which a camera flies over the Bay and into San Francisco’s streets with the sound of wings flapping in the background, alluding to the flying Nordic warrior that is the Valkyries’ namesake.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is where legends take flight,” says Kehlani, the Oakland singer whose early mixtapes \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cloud 19 \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You Should Be Here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> evoke a similar vibe of high-flying, pink-clouded views overlooking San Francisco’s mighty skyline. “Our story has yet to be written,” she tells fans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite its recent growth in popularity, the WNBA hasn’t added a team since 2008, so anticipation has been high. (Team owner Joe Lacob previously invested in women’s basketball with the short-lived San Jose Lasers in 1996, as part of the now-defunct American Basketball League.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Responses to the Valkyries’ name and logo seem to be overwhelmingly positive up to this point. Warriors players \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/warriors/status/1790426521858937324\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevon Looney and Trayce Jackson-Davis were shown repping their counterparts’ shirts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the Chase Center, where the Valkyries will also play. Warriors head coach \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/warriors/status/1790472288066011379\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steve Kerr has also been spotted in the Dub’s practice facility rocking a Vs crewneck\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790360287725674855\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790402511368769841\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco-born Olympian and freestyle skier Eileen Gu\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shared a message for fans. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1790396659945587148\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caltrain tweeted\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about going to Chase Center to watch the new team. Robin Roberts, who covered \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RobinRoberts/status/1790350094463803854\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the WNBA’s inaugural season in 1997\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, held up a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/wnbagoldenstate/status/1790382211965075680\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a Valkyries sweatshirt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on \u003cem>Good Morning America\u003c/em> after interviewing team president Jess Smith. And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wnbastore.nba.com/golden-state-valkyries/unisex-golden-state-valkyries-playa-society-eclipse-black-premium-t-shirt/t-24961574+p-574467284513361+z-9-1951373147\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playa Society, a niche, independent clothing brand focused on the WNBA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that has earned respect within the women’s basketball community, has already released their debut Valkyries merch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The few criticisms have come from a handful of fans who’ve pointed out that the Valkyries’ purple and black color scheme is weirdly reminiscent of the nearby Sacramento Kings, rather than the blue and yellow of the Golden State Warriors. Another commenter also made a reference to the Dallas Wings, an WNBA team that features a mythological winged logo that appears to be Pegasus. 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And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wnbastore.nba.com/golden-state-valkyries/unisex-golden-state-valkyries-playa-society-eclipse-black-premium-t-shirt/t-24961574+p-574467284513361+z-9-1951373147\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playa Society, a niche, independent clothing brand focused on the WNBA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that has earned respect within the women’s basketball community, has already released their debut Valkyries merch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The few criticisms have come from a handful of fans who’ve pointed out that the Valkyries’ purple and black color scheme is weirdly reminiscent of the nearby Sacramento Kings, rather than the blue and yellow of the Golden State Warriors. Another commenter also made a reference to the Dallas Wings, an WNBA team that features a mythological winged logo that appears to be Pegasus. But the detractors are far and few between.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only remaining element is to add worthy players to their roster and watch them ball out on the hardwood. With one of the highest picks in the upcoming draft to be awarded to Golden State, many fans are hoping that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paigebueckers/?hl=en\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Connecticut star Paige Bueckers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will land in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As soon the Valkyries announced their name and logo, the young WNBA prospect declared that Golden State has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paigebueckers1/status/1790410960886227152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1790410960886227152%7Ctwgr%5E627c58dfb108a876f19909da1dc59f6ae19728c0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcsportsbayarea.com%2Fwnba%2Fpaige-bueckers-valkyries-design-color%2F1734864%2F\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the “prettiest colorway ever.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itszenakeita/status/1790439492991529276\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Golden State Valkyries will host a block party at Chase Center’s Thrive City\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Saturday, May 18, from 2-6 p.m. Free admission.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13957833/golden-state-valkyries-chase-center-wnba-block-party-kehlani-e-40-p-lo","authors":["11748"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_5786","arts_6926","arts_1601","arts_22151","arts_9346","arts_1829","arts_681","arts_1803","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13957856","label":"arts"},"arts_13957576":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13957576","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13957576","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-free-concerts-summer-2024","title":"10 Free Concerts Not to Miss in the Bay Area This Summer","publishDate":1715878846,"format":"standard","headTitle":"10 Free Concerts Not to Miss in the Bay Area This Summer | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>According to economist Thorstein Veblen, conspicuous consumption results in a counter-intuitive dynamic: Increasing a luxury item’s cost can actually lead to higher demand. But no social scientist has explained why the satisfaction of experiencing live music seems to rise as the price of admission approaches zero. My theory is that Veblen goods acquire cache due to the perception of exclusivity, while free concerts often foster a sense of welcoming solidarity, as newbie passersby mingle with devoted fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s multifarious free concert options may not provide an antidote to the region’s Veblen epidemic, but these sounds of summer are a celebration, and everyone’s invited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in a cap and patterned blue shirt stands with a saxophone, with moving boxes and an organ in the background\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howard Wiley in his Oakland studio. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://sflivefest.com/sf-live-calendar/howardwiley-june1\">Howard Wiley’s SF Love: Playing For the People\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Golden Gate Park Bandshell, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 1, 2-6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland saxophone great Howard Wiley presented his soul-powered love letter to California at the SFJAZZ Center last March, and he’s bringing the party to the Golden Gate Bandshell as part of the recently launched SF Live concert series. Wiley’s band shares the afternoon program with DJ Knowpa Slaps, MC Radioactive and Bayonics vocalist Jairo Vargas’s side project, Rojai and the Pocket. Drawing on hip-hop, funk, gospel, blues and bebop, Wiley has been devising outrageously creative mash-ups (think “Hotel California” meets “Californication”). Produced in partnership with Illuminate and Madrone Art Bar, where Wiley’s band Extra Nappy held down a weekly residency for years before the pandemic, the concert is part of \u003ca href=\"https://sflivefest.com/\">SF Live’s six-month series of free concerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-800x420.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-1020x536.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South African musicians Steve and Bokani Dyer (right to left). \u003ccite>(Yerba Buena Gardens Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/dyertribe/\">Dyertribe: Steve & Bokani Dyer + Izithunywa featuring Nbado Zulu & Linda Sikhakhane\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 8, 1-3 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South African jazz musicians were in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid, and this double bill is part of a 30th-anniversary celebration of the country’s first free, multiracial election. One of South Africa’s leading improvisers, saxophonist Steve Dyer, came of age in the crucible of the anti-apartheid movement. He performs with Dyertribe, his duo with his son, pianist/composer Bokani Dyer. Offering another view of South Africa’s creative ferment, the group Izithunywa, featuring trumpeter Ndabo Zulu and saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane, draw deeply on traditional music from Botswana and the Zulu people. Co-presented with the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Bay Area residency includes a free talk and musical demonstration at MoAD on Friday, June 7, 6:30-8 p.m., “\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/discussion-demonstration-south-african-jazz-a-musical-journey-through-traditions-and-time\">South African Jazz: A Musical Journey Through Traditions and Time\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz duo Tuck and Patti, William Charles “Tuck” Andress and singer Patricia “Patti” Cathcart Andress perform during the Newport Folk Festival 2018 at Fort Adams State Park on July 27, 2018 in Newport, Rhode Island. \u003ccite>(Photo by Douglas Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Community-Services/Arts-Sciences/Palo-Alto-Childrens-Theatre/Twilight-Concert-Series\">Tuck & Patti\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Rinconada Park, Palo Alto\u003cbr>\nJune 8, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto’s long-running Twilight Concert Series opens with hometown heroes Tuck & Patti, a.k.a. guitar wizard Tuck Andress and bewitching vocalist Patti Cathcart. The couple has been performing as a self-contained duo for close to four decades, honing an expansive repertoire of gracefully reharmonized jazz, soul, R&B and pop tunes. Cathcart has also written emotionally bountiful originals that celebrate love and forgiveness. While they haven’t released a new album since 2007, a new generation of listeners have discovered Tuck & Patti via Andress’ niece St. Vincent, who traveled with the duo as a roadie and tour manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10678353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10678353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2257\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-400x564.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-425x600.jpg 425w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-837x1180.jpg 837w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-1180x1665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-960x1354.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Shelby. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/festival-schedule/june-15/\">Healdsburg Jazz’s Juneteenth Celebration\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Downtown Healdsburg\u003cbr>\nJune 15, 2-8:30 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Healdsburg Jazz Festival (June 15-23), which has continued to punch well above its weight under the direction of San Francisco bass maestro Marcus Shelby, kicks off with a free, all-day Juneteenth celebration in the town’s picturesque plaza. It’s a musical triple bill headlined by the sextet of trombone star Steve Turre, the festival’s artist in residence. Saxophones are well represented by Person2Person, the quintet co-led by 89-year-old tenor great Houston Person and his younger colleague, fiery altoist Eric Person. And pianist Darrell Grant performs with his Modern Jazz Quartet-inspired chamber jazz band Darrell Grant and MJ New.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 970px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78.png 970w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78-800x663.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78-768x637.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific Mambo Orchestra. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artists)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://sflivefest.com/sf-live-calendar/pacificmambo-june20\">Pacific Mambo Orchestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fulton Plaza, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 4-7 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Mambo Orchestra shocked the Latin music world with an upset victory at the 2014 Grammys, when the group’s eponymous crowd-funded release won Best Tropical Latin Album. Ever since, the East Bay big band has been a mainstay at festivals and nightclubs. Co-led by trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, the band is packed with top players and arrangers, like trombonist Mike Rinta and baritone saxophonist Aaron Lington. With Armando Cordoba, Christelle Durandy and Braulio Barrera providing an array of lead vocals, the PMO is designed to keep dance floors crowded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ26Z-vJftM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cortemaderacommunityfoundation.org/corte-madera-summer-concerts\">Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Piccolo Pavilion in Menke Park, Corte Madera\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 23, 5-6:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guitarist Anthony Paule’s Soul Orchestra is a horn-powered combo devoted to swaggering, 1960s and ’70s blues and soul emanating from Detroit, Muscle Shoals and Los Angeles. The group has earned a devoted following through regular appearances at European music festivals, showcasing powerhouse vocalists like Terrie Odabi and Wee Willie Walker. For this concert, part of the Corte Madera Summer Concert series, the APSO is joined by Willy Jordan, a versatile singer (and drummer) who’s toured and recorded with John Lee Hooker, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite and Gator Beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Jazz Hot. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artists)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://jazzontheplazz.com/2024-concerts/\">Le Jazz Hot Quartet\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Los Gatos Town Plaza\u003cbr>\nJune 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-running mid-week concert series in Los Gatos, Jazz on the Plazz kicks off this year with the timeless swing of Le Jazz Hot Quartet. A distilled version of guitarist Paul Mehling’s Hot Club of San Francisco (the ensemble that spearheaded a North American revival of Django Reinhardt’s and Stéphane Grappelli’s ebullient 1930s sound), the quartet explores Reinhardt standards, Beatles tunes and numerous originals with the requisite rhythmic authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Tijoux performs on stage during Day 3 of the Womad Festival at Charlton Park on July 29, 2023 in Malmesbury, England. \u003ccite>(C Brandon/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/ana-tijoux-j-noa/\">Ana Tijoux & J Noa\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 3, 1–3 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her hit 2010 solo debut, \u003cem>1977\u003c/em>, French-born Chilean MC Ana Tijoux was dubbed “South America’s answer to Lauryn Hill: equally skillful at singing and rapping” by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>. In truth, she’s forged a highly personal sound, combining old-school hip-hop production with Latin American instrumentation. Her recent album, \u003cem>Vengo\u003c/em>, features some of her most appealing work, and she brings a full band to the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. With teenage Dominican rap sensation J Noa playing an opening set, this double bill is the city’s premier global hip-hop summer showcase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 672px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Monica_Salmaso_2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Monica_Salmaso_2015.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Monica_Salmaso_2015-160x214.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Salmaso. \u003ccite>(Roberto Filho/Divulgacão)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/brazil-in-the-gardens-2024/\">Brazil in the Gardens: Monica Salmaso, Guinga and Teca Cardoso\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Salmaso made her mark with \u003cem>Afro-Sambas\u003c/em>, the classic 1997 album with guitarist Paulo Bellinati interpreting Baden Powell’s and Vinícius de Moraes’ incantatory song cycle. The São Paulo vocalist doesn’t make it to the Bay Area often, and this concert stems from California Brazil Camp, which sends a contingent of faculty every summer from the redwoods of Cazadero to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. She’s joined by Guinga, a master guitarist, vocalist and composer whose songs have been recorded by Brazilian legends such as Elis Regina, Clara Nunes and Miúcha; and multi-instrumentalist Teco Cardoso, a brilliant improviser on saxophones and flutes known for his work with Edu Lobo, Joyce, João Donato, Rosa Passos and Baden Powell himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13858024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p.jpeg\" alt=\"Meklit Hadero.\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p.jpeg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meklit Hadero. \u003ccite>(Ronald Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/movement-immigrant-orchestra/\">Meklit’s Movement Immigrant Orchestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 31, 1-2:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Ethiopian American singer, songwriter and expert story wrangler Meklit manifests her multi-platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.meklitmusic.com/movement\">Movement\u003c/a> initiative at the Gardens with a dozen musicians hailing from 10 countries. Focusing on the experience of border-crossing artists, the production draws on her podcast, nationally syndicated public radio broadcast and stage production. Performers include Mexican singer-songwriter Diana Gameros, Iranian composer Sahba Aminikia, Italian percussionist extraordinaire Marco Peris, Malian virtuoso Mamadou Sidibé, Carnatic percussionist Rohan Krishnamurthy, Barrio Manouche guitarist Javi Jimenez, Iranian American bassist/composer Safa Shokrai and Meklit herself.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Free jazz, salsa and hip-hop shows abound in all corners of the Bay. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715959641,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1525},"headData":{"title":"10 Free Concerts Not to Miss in the Bay Area This Summer | KQED","description":"Free jazz, salsa and hip-hop shows abound in all corners of the Bay. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"10 Free Concerts Not to Miss in the Bay Area This Summer","datePublished":"2024-05-16T10:00:46-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-17T08:27:21-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Summer Guide 2024","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2024","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13957576","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13957576/bay-area-free-concerts-summer-2024","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>According to economist Thorstein Veblen, conspicuous consumption results in a counter-intuitive dynamic: Increasing a luxury item’s cost can actually lead to higher demand. But no social scientist has explained why the satisfaction of experiencing live music seems to rise as the price of admission approaches zero. My theory is that Veblen goods acquire cache due to the perception of exclusivity, while free concerts often foster a sense of welcoming solidarity, as newbie passersby mingle with devoted fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s multifarious free concert options may not provide an antidote to the region’s Veblen epidemic, but these sounds of summer are a celebration, and everyone’s invited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man in a cap and patterned blue shirt stands with a saxophone, with moving boxes and an organ in the background\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/HowardWiley3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howard Wiley in his Oakland studio. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://sflivefest.com/sf-live-calendar/howardwiley-june1\">Howard Wiley’s SF Love: Playing For the People\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Golden Gate Park Bandshell, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 1, 2-6 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland saxophone great Howard Wiley presented his soul-powered love letter to California at the SFJAZZ Center last March, and he’s bringing the party to the Golden Gate Bandshell as part of the recently launched SF Live concert series. Wiley’s band shares the afternoon program with DJ Knowpa Slaps, MC Radioactive and Bayonics vocalist Jairo Vargas’s side project, Rojai and the Pocket. Drawing on hip-hop, funk, gospel, blues and bebop, Wiley has been devising outrageously creative mash-ups (think “Hotel California” meets “Californication”). Produced in partnership with Illuminate and Madrone Art Bar, where Wiley’s band Extra Nappy held down a weekly residency for years before the pandemic, the concert is part of \u003ca href=\"https://sflivefest.com/\">SF Live’s six-month series of free concerts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-800x420.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-1020x536.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/060824_DYERTIBE_web3-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South African musicians Steve and Bokani Dyer (right to left). \u003ccite>(Yerba Buena Gardens Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/dyertribe/\">Dyertribe: Steve & Bokani Dyer + Izithunywa featuring Nbado Zulu & Linda Sikhakhane\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 8, 1-3 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South African jazz musicians were in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid, and this double bill is part of a 30th-anniversary celebration of the country’s first free, multiracial election. One of South Africa’s leading improvisers, saxophonist Steve Dyer, came of age in the crucible of the anti-apartheid movement. He performs with Dyertribe, his duo with his son, pianist/composer Bokani Dyer. Offering another view of South Africa’s creative ferment, the group Izithunywa, featuring trumpeter Ndabo Zulu and saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane, draw deeply on traditional music from Botswana and the Zulu people. Co-presented with the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Bay Area residency includes a free talk and musical demonstration at MoAD on Friday, June 7, 6:30-8 p.m., “\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/discussion-demonstration-south-african-jazz-a-musical-journey-through-traditions-and-time\">South African Jazz: A Musical Journey Through Traditions and Time\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1006707674-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz duo Tuck and Patti, William Charles “Tuck” Andress and singer Patricia “Patti” Cathcart Andress perform during the Newport Folk Festival 2018 at Fort Adams State Park on July 27, 2018 in Newport, Rhode Island. \u003ccite>(Photo by Douglas Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Community-Services/Arts-Sciences/Palo-Alto-Childrens-Theatre/Twilight-Concert-Series\">Tuck & Patti\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Rinconada Park, Palo Alto\u003cbr>\nJune 8, 6:30 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto’s long-running Twilight Concert Series opens with hometown heroes Tuck & Patti, a.k.a. guitar wizard Tuck Andress and bewitching vocalist Patti Cathcart. The couple has been performing as a self-contained duo for close to four decades, honing an expansive repertoire of gracefully reharmonized jazz, soul, R&B and pop tunes. Cathcart has also written emotionally bountiful originals that celebrate love and forgiveness. While they haven’t released a new album since 2007, a new generation of listeners have discovered Tuck & Patti via Andress’ niece St. Vincent, who traveled with the duo as a roadie and tour manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10678353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10678353\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2257\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-400x564.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-425x600.jpg 425w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-837x1180.jpg 837w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-1180x1665.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/05/Marcus-Shelby-credit-Scott-Chernis-960x1354.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Shelby. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://healdsburgjazz.org/festival-schedule/june-15/\">Healdsburg Jazz’s Juneteenth Celebration\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Downtown Healdsburg\u003cbr>\nJune 15, 2-8:30 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Healdsburg Jazz Festival (June 15-23), which has continued to punch well above its weight under the direction of San Francisco bass maestro Marcus Shelby, kicks off with a free, all-day Juneteenth celebration in the town’s picturesque plaza. It’s a musical triple bill headlined by the sextet of trombone star Steve Turre, the festival’s artist in residence. Saxophones are well represented by Person2Person, the quintet co-led by 89-year-old tenor great Houston Person and his younger colleague, fiery altoist Eric Person. And pianist Darrell Grant performs with his Modern Jazz Quartet-inspired chamber jazz band Darrell Grant and MJ New.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 970px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78.png 970w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78-800x663.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78-160x133.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screenshot-78-768x637.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific Mambo Orchestra. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artists)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://sflivefest.com/sf-live-calendar/pacificmambo-june20\">Pacific Mambo Orchestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Fulton Plaza, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 20, 4-7 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Mambo Orchestra shocked the Latin music world with an upset victory at the 2014 Grammys, when the group’s eponymous crowd-funded release won Best Tropical Latin Album. Ever since, the East Bay big band has been a mainstay at festivals and nightclubs. Co-led by trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, the band is packed with top players and arrangers, like trombonist Mike Rinta and baritone saxophonist Aaron Lington. With Armando Cordoba, Christelle Durandy and Braulio Barrera providing an array of lead vocals, the PMO is designed to keep dance floors crowded.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vQ26Z-vJftM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vQ26Z-vJftM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cortemaderacommunityfoundation.org/corte-madera-summer-concerts\">Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Piccolo Pavilion in Menke Park, Corte Madera\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>June 23, 5-6:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guitarist Anthony Paule’s Soul Orchestra is a horn-powered combo devoted to swaggering, 1960s and ’70s blues and soul emanating from Detroit, Muscle Shoals and Los Angeles. The group has earned a devoted following through regular appearances at European music festivals, showcasing powerhouse vocalists like Terrie Odabi and Wee Willie Walker. For this concert, part of the Corte Madera Summer Concert series, the APSO is joined by Willy Jordan, a versatile singer (and drummer) who’s toured and recorded with John Lee Hooker, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite and Gator Beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957954\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/la-jazz-2-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Jazz Hot. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artists)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://jazzontheplazz.com/2024-concerts/\">Le Jazz Hot Quartet\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Los Gatos Town Plaza\u003cbr>\nJune 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long-running mid-week concert series in Los Gatos, Jazz on the Plazz kicks off this year with the timeless swing of Le Jazz Hot Quartet. A distilled version of guitarist Paul Mehling’s Hot Club of San Francisco (the ensemble that spearheaded a North American revival of Django Reinhardt’s and Stéphane Grappelli’s ebullient 1930s sound), the quartet explores Reinhardt standards, Beatles tunes and numerous originals with the requisite rhythmic authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957955\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-800x527.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-1020x672.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1579253674-1-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Tijoux performs on stage during Day 3 of the Womad Festival at Charlton Park on July 29, 2023 in Malmesbury, England. \u003ccite>(C Brandon/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/ana-tijoux-j-noa/\">Ana Tijoux & J Noa\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 3, 1–3 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her hit 2010 solo debut, \u003cem>1977\u003c/em>, French-born Chilean MC Ana Tijoux was dubbed “South America’s answer to Lauryn Hill: equally skillful at singing and rapping” by \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>. In truth, she’s forged a highly personal sound, combining old-school hip-hop production with Latin American instrumentation. Her recent album, \u003cem>Vengo\u003c/em>, features some of her most appealing work, and she brings a full band to the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. With teenage Dominican rap sensation J Noa playing an opening set, this double bill is the city’s premier global hip-hop summer showcase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 672px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957957\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Monica_Salmaso_2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"897\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Monica_Salmaso_2015.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Monica_Salmaso_2015-160x214.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica Salmaso. \u003ccite>(Roberto Filho/Divulgacão)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/brazil-in-the-gardens-2024/\">Brazil in the Gardens: Monica Salmaso, Guinga and Teca Cardoso\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monica Salmaso made her mark with \u003cem>Afro-Sambas\u003c/em>, the classic 1997 album with guitarist Paulo Bellinati interpreting Baden Powell’s and Vinícius de Moraes’ incantatory song cycle. The São Paulo vocalist doesn’t make it to the Bay Area often, and this concert stems from California Brazil Camp, which sends a contingent of faculty every summer from the redwoods of Cazadero to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. She’s joined by Guinga, a master guitarist, vocalist and composer whose songs have been recorded by Brazilian legends such as Elis Regina, Clara Nunes and Miúcha; and multi-instrumentalist Teco Cardoso, a brilliant improviser on saxophones and flutes known for his work with Edu Lobo, Joyce, João Donato, Rosa Passos and Baden Powell himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13858024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13858024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p.jpeg\" alt=\"Meklit Hadero.\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p.jpeg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p-800x800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/oHZ-jH2p-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meklit Hadero. \u003ccite>(Ronald Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/movement-immigrant-orchestra/\">Meklit’s Movement Immigrant Orchestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 31, 1-2:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Ethiopian American singer, songwriter and expert story wrangler Meklit manifests her multi-platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.meklitmusic.com/movement\">Movement\u003c/a> initiative at the Gardens with a dozen musicians hailing from 10 countries. Focusing on the experience of border-crossing artists, the production draws on her podcast, nationally syndicated public radio broadcast and stage production. Performers include Mexican singer-songwriter Diana Gameros, Iranian composer Sahba Aminikia, Italian percussionist extraordinaire Marco Peris, Malian virtuoso Mamadou Sidibé, Carnatic percussionist Rohan Krishnamurthy, Barrio Manouche guitarist Javi Jimenez, Iranian American bassist/composer Safa Shokrai and Meklit herself.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13957576/bay-area-free-concerts-summer-2024","authors":["86"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_22150","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13953527","label":"source_arts_13957576"},"arts_13958149":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13958149","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13958149","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"too-short-free-show-town-up-tuesday-lake-merritt","title":"Too Short Is Playing a Free Show Tuesday at the Lake","publishDate":1716234375,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Too Short Is Playing a Free Show Tuesday at the Lake | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\">Festival By the Lake\u003c/a> may be gone, but its spirit continues in the many free mini-festivals held around the shores of Lake Merritt. And an annual favorite, \u003ca href=\"https://urbanpeacemovement.org/event/town-up-tuesday-2024/\">Town Up Tuesday\u003c/a>, has booked its biggest headliner yet: Too Short. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How will a rap legend who routinely plays large arenas adapt to a lakeshore gazebo? It remains to be seen, but it’s completely free, so expect a huge crowd. Also performing are Town favorites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934803/1100-himself-oakland-rapper-thizzler\">1100Himself\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925177/the-conscious-daughters-raps-sucka-free-thelma-and-louise-rewrote-the-rules\">Conscious Daughters\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCNlDgSQuLg\">Trunk Boiz\u003c/a> — a formidable lineup in its own right — but Too Short all but guarantees the biggest Town Up Tuesday yet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11690787']Produced by the Oakland nonprofit Urban Peace Movement, Town Up Tuesday was conceived as a way to bring people together after the pandemic while simultaneously engaging young people with civic issues and upcoming elections. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main message is about getting involved and paying attention to local issues that impact the everyday lives of people in Oakland and the Bay Area,” says Urban Peace Movement’s Nicole Lee. “Obviously we have a consequential election coming up in November, and we want people to be informed, and to pay attention to that election, especially at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee herself grew up going to Festival By the Lake, and says she wants to help reinvigorate pride in Oakland — especially as San Francisco’s so-called doom-loop narrative migrates across the Bay to the Town. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, Too Short agreed to perform in part because he feels the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s expressed to some of our team that he’s felt disheartened by the narrative about Oakland,” says Lee, “and how there are negative perceptions about Oakland that sometimes overshadow all the culture, creativity, innovation and social activism that comes from Oakland, and has had national and global impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosting Tuesday’s event are Mystic and DNas, and the rest of the lineup includes DJs Daghe & Emelle, plus Michael Sneed, 3Nise, the Animaniakz and Ms. Bria. (There’s two “surprise legendary artists” promised too.) There’s also double dutch sessions with Jump Squad 510, wellness services from Freedom Community Clinic, a kids’ area and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Town Up Tuesday is free, and takes place Tuesday, May 21, at the Edoff Memorial Bandstand on the northwestern shore of Lake Merritt. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/urbanpeacemovement/posts/pfbid0WesdcR8QYmzriBXMM3FNZjYRzJzan8fERs7x2vUzJ2mLNWbJFzm1DboC7csW1HCnl\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The free event, 'Town Up Tuesday,' also features 1100Himself, the Conscious Daughters and the Trunk Boiz.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716244686,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":413},"headData":{"title":"Too Short Is Playing a Free Show Tuesday at the Lake | KQED","description":"The free event, 'Town Up Tuesday,' also features 1100Himself, the Conscious Daughters and the Trunk Boiz.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Too Short Is Playing a Free Show Tuesday at the Lake","datePublished":"2024-05-20T12:46:15-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-20T15:38:06-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13958149","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13958149/too-short-free-show-town-up-tuesday-lake-merritt","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11690787/when-oakland-was-a-chocolate-city-a-brief-history-of-festival-at-the-lake\">Festival By the Lake\u003c/a> may be gone, but its spirit continues in the many free mini-festivals held around the shores of Lake Merritt. And an annual favorite, \u003ca href=\"https://urbanpeacemovement.org/event/town-up-tuesday-2024/\">Town Up Tuesday\u003c/a>, has booked its biggest headliner yet: Too Short. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How will a rap legend who routinely plays large arenas adapt to a lakeshore gazebo? It remains to be seen, but it’s completely free, so expect a huge crowd. Also performing are Town favorites \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934803/1100-himself-oakland-rapper-thizzler\">1100Himself\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925177/the-conscious-daughters-raps-sucka-free-thelma-and-louise-rewrote-the-rules\">Conscious Daughters\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCNlDgSQuLg\">Trunk Boiz\u003c/a> — a formidable lineup in its own right — but Too Short all but guarantees the biggest Town Up Tuesday yet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11690787","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Produced by the Oakland nonprofit Urban Peace Movement, Town Up Tuesday was conceived as a way to bring people together after the pandemic while simultaneously engaging young people with civic issues and upcoming elections. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main message is about getting involved and paying attention to local issues that impact the everyday lives of people in Oakland and the Bay Area,” says Urban Peace Movement’s Nicole Lee. “Obviously we have a consequential election coming up in November, and we want people to be informed, and to pay attention to that election, especially at the local level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee herself grew up going to Festival By the Lake, and says she wants to help reinvigorate pride in Oakland — especially as San Francisco’s so-called doom-loop narrative migrates across the Bay to the Town. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, Too Short agreed to perform in part because he feels the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s expressed to some of our team that he’s felt disheartened by the narrative about Oakland,” says Lee, “and how there are negative perceptions about Oakland that sometimes overshadow all the culture, creativity, innovation and social activism that comes from Oakland, and has had national and global impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosting Tuesday’s event are Mystic and DNas, and the rest of the lineup includes DJs Daghe & Emelle, plus Michael Sneed, 3Nise, the Animaniakz and Ms. Bria. (There’s two “surprise legendary artists” promised too.) There’s also double dutch sessions with Jump Squad 510, wellness services from Freedom Community Clinic, a kids’ area and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Town Up Tuesday is free, and takes place Tuesday, May 21, at the Edoff Memorial Bandstand on the northwestern shore of Lake Merritt. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/urbanpeacemovement/posts/pfbid0WesdcR8QYmzriBXMM3FNZjYRzJzan8fERs7x2vUzJ2mLNWbJFzm1DboC7csW1HCnl\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13958149/too-short-free-show-town-up-tuesday-lake-merritt","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_20453","arts_831","arts_1785","arts_585","arts_3478"],"featImg":"arts_13922549","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13957666":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13957666","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13957666","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"best-boba-shops-bay-area-berkeley-cupertino-sf","title":"8 Refreshing Bay Area Boba Shops to Help Beat the Summer Heat","publishDate":1715720422,"format":"standard","headTitle":"8 Refreshing Bay Area Boba Shops to Help Beat the Summer Heat | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>We are living in a golden age of boba in the Bay Area. In certain swaths of Berkeley, San Jose and Cupertino, you can find a boba shop literally on every block, and the sheer variety of drinks — from the cheese foam–topped to the nitro-chilled — has never been more robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, any true bubble tea connoisseur will tell you that beverage quality varies wildly from boba shop to boba shop — and, if I can say the quiet part out loud, the vast majority of Bay Area spots are mediocre at best. Unless you \u003ci>like\u003c/i> stale tapioca balls and excruciatingly sweet, watered-down tea made from powder mixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But listen: Friends don’t let friends drink bad boba. And because I care about you, dear reader, I’ve decided to share my running list of the best the Bay Area has to offer. As the parched, sun-soaked days of summer draw near, these are the spots where I’ll be posting up to quench my thirst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea.jpg\" alt=\"Two boba drinks on a wooden table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-1020x787.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-768x593.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-1536x1186.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TP Tea is a good choice for boba drinkers who want to be able to taste the tea. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>TP Tea\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2383 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where I’ll remind you that the boba balls themselves are merely a \u003ci>topping\u003c/i>, and an optional one at that. A boba shop serving tea that doesn’t taste good on its own would never survive in Taiwan (or any serious tea-drinking country). And so the highest praise I can give to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tptea.california/\">TP Tea\u003c/a> is that it’s the kind of boba shop where you can order the most basic-sounding tea (say, the “Signature Black Tea”) with minimal (30%) sugar added and no toppings whatsoever — and the drink will taste good as hell. The tea drinks here actually taste like tea, including the elegantly smooth Tie Guan Yin milk tea, a contender for my favorite milk tea in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s for good reason, then, that TP’s UC Berkeley location is by far the busiest boba shop on a couple-block stretch of Telegraph Avenue packed with six or seven others. (Also, “Taiwan Professional Tea” is the best name for a boba chain, hands down.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Asha Tea House\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2086 University Ave., Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/two-local-teashops-that-could-make-you-care-about-tea-1/\">As the story goes\u003c/a>, this Berkeley institution opened as a vehicle for evangelizing the pleasures of fine Asian teas, and offered a simple boba menu as just one part of that mission. But the boba drinks were so wildly popular, they quickly overshadowed all of the shop’s higher-end offerings. More than probably any other Bay Area boba shop, the focus at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ashateahouse/?hl=en\">Asha\u003c/a> rests squarely on the quality of the tea itself rather than on any bells and whistles. All of my favorites have been on the menu from day one: the potent, condensed milk–sweetened Hong Kong milk tea, which is delicious hot or cold, with or without boba. Or any of the seasonal fruit teas, which rely on no artificial flavorings. Instead, they’re just pure tea, supplemented with one of Asha’s pulpy housemade fruit purees. When available, the strawberry black tea and the Asian pear oolong are especially elite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango.jpg\" alt=\"A mango smoothie topped with whipped cream.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dek Doi sells standard boba drinks, but its boba-adjacent Thai beverages — like the “Mango Sunset” — are where the Piedmont Avenue shop really shines. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Dek Doi Cafe\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4125 Piedmont Ave., Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a testament to the beverage’s mainstream universal appeal these days that this little Thai cafe has a whole section of its menu dedicated to boba, which doesn’t have any traditional roots in Thailand. That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dekdoicafe/\">Dek Doi’s\u003c/a> boba drink selection is fairly basic, so you’d be better off choosing one of its boba-adjacent Thai drinks — like the “Mango Sunset,” which is just an S-tier exemplar of the kind of slushie mango smoothie that many shops sell. This version comes topped with whipped cream and crispy mung beans. Or try Thailand’s famous “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925310/dek-doi-cafe-pink-milk-thai-bl-oakland\">pink milk\u003c/a>,” or nom chompuu, which is made with red palm fruit syrup and resembles, and vaguely tastes similar to, a retro diner–style strawberry milk with tropical undertones. Note that the drinks here run sweet, but, like at any respectable boba shop, the sweetness level is customizable: For me, 50% was just right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957746\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee.jpg\" alt=\"A creamy boba drink sits on a table in front of a pillow.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crème brûlée milk tea is one of Urban Ritual’s many excellent toppings-forward drinks. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Urban Ritual\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>488 Fell St., San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when I got done saying boba isn’t all about all the toppings, here comes a boba shop that is, to a large extent, \u003ci>all about the toppings\u003c/i>. And yet I love it, unreservedly. Actually, the tea at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/urbanritualcafe/?hl=en\">Urban Ritual\u003c/a> tastes quite good, and the texture of the boba itself is unimpeachable. But what sets the shop apart is its next-generation approach to creative flavor and topping combinations. The most obvious example is its signature crème brûlée milk tea, which combines black tea, cream, tapioca balls and crème brûlée — both the eggy pudding and the crunchy-smoky torched sugar bits. This is Urban Ritual’s greatest innovation: the way it introduces textures other than the classic “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897410/taiwanese-food-texture-q-boba-love-boat\">QQ\u003c/a>” chew of the boba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you want to tell me that some of these drinks are more of a dessert than a beverage? You would be correct — but who is going to complain as long as they know that going in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two boba drinks — one green and fruity, the other one creamy — on a wooden picnic table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teaspoon’s Corte Madera location might be the best boba option in the North Bay. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Teaspoon\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>132 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13915004,arts_13957599']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Marin County has long been a bit of a boba wasteland, as the big, trendy brands from Taiwan haven’t, to this point, seen the region’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11307601/why-is-marin-county-so-white\">small Asian population\u003c/a> as a worthwhile market. It was a happy day, then, when Teaspoon, one of the more well-regarded local (and now \u003ca href=\"https://order.teaspoonlife.com/\">national\u003c/a>) chains, opened a branch in a Corte Madera shopping plaza. Teaspoon’s offerings tend toward sweet and aesthetically pleasing, with creative flavor combinations that only occasionally veer into stunt beverage territory (there’s a line of Red Bull boba drinks??). They’re also undeniably tasty: The creamy, caramelly Black Sugar Assam is a well-executed take on the black sugar boba trend. And the “Grasshopper,” which combines lychee green tea and fresh cucumber juice, is fun and refreshing — a nod, perhaps, toward the kind of pepino agua fresca you might find at a local taqueria.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Yifang Taiwan Fruit Tea \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>34133 Fremont Blvd., Fremont\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways this may feel like a basic pick: This Taiwanese chain has had a foothold in Northern California for years now, with more than a dozen locations, and it’s been a minute since the brand was super-relevant on the Taipei scene. But what \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yifang.cal/?hl=en\">Yifang\u003c/a> still does better than any other Bay Area chain is its fruit-flavored teas — whether it’s pineapple teas (made with housemade pineapple jam), old-school Taiwanese tastes like winter melon tea or lemon aiyu or, best of all, the shop’s signature Yifang Fruit Tea, which comes loaded fresh apple, orange and passion fruit, like a beverage and fruit salad all in one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is another spot where you’ll want to be careful about the sweetness levels, which vary widely from drink to drink. I’ve ordered the Yifang Fruit Tea at 0% sweetness and still found it to be plenty sweet enough!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957754\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a man holding two boba drinks using boba totes made of twine.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicha San Chen’s hallmark is that it brews the tea for each individual boba drink to order. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Chicha San Chen\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>20688 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13904913,arts_13929494']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>This one is for the diehards — or at least for tea lovers who have about an hour to kill. The current title holder in the contest for buzziest Bay Area boba shop, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chichasanchen.norcal/?hl=en\">Chicha San Chen\u003c/a> touts its award-winning tea drinks, which are individually brewed to order using the company’s patented, very Third-Wave-esque “teaspresso” machines. Is it all a little bit precious? Sure. But it does make for tasty tea. Word to the wise: If you’re going to go through all the trouble of waiting in line for half an hour (and then \u003ci>another\u003c/i> half hour for them to make your drink), then you’d better be a person who appreciates the flavor of tea for tea’s sake — and you’d be well-advised to order one of the simpler drinks, so the taste of that tea actually shines through. I love the floral, slightly tannic, minimally sweetened honey osmanthus oolong in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonus points for packaging that’s cute \u003ci>and\u003c/i> convenient: Every cup comes with a disposable \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C13nPlqLXle/?hl=en\">boba tote\u003c/a> made of twine. But if you want to wait another six months for the hype to die down a bit, I wouldn’t blame you in the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful.jpg\" alt=\"A soy pudding drink with many colorful toppings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The #8 combination at Soyful desserts is a hybrid of boba, soy pudding and chè. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Soyful Desserts\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>999 Story Rd., San Jose\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the joys of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904913/vietnamese-drinks-boba-che-guide-san-jose\">San Jose’s vibrant, colorful drinks scene\u003c/a> is the way that Taiwanese, Chinese and Vietnamese influences have fused together to create their own unique, hybridized thing. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soyfuldesserts/\">Soyful Desserts\u003c/a> is probably the peak example of that synthesis, with its concise menu of Hong Kong-style milk teas, soy pudding drinks and shaved ice–laden Vietnamese chè. As the shop’s name indicates, the star here is the soy pudding (aka tofu pudding), a silky, refreshing treat equally beloved in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam. To experience this fusion in all its glory, try the #8 soy pudding combination, which comes filled to the brim with ginger syrup–soaked tofu pudding, shaved ice, basil seeds, pandan jelly, grass jelly, sweet red beans and probably a handful of other toppings I’m forgetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m well aware that this is a “drink” that’s more solid than liquid — that it, in fact, constitutes a full meal in itself. But that doesn’t make it any less fun or delicious.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Because friends don’t let friends drink bad boba.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716247299,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1779},"headData":{"title":"The 8 Best Boba Shops in the Bay Area | KQED","description":"Because friends don’t let friends drink bad boba.","ogTitle":"8 Refreshing Bay Area Boba Shops to Help Beat the Summer Heat","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"8 Refreshing Bay Area Boba Shops to Help Beat the Summer Heat","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"The 8 Best Boba Shops in the Bay Area%%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"8 Refreshing Bay Area Boba Shops to Help Beat the Summer Heat","datePublished":"2024-05-14T14:00:22-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-20T16:21:39-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Summer Guide 2024","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2024","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13957666","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13957666/best-boba-shops-bay-area-berkeley-cupertino-sf","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>We are living in a golden age of boba in the Bay Area. In certain swaths of Berkeley, San Jose and Cupertino, you can find a boba shop literally on every block, and the sheer variety of drinks — from the cheese foam–topped to the nitro-chilled — has never been more robust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, any true bubble tea connoisseur will tell you that beverage quality varies wildly from boba shop to boba shop — and, if I can say the quiet part out loud, the vast majority of Bay Area spots are mediocre at best. Unless you \u003ci>like\u003c/i> stale tapioca balls and excruciatingly sweet, watered-down tea made from powder mixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But listen: Friends don’t let friends drink bad boba. And because I care about you, dear reader, I’ve decided to share my running list of the best the Bay Area has to offer. As the parched, sun-soaked days of summer draw near, these are the spots where I’ll be posting up to quench my thirst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea.jpg\" alt=\"Two boba drinks on a wooden table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-1020x787.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-768x593.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/tp-tea-1536x1186.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">TP Tea is a good choice for boba drinkers who want to be able to taste the tea. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>TP Tea\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2383 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s where I’ll remind you that the boba balls themselves are merely a \u003ci>topping\u003c/i>, and an optional one at that. A boba shop serving tea that doesn’t taste good on its own would never survive in Taiwan (or any serious tea-drinking country). And so the highest praise I can give to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tptea.california/\">TP Tea\u003c/a> is that it’s the kind of boba shop where you can order the most basic-sounding tea (say, the “Signature Black Tea”) with minimal (30%) sugar added and no toppings whatsoever — and the drink will taste good as hell. The tea drinks here actually taste like tea, including the elegantly smooth Tie Guan Yin milk tea, a contender for my favorite milk tea in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s for good reason, then, that TP’s UC Berkeley location is by far the busiest boba shop on a couple-block stretch of Telegraph Avenue packed with six or seven others. (Also, “Taiwan Professional Tea” is the best name for a boba chain, hands down.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Asha Tea House\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>2086 University Ave., Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/two-local-teashops-that-could-make-you-care-about-tea-1/\">As the story goes\u003c/a>, this Berkeley institution opened as a vehicle for evangelizing the pleasures of fine Asian teas, and offered a simple boba menu as just one part of that mission. But the boba drinks were so wildly popular, they quickly overshadowed all of the shop’s higher-end offerings. More than probably any other Bay Area boba shop, the focus at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ashateahouse/?hl=en\">Asha\u003c/a> rests squarely on the quality of the tea itself rather than on any bells and whistles. All of my favorites have been on the menu from day one: the potent, condensed milk–sweetened Hong Kong milk tea, which is delicious hot or cold, with or without boba. Or any of the seasonal fruit teas, which rely on no artificial flavorings. Instead, they’re just pure tea, supplemented with one of Asha’s pulpy housemade fruit purees. When available, the strawberry black tea and the Asian pear oolong are especially elite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango.jpg\" alt=\"A mango smoothie topped with whipped cream.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/dek-doi-mango-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dek Doi sells standard boba drinks, but its boba-adjacent Thai beverages — like the “Mango Sunset” — are where the Piedmont Avenue shop really shines. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Dek Doi Cafe\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>4125 Piedmont Ave., Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a testament to the beverage’s mainstream universal appeal these days that this little Thai cafe has a whole section of its menu dedicated to boba, which doesn’t have any traditional roots in Thailand. That said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dekdoicafe/\">Dek Doi’s\u003c/a> boba drink selection is fairly basic, so you’d be better off choosing one of its boba-adjacent Thai drinks — like the “Mango Sunset,” which is just an S-tier exemplar of the kind of slushie mango smoothie that many shops sell. This version comes topped with whipped cream and crispy mung beans. Or try Thailand’s famous “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925310/dek-doi-cafe-pink-milk-thai-bl-oakland\">pink milk\u003c/a>,” or nom chompuu, which is made with red palm fruit syrup and resembles, and vaguely tastes similar to, a retro diner–style strawberry milk with tropical undertones. Note that the drinks here run sweet, but, like at any respectable boba shop, the sweetness level is customizable: For me, 50% was just right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957746\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee.jpg\" alt=\"A creamy boba drink sits on a table in front of a pillow.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/urban-ritual-creme-brulee-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crème brûlée milk tea is one of Urban Ritual’s many excellent toppings-forward drinks. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Urban Ritual\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>488 Fell St., San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just when I got done saying boba isn’t all about all the toppings, here comes a boba shop that is, to a large extent, \u003ci>all about the toppings\u003c/i>. And yet I love it, unreservedly. Actually, the tea at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/urbanritualcafe/?hl=en\">Urban Ritual\u003c/a> tastes quite good, and the texture of the boba itself is unimpeachable. But what sets the shop apart is its next-generation approach to creative flavor and topping combinations. The most obvious example is its signature crème brûlée milk tea, which combines black tea, cream, tapioca balls and crème brûlée — both the eggy pudding and the crunchy-smoky torched sugar bits. This is Urban Ritual’s greatest innovation: the way it introduces textures other than the classic “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897410/taiwanese-food-texture-q-boba-love-boat\">QQ\u003c/a>” chew of the boba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you want to tell me that some of these drinks are more of a dessert than a beverage? You would be correct — but who is going to complain as long as they know that going in?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two boba drinks — one green and fruity, the other one creamy — on a wooden picnic table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/teaspoon-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teaspoon’s Corte Madera location might be the best boba option in the North Bay. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Teaspoon\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>132 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13915004,arts_13957599","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Marin County has long been a bit of a boba wasteland, as the big, trendy brands from Taiwan haven’t, to this point, seen the region’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11307601/why-is-marin-county-so-white\">small Asian population\u003c/a> as a worthwhile market. It was a happy day, then, when Teaspoon, one of the more well-regarded local (and now \u003ca href=\"https://order.teaspoonlife.com/\">national\u003c/a>) chains, opened a branch in a Corte Madera shopping plaza. Teaspoon’s offerings tend toward sweet and aesthetically pleasing, with creative flavor combinations that only occasionally veer into stunt beverage territory (there’s a line of Red Bull boba drinks??). They’re also undeniably tasty: The creamy, caramelly Black Sugar Assam is a well-executed take on the black sugar boba trend. And the “Grasshopper,” which combines lychee green tea and fresh cucumber juice, is fun and refreshing — a nod, perhaps, toward the kind of pepino agua fresca you might find at a local taqueria.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Yifang Taiwan Fruit Tea \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>34133 Fremont Blvd., Fremont\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways this may feel like a basic pick: This Taiwanese chain has had a foothold in Northern California for years now, with more than a dozen locations, and it’s been a minute since the brand was super-relevant on the Taipei scene. But what \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yifang.cal/?hl=en\">Yifang\u003c/a> still does better than any other Bay Area chain is its fruit-flavored teas — whether it’s pineapple teas (made with housemade pineapple jam), old-school Taiwanese tastes like winter melon tea or lemon aiyu or, best of all, the shop’s signature Yifang Fruit Tea, which comes loaded fresh apple, orange and passion fruit, like a beverage and fruit salad all in one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is another spot where you’ll want to be careful about the sweetness levels, which vary widely from drink to drink. I’ve ordered the Yifang Fruit Tea at 0% sweetness and still found it to be plenty sweet enough!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957754\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of a man holding two boba drinks using boba totes made of twine.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/chicha-san-chen_totes-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicha San Chen’s hallmark is that it brews the tea for each individual boba drink to order. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Chicha San Chen\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>20688 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13904913,arts_13929494","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>This one is for the diehards — or at least for tea lovers who have about an hour to kill. The current title holder in the contest for buzziest Bay Area boba shop, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chichasanchen.norcal/?hl=en\">Chicha San Chen\u003c/a> touts its award-winning tea drinks, which are individually brewed to order using the company’s patented, very Third-Wave-esque “teaspresso” machines. Is it all a little bit precious? Sure. But it does make for tasty tea. Word to the wise: If you’re going to go through all the trouble of waiting in line for half an hour (and then \u003ci>another\u003c/i> half hour for them to make your drink), then you’d better be a person who appreciates the flavor of tea for tea’s sake — and you’d be well-advised to order one of the simpler drinks, so the taste of that tea actually shines through. I love the floral, slightly tannic, minimally sweetened honey osmanthus oolong in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonus points for packaging that’s cute \u003ci>and\u003c/i> convenient: Every cup comes with a disposable \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C13nPlqLXle/?hl=en\">boba tote\u003c/a> made of twine. But if you want to wait another six months for the hype to die down a bit, I wouldn’t blame you in the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful.jpg\" alt=\"A soy pudding drink with many colorful toppings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/soyful-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The #8 combination at Soyful desserts is a hybrid of boba, soy pudding and chè. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Soyful Desserts\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>999 Story Rd., San Jose\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the joys of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904913/vietnamese-drinks-boba-che-guide-san-jose\">San Jose’s vibrant, colorful drinks scene\u003c/a> is the way that Taiwanese, Chinese and Vietnamese influences have fused together to create their own unique, hybridized thing. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soyfuldesserts/\">Soyful Desserts\u003c/a> is probably the peak example of that synthesis, with its concise menu of Hong Kong-style milk teas, soy pudding drinks and shaved ice–laden Vietnamese chè. As the shop’s name indicates, the star here is the soy pudding (aka tofu pudding), a silky, refreshing treat equally beloved in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam. To experience this fusion in all its glory, try the #8 soy pudding combination, which comes filled to the brim with ginger syrup–soaked tofu pudding, shaved ice, basil seeds, pandan jelly, grass jelly, sweet red beans and probably a handful of other toppings I’m forgetting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m well aware that this is a “drink” that’s more solid than liquid — that it, in fact, constitutes a full meal in itself. But that doesn’t make it any less fun or delicious.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13957666/best-boba-shops-bay-area-berkeley-cupertino-sf","authors":["11743"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_12276"],"tags":["arts_1270","arts_14423","arts_6902","arts_22144","arts_10278","arts_1297","arts_1084","arts_22150","arts_22140"],"featImg":"arts_13957736","label":"source_arts_13957666"},"arts_13958082":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13958082","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13958082","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"galileo-review-theater-berkeley-rep","title":"A Battle Between Science and Religion, With Galileo Caught in the Middle","publishDate":1715972105,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Battle Between Science and Religion, With Galileo Caught in the Middle | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>During the Renaissance era, the conflicting bedfellows of religion and science had clear delineations, dictated by Earth’s highest stewards to Heaven’s gates. “Science asks questions, but the Bible gives the answers,” thundered Pope Urban VIII, verbalizing the view of many in Europe’s 16th and 17th centuries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ripped both his body and soul to shreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13957684']In the spellbinding yet problematic world premiere musical \u003cem>Galileo\u003c/em>, which opened May 15 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, discoveries made in both science and religion complicate matters. Its storyline is greatly informed by the modern-day war on truth, loaded with a ceaselessly high-octane rock music score exploited mightily by the wicked talents of director Michael Mayer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Kushnier (Bishop Maffeo Barberini) and Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galileo Galilei (Raúl Esparza) has taken root in his laboratory, a man of 45 who has trouble blindly accepting the religious view that Earth is the center of the universe. After all, that view had been challenged years prior by fellow polymath Nicolaus Copernicus in the famed heliocentric model, where Earth and other planets were shown to revolve around the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An affirmation of those teachings, thanks to Galileo’s enhancement of the telescope, has proved unsatisfactory to the dominant biblical divinity of Catholic doctrine, which citizens believe to be infallible. Yet Galileo still carries some support, despite the dominance of Cardinal Morosini (Javier Muñoz), who gives no space for what he perceives as anti-Bible sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13957845']The support of Galileo’s close ally Bishop Barberini (Jeremy Kushnier) contributes greatly to his desire to continue locking horns with the Catholic establishment, and when Barberini is elevated as pontiff and becomes Pope Urban VIII, Galileo is poised to break through and declare truth the victor. Yet an effort by the pope to slow the public acceleration of Galileo’s scientific theories, introduced in Galileo’s book comparing the Copernican system with the accepted and less truthful Ptolemaic system, comes with an offensive slight, accelerating Galileo’s demise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei, center) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So many elements of spectacle allow the musical to brew and breathe within a white-hot fire, with music thrusting itself to the top of the ticket. Composers Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak unleash consecutive bangers, challenging their vocalists with vein-popping verve, melodies and divine harmonies as persistent as Galileo himself. Those compositions are nestled neatly inside Danny Strong’s book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each challenge is accepted by the cast, led by Broadway stalwart Esparza, who digs mightily into every ounce of his scintillating, grizzled register. A delicious counterpoint to Esparza’s wide-ranging vocals is his commitment to Galileo’s painful and joyous discoveries. His eyes accentuate each arc in every moment, a broken and beaten man who is constantly reminded that power decides truth, not the other way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Magby (Alessandro Tarantola) and Madalynn Mathews (Virginia Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kushnier’s mellifluity lives within its own constellation, a buttery-smooth falsetto that spotlights tenderness and admiration for Galileo, especially in his solo “By Thy Light I See.” Muñoz, Esparza’s fellow Broadway star, commands respect as the uncompromising Morosini, and Madelynn Mathews as Galileo’s embattled daughter Virginia, whose illegitimacy thrusts her away from love and into a cloistered life, gives a master class in vocals and empathy. These four craft a narrative that elevates the entire company in a show that gets louder and louder as time passes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the piece needs harnessing begins late in the second act, when a certain theme carries on much too long, ultimately diluting the critical nature of its voice. It’s as if the concept of truth and its virtues need constant repeating, which drags the entire narrative down. A piece that moves towards three hours needs to slap incessantly; this is not the case here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, the show feels as if it’s hurtling somewhere with no expense spared, especially through the technical design. Scenic work by Tony Award winner Rachel Hauck pairs beautifully with Anita Yavich’s nuanced and sparkly costume plot. Jason H. Thompson, along with Kaitlyn Pietras, go all in on Christian symbolism through their passionate projection design, combined sharply with the lighting of Kevin Adams. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many morsels that challenge in Strong’s book, and a critical question is posed: “When does the truth cost too much?” Thankfully for Galileo, and in a lesson for the masses, a legacy and the truth are not for sale. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Galileo’ runs through June 23 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in downtown Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/galileo/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The world premiere of 'Galileo' at Berkeley Rep is good, but long, and packed with rock music.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715972175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":896},"headData":{"title":"Review: 'Galileo' at Berkeley Rep Is a Long Battle of Science and Religion | KQED","description":"The world premiere of 'Galileo' at Berkeley Rep is good, but long, and packed with rock music.","ogTitle":"A Battle Between Science and Religion, With Galileo Caught in the Middle","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"A Battle Between Science and Religion, With Galileo Caught in the Middle","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Review: 'Galileo' at Berkeley Rep Is a Long Battle of Science and Religion %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Battle Between Science and Religion, With Galileo Caught in the Middle","datePublished":"2024-05-17T11:55:05-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-17T11:56:15-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13958082","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13958082/galileo-review-theater-berkeley-rep","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During the Renaissance era, the conflicting bedfellows of religion and science had clear delineations, dictated by Earth’s highest stewards to Heaven’s gates. “Science asks questions, but the Bible gives the answers,” thundered Pope Urban VIII, verbalizing the view of many in Europe’s 16th and 17th centuries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ripped both his body and soul to shreds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13957684","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the spellbinding yet problematic world premiere musical \u003cem>Galileo\u003c/em>, which opened May 15 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, discoveries made in both science and religion complicate matters. Its storyline is greatly informed by the modern-day war on truth, loaded with a ceaselessly high-octane rock music score exploited mightily by the wicked talents of director Michael Mayer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_147-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Kushnier (Bishop Maffeo Barberini) and Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Galileo Galilei (Raúl Esparza) has taken root in his laboratory, a man of 45 who has trouble blindly accepting the religious view that Earth is the center of the universe. After all, that view had been challenged years prior by fellow polymath Nicolaus Copernicus in the famed heliocentric model, where Earth and other planets were shown to revolve around the sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An affirmation of those teachings, thanks to Galileo’s enhancement of the telescope, has proved unsatisfactory to the dominant biblical divinity of Catholic doctrine, which citizens believe to be infallible. Yet Galileo still carries some support, despite the dominance of Cardinal Morosini (Javier Muñoz), who gives no space for what he perceives as anti-Bible sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13957845","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The support of Galileo’s close ally Bishop Barberini (Jeremy Kushnier) contributes greatly to his desire to continue locking horns with the Catholic establishment, and when Barberini is elevated as pontiff and becomes Pope Urban VIII, Galileo is poised to break through and declare truth the victor. Yet an effort by the pope to slow the public acceleration of Galileo’s scientific theories, introduced in Galileo’s book comparing the Copernican system with the accepted and less truthful Ptolemaic system, comes with an offensive slight, accelerating Galileo’s demise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_060-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei, center) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So many elements of spectacle allow the musical to brew and breathe within a white-hot fire, with music thrusting itself to the top of the ticket. Composers Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak unleash consecutive bangers, challenging their vocalists with vein-popping verve, melodies and divine harmonies as persistent as Galileo himself. Those compositions are nestled neatly inside Danny Strong’s book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each challenge is accepted by the cast, led by Broadway stalwart Esparza, who digs mightily into every ounce of his scintillating, grizzled register. A delicious counterpoint to Esparza’s wide-ranging vocals is his commitment to Galileo’s painful and joyous discoveries. His eyes accentuate each arc in every moment, a broken and beaten man who is constantly reminded that power decides truth, not the other way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_102-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christian Magby (Alessandro Tarantola) and Madalynn Mathews (Virginia Galilei) in the world premiere of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kushnier’s mellifluity lives within its own constellation, a buttery-smooth falsetto that spotlights tenderness and admiration for Galileo, especially in his solo “By Thy Light I See.” Muñoz, Esparza’s fellow Broadway star, commands respect as the uncompromising Morosini, and Madelynn Mathews as Galileo’s embattled daughter Virginia, whose illegitimacy thrusts her away from love and into a cloistered life, gives a master class in vocals and empathy. These four craft a narrative that elevates the entire company in a show that gets louder and louder as time passes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the piece needs harnessing begins late in the second act, when a certain theme carries on much too long, ultimately diluting the critical nature of its voice. It’s as if the concept of truth and its virtues need constant repeating, which drags the entire narrative down. A piece that moves towards three hours needs to slap incessantly; this is not the case here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GLO_188-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raúl Esparza (Galileo Galilei) and the cast of ‘Galileo: A Rock Musical’ at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, the show feels as if it’s hurtling somewhere with no expense spared, especially through the technical design. Scenic work by Tony Award winner Rachel Hauck pairs beautifully with Anita Yavich’s nuanced and sparkly costume plot. Jason H. Thompson, along with Kaitlyn Pietras, go all in on Christian symbolism through their passionate projection design, combined sharply with the lighting of Kevin Adams. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many morsels that challenge in Strong’s book, and a critical question is posed: “When does the truth cost too much?” Thankfully for Galileo, and in a lesson for the masses, a legacy and the truth are not for sale. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Galileo’ runs through June 23 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in downtown Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/galileo/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13958082/galileo-review-theater-berkeley-rep","authors":["11905"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1270","arts_1237","arts_769","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13958079","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13958007":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13958007","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13958007","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ybca-new-interim-ceo-jim-rettew","title":"Amid Upheaval, a New CEO Steps in at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts","publishDate":1715897916,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Amid Upheaval, a New CEO Steps in at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>A new CEO has stepped in to lead \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA), the embattled San Francisco arts organization whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">previous interim CEO abruptly resigned\u003c/a> in March during the fallout of a pro-Palestinian protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Rettew, the new interim CEO, has previously held five interim leadership roles at various nonprofits. His background as a crisis management expert will be put to the test at YBCA, which has been embroiled in controversy since a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">Feb. 15 protest\u003c/a> during which eight artists spray painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages onto their own works in the \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 906px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg 906w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-800x1020.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-160x204.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-768x979.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Rettew is YBCA’s new interim CEO. \u003ccite>(Jim Rettew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the protest, former interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat and the board closed the galleries, which remained shuttered for a month. In open letters, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAoljeQycemJrzYNDyVoSN0gc6ogp5B3jUzj77qua2g/edit\">artists\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">staff\u003c/a> accused YBCA leaders of censorship. Bahat resigned on March 3, citing “antisemitic backlash” and “the actions of some of our own employees” in her letter to the board. (Staff and leadership denied each other’s allegations.) San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, meanwhile, voiced support for the artists, and proposed an examination of the city’s support of YBCA at an upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13952460,arts_13953653']YBCA reopened in mid-March, but the turmoil continued. At least nine staff members have resigned in protest, according to employee comments during a public meeting. And YBCA now faces scrutiny from San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, who has proposed changes that would drastically alter how YBCA operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email interview, Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding public trust as one of YBCA’s biggest challenges, and that he’s spent his first few weeks on the job listening to employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m now using those essential conversations to work with our staff to help deliver on the promises and aspirations of our organization,” he wrote. “I think that in many ways, the protest on Feb. 15 was a reflection of people asking the question: what do people expect from a cultural institution in 2024? We are working tirelessly to try to answer that question, and to create a space that is authentic and valuable to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area Artists Against Genocide (B.A.A.A.G.) member Paz G displays design options at a screen-printing event artists organized outside of YBCA while the art center was closed in March 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An art center on taxpayer-funded property\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>YBCA is under particular scrutiny because the private nonprofit enjoys significant, taxpayer-funded subsidies from the City and County of San Francisco. It occupies a city-owned building, rent free, on public land under a contract that’s subject to renewal through 2094. YBCA has also received tens of millions in taxpayer dollars since its founding in 1993; according to its most recent financial report, for fiscal year 2023, about 6% of its revenue and support came from the City and County of San Francisco. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, another nonprofit, manages the YBCA property, acting as an intermediary between YBCA and the city. In exchange for financial support and subsidies, YBCA is contractually obligated to offer “high-quality artistic programming to San Francisco residents and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Conservancy’s most recent public board meeting on April 10, San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, Ralph Remington, sharply criticized YBCA for what he considers its failure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the level of subsidy YBCA receives … they should have been operating and maintaining the cultural facilities in a way that presents themselves as a world-class performing arts presenting, producing, exhibiting organization,” Remington said. “You’d have to go back into the distant past to see when that actually happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Director of Cultural Affairs Ralph Remington said YBCA needs to be ‘reined in’ at a recent board meeting. \u003ccite>(Aminda Villa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, YBCA significantly reduced its film programming in 2018 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13841205/curatorial-crisis-bay-area-art-institutions\">laying off the two-person department\u003c/a>. In 2020, it launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880296/ybca-launches-artist-power-center-resource-for-financially-struggling-artists\">Artist Power Center\u003c/a>, an online platform meant to connect artists to grants and job opportunities; it has since sunsetted that project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned into some kind of weird thinktank that should’ve been out in the woods somewhere, maybe,” said Remington at the Conservancy board meeting. “But for the level of public subsidy in the middle of the city … YBCA, in my opinion, needs to be reined in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the board meeting, Remington contrasted YBCA with SOMArts, a significantly less resourced nonprofit that’s also located in a city-owned building. While YBCA enjoys a spacious, modern, centrally located facility, SOMArts needs significant seismic improvements, and is in a much less desirable location, below a freeway underpass and away from BART and downtown offices. [aside postid='arts_13955613']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would put on the table that we could move SOMArts into YBCA to share with SOMA Pilipinas,” said Remington, referring to another vibrant, less resourced arts organization, “and they could activate the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a follow-up interview, Remington told KQED that these proposals are in their “embryonic” stages. He credited the Feb. 15 protesters, who now call themselves Bay Area Artists Against Genocide, with spurring important conversations about reforms at YBCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the activists ultimately were successful because they drew attention to the issues at YBCA; they drew attention to the issue that they were actually protesting about,” he said in a video call. “And they brought about ultimate change that will happen with that organization as a result of these bold actions. … This is why civil disobedience and protest and having your voice heard is so important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staff members reveal a schism with leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the April 10 Conservancy board meeting, a handful of YBCA staff members spoke out during public comment, painting an image of broken trust between the art center’s leadership and YBCA workers. The employees said that, even amid leadership changes, they’ve spent years building relationships with artists and the public, and they now feel those relationships are in jeopardy due to the actions of the board and former CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding trust with staff as one of his first priorities. (He declined to comment on recent staff resignations.) He also said that he’s working to make sure the art center fulfills its commitment to the city and its visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot undo decisions that were made, or change what happened,” he said. “What I can do is help this organization move forward with integrity.” [aside postid='arts_13956575']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about issues raised in the Feb. 15 protest, Rettew said YBCA would not join the Palestinian Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as artists demanded. (The boycott encourages international institutions to divest from Israeli institutions until Israel ends its siege and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, among other conditions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if YBCA would take a different approach to political messages in artists’ work, Rettew didn’t specify any changes. But he said that the censorship allegations “remain one of the most challenging and contentious issues of the past few months,” and underscored the institutions’ need to balance artistic expression with curatorial context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rettew is now focused on YBCA’s upcoming programming. “I recognize that it is now our job to prove ourselves as a trustworthy partner to the community, and to artists, and the way that we will do that is by doubling down on our commitment to put on engaging and thought-provoking exhibitions, by filling our theater as many nights as possible, by putting together compelling public programs, and by working with our neighbors to continue the important work of bringing people downtown to the Yerba Buena District,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s next exhibition, a \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/ybca-announces-nick-dong-11-to-88-an-immersive-solo-exhibition/\">solo show by Oakland artist Nick Dong\u003c/a>, opens on June 6 and will be on view through Aug. 25. A spring dance festival presented by San Francisco Ballet School is slated for May 22-24; there’s also a free, all-ages art workshop scheduled for May 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Remington hopes the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy will arrive at a plan of action for YBCA by the fall. The proposed San Francisco Board of Supervisors public hearing on censorship allegations at YBCA has not been scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Interim CEO Jim Rettew wants to rebuild public trust after the art center's censorship controversies. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715980497,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1524},"headData":{"title":"Amid Upheaval, a New CEO Steps in at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | KQED","description":"Interim CEO Jim Rettew wants to rebuild public trust after the art center's censorship controversies. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Amid Upheaval, a New CEO Steps in at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts","datePublished":"2024-05-16T15:18:36-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-17T14:14:57-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13958007","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13958007/ybca-new-interim-ceo-jim-rettew","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new CEO has stepped in to lead \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA), the embattled San Francisco arts organization whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953653/ybca-ceo-resigns-after-pro-palestinian-protest-and-boycott\">previous interim CEO abruptly resigned\u003c/a> in March during the fallout of a pro-Palestinian protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Rettew, the new interim CEO, has previously held five interim leadership roles at various nonprofits. His background as a crisis management expert will be put to the test at YBCA, which has been embroiled in controversy since a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952460/artists-deface-work-ybca-pro-palestine-protest\">Feb. 15 protest\u003c/a> during which eight artists spray painted and draped pro-Palestinian messages onto their own works in the \u003ci>Bay Area Now 9\u003c/i> exhibit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 906px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958014\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"906\" height=\"1155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew.jpg 906w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-800x1020.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-160x204.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Jim-Rettew-768x979.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 906px) 100vw, 906px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Rettew is YBCA’s new interim CEO. \u003ccite>(Jim Rettew)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to the protest, former interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat and the board closed the galleries, which remained shuttered for a month. In open letters, \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAoljeQycemJrzYNDyVoSN0gc6ogp5B3jUzj77qua2g/edit\">artists\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLNnUvnx74rLWZKIJaHUsMt4qOogFrBZ2OIeUjKjM2gblk6Q/viewform\">staff\u003c/a> accused YBCA leaders of censorship. Bahat resigned on March 3, citing “antisemitic backlash” and “the actions of some of our own employees” in her letter to the board. (Staff and leadership denied each other’s allegations.) San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, meanwhile, voiced support for the artists, and proposed an examination of the city’s support of YBCA at an upcoming Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13952460,arts_13953653","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>YBCA reopened in mid-March, but the turmoil continued. At least nine staff members have resigned in protest, according to employee comments during a public meeting. And YBCA now faces scrutiny from San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, who has proposed changes that would drastically alter how YBCA operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email interview, Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding public trust as one of YBCA’s biggest challenges, and that he’s spent his first few weeks on the job listening to employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m now using those essential conversations to work with our staff to help deliver on the promises and aspirations of our organization,” he wrote. “I think that in many ways, the protest on Feb. 15 was a reflection of people asking the question: what do people expect from a cultural institution in 2024? We are working tirelessly to try to answer that question, and to create a space that is authentic and valuable to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240313-YBCAARTISTS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area Artists Against Genocide (B.A.A.A.G.) member Paz G displays design options at a screen-printing event artists organized outside of YBCA while the art center was closed in March 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An art center on taxpayer-funded property\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>YBCA is under particular scrutiny because the private nonprofit enjoys significant, taxpayer-funded subsidies from the City and County of San Francisco. It occupies a city-owned building, rent free, on public land under a contract that’s subject to renewal through 2094. YBCA has also received tens of millions in taxpayer dollars since its founding in 1993; according to its most recent financial report, for fiscal year 2023, about 6% of its revenue and support came from the City and County of San Francisco. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, another nonprofit, manages the YBCA property, acting as an intermediary between YBCA and the city. In exchange for financial support and subsidies, YBCA is contractually obligated to offer “high-quality artistic programming to San Francisco residents and visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Conservancy’s most recent public board meeting on April 10, San Francisco’s Director of Cultural Affairs, Ralph Remington, sharply criticized YBCA for what he considers its failure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the level of subsidy YBCA receives … they should have been operating and maintaining the cultural facilities in a way that presents themselves as a world-class performing arts presenting, producing, exhibiting organization,” Remington said. “You’d have to go back into the distant past to see when that actually happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958015\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Ralph-Remington-3_Photo-Credit-Aminda-Villa_0-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Director of Cultural Affairs Ralph Remington said YBCA needs to be ‘reined in’ at a recent board meeting. \u003ccite>(Aminda Villa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Indeed, YBCA significantly reduced its film programming in 2018 after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13841205/curatorial-crisis-bay-area-art-institutions\">laying off the two-person department\u003c/a>. In 2020, it launched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880296/ybca-launches-artist-power-center-resource-for-financially-struggling-artists\">Artist Power Center\u003c/a>, an online platform meant to connect artists to grants and job opportunities; it has since sunsetted that project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned into some kind of weird thinktank that should’ve been out in the woods somewhere, maybe,” said Remington at the Conservancy board meeting. “But for the level of public subsidy in the middle of the city … YBCA, in my opinion, needs to be reined in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the board meeting, Remington contrasted YBCA with SOMArts, a significantly less resourced nonprofit that’s also located in a city-owned building. While YBCA enjoys a spacious, modern, centrally located facility, SOMArts needs significant seismic improvements, and is in a much less desirable location, below a freeway underpass and away from BART and downtown offices. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955613","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would put on the table that we could move SOMArts into YBCA to share with SOMA Pilipinas,” said Remington, referring to another vibrant, less resourced arts organization, “and they could activate the building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a follow-up interview, Remington told KQED that these proposals are in their “embryonic” stages. He credited the Feb. 15 protesters, who now call themselves Bay Area Artists Against Genocide, with spurring important conversations about reforms at YBCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the activists ultimately were successful because they drew attention to the issues at YBCA; they drew attention to the issue that they were actually protesting about,” he said in a video call. “And they brought about ultimate change that will happen with that organization as a result of these bold actions. … This is why civil disobedience and protest and having your voice heard is so important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-29-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstators chant during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show ‘Bay Area Now’ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Staff members reveal a schism with leadership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the April 10 Conservancy board meeting, a handful of YBCA staff members spoke out during public comment, painting an image of broken trust between the art center’s leadership and YBCA workers. The employees said that, even amid leadership changes, they’ve spent years building relationships with artists and the public, and they now feel those relationships are in jeopardy due to the actions of the board and former CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rettew told KQED that he sees rebuilding trust with staff as one of his first priorities. (He declined to comment on recent staff resignations.) He also said that he’s working to make sure the art center fulfills its commitment to the city and its visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot undo decisions that were made, or change what happened,” he said. “What I can do is help this organization move forward with integrity.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13956575","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about issues raised in the Feb. 15 protest, Rettew said YBCA would not join the Palestinian Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as artists demanded. (The boycott encourages international institutions to divest from Israeli institutions until Israel ends its siege and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, among other conditions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if YBCA would take a different approach to political messages in artists’ work, Rettew didn’t specify any changes. But he said that the censorship allegations “remain one of the most challenging and contentious issues of the past few months,” and underscored the institutions’ need to balance artistic expression with curatorial context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg\" alt='A sign over a wool rug reads \"No More Blood Money - Ceasefire Now!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240215-YBCAGazaProtest-07-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign covers art by Tracy Ren during a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the show Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rettew is now focused on YBCA’s upcoming programming. “I recognize that it is now our job to prove ourselves as a trustworthy partner to the community, and to artists, and the way that we will do that is by doubling down on our commitment to put on engaging and thought-provoking exhibitions, by filling our theater as many nights as possible, by putting together compelling public programs, and by working with our neighbors to continue the important work of bringing people downtown to the Yerba Buena District,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s next exhibition, a \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/ybca-announces-nick-dong-11-to-88-an-immersive-solo-exhibition/\">solo show by Oakland artist Nick Dong\u003c/a>, opens on June 6 and will be on view through Aug. 25. A spring dance festival presented by San Francisco Ballet School is slated for May 22-24; there’s also a free, all-ages art workshop scheduled for May 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Remington hopes the Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy will arrive at a plan of action for YBCA by the fall. The proposed San Francisco Board of Supervisors public hearing on censorship allegations at YBCA has not been scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13958007/ybca-new-interim-ceo-jim-rettew","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_3648","arts_1146","arts_1040","arts_1955"],"featImg":"arts_13954250","label":"arts"},"arts_13958114":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13958114","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13958114","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"todos-oakland-la-casita-comeback-menudo-pozole","title":"The Return of East Oakland’s Menudo King","publishDate":1716228789,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Return of East Oakland’s Menudo King | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In 2019, Nolberto Martinez, Jr. was already an East Oakland legend in the making. His little taqueria, La Casita, was \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/pozole-birria-and-more-homey-cooking-at-la-casita-2-1/\">routinely hailed\u003c/a> as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GXIfUlr7c4A3MSRv9hBxrXrfiLyyWMCldJos0/?img_index=6\">best restaurants\u003c/a> in Fruitvale — for its fat, hand-pressed tortillas, its habit-forming housemade salsas and, most of all, its homey, Jalisco-style soups, like pozole and menudo, which were some of the best I’d ever tasted. At the center of it all was Martinez himself, the Bay Area’s self-styled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk5XxFYnDH8Uz6YpKcgAiLNM2tScp6G3P0v3TQ0/\">menudo king\u003c/a>,” a boisterous presence who’d greet each guest with a plate of tortillas and cotija-dusted black beans and a booming, “What can I get for you, bro?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a dream come true for an East Oakland kid who grew up bussing tables at his grandmother’s Mexican restaurant on East 12th, hatching plans to someday open his own spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a series of calamities: In May of 2019, Martinez’s father passed away from cancer, and before he’d even had a chance to process his grief, the pandemic hit the Bay Area in full force. “Nobody was coming to the Fruitvale,” Martinez recalls. “We were constantly in the news: ‘Don’t come to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/One-Oakland-neighborhood-has-seen-a-surge-in-15651955.php\">Fruitvale district because of COVID\u003c/a>.’ It was a ghost town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Casita’s temporary closure quickly turned permanent, and then Martinez…kind of disappeared for four years. Not literally, of course. He still picked up catering gigs and did occasional pop-ups, slinging quesabirria in the park or at a local brewery. Once in a while he’d cook up a big batch of his excellent, sneakily spicy \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/12/8/22154347/holidays-shopping-gifts-san-francisco-oakland-food-restaurants\">orange salsa\u003c/a> and sell it to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeksGLF_kECYCtgJwTQjKxSLjKkpaUmcOsL7E0/?img_index=1\">Instagram\u003c/a> followers. But as far as running a restaurant? It seemed like he was out of the game for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A chef uses tongs to turn ears of corn cooking on the grill inside a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a four-year hiatus, Martinez is back doing what he loves best: running a restaurant in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until a couple of months ago, that is. In March, Martinez started a new job as the general manager of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/todosmexican/?hl=en\">Todos\u003c/a>, a two-year-old Mexican restaurant in downtown Oakland where he does a little bit of everything — works front of house, oversees the kitchen crew, lends a hand at the bar, jumps on the line to grill up some elote. Slowly, too, he’s been tweaking the menu, and in the next couple of weeks, he’ll be rolling out some of the La Casita classics that made him a local legend: the birria, pozole and menudo. It’s an answer to so many soup lovers’ wistful prayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now firmly entrenched in his new gig, Martinez acknowledges that the past four years were a dark and difficult time. Losing his dad, Nolberto Sr. — himself a chef and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/ByVYUeOAKy5vGAE1f33S8ohAtbvf2fYkSvzXwA0/\">longtime fixture in Oakland restaurant kitchens\u003c/a> — was a big blow to the entire family. Losing La Casita on top of that left Martinez feeling even more heartbroken and unmoored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I ever wanted was to open my own restaurant,” he says. “I was really down, man. For a long time, I was pissed off at myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of those difficult times, Martinez says he turned to his Oakland community for support. He worked for a coffee roaster and a moving company for a while, then found a job as a prep cook for a nonprofit that delivered meals to churches and convalescent homes. He started working on his mental health, too — joined a men’s healing group, stopped drinking, came to terms with his father’s death and just generally tried to take better care of himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt='Exterior of of a downtown restaurant. The sign reads, \"Todos Cantina + Cocina.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todos, a two-year-old Mexican restaurant in downtown Oakland, has given Martinez a fresh opportunity. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around this time, one of his coworkers told him that the Todos ownership group — the team that operates \u003ca href=\"https://underdogstoo.com/\">Underdogs\u003c/a> in San Francisco and a handful of \u003ca href=\"https://elrestaurante.com/the-taco-syndicate-web-of-restaurants-keeps-taco-lovers-happ/\">other Mexican restaurants around the Bay\u003c/a> — was looking for someone to run their Oakland location. They wanted someone who loved Oakland and knew the Mexican food business. As it turns out, Martinez fit that description to a T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a trope in the food industry where a talented chef quits his cushy job working for a big, investor-driven restaurant in order to open his own little passion project, allowing him to finally find true fulfillment. On the face of it, anyway, Martinez’s path has had the reverse trajectory. But if anything, he seems humbled and grateful for the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not too many people want to teach you something, let alone a guy from East Oakland,” Martinez says of his new employers. “I’m happy. I feel a lot better as a person. I feel like I have the weight on my shoulders [lifted].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957677\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957677\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quesabirria cook on the plancha. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Martinez is learning the ins and outs of running a 90-seat restaurant — much, much larger than his tiny taqueria on Foothill Boulevard. He manages dozens of employees, handles a massive office catering operation and is taking online classes to acquire all of the deeper business knowledge he’d previously just had to pick up on the fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13955802,arts_13954112,arts_13931115']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>For longtime fans of La Casita, the most exciting part is that he’s starting to put his own stamp on the menu. This week he’ll roll out his beef birria, which has already been on the menu in the form of his popular consomé-soaked quesabirria tacos. Now, Todos will serve birria in a variety of new formats — the traditional way, as a soup, with rice and beans on the side; as a street taco; and in the double-wrapped crispy tacos known as diablitos. “You can call Todos an Oakland birrieria now, I’m very proud to say,” Martinez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks he’ll also begin serving pozole and menudo on the weekends. Both are versions of recipes that Martinez inherited when he bought the Foothill Boulevard restaurant from Ana Maria Campos, who ran it under the name Taqueria Campos for more than 10 years before he took over the business. It’s for good reason that old customers still speak about those soups in hushed, reverent tones: In my memory, Martinez’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lacasitaeastoakland/\">red pork pozole\u003c/a> had the kind of heady, invigorating broth that warms you up from the inside, especially when doctored with a drizzle of the chef’s housemade chile de árbol chili oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957678\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sauce-drenched wet burrito on a plate.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wet burrito at Todos. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And his menudo, that famous hangover cure, may have been the best I’ve ever tasted — the tripe and the jiggly beef trotter slow-simmered until they’re slurpably soft, the broth as clean and clarifying as you can imagine. During La Casita’s glory years, the restaurant was “like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BksX-98HDv8HkCi5N3oYRFh-A0j-YL-HWb7rE80/\">hangover headquarters\u003c/a>,” Martinez recalls, as customers lined up for their morning menudo fix on Saturdays and Sundays — and even Mondays, when the really serious drinkers would call in sick. “I call it food for the soul, man,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his long hiatus, Martinez says it means the world to him to bring these dishes back to Oakland now, at a restaurant with an even wider reach. He thinks about how important it is for him to carry on his family’s legacy — about how much he loved watching his dad cook and how his grandmother opened La Estrellita, one of Fruitvale’s first Mexican restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A chef puts plates of food that are ready to be served onto the pass inside a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Martinez, operating a restaurant in Oakland is a matter of family pride — and Town pride. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is the matter, too, of repping his neighborhood and hometown. In the old La Casita days, in almost every photo of the restaurant that Martinez posted on social media, he’s posing next to the mural on the outside. It reads, in boldface lowrider-style lettering, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Wqnj_laPncUFgduyw_OWl0eoCNWkrXbwZVZk0/\">Oakland Over Everything\u003c/a>” — an encapsulation of the chef’s Town pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me being from the Fruitvale district here in East Oakland, it was rough growing up. A lot of us didn’t make it; a lot of us are not doing good,” Martinez says. “For me to be blessed like this, it means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/todosmexican/\">\u003ci>Todos\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is located at 2315 Valdez St. in Oakland.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A beloved taquero reemerges at Oakland’s Todos after a four-year hiatus. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716230784,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1449},"headData":{"title":"Fruitvale's Best Menudo Makes a Comeback in Downtown Oakland | KQED","description":"A beloved taquero reemerges at Oakland’s Todos after a four-year hiatus. 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His little taqueria, La Casita, was \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/pozole-birria-and-more-homey-cooking-at-la-casita-2-1/\">routinely hailed\u003c/a> as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GXIfUlr7c4A3MSRv9hBxrXrfiLyyWMCldJos0/?img_index=6\">best restaurants\u003c/a> in Fruitvale — for its fat, hand-pressed tortillas, its habit-forming housemade salsas and, most of all, its homey, Jalisco-style soups, like pozole and menudo, which were some of the best I’d ever tasted. At the center of it all was Martinez himself, the Bay Area’s self-styled “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk5XxFYnDH8Uz6YpKcgAiLNM2tScp6G3P0v3TQ0/\">menudo king\u003c/a>,” a boisterous presence who’d greet each guest with a plate of tortillas and cotija-dusted black beans and a booming, “What can I get for you, bro?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a dream come true for an East Oakland kid who grew up bussing tables at his grandmother’s Mexican restaurant on East 12th, hatching plans to someday open his own spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a series of calamities: In May of 2019, Martinez’s father passed away from cancer, and before he’d even had a chance to process his grief, the pandemic hit the Bay Area in full force. “Nobody was coming to the Fruitvale,” Martinez recalls. “We were constantly in the news: ‘Don’t come to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/One-Oakland-neighborhood-has-seen-a-surge-in-15651955.php\">Fruitvale district because of COVID\u003c/a>.’ It was a ghost town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Casita’s temporary closure quickly turned permanent, and then Martinez…kind of disappeared for four years. Not literally, of course. He still picked up catering gigs and did occasional pop-ups, slinging quesabirria in the park or at a local brewery. Once in a while he’d cook up a big batch of his excellent, sneakily spicy \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2020/12/8/22154347/holidays-shopping-gifts-san-francisco-oakland-food-restaurants\">orange salsa\u003c/a> and sell it to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeksGLF_kECYCtgJwTQjKxSLjKkpaUmcOsL7E0/?img_index=1\">Instagram\u003c/a> followers. But as far as running a restaurant? It seemed like he was out of the game for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958128\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A chef uses tongs to turn ears of corn cooking on the grill inside a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-03_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a four-year hiatus, Martinez is back doing what he loves best: running a restaurant in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Until a couple of months ago, that is. In March, Martinez started a new job as the general manager of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/todosmexican/?hl=en\">Todos\u003c/a>, a two-year-old Mexican restaurant in downtown Oakland where he does a little bit of everything — works front of house, oversees the kitchen crew, lends a hand at the bar, jumps on the line to grill up some elote. Slowly, too, he’s been tweaking the menu, and in the next couple of weeks, he’ll be rolling out some of the La Casita classics that made him a local legend: the birria, pozole and menudo. It’s an answer to so many soup lovers’ wistful prayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now firmly entrenched in his new gig, Martinez acknowledges that the past four years were a dark and difficult time. Losing his dad, Nolberto Sr. — himself a chef and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/ByVYUeOAKy5vGAE1f33S8ohAtbvf2fYkSvzXwA0/\">longtime fixture in Oakland restaurant kitchens\u003c/a> — was a big blow to the entire family. Losing La Casita on top of that left Martinez feeling even more heartbroken and unmoored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I ever wanted was to open my own restaurant,” he says. “I was really down, man. For a long time, I was pissed off at myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of those difficult times, Martinez says he turned to his Oakland community for support. He worked for a coffee roaster and a moving company for a while, then found a job as a prep cook for a nonprofit that delivered meals to churches and convalescent homes. He started working on his mental health, too — joined a men’s healing group, stopped drinking, came to terms with his father’s death and just generally tried to take better care of himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957673\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt='Exterior of of a downtown restaurant. The sign reads, \"Todos Cantina + Cocina.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todos, a two-year-old Mexican restaurant in downtown Oakland, has given Martinez a fresh opportunity. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around this time, one of his coworkers told him that the Todos ownership group — the team that operates \u003ca href=\"https://underdogstoo.com/\">Underdogs\u003c/a> in San Francisco and a handful of \u003ca href=\"https://elrestaurante.com/the-taco-syndicate-web-of-restaurants-keeps-taco-lovers-happ/\">other Mexican restaurants around the Bay\u003c/a> — was looking for someone to run their Oakland location. They wanted someone who loved Oakland and knew the Mexican food business. As it turns out, Martinez fit that description to a T.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a trope in the food industry where a talented chef quits his cushy job working for a big, investor-driven restaurant in order to open his own little passion project, allowing him to finally find true fulfillment. On the face of it, anyway, Martinez’s path has had the reverse trajectory. But if anything, he seems humbled and grateful for the opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not too many people want to teach you something, let alone a guy from East Oakland,” Martinez says of his new employers. “I’m happy. I feel a lot better as a person. I feel like I have the weight on my shoulders [lifted].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957677\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957677\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quesabirria cook on the plancha. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Martinez is learning the ins and outs of running a 90-seat restaurant — much, much larger than his tiny taqueria on Foothill Boulevard. He manages dozens of employees, handles a massive office catering operation and is taking online classes to acquire all of the deeper business knowledge he’d previously just had to pick up on the fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955802,arts_13954112,arts_13931115","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>For longtime fans of La Casita, the most exciting part is that he’s starting to put his own stamp on the menu. This week he’ll roll out his beef birria, which has already been on the menu in the form of his popular consomé-soaked quesabirria tacos. Now, Todos will serve birria in a variety of new formats — the traditional way, as a soup, with rice and beans on the side; as a street taco; and in the double-wrapped crispy tacos known as diablitos. “You can call Todos an Oakland birrieria now, I’m very proud to say,” Martinez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming weeks he’ll also begin serving pozole and menudo on the weekends. Both are versions of recipes that Martinez inherited when he bought the Foothill Boulevard restaurant from Ana Maria Campos, who ran it under the name Taqueria Campos for more than 10 years before he took over the business. It’s for good reason that old customers still speak about those soups in hushed, reverent tones: In my memory, Martinez’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lacasitaeastoakland/\">red pork pozole\u003c/a> had the kind of heady, invigorating broth that warms you up from the inside, especially when doctored with a drizzle of the chef’s housemade chile de árbol chili oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957678\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957678\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sauce-drenched wet burrito on a plate.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wet burrito at Todos. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And his menudo, that famous hangover cure, may have been the best I’ve ever tasted — the tripe and the jiggly beef trotter slow-simmered until they’re slurpably soft, the broth as clean and clarifying as you can imagine. During La Casita’s glory years, the restaurant was “like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BksX-98HDv8HkCi5N3oYRFh-A0j-YL-HWb7rE80/\">hangover headquarters\u003c/a>,” Martinez recalls, as customers lined up for their morning menudo fix on Saturdays and Sundays — and even Mondays, when the really serious drinkers would call in sick. “I call it food for the soul, man,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his long hiatus, Martinez says it means the world to him to bring these dishes back to Oakland now, at a restaurant with an even wider reach. He thinks about how important it is for him to carry on his family’s legacy — about how much he loved watching his dad cook and how his grandmother opened La Estrellita, one of Fruitvale’s first Mexican restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958129\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A chef puts plates of food that are ready to be served onto the pass inside a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240509-MENUDO-KING-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Martinez, operating a restaurant in Oakland is a matter of family pride — and Town pride. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is the matter, too, of repping his neighborhood and hometown. In the old La Casita days, in almost every photo of the restaurant that Martinez posted on social media, he’s posing next to the mural on the outside. It reads, in boldface lowrider-style lettering, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Wqnj_laPncUFgduyw_OWl0eoCNWkrXbwZVZk0/\">Oakland Over Everything\u003c/a>” — an encapsulation of the chef’s Town pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me being from the Fruitvale district here in East Oakland, it was rough growing up. A lot of us didn’t make it; a lot of us are not doing good,” Martinez says. “For me to be blessed like this, it means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/todosmexican/\">\u003ci>Todos\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is located at 2315 Valdez St. in Oakland.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13958114/todos-oakland-la-casita-comeback-menudo-pozole","authors":["11743"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_12276"],"tags":["arts_5016","arts_10278","arts_1297","arts_7944","arts_14985","arts_1143","arts_14062","arts_14984"],"featImg":"arts_13957679","label":"source_arts_13958114"},"arts_13957394":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13957394","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13957394","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-music-festivals-outdoor-concerts-summer-2024","title":"Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts for Summer 2024","publishDate":1715791536,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts for Summer 2024 | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>There’s something magical about Bay Area summers, with our famously not-too-hot, not-too-cold weather, plus ample access to natural wonders and, of course, too many concerts to choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of these dozen outdoor concerts and festivals, some are in public transit-accessible parks; others require a drive up to wine country. Some are worth the splurge; others are free. The Bay Area is full of curious listeners with eclectic taste, and there’s something for everybody here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033.jpg\" alt=\"Blxst performs on stage wearing head-to-toe denim, in front of a backdrop with an image of an urban warehouse. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-768x527.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blxst performs at the Outdoor Theatre during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 20, 2024 in Indio, California. \u003ccite>(Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axs.com/events/538974/frost-music-arts-festival-with-blxst-tickets\">Blxst\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 18, 2024\u003cbr>\nFrost Amphitheater, Stanford\u003cbr>\n$25-$55\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blxst is the velvety-voiced R&B accompaniment to the big players in LA’s rap scene. On his recent Tupac-sampling single with Tyga and YG, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/BNUi6botHmw?si=KOEIb233f9ohL_yn\">West Coast Weekend\u003c/a>,” he comes off as a modern-day Nate Dogg with a nostalgic, G-funk feel. He also regularly collaborates with Northern California artists, including Kehlani and Mozzy. Blxst headlines this year’s student-organized Frost Music & Arts Festival at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater. Joining him is singer-songwriter UMI, who often invites audiences to take a meditative pause in her uplifting live shows, and Alameda, whose eclectic sound blends R&B with indie rock and drum’n’bass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The facial profile of a young Oakland rapper as he looks away from the camera\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area rapper Michael Sneed poses for a portrait in Oakland on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-up-tuesday-live-music-festival-tickets-880542274647\">Town Up Tuesday\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 21, 2024\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Bandstand, Oakland\u003cbr>\nFree with RSVP\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Town Up Tuesday is a party with a purpose put on by Urban Peace Movement, a local nonprofit that fights mass incarceration. It seeks to uplift Oakland culture at a time when negative media narratives about the Town abound, and operates under the idea that music and culture can unite neighbors and make communities safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s intergenerational lineup is full of heavy hitters, not least Too Short, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925177/the-conscious-daughters-raps-sucka-free-thelma-and-louise-rewrote-the-rules\">The Conscious Daughters\u003c/a> (Oakland’s premier ’90s female rap group) and a legendary surprise guest. Trunk Boiz (of “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/KCNlDgSQuLg?si=pQlkEdeR5Bpi9Ivq\">Cupcake No Fillin\u003c/a>” fame!) and dance crew Animaniakz will serve up hyphy movement nostalgia. Other artists on the bill represent the diverse sounds of today’s generation, notably the quirky, experimental and soulful Michael Sneed and the darker and more streetwise ALLBLACK and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934803/1100-himself-oakland-rapper-thizzler\">1100 Himself\u003c/a>, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13872413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563.jpg\" alt=\"Inductee Stevie Nicks performs on stage at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inductee Stevie Nicks performs on stage at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com\">BottleRock\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 24–26, 2024\u003cbr>\nNapa Valley Expo, Napa\u003cbr>\nSingle-day GA: $243; three-day GA: sold out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in beautiful wine country, BottleRock is a festival with broad appeal. Not only does its lineup feature all-time musical greats like Oakland funk band Tower of Power and Stevie Nicks (who’s enjoying a Gen Z-fueled career resurgence), but it’s also a place to experience pop’s vanguard. That includes Kali Uchis, the bilingual singer-songwriter whose dreamy, Spanish-language 2024 album \u003ci>Orquídeas\u003c/i> envelops listeners in a romantic exaltation of love and beauty. Megan Thee Stallion — who has the hip-hop world watching her every move following her explosive track “Hiss,” dissing basically the entire industry — will also grace the stage amid her highly anticipated Hot Girl Summer tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925.jpg\" alt=\"A band performs on a brightly lit studio stage. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eslabon Armado band members Brian Tovar, Pedro Tovar, Damian Pacheco and Ulises González perform at “Despierta America” at Univision Studios on May 02, 2023 in Doral, Florida. \u003ccite>(John Parra/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laondafest.com\">La Onda\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 1–2, 2024\u003cbr>\nNapa Valley Expo, Napa\u003cbr>\nSingle-day GA: sold out; two-day GA: $358\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you miss Maná’s set at BottleRock, the good news is that they’ll be back at the same Napa Valley fairgrounds one weekend later, this time headlining new Latin music festival La Onda. On its diverse lineup, you’ll find old-school rock en español acts like Mexican band \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840289/mexican-rockers-cafe-tacvba-stand-in-solidarity-with-stateside-latinx-fans\">Cafe Tacvba\u003c/a>; Farruko, one of today’s hottest reggaetoneros; and rising young regional Mexican music stars Junior H, Fuerza Regida and Eslabón Armado, who combine styles as wide-ranging as trap and corridos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36.jpg\" alt=\"two young boys dance on a deck beneath a pergola while a 29-year-old rapper eggs them on\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaRussell performs beneath the pergola in his backyard, with two young guests, on Oct. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Jason Hayes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whatstba.com/creator/Goodcompenny\">LaRussell’s Backyard Residency\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 2, July 7 and Aug. 4, 2024\u003cbr>\nThe Pergola, Vallejo\u003cbr>\nPay what you want\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaRussell has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937331/larussell-vallejo-def-jam-record-deal\">done it his way\u003c/a> at every step of his career — notably, building a pergola and stage in his parents’ Vallejo backyard, which has allowed him to essentially bypass the corporate venue ecosystem that can be very \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/25/shocking-truth-money-bands-make-on-tour-taylor-swift\">disadvantageous to emerging artists\u003c/a>. These intimate shows truly feel like a family affair. When I checked one out last year, the audience was full of LaRussell diehards — even small children — rapping along enthusiastically to every bar. LaRussell’s team passed out ice packs and water bottles to protect fans from the heat. It really felt like a community. To get into one of these shows, you have to name your price for a ticket — and entry is not guaranteed. But that doesn’t mean tickets only go to the highest bidders, as LaRussell has said that he likes to keep his offerings accessible to fans of all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13932533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goapele performs at the Days With Zarah Getaway in Napa, May 2023. \u003ccite>(Eric Arnold/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-juneteenth-parade-tickets-895705117117?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl\">Larry June and Goapele at San Francisco Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 8, 2024\u003cbr>\nFulton Street Plaza, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nFree\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day of San Francisco’s Juneteenth Parade, there’s a free concert celebrating Black music and culture at Fulton Plaza. It stars Larry June, whose laidback, luxurious rhymes about real-estate deals and gourmet meals have put a spotlight back on San Francisco rap. He’ll be joined by angel-voiced R&B hitmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13932465/goapele-closer-to-hip-hop\">Goapele\u003c/a>, whose classic song “Closer” continues to resonate with a new generation of Bay Area music lovers. \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/oJ8oXKYOYGE?si=tR5tLVb3_-96oWiZ\">Stunnaman02\u003c/a>, who’s currently on a major salad kick; Ronski, creator of the Fillmore anthem “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/g2J_xGPGHjI?si=sCyP82bsmo8-MRB9\">That Filthy\u003c/a>”; Zion I collaborator Dustin Sharpe; and DJs Big Von, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956839/dj-d-sharp\">D Sharp\u003c/a>, Red Corvette, Daghe and World Famous Rick and Russ Show will represent the Bay’s wide-ranging, active hip-hop scene. Hosted by KMEL’s Shay Diddy, the concert also offers much in the way of jazz, soul and gospel, including Martin Luther’s Rebel Soul House Party, The Glide Choir and Fillmore Jazz Ambassadors. SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin will read, and the young Feline Finesse Dance Group will show off their moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006.jpg\" alt=\"George Clinton performs at the 2017 SESAC Pop Awards on April 13, 2017 in New York City.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Clinton performs at the 2017 SESAC Pop Awards on April 13, 2017 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for SESAC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axs.com/events/534076/parliament-funkadelic-feat-george-clinton-tickets?skin=mountainwinery\">Parliament-Funkadelic featuring George Clinton\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jun 12, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mountain Winery, Saratoga\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$49.50–$89.50\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13839952/its-that-naughty-feeling-george-clinton-on-funks-enduring-appeal\">George Clinton\u003c/a> is a national treasure. In the ’70s, the funk father and his bands, Parliament and Funkadelic, made hits that altered the course of American popular music. They influenced monumental stars like Prince, and became some of the most sampled acts in hip-hop history, paving the way for ’90s groups like The Coup and Digital Underground as well as more recent artists like Childish Gambino. Clinton pushed Afrofuturism forward — so much so that P-Funk’s spaceship stage prop has been immortalized in the Smithsonian. Though Clinton, now 82 years old, talked about retiring years ago — he said he funked too hard for his pacemaker — he’s continued touring with a new lineup of younger musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chaka Khan performs at Blue Note Jazz Festival in St. Helena on Friday, July 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/\">Stern Grove\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sundays June 23-Aug. 25, 2024\u003cbr>\nSigmund Stern Recreation Grove, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nFree with RSVP\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Sunday this summer, there’s a free concert in the park at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957582/stern-grove-lineup-san-francisco-2024-free-concerts\">Stern Grove\u003c/a>. The series’ 87th season opens with a performance from queer indie rock duo Tegan and Sara on June 23. Other lineup highlights include psychedelic pop band Chicano Batman on June 30; R&B singer and saxophonist Masego on July 21; jazz-funk legend Herbie Hancock on Aug. 11 and a Big Picnic closer with queen of funk Chaka Khan on Aug. 25. But before you round up your friends and pack your cooler, make plans: RSVPs open a month before each concert date, and spots are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10820718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10820718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1.jpg\" alt=\"Garage punk band The Mummies headlined the July 4 lineup at Burger Boogaloo.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mummies perform in Mosswood Park in 2015. \u003ccite>((Photo: Rebecca Bowe/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Mosswood-Meltdown-2024/558489?afflky=MosswoodMeltdown\">Mosswood Meltdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 6–7, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mosswood Park, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Single day: $99+; two-day: $159+\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Punk festival Mosswood Meltdown is truly a family affair: In addition to teenage, 20-something and 30-something-year-old punks, you might see punk grandparents holding punk babies. And that vibe is reflected in its intergenerational lineup of alternative acts. Day one of the festival features ’80s art pop mainstays the B-52’s, and celebrates queer culture with a drag contest hosted by Peaches Christ and sets from Pansy Division and Hunx and His Punx. Day two, with OG garage punks The Mummies headlining, leans into hip-hop culture with a DJ set from 808 mastermind Egyptian Lover and the queen of New Orleans bounce, Big Freedia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyla performs during the Times Square New Year’s Eve 2024 Celebration on December 31, 2023 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Noam Galai/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/\">Outside Lands\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 9–11, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Golden Gate Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Single-day GA: $199+, three-day pass: $449+\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can thank Beyoncé for the fact that Outside Lands is more country than ever this year: Post Malone and Shaboozey, both featured on Beyoncé’s \u003ci>Cowboy Carter\u003c/i>, are performing, and country hitmaker Sturgill Simpson is a headliner alongside Tyler, the Creator and the Killers. On the lineup you’ll also find buzzworthy breakout pop acts like Tyla, Renée Rapp and Victoria Monét. Outside Lands, which attracts tens of thousands of fans each day, prides itself on its wide appeal. In addition to its four main music stages, it features a queer performance zone called Dolores’, the open-air electronic music club SOMA and even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956845/legal-weddings-married-outisde-lands-city-hall\">new wedding venue\u003c/a> — and that’s on top of its many culinary and cannabis offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13905505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khruangbin performs at Outside Lands on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://thegreekberkeley.com/events/khruangbin-240814\">Khruangbin\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 14–16, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Greek Theatre, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$69–$120\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No band better represents today’s psychedelic rock revival than Texan trio Khruangbin. Their vintage sound, recorded with warm fuzz as if on a reel-to-reel from the ’70s, combines global influences of Jamaican dub, Southeast Asian funk, surf rock and a country twang from their home state. The result is a soothing mélange that goes down slow — a perfect soundtrack for swaying under the night sky while slightly stoned, if that’s your persuasion. Celebrating their new, bilingual Spanish-English album \u003ci>A La Sala\u003c/i>, Khruangbin performs three nights in a row at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre. The second two are sold out, but Aug. 14 still has tickets available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13932354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Glasper performs at Blue Note Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bluenotejazz.com/black-radio-experience/\">The Black Radio Experience\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 30–Sept. 1, 2024\u003cbr>\nMeritage Resort & Spa, Napa\u003cbr>\nThree-day passes: $499+\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For jazz, grown-and-sexy R&B, lyrical hip-hop and general musical excellence, the Black Radio Experience is a new, more intimate event from the producers of the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa, which is on hiatus until 2025. Jazz pianist and prolific hip-hop collaborator Robert Glasper curated the lineup, which includes John Legend, Jill Scott and Andre 3000 (with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/why-andre-3000-stopped-rapping-1234880754/\">wooden flute\u003c/a>) as headliners. Also performing are Nile Rogers & Chic, Ledisi, Madlib, Andra Day, Christian McBride, Common and more, with Oakland-raised Sway Calloway as host.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With big-ticket festivals and free events alike, there’s no shortage of live music options this summer. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715797947,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":2050},"headData":{"title":"Summer 2024: Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts | KQED","description":"With big-ticket festivals and free events alike, there’s no shortage of live music options this summer. ","ogTitle":"10 Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts for Summer 2024","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"10 Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts for Summer 2024","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Summer 2024: Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Bay Area Music Festivals and Outdoor Concerts for Summer 2024","datePublished":"2024-05-15T09:45:36-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-15T11:32:27-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Summer Guide 2024","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2024","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13957394","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13957394/bay-area-music-festivals-outdoor-concerts-summer-2024","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s something magical about Bay Area summers, with our famously not-too-hot, not-too-cold weather, plus ample access to natural wonders and, of course, too many concerts to choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of these dozen outdoor concerts and festivals, some are in public transit-accessible parks; others require a drive up to wine country. Some are worth the splurge; others are free. The Bay Area is full of curious listeners with eclectic taste, and there’s something for everybody here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033.jpg\" alt=\"Blxst performs on stage wearing head-to-toe denim, in front of a backdrop with an image of an urban warehouse. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2149488033-768x527.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blxst performs at the Outdoor Theatre during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 20, 2024 in Indio, California. \u003ccite>(Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axs.com/events/538974/frost-music-arts-festival-with-blxst-tickets\">Blxst\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 18, 2024\u003cbr>\nFrost Amphitheater, Stanford\u003cbr>\n$25-$55\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blxst is the velvety-voiced R&B accompaniment to the big players in LA’s rap scene. On his recent Tupac-sampling single with Tyga and YG, “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/BNUi6botHmw?si=KOEIb233f9ohL_yn\">West Coast Weekend\u003c/a>,” he comes off as a modern-day Nate Dogg with a nostalgic, G-funk feel. He also regularly collaborates with Northern California artists, including Kehlani and Mozzy. Blxst headlines this year’s student-organized Frost Music & Arts Festival at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater. Joining him is singer-songwriter UMI, who often invites audiences to take a meditative pause in her uplifting live shows, and Alameda, whose eclectic sound blends R&B with indie rock and drum’n’bass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The facial profile of a young Oakland rapper as he looks away from the camera\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/michaelsneed_JY_014-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area rapper Michael Sneed poses for a portrait in Oakland on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-up-tuesday-live-music-festival-tickets-880542274647\">Town Up Tuesday\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>May 21, 2024\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Bandstand, Oakland\u003cbr>\nFree with RSVP\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Town Up Tuesday is a party with a purpose put on by Urban Peace Movement, a local nonprofit that fights mass incarceration. It seeks to uplift Oakland culture at a time when negative media narratives about the Town abound, and operates under the idea that music and culture can unite neighbors and make communities safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s intergenerational lineup is full of heavy hitters, not least Too Short, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925177/the-conscious-daughters-raps-sucka-free-thelma-and-louise-rewrote-the-rules\">The Conscious Daughters\u003c/a> (Oakland’s premier ’90s female rap group) and a legendary surprise guest. Trunk Boiz (of “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/KCNlDgSQuLg?si=pQlkEdeR5Bpi9Ivq\">Cupcake No Fillin\u003c/a>” fame!) and dance crew Animaniakz will serve up hyphy movement nostalgia. Other artists on the bill represent the diverse sounds of today’s generation, notably the quirky, experimental and soulful Michael Sneed and the darker and more streetwise ALLBLACK and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934803/1100-himself-oakland-rapper-thizzler\">1100 Himself\u003c/a>, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13872413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13872413\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563.jpg\" alt=\"Inductee Stevie Nicks performs on stage at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/GettyImages-1139194563-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inductee Stevie Nicks performs on stage at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com\">BottleRock\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 24–26, 2024\u003cbr>\nNapa Valley Expo, Napa\u003cbr>\nSingle-day GA: $243; three-day GA: sold out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set in beautiful wine country, BottleRock is a festival with broad appeal. Not only does its lineup feature all-time musical greats like Oakland funk band Tower of Power and Stevie Nicks (who’s enjoying a Gen Z-fueled career resurgence), but it’s also a place to experience pop’s vanguard. That includes Kali Uchis, the bilingual singer-songwriter whose dreamy, Spanish-language 2024 album \u003ci>Orquídeas\u003c/i> envelops listeners in a romantic exaltation of love and beauty. Megan Thee Stallion — who has the hip-hop world watching her every move following her explosive track “Hiss,” dissing basically the entire industry — will also grace the stage amid her highly anticipated Hot Girl Summer tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925.jpg\" alt=\"A band performs on a brightly lit studio stage. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1487126925-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eslabon Armado band members Brian Tovar, Pedro Tovar, Damian Pacheco and Ulises González perform at “Despierta America” at Univision Studios on May 02, 2023 in Doral, Florida. \u003ccite>(John Parra/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.laondafest.com\">La Onda\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 1–2, 2024\u003cbr>\nNapa Valley Expo, Napa\u003cbr>\nSingle-day GA: sold out; two-day GA: $358\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you miss Maná’s set at BottleRock, the good news is that they’ll be back at the same Napa Valley fairgrounds one weekend later, this time headlining new Latin music festival La Onda. On its diverse lineup, you’ll find old-school rock en español acts like Mexican band \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840289/mexican-rockers-cafe-tacvba-stand-in-solidarity-with-stateside-latinx-fans\">Cafe Tacvba\u003c/a>; Farruko, one of today’s hottest reggaetoneros; and rising young regional Mexican music stars Junior H, Fuerza Regida and Eslabón Armado, who combine styles as wide-ranging as trap and corridos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36.jpg\" alt=\"two young boys dance on a deck beneath a pergola while a 29-year-old rapper eggs them on\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/LaRussell-Backyard-Residency-Show-7-Best-36-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaRussell performs beneath the pergola in his backyard, with two young guests, on Oct. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Jason Hayes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.whatstba.com/creator/Goodcompenny\">LaRussell’s Backyard Residency\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 2, July 7 and Aug. 4, 2024\u003cbr>\nThe Pergola, Vallejo\u003cbr>\nPay what you want\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaRussell has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13937331/larussell-vallejo-def-jam-record-deal\">done it his way\u003c/a> at every step of his career — notably, building a pergola and stage in his parents’ Vallejo backyard, which has allowed him to essentially bypass the corporate venue ecosystem that can be very \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/25/shocking-truth-money-bands-make-on-tour-taylor-swift\">disadvantageous to emerging artists\u003c/a>. These intimate shows truly feel like a family affair. When I checked one out last year, the audience was full of LaRussell diehards — even small children — rapping along enthusiastically to every bar. LaRussell’s team passed out ice packs and water bottles to protect fans from the heat. It really felt like a community. To get into one of these shows, you have to name your price for a ticket — and entry is not guaranteed. But that doesn’t mean tickets only go to the highest bidders, as LaRussell has said that he likes to keep his offerings accessible to fans of all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13932533\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Goapele.MAIN_.EKA_-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goapele performs at the Days With Zarah Getaway in Napa, May 2023. \u003ccite>(Eric Arnold/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-juneteenth-parade-tickets-895705117117?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl\">Larry June and Goapele at San Francisco Juneteenth\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>June 8, 2024\u003cbr>\nFulton Street Plaza, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nFree\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day of San Francisco’s Juneteenth Parade, there’s a free concert celebrating Black music and culture at Fulton Plaza. It stars Larry June, whose laidback, luxurious rhymes about real-estate deals and gourmet meals have put a spotlight back on San Francisco rap. He’ll be joined by angel-voiced R&B hitmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13932465/goapele-closer-to-hip-hop\">Goapele\u003c/a>, whose classic song “Closer” continues to resonate with a new generation of Bay Area music lovers. \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/oJ8oXKYOYGE?si=tR5tLVb3_-96oWiZ\">Stunnaman02\u003c/a>, who’s currently on a major salad kick; Ronski, creator of the Fillmore anthem “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/g2J_xGPGHjI?si=sCyP82bsmo8-MRB9\">That Filthy\u003c/a>”; Zion I collaborator Dustin Sharpe; and DJs Big Von, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956839/dj-d-sharp\">D Sharp\u003c/a>, Red Corvette, Daghe and World Famous Rick and Russ Show will represent the Bay’s wide-ranging, active hip-hop scene. Hosted by KMEL’s Shay Diddy, the concert also offers much in the way of jazz, soul and gospel, including Martin Luther’s Rebel Soul House Party, The Glide Choir and Fillmore Jazz Ambassadors. SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin will read, and the young Feline Finesse Dance Group will show off their moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13840060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13840060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006.jpg\" alt=\"George Clinton performs at the 2017 SESAC Pop Awards on April 13, 2017 in New York City.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/GettyImages-668281006-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Clinton performs at the 2017 SESAC Pop Awards on April 13, 2017 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for SESAC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.axs.com/events/534076/parliament-funkadelic-feat-george-clinton-tickets?skin=mountainwinery\">Parliament-Funkadelic featuring George Clinton\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jun 12, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mountain Winery, Saratoga\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$49.50–$89.50\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13839952/its-that-naughty-feeling-george-clinton-on-funks-enduring-appeal\">George Clinton\u003c/a> is a national treasure. In the ’70s, the funk father and his bands, Parliament and Funkadelic, made hits that altered the course of American popular music. They influenced monumental stars like Prince, and became some of the most sampled acts in hip-hop history, paving the way for ’90s groups like The Coup and Digital Underground as well as more recent artists like Childish Gambino. Clinton pushed Afrofuturism forward — so much so that P-Funk’s spaceship stage prop has been immortalized in the Smithsonian. Though Clinton, now 82 years old, talked about retiring years ago — he said he funked too hard for his pacemaker — he’s continued touring with a new lineup of younger musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/Chaka-Khan-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-in-St.-Helena-on-Friday-July-29-2022004-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chaka Khan performs at Blue Note Jazz Festival in St. Helena on Friday, July 29, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sterngrove.org/\">Stern Grove\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sundays June 23-Aug. 25, 2024\u003cbr>\nSigmund Stern Recreation Grove, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nFree with RSVP\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Sunday this summer, there’s a free concert in the park at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957582/stern-grove-lineup-san-francisco-2024-free-concerts\">Stern Grove\u003c/a>. The series’ 87th season opens with a performance from queer indie rock duo Tegan and Sara on June 23. Other lineup highlights include psychedelic pop band Chicano Batman on June 30; R&B singer and saxophonist Masego on July 21; jazz-funk legend Herbie Hancock on Aug. 11 and a Big Picnic closer with queen of funk Chaka Khan on Aug. 25. But before you round up your friends and pack your cooler, make plans: RSVPs open a month before each concert date, and spots are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10820718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10820718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1.jpg\" alt=\"Garage punk band The Mummies headlined the July 4 lineup at Burger Boogaloo.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/TheMummies1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mummies perform in Mosswood Park in 2015. \u003ccite>((Photo: Rebecca Bowe/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Mosswood-Meltdown-2024/558489?afflky=MosswoodMeltdown\">Mosswood Meltdown\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 6–7, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mosswood Park, Oakland\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Single day: $99+; two-day: $159+\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Punk festival Mosswood Meltdown is truly a family affair: In addition to teenage, 20-something and 30-something-year-old punks, you might see punk grandparents holding punk babies. And that vibe is reflected in its intergenerational lineup of alternative acts. Day one of the festival features ’80s art pop mainstays the B-52’s, and celebrates queer culture with a drag contest hosted by Peaches Christ and sets from Pansy Division and Hunx and His Punx. Day two, with OG garage punks The Mummies headlining, leans into hip-hop culture with a DJ set from 808 mastermind Egyptian Lover and the queen of New Orleans bounce, Big Freedia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-800x609.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-1020x776.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1898396915-768x584.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyla performs during the Times Square New Year’s Eve 2024 Celebration on December 31, 2023 in New York City. \u003ccite>(Noam Galai/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://sfoutsidelands.com/\">Outside Lands\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 9–11, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Golden Gate Park, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Single-day GA: $199+, three-day pass: $449+\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can thank Beyoncé for the fact that Outside Lands is more country than ever this year: Post Malone and Shaboozey, both featured on Beyoncé’s \u003ci>Cowboy Carter\u003c/i>, are performing, and country hitmaker Sturgill Simpson is a headliner alongside Tyler, the Creator and the Killers. On the lineup you’ll also find buzzworthy breakout pop acts like Tyla, Renée Rapp and Victoria Monét. Outside Lands, which attracts tens of thousands of fans each day, prides itself on its wide appeal. In addition to its four main music stages, it features a queer performance zone called Dolores’, the open-air electronic music club SOMA and even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13956845/legal-weddings-married-outisde-lands-city-hall\">new wedding venue\u003c/a> — and that’s on top of its many culinary and cannabis offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13905505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Khruangbin-performs-at-Outside-Lands-on-Friday-Oct.-29-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khruangbin performs at Outside Lands on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://thegreekberkeley.com/events/khruangbin-240814\">Khruangbin\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 14–16, 2024\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Greek Theatre, Berkeley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>$69–$120\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No band better represents today’s psychedelic rock revival than Texan trio Khruangbin. Their vintage sound, recorded with warm fuzz as if on a reel-to-reel from the ’70s, combines global influences of Jamaican dub, Southeast Asian funk, surf rock and a country twang from their home state. The result is a soothing mélange that goes down slow — a perfect soundtrack for swaying under the night sky while slightly stoned, if that’s your persuasion. Celebrating their new, bilingual Spanish-English album \u003ci>A La Sala\u003c/i>, Khruangbin performs three nights in a row at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre. The second two are sold out, but Aug. 14 still has tickets available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13932354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Robert-Glasper-performs-at-Blue-Note-Jazz-Festival-on-Saturday-July-28-2023.-Estefany-Gonzalez-002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Glasper performs at Blue Note Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bluenotejazz.com/black-radio-experience/\">The Black Radio Experience\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 30–Sept. 1, 2024\u003cbr>\nMeritage Resort & Spa, Napa\u003cbr>\nThree-day passes: $499+\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For jazz, grown-and-sexy R&B, lyrical hip-hop and general musical excellence, the Black Radio Experience is a new, more intimate event from the producers of the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa, which is on hiatus until 2025. Jazz pianist and prolific hip-hop collaborator Robert Glasper curated the lineup, which includes John Legend, Jill Scott and Andre 3000 (with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/why-andre-3000-stopped-rapping-1234880754/\">wooden flute\u003c/a>) as headliners. Also performing are Nile Rogers & Chic, Ledisi, Madlib, Andra Day, Christian McBride, Common and more, with Oakland-raised Sway Calloway as host.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13957394/bay-area-music-festivals-outdoor-concerts-summer-2024","authors":["11387"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_22150","arts_22140","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13938053","label":"source_arts_13957394"},"arts_13956635":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956635","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13956635","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-whale-watching-beekeeping-petting-zoo-horse-riding-goat-yoga","title":"8 Bay Area Animal Adventures to Make Your Summer More Wild","publishDate":1715702418,"format":"standard","headTitle":"8 Bay Area Animal Adventures to Make Your Summer More Wild | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When it comes to the great outdoors, there are two kinds of humans: those who can get lost in the scenery, and those that are there purely to catch a glimpse of the beautiful animals in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those in the latter camp, here are the best Bay Area activities to get outdoors and see something a little wild this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1368px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2.jpg\" alt=\"The front half of a whale's body emerges from water as a boat carrying passengers watches from a short distance.\" width=\"1368\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2.jpg 1368w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humpback whales are very active in San Francisco Bay during the summer months. \u003ccite>(Photo by Michael Pierson; Courtesy of San Francisco Whale Tours)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Whale watching\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscowhaletours.com/whale-watching/golden-gate-whale-watch/\">San Francisco Whale Tours\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pier 39, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending the winter mating and calving off the coast of Mexico, humpback whales spend their summers in the San Francisco Bay. A great way to see these majestic mammals is to catch a ride with San Francisco Whale Tours. Every day, at noon and 3 p.m., the catamaran Kitty Kat sets sail from Pier 39 for a 2.5-hour tour that might also include sightings of harbor seals, dolphins and porpoises, plus a wide variety of sea bird colonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every tour is a unique experience,” Kat Nazar, owner of San Francisco Whale Tours, told KQED Arts. “Many times we have intel from vessel traffic control that will tell us where other boaters have reported sightings around the bay so we head to that area. Other times we head out blind, generally towards the Golden Gate Bridge. We find whales on about 90% of our tours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don’t see a whale on your tour? San Francisco Whale Tours will take you back out on the water for free. You can’t lose!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148681554-scaled-e1715035097581.jpg\" alt=\"Three rabbit lie snuggled close together in a pen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who wouldn’t want a ‘Rabbit Rendezvous’? \u003ccite>(Massimo Insabato/Archivio Massimo Insabato/ Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Learning about farmyard friends\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/visitor-centers/ardenwood\">\u003cem>Ardenwood Historic Farm\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>34600 Ardenwood Blvd., Fremont\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, kids (and their adults) can get up close to rabbits, poultry and goats at the visitor center of Ardenwood Historic Farm. Dedicated weekend events include “Rabbit Rendezvous,” “Meet the Chickens” and “Farmyard Story Time.” On select Sunday mornings, “Wake Up the Farm” gives kids the opportunity to meet sheep and goats and take part in feeding them. Plus, for children fascinated by creepy crawlies, “Garden Bug Safari” is a must-try, getting kids to look closer at the miniature worlds at their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ardenwood is dedicated to education, so short classes about bees, cows and other living things are also on offer. They offer a wholesome day that’s great for animal lovers of all ages — even if you’re pretending it’s just for the little ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1444px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM.png\" alt=\"An adult giraffe leans down and licks the ear of its smaller offspring.\" width=\"1444\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM.png 1444w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-800x521.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-1020x664.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-768x500.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1444px) 100vw, 1444px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of Safari West’s resident giraffes. \u003ccite>(Sarah Jane Tarr/ Safari West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Going on safari\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/\">\u003cem>Safari West\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>3115 Porter Creek Rd., Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve always wanted to go on safari, the destination you have in mind is probably very much \u003cem>not\u003c/em> Santa Rosa. However, Safari West’s 400 acres and 900 animals work hard to bring the Serengeti to Sonoma County. Here, you can see giraffes, gazelles, hyenas, zebras and a \u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/wildlife/\">variety of other fascinating creatures\u003c/a> from the back or top of customized open-sided vehicles under the guidance of the park’s researchers and conservationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even better? The wildlife park offers a range of special events and \u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/plan-your-visit/behind-the-scenes/\">behind the scenes\u003c/a> experiences to get you in touch with your own wild side. The truly committed can \u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/plan-your-visit/spend-the-night/\">stay in a luxury tent overnight\u003c/a> on the property, but day-trippers can sign up for special small-group experiences with the on-site rhinos, cheetahs and other animals. Hot tip for those visiting in adults-only groups: Safari West also hosts safari experiences that double as wine and beer tastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM.png\" alt=\"A line of riders on horses walk down a beach in line.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-768x503.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean View Stables offers horseback riding for beginners. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ocean View Stables)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Horseback riding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanviewstables.com/\">Ocean View Stables\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>2152 Olympic Way, Daly City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve recently lapsed into fullblown, Beyoncé-inspired \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> fantasies, Ocean View Stables is here to make all your horsey, trail-riding dreams come true. Whether you’re a beginner or already have some horseback experience, this Daly City stable has multiple options to make sure you get to ride ’em (cowboy) this summer. Probably the greatest summer option is an introductory lesson followed by a relaxing one-hour group ride on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If horses aren’t for you, but you’d like to turn the kids into young equestrians, there are also quick pony rides for the littles and a week-long horseback summer camp for children aged eight to 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1634px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM.png\" alt=\"A shorn sheep stands on a yoga mat with humans sat on the ground next to her.\" width=\"1634\" height=\"1076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM.png 1634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-1020x672.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-768x506.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-1536x1011.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1634px) 100vw, 1634px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep meditation and goat yoga are both on offer from Charlie’s Acres this summer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Charlie's Acres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Meditating with sheep\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.charliesacres.org/\">Charlie’s Acres Farm Animal Sanctuary\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>3201 Napa Rd., Sonoma\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting farm animals is fantastic, but have you ever tried \u003ca href=\"https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/charliesacres/items/369712/calendar/2024/05/?flow=765589&full-items=yes\">meditating with sheep\u003c/a>? The animal lovers of Charlie’s Acres want to give you the opportunity to try both this summer. And, if you love those activities, why not sign up for some \u003ca href=\"https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/charliesacres/items/369683/calendar/2024/05/?flow=765589&full-items=yes\">goat yoga\u003c/a> while you’re at it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, Charlie’s Acres founder Tracy Vogt has been introducing the public to her menagerie of rescued farm animals in ever more creative ways. All year round, the non-profit offers farm tours, photoshoot opportunities, plant-based picnics and yes, sheep meditation and goat yoga. On June 21, 2024 though, everything is combining into one very \u003ca href=\"https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/charliesacres/items/538954/calendar/2024/06/?flow=717046&full-items=yes\">special retreat\u003c/a> to coincide with the summer solstice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheep meditation is a really lovely experience,” Sanctuary director Kaleigh Rhoads told KQED Arts. “We work with instructors who use a collection of crystal singing bowls along with their meditation. It’s a great opportunity to have a peaceful experience with typically shy animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the yoga, Charlie’s Acres goats are adults, so they don’t jump on class participants. “They just love having visitors,” Rhoads explained. “It’s pretty silly and definitely more about the goats than yoga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1876px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957331\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals.jpeg\" alt=\"A black seal pup and a white seal pup nap on a floating platform.\" width=\"1876\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals.jpeg 1876w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-800x524.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-1020x668.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-160x105.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-768x503.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-1536x1006.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young seals sun themselves on Sea Trek’s dock in Sausalito. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Laura Zulliger, Sea Trek)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kayaking with seals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sea Trek\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1120 Ballena Blvd., Suite 200, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/alameda-location/\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2100 Bridgeway, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/\">Sausalito\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea Trek, a kayak rental and excursion company, is so perfectly positioned to see Bay Area wildlife, it’s not unusual for employees to show up to work and find newborns on their Sausalito dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The seal pups are not only super cute, but you can see them learning with their moms how to do basic things, like wiggle up on the dock and nurse,” Sea Trek kayaking instructor Laura Zulliger noted. “You can see the baby seals being cute and curious all throughout the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea Trek offers guided scenic tours from its \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-sausalito/#guided-tours\">Sausalito\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-alameda/#guided-tours\">Alameda\u003c/a> locations, both of which explore local sea and wildlife along the 2.5-hour paddle. During June, July and August, however, there are additional, summer-specific tours from both locations. Special Sausalito outings include monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-sausalito/#guided-tours\">Angel Island Crossing\u003c/a> tours and bi-monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-sausalito/#guided-tours\">Golden Gate Tours\u003c/a>. Both take kayakers in search of sea lions, porpoises, whales, birds and other wildlife. From Alameda, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/trips/sausalito-take-the-kids-kayak-tour/\">kid-friendly outing\u003c/a> is paired with a fun and interactive trip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/visitor-centers/crab-cove\">Crab Cove’s Visitor Center\u003c/a>, while adult-specific scenic tours end in a visit to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/RESIDENTS/Visiting-Alameda/Attractions-in-Alameda/Spirits-Alley\">Spirits Alley\u003c/a> brewery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea Trek is dedicated to treating all wildlife and ecologies in the Bay with respect, while making their guided tours as fun and educational as possible. “We want to instill in paddlers that we need to give these animals space for their survival,” Zulliger emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM.png\" alt=\"A group of people in beekeeping suits gather around a hive, as one beekeeper holds up part of a hive.\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM.png 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-800x515.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-768x494.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-1536x988.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students get a beekeeping 101 from the owner of San Francisco Honey & Pollen Company. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Honey & Pollen Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Beekeeping\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/\">San Francisco Honey & Pollen Company\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1176 Shafter Ave., San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Bayview is probably not the first destination folks have in mind when they think about getting in touch with wildlife. But on select weekends this summer, lifelong beekeeper Christina McDonald will be teaching beginners how to start beekeeping in their own backyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald’s dad started beekeeping in the city 20 years ago, teaching her how to build and maintain hive boxes throughout her childhood. Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/classes/beginner-beekeeping/\">Introduction to Beekeeping\u003c/a> class gives visitors an insight into the importance of bees in our local environment and then assists them in exploring some of SF Honey & Pollen Co.’s apiaries. After hands-on training, each course culminates in a honey and pollen tasting session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the beginner class gives you the bug, you can return for McDonald’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/classes/advanced-beekeeping/\">advanced class\u003c/a>, where students learn how to extract honey from the hive and bottle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Birdwatching\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1347414026-scaled-e1715123503905.jpg\" alt=\"A medium sized blue and white bird sits on a bare tree branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Scrub-Jay — just one of the 414 species of birds spotted in Santa Clara County. \u003ccite>(Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/\">\u003cem>Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>22221 McClellan Rd., Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The members of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society just want you to love birds as much as they do, so they offer a huge range of free resources to make that happen. The SCVAS website walks you through \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/self-guided-field-trips\">self-guided birding outings\u003c/a>, categorized by area and season, but also offers regular (and frequently free) group excursions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, SCVAS outings are planned in \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-sanborn-county-park-main-entrance-2-594tc\">Saratoga\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-charleston-slough-mountain-view\">Mountain View\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-lunchtime-birding-at-sunnyvale-water-pollution-control-plant-2-j36ts-d5y9a-z767y\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-stanford-arboretum-and-cactus-garden-3-ybs3p\">Stanford\u003c/a> and even the \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/farallon-islands-pelagic-trip\">Farallon Islands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15, in a special celebration for Pride Month, the bird-lovers are also hosting a \u003cem>Queers of a Feather\u003c/em> field trip: a bird outing specifically for LGBTQ+ folks. \u003cem>Queers of a Feather\u003c/em> will be co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/\">Peninsula Open Space Trust\u003c/a>. That’s fitting, given that POST is hosting an online event on June 5 titled \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/event/queer-is-natural-online-event/\">\u003cem>Queer Is Natural\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will explore queerness in nature. Clearly everyone involved heartily believes in flocking together.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In search of wildlife this summer? Where to find whales, seals, farmyard friends and even meditative sheep.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1715724732,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1679},"headData":{"title":"Where to Find Seals, Whales and Other Wildlife in the Bay Area | KQE","description":"In search of wildlife this summer? Where to find whales, seals, farmyard friends and even meditative sheep.","ogTitle":"Get Wild With Bay Area Animal Adventures This Summer","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Get Wild With Bay Area Animal Adventures This Summer","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Where to Find Seals, Whales and Other Wildlife in the Bay Area%%page%% %%sep%% KQE","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"8 Bay Area Animal Adventures to Make Your Summer More Wild","datePublished":"2024-05-14T09:00:18-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-14T15:12:12-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Summer Guide 2024","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/summer-guide-2024","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13956635","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13956635/bay-area-whale-watching-beekeeping-petting-zoo-horse-riding-goat-yoga","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When it comes to the great outdoors, there are two kinds of humans: those who can get lost in the scenery, and those that are there purely to catch a glimpse of the beautiful animals in our midst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those in the latter camp, here are the best Bay Area activities to get outdoors and see something a little wild this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1368px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2.jpg\" alt=\"The front half of a whale's body emerges from water as a boat carrying passengers watches from a short distance.\" width=\"1368\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2.jpg 1368w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/image2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humpback whales are very active in San Francisco Bay during the summer months. \u003ccite>(Photo by Michael Pierson; Courtesy of San Francisco Whale Tours)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Whale watching\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscowhaletours.com/whale-watching/golden-gate-whale-watch/\">San Francisco Whale Tours\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pier 39, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending the winter mating and calving off the coast of Mexico, humpback whales spend their summers in the San Francisco Bay. A great way to see these majestic mammals is to catch a ride with San Francisco Whale Tours. Every day, at noon and 3 p.m., the catamaran Kitty Kat sets sail from Pier 39 for a 2.5-hour tour that might also include sightings of harbor seals, dolphins and porpoises, plus a wide variety of sea bird colonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every tour is a unique experience,” Kat Nazar, owner of San Francisco Whale Tours, told KQED Arts. “Many times we have intel from vessel traffic control that will tell us where other boaters have reported sightings around the bay so we head to that area. Other times we head out blind, generally towards the Golden Gate Bridge. We find whales on about 90% of our tours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you don’t see a whale on your tour? San Francisco Whale Tours will take you back out on the water for free. You can’t lose!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957307\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-2148681554-scaled-e1715035097581.jpg\" alt=\"Three rabbit lie snuggled close together in a pen.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who wouldn’t want a ‘Rabbit Rendezvous’? \u003ccite>(Massimo Insabato/Archivio Massimo Insabato/ Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Learning about farmyard friends\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/visitor-centers/ardenwood\">\u003cem>Ardenwood Historic Farm\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>34600 Ardenwood Blvd., Fremont\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, kids (and their adults) can get up close to rabbits, poultry and goats at the visitor center of Ardenwood Historic Farm. Dedicated weekend events include “Rabbit Rendezvous,” “Meet the Chickens” and “Farmyard Story Time.” On select Sunday mornings, “Wake Up the Farm” gives kids the opportunity to meet sheep and goats and take part in feeding them. Plus, for children fascinated by creepy crawlies, “Garden Bug Safari” is a must-try, getting kids to look closer at the miniature worlds at their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ardenwood is dedicated to education, so short classes about bees, cows and other living things are also on offer. They offer a wholesome day that’s great for animal lovers of all ages — even if you’re pretending it’s just for the little ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1444px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM.png\" alt=\"An adult giraffe leans down and licks the ear of its smaller offspring.\" width=\"1444\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM.png 1444w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-800x521.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-1020x664.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.48.29-PM-768x500.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1444px) 100vw, 1444px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of Safari West’s resident giraffes. \u003ccite>(Sarah Jane Tarr/ Safari West)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Going on safari\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/\">\u003cem>Safari West\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>3115 Porter Creek Rd., Santa Rosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve always wanted to go on safari, the destination you have in mind is probably very much \u003cem>not\u003c/em> Santa Rosa. However, Safari West’s 400 acres and 900 animals work hard to bring the Serengeti to Sonoma County. Here, you can see giraffes, gazelles, hyenas, zebras and a \u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/wildlife/\">variety of other fascinating creatures\u003c/a> from the back or top of customized open-sided vehicles under the guidance of the park’s researchers and conservationists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even better? The wildlife park offers a range of special events and \u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/plan-your-visit/behind-the-scenes/\">behind the scenes\u003c/a> experiences to get you in touch with your own wild side. The truly committed can \u003ca href=\"https://safariwest.com/plan-your-visit/spend-the-night/\">stay in a luxury tent overnight\u003c/a> on the property, but day-trippers can sign up for special small-group experiences with the on-site rhinos, cheetahs and other animals. Hot tip for those visiting in adults-only groups: Safari West also hosts safari experiences that double as wine and beer tastings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM.png\" alt=\"A line of riders on horses walk down a beach in line.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-800x524.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-1020x668.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-06-at-11.29.57-PM-768x503.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocean View Stables offers horseback riding for beginners. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ocean View Stables)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Horseback riding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanviewstables.com/\">Ocean View Stables\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>2152 Olympic Way, Daly City\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve recently lapsed into fullblown, Beyoncé-inspired \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> fantasies, Ocean View Stables is here to make all your horsey, trail-riding dreams come true. Whether you’re a beginner or already have some horseback experience, this Daly City stable has multiple options to make sure you get to ride ’em (cowboy) this summer. Probably the greatest summer option is an introductory lesson followed by a relaxing one-hour group ride on the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If horses aren’t for you, but you’d like to turn the kids into young equestrians, there are also quick pony rides for the littles and a week-long horseback summer camp for children aged eight to 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957018\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1634px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957018\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM.png\" alt=\"A shorn sheep stands on a yoga mat with humans sat on the ground next to her.\" width=\"1634\" height=\"1076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM.png 1634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-800x527.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-1020x672.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-768x506.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-01-at-5.01.35-PM-1536x1011.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1634px) 100vw, 1634px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep meditation and goat yoga are both on offer from Charlie’s Acres this summer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Charlie's Acres)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Meditating with sheep\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.charliesacres.org/\">Charlie’s Acres Farm Animal Sanctuary\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>3201 Napa Rd., Sonoma\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting farm animals is fantastic, but have you ever tried \u003ca href=\"https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/charliesacres/items/369712/calendar/2024/05/?flow=765589&full-items=yes\">meditating with sheep\u003c/a>? The animal lovers of Charlie’s Acres want to give you the opportunity to try both this summer. And, if you love those activities, why not sign up for some \u003ca href=\"https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/charliesacres/items/369683/calendar/2024/05/?flow=765589&full-items=yes\">goat yoga\u003c/a> while you’re at it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, Charlie’s Acres founder Tracy Vogt has been introducing the public to her menagerie of rescued farm animals in ever more creative ways. All year round, the non-profit offers farm tours, photoshoot opportunities, plant-based picnics and yes, sheep meditation and goat yoga. On June 21, 2024 though, everything is combining into one very \u003ca href=\"https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/charliesacres/items/538954/calendar/2024/06/?flow=717046&full-items=yes\">special retreat\u003c/a> to coincide with the summer solstice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheep meditation is a really lovely experience,” Sanctuary director Kaleigh Rhoads told KQED Arts. “We work with instructors who use a collection of crystal singing bowls along with their meditation. It’s a great opportunity to have a peaceful experience with typically shy animals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the yoga, Charlie’s Acres goats are adults, so they don’t jump on class participants. “They just love having visitors,” Rhoads explained. “It’s pretty silly and definitely more about the goats than yoga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1876px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957331\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals.jpeg\" alt=\"A black seal pup and a white seal pup nap on a floating platform.\" width=\"1876\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals.jpeg 1876w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-800x524.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-1020x668.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-160x105.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-768x503.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seals-1536x1006.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young seals sun themselves on Sea Trek’s dock in Sausalito. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Laura Zulliger, Sea Trek)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kayaking with seals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sea Trek\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1120 Ballena Blvd., Suite 200, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/alameda-location/\">Alameda\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2100 Bridgeway, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/\">Sausalito\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea Trek, a kayak rental and excursion company, is so perfectly positioned to see Bay Area wildlife, it’s not unusual for employees to show up to work and find newborns on their Sausalito dock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The seal pups are not only super cute, but you can see them learning with their moms how to do basic things, like wiggle up on the dock and nurse,” Sea Trek kayaking instructor Laura Zulliger noted. “You can see the baby seals being cute and curious all throughout the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea Trek offers guided scenic tours from its \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-sausalito/#guided-tours\">Sausalito\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-alameda/#guided-tours\">Alameda\u003c/a> locations, both of which explore local sea and wildlife along the 2.5-hour paddle. During June, July and August, however, there are additional, summer-specific tours from both locations. Special Sausalito outings include monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-sausalito/#guided-tours\">Angel Island Crossing\u003c/a> tours and bi-monthly \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/tours-sausalito/#guided-tours\">Golden Gate Tours\u003c/a>. Both take kayakers in search of sea lions, porpoises, whales, birds and other wildlife. From Alameda, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seatrek.com/trips/sausalito-take-the-kids-kayak-tour/\">kid-friendly outing\u003c/a> is paired with a fun and interactive trip to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/parks/visitor-centers/crab-cove\">Crab Cove’s Visitor Center\u003c/a>, while adult-specific scenic tours end in a visit to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/RESIDENTS/Visiting-Alameda/Attractions-in-Alameda/Spirits-Alley\">Spirits Alley\u003c/a> brewery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sea Trek is dedicated to treating all wildlife and ecologies in the Bay with respect, while making their guided tours as fun and educational as possible. “We want to instill in paddlers that we need to give these animals space for their survival,” Zulliger emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1648px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957380\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM.png\" alt=\"A group of people in beekeeping suits gather around a hive, as one beekeeper holds up part of a hive.\" width=\"1648\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM.png 1648w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-800x515.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-1020x656.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-768x494.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-07-at-12.26.05-PM-1536x988.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1648px) 100vw, 1648px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students get a beekeeping 101 from the owner of San Francisco Honey & Pollen Company. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Honey & Pollen Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Beekeeping\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/\">San Francisco Honey & Pollen Company\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>1176 Shafter Ave., San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Bayview is probably not the first destination folks have in mind when they think about getting in touch with wildlife. But on select weekends this summer, lifelong beekeeper Christina McDonald will be teaching beginners how to start beekeeping in their own backyards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald’s dad started beekeeping in the city 20 years ago, teaching her how to build and maintain hive boxes throughout her childhood. Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/classes/beginner-beekeeping/\">Introduction to Beekeeping\u003c/a> class gives visitors an insight into the importance of bees in our local environment and then assists them in exploring some of SF Honey & Pollen Co.’s apiaries. After hands-on training, each course culminates in a honey and pollen tasting session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the beginner class gives you the bug, you can return for McDonald’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/classes/advanced-beekeeping/\">advanced class\u003c/a>, where students learn how to extract honey from the hive and bottle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Birdwatching\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/GettyImages-1347414026-scaled-e1715123503905.jpg\" alt=\"A medium sized blue and white bird sits on a bare tree branch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Scrub-Jay — just one of the 414 species of birds spotted in Santa Clara County. \u003ccite>(Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/\">\u003cem>Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>22221 McClellan Rd., Cupertino\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The members of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society just want you to love birds as much as they do, so they offer a huge range of free resources to make that happen. The SCVAS website walks you through \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/self-guided-field-trips\">self-guided birding outings\u003c/a>, categorized by area and season, but also offers regular (and frequently free) group excursions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, SCVAS outings are planned in \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-sanborn-county-park-main-entrance-2-594tc\">Saratoga\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-charleston-slough-mountain-view\">Mountain View\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-lunchtime-birding-at-sunnyvale-water-pollution-control-plant-2-j36ts-d5y9a-z767y\">Sunnyvale\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/field-trip-stanford-arboretum-and-cactus-garden-3-ybs3p\">Stanford\u003c/a> and even the \u003ca href=\"https://scvas.org/event-calendar/farallon-islands-pelagic-trip\">Farallon Islands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 15, in a special celebration for Pride Month, the bird-lovers are also hosting a \u003cem>Queers of a Feather\u003c/em> field trip: a bird outing specifically for LGBTQ+ folks. \u003cem>Queers of a Feather\u003c/em> will be co-hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/\">Peninsula Open Space Trust\u003c/a>. That’s fitting, given that POST is hosting an online event on June 5 titled \u003ca href=\"https://openspacetrust.org/event/queer-is-natural-online-event/\">\u003cem>Queer Is Natural\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will explore queerness in nature. Clearly everyone involved heartily believes in flocking together.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956635/bay-area-whale-watching-beekeeping-petting-zoo-horse-riding-goat-yoga","authors":["11242"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_11615"],"tags":["arts_9124","arts_10278","arts_2832","arts_22150","arts_585","arts_5878"],"featImg":"arts_13957013","label":"source_arts_13956635"},"arts_13958169":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13958169","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13958169","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mill-valleys-sequoia-theatre-reopens-with-a-week-of-1-movies","title":"Mill Valley’s Sequoia Theatre Reopens With a Week of $1 Movies","publishDate":1716249776,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mill Valley’s Sequoia Theatre Reopens With a Week of $1 Movies | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The 95-year-old Sequoia Theatre in downtown Mill Valley reopened on Monday, May 20, marking a rare movie theater reopening amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893696/the-pandemic-took-a-number-of-bay-area-movie-theaters-whats-working-for-the-theaters-that-survived\">spate of closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater, built in 1929, has been dark since last October, when the lease held by the movie theater chain Cinemark ran out. Over the past six months, its owner and new operator, the California Film Institute, upgraded the projectors and sound equipment and refurbished the lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting May 20, the theater — newly christened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sequoiafilm.org/\">Sequoia Cinema\u003c/a> — will celebrate by screening four days of classic films like \u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Back to the Future\u003c/em>, charging just $1 admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_2010101893696']The California Film Institute also runs the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, as well as the Mill Valley Film Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of Bay Area movie theaters have closed, including but not limited to the Century Cinema in Corte Madera, the Regency 6 in San Rafael, the Century Regency in San Rafael, the Albany Twin in Albany, Century Cinema in San Francisco, Embarcadero Cinema in San Francisco and the West Portal Theater in San Francisco. The Sequoia’s reopening, meanwhile, is a welcome outlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we do really great, unique programing, especially if there’s a local filmmaker or a local community partnership involved, people support it,” said Dan Zastrow, general manager of the Smith Rafael Film Center and Sequoia Cinema. “Every time I walk in the building, someone stops me to ask me about when we’re reopening. People are just excited about the cinema coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-1536x1266.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sequoia Theater pictured in 1967. Eight years later, its main auditorium would be “twinned,” or split into two, as it is today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Lucritia Little History Room, Mill Valley Public Library )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the local movie theaters that have closed in the past few years, Zastrow observed, had been operated by large chains like Regency, AMC, Landmark, Century and Cinemark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And nothing against the big chain theaters, which I love,” Zastrow said, adding that the Sequoia will inevitably show some mainstream films often seen at the region’s megaplexes. “But it’s a different kind of exhibition animal; it’s the next-big-film in, and low-grosser out. What we do is more community-focused and filmmaker-focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Film booking at the Sequoia will be handled by Jan Klingelhofer, who also books the Smith Rafael Film Center. On May 31, the theater opens \u003cem>Edge of Everything\u003c/em>, by filmmakers Sophia Sabella and Pablo Feldman. The film was inspired by the writer and directors’ teenage years growing up in Mill Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11952358']The Sequoia Theater may eventually get a significant remodel. In 2022, the California Film Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.org/966/Sequoia-Theater-Renovation-Plan\">filed plans with the city of Mill Valley\u003c/a> to dig out a lower ground floor and add a second story, increasing the number of auditoriums from two to four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zastrow could not comment on the exact details of the plans, or where they stand. “We’ll see where we are in a couple of years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, as we raise funds and plan for a renovation, we couldn’t leave the building dark. We had to operate it, keep it open and run film,” he said. “It’s just this incredibly beloved community cinema.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 95-year-old movie theater reopened Monday, marking a rare success story amid a spate of closures.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1716266820,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":577},"headData":{"title":"Mill Valley’s Sequoia Theatre Reopens With a Week of $1 Movies | KQED","description":"The 95-year-old movie theater reopened Monday, marking a rare success story amid a spate of closures.","ogTitle":"Mill Valley’s Sequoia Theatre Reopens With a Week of $1 Movies","ogDescription":"The 95-year-old movie theater reopened Monday, marking a rare success story amid a spate of closures.","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Mill Valley’s Sequoia Theatre Reopens With a Week of $1 Movies","twDescription":"The 95-year-old movie theater reopened Monday, marking a rare success story amid a spate of closures.","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"The 95-year-old movie theater reopened Monday, marking a rare success story amid a spate of closures.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Mill Valley’s Sequoia Theatre Reopens With a Week of $1 Movies","datePublished":"2024-05-20T17:02:56-07:00","dateModified":"2024-05-20T21:47:00-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-13958169","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13958169/mill-valleys-sequoia-theatre-reopens-with-a-week-of-1-movies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 95-year-old Sequoia Theatre in downtown Mill Valley reopened on Monday, May 20, marking a rare movie theater reopening amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893696/the-pandemic-took-a-number-of-bay-area-movie-theaters-whats-working-for-the-theaters-that-survived\">spate of closures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater, built in 1929, has been dark since last October, when the lease held by the movie theater chain Cinemark ran out. Over the past six months, its owner and new operator, the California Film Institute, upgraded the projectors and sound equipment and refurbished the lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting May 20, the theater — newly christened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.sequoiafilm.org/\">Sequoia Cinema\u003c/a> — will celebrate by screening four days of classic films like \u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Back to the Future\u003c/em>, charging just $1 admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101893696","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Film Institute also runs the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, as well as the Mill Valley Film Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increasing number of Bay Area movie theaters have closed, including but not limited to the Century Cinema in Corte Madera, the Regency 6 in San Rafael, the Century Regency in San Rafael, the Albany Twin in Albany, Century Cinema in San Francisco, Embarcadero Cinema in San Francisco and the West Portal Theater in San Francisco. The Sequoia’s reopening, meanwhile, is a welcome outlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we do really great, unique programing, especially if there’s a local filmmaker or a local community partnership involved, people support it,” said Dan Zastrow, general manager of the Smith Rafael Film Center and Sequoia Cinema. “Every time I walk in the building, someone stops me to ask me about when we’re reopening. People are just excited about the cinema coming back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-800x659.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-768x633.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/seq_history_04-1536x1266.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sequoia Theater pictured in 1967. Eight years later, its main auditorium would be “twinned,” or split into two, as it is today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Lucritia Little History Room, Mill Valley Public Library )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the local movie theaters that have closed in the past few years, Zastrow observed, had been operated by large chains like Regency, AMC, Landmark, Century and Cinemark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And nothing against the big chain theaters, which I love,” Zastrow said, adding that the Sequoia will inevitably show some mainstream films often seen at the region’s megaplexes. “But it’s a different kind of exhibition animal; it’s the next-big-film in, and low-grosser out. What we do is more community-focused and filmmaker-focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Film booking at the Sequoia will be handled by Jan Klingelhofer, who also books the Smith Rafael Film Center. On May 31, the theater opens \u003cem>Edge of Everything\u003c/em>, by filmmakers Sophia Sabella and Pablo Feldman. The film was inspired by the writer and directors’ teenage years growing up in Mill Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11952358","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Sequoia Theater may eventually get a significant remodel. In 2022, the California Film Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofmillvalley.org/966/Sequoia-Theater-Renovation-Plan\">filed plans with the city of Mill Valley\u003c/a> to dig out a lower ground floor and add a second story, increasing the number of auditoriums from two to four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zastrow could not comment on the exact details of the plans, or where they stand. “We’ll see where we are in a couple of years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But, as we raise funds and plan for a renovation, we couldn’t leave the building dark. We had to operate it, keep it open and run film,” he said. “It’s just this incredibly beloved community cinema.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13958169/mill-valleys-sequoia-theatre-reopens-with-a-week-of-1-movies","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_10331","arts_10278","arts_11661","arts_13077","arts_5544","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13958183","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13833757":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13833757","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13833757","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"eight-activities-to-fill-your-east-bay-summer-calendar","title":"Eight Activities to Fill Your East Bay Summer Calendar","publishDate":1527717652,"format":"image","headTitle":"Eight Activities to Fill Your East Bay Summer Calendar | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":4821,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland knows how to throw a proper function. The spirit of community resilience courses through Oaklanders’ blood, and getting together to have fun—as we saw with the recent “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>” protest—is a vital part of the Town’s activism. Plus, what’s more life affirming than getting together with friends and family for a day of relaxation in the sun?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under-the-radar get-togethers—instead of corporate-feeling festivals—are what makes the East Bay stand out amid the Bay Area’s many cultural offerings. Below, you’ll find street fairs, parties, outdoor adventures, car shows and concerts to fill your summer calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833830\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A dancer at Berkeley's Juneteenth festival. \" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-960x663.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-520x359.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dancer at Berkeley’s Juneteenth festival. \u003ccite>(Berkeley Juneteenth Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Berkeley Juneteenth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 17.\u003cbr>\nAlcatraz-Adeline corridor, South Berkeley.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyjuneteenth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juneteenth celebrates the anniversary of the abolition of slavery—a holiday \u003cem>all\u003c/em> Americans should honor, though it’s mostly popular in the African-American community. Berkeley boasts one of the Bay Area’s most popular Juneteenth celebrations. The streets surrounding Ashby BART (which has a great flea market on weekends, by the way) get closed off for a day of music, vendors, food and more in a joyous, inter-generational celebration of black culture and resilience.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833825\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Curry brings the NBA Championship trophy to the people during the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry brings the NBA Championship trophy to the people during the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Warriors Parade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Downtown Oakland.\u003cbr>\nTBD.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, we know this isn’t set in stone. But have you seen the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Athlete_Vidz/status/1001463947789299713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meme\u003c/a> that recasts the Warriors and Cavs players as the characters of \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em>? With the Warriors facing off against the Cavs for the fourth year in a row, this playoffs season \u003cem>has\u003c/em> felt like the return of a favorite show again. We’ve been so spoiled with Warriors victories the past few years that the parade has basically become an annual tradition. I won’t say too much more to avoid jinxing my hometown team, but if they do win again, definitely make sure to come to downtown Oakland for the \u003cem>unofficial\u003c/em> party immediately following the winning game. (Pro tip: wear sneakers and BYOB.) For a more family friendly affair, stay tuned for the officially sanctioned parade, and come early to secure your spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"The Fam Bam party comes to Oakland's Lake Merritt every July 4. \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fam Bam party comes to Oakland’s Lake Merritt every July 4. \u003ccite>(Fam Bam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fam Bam 4th of July Party\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 4.\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Ampitheater, Oakland.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.oakfambam.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re not in a backyard with friends, family and a grill on the 4th of July, the best way to spend it as at the Fam Bam day party in Oakland. Food. Art. DJs. Lake. Sun. Fun. What more do you need? This community gathering attracts a diverse crowd and is family friendly, too. Just note: this is an anti-imperialist party led by Afrocentric Oakland, so expect expressions of community pride and resilience over patriotic flag waving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11494276\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11494276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nina Wu dancing outdoors\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina Wu dancing outdoors in Joaquin Miller Park. \u003ccite>(Kelly Whalen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor Adventures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s no secret that the Bay Area abounds with beautiful hikes and nature spots, so I’m going to give you a quick-and-dirty rundown of the best spots in the East Bay. For those who don’t have a car: bus or rideshare to Oakland’s Dimond Park; behind its playground, there are trails leading to Joaquin Miller Park and Redwood Regional Park, two gorgeous oases that make it easy to forget you’re still in urban Oakland. If you’re looking for an waterfront adventure without taking a long road trip, Lake Anza is a lowkey place to tan and swim in Berkeley’s Tilden Park, which also has gorgeous trails and even a petting zoo. Further inland is the breathtaking Mt. Diablo, with sweeping vistas, hiking and rock climbing. And Lake Del Valle in Livermore is a hidden East Bay gem; they have pedal boats, kayaks and motorboats for rent, plus two swimming beaches, hiking camping and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13807491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Lil B performs at Hiero Day 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil B performs at Hiero Day 2017. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Hiero Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 3.\u003cbr>\nLocation TBA, Oakland.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.hieroday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lineup for this annual hip-hop fest is typically only announced a week ahead, but the $19.93 presale tickets sell out long before that because Hiero Day has a proven track record of being a good time. Conscious hip-hop pioneers Hieroglyphics founded the fest and headline each year, and they curate a balanced lineup of up-and-coming acts and established OGs. In 2017, Texas rapper Bun B and Oakland songstress Goapele performed alongside the East Bay’s Lil B and Rayana Jay, rising L.A. rappers G Perico and Duckwrth and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833827\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solano Stroll brings family-friendly rides and attractions to Albany. \u003ccite>(Solano Stroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Solano Stroll\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Sept. 9.\u003cbr>\nSolano Avenue, Albany.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/events/solano-avenue-stroll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany’s Solano Avenue gets packed with vendors, art, performers and activities every September (when the Bay Area actually gets some sun) for Solano Stroll, a free, family friendly festival in the sleepy town of Albany. Solano Avenue is Albany’s busiest strip and has tons of international food and cute shops. Most of the restaurants set up booths at the Stroll, so it’s a good chance to sample new foods without committing to a sit-down meal. The fair even has face painting, balloons and rides for kids (including a mean potato sack slide that I hear is a thrill even for adults).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833832\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 723px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13833832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof.jpg\" alt=\"A car at Billetproof 2016.\" width=\"723\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof.jpg 723w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-375x276.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car at Billetproof 2016. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Billetproof\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 15.\u003cbr>\nContra Costa County Fairgrounds, Antioch.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://billetproof.com/index.php/antioch-ca-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust off your bowling shirt and break out your curlers for that pin-up girl hairdo because Billetproof, the East Bay’s premier rockabilly-themed car show, returns to Antioch in September. Car culture is huge in Contra Costa County, and Billetproof is when local artists show off the vintage Oldsmobiles, Chevys and Cadillacs they’ve been perfecting all year. Expect custom cars of every design, color and theme—it’s a visual feast that feels part amusement park and part museum, and you’ll likely find yourself unable to resist the urge to Instagram \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836978\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11836978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Negrito performing at First Fridays Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-800x441.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-400x220.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-768x423.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-1180x650.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-960x529.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2.jpg 1825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fantastic Negrito performing at First Fridays Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First Fridays and Third Thursdays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Downtown Oakland.\u003cbr>\nMore information \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandcentral.com/lathamsquare-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland likes to celebrate whenever just because, and the well known art walk and street party, First Fridays, is especially lit in the summertime, when the sun is out longer and everyone seems to be in a relaxed, happy mood. All the galleries are open late; impromptu dance parties erupt on the street; and there’s plenty of food and local vendors. At one First Friday, I even saw a guy swallowing swords. Third Thursdays is a new street party in Oakland more centered on music than visual art; each month, artists like rapper Gina Madrid and hip-hop-chamber music group Ensemble Mik Nawooj perform in Latham Square.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We picked the best street fairs, car shows and outdoor concerts in for your summer calendar in Oakland and beyond.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027747,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1182},"headData":{"title":"Eight Activities to Fill Your East Bay Summer Calendar | KQED","description":"We picked the best street fairs, car shows and outdoor concerts in for your summer calendar in Oakland and beyond.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Eight Activities to Fill Your East Bay Summer Calendar","datePublished":"2018-05-30T15:00:52-07:00","dateModified":"2024-01-11T18:49:07-08:00","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Saba.HieroDay.MAIN_-1020x574.jpg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Nastia Voynovskaya","jobTitle":"Associate Editor","url":"https://www.kqed.org/author/nvoynovskaya"}},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"11387","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"11387","found":true},"name":"Nastia Voynovskaya","firstName":"Nastia","lastName":"Voynovskaya","slug":"nvoynovskaya","email":"nvoynovskaya@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":["arts"],"title":"Associate Editor","bio":"Nastia Voynovskaya is a Russian-born journalist raised in the Bay Area and Tampa, Florida. She's the associate editor at KQED Arts & Culture. She's the recipient of the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California award for arts & culture reporting. In 2021, a retrospective of the 2010s she edited and creative directed, Our Turbulent Decade, received the SPJ-NorCal award for web design. Nastia's work has been published in NPR Music, \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, VICE, Paste Magazine, Bandcamp and SF MoMA Open Space. Previously, she served as music editor at \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em> and online editor at \u003cem>Hi-Fructose Magazine\u003c/em>. She holds a B.A. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=mm&r=g","twitter":"nananastia","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"pop","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"podcasts","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"hiphop","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Nastia Voynovskaya | KQED","description":"Associate Editor","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=mm&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=mm&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/nvoynovskaya"}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Saba.HieroDay.MAIN_-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"ogImageWidth":"1020","ogImageHeight":"574","twitterImageUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Saba.HieroDay.MAIN_-1020x574.jpg","twImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Saba.HieroDay.MAIN_-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":["featured","guide","ntv","summer-guide-2018-featured"]}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13833757/eight-activities-to-fill-your-east-bay-summer-calendar","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland knows how to throw a proper function. The spirit of community resilience courses through Oaklanders’ blood, and getting together to have fun—as we saw with the recent “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>” protest—is a vital part of the Town’s activism. Plus, what’s more life affirming than getting together with friends and family for a day of relaxation in the sun?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under-the-radar get-togethers—instead of corporate-feeling festivals—are what makes the East Bay stand out amid the Bay Area’s many cultural offerings. Below, you’ll find street fairs, parties, outdoor adventures, car shows and concerts to fill your summer calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833830\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833830\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-800x553.jpg\" alt=\"A dancer at Berkeley's Juneteenth festival. \" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-800x553.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-1200x829.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-960x663.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth-520x359.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/berkeley-juneteenth.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dancer at Berkeley’s Juneteenth festival. \u003ccite>(Berkeley Juneteenth Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Berkeley Juneteenth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 17.\u003cbr>\nAlcatraz-Adeline corridor, South Berkeley.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyjuneteenth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juneteenth celebrates the anniversary of the abolition of slavery—a holiday \u003cem>all\u003c/em> Americans should honor, though it’s mostly popular in the African-American community. Berkeley boasts one of the Bay Area’s most popular Juneteenth celebrations. The streets surrounding Ashby BART (which has a great flea market on weekends, by the way) get closed off for a day of music, vendors, food and more in a joyous, inter-generational celebration of black culture and resilience.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833825\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Curry brings the NBA Championship trophy to the people during the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/steph-800x533-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry brings the NBA Championship trophy to the people during the Warriors parade in Oakland on June 15, 2017. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Warriors Parade\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Downtown Oakland.\u003cbr>\nTBD.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, we know this isn’t set in stone. But have you seen the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Athlete_Vidz/status/1001463947789299713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meme\u003c/a> that recasts the Warriors and Cavs players as the characters of \u003cem>Full House\u003c/em>? With the Warriors facing off against the Cavs for the fourth year in a row, this playoffs season \u003cem>has\u003c/em> felt like the return of a favorite show again. We’ve been so spoiled with Warriors victories the past few years that the parade has basically become an annual tradition. I won’t say too much more to avoid jinxing my hometown team, but if they do win again, definitely make sure to come to downtown Oakland for the \u003cem>unofficial\u003c/em> party immediately following the winning game. (Pro tip: wear sneakers and BYOB.) For a more family friendly affair, stay tuned for the officially sanctioned parade, and come early to secure your spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"The Fam Bam party comes to Oakland's Lake Merritt every July 4. \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/fam-bam-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fam Bam party comes to Oakland’s Lake Merritt every July 4. \u003ccite>(Fam Bam)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fam Bam 4th of July Party\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 4.\u003cbr>\nLake Merritt Ampitheater, Oakland.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.oakfambam.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re not in a backyard with friends, family and a grill on the 4th of July, the best way to spend it as at the Fam Bam day party in Oakland. Food. Art. DJs. Lake. Sun. Fun. What more do you need? This community gathering attracts a diverse crowd and is family friendly, too. Just note: this is an anti-imperialist party led by Afrocentric Oakland, so expect expressions of community pride and resilience over patriotic flag waving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11494276\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11494276\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Nina Wu dancing outdoors\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Reach_posterimage.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina Wu dancing outdoors in Joaquin Miller Park. \u003ccite>(Kelly Whalen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Outdoor Adventures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s no secret that the Bay Area abounds with beautiful hikes and nature spots, so I’m going to give you a quick-and-dirty rundown of the best spots in the East Bay. For those who don’t have a car: bus or rideshare to Oakland’s Dimond Park; behind its playground, there are trails leading to Joaquin Miller Park and Redwood Regional Park, two gorgeous oases that make it easy to forget you’re still in urban Oakland. If you’re looking for an waterfront adventure without taking a long road trip, Lake Anza is a lowkey place to tan and swim in Berkeley’s Tilden Park, which also has gorgeous trails and even a petting zoo. Further inland is the breathtaking Mt. Diablo, with sweeping vistas, hiking and rock climbing. And Lake Del Valle in Livermore is a hidden East Bay gem; they have pedal boats, kayaks and motorboats for rent, plus two swimming beaches, hiking camping and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13807491\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13807491\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Lil B performs at Hiero Day 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/DSC_0332-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil B performs at Hiero Day 2017. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Hiero Day\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 3.\u003cbr>\nLocation TBA, Oakland.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.hieroday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lineup for this annual hip-hop fest is typically only announced a week ahead, but the $19.93 presale tickets sell out long before that because Hiero Day has a proven track record of being a good time. Conscious hip-hop pioneers Hieroglyphics founded the fest and headline each year, and they curate a balanced lineup of up-and-coming acts and established OGs. In 2017, Texas rapper Bun B and Oakland songstress Goapele performed alongside the East Bay’s Lil B and Rayana Jay, rising L.A. rappers G Perico and Duckwrth and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833827\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13833827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/SolanoStroll2015-19.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Solano Stroll brings family-friendly rides and attractions to Albany. \u003ccite>(Solano Stroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Solano Stroll\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> Sept. 9.\u003cbr>\nSolano Avenue, Albany.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/events/solano-avenue-stroll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albany’s Solano Avenue gets packed with vendors, art, performers and activities every September (when the Bay Area actually gets some sun) for Solano Stroll, a free, family friendly festival in the sleepy town of Albany. Solano Avenue is Albany’s busiest strip and has tons of international food and cute shops. Most of the restaurants set up booths at the Stroll, so it’s a good chance to sample new foods without committing to a sit-down meal. The fair even has face painting, balloons and rides for kids (including a mean potato sack slide that I hear is a thrill even for adults).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13833832\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 723px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13833832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof.jpg\" alt=\"A car at Billetproof 2016.\" width=\"723\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof.jpg 723w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-375x276.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/billetproof-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car at Billetproof 2016. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Billetproof\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 15.\u003cbr>\nContra Costa County Fairgrounds, Antioch.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://billetproof.com/index.php/antioch-ca-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dust off your bowling shirt and break out your curlers for that pin-up girl hairdo because Billetproof, the East Bay’s premier rockabilly-themed car show, returns to Antioch in September. Car culture is huge in Contra Costa County, and Billetproof is when local artists show off the vintage Oldsmobiles, Chevys and Cadillacs they’ve been perfecting all year. Expect custom cars of every design, color and theme—it’s a visual feast that feels part amusement park and part museum, and you’ll likely find yourself unable to resist the urge to Instagram \u003cem>everything\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11836978\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11836978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Negrito performing at First Fridays Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-800x441.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-400x220.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-768x423.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-1180x650.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2-960x529.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/07/fantasticnegrito_poster2.jpg 1825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fantastic Negrito performing at First Fridays Oakland\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>First Fridays and Third Thursdays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Downtown Oakland.\u003cbr>\nMore information \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandcentral.com/lathamsquare-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland likes to celebrate whenever just because, and the well known art walk and street party, First Fridays, is especially lit in the summertime, when the sun is out longer and everyone seems to be in a relaxed, happy mood. 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