music

It’s not too late to live your fantasy of playing in an orchestra. This Friday May 5 at 7pm the Awesome Orchestra Collective will be performing in Oakland and you are invited to join in. Just bring your instrument and a music stand. They provide the sheet music. The program includes a full Copeland orchestral […]

Neighborliness reaches new musical heights this Sunday in Napa. The 5th Annual Porchfest, a non-stop outdoor concert from noon to 6 takes place on 50 porches most within walking distance of each other. It’s a music sampler for all kinds of tastes –bluegrass, jazz, country, surf, new wave (is it still new after all these […]

Bay seniors learned long ago that our country cousins are no longer( if they ever were) hayseeds. At the Napa Valley Opera House they offer a full schedule of film and theater (including a current widely lauded presentation of “Cymbeline) and this summer will be the home of the Blue Note Club offering classic jazz. […]

Bay seniors (and their grandkids) with a secret fascination for creek life are invited to see what a family of beavers have wrought at Alhambra Creek in Martinez. Saturday, August 1 from 11-4, celebrate the dams and ponds built by this furry construction crew at the Beaver Festival. They were saved from eradication in a 2007 […]

Bay seniors who have issues with retrieving information online have requested the Geezer repeat the invitation to local musical basketball games. The players are called streetballers and though they have histories with major college teams, they now play mostly in pickup games and in these 90 minute matches at local high school gyms. The added […]

Bay seniors have generous, glorious  helpings of free classical concerts year-round at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Performance  are always at professional level and the repertoire considerably more varied than what you hear at Davies a few blocks away. There are dozens of symphonies, operas and recitals this month alone. And, oh yes, did […]

Bay seniors who never followed their dream of becoming a musician now have a shortcut. No knowledge of major or minor chords or even reading notes is required when you join a drumming circle. And there are brigades of them around the Bay Area specializing in styles from the Pacific to the Caribbean to Africa, […]

Bay seniors seeking shelter from the cold might want to consider huddling around the fireplace at The Riptide, a snug, lodge-like knotty pine bar in the far reaches of the Sunset District. It’s been around since 1941. Though there is a mighty jukebox, you’ll find live hillbilly, honky tonk and blue grass ringing out every […]