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The One About Orange Peels And Music On A Mountain
Cy Musiker and David Wiegand scout the Bay Area for things to do this coming weekend and turn up orange peels, music on a mountain, and much more!
Devendra Banhart
May 18 and 21, 2013
Various Bay Area locations
You might know Devendra Banhart as that hirsute dude Natalie Portman dated for a while or your inspiration for dressing like a tailored hippie, but he's much more than those two things: he also makes killer music and you can hear some of it when he plays the Rio in Santa Cruz on May 18th and the Regency Ballroom in SF on the 21st. For tickets and more information, visit devendrabanhart.com.
The Sound of Music on Mount Tam
May 19, 26 and June 2, 8 - 9, 16, 2013
Mount Tamalpais Amphitheater
The hills are a good place to get away from zombies, your annoying upstairs neighbors, and, as The Sound of Music proved, Nazis. Because the universe is good, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is being staged by Mountain Play on Mount Tam just for you over the next couple of weekends so make a cute outfit out of your unfashionable curtains and hit the hiking trail! For tickets and more information, visit mountainplay.org.
SF Offside Festival
May 23 - 25, 2013
Various Bay Area locations
Last year, the SF Offside Festival took a stand with their "this ain't your grandpa's jazz" slogan and they're back to really drive the point home with innovative jazz makers like Howard Wiley and Marcus Shelby, Mads Tolling, the Wiener Kids Family Band, and more. For tickets and more information, visit sfoffside.com.
Marc Maron
May 17, 2013
JCCSF
You should stop taking things so seriously and laugh a little bit. Thankfully for you, Marc Maron, the comedian behind the outrageously popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron, can help you do just that when he visits the JCC on May 17th and tells tales of how he got fired from his radio job and found himself divorced with a minor-league hoarding problem and surrounded by feral cats. Other people's problems are hilarious! For tickets and more information, visit jccsf.org.
The Orange Peels
May 17, 2013
Café Du Nord
Bay Area band The Orange Peels have been churning out sunny California pop every four years since '97. It's 2013...so it makes sense that they're back with their fifth album Sun Moon. The Chronicle's Kimberley Chun says the new record is "taking the once-besuited lo-fi pop band -- and its followers -- out of controlled Meet the Beatles-esque comfort zones and into a kind of White Album wilderness." Check them out for yourself when they lead two back-to-back shows with The Ocean Blue at Café Du Nord in San Francisco on May 17th! For tickets and more information, visit cafedunord.com.
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