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The group is on tour promoting their fourth album \u003ci>Libation\u003c/i> and raising money and awareness to help the people of Sierra Leone combat the Ebola virus. The All Stars will play alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BlackNatureBand\">Black Nature Band\u003c/a>, a side project of All Stars band member Black Nature. Together they will offer positive vibes and harmonious musical stylings that appeal to the inner dancer and humanitarian in all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a decade ago, San Francisco based filmmakers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2090682/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\">Zach Niles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2122359/\">Banker White\u003c/a>, encountered Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars in Sembakounya Camp in Guinea. The Freetown natives had formed their band in a previous refugee camp during \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14094419\">Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war\u003c/a>. Niles and White were so inspired by the band that they decided to travel with them for three years filming how they spread joy to fellow refugees in camps around West Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war ended in 2002, the band moved back to Freetown and connected with other refugee musicians who became part of the band’s rotating group of members. Niles and White released their documentary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495750/\">\u003ci>Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2005. The film resulted in an album, \u003ci>Living Like a Refugee,\u003c/i> and a subsequent U.S. tour that established the band on the global music scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141822\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/cmb-cd-30_softpak_37208a1b.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10141822 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/cmb-cd-30_softpak_37208a1b.jpg\" alt=\"Libation Album Cover\" width=\"700\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/cmb-cd-30_softpak_37208a1b.jpg 700w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/cmb-cd-30_softpak_37208a1b-400x365.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/cmb-cd-30_softpak_37208a1b-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libation Album Cover\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sierraleonesrefugeeallstars.bandcamp.com/album/libation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Libation\u003c/i>\u003c/a> pays respect to their beloved country and the band’s four “fallen soldiers,” who passed away from illness and various other maladies. A libation is an offering to a god or spirit to honor the ancestors and the memory of loved ones who have died. The album is a celebration of ten years together, a chance to remember those who have joined the ancestors and a hope for success in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s quite remarkable how the All Stars use music to remain optimistic in the face of grave tragedies like war and now, Ebola. Misfortune is a regular occurrence for so many Sierra Leoneans and West Africans. Bandleader Reuben Korma says, “So we are troubled, but we are used to it. We can overcome our sadness and bring happiness to the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the band progresses on their United States tour, the Ebola virus is spreading back home in West Africa. Koroma calls the virus “a monster disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/\">World Health Organization\u003c/a>, 1,026 of the 3,052 reported cases of Ebola are in Sierra Leone and the survival rate is 45%. Even though the group is on the road, the epidemic is always fresh in their minds as their wives and children relay stories of human suffering reminiscent of the civil war days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141826\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 3072px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/sierra11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10141826 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/sierra11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/sierra11.jpg 3072w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/sierra11-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/sierra11-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/sierra11-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3072px) 100vw, 3072px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars; Photo by Jay Dickman\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The All Stars have launched a fund and awareness campaign about the deadly spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and neighboring West African countries Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. They have also teamed up with Banker White’s media outlet \u003ca href=\"http://weowntv.org/\">We Own TV\u003c/a>, raising money at their shows to help the organization’s young filmmakers continue to produce and disseminate public service announcements on effective methods of preventing Ebola in Sierra Leone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just cleaned up the ashes of the war and then comes Ebola you know, as a stumbling block,” Koroma says. “It is trying to kill more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koroma plans to share his poem about the virus and Black Nature Band will perform their song, “Ebola,” at the show. Concert attendees can donate to We Own TV at each venue. \u003ca href=\"http://www.reverbnation.com/blacknatureband/song/21470916-ebola\">Listen to Black Nature’s Ebola song.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All Star’s songs sample a host of sounds from West Africa and beyond. According to Korma, “[Our music] does not orient from Sierra Leone but [for] many years people have been listening to those types of rhythms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/W60EiaDP1EU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the group’s songs are characterized by a West African style called\u003cem> palm wine\u003c/em>, also known as \u003cem>Maringa\u003c/em> in Sierra Leone. Palm wine played an influential role in forming the roots of highlife music. The tracks on \u003ci>Libation\u003c/i> take a more acoustic approach using mostly vintage guitars, hand percussion and harmonious vocals. The sound is very old school, like the music of \u003cem>highlife/palm wine\u003c/em> artist Koo Nimo of Ghana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/xXhmiQt4oy4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This more acoustic style is a return to the All Stars’ days in refugee camps where they played the songs of their youth using whatever instruments they could find or make by hand. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141930\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Chrissie Hynde; Photo by Harmony Gerber via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141930\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrissie Hynde; Photo by Harmony Gerber via Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s always so tempting when your favorite musician is performing halfway around the world, in a city you’d \u003cem>love\u003c/em> to visit, at a venue you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> would be perfect. I’ve met fans of British singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Orton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Orton\u003c/a> who flew from New York to London just to hear her perform one night at a small club called \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spitz\u003c/a>. Orton’s performance was awe-inspiring, but was it worth paying $2,000 for everything from air fare to a hotel room to the actual ticket? And what about the time it took to get to London and back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-preview-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/FallArtsPreview-300x250-3.png\" alt=\"FAll arts preview 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>OK, it \u003cem>was\u003c/em> worth it. But if you don’t have the time or the money this fall, you can always go for Plan B: Watching your ideal concert online, for just a few dollars or (here’s even better news) FREE. Yes, there are scores of great concerts this fall outside the Bay Area that, virtually, you can attend live. Here are seven concerts – a mix of rock, folk, country, and classical – that I’m planning to check out. The only catch: 8pm in London means 11am in San Francisco. So while the people at the actual concert might be partying at night like it’s 2099, it’ll be daytime for you. Slightly surreal, yes. But that’s a small price to pay for a concert that, one song at a time, transports you far beyond the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie-400x256.jpg\" alt=\"Blondie; Photo by Danielle-St.-Laurent\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141923\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie-300x192.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blondie; Photo by Danielle-St.-Laurent\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chrissie Hynde and Blondie from London\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Tuesday, September 16, 11:30am\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.itunesfestival.com\">itunesfestival.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>American rock music hit a high point in the late 1970s and early ‘80s with the ascension of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrissie_Hynde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrissie Hynde\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blondie\u003c/a>. “Kid” and “Brass in Pocket” (Hynde with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretenders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pretenders\u003c/a>), and “Call Me” and “Heart of Glass” (Blondie), combined elements of hard rock with experimental music and pop riffs. It was all so satisfying. Still is. So a concert with both Hynde and Blondie – led by the inimitable \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debbie Harry\u003c/a> – is cause for celebration. The double bill (Hynde at 11:30am, Blondie at 1pm) is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.itunesfestival.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes festival\u003c/a> at London’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roundhouse\u003c/a>, an ideal place for concerts. The iTunes concerts, which began on September 1 and continue through September 30, are free to watch, though they have to be seen on iTunes or an Apple TV.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw-400x651.jpg\" alt=\"Tim McGraw; Photo source: Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"651\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw-400x651.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw-184x300.jpg 184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim McGraw; Photo source: Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Tim McGraw from New York\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Tuesday, Sept. 16, 6pm\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"www.amexunstaged.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amexunstaged.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>A woman I once dated would play the songs of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McGraw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim McGraw\u003c/a> on her car stereo while driving and swear there was no better music. I disagreed. Completely. But it got me thinking about country music in a way I’d never considered. As in, “Maybe country does have its place in the culture.” With his cowboy voice and his cowboy hats, McGraw is the apotheosis of country’s appeal. His 2014 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtArla7PVsM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lookin’ for That Girl\u003c/a>” has an infectious, rock-guitar twang that will appeal to those outside of country’s inner circle. To see for yourself, watch McGraw perform live from New York’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerstein_Ballroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hammerstein Ballroom\u003c/a>. The concert is being produced by American Express, for its “Unstaged” series, which matches big-name singers with big-name directors – in this case, the director is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bennett Miller\u003c/a>, whose credits include \u003cem>Moneyball\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Capote\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141519\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/SirSimonRattle-e1409874639849.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/SirSimonRattle-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot of YouTube video of Sir Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmoic\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141519\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot of YouTube video of Sir Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmoic\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, from Berlin\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Thursday, Sept. 18, 11am\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/20250/rattle-schumann-brahms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digitalconcerthall.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Philharmonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Berlin Philharmonic\u003c/a> is consistently rated one of the top philharmonics in the world: Its performances are so vivid and physical, the philharmonic plays classical music like it’s a contact sport. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rattle\">Sir Simon Rattle \u003c/a>pushes the philharmonic in every direction with his conductor’s baton and pulmonary zeal. What will happen when Rattle and his cohorts tackle \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Schumann)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 in B flat major\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Brahms)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor\u003c/a>? These symphonies already have an over-the-top quality that makes audiences think they’re experiencing nothing less than the birth and rebirth of mankind. Watching this match-up of music and musicians, set in the eye-catching \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Philharmonie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berliner Philharmonie\u003c/a>, promises to be one of the year’s best classical performances. The cost is about $13 (9.9 Euros), which gives you access for a whole week to the Berlin Philharmonic’s web concerts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141926\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-400x416.jpg\" alt=\"Mötley Crüe\" width=\"400\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-400x416.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-288x300.jpg 288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mötley Crüe\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>iHeartRadio Music Festival from Las Vegas\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Friday, Sept. 19 and Saturday, Sept. 20\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://festival.iheart.com/tunein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">festival.iheart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>One of the United States’ biggest media companies, Clear Channel, operates one of the United States’ biggest Internet music portals, \u003ca href=\"http://www.iheart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iHeartRadio\u003c/a>, so when it decided to start a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHeartRadio_Music_Festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music festival\u003c/a> in 2011, of course it chose the most glitzy, garish venue it could find: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Grand_Las_Vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MGM Grand Las Vegas\u003c/a>. More than 15,000 people will jam into the hotel’s concert arena for this \u003ca href=\"http://festival.iheart.com/artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-day extravaganza\u003c/a> of the most au courant pop music. Usher, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Mötley Crüe, Lorde, and 50 Cent are among the headliners. The songs will come fast and furious, including online, where it’s being webcast by Yahoo! Two days may not be enough to get in all the material from the artists converging this weekend on the Las Vegas Strip.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141512\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Burns with Forest City Lovers; Photo by: Sean Ian Denis Richardson, Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-300x199.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-1440x956.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat Burns with Forest City Lovers; Photo by: Sean Ian Denis Richardson, Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons \u003ccite>(\"Forest City Lovers (drums)\" by Sean Ian Denis Richardson Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Kat Burns from Toronto\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Tuesday, Oct. 21, 6:30pm\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.stageit.com/kat_burns_kashka/bones_performed_live/39563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stageit.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For something much quieter than a Las Vegas festival, there’s Canadian singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_City_Lovers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kat Burns\u003c/a>, whose acoustic guitar playing and smart, sensitive lyrics are a nice way to spend any time on the Internet. Through her work with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_City_Lovers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest City Lovers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kashkamusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KASHKA\u003c/a>, Burns delves into all the subjects (love, chance meetings, strange people, etc.) that give expression to the best folk and smart-rock songs. One of my favorite songs of hers is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5l05BEJJvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Song for Morrie\u003c/a>,” about an old man who can’t walk, is close to death, but still has an active mind. “Maybe,” Burns sings, “all we need is someone to come home to.” “Song for Morrie” is sweet, fun, and genuinely uplifting and philosophical. Burns’ Oct. 21 performance is through a music platform called Stageit, where you pay whatever you want. Whatever you pay, it will be a bargain.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141521\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A.R.Rahman at 57th FF Awards; Photo courtesy www.bollywoodhungama.com via Wikimedia Commons \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards-300x225.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.R.Rahman at 57th FF Awards; Photo courtesy www.bollywoodhungama.com via Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A.R. Rahman Meets Berklee at Boston Symphony Hall\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Friday, Oct. 24, 5pm\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.concertwindow.com/shows/8499-a-r-rahman-meets-berklee-at-boston-symphony-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concertwindow.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Rahman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.R. Rahman\u003c/a> is one of the biggest musical names in India. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKSLPBK8tsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jai Ho\u003c/a>,” the theme song from \u003cem>Slumdog Millionaire\u003c/em> that won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award? That’s A.R. Rahman. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15gYfUypkPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chaiyya, Chaiyya,\u003c/a>” the potent song that sets up Spike Lee’s film \u003cem>Inside Man\u003c/em>? That’s A.R. Rahman. It’s rare that Rahman makes his way to perform in the United States, but he’ll be in Boston this night to be with the students and faculty of the acclaimed \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berklee College of Music\u003c/a>. The concert at the Berklee Performance Center coincides with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berklee.edu/news/academy-award-winning-composer-ar-rahman-receive-honorary-doctorate-berklee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the school giving Rahman an honorary doctorate.\u003c/a> This is another online concert with a suggested donation. It’s free to watch the first few minutes. Most people can’t resist Rahman, which is why his music is in such demand around the world.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim-400x497.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanuelle Haim; Photo by Mrug - Own work, Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 via Wikimedia Commons \" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim-400x497.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim-241x300.jpg 241w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emmanuelle Haim; Photo by Mrug – Own work, Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 via Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Berlin Philharmonic with Emmanuelle Haim from Berlin\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Friday, Oct. 31, 11am\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digitalconcerthall.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The French conductor \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Ha%C3%AFm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuelle Haim\u003c/a> frequently plays harpsichord while leading her orchestras in grandiose works of early and classical music. There’s nothing quite like it, and this performance is a chance to witness Haim’s musical pyrotechnics as she directs the Berlin Philharmonic in George Frideric Handel’s\u003cbr>\n”\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_resurrezione\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La resurrezione (Resurrection).\u003c/a>” Handel’s work utilizes a flurry of beautiful operatic voices, which will be performed here by, among others, Swedish soprano \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_Tilling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camilla Tilling\u003c/a> and Finnish tenor \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topi_Lehtipuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topi Lehtipuu\u003c/a>. It’s a stalwart Europe-wide lineup for a night at the opera in Berlin.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141930\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Chrissie Hynde; Photo by Harmony Gerber via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141930\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131-199x300.jpg 199w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Chrissie_Hynde_20131.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chrissie Hynde; Photo by Harmony Gerber via Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s always so tempting when your favorite musician is performing halfway around the world, in a city you’d \u003cem>love\u003c/em> to visit, at a venue you \u003cem>know\u003c/em> would be perfect. I’ve met fans of British singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Orton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Orton\u003c/a> who flew from New York to London just to hear her perform one night at a small club called \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spitz\u003c/a>. Orton’s performance was awe-inspiring, but was it worth paying $2,000 for everything from air fare to a hotel room to the actual ticket? And what about the time it took to get to London and back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-preview-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/FallArtsPreview-300x250-3.png\" alt=\"FAll arts preview 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>OK, it \u003cem>was\u003c/em> worth it. But if you don’t have the time or the money this fall, you can always go for Plan B: Watching your ideal concert online, for just a few dollars or (here’s even better news) FREE. Yes, there are scores of great concerts this fall outside the Bay Area that, virtually, you can attend live. Here are seven concerts – a mix of rock, folk, country, and classical – that I’m planning to check out. The only catch: 8pm in London means 11am in San Francisco. So while the people at the actual concert might be partying at night like it’s 2099, it’ll be daytime for you. Slightly surreal, yes. But that’s a small price to pay for a concert that, one song at a time, transports you far beyond the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie-400x256.jpg\" alt=\"Blondie; Photo by Danielle-St.-Laurent\" width=\"400\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141923\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie-300x192.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/blondie.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blondie; Photo by Danielle-St.-Laurent\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chrissie Hynde and Blondie from London\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Tuesday, September 16, 11:30am\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.itunesfestival.com\">itunesfestival.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>American rock music hit a high point in the late 1970s and early ‘80s with the ascension of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrissie_Hynde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrissie Hynde\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blondie\u003c/a>. “Kid” and “Brass in Pocket” (Hynde with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretenders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pretenders\u003c/a>), and “Call Me” and “Heart of Glass” (Blondie), combined elements of hard rock with experimental music and pop riffs. It was all so satisfying. Still is. So a concert with both Hynde and Blondie – led by the inimitable \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debbie Harry\u003c/a> – is cause for celebration. The double bill (Hynde at 11:30am, Blondie at 1pm) is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.itunesfestival.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes festival\u003c/a> at London’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roundhouse\u003c/a>, an ideal place for concerts. The iTunes concerts, which began on September 1 and continue through September 30, are free to watch, though they have to be seen on iTunes or an Apple TV.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141516\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw-400x651.jpg\" alt=\"Tim McGraw; Photo source: Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"651\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141516\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw-400x651.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw-184x300.jpg 184w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Tim_McGraw.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim McGraw; Photo source: Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Tim McGraw from New York\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Tuesday, Sept. 16, 6pm\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"www.amexunstaged.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amexunstaged.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>A woman I once dated would play the songs of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McGraw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim McGraw\u003c/a> on her car stereo while driving and swear there was no better music. I disagreed. Completely. But it got me thinking about country music in a way I’d never considered. As in, “Maybe country does have its place in the culture.” With his cowboy voice and his cowboy hats, McGraw is the apotheosis of country’s appeal. His 2014 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtArla7PVsM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lookin’ for That Girl\u003c/a>” has an infectious, rock-guitar twang that will appeal to those outside of country’s inner circle. To see for yourself, watch McGraw perform live from New York’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerstein_Ballroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hammerstein Ballroom\u003c/a>. The concert is being produced by American Express, for its “Unstaged” series, which matches big-name singers with big-name directors – in this case, the director is \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bennett Miller\u003c/a>, whose credits include \u003cem>Moneyball\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Capote\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141519\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/SirSimonRattle-e1409874639849.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/SirSimonRattle-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot of YouTube video of Sir Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmoic\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141519\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot of YouTube video of Sir Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmoic\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, from Berlin\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Thursday, Sept. 18, 11am\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/20250/rattle-schumann-brahms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digitalconcerthall.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Philharmonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Berlin Philharmonic\u003c/a> is consistently rated one of the top philharmonics in the world: Its performances are so vivid and physical, the philharmonic plays classical music like it’s a contact sport. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rattle\">Sir Simon Rattle \u003c/a>pushes the philharmonic in every direction with his conductor’s baton and pulmonary zeal. What will happen when Rattle and his cohorts tackle \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Schumann)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 in B flat major\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Brahms)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor\u003c/a>? These symphonies already have an over-the-top quality that makes audiences think they’re experiencing nothing less than the birth and rebirth of mankind. Watching this match-up of music and musicians, set in the eye-catching \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Philharmonie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berliner Philharmonie\u003c/a>, promises to be one of the year’s best classical performances. The cost is about $13 (9.9 Euros), which gives you access for a whole week to the Berlin Philharmonic’s web concerts.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141926\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-400x416.jpg\" alt=\"Mötley Crüe\" width=\"400\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-400x416.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-288x300.jpg 288w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/motley-crue-2013-jpg.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mötley Crüe\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>iHeartRadio Music Festival from Las Vegas\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Friday, Sept. 19 and Saturday, Sept. 20\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://festival.iheart.com/tunein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">festival.iheart.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>One of the United States’ biggest media companies, Clear Channel, operates one of the United States’ biggest Internet music portals, \u003ca href=\"http://www.iheart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iHeartRadio\u003c/a>, so when it decided to start a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHeartRadio_Music_Festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music festival\u003c/a> in 2011, of course it chose the most glitzy, garish venue it could find: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Grand_Las_Vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MGM Grand Las Vegas\u003c/a>. More than 15,000 people will jam into the hotel’s concert arena for this \u003ca href=\"http://festival.iheart.com/artists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-day extravaganza\u003c/a> of the most au courant pop music. Usher, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Mötley Crüe, Lorde, and 50 Cent are among the headliners. The songs will come fast and furious, including online, where it’s being webcast by Yahoo! Two days may not be enough to get in all the material from the artists converging this weekend on the Las Vegas Strip.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141512\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Burns with Forest City Lovers; Photo by: Sean Ian Denis Richardson, Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-300x199.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/Forest_City_Lovers_drums-1440x956.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kat Burns with Forest City Lovers; Photo by: Sean Ian Denis Richardson, Share Alike 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons \u003ccite>(\"Forest City Lovers (drums)\" by Sean Ian Denis Richardson Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Kat Burns from Toronto\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Tuesday, Oct. 21, 6:30pm\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.stageit.com/kat_burns_kashka/bones_performed_live/39563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stageit.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For something much quieter than a Las Vegas festival, there’s Canadian singer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_City_Lovers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kat Burns\u003c/a>, whose acoustic guitar playing and smart, sensitive lyrics are a nice way to spend any time on the Internet. Through her work with \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_City_Lovers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forest City Lovers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kashkamusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KASHKA\u003c/a>, Burns delves into all the subjects (love, chance meetings, strange people, etc.) that give expression to the best folk and smart-rock songs. One of my favorite songs of hers is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5l05BEJJvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Song for Morrie\u003c/a>,” about an old man who can’t walk, is close to death, but still has an active mind. “Maybe,” Burns sings, “all we need is someone to come home to.” “Song for Morrie” is sweet, fun, and genuinely uplifting and philosophical. Burns’ Oct. 21 performance is through a music platform called Stageit, where you pay whatever you want. Whatever you pay, it will be a bargain.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141521\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A.R.Rahman at 57th FF Awards; Photo courtesy www.bollywoodhungama.com via Wikimedia Commons \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards-300x225.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/A.R.Rahman_at_57th_FF_Awards.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A.R.Rahman at 57th FF Awards; Photo courtesy www.bollywoodhungama.com via Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A.R. Rahman Meets Berklee at Boston Symphony Hall\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Friday, Oct. 24, 5pm\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.concertwindow.com/shows/8499-a-r-rahman-meets-berklee-at-boston-symphony-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concertwindow.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Rahman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.R. Rahman\u003c/a> is one of the biggest musical names in India. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKSLPBK8tsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jai Ho\u003c/a>,” the theme song from \u003cem>Slumdog Millionaire\u003c/em> that won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award? That’s A.R. Rahman. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15gYfUypkPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chaiyya, Chaiyya,\u003c/a>” the potent song that sets up Spike Lee’s film \u003cem>Inside Man\u003c/em>? That’s A.R. Rahman. It’s rare that Rahman makes his way to perform in the United States, but he’ll be in Boston this night to be with the students and faculty of the acclaimed \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berklee College of Music\u003c/a>. The concert at the Berklee Performance Center coincides with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berklee.edu/news/academy-award-winning-composer-ar-rahman-receive-honorary-doctorate-berklee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the school giving Rahman an honorary doctorate.\u003c/a> This is another online concert with a suggested donation. It’s free to watch the first few minutes. Most people can’t resist Rahman, which is why his music is in such demand around the world.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141523\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim-400x497.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanuelle Haim; Photo by Mrug - Own work, Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 via Wikimedia Commons \" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141523\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim-400x497.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim-241x300.jpg 241w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/640px-Emmanuelle_Haim.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emmanuelle Haim; Photo by Mrug – Own work, Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 via Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Berlin Philharmonic with Emmanuelle Haim from Berlin\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Friday, Oct. 31, 11am\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digitalconcerthall.com\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The French conductor \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Ha%C3%AFm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuelle Haim\u003c/a> frequently plays harpsichord while leading her orchestras in grandiose works of early and classical music. There’s nothing quite like it, and this performance is a chance to witness Haim’s musical pyrotechnics as she directs the Berlin Philharmonic in George Frideric Handel’s\u003cbr>\n”\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_resurrezione\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La resurrezione (Resurrection).\u003c/a>” Handel’s work utilizes a flurry of beautiful operatic voices, which will be performed here by, among others, Swedish soprano \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_Tilling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camilla Tilling\u003c/a> and Finnish tenor \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topi_Lehtipuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topi Lehtipuu\u003c/a>. It’s a stalwart Europe-wide lineup for a night at the opera in Berlin.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>Listen to April Dembosky’s piece about playing violin with an classical orchestra at Burning Man 2014\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/09/2014-09-05c-tcrmag.mp3\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The well-established soundscape at Burning Man is an audio layer cake of dub step and techno. About 66,000 people gathered in the Nevada desert last week for the annual arts festival – and many of them spent their nights at post-apocalyptic raves, spinning fire hoola hoops, passing chapstick around the dance floor, all while swaying their hips in an inarticulate jive that vaguely mirrored the electronic beat spilling out of the speakers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eat sleep rave repeat. Eat sleep rave repeat,” is the refrain of one song played all over the playa this year. It’s a stereotypical, yet quintessential, sentiment at Burning Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141935\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-classical-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-classical-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cellists with the PlayaPops Symphony warm up before their debut performance at Burning Man this year (2014).\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10141935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-classical-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-classical-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-classical-1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cellists with the PlayaPops Symphony warm up before their debut performance at Burning Man this year (2014). \u003ccite>(Jaki Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But by day, a group of classical musicians are fomenting a quiet rebellion. The soft notes of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 could be heard at concerts at Center Camp and the Temple, and during rehearsals in Silicon Village. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to do that ritardando there,” says Eric Yttri, standing before the group in leopard print leggings. A neuroscience researcher from DC, out here, Yttri goes by Doctor Fire Tuba – on account of the flame-throwing sousaphone he plays. He’s also the conductor of the first ever string orchestra at Burning Man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not only a fun release for musicians who don’t get to play much, but it also showcases that Burning Man is more than a party,” he says. “This has a real soul and solace to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They call themselves the Playa Pops Symphony: close to 50 amateur musicians, studio musicians, members of professional orchestras, and even a couple kids. About two dozen show up for the first rehearsal on Tuesday. Dr. FireTuba marveled that it was in tune — mostly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were making music with a bunch of strangers who just randomly decided to go to a desert designed to kill you and play symphonic music,” he says. “I’m still on cloud nine and can’t believe it worked.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has to overcome some serious distractions though. In the same neighborhood where the orchestra rehearses, gymnasts are practicing flips and splits in aerial silks, there’s a spanking workshop across the street, and a zip line right behind the cello section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141940\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4.jpg\" alt=\"First chair Madelaine Ripley (black and white stripes) and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony prepare for their debut performance at Burning Man this year (2014\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10141940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First chair Madelaine Ripley (black and white stripes) and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony prepare for their debut performance at Burning Man this year (2014). Credit: Jaki Levy \u003ccite>(Jaki Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I came out here to them practicing I went ‘Oh wow, this is the playground. Everyone’s playing and we all get to play together,’” says Noah Crowe, a writer from Ojai, Calif., dismounting the zip line as the orchestra begins to play Grieg’s morning mood. This is Crowe’s fourth year at Burning Man. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first year I came out here, it was ‘oonst oonst. Mmelemena melemena. Obla obla,’” Crowe says, doing a very convincing impression of the playa techno scene. “And this year, we actually have a diversity of music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have my own theories about what allowed this to converge now. The size of the event is one – Burning Man attendance has grown significantly in recent years. Maybe now there’s a critical mass of classical musicians coming, enough to form an orchestra. Or, maybe it’s Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: now that folks have figured out how to survive in the desert and make it to the end of the week without starving, there’s more energy to make music and expand culture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowe has a quick answer to the question, “Why now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’ve grown up. Because the culture is evolving. They say the most common misconception about Burning Man is that it’s a festival. When really the org [the Burning Man organization] considers it a city. So as a city, or as a society, we are evolving and enculturating ourselves into having a richer, diversity of experiences,” he says. “It’s gone through this evolution of adolescent angst and blowing stuff up, to teeny bopper trance rave, to crunk, to now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Beethoven and Grieg. These were the picks of the Playa Pops founder, Laura Kaczmerak, a.k.a. Pigtails. Back home in Encinitas, she works as a commercial pilot and plays violin with the community symphony in Carlsbad. She says the start of the Burning Man orchestra was more of an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3.jpg\" alt=\"Madelaine Ripley and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony, the first-ever string orchestra at Burning Man, warm up before their performance at Center Camp\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10141944\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madelaine Ripley and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony, the first-ever string orchestra at Burning Man, warm up before their performance at Center Camp \u003ccite>(Jaki Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I see people with string instruments and other instruments out here, but they play alone,” she says. “I thought, you know, we need to come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent an innocent email intended for one Burning Man staffer. It then got forwarded to the entire attendee list serve. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within 24 hours I had 200 hits in my email,” says Kaczmerak. “So I was thrust into this exciting adventure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the group’s debut performance, more than 200 people showed up to listen. Hundreds more came to subsequent concerts. They sat on the ground in the dust or got up and danced as they pleased. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a far cry from the elite music halls of the default world, where audiences pay top dollar for tickets, dress in fancy clothes, sit politely and clap at the right time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encore, encore, encore, encore,” one audience chants after the first few pieces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only half way through the set,” Dr. FireTuba explains, sending the crowd into hysterics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, the rules of classical music might as well have been burned down with the Man. The traditional emphasis on perfection is inappropriate out here. It’s not needed for music to touch an audience. Dr. FireTuba explains to the listeners that Beethoven was kind of a burner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a little crazy, he was a little drunk, he was a little rowdy,” says Dr. FireTuba. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. FireTuba says he hopes a little education like this, and the unconventional context of Burning Man might attract some unforeseen fans to keep up with the genre when they get home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be wonderful to attract not only people who love classical music,” he says, “but also get people who think classical music is something for the grandparents and really surprise them.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the same neighborhood where the orchestra rehearses, gymnasts are practicing flips and splits in aerial silks, there’s a spanking workshop across the street, and a zip line right behind the cello section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141940\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4.jpg\" alt=\"First chair Madelaine Ripley (black and white stripes) and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony prepare for their debut performance at Burning Man this year (2014\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10141940\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-4-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First chair Madelaine Ripley (black and white stripes) and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony prepare for their debut performance at Burning Man this year (2014). 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Or, maybe it’s Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: now that folks have figured out how to survive in the desert and make it to the end of the week without starving, there’s more energy to make music and expand culture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowe has a quick answer to the question, “Why now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’ve grown up. Because the culture is evolving. They say the most common misconception about Burning Man is that it’s a festival. When really the org [the Burning Man organization] considers it a city. So as a city, or as a society, we are evolving and enculturating ourselves into having a richer, diversity of experiences,” he says. “It’s gone through this evolution of adolescent angst and blowing stuff up, to teeny bopper trance rave, to crunk, to now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Beethoven and Grieg. These were the picks of the Playa Pops founder, Laura Kaczmerak, a.k.a. Pigtails. Back home in Encinitas, she works as a commercial pilot and plays violin with the community symphony in Carlsbad. She says the start of the Burning Man orchestra was more of an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3.jpg\" alt=\"Madelaine Ripley and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony, the first-ever string orchestra at Burning Man, warm up before their performance at Center Camp\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10141944\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/BM-Classical-3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madelaine Ripley and other violinists with the PlayaPops Symphony, the first-ever string orchestra at Burning Man, warm up before their performance at Center Camp \u003ccite>(Jaki Levy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I see people with string instruments and other instruments out here, but they play alone,” she says. “I thought, you know, we need to come together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent an innocent email intended for one Burning Man staffer. It then got forwarded to the entire attendee list serve. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within 24 hours I had 200 hits in my email,” says Kaczmerak. “So I was thrust into this exciting adventure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the group’s debut performance, more than 200 people showed up to listen. Hundreds more came to subsequent concerts. They sat on the ground in the dust or got up and danced as they pleased. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a far cry from the elite music halls of the default world, where audiences pay top dollar for tickets, dress in fancy clothes, sit politely and clap at the right time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encore, encore, encore, encore,” one audience chants after the first few pieces. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only half way through the set,” Dr. FireTuba explains, sending the crowd into hysterics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, the rules of classical music might as well have been burned down with the Man. The traditional emphasis on perfection is inappropriate out here. It’s not needed for music to touch an audience. Dr. FireTuba explains to the listeners that Beethoven was kind of a burner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a little crazy, he was a little drunk, he was a little rowdy,” says Dr. FireTuba. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. FireTuba says he hopes a little education like this, and the unconventional context of Burning Man might attract some unforeseen fans to keep up with the genre when they get home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-preview-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/FallArtsPreview-300x250-3.png\" alt=\"FAll arts preview 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>For the better part of 100 years, the world has had a love affair with Brazilian music, starting with the samba, segueing to bossa nova, and pivoting to modern rhythms. But Brazilian music has always been its own mix of musical forms, with influences from Africa, the United States, Europe, and other regions. And it’s this beautiful cocktail of origins and influences (and potential influences) that is thankfully on display this fall in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140908\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1-400x246.jpg\" alt=\"Eliana Elias\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140908\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1-400x246.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1-300x185.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliane Elias\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Eliana Elias\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 11\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"Elias tix link\" href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/sep11/opening-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>With her mesmerizing piano playing and sultry, jazzy voice, Eliane Elias is the epitome of Brazilian cool. At an early age, Elias worked with Brazilian master lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, co-writer of “The Girl From Ipanema,” and she has become a stalwart herself, comfortable singing in beautifully accented English or her native Portuguese. Now based in New York, Elias interprets American and Brazilian standards like few other singers of her generation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140910\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kabul Dreams\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140910\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kabul Dreams\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Kabul Dreams\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 14\u003cbr>\nYoshi’s San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"Kabul Dreams link\" href=\"http://www.yoshis.com/mobile/detail/id/4472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In the song “Air,” when singer Sulyman Qardash croons, “Bombs and explosions are not scaring me. They are just playing with my heart, some times,” he’s referring to personal experience. Qardash’s rock ‘n’ roll group, Kabul Dreams, is based in Afghanistan, where it has faced death threats for its blend of American-influenced music that appeals to young minds. The Taliban is still a major presence in Afghanistan. In the United States, Qardash and Kabul Dreams, which bills itself as “Afghanistan’s first rock band,” can perform their songs as they intended: loudly and proudly, in both English and Dari.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140912\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso.jpg\" alt=\"Caetano Veloso\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10140912\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caetano Veloso\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Caetano Veloso\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 19\u003cbr>\nParamount Theatre, 2025 Broadway Avenue, Oakland\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"veloso link\" href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/sep19/caetano-veloso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Caetano Veloso is the gold standard for Brazilian music – a guitar-playing singer and composer who in the late 1960s helped originate \u003cem>Tropicalia\u003c/em>, which fused African-influenced Brazilian music with rock music from the United States (and which, in turn, influenced American artists). These days, Veloso plays it slow and fast, his voice and his raw emotion keeping a steady cadence to songs that his longtime fans have memorized and that new listeners will swear are as vital as anything they’ve heard on \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140914\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Toumani Diabate and son\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate-400x281.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate-300x211.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toumani Diabate and son\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Toumani Diabate and Sidiki Diabate\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 27-28\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF; Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, Palo Alto\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.toumaniandsidiki.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Toumani Diabate’s name is synonymous with the kora, the 21-string, West African instrument that, under Diabate’s mastery, produces sounds that are entirely transportive and virtually hypnotic. Hailing from the West African country of Mali, the Grammy Award-winning Diabate has recorded with Icelandic marvel Bjork, American blues musician Taj Mahal, and Brazilian artists Arnaldo Antunes and Edgard Scandurra. In the Bay Area, he’ll share a stage with his son Sidiki, who represents the 72nd generation of kora player in the family’s lineage. Besides playing kora, Sidiki does hip-hop. Tradition and experimentation will take center stage at the Diabates’ Bay Area shows.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140916\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Chuchito Valdes\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140916\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuchito Valdes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chuchito Valdes\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 28\u003cbr>\nYoshi’s Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"valdes link\" href=\"http://www.yoshis.com/oakland/jazzclub/artist/show/4435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Like the Diabate family of Mali, the Valdes family of Cuba is passing on its musically gifted genes from one generation to the next. Instead of the kora, it’s the piano that Chuchito Valdes has inherited a knack for. Like his father, Chucho, Chuchito can take a keyboard and turn it into a kaleidoscope of competing and complementary volleys that lift the audience up, down, and sideways. Chuchito’s late grandfather Bebo was thrilling audiences on the piano well into his eighties, and Chuco is still performing at a high level in his seventies. Chuchito is only in his late 40s, and in so many ways, he’s just getting started in his musical quest to extend the family dynasty.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Zakir Hussain\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain-225x300.jpg 225w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zakir Hussain\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Zakir Hussain\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 9-12\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/oct9/zakir-hussain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Tabla player Zakir Hussain was playing “world music” long before the term emerged in record stores in the early 1980s. Ten years earlier, he recorded with Mickey Hart, and then founded, with jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, the group Shakti. During his residency at the SFJAZZ Center, Hussain performs with Indian violinist Kumaresh Rajagopalan and Indian veena player Jayanthi Kumaresh (Oct. 9), jams with American jazz drummer Eric Harland and American saxophonist Charles Lloyd in a reunion of their group called Sangam (Oct. 10-11), then pays tribute to Latin jazz percussionist Armando Peraza (Oct. 12). For Hussain, there’s nothing unusual about that musical zig-zagging.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140918\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 303px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/BassekouKouyate.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/BassekouKouyate.jpg\" alt=\"Bassekou Kouyate\" width=\"303\" height=\"389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10140918\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/BassekouKouyate.jpg 303w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/BassekouKouyate-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bassekou Kouyate\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Bassekou Kouyate and Krar Collective\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 11\u003cbr>\nZellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"kouyate link\" href=\"http://calperformances.org/performances/2014-15/world-stage/afropop-spectacular-bassekou-kouyate-krar-collective.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Two sides of Africa – West and East – meet on the same stage in this “two for one” night that extinguishes musical borders. Bassekou Kouyate, from Mali, is a master of the ngoni, a small stringed instrument that’s the ancestor of the American banjo. The Krar Collective, from England via Ethiopia, features the stringed instrument called the krar and an ensemble that modernizes traditional Ethiopian scales. Audience members frequently get up to dance at these musicians’ concerts, following in the footsteps of the musicians themselves.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140920\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KarrinAllyson.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KarrinAllyson-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz artist Karrin Allyson and the United States Air Force Band's Airmen of Note kick off the 2007 Jazz Heritage Series at Lisner Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University, September 7, 2007, in Washington, DC.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KarrinAllyson-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KarrinAllyson-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KarrinAllyson-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jazz artist Karrin Allyson and the United States Air Force Band’s Airmen of Note kick off the 2007 Jazz Heritage Series at Lisner Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University, September 7, 2007, in Washington, DC.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Karrin Allyson\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Nov. 6\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"karrin allyson link\" href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/nov6/karrin-allyson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Interpreting songs from Brazil and using perfect Portuguese, Karrin Allyson is that rare American singer who can inhabit another country’s songs and make them completely her own. On “O Barquinho (My Little Boat),” for instance, Allyson scats and shimmies and pays homage to love in the language of Brazil (“Dia de luz, festa de sol, e um barquinho a deslizar”). It sounds divine as Allison emotes and quivers her way through the highs and lows of romantic joy. That Allison will do that in the jazz center’s smaller venue is almost too good to be true.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140921\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/LANI_HERB-MUSIC-OR-PHIL_MG_82373525.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/LANI_HERB-MUSIC-OR-PHIL_MG_82373525.jpg\" alt=\"Lani Hall and Herb Alpert\" width=\"334\" height=\"310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10140921\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/LANI_HERB-MUSIC-OR-PHIL_MG_82373525.jpg 334w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/LANI_HERB-MUSIC-OR-PHIL_MG_82373525-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lani Hall and Herb Alpert\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Herb Alpert and Lani Hall\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Nov. 7-8\u003cbr>\nMontalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"alpert link\" href=\"http://montalvoarts.org/events/alpert_hall_2014a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, as Herb Alpert was introducing the sound of his Tijuana Brass to American TV and radio audiences, Lani Hall was lead singer for Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, helping introduce Brazilian music to this country’s consciousness. Alpert signed Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 to his A&M Records in 1966, and married Hall in 1973. Alpert and Hall have been inseparable ever since – trumpeter and singer, husband and wife, yin and yang. Their fall tour isn’t just a nostalgia act; it’s a chance to reach both one step back and a couple steps forward in careers that have always wandered far afield.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toure-Raichel_FA14_expanded.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toure-Raichel_FA14_expanded-400x252.jpg\" alt=\"Vieux Farka Toure with Idan Raichel\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140922\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toure-Raichel_FA14_expanded-400x252.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toure-Raichel_FA14_expanded-300x189.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toure-Raichel_FA14_expanded.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vieux Farka Toure with Idan Raichel\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Vieux Farka Toure and Idan Raichel\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Nov. 8\u003cbr>\nNourse Theater, 201 Hayes Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"toure-raichel link\" href=\"http://www.ciis.edu/Public_Programs/Public_Programs_Events/Toure-Raichel_Collective_FA14.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Theirs is a successful collaboration between stars from Mali and Israel. You can hear it on their debut album from 2012, \u003cem>The Tel Aviv Session\u003c/em>, where Idan Raichel’s piano playing shadows Vieux Farka Toure’s guitar work and is joined by a fusion of other voices and instrumentalists. Music doesn’t get much better than the duo’s stirring “Ane Nahatka,” on which Israeli singer Cabra Casay is especially noteworthy. In fact, Toure and Raichel perform as The Touré-Raichel Collective, acknowledging that it takes a village to make a great world-music band.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140925\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 367px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Nascimento.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Nascimento.jpg\" alt=\"Milton Nascimento\" width=\"367\" height=\"246\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10140925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Nascimento.jpg 367w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Nascimento-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milton Nascimento\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Milton Nascimento\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Nov. 30\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"Nascimento link\" href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/nov30/milton-nascimento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Listen to jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s 1974 album \u003cem>Native Dancer\u003c/em> and you hear Brazilian singer/guitarist/composer Milton Nascimento on many of the tracks, with a voice that reaches high octaves and really makes the album complete. Nascimento has gone on to perform and write for a Who’s Who of artists, including Paul Simon, who once said that Nascimento was “the major Brazilian composer post-Jobim-Gilberto.” Elevating Nascimento into the category of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto is quite a statement, but Nascimento has a habit of astounding his fans. That’s what’s sure to happen at the SFJAZZ Center.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-preview-2014/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/FallArtsPreview-300x250-3.png\" alt=\"FAll arts preview 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10136791\">\u003c/a>For the better part of 100 years, the world has had a love affair with Brazilian music, starting with the samba, segueing to bossa nova, and pivoting to modern rhythms. But Brazilian music has always been its own mix of musical forms, with influences from Africa, the United States, Europe, and other regions. And it’s this beautiful cocktail of origins and influences (and potential influences) that is thankfully on display this fall in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140908\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1-400x246.jpg\" alt=\"Eliana Elias\" width=\"400\" height=\"246\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140908\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1-400x246.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1-300x185.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/novo-album-do-trio-da-pianista-para-a-ecm-tem-joe-lovano-como-convidado_1.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliane Elias\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Eliana Elias\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 11\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"Elias tix link\" href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/sep11/opening-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>With her mesmerizing piano playing and sultry, jazzy voice, Eliane Elias is the epitome of Brazilian cool. At an early age, Elias worked with Brazilian master lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, co-writer of “The Girl From Ipanema,” and she has become a stalwart herself, comfortable singing in beautifully accented English or her native Portuguese. Now based in New York, Elias interprets American and Brazilian standards like few other singers of her generation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140910\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kabul Dreams\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140910\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash-300x169.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/KabulDreams-CREDIT-Numan-Qardash.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kabul Dreams\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Kabul Dreams\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 14\u003cbr>\nYoshi’s San Francisco, 1330 Fillmore Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"Kabul Dreams link\" href=\"http://www.yoshis.com/mobile/detail/id/4472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In the song “Air,” when singer Sulyman Qardash croons, “Bombs and explosions are not scaring me. They are just playing with my heart, some times,” he’s referring to personal experience. Qardash’s rock ‘n’ roll group, Kabul Dreams, is based in Afghanistan, where it has faced death threats for its blend of American-influenced music that appeals to young minds. The Taliban is still a major presence in Afghanistan. In the United States, Qardash and Kabul Dreams, which bills itself as “Afghanistan’s first rock band,” can perform their songs as they intended: loudly and proudly, in both English and Dari.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140912\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso.jpg\" alt=\"Caetano Veloso\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10140912\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Veloso-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caetano Veloso\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Caetano Veloso\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 19\u003cbr>\nParamount Theatre, 2025 Broadway Avenue, Oakland\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"veloso link\" href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/sep19/caetano-veloso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Caetano Veloso is the gold standard for Brazilian music – a guitar-playing singer and composer who in the late 1960s helped originate \u003cem>Tropicalia\u003c/em>, which fused African-influenced Brazilian music with rock music from the United States (and which, in turn, influenced American artists). These days, Veloso plays it slow and fast, his voice and his raw emotion keeping a steady cadence to songs that his longtime fans have memorized and that new listeners will swear are as vital as anything they’ve heard on \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140914\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate-400x281.jpg\" alt=\"Toumani Diabate and son\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate-400x281.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate-300x211.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Toumani-Diabate.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toumani Diabate and son\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Toumani Diabate and Sidiki Diabate\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 27-28\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF; Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, Palo Alto\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.toumaniandsidiki.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Toumani Diabate’s name is synonymous with the kora, the 21-string, West African instrument that, under Diabate’s mastery, produces sounds that are entirely transportive and virtually hypnotic. Hailing from the West African country of Mali, the Grammy Award-winning Diabate has recorded with Icelandic marvel Bjork, American blues musician Taj Mahal, and Brazilian artists Arnaldo Antunes and Edgard Scandurra. In the Bay Area, he’ll share a stage with his son Sidiki, who represents the 72nd generation of kora player in the family’s lineage. Besides playing kora, Sidiki does hip-hop. Tradition and experimentation will take center stage at the Diabates’ Bay Area shows.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140916\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Chuchito Valdes\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140916\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Chuchito20Valdes20concert_3.20.2009203003-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuchito Valdes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Chuchito Valdes\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Sept. 28\u003cbr>\nYoshi’s Oakland, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland\u003cbr>\n\u003ca title=\"valdes link\" href=\"http://www.yoshis.com/oakland/jazzclub/artist/show/4435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Like the Diabate family of Mali, the Valdes family of Cuba is passing on its musically gifted genes from one generation to the next. Instead of the kora, it’s the piano that Chuchito Valdes has inherited a knack for. Like his father, Chucho, Chuchito can take a keyboard and turn it into a kaleidoscope of competing and complementary volleys that lift the audience up, down, and sideways. Chuchito’s late grandfather Bebo was thrilling audiences on the piano well into his eighties, and Chuco is still performing at a high level in his seventies. Chuchito is only in his late 40s, and in so many ways, he’s just getting started in his musical quest to extend the family dynasty.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10140917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Zakir Hussain\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10140917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain-225x300.jpg 225w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/08/Zakir_Hussain.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zakir Hussain\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Zakir Hussain\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 9-12\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, SF\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2014-15/oct9/zakir-hussain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Tabla player Zakir Hussain was playing “world music” long before the term emerged in record stores in the early 1980s. Ten years earlier, he recorded with Mickey Hart, and then founded, with jazz guitarist John McLaughlin, the group Shakti. During his residency at the SFJAZZ Center, Hussain performs with Indian violinist Kumaresh Rajagopalan and Indian veena player Jayanthi Kumaresh (Oct. 9), jams with American jazz drummer Eric Harland and American saxophonist Charles Lloyd in a reunion of their group called Sangam (Oct. 10-11), then pays tribute to Latin jazz percussionist Armando Peraza (Oct. 12). 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