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Tickets & Events Theatre Music Other Entertainment Subscriptions Mainstage Series Family Series B-Flex Membership The Sofia Package Gift Ideas Plan your visit Visitor Info What's Playing Tonight FAQ B-Engaged Contact Us Education Studio for young actors Conservatory for Adults For educators Support Us Individual Giving Institutional GivingWell-nighUsWell-nighB Street The Company Sponsors Opportunities Theatre Rental Press Room Past Productions Tickets & Events Theatre Music Other Entertainment Subscriptions Mainstage Series Family Series B-Flex Membership The Sofia Package Gift Ideas Plan your visit Visitor Info What's Playing Tonight FAQ B-Engaged Contact Us Education Studio for young actors Conservatory for Adults For educators Support Us Individual Giving Institutional GivingWell-nighUsWell-nighB Street The Company Sponsors Opportunities Theatre Rental Press Room Past Productions SBL Entertainment – Stanley Jordan October 18, 2018 Music Series In a career that took flight in 1985 with commercial and hair-trigger acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has unceasingly displayed a chameleonic musical persona of openness, imagination, versatility and maverick daring. Be it unvigilant reinventions of classical masterpieces or soulful explorations through pop-rock hits, to blazing straight superiority jazz forays and ultramodern improvisational works—solo or with a group—Jordan can unchangingly be counted on to take listeners on incoherent journeys into the unexpected. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Laurie Lewis October 19, 2018 Music Series Grammy Award-winning musician Laurie Lewis is internationally renowned as a singer, songwriter, fiddler, bandleader, producer and educator. She was a founding member of the Good Ol’ Persons and the Grant Street StringWreathand has performed and recorded since 1986 with her musical partner, mandolinist Tom Rozum. Laurie has twice been voted IBMA's Female Vocalist of the Year and has won the respect and worshipping of her peers. Since her debut in 1986, Laurie has recorded nearly 20 albums in a number of musical formats. Her latest tome with her wreath the Right Hands (Tom Rozum, Brandon Godman, Patrick Sauber, and Sam Grisman), The Hazel and Alice Sessions, was nominated for theWeightierBluegrass Recording Grammy in 2017. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – JD Souther October 20, 2018 Music Series Grammy-nominated JD Souther has penned myriad hits for the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbison, James Taylor, Don Henley, George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Brooks and Dunn and found success as a solo artist. This led him to stuff inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2013 and rhadamanthine one of the most prestigious songwriters of his generation. On his latest studio album, Tenderness (Sony Music Masterworks), Souther creates a perfect wastefulness of understated jazz with the ineffable pop narratives that have been the windrow of much of his greatest work. His archetype albums John David Souther, Black Rose and Home by Dawn have been released as expanded reissues (Omnivore Recordings). Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Karrin Allyson October 25, 2018 Music Series The Houston Press — "If there's a voices in heaven, someday the exquisite vocalist Karrin Allyson will lead it. She's such an otherworldly talent that the creator probably once has her on heavy rotation." Well, no worries, mate, Karrin Allyson will be part of this earthly voices for a very long time. But she is moving on, without a jam-packed career with Concord Jazz — thirteen albums, four Grammy nominations, and a recent self-produced holiday album, Yuletide Hideaway that won four stars from Downbeat. In May of 2015, as part of a new try-on with Motema Records, Karrin heads when into the recording studio with for a very intimate squint at the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. For Karrin, who unquestionably played Nelly Forbush in a production of South Pacific as a teenager this tome is a return. “I've been all virtually the world musically, from bop and bossa and chanson to blues and singersongwriters. And now, I finger like coming home. I find myself powerfully drawn to the world of Rodgers and Hammerstein.” “Why? Well, the tunes for starters, gorgeous melodies, near perfect lyrics, music that begs to be sung. Music filled with innocence, optimism, a confident can-do response to any problem, an well-flavored wiseguy humor, a sense that we all vest together on this wonderful planet. So, Rodgers & Hammerstein in very spare, honest settings — just a singer, telling the story with two masterful partners, the magisterial pianist Kenny Barron and the superb bassist John Pattituci, underlining and extending.” Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Tommy Castro & The Painkillers October 26, 2018 Music Series Blazing soul-blues rocker Tommy Castro’s musical roots run deep. As he unleashes his high-energy music to fans all over the world, Castro is inspired by the sounds he undivided while coming of age on the rough and tumble side of San Jose, California. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was Castro’s home turf—his stomping ground. It was a place where the street-tough Mexican Americans and the counter-culture hippies came together to drink, smoke, laugh, party and listen to tunes—the hippies with their blues and rock, the Mexicans with their soul music. Mixing the blues-rock he loved and the soul music he heard stoping out from the lowriders cruising the streets, withal with the socially conscious message songs of the day, Tommy’s own sound was born. He honed his guitar playing to a razor’s whet on the city’s competitive bar scene, where he learned how to capture an regulars with his intensely passionate vocals, stellar musicianship and dynamic performances.Scrutinizinglyevery major waddle and soul act, from Ike & Tina Turner to Janis Joplin to Elvin Bishop to Taj Mahal, toured through the area, and Castro was at scrutinizingly every show. He saw John Lee Hooker, Albert King and Buddy Guy & Junior Wells at the same local blues bar, JJ’s, where he often jammed, dreaming of one day busting out. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – The Subdudes October 27, 2018 Music Series Over the undertow of 25 years and ten albums, the Subdudes have quietly wilt one of America’s national music treasures. The New Orleans-formed group is a living encapsulation of American music, a vibrant cauldron of sounds that stirs together meaty grooves and jazzy dynamics, soulful R&B swagger, easy vocal harmonies, taunting waddle ‘n’ roll vein and folky social consciousness — not to mention some of the sharpest musicianship and ensemble playing you’ll overly hear from any five musicians. Led by singer/guitarist Tommy Malone and accordionist, John Magnie, The Subdudes yank most of their inspiration from the sounds of their native New Orleans, blending blues, gospel, funk, and R&B with their own harmony vocals; their sound is moreover notable for the band’s substitution of a tambourine player, Steve Amedée, for a drummer. Tim Cook rounds out the wreath on bass. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – NRBQ October 31, 2018 Music Series NRBQ is Terry Adams, Scott Ligon, Casey McDonough, and John Perrin. “NRBQ” stands for New Rhythm and Blues Quartet. The band’s music, a rollicking tousle of everything from stomping rockabilly to Beatles-influenced pop to Thelonious Monk-inspired jazz, has attracted fans as diverse as Elvis Costello, Penn & Teller, R.E.M., SpongeBob SquarePants, Ian McLagan, She & Him, Wilco, Widespread Panic, Nick Lowe, and indie-rock wreath Whitney. NRBQ songs have inspired imbricate versions by Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Darlene Love, and Dave Edmunds, among many others. In addition, the group served as the unofficial "house band" for The Simpsons for the Season 10-12. NRBQ has released a series of critically-acclaimed albums in recent years, among them Keep This Love Goin’ (2011), Brass Tacks (2014), and last year’s 5-disc, 50-year retrospective,UpperNoon. Of the trademark new Happy Talk EP, the Nashville Scene says, “…ties the pursuit of eternal youth to the idea of timeless waddle ‘n’ roll.” As the song says, “You’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?” Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas November 1, 2018 Music Series The musical partnership between unexampled performer Alasdair Fraser, "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling", and sunny Californian cellist Natalie Haas spans the full spectrum between intimate chamber music and ecstatic flit energy. Over the last 18 years of creating a whoosh at festivals and concert halls wideness the world, they have truly set the standard for fiddle and cello in traditional music. They protract to thrill audiences internationally with their virtuosic playing, their near-telepathic understanding and the joyful spontaneity and sheer physical presence of their music. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Mary Youngblood November 3, 2018 Music Series Native American Mary Youngblood, half Seminole and half Aleut, is the first woman to professionally record the Native American Flute, and the first woman to win not just one, but two Grammy Awards for "Best Native American Music Album". When Mary performs, it takes only a moment to unclose the profound spirituality of the sacred Native American flute and its historical courtship and wooing attributes. Her haunting music is much increasingly than a song ... it's liquid poetry, a prayer. Mary Youngblood takes little credit for the intense emotions people finger when they listen to her music. "I am only a vessel between Creator and this instrument. As a sculptor would tell you, the soil has a spirit of its own and decides what it will become; so it is with the flute. These songs came from those who walked surpassing me." Mary and her family currently reside in Northern California. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Richard Shindell November 4, 2018 Music Series Originally from New York, now dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York’s Hudson Valley, Richard Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking unshortened worlds withal the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. From his first record, Sparrow’s Point (1992) to his current release, Careless (September 2016), Shindell has explored the possibilities offered by this most rubberband and variable of cultural confections: the song. The path that led him to songwriting was both tangled and direct. Taking up the guitar at the age of eight, he listened but imagined that composing a song was out of the question.Withoutcollege and a nine month stint in a Zen Buddhist polity in Upstate New York, he headed to Europe with his guitar, finding something not unescapable a livelihood performing in the Paris Metro, where he discovered “I loved the acoustics in those tunnels, but only when they were empty.” Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Leo Kottke (an evening with) November 6, 2018 Music SeriesSensoryguitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town without a year and a half. Raised in 12 variegated states, he undivided a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone, surpassing withdrawing Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11.Withoutadding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps, Kottke joined the Navy underage, to be underwater, and sooner lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak, a diesel submarine. Kottke had previously entered higher at the U of Missouri, dropping out without a year to hitchhike wideness the country to South Carolina, then to New London and into the Navy, with his twelve string. "The trip was not something I enjoyed," he has said, "I was tapped and met too many interesting people." His collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, "Clone," unprotected audiences' sustentation in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas tabbed "Sixty Six Steps," produced by Leo's old friend and Prince producer David Z. Kottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Lisa Loeb w/ Billy Lawler November 8, 2018 Music Series Lisa Loeb is a touring artist, tragedian and philanthropist who started her career with the platinum-selling Number 1 hit song “Stay (I Missed You)” from the mucosa Reality Bites. A trailblazing self-sustaining artist, Lisa was the first pop musician to have a Number 1 single while not signed to a recording contract. She followed that remarkable feat with the hit singles "Do You Sleep," "I Do" and "Let's Forget well-nigh It ” and the albums Cake and Pie and No Fairy Tale. Her albums Tails and Firecracker were both certified Gold. Lisa continues to craft irresistible pop songs for the 21st century, while designing Lisa Loeb Eyewear, writing children's books, and supporting non-profit causes. The Los Angeles based mother of two is well known to parents and kids for her albums Catch the Moon (with Elizabeth Mitchell) andZanyLisa (with sales benefiting theZanyLisa Foundation). She published her second picture book-CD for Sterling Children’s Books: Lisa Loeb’s Songs for Movin’ and Shakin’, in 2013. Her song “Disappointing Pancake” became a hit in concert and on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. Lisa recently collaborated to co-write the children’s musical "Camp Kappawanna," which debuted at New York City's Atlantic Theater Company. Recognizing her work to help kids get to summer camp, the AmericanZanyAssociation, New England named Lisa Loeb as their 2015ZanyChampions Honoree with a gala triumph at Fenway Park. Lisa Loeb views the world through her iconic cat-eyed glasses. As touring performer and entrepreneur, Lisa redefines how women accessorize with her Lisa Loeb Eyewear, with a variety of styles misogynist at Costco and select optical shops virtually the United States. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Rick Estrin & The Nightcats November 9, 2018 Music Series Wildly fun, musically fearless and bursting with bravado, 2018’s Blues Music Award-winningWreathOf The Year Rick Estrin & The Nightcatshave created one of the blues’ most instantly recognizable sounds and no-holds-barred styles. Featuring the world-class talents of harmonica master, songwriter and vocalist Rick Estrin, guitar wunderkind Chris “Kid” Andersen, keyboard wizard Lorenzo Farrell and dynamic drummer Alex Pettersen, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats serve up sharp and incisive original blues and gritty roadhouse waddle ‘n’ roll. With his wily and unforgettable original songs and his hipster, street-smart vocals, no one on the blues scenewrites or sings like Rick Estrin. DownBeatsays, “Rick Estrin sings and writes songs like the brightest wiseguy in all of blueslandand blows harmonica as if he learned at the knee of Little Walter.” Live, the wreath is simply unbeatable. They unhook a high-energy show capable of bringing any regulars to its feet. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats’ latest Alligator album, Groovin’ In Greaseland, features 13 original songs, 11 by Estrin (including one co-written with Andersen), and one each by Andersen and Farrell. The band’s dazzling performances bring the songs to life as richly detailed notation spill their secrets and share their stories. The Chicago Sun-Timessays, “These are serious musicians having a hotter than hot good time. It’s tough to stay in your seat when Estrin and his musical cohorts get cooking.” Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Strunz & Farah November 10, 2018 Music Series Performing together since 1979, Strunz & Farah are the innovators of an entirely new expression for the sensory guitar. Well superiority of their time they created an original style that now is widely influential. Originally from Costa Rica and Iran respectively, Jorge Strunz and Ardeshir Farah have brought the musical influences of their native lands into their highly virtuosic, rhythmic, and improvisation-rich original instrumental compositions, inspiring fans and many guitarists worldwide. Their meeting in 1979 in Los Angeles, where they are still based, marked the first time that Latin American and Middle Eastern music, withal with other important elements, came together on the guitar. They remain the undisputed masters of the style they created. S&F’s music is perhaps weightier described as original multi-cultural sensory instrumental improvisational guitar music, or world jazz. Their music emphasizes and luxuriates in sensuous melody and rhythm with a colorful and passionate expression, and is saturated with their cultural roots. Afro-Caribbean, Latin American folk, flamenco and Middle Eastern music all converge in an substantially jazz context, expressly in the sense of improvisation, and is a unique contribution to the diversity of trendy guitar music. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – David Wilcox November 11, 2018 Music Series Cleveland-born David Wilcox is a father, a husband, a resider and a songwriter. First inspired to play guitar without hearing a fellow higher student playing in a stairwell, Wilcox is now 18 records into a career marked by personal revelation and wildly loyal fans. His lyrical insight is matched by a smooth baritone voice, virtuosic guitar chops, and creative unshut tunings, giving him a range and tenderness rare in folk music. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Mumbo Gumbo (cancelled) December 1, 2018 Music Series For over 27 years, Mumbo Gumbo had been one of N. California's top groups. releasing 9 original-music cds and collecting numerous "Sammie" and "Best of Sacramento" awards. The 7-piece wreath tours the Western United States, bringing their "genre-bending Americana" music to their many fans. Their big musical stew contains elements of soul, zydeco, folk, blues, rock, cajun, Caribbean, and country all mixed into their uniquely festive roots-music sound. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – BEAT-LELE December 2, 2018 Music Series Beat-Lele is comprised of four Beatle-loving musicians who hail from the island of Oahu. Having performed for numerous years as a Beatles tribute wreath in Hawaii, they decided to reinvent themselves and fuse the trappy music of the Beatles with their passion of playing ukulele's. There is no other musical group in the world we are enlightened of combining the timeless music of The Beatles to the soaring popularity of a simple ukulele with widow percussion of a cajon. With Sonny Aquino as "John", Nolet Quiason as "Paul", Alastar McNeil as "George" and Dennis Muth as "Ringo", each wreath member sings and performs their respective parts as one would expect from the original recording. Beat-Lele spans the career of The Beatles from Love Me Do through their later years of Let It Be and Abbey Road and everything in between. Their impeccable sustentation to musical detail will make you wonder if you are hearing the very recordings! Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents –WreathOf Friends (ATriumphOf Rory Gallagher) December 5, 2018 Music Series Rory Gallagher’s music reached a massive regulars from Norway to Spain, from Japan to the USA, tent all parts of the globe and producing some of the greatest rock/blues albums of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Sadly we lost Rory on June 14th 1995. To his devoted fans and followers this was the ultimate tragedy. The BAND OF FRIENDS is not a tribute to Rory, But increasingly a triumph of his life and music. The wreath consists of musicians who played with Rory as his rhythm section for years and is fronted by the unsurpassed Davy Knowles! Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Joe Louis Walker December 6, 2018 Music Series Joe Louis Walker is a true powerhouse guitar virtuoso, unique singer and prolific songwriter. Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner, has toured extensively throughout his career, performing at the world’s most renowned music festivals, and earned a legion of defended fans. His latest, highly-acclaimed tome Everybody Wants A Piece, from Mascot/Provogue, cements his legacy as a prolific torch bearer for the blues. Looking when on his rich history, Walker shares, “I’d like to be known for the points of a lifetime of stuff true to my music and the blues. Sometimes I finger I’ve learned increasingly from my failures, than from my successes, but that’s made me stronger and increasingly adventurous, and helped me create my own style. I’d like to think that when someone puts on one of my records they would know from the first notes, ‘That’s Joe Louis Walker.'” NPR Music has tabbed Walker “a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues,” and he is once stuff referred to within the blues world as a living legend. However, at this stage of his life, Walker profoundly shares, “I’d really like to inspire younger musicians to siphon on the legacy of blues/roots music – but play and do it your way – don’t be wrung to mix it up. There’s no right or wrong way, just the way you wanna express yourself. And whilom all, ENJOY YOURSELF.” Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Peter Rowan December 9, 2018 Music Series Grammy-award winner Peter Rowan is a singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades. From his early years playing under the tutelage of Bluegrass veteran Bill Monroe, to his time in Old & In the Way and his breakout as a solo musician and bandleader, Rowan has built a devoted, international fan wiring through a solid stream of recordings, collaborative projects, and unvarying touring. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Dirty Cello December 15, 2018 Music Series From China to Italy, and all over the U.S., Dirty Cello brings the world a upper energy and unique spin on blues and bluegrass. Led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca Roudman, Dirty Cello is cello like you’ve never heard before. From lanugo home blues with a wailing cello to virtuosic stompin’ bluegrass, Dirty Cello is a wreath that gets your heart thumping and your toes tapping! "Dirty Cello’s music is all over the map: funky, carnival, romantic, sexy, tangled, electric, fiercely rhythmic, and textured, and only occasionally classical." Lou Fancher, Oakland Magazine. "The wreath plays every style imaginable, and does some fantastic covers. (Their rendition of “Purple Haze” is incredible.) But what is most spectacular well-nigh them is hearing the depth of soul in Roudman’s playing—it goes vastitude what most people would expect from the instrument. She plays it with so much heart, you’ll wonder why increasingly bands don’t have a cellist." Good Times Santa Cruz "The group seamlessly careens from blues to bluegrass and waddle in a way that really shouldn't make sense but somehow does." LA Times Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Wake The Dead January 5, 2019 Music Series Wake The Dead is the World’s Only Celtic All-Star Grateful Dead Jam Band. Since 2000, this hot Northern California septet has been blending Celtic traditional music and the songs of the Grateful Dead—at first impressing the Dead themselves unbearable for them to release the debut CD on Grateful Dead/Arista Records. Now, overly increasingly inventive and overly increasingly energetic, WAKE THE DEAD spreads their reach to embrace the unshortened Summer of Love, keeping it working for Deadheads and Celtoids unwrinkled as only they can. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – An intimate evening with Craig Chaquico January 18, 2019 Music Series Rocketing onto the music scene over four decades ago a teen, Craig was an original founding member of the multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated, American waddle bands, Jefferson Starship and Starship, from 1973 - 1990. He was a main hit songwriter (Jane, Find Your Way Back, Layin’ It On the Line) and the only lead guitar player on all of their hit albums, songs, tours and videos (Miracles, Runaway, With Your Love, Count on Me, Sara, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now). He moreover earned Guitar Player Magazine's Reader's Poll Award forWeightierPop Instrumental Guitarist. Since that time, Craig has been a million-selling, chart-topping solo jazz artist, with his 1993 album,SensoryHighway, earning Billboard Magazine’s top spot asSelf-sustainingNew AgeTomeof the Year, and 1994’s,SensoryPlanet, moreover receiving the top spot in Billboard as well as receiving a GRAMMY nomination forWeightierNew Age album. In addition, Craig earned a spot on Jazziz Magazine's list of Top 100 Most Influential Jazz Guitarists of All Time. His song from this album, “Just One World,” became a part of Rochester Museum’s Space Arc Project, which now permanently remains in orbit whilom the earth. Craig’s most recent release, Fire Red Moon, which served as his first blues album, debuted at #15 on Billboard’s National Blues Chart in 2012. Now inward the fifth decade of his illustrious career, Craig Chaquico has solidified himself as a guitar legend, and whether he's performing '70s and ‘80s archetype waddle and pop, new age jazz or the blues, on electric or sensory guitar, Craig's music continues to delight, move and soothe the soul! Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers January 19, 2019 Music Series Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers are internationally recognized as one of the top bands in the world performing archetype American jazz, swing, blues and R&B music from the mid-twentieth century. Lavay and her group have toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada. They have performed at many of the top festivals, concert venues and nightclubs in the USA, and recently headlined Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City for a special New Year’s Eve show in December, 2014. Whether singing her own compositions or drawing on a large repertoire of classics, Lavay and her all-star 7-piece wreath torch up an instant recipe for dancing and good times. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Loudon Wainwright III January 22, 2019 Music Series Loudon’s long and illustrious career is highlighted by increasingly than two dozen tome releases, Movie and TV credits, and now his new autobiography, Liner Notes (2017 Penguin/Random House). In 2010 Grammy forWeightierTraditional FolkTomeforUpperWide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project. His 2012 recording, Older Than My Old Man Now, was named one of NPR’s Top 10 Albums of the Year. In 2014, Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet), marked his the 26th career release to-date. September 2018, Loudon releases a new retrospective album, Years In The Making, a double CD with increasingly than 45 tracks – live performances, demos, outtakes, unreleased songs spanning 50 years. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Joe Craven & The Sometimers January 26, 2019 Music Series Joe Craven first captured the wide-eyed stare of many fans in the ’90s as the uncanny percussionist and multi-instrumentalist with the David Grismann Quintet. He approaches his music with an insider’s knowledge and worship - he performed and recorded with Garcia & Grisman for four years. As an educator, versifier and actor, his oeuvre covers a huge range of musical genres and originative inspirations. On his jaunty and inventive new album, Garcia Songbook, Craven blazes a new path wideness the well-worn trails of the minion and revered Garcia songbook. Bursting withal with heady and unexpected takes on familiar favorites, the music is seasoned with surprising flavors, deviations, re-imaginings and detours. Craven sings and plays mandolin, fiddle and percussion slantingly his wreath The Sometimers, featuring his daughter Hattie Craven on harmony vocals, plus Bruce MacMillan (guitar, dobro & vocals), Jonathan Stoyanoff (bass & vocals) and Barry Eldridge (drums & percussion). Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra February 6, 2019 Music Series Ottmar Liebert’s global success can be attributed to a myriad of things - his creative vision, his determination, and a strong sense of melody. Born in Cologne, Germany, he began playing guitar at 11.Surpassingthe age of 19, Liebert had intended to stay in Germany and pursue a career as a designer and photographer. However, while journeying extensively through Asia and playing with other travelers and local musicians, he realised that he could not escape a life of music.Withoutpursuing his dreams of playing waddle music in Boston, he settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe was a fresh start for Liebert in many ways and in wing to returning to the sensory guitar, he remained unshut to letting the place pinpoint the music he made. It was this openness to the local landscape that specified what was to wilt his musical style, a mix of Spanish, Mexican and World elements, strong melodies tinged with a shade of melancholy, well-turned with upbeat rhythms. Liebert founded the first incarnation of his band, Luna Negra, in 1989. His debut tome began as a self-produced release tabbed Marita: Shadows and Storms, copies of which local Native American artist, Frank Howell, distributed in his art galleries.Withoutthe record made its way to radio stations, it began generating a whoosh among programmers and received unprecedented response among listeners. Higher Octave Music picked it up and released a fully remastered version, Nouveau Flamenco. Recorded for less than $3,000 on an old analog machine in a shack abreast a gravel pit, this CD became an international sensation, establishing Liebert's unique border-style flamenco, and rhadamanthine the best-selling instrumental sensory guitar tome of all time. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Oakland JazzVoicesFebruary 9, 2019 Music Series We are the Oakland JazzVoicesand we have been singing and bringing innovative, and unique vocal jazz to the BayZonesince 1992. Oakland born and bred, we are one of just a few polity jazz choirs in the nation singing tomfool original, and standard jazz material in a distinctive choral jazz setting. The Oakland Jazz Choir, (OJC) a non-profit, has been an East Bay institution for over 20 years. During this span the group has taken many shapes, sizes and forms but the worldwide denominator has unchangingly been the same: Joy of expression, using the voice to communicate the triumphs, as well as the turbulence, of the human spirit. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Joan Osborne February 13, 2019 - February 14, 2019 Music Series Osborne is widely known for her live performances in the GRAMMY Award-winning documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." She has produced two albums for Americana stalwarts the Holmes Brothers, and co-produced her last two critically well-known solo records, 'Love And Hate' and 'Bring It On Home,' with talented producer/multi-instrumentalist Jack Petruzzelli. 'Bring It On Home,' which found Osborne tackling vintage songs by Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, Al Green, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sonny Boy Williamson, among others, and treating them with respect while giving them some interesting twists in tempo, key and feeling, garnered aWeightierBluesTomenomination at the 2013 GRAMMY Awards. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Rockapella February 15, 2019 Music Series Since the early ’90’s when they first achieved national television fame on PBS’s Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, they’ve toured the globe and provided a funky powerful soundtrack to several generations of vocal music fans, while keeping it all fresh withal the way. With buckets of tricky original pop songs, and well-constructed trendy revisions of sparkling Motown, pop, and soul classics, this group has unchangingly been the one to watch. ”Often imitated – never duplicated” applies here. Now they’re largest than ever! We make it waddle and make it interesting,” explains Scott Leonard, the group’s senior songwriter, arranger, and an technie of their ever-evolving and imitated dynamic sound. USA Today summed up their lasting appeal: “The weightier musical instrument of all is the human voice – if you’ve seen Rockapella you know that’s the truth.” The New York Times agrees; they’re “Pure entertainment.” Buy Tickets Now! KVIE & SBL Entertainment Presents – Albert Cummings February 16, 2019 Music Series Entertaining audiences from his phenomenal guitar work to his incredibly impassioned lyrics and overall songwriting prowess - one thing has certainly wilt well-spoken well-nigh Albert Cummings’ music: He is FAR MORE than simply just the guitarist or the bluesman he’s often painted as by fans and the media alike. He offers the well-constructed package. Though undoubtedly a masterful guitar player who splash onto the blues waddle scene in the early 2000’s and scrutinizingly immediately began gaining praise in that realm, his latest release “Live at the ‘62 Center” remoter portrays not only his versatility as singer/songwriter and live performer but as an versifier first and foremost. This comes to fruition in the true spontaneity and creative spirit of the album, in which he put together a newly worked version of his usual trio that afternoon of the October, 2016 recording. With longtime friend and Grammy Winner Jim Gaines overdue the soundboard, what comes through in both sight and sound is an incredible journey into the live performance world and true artistry of one of today’s most seasoned musicians. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Lunasa February 25, 2019 Music Series Named for an warmed-over Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh, patron of the arts, Lúnasa is indeed a gathering of some of the top musical talents in Ireland. Its members have helped worked the windrow of some of the greatest Irish groups of the decade. Bassist Trevor Hutchinson was a key member of The Waterboys, and later he, with guitarist Donogh Hennessy, would form the dynamic rhythm section of The Sharon Shannon Band. Paul Meehan (Karan Casey Band, North Cregg) has recently replaced Hennessy. Fiddler Sean Smyth is an All-Ireland champion who has played with Donal Lunny’s Coolfin; Kevin Crawford, considered to be among the finest flutists in Ireland played with the well-known traditional group Moving Cloud; and, piper Cillian Vallely of the famous Vallely originative clan. Folk Roots magazine has rightly termed them an “Irish music dream team.” Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Duo Quartet March 16, 2019 Music Series Blame Sally’s Pamela Delgado & Jeri Jones team up with Nina Gerber & Chris Webster for a Double Duo Evening. They’ll each be doing their own duo “thang” AND then mixing it up for some dueling guitar jams and three part harmonies. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Adrian Legg March 22, 2019 Music Series Globally well-known by critics and fans unwrinkled for his unique sensory and electric fingerstyle guitar playing, Adrian Legg masterfully blends diverse musical styles, influences and inspirations to create a distinctive sound all his own. With multiple awards and accolades spanning four decades, Legg has been heralded as a “guitarist of uncanny virtuosity, (whose) imagination and melodic invention seem unbounded,” (Q magazine); “ridiculously talented,” (Music Week) and “simply the weightier sensory guitar player I’ve overly heard.”(guitar icon Joe Satriani). Setting the stage for his international success in the decades to follow, Legg was named asSensoryGuitarist of the Decade by the UK’s Guitarist Magazine(1984-94), and BestSensoryFingerstylist in Guitar Player Magazine’s Readers’ Poll for four years in a row. (1993-96). Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Henry Kapono &WreathMarch 23, 2019 Music Series “Kapono is one of the unconfined island songwriters of his generation.” --Honolulu Star-Advertiser Henry Kapono is a performer who has it all – vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, composer, thrilling performer, regulars favorite—and multiple honors and awards, including a Grammy nomination. He has taken home 14 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawaii's “Grammy”) including Male Vocalist of the Year, Song of the Year, Single of the Year,Tomeof the Year, RockTomeof the Year, and Lifetime Achievement. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Robbie Fulks March 26, 2019 Music Series Robbie Fulks is a singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. His most recent release, 2017’s Upland Stories, earned year’s-best recognition from NPR and Rolling Stone among many others, as well as two Grammy® nominations, for folk tome and American roots song (“Alabama At Night”). Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment – Karla Bonoff March 29, 2019 Music Series Karla Bonoff has been described as one of the finest singer/songwriters of her generation. With a career spanning for decades, Bonoff has enjoyed hair-trigger acclaim, commercial success, rememberable popularity and the unwavering respect of her peers. In wing to charting with her own recordings, Karla has seen her songs wilt hits for Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd and Linda Ronstadt. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Trout Fishing in America March 30, 2019 Music Series Trout Fishing in America is the longstanding, four-time GRAMMY nominated musical partnership of Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet. A willingness to at once make fun of our most worrying daily habits, then to touch our hearts with tender and passionate images of family life, is what makes the connection between Trout Fishing in America and its audiences so compelling and poignant. “…the Lennon and McCartney of kids’ music.” – National Public Radio Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – The Four Bitchin’ Babes April 4, 2019 Music Series THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES – Sally Fingerett, Debi Smith, Deirdre Flint, withal with revolving 4th members, Nancy Moran and Megon McDonough. are an original “Babes Brand” of musical theater with a 25 year career on-stage and in-studio, releasing multiple recordings and a full length DVD. Together they honor and pay tribute to the wacky and hectic lives of men and women with their unbridled comedic commentary.These four accomplished, seasoned musician-actress-comediennes take turns in the spotlight, filling it with whimsical songs and shtick, presenting the hippest and most luxurious girl group harmonies “evah!” With guitars, bass, piano, and Irish Bodhran, this rollicking renegade sorority of gal pals use their exquisite wit and sophisticated (never blue) humor, creating an wondrous evening of Cabaret/Broadway ‘esque original entertainment. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment – Joe Kye April 13, 2019 Music Series Born in Korea and raised in Seattle, violinist- looper and vocalist Joe Kye has drawn rave reviews since launching his music career in 2013, “discharging world[s] of emotion” and delivering “divine messages” with his lush string loops and eclectic style (Guitar World). Drawing upon his migrant upbringing, Kye blends indie-rock, jazz, classical, pop, and world folk to create a unique sound that “leaves everyone in awe” (Sac News and Review). With his innovative use of digital effects and looping, Kye weaves together diverse textures, tricky melodies, and rich, sweet vocals to create songs that groove, uplift, and empower listeners. Buy Tickets Now! SBL Entertainment Presents – Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom April 26, 2019 Music Series Amy's role as a cultural gravity for Hawaiian Culture stems from composing in Hawaiian Language and bringing her language to the world with a current tousle of diverse musical stylings. Hanaiali'i's talent emerges from a disciplined classical training, fused powerhouse vocals, and honoring her family's worldly heritage and rooted racial responsibility. Amy's albums have moreover garnered 18 Nā Hōkū Hanohano awards – Hawai’i's equivalent to the GRAMMY® awards. Hānaiali'i's range of multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano wins, showcases her varied musical depth over the years prevailing in the pursuit categories: Female Vocalist of the Year, HawaiianTomeof the Year, Song of the Year, Group of the Year, ChristmasTomeof the Year, ContemporaryTomeof the Year, and many others. Buy Tickets Now! BOX OFFICE HOURS & LOCATION Monday-Saturday: 10 AM - 7 PM Sunday: 10 AM - 4 PM The Sofia, Home of B Street 2700 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95816 Phone: (916) 443-5300 Copyright B st. Theatre 2018 Navigation Upcoming Shows Plan Your VisitWell-nighB Street FAQ