Why shell out hundreds of dollars to see great music performed live? You can see it in your local community for free at your local library. The Diablo Regional Concert Band will be performing its annual winter concert at the Benicia Public Library, Dec. 11. The Martinez-based group has been performing for over a century, […]
Three BHS departments join forces for winter production
Three prominent performing arts programs at Benicia High School—the dance program, the drama program and the band program— will join forces for Panther Productions’ “Alex in Wonderland: Through the Performing Arts Looking Glass” next weekend. The story takes inspiration from “Alice in Wonderland” and blends it with a frequent nightmare that performing artists have: being […]
Clairdee to perform holiday concert for Vallejo Jazz Society, Dec. 6
Internationally renowned jazz vocalist Clairdee will be providing atmosphere for the holiday season for her Dec. 6 show “Clairdee’s Soulful Sounds of the Season” at Vallejo’s Empress Theatre presented by the Vallejo Jazz Society. The Vallejo Jazz Society is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2010 with the goals of raising awareness of jazz in Vallejo […]
Music industry professionals to share tips with aspiring artists
Looking to gain a career as an entrepreneur in the music industry? Solano College has an event to help the future Jay-Zs of the world on the path to success. On Nov. 20, Solano Community College and the Solano Small Business Development Center will come together to host Music Biz Live 101 to assist those […]
Vallejo Symphony continues search for new conductor
The Vallejo Symphony Orchestra will continue with the second round of its search to find a permanent conductor Sunday. The next new face to hold the baton? Christian Baldini. Baldini is a conductor who has led orchestras across the globe. Among the items on his resume: the Munich Radio Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and […]
Classical guitarist to bring holiday cheer at free library concert
Christmas will come to the Benicia Public Library early this year, as the Dona Benicia Room will be filled with the classical guitar stylings of Peter Fletcher on Nov. 15. Of course, Benicia will be just one stop for the New York City-based classical guitarist who is doing a national tour to promote his new […]
Vallejo Symphony Orchestra features Spanish classical music
Compared to German or Austrian classical music, Spanish classical music isn’t nearly as well-known. However, Spain has been home to plenty of great classical composers, and audience members will get a taste of it at the First Presbyterian Church in Vallejo on Oct. 18. The Vallejo Symphony Orchestra will be presenting “Dancing Across Espana,” a […]
Review: In inaugural performance, ‘Sound Collective’ wows Benicia audience
THE CALIFORNIA SOUND COLLECTIVE performed its inaugural concert to an overflow crowd at the Community Congregational Church in Benicia on Sunday, filling the sanctuary to the gills and flowing over into the church’s spacious lobby and beyond, with standing-room-only just outside the front entrance. The newly established group is an artists’ collective formed in an […]
Scenes from … Outside Lands 2015
OUTSIDE LANDS, Northern California’s biggest music festival of the summer, wrapped up Sunday. Above, Karl Denson of Tiny Universe; below, English band Hot Chip; and Sir Elton John. Photos by Greg Goodman/Special to The Herald
San Francisco’s Volti Chorale a highlight of Napa’s summer festival
The Russian National Orchestra, fresh off a plane from Moscow and on the heels of an Asia-wide tour, performed at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville on Saturday as part of Festival del Sole, a 10-day series of special events celebrating the arts in Napa Valley. The orchestra was joined by the San Francisco choir, Volti, […]