Songbird Festival

Join The Songbird Festival at The Dovre Club in the Heart of the Mission District for StarWalker Micol Benet’s Fundraising Event for AIDS WALK SF, FROM 5-10 PM.

 

Live Music, Silent Auction.  Performances by Dr. Hal of the Sub-genius storytime, Ms. Momo, Sister Mable and MC John Hell.

Dover Club

1498 Valencia St
(at 26th St)

 Generously Sponsored by: Lifesize Mousetrap, Cyclecide, The DarkRoom,http://radiovalencia.fm/about

Who Benefits

San Francisco AIDS Foundation works to ensure the HIV epidemic ends in the same city where it began. By combining innovative, evidence-based programs for HIV prevention and care with bold policy initiatives focused on issues ranging from harm reduction to total health and wellness, the agency is making sustainable progress against HIV among populations most vulnerable to the disease. Established in 1982, San Francisco AIDS Foundation refuses to accept that HIV transmission is inevitable.

Funds raised by AIDS Walk San Francisco enable the foundation to provide services that improve the quality of life for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS and focus prevention efforts on those at greatest risk of contracting the disease. With a goal of radically reducing the number of new HIV infections in San Francisco over the next five years, the foundation is leading the way in advocating for critical policy changes in Sacramento and Washington that will ensure broader access to HIV prevention, treatment and care so people can live healthier, longer lives.

AIDS Walk San Francisco benefits the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
Proceeds from the event also fund HIV/AIDS Community Grants,
administered by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

 You can also donate directly to the organizations to ensure that 100% of your donations goes to the organization.

  

360: Positive Care Center
AIDS Emergency Fund
AIDS Legal Referral Panel
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Bay Area Young Positives
Bill Wilson Center
Black Coalition on AIDS
California Education and Prevention Project (CAL-PEP)
Community Awareness and Treatment Services
East Bay Community Law Center
East Oakland Community Project
FACE AIDS
Flowers Heritage Foundation
Healing Waters
Homeless Youth Alliance
Huckleberry Youth Program
La Clinica de la Raza
Larkin Street Youth Services
Marin AIDS Project
Native American AIDS Project
New Conservatory Theatre Center
Outlet Program
Pacific Center for Human Growth
Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland
Pets Are Wonderful Support
Positive Alternative Recreation Teambuilding Impacting (P.A.R.T.I.)
Positive Health Program, HIV/AIDS Division at San Francisco General Hospital
Positive Resource Center
Project Inform
Project Open Hand
Quan Yin Healing Arts Center
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
San Francisco LGBT Community Center
San Francisco Suicide Prevention Crisis Line- AIDS/ HIV Nightline
Shanti
St. James Infirmary
STOP AIDS Project
Teach AIDS
Tenderloin Health
Theatre Bay Area
Tri-City Health Center
UCSF AIDS Health Project
UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Women Organized to Respond to Life Threatening Diseases
Women’s Community Clinic
Women’s HIV Program at UCSF

About Us

Since 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised nearly $74 million for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area. For 23 years, the event has been a model of cost-effective fundraising and extraordinary community activism. In 2009 alone, 25,000 participants, many of whom were members of more than 900 corporate and community teams, raised an incredible sum of $3.5 million for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and 63 Bay Area HIV/AIDS organizations. Please click on the links to find out more about AIDS Walk San Francisco, the AIDS crisis, and our beneficiaries.

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Dean Mermell is a San Francisco-based digital video editor and filmmaker. He has been a contributing editor to industry magazines Digital Video and RES, has published numerous articles in many on line and print industry magazines and has been a columnist for Adobe.com.

His award-winning silent films “Modern Life” and “Fine Dining” are homages to his hero Buster Keaton, and his documentary, “The Eye of Rudra,” has shown at many festivals and on public television. He has worked on many other award-winning documentaries as an editor and post-production supervisor.

His self-publishing a book on modern digital filmmaking for the intelligent beginner, A Digital Storyteller’s Handbook, is due out in Summer 2006. The book is an excellent resource for helping a beginner get started in digital video and new media creation. The book includes the most practical ways to get your story together so others will “get it” and how to produce a narrative, documentary, or information film. This book demystifies the process of how modern digital movies are made and shows you how to make your own.  He is also part of Story Farm

A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin’s quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.

Having gained serious recognition with his stunning score to Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette (which sits neatly alongside his soundtrack work for William Olsen’s An American Affair (2010) and Drake Doremus’ Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011),

Dustin has quickly become one of the most recogniseable names in the broad-reaching “post-classical” field, a definition of the genre rather than vice-versa. Now sitting alongside peers and friends Max Richter, Hauschka and Johann Johannsson (who, incidentally, aided Dustin in mixing his newest album) on FatCat’s dedicated orchestral imprint 130701, new album Lumiere is a glowing addition to O’Halloran’s musical canon, at once an amalgamation of everything that his music has been leading up to, and an unprecedented step forwards in terms of timbral palette and harmony. Featuring NYC’s ACME Quartet, Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and prodigious young composer Peter Broderick among the guest musicians, the scale of Lumiere is expansive: “it made me realize how important it is to find players that truly understand what you do and to create a language with them,” writes Dustin.

Dustin’s rock background – primarily with Bella Union’s “dream-pop” outfit Devics – has yielded an unassuming, perceptive approach to composing modern classical pieces. Inspired by, among others, Arvo Part,  Philip Glass, Hans Otte, John Luther Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Gavin Bryars, there is no lack of articulation or academic musicality in Dustin’s work, but there is also none of the aloofness or detachment that is so readily perceived around contemporary classical music. This can perhaps be attributed to the environments in which Dustin has worked – Lumiere is full of those rare elements of life shared by both vibrant cities and lush countrysides: colour, both organic and rich, sensorial intrigue and a deep awareness of space. Or perhaps it is a product of Dustin’s synaesthesia, a condition he first noticed around the time of his performance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum for their Kandisnky retrospective and 50th anniversary gala. Able to visualize his compositions as vividly as a painter might see his own work, Dustin’s expressiveness is beyond compare.

Lumiere will be Dustin’s third solo full-length, following Bella Union albums released in 2004 and 2006 respectively (Piano Solos vol. 1 and Piano Solos vol. 2). These two records were originally opportunity for Dustin to express a non-Devics creative streak: gently and privately pieced together piano suites written and recorded on a beautifully-restored 1920’s Sabel piano in his Italian farmhouse. The compositions, however, gradually grew into fully-formed solo pieces as Dustin’s ambitions and designs developed. The path, of course, would eventually lead him to Lumiere’s majestic, swooning ensemble arrangements and a focus-shift away from the piano as his work’s primary timbre without losing any of the affection for the instrument that bore his first two records.

A sublime solo live album – entitled Vorleben – will be released by FatCat / 130701 in June.

Monday, May 30, 2011

SeaweedSway & the Songbird Festival Present:

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN + MAGIK*MAGIK STRING QUARTET
…Conspiracy of Venus

8 pm

Rickshawstop

155 Fell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 861-2011

$15
Buy Advance Tickets Here

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Sunday, April 24 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location
Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St.
San Francisco, CA
Created By
The Graves Brothers Deluxe, Noah Yesah, Nick Jennings, Martin
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Up-From-The-Graves Easter Sunday Special!

Not just your average international accordion-laced cow-punk band
based in Prague, Czech Republic, the TOWER OF DUDES' lively stage
presence, along with their double-barreled, pump-action delivery, has
been known to incite all manner of dancing, chanting and spellbinding
sing-a-longs that only end when this gang of half-crazed misfits
either pass out or explode.

Their eclectic range of instrumentation (accordion, mandolin, banjo,
melodica, glockenspiel, washboard, spoons and other musical tackle)
elevates them from standard punk-rock fare. Their driving rhythms,
pulsating bass lines and pounding beats send them skidding right past
folk or country. Their cynical, often humorous lyrics make the Tower
of Dudes tickle the ribs of even the most ardent jazz-snobs.

Oh, and SF's GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE and the TUNNEL open.
Gonna be hoppin' like a damn bunny rabbit.

More info:
www.tod.cz
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YeYe Suarez

Following a decade of traditional Afro-Colombian dance, YeYe began composing lyrics influenced by the rhythms of the African diaspora in Latin American. Her music incorporates many of the most vibrant Latin musical traditions, including Mexican son jarocho, Cuban son montuno, Colombian cumbia, Venezuelan joropo, Peruvian festejo, Bolivian huayno, Brazilian samba, and Argentinean tango. Through her collaborations with various artists, YeYe seeks greater cultural unification. Her music is an invitation to collective healing through lyrics, theater, music and dance.

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Conspiracy of Beards

Conspiracy of Beards is a 30-member a capella male choir which performs exclusively the songs of the legendary poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Inspired by the late performing artist Peter Kadyk and directed by Daryl Henline, the group performs gritty, uplifting renditions Cohen’s songs. Since its foundation in 2003, the choir has performed to dozens of enthusiastic audiences around the San Francisco Bay Area. Notable performances include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco City Hall and the Great American Music Hall, as well as appearances on PBS television station KQED, radio stations KFOG and KPFA, and national radio program West Coast Live. The group became an official non-profit organization in 2006; in 2008, the Beards completed their first mini-tour of the East Coast, performing on radio station WFMU and at several venues in the New York City area, including the Highline Ballroom and the Bowery Poetry Club.

Transforming Cohen’s simple melodies into complex 4 to 5 part harmonies, their sound ranges from tender to robust. One can hear influences of contemporary, jazz, gospel, barbershop, classical and even doo-wop styles in the unique arrangements by chorus members. Using the genius of Cohen’s words, the Beards inspire the audience to ponder personal, political and spiritual life throughout the show, amid laughter and cheers. The songs have real and relatable meaning which affects listeners in an intimate manner. And when sung by a group of sincere gentlemen, it is a rare phenomenon which touches audience members on many levels.

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