On tap: Philip Glass celebration; Dave Eshelman jazz; Great Dickens Fair
Bay Area blues show blooms again
It’s a unique hybrid: part concert, part revue and part remembrance of the women who made the blues essential: early blues women such as Ma Rainey, Sister Rosetta Thorpe, Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter, up to more recent practitioners such as Ruth Brown, Nina Simone and Bonnie Raitt. The San Francisco vocal ensemble Volti has two world premieres on the program for a weekend concert: “Ink” by Pamela Z, and “Ochre” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Valérie Sainte-Agathe conducts.Folk songs “Unlocked”:
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