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Live Music with Carlos Reyes
2025-10-15 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-18 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-21 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-22 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-25 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-28 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-29 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-01 18:00 - 20:30 UTC and 11 more dates
World-renowned harpist and violinist, Carlos Reyes, is performing during dinner Tuesday evenings on the courtyard at Oak + Violet! This Grammy Award-winning artist has played around the globe with legendary performers like Willie Nelson, Steve Miller, MC Hammer and the Doobie Brothers.
Carlos has been wowing audiences since his first public appearance at the age of 5! Originally from Paraguay, Carlos moved with his family to the Bay Area as a young child and debuted with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra when he was only 14 years old.
Don’t miss the opportunity to see Carlos perform at such an intimate venue, and prepare to be blown away by his sheer genius!

Live Music Fridays with Nate Pruitt and Rick Vandivier
2025-10-17 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-24 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-10-31 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-07 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-14 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-11-21 18:00 - 20:30
Vocalist Nate Pruitt and guitarist Rick Vandivier magically combine southern soul and classic jazz styles with grooves and blues – performing their originals and favorites from Jimmie Davis and Nat King Cole to Al Green and Marvin Gaye. Their treatments are so unique that you feel you are hearing even classic songs for the first time. While they impress hard-core jazz lovers, they also tap into the souls of anyone who loves the great vibes and surprises that come with every session.
Reservations are recommended.

Live from the Guild Theatre!
2025-11-19 20:00 - 23:00
THE WILDCATS Benefit Concert for Americares

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Get ready to dance the night away! The Wildcats—a beloved Peninsula band rocking the Bay Area for over 25 years—will light up the stage with classic hits from The Beatles, Bruno Mars, The Doobie Brothers, Motown, Springsteen, Van Morrison, and more. By attending, you’ll support Americares, a global health-focused relief and development organization providing life-changing health programs, medicine, medical aid, and emergency support to communities in crisis in California, across the United States, and worldwide.

Live from the Guild Theatre!
2025-11-21 19:00 - 22:00
Jefferson Starship 50th Anniversary Tour/ Runaway Again Tour
GENRE: Rock, Psychedelic Rock
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Jefferson Starship is one of the most successful arena rock bands of the ’70s and ’80s, earning 3 platinum and 8 gold records, as well as numerous Top 40 Billboard singles. As they celebrate their 50th anniversary, the band reaches a rare milestone that only a few bands ever achieve.
Founded by Paul Kantner in the ’70s, Jefferson Starship was conceived as a collective of musical adventurers contributing to his epic concept albums and eventual catalog of rock classics. When the current lineup came together in 2012, with many members having joined years earlier, Kantner couldn’t have predicted the band would become the road-conquering force they are today.
The five members of Jefferson Starship often describe themselves as both a “family” and a “gang,” and this sense of camaraderie shines through in their performances. Over the years, they’ve played in all 50 U.S. states, five continents, and countless countries. A recent tour of New Zealand was noted as one of the band’s favorites, and their live shows continue to offer a non-stop mix of rock hits.
The band’s current lineup includes original member David Freiberg, drummer Donny Baldwin (who first joined in 1982), keyboardist Chris Smith (who joined in 1998), guitarist Jude Gold (who joined in 2012), and singer/guitarist Cathy Richardson (who joined in 2008 after Kantner saw her perform with Big Brother and the Holding Company).
As Jefferson Starship celebrates its 50th anniversary, the band reflects on the legacy of Paul Kantner, who passed away in 2016. The spirit of exploration and adventure he instilled in the band lives on in their music and performances. As Gold puts it, “To me, that ‘Paul Kantner thing’—getting on a rocket ship and blasting off into the unknown—is the very essence of Jefferson Starship. And that spirit is very much alive in the band today.”

Live from the Guild Theatre!
2025-11-22 19:00 - 22:00
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s Wild & Swingin’ Holiday Party
GENRE: Swing, Lounge
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April, 2025, marks the 32 year anniversary of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s remarkable arrival onto the music scene. Since its formation in the early nineties in Ventura, California, the band has toured virtually nonstop, performing on average over 150 shows a year, and has produced a sizable catalog of recorded music, with sales of over 2 million albums to date. Early on, during their legendary residency at the Derby nightclub in Los Angeles, they reminded the world, in the midst of the grunge era no less, that it was still cool to swing. The band, co-founded by singer Scotty Morris and drummer Kurt Sodergren, was at the forefront of the swing revival of that time, blending a vibrant fusion of the classic American sounds of jazz, swing, and dixieland, with the energy and spirit of contemporary culture.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s all original core line-up includes Scotty Morris (lead vocals and guitar), Kurt Sodergren (drums), Dirk Shumaker (double bass and vocals), Andy Rowley (baritone saxophone and vocals), Glen “The Kid” Marhevka (trumpet), Karl Hunter (saxophones and clarinet) and Joshua Levy (piano and arranger).
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s efforts to promote and revitalize swing music have taken shape as much more than a simple tribute. Taking inspiration from the creators of this uniquely American art form, the band’s original horn-infused music and legendary high energy show introduces the genre to a new and younger generation while remaining cognizant and respectful of the music’s rich legacy.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s first phase of stardom featured an appearance in the 1996 indie film Swingers, a movie that not only launched the careers of Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, but introduced Big Bad Voodoo Daddy to an audience beyond their Los Angeles base. The band’s music has appeared in countless films and television shows, including The Wild, Despicable Me, Phineas & Ferb, Friends, Third Rock From The Sun, Ally McBeal, and So You Think You Can Dance. They have appeared live on Dancing With The Stars, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a remarkable seven appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Super Bowl XXXIII Halftime Show. The band has also appeared as special guests with many of the country’s most distinguished symphony orchestras, and has performed for three U.S. Presidents.
After 32 years, 11 records, over 3000 live shows, and countless appearances in film and television, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is showing no signs of slowing down, and is looking forward to sharing its music with new and old fans alike, in 2025.
OPENER: Monkey
GENRE: Ska
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San Francisco-based ska/swing purveyors Monkey formed in 1996 around a mutual love of (obviously) ska, but also through their strong affections for soul, jazz, Latin, and rock. Their self-produced, self-issued debut album, Changito!, moved over 6,000 units in 1997 and propelled this ambitious band into a very long and quite successful career. With five EPs, over 20 compilation appearances, film and video game soundtrack contributions, and four full-length albums under their collective belt, Monkey certainly have not been idle. Coupled with an average of 200 live appearances a year, one gets the idea that Monkey might just be one of the hardest-working ska groups of the 2000s. As of 2009, the band has continued to tour internationally, at its accustomed frantic pace, and released a compilation CD, Monkeyska, in Japan on Disc Union Ltd. ~ J. Scott McClintock, Rovi

Live from the Guild Theatre!
2025-11-26 19:00 - 22:00
Andy Bell of Erasure: Ten Crowns Tour
GENRE: Pop/Electronic
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When you reach a milestone in your life, what’s the best way to mark it? By embracing it, glorying in it – crowning it, in fact – with an album of euphoric songs produced and polished in Nashville, of course!
The name of Andy Bell’s third solo album, Ten Crowns – like its cover art, featuring his head on a glistening gold coin – is making Andy smile today: “It sounds like a pub!”, he jokes. But behind that title lies ten songs of dazzling, joyous pop, inspired by the dancefloor and gospel, completed in the year he turned 60.
The name also refers to the tarot, he says: “The ten crowns on the tree of life, which is a very powerful card to have. And I’d just got my crowns on my teeth done in Miami when I was trying to think about a title!”, he laughs.
After Erasure’s last two fabulous albums – 2020’s The Neon and its 2021 companion piece Day-Glo (Based On A True Story), full of fascinating experimental reconstructions of The Neon’s tracks – Bell threw himself into writing with Dave Audé, a producer with whom he’s been close for over a decade. Dave met Andy while DJing at a club in 2010 run by a mutual friend, Stephen Moss, who became Andy’s partner and husband (Stephen and Andy live together in London and Atlanta).
Working with someone who is not Vince Clarke introduces a new set of dynamics, Andy says – although Erasure fans should know that forty years on, they are still going strong and recently reunited to begin work on the next Erasure album. “I still love working with Vince, but when you’re writing with another person, it’s like the same feeling as going to another country or moving to America. You can just invent who you are, become a brand new person.”
Andy and Dave have already released two US dance chart number ones together: 2014’s ‘Aftermath (Here We Go)’ and 2016’s ‘True Original’, the latter arriving in the same year that Dave won a Grammy for his remix of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk’. After those dance tracks, the pair “just kind of carried on writing as an exercise”, Andy explains, “and after that, Dave moved his family to Nashville because LA was so expensive, and so our writing took this kind of gospel-tinged Nashville twist.”
He describes how in Nashville there’s a church on every corner (“it reminded me of singing in choirs and cathedral school as a child, where the spirit of the church is imbued in the music”). Not that Ten Crowns is a sombre, spiritual set. It’s propulsive, electronic, passionate, driven by the need to encounter new emotions and experiences as life races on. “I mean, I’ve got everything I could possibly wish for, you know, I really have, but that’s not to say I’m always fulfilled,” Andy adds. “This album’s about picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, embracing life – and about taking that feeling on even when you’re fighting demons in the world, like homophobia, and fighting demons in yourself. It’s about being celebratory and uplifting.”
Ten Crowns also features Andy’s ultimate pop heroine – one he sang about on a track back in 2010, ‘DHDQ’, and now sings alongside on the yearningly wistful ‘Heart’s A Liar.’ “To have Debbie Harry singing with me – you know, I still can’t quite believe it.” He’s known Blondie for years, he explains, and they have always been kind to him, inviting him backstage at their gigs, Chris Stein giving him hugs, Debbie “sitting in the corner, teasing me… she knows how much of a fan I am of the band”
Debbie’s an inspiration to Andy in other ways, too – although he hasn’t got the energy to emulate her, he laughs. “I mean she’s eighty this year and one minute she’s in Australia, the next she’s at Paris Fashion Week. Bloody hell!” The song is Andy’s rewrite of a track by English-Italian singer-songwriter and regular Dave Audé collaborator Luciana, which Andy imagines being about two lovers being no good for each other. “Debbie gives it this gravitas and this coquettishness, but she’s still very in command. And she recorded her vocals in the studio on Gay Pride, which I thought when I heard it, oh, trust her!”
Ten Crowns begins, however, with a cosmic flash. ‘Breaking Thru The Interstellar’ sees Andy dance us “towards another paradise…ready for a new dimension / On our galactic journey”. Inspired by Andy’s love of reading BBC science magazines, and the possible existence of wormholes that allow travel through space, the song also reminds him of Boney M’s ‘Nightflight to Venus and Leila K’s ‘Open Sesame’. “It’s on first because I wanted to let people know we’re going to go for a ride now, you know!”
‘Lies So Deep’ follows, a song about getting over the intensity of heartbreak, where your heart is like a toffee apple but you’re desperate for somebody to come along and break it. Parts of it remind Andy of Stevie Nicks and Adele, and he’s joined for the middle-eight by another Audé collaborator, Sarah Potenza, who broke through in the US on The Voice. “I wanted someone who was like Whitney Houston crossed with Yazoo, and Sarah’s thing was country and gospel. But as soon as I heard her sing these lines, I was like, Oh, my God – that’s it. She brings its emotions to life.”
The album’s full-blooded spirit continues thereafter. ‘For Today’ is radio-perfect, Human League-style electronic pop. ‘Dance For Mercy’ uses the bassline of Sheila and B Devotion’s ‘Spacer’ as the brilliant foundation of a track about reconnecting with your time on earth (“my feet never touched the ground / Walked through the tunnel / Went towards the light / But they said that it wasn’t my time”). There’s a lot of dancing on this album, Andy points out. “Even in Peterborough when I grew up, with my mum and dad in working men’s clubs, I would dance the whole evening. And my heart’s always been in dance music, even if” – he rolls his eyes with self-deprecation – “I don’t really go to clubs anymore!”
Some songs hint at the emotional journey Andy has been on in his life. “It’s so very hard to say hello / When your whole world comes crashing down,” he sings, movingly, on ‘Don’t Cha Know’ (“the most ABBA song on here”). ‘Godspell’ moves from feelings of rapture to castigation in its pounding rhythms and fabulous lyrics: “Get thee behind me, charlatan / Get thee behind me, sycophant / Get thee behind me, false prophet.”
Comments on modern life also sparkle lightly around Ten Crowns‘ golden edges. Featuring a chorus written by Sisely Treasure of the band Shiny Toy Guns, ‘Put Your Empathy On Ice’ sharply satirises today’s overwhelming online world (“No-one can make up their minds / Because their minds are made up for them”). The stunning ‘Dawn Of Heaven’s Gate’ begins differently, with a dream: “If there’s anything I could do for you / Absolutely anything / I would get down on my knees / And pray to the highest power / It wouldn’t be just any power / It would be the power to believe / That we could change everything.”
“That song’s partly about this idea of wondering why in the hell we can’t all get on,” Andy explains. “The whole album is like asking for salvation, really, in a world where everybody ultimately wants to be loved.” Ten Crowns concludes with a very moving moment, a song that Andy thinks might partly inspired by his mum, called ‘Thank You’. It’s about seeing the light as the end of life approaches, directed to “all the people and friends / that came along for the ride / I thank you truly”. As euphoric funeral songs go, it’s hard to think of any better.
Ten Crowns marks a properly majestic moment in Andy Bell’s forty-year career. His joy about what that holds, and where it can go, clearly excites him. “It’s my third sort of solo record [following 2005’s Electric Blue and 2010’s Non-Stop] and in Erasure, our third album was our most successful out of all that we’ve done, so maybe I’m taking that spirit with me!”
Travelling into new dimensions and possibilities with gospel in the heart and dancing in the soul clearly suits him. Ten Crowns is Andy Bell imperial, gleaming, ready for his coronation.
OPENER: Savannah Pope
GENRE: Art Rock, Dark Pop
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Savannah Pope is an award winning Art Rock meets Dark Pop artist from Los Angeles. Named Best Rock Performer by LA Weekly and one of this generation’s Top Video Artists by Yahoo! Entertainment, she’s known for her vocally, lyrically, and visually mind-bending work. Paired onstage with such artists as Lzzy Hale , Ringo Starr and Badflower, she has spent the last several years cultivating a following of dedicated outcast fans galvanized by her ethos of “Live Your Strange”.
Savannah recently wrapped “Pandemonium,” her very personal concept album about mental illness and the stigmas surrounding it. The entire album (along with a video series and tour) was crowdfunded on Kickstarter and produced by Nine Inch Nails / 3TEETH / No Doubt Hitmaker Sean Beavan.
OPENER: DJ Omar (Popscene)

Thanksgiving At Park James
2025-11-27 15:00 - 19:30
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