24 Days of Central Market Arts Continues!
Posted on Monday, October 10th, 2011.
Thursday, October 13th (11am-4pm) – 24 Days of Central Market Arts, SF Arts Market and The Songbird Fall Music Series Present ~
Mid-Market Music Affair in the Plaza
SF Arts Market is excited to partner with The Songbird Festival, hosting another performance day as a satellite venue for the 24 Days of Central Market Arts Festival in United Nations Plaza (Market@7th) this week. The day will pack in live music performance from 11am-4pm with a superb line-up of local talent. This event is FREE to the public, so don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to enjoy live, local artists in the heart of the city!
Starting its 2nd year on June 16th, 2011, SF Arts Market hosts an open-air arts and crafts Market and performance platform. Every Thursday, the Market offers a diverse range of local artists and artisans selling and showing off their fabulous handmade wares (arts, crafts, literature and more) and live lunch performances. In addition to this fabulous treat, the Market partners with Off the Grid Food Trucks who provide various tasty lunch options with a variety of gourmet food trucks from 11am-2pm.
The 24 Days of Central Market Arts Festival kicked off its 2nd year of art, performance and fun on September 23rd, 2011 and has been running passionately in varying locations throughout the Central Market region. The event is brought together through the vision and hard work of several dynamic mid-Market arts organizations, agencies, companies and more. A main focus of the Festival is to bring people where art is made for all to celebrate.
**Check out** the 24 Days of Central Market Arts line-up with SF Arts Market and the Songbird Music Series this Thursday in United Nations Plaza:
Mid-Market Music Affair in the Plaza
11:00am – 11:45pm Clangin and Bangin – “As members of Bay-Area band Calafia, Kirby Lee Hammel and Jake Alexander started Clangin’ & Bangin’ as a fun side project and another way to spread the good vibes of blues, honky-tonk, and boogie music to the masses. Equally influenced by the music coming out of Chicago in the 20s and 30s, the pre-jazz era, and the honky-tonks down in Texas, Clangin’ & Bangin’ takes to the streets like many of their idols before them. Armed with an upright piano and drum kit, they’re bringing that feel-good music and spirit back to the streets where it all started.”
12:00noon – 12:45pm Jascha Hoffman – Jascha Hoffman is a journalist and songwriter in San Francisco. His debut album A Cure for Sleep has been praised for its “deceptively simple, deeply weird pop songs” that earn him comparisons to Sufjan Stevens, Magnetic Fields and “Leonard Cohen without the attitude.” He plays regularly at intimate venues such as the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City. His next recording, due in late 2011, is The Future Limited.
1:00pm – 2:00pm Classical Revolution – “The exponential growth of Classical Revolution points to a broader trend in classical music – with its traditionally lofty image and high ticket prices – of making it more approachable.”
-Chloe Veltman, NY Times 8/4/2011
2:30pm – 4:00pm Con Brio – “San Francisco’s Con Brio is a force to be reckoned with. Led by Xandra Corpora’s powerhouse vocals, the band has taken San Francisco by storm, with 2011 performances to packed houses all over the city, including Great American Music Hall, Regency Ballroom, The Mezzanine, Bottom of the Hill, Cafe Du Nord and The Boom Boom Room. This fall they take to the road with shows from Seattle to Arcata, Reno to LA. You can catch them at a choice few San Francisco shows, including the [mid-market art fair] Oct 13 and at a Halloween bash at The Independent on October 29th.”
“They’ve made the rounds….winning over crowds with vocalist Xandra Corpora’s powerhouse voice and a blend of soul, blues, and funk.”
-SFWeekly
Songbird Festival Presents; Central Market Arts
