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Joanna Ladd

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Joanna Ladd is a writer and affordable housing developer in San Francisco. She has been following the Bay Area local music scene since 2014.

Homegrown soul sensation Con Brio is back

ALL EARS It wasn’t so long ago that people thought Con Brio was dead. In 2013, its original lead singer had moved on and...

21st Romani Music Festival lights up with electrifying horns, cultural openness

ALL EARS You know your Balkan party scene is good when top-shelf Balkan musicians want in on it. The Romani clarinet wizard Ismail Lumanovski...

‘Women in Jazz’ bookends Women’s March with musical solidarity

ALL EARS This isn’t the first time Caroline Chung has raised hell and fought back. The Bay Area bass player and 20-year veteran of...

Diana Gameros sings lullabies of Mexico

ALL EARS The first time I saw Diana Gameros, she was performing Paul Simon's "Gumboots" with her trio at the UnderCover tribute to Graceland....
Music

To be blunt, a blast

ALL EARS Smoked Out Soul is a dance party for people who like their funk with a side of exquisitely choreographed chaos. At its...
Music

Drop the oratorio

ALL EARS Ensemble Mik Nawooj is the sort of band that solves problems you didn’t know you had. Problems like: I want to wave...
Arts + Culture

Sgt. Pepper, UnderCover

1967 was a banner year for music – a year when Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Aretha Franklin topped the charts. But perched...
Music

APART of the scene

Leave it to a rapper to find a name for her show that has, not one, but three layers of meaning. Sat/13, local "smart...
Music

Bursting into color

Sat/6 at Rickshaw Stop, Bay Area audiences will have a chance to hear the sound of an artist’s limitations falling away. Local favorite Meklit,...
Music

Sax, unleashed

Howard Wiley has earned the right to talk. At age 37, the saxophone prodigy (and drummer) has a cool 25 years of professional gigs...
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