Feb 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Remember house concerts? Small, in a comfortable room, with people like you. Remember Fifth Street Farms? Concerts are upstairs, in a big space with good acoustics. The music is generally unamplified instruments and voices, traditional American and international, of...
Apr 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
(Evie Ladin practicing banjo distancing) Of course all our concerts have been cancelled. We’ll resume our shows as soon as we can and we’ll let you know when. In the meantime, listen to some tunes, visit musicians’ websites and support...
Feb 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
JOHN REISCHMAN & THE JAYBIRDS SECOND SHOW ADDED Due to high demand, we’ve added an afternoon show at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 15. See the RESERVATIONS page to reserve seats. If you’d like to change your existing reservation from the 7:30 show...
Feb 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
GEORGE COLE Singer and breakneck acoustic guitarist George Cole lives in a musical world all his own… a world in which Django Reinhardt, The Ramones, Nat King Cole and Doc Watson get equal billing with Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Willie Nelson and the Great...
Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Undone in Sorrow Spare, heartfelt, genuine, moving: Undone in Sorrow plays old-time music as if they’re sitting on the porch in West Virginia. I saw them at the Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention and among all the bands there, they really captured my attention....
Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Terra Incognita Saturday, January 4 Terra Incognita is Shira Kammen, Robin Petrie, and Peter Maund, three Bay Area musicians with rich backgrounds in international folk, classical, contemporary and traditional music. The trio performs its own compositions as well as...
Nov 17, 2019 | Past Performance
Cahalen Morrison solo–Saturday, December 14 Cahalen Morrison made a big impression when he visited Fifth Street with Eli West a couple years ago. An amazing songwriter and skilled on guitar, mandolin and banjo, Cahalen is a unique voice in traditional and modern...
Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Circadian Quartet with Hamid Taghavi Saturday, November 16 For this concert, the Circadian String Quartet–Monika Gruber & David Ryther, violins, Omid Assadi, viola and David Wishnia, cello–teams up with Iranian-born santour virtuoso Hamid Taghavi....
Oct 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Nuala Kennedy & Eamon O’Leary Thursday, October 31 Long-time friends and musical collaborators, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’ Leary have toured together widely, both in duo and as part of reknowned traditional trio “The Alt.” Both are...
Oct 12, 2019 | Past Performance
Friction Quartet with bass clarinetist Bruce Belton Friday, October 18 We’re excited to have Friction Quartet back at Fifth Street. This local quartet with an international reputation regularly commissions and plays new works and is equally adept at presenting...
