Viv & Riley
Viv & Riley Thursday, October 3 Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno play young old-soul roots music, combining tradition with melodies of future-leaning indie-folk and the tight vocal harmonies of the old-time and classic country music they came from. They grew up on...
Rob Reich Quartet
The Rob Reich Quartet Saturday, October 5 A brilliant, light-hearted, skilled and innovative accordionist, composer and keyboard player, Rob Reich is one of the reasons we enjoy hosting musicians here. Varied and indescribable, Rob's music is interpreted tonight by...
PAPER WINGS
Saturday, June 29 Wila Frank and Emily Mann are big favorites of ours. Crystal harmonies, exquisite taste, imaginative songwriting, and spirited loyalty to tradition are just some of the qualities these two women bring to the stage. Their new release, “Listen to the...
JORDAN TICE & PATRICK M’GONIGLE
Saturday, June 22 Jordan Tice is one of the best Americana guitarists in the country. He combines skillful fingerstyle and flatpick guitar playing with creative, well-crafted songs and original instrumentals. He’s a solo artist and a member of the instrumental...
THE ALUM RIDGE BOYS & ASHLEE
The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee Friday, May 3 Join us in the lively world of The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee, where old-time mountain music meets modern life. Combining the traditions of bluegrass, early country, and mountain melodies, this dynamic quintet lights up...
April at Fifth Street Farms —
world-class traditional music
EVIE LADIN BAND Friday, April 5 Playing traditional Americana and original tunes with a strong contemporary edge, The Evie Ladin Band—Evie, Erik Pearson and Keith Terry — have played at Fifth Street over the years and they’re always a hot ticket. Wherever they play,...
Cahalen Morrison
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...
Friction Quartet
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...
High Country
High Country We can't say it any better than their website: "High Country has earned its place as one of America’s finest traditional bluegrass bands. Strongly influenced by the classic styles of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers, the band's...
Gerry O’Connor & Richard Mandel
Gerry O'Connor & Richard Mandel–Saturday, May 4 Gerry O’Connor grew up in County Louth, in a family of musicians, dancers and singers. His mother, Rose, taught Gerry and his siblings at home, and she continued to teach from there for 40 years. Students travelling...
Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands
Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands–Sunday, March 10 Grammy Award-winning musician Laurie Lewis is internationally renowned as a singer, songwriter, fiddler, bandleader, producer and educator. She was a founding member of The Good Ol’ Persons and The Grant Street...
Kathy Kallick Band
Kathy Kallick Band–Friday, April 5 The Kathy Kallick band is based on the west coast, from the San Francisco Bay Area to Anchorage, and their powerful mixture of original and classic music has great appeal everywhere. Their latest release, “Horrible World,” has...
The Crooked Jades
The Crooked Jades–Saturday, March 2 One of the most innovative, spirited, and creative groups playing in America, The Crooked Jades take a deep, fresh look at old-time and traditional American and English folk music. One festival says: "The Jades are the perfect...
Del Sol Quartet
Del Sol Quartet–Friday, February 8 "I could be wrong, but I’m guessing it’s been a while since you’ve rocked out to a string quartet recording"—those are the opening words from a New York Times review of a Del Sol Quartet recording. This San Francisco-based quartet...
New Esterhazy Quartet
New Esterhazy Quartet–Thursday, January 31 We're thrilled to be hosting the New Esterhazy Quartet for the first time. This Bay Area string quartet has been together and performing regularly since 2006, specializing in music from the Classical period on period...
Hot Club of Baltimore
tonight–Saturday, December 1 Hot Club of Baltimore Hot Club of Baltimore features Grass Valley native Alexis Tantau on vocals and violinist Evan Price on violin for this special show at Fifth Street Farms. The band will be led by guitarist Michael Joseph Harris and...
Musica Pacifica
Musica Pacifica--Saturday, October 6 Make Reservations Baroque ensemble Musica Pacifica has made its mark on the early music scene here in the Bay Area and beyond. They've performed several times at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, as well as at other festivals and...
John Whelan & Haley Richardson
John Whelan & Haley Richardson--Friday, September 28 Make Reservations Seven-time all-Ireland champion John Whelan is one of the world’s best living Irish button accordion players. John was raised in the vibrant London Irish music scene of the 1970s, and learned...
Western Centuries
Western Centuries--Saturday, September 1 RSVP This is not country music. The first generation of country artists borrowed from everything around them: Appalachian stringband, Texas fiddle traditions, cowboy songs, Delta blues. Western Centuries uses every...
Elizabeth Blumenstock
Elizabeth Blumenstock -- Saturday, June 9 Virtuoso baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock is a local treasure. Bay Area early music fans know her well from her many years with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and American Bach Soloists, often in the concertmaster's...
Sean Watkins & The Bee Eaters
Sean Watkins & The Bee Eaters -- Sunday, April 1 The Bee Eaters combine the fine details of chamber music, the velocity and high spirit of bluegrass, and the melodic resourcefulness of pop music. This band has a unique American sound. Grand National Fiddle...
Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms
Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms might be two of the finest traditional musicians in America. Their sound is a throwback to the heyday of rural American dance-hall music. NPR says, “If they had been born in 1930, the two Portland musicians would be pop stars.” But Caleb...
Rob Reich Quartet
Rob Reich Quartet--Saturday, September 9 Rob Reich and his colleagues are some of the best reasons to come to a house concert. They're fun, they're great instrumentalists, and they swing. I first heard Rob with Tin Hat Trio, an innovative, landmark SF group...
Rising Appalachia
“Rising Appalachia is the aural divinity of two sisters steeped in the Deep South flair of harmony, resistance, and poetry” – NPR Sisters Leah and Chloe, percussionist Biko Casini and instrumentalist David Brown are Rising Appalachia, bringing to the stage a spirit of...
Paper Wings
Saturday, March 18--Paper Wings (website here) is a new, old-fashioned acoustic duo featuring Emily Mann and Wilhelmina Frankzerda. These two young artists have been deeply immersed in the West Coast music scene for most of their lives. Now they join forces to...
Kevin Burke
Nordic Fiddlers Bloc
Saturday, October 15 Three fiddlers--from Norway, Sweden, and the Shetland Islands--bring music from their homes as well as from new places and ideas together. Music doesn't get any better, or emotional, or full of character, than this. Listen to some tunes here....
Tannahill Weavers
Tannahill Weavers--Tuesday, September 20 This dynamic quartet (website here) plays Scottish traditional music at its best. As tight and versatile as any band in the Celtic music scene, Tannahill's potent mixture of traditional ballads and fiery instrumentals leaves...
Veretski Pass
Veretski Pass, Sat. June 18 A brilliant trio of violin, tsimbl, accordion, basy, tilinka, among other instruments, play music new and old from the borderlands of east and west--Europe and Asia. Find tunes here. Kevin Burke, Tuesday June 21 Kevin is a legendary Irish...
Della Mae
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 (this show is sold out) Doors at 7 music at 7:30 $25 for this show (all money goes to the musicians) Della Mae is a major force in the bluegrass world. With roots in Boston, the five women (now based in Nashville) have made a prominent place for...
Bill Evans
SATURDAY, January 23 Doors at 7 music at 7:30 $20 (all money goes to the musicians) Bill Evans is one of the West's most skilled and sought-after banjo players. For this show, Bill brings a bunch of his best banjos and presents a wonderful history of American...
A.J. Roach & Nuala Kennedy
Doors at 7 music at 7:30 $20 (all money goes to the musicians) A. J. Roach's songs knocked me out when I first heard him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years ago. He's a little low on the radar and I wondered how to hear more of him. When the wonderful Celtic...
Evie Ladin Band
Saturday, April 18, 2015 Tenacious, innovative string musicians/dancers with a quirky neo-trad soul, the ELB throws down soulful folk songs with an unusual live show. Their 2012 eponymous release Evie Ladin Band won Americana Album of the Year from the Independent...
Real Vocal String Quartet
Real Vocal String Quartet continues the boundary-pushing genre-crossing tradition of high quality house concerts at Fifth Street. Great singers and instrumentalists, RVSQ’s surprisingly broad repertoire embraces the diverse influences of all four players, from...
Ana Egge
Ana Egge
Awna Teixera
Awna Teixera
Chic Gamine
Chic Gamine
George Cole Quintet
George Cole Quintet
Janam
Janam
The Lowest Pair
The Lowest Pair
Pickpocket Ensemble
The Pickpocket Ensemble
Rita Hosking
Rita Hosking
Tony Furtado
Tony Furtado
Ad Vieille Que Pourra
Ad Vieille Que Pourra
Ale Moller
Ale Moller