Downtown Berkeley Arts

Dark Star Orchestra

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Performing to critical acclaim worldwide for nearly 15 years and over 2000 shows, Dark Star Orchestra continues the Grateful Dead concert experience. Their shows are built off the Dead's extensive catalog and the talent of these 7 fine musicians. On any given night the band will perform a show based on a set list from…

Dark Star Orchestra

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Performing to critical acclaim worldwide for nearly 15 years and over 2000 shows, Dark Star Orchestra continues the Grateful Dead concert experience. Their shows are built off the Dead's extensive catalog and the talent of these 7 fine musicians. On any given night the band will perform a show based on a set list from…

WHY?

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

The final words sung on the sixth album by WHY? are an apt place to begin: "Hold on, what's going on?" Because while there's much familiar about the oddly named Moh Lhean—mastermind Yoni Wolf's sour-sweet croon, his deadpan poet's drawl and ear for stunningly fluid psych-pop-folk-whatever arrangement—a great deal has changed in the four years…

Tinariwen

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

The new album by Tinariwen could well have been called Exile on Main Street. But other people have already thought of that. It also could have been called A la recherché du pays perdu (‘Remembrance of a lost country’). Except that would have been a tad Proustian for musicians who grew up pretty much between…

The Zombies

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

The second UK group following the Beatles to score a #1 hit in America, The Zombies infiltrated the airwaves with the sophisticated melodies, breathy vocals, choral back-up harmonies and jazzy keyboard riffs of their 1960’s hit singles like “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No”. Ironically, the group broke-up in 1968 just prior to achieving…

Berkeley World Music Festival

Berkeley, United States

Saturday, June 10, 2017 MLK Jr. Civic Center Park Noon - 6 pm • Concert • • Farmer's Market • • Colorful Crafts • Sunday, June 11, 2017 Telegraph Ave. at  Haste St. Noon - 9 pm • People's Park Concert • • Telegraph Music Crawl • • Arts 'n Food •

Rafael Manríquez Festival

Freight & Salvage, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Rafael Manríquez Annual Festival, will be the 3rd celebration of Latin American music and poetry organized to feature Rafael’s compositions in the hands and voices of a talented line up of multi-generational musicians on June 10th, 2017 at 8:00 PM at the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, California. This year’s program features a…

Salsa Sunday

Center Street btwn Shattuck and Oxford 2151 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

CENTER ST. AT SHATTUCK * BLOCK PARTY DOWNTOWN BERKELEY * 12PM-6PM Free dance lessons! Live music! prizes Facebook | Line Up

Salsa Sunday

Center Street btwn Shattuck and Oxford 2151 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

CENTER ST. AT SHATTUCK * BLOCK PARTY DOWNTOWN BERKELEY * 12PM-6PM Free dance lessons! Live music! prizes Facebook | Line Up

Arrested Development at UC Theatre

The UC Theatre 2036 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

Pioneers of the conscious rap game this Saturday, 9/23 Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm Formed in Atlanta in 1988, Arrested Development was founded by Speech and his ex-best friend Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s. It has been twenty years since a new group called Arrested Development…