The Neighborhood Concert Hall
Since 1981, SF Live Arts at Cyprian’s (formerly Noe Valley Music Series) has earned a reputation as one of the most diverse and innovative music/performance series in the Bay Area.
The series has garnered praise for its programming of nationally and internationally known musicians (many who’ve won Grammys, Academy Awards, Mac Arthur “Genius” Grants and Guggenheim fellowships) and Bay Area performers of the highest quality. Founded by jazz flutist, Larry Kassin, SF Live Arts depends on grants and donations to bring their special blend of international and local musical talents to San Francisco.
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SF Live Arts RETURNS to the NOE VALLEY MINISTRY, to celebrate our 42 years of presenting concerts with a special performance!
Friday, March 3, 8pm at 1021 Sanchez St (at 23rd Street), San Francisco, CA
DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN & BOB BEACH
DAVID JACOBS-STRAIN is a fierce slide guitar player, and a song poet from Oregon. He’s known for his virtuosity and spirit of emotional abandon, as well as his clear, powerful voice. His music moves from humorous, subversive blues, to delicate balladry, and then swings back to swampy rock and roll. It’s a range that ties him to his own generation and to guitar-slinger troubadours like Robert Johnson and Jackson Browne. He has appeared at festivals from British Columbia to Australia, including Merlefest, Telluride Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly, Bumbershoot and Blues to Bop in Switzerland and has toured with Boz Scaggs, Etta James & Lucinda Williams.
“David Jacobs-Strain sings and plays slide-driven country blues with a passion and authority that few artists of any age can muster. But besides firing off compelling covers of traditional tunes his original songs have served to update and evolve the idiom.” –Guitar Player
Tonight he performs in a duo format with our favorite harmonica virtuoso, Bob Beach. Check a video of David and Bob HERE.
For the health and safety of our performers and audience members, Noe Valley Ministries is requiring face masks for all attendees.
tickets: $20 advance / $25 at the door
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5710283
info at: web: https://www.sflivearts.org
Facebook: sflivearts@cyprian’s
email: sanfranciscolivearts@gmail.com
Doors & box office open at 7:30PM
Thank you to all our friends who have been so great about coming to our concerts and supporting us and all the extraordinary performers we’ve presented throughout these many years.
We hope you’re staying safe and healthy.
As you probably know, with all the health issues going on we adopted a wait and see attitude, not wanting to do any performances until it was safe. We’re happy to report that last June we had a very successful concert with ROVA and Social Stutter sax quartets. While being careful, in the coming year we hope to have some of the performers we’ve had to cancel, like Trance Mission, Ancient Future & Noah Gundersen, along with others we love, like David Jacobs-Strain, Diana Gameros, Van-Anh Vanesssa Vo, Mahsa Vahdat, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott , Kitka and many more.
In 2021 Covid prevented us from celebrating the 40th Anniversary of our concert series, so we’re hoping to put together a 40+2 celebration in the new year. With that in mind, we’re also planning on doing some shows back at the Noe Valley Ministry (our original venue!) as well as at our home venue, St. Cyprian’s Church.
It’s been a rough time for many musicians, artists and arts organizations as well. The touring landscape has changed with fewer venues available. All but the most well known performers are struggling. We recommend buying the music of artists you’ve seen at our series whenever possible.
Speaking of artists we’ve featured in the past, we would like to congratulate Molly Tuttle on her well deserved Grammy nominations and wish her the best of luck.
We remain steadfast in our efforts to continue our series as well and need your donations to help us. We’re also asking that you consider other worthwhile organizations, whether they provide food, storm relief, other necessities, or support the arts.
So, please give generously to those other organizations if you are able and, if you can, please support us too.
We look forward to seeing you and hearing some great music at our venues this year!
Take Care & Stay Safe,
Larry Kassin & the SF Live Arts crew
If you would like to donate, you can do so two different ways:
- Online using PayPal
- If you wish to mail a check, please send your tax-deductible donation to:
San Francisco Live Arts
PO Box 862
Fairfax, CA 94978
As they say in Ireland, any little helps. Thank you for helping to keep the power of music alive!