Here are 11 photos I took last night of the Minks last night at the Great American Music Hall in a benefit for Music in Schools. That’s Marie Drennan, SF State prof by day, rockin’ out on bass. Among those I bumped into there: Tom Foremski, Jessica Steel and Jen Myronuk.
Music
Los Cenzontles at Yoshi’s
My favorite new band, Los Cenzontles, plays with guest artist David Hidalgo of Los Lobos this coming Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Oakland. Details here. (I’ll be attending the Tech Awards in Silicon Valley that night.) Above is a photo I took of Los Cenzontles playing with David Hidalgo in San Pablo this […]
Photos of Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt
Here is a Flickr photo set I shot last week at a fund-raiser in Richmond, Calif., for the Los Cenzontles Mexican cultural center, featuring Los Lobos, Taj Mahal, Linda Ronstandt and student dancers. (Bet you don’t know what Linda looks like these days!) Had a fantastico time with 150 others at the intimate gathering. I’ll […]
Pandora: the site for personalized radio
At the Digital Hollywood conference last month I appeared on a panel with Jessica Steel, vice president of business development for Pandora, and afterward she spent a few minutes talking about how Pandora’s music recommendation system works. Pandora is my favorite music site (Last.fm is another), and they’re constantly serving up artists that I hadn’t […]
Gilberto Gil performs ‘Andar com fe’
At the 5th birthday party for Creative Commons on Saturday night, the great Gilberto Gil — musician, Brazil’s minister of culture and a Creative Commons supporter — performed several acoustic songs. Here is a 3-minute video of his popular hit "Andar com Fé," captured with my Nokia N95 camera phone. I’m still hoping others who […]