“Two Guitars” are stars at the Palladium this week: See Nate Najar and Roy Book Binder in our Side Door Cabaret

American Stage opened its riveting and musically-rich production of Seven Guitars on January 20, and the opening party featured seven of the bay area’s best guitarists. It was seven guitarists for Seven Guitars. To celebrate the run of the August Wilson play about a struggling bluesman, we’re featuring two of those guitarists this week in the Side Door [...]

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Michael Kaeshammer, Canada’s piano master, headlines the Palladium’s third annual Boogie Woogie Blues Piano Stomp

  Here’s a review and photos of this great show. Check it out! http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/arts-entertainment-living/blue-notes/31751-a-joyous-boogie-n-blues-piano-fest (And here’s my story written just before the 1-28-12 concert!) Hard to believe our annual Boogie Woogie piano show is now in its third year. Each year, the Boogie Woogie Blues Piano Stomp, gets bigger. Last year’s headliner, along with the legendary Bob [...]

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Michael Kaeshammer

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Two incomparable artists in concert this week at the Palladium – HAHN-BIN, and Marc Kudisch

We’ve got two shows coming up in the course of a few days that should be on your “must see” list. When we booked HAHN-BIN (he uses only capital letters) last summer as part of our Young Concert Artist Series, we thought he was a unique performer – a world-class violinist and performance artist. Since then, the [...]

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Bill Burkette, The Vogues’ longtime lead singer, brings the band and those rich vocal harmonies to the Palladium

 For Bill Burkette, lead singer of the The Vogues, his musical career, like his life, has been a series of reinventions. The Vogues started as high school kids doing R & B demos as the Val-Airs, with help from their high school principal in the Pittsburgh suburb called Turtle Creek. Vocal groups were still the [...]

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