Tyondai Braxton at Brava Theater

The Ninth Annual Switchboard Music Festival -- June 18, 2016 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco

The Switchboard Music Festival is the flagship event of San Francisco's Switchboard Music, which exists to support the creation and performance of new music in the Bay Area by engaging artists and audiences from a wide variety of musical communities. On June 18 from 1-9pm, the Switchboard Music Festival will present twelve sets by over fifty performers, ranging from raucous rock to a capella chorus to amplified mouthpiece-less saxophone to bona fide pop music:

1:00 Stay On It by Julius Eastman, performed by Festival artists, co-directors, and Switchboard alumni....

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The Ninth Annual Switchboard Music Festival -- June 18, 2016 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco

The Switchboard Music Festival is the flagship event of San Francisco's Switchboard Music, which exists to support the creation and performance of new music in the Bay Area by engaging artists and audiences from a wide variety of musical communities. On June 18 from 1-9pm, the Switchboard Music Festival will present twelve sets by over fifty performers, ranging from raucous rock to a capella chorus to amplified mouthpiece-less saxophone to bona fide pop music:

1:00 Stay On It by Julius Eastman, performed by Festival artists, co-directors, and Switchboard alumni.

1:45 Majel Connery & Ken Ueno with The Living Earth Show partner up to produce something truly novel: bona fide pop music.

2:30 ZOFO piano duo perform three of their newly commissioned works

3:00 Dominique Leone's 'San Francisco' Dominique Leone performs his album of songs inspired by San Francisco with an all-star band

3:45 Tonal Masher - Aram Shelton's solo project for saxophone and electronics

4:15 Religious Girls - Layered rhythms and harmony in experimental song structures, woven together into a seamless set.

5:00 Alisa Rose performs her original Solo Caprices and Pizzicato Pieces.

5:30 Del Sol String Quartet The Del Sol String Quartet will perform music for quartet and electronics by Mason Bates and Daniel Wohl

6:15 Body of your Dreams by JacobTV- for piano and samples of an Abtronic Pro commercial

6:45 O+O+ - Music inspired by the question "Does all music that swings need to be jazz?"

7:30 San Francisco Girls Chorus performs music by Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Timo Andres

8:15 Headliner Tyondai Braxton performs HIVE, a multimedia piece that is part sound installation/part live performance.

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