San Francisco Metro: Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · Live Music · East Bay · 16 events · data version 20261021-173303
7:30 PM · Cornelius Cardew Choir: The Great Learning · Dresher Ensemble Studio (Oakland) · live_music, experimental · rating 10
bayimproviser.com · details CORNELIUS CARDEW CHOIR performs Cardew's "THE GREAT LEARNING"PET THE TIGER Instrument Inventors’ Collective performs new works for video with Dan Gottwald (invented instruments), Stephen Parris (guitar, gamelan), David Samas (voice and inventions); the Cornelius Cardew Choir; and Eric Wilcox, Baffon!
8:00 PM · NEWT POOL (Cheryl Leonard + Wobbly) · Tom's Place (Berkeley) · live_music, experimental · rating 10
bayimproviser.com · details Thu 11/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF] Tom Djll Close your eyes to see your possible selves unearthed, scraped and feather dusted, then entreated to self assemble in the anthropoid menagerie of vibration. https://djll.bandcamp.com/ Tanukispidercat With as many fangs as bright yellow eyes, from crouch to pounce, her blizzard of tooth, claw, fluff, synth and sampler come full fury with lethal-swift paddycakes of pure desire.
1:00 PM · SAN FRANCISCO LEONARD COHEN FESTIVAL · The Freight & Salvage (Berkeley) · $15/$20
(INCLUDES ALL FEES) · live_music, festival, folk · rating 8
secure.thefreight.org · details The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival presents a screening of Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love , renowned filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s most personal and romantic film of his storied career. The documentary starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of a community of expat artists, writers and musicians.
7:00 PM · JEFFREY FOUCAULT · The Freight & Salvage (Berkeley) · $39/$44
(INCLUDES ALL FEES) · live_music, folk · rating 8
secure.thefreight.org · details In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” ( The New Yorker) , "Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” ( Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar…
2:00 PM · Bluegrass Jam / Irish Session · The Starry Plough (Berkeley) · Free · live_music, folk · rating 7
thestarryplough.com · details Bluegrass jam 2-4 PM, Gaeltacht 4:30-5:30PM, Irish session led by Shay Black 5:30PM
3:00 PM · Jean Rondeau · Cal Performances (Berkeley) · Subscribe May 5 · live_music, classical · rating 7
secure.calperformances.org · details Jean Rondeau, harpsichord : All-French Baroque Program Item details Date November 8, 2026 3:00PM Additional Details Read More Hide "At the forefront of using the [harpsichord] in new and imaginative ways" ( SF Classical Voice ), Rondeau plays an ambitious program exploring the marvelous French Baroque. Learn More UCB STUDENTS: All UC Berkeley Student tickets require authentication with your current UC Berkeley student ID.
4:00 PM · Portraits and Poetry · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · Free · live_music, classical · rating 7
eventbrite.com · details George Enescu: Dixtour for Double Wind Quintet, Bela Bartok: Dances of Transylvania, Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3
7:00 PM · Chris Acker with Nikolai Shveitser · Ivy Room (Albany) · TICKETS · live_music, folk · rating 7
ivyroom.com · details ivy room presents - genre - folk, alt-country, americana
7:00 PM · RUBEN STUDDARD · Yoshi's (Oakland) · $55 - $99 · live_music, rnb_soul_funk · rating 7
yoshis.com · details GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE, WINNER OF SEASON TWO OF AMERICAN IDOL
4:30 PM · Gaelhtacht & Irish Session · The Starry Plough (Berkeley) · Free · live_music, folk · rating 0 · no longer listed thestarryplough.com · details Gaelhtacht 4:30-5:30PM, Irish Session led by Shay Black 5:30PM
9:00 PM · Improvisation Workshop · Temescal Arts Center (Temescal) · Free · workshop, experimental, live_music · rating 0 · no longer listed temescalartcenter.org · details Open Workshop and Playground in free improvisation. Spontaneously Assembled Small Groups will collaborate. Bring your instrument, your body, your poetry. Come ready to be surprised. Hosted by Lewis Jordan. Inviting musicians, poets, dancers, to a non-hierarchical setting to improvise together. Spontaneously composing or contributing, can't be on a guest list.
time TBA · INAUGURAL CONCERT! · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · https://www.ticketsignup.io/lefe · live_music, classical, folk · rating 0 · no longer listed ticketsignup.io · details LAND’S END FOLK ENSEMBLE:CLASSICAL MUSICIANS EXPLORE FOLK MUSIC Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/lefe
time TBA · RAGTIME AND TRADITIONAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · https://www.ticketsignup.io/ragtime · live_music, jazz · rating 0 · no longer listed ticketsignup.io · details VIRGINIA TICHENOR’S RAGTIME QUARTET Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/ragtime
time TBA · TRIBUTE TO JIMMY VAN HEUSEN · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · https://www.ticketsignup.io/JVH · live_music, jazz · rating 0 · no longer listed ticketsignup.io · details “IN THE TRADITION” JAZZ & POP PIANO TRIO Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/JVH