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Alexandr Misko – The International Guitar Sensation – with Special Guest Forest Bailey

Hailed as “the future of guitar,” Alex Misko is a modern fingerstyle guitar prodigy who mesmerizes audiences worldwide. From viral videos with over 80 million views to performing at Carnegie Hall and collaborating with Hans Zimmer, his music captivates fans online and at live shows around the globe. Still in his 20s, Misko has gained international […]

Helen Sung – Oracles Quartet

Described as “one of the most exciting new pianist-composers of her generation” (Qobuz) with “piano playing at a quite unbelievably jaw-dropping level” (London Jazz News), Helen Sung is a dazzling story-teller at her instrument, moving listeners with her passion and inspired creativity. Sung is based in New York City, but is visiting faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory […]

Joshua Redman Quartet – 7:00 PM

Joshua Redman acknowledges that the title of his new Blue Note album, Words Fall Short, could be viewed ironically. His previous and widely acclaimed Where Are We was his first to pair a vocalist with one of his many monumental quartets; yet Words Fall Short is anything but a comment on the saxophonist’s last triumph. […]

Joshua Redman Quartet – 9:00 PM

Joshua Redman acknowledges that the title of his new Blue Note album, Words Fall Short, could be viewed ironically. His previous and widely acclaimed Where Are We was his first to pair a vocalist with one of his many monumental quartets; yet Words Fall Short is anything but a comment on the saxophonist’s last triumph. […]

Gabrielle Cavassa

Gabrielle Cavassa is a singer and composer from Escondido, California. She was ushered into the spotlight through her collaboration with renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman on his 2023 record where are we. In a five-star album review by DownBeat, Cavassa is hailed as “a young singer with a deep, rich, and fragile voice…a star in the […]

Henry Diltz – Behind the Lens

“What I do is instinctive, quiet and naturalistic. I want to document unobtrusively. I want to see who people really are. I frame up the situation and then I push the button. I always want it to look exactly the way it looks to me.” – Henry Diltz Henry Diltz's work as an iconic photographer […]

Marcus Shelby Nonet – Birth of the Cool: Revisited

In celebration of the centennial of trumpeter Miles Davis, the Marcus Shelby Nonet presents Birth of the Cool: Revisited, featuring music from the groundbreaking Davis recording performed in its original instrumentation. Birth of the Cool was not a singular session, but the composite work of a young innovative genius at the beginning of a long […]

Master Class: Diane Bock – Music Matters! Beyond the Notes

Join bassist and music educator Diane Bock for Music Matters! Beyond the Notes to explore innovative strategies, activities and insights to connect and create a successful musical learning experience.  Musicians of all ages, skill levels and abilities thrive and respond positively when their teachers and peers incorporate elements of honest engagement, trust, reflection along with […]

Pierre Bensusan – The Infinite Guitar

French acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist, and composer Pierre Bensusan, surnamed “Mister DADGAD”, has taken his unique sound to all corners of the globe. Winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live album "Encore", voted Best World Music Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine readers’ Poll, winner of the Rose d’Or at the Montreux Festival for his debut album, Pierre is recognized […]

Ken Okada Group feat. YOYOKA

Ken Okada Group feat. YOYOKA is a San Francisco Bay Area-based jazz fusion ensemble blending Japanese and American jazz fusion traditions with modern improvisation and vibrant rhythmic interplay. Led by bassist and composer Ken Okada, the group features GRAMMY award-winning saxophonist Ben Torres, DownBeat ‘Rising Star’ guitarist Hristo Vitchev, four-time GRAMMY award nominee Murray Low, […]

World Class Music Live Presents: Pipo Romero

Pipo Romero is a composer and guitarist from Cádiz who has captivated the international scene. His innovative spanish acoustic fingerstyle blends influences from flamenco and folk traditions from various cultures, creating a unique sound praised by critics and audiences alike. His compositions offer a rich and emotional experience that transcends cultural boundaries, establishing him as one of the […]

Las Migas

With a career spanning more than twenty years and six studio albums, Las Migas have become one of the most internationally acclaimed Spanish bands. They have performed in more than fifty countries and have been nominated four times for the Latin GRAMMY Award in the Best Flamenco Album category (2016, 2022, 2024, and 2025), winning […]

(((folkYEAH!))) Presents: John Carroll Kirby

Though John Carroll Kirby’s background is steeped in jazz, his signature sound blends genres and styles. A sought-after collaborator, he's worked with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, and Solange. Kirby earned a Song of the Year Grammy nomination in 2023 for his contribution to Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit.”  Since 2020, he’s […]

James Gordon Williams

James Gordon Williams is an acclaimed composer and pianist whose performances span leading jazz clubs, concert halls, theaters, and international festivals throughout the United States and Europe. He has performed with distinguished artists including Terri Lyne Carrington and Anthony Davis, and has appeared at iconic venues including Birdland and the Village Vanguard. As a theatre […]

Painted Mandolin – 10th Anniversary Show

Celebrate Painted Mandolin‘s 10th anniversary show with opening band Pilgrims of Stoke Trio.  A benefit for People First of Santa Cruz County. Painted Mandolin Website The Pilgrims of Stoke Trio Website The Wheel Company Website info/questions/tickets:  info@thewheelcompany.com | 831-469-3184

Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band

In 1988, drummer Brian Blade moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University. It was at this time that he met Jon Cowherd and the roots of the Fellowship Band began. Both Blade and Cowherd were able to study and play with most of the master musicians living in New Orleans, including: John Vidacovich, Ellis […]

Benny Green

Benny Green was born in New York City in 1963 and grew up in Berkeley, California. His father, who played the tenor saxophone, introduced him to jazz at an early age through his record collection that included Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, and many founding voices of the genre. He began piano […]

Master Class: Ricardo Peixoto – Brazilian Guitar

Ricardo Peixoto’s Brazilian Guitar will explore how various genres of Brazilian music can be expressed on the guitar. Uniquely Brazilian rhythms, harmonies, and chord voicings with open strings are utilized to create distinctive sounds in styles such samba, bossa nova, choro and baião. The class will analyze how the guitar closely translates and is integrated […]

Kassa Overall

“Raw, underground, and chaotic…one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists.” – Pitchfork Revered by living icons and underground tastemakers, Kassa Overall began his career behind the drum kit. At the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Overall spent his days studying jazz drums and music theory, and his evenings making beats in his dorm room, often […]

Isaiah Sharkey

Isaiah Sharkey stands at the confluence of modern soul, jazz, R&B, and Black American guitar tradition, carrying forward a lineage that links George Benson, Curtis Mayfield, Wes Montgomery, and Jimi Hendrix, while forging a vocabulary entirely his own. A GRAMMY award-winning guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer, Sharkey has become one of the most respected musicians […]