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June 2019
Wednesday Night Live in the Lounge with Alvon
General Admission: $10
Doors open 6:30PM | Show 7:30PM to 10PM
One of the most versatile Musicians, Singers and Entertainers on the music scene today. Alvon travels the world singing and swinging Jazz standards with Big Bands. He also gallops the globe performing the songs that he sang while working with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group, The Coasters. When he travels to Russia he is referred to as the “King of the Blues” and the “Ambassador of the Blues”. His love and respect for the American art form is shared by large and enthusiastic audiences the world over.
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Nancy Wright CD Release
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
NANCY WRIGHT is one of the most highly respected and in-demand sax players on today’s blues, Americana and R&B scene. Recently receiving her third consecutive Blues Music Award nomination, she is following up her very successful 2016 VizzTone/Direct Hit release, PLAYDATE, with a smoking hot live recording from the legendary San Francisco live music club, The Saloon, featuring her own Rhythm and Roots band: Nancy on sax, and vocals, drummer Paul Revelli, Tony Lufrano on keys and background vocals, Jeff Tamelier on guitar and background vocals, and Karl Sevareid on bass. The twelve-song set features five of Nancy’s original compositions, and showcases the relaxed interplay of veteran musicians.
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Mickel London presents the 10th Annual Music Medicine Benefit Concert for U.C.S.F. Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
Tickets: $35 General Admission | VIP: $60
V.I.P. Reception from 6PM – 7PM | Doors 7PM | Show 7:30pm
Featuring:
Maxine Jones former Original Member of En Vogue
Soul / R&B recording Artist C.C. Carter
Amanda Beltz recording Artist
R&B recording Artist Niecey LivingSingle
Plus much more!
All proceeds to benefit U.C.S.F. Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
| Event Info & Tickets »July 2019
A Night of Spectacular Duo’s with The Young Fables, Handmade Moments & Complicated Animals
$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
The Young Fables, Handmade Moments, Complicated Animals
The Young Fables (TYF) are a promising country duo comprised of three-time American Idol vet Laurel Wright and accomplished guitarist and vocalist Wesley Lunsford.
Handmade Moments, Anna Moss & Joel Ludford play jazz, old-time country, blues, soul, hip-hop and rock.
Complicated Animals, Monica da Silva and Chad Alger, melding Indie Pop and Bossa Nova together to form a new genre, one da Silva coined Indie Nova. Featuring songs in English and Portuguese.
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Wednesday Night Live in the Lounge with Kevin Frazier and Friends
General Admission: $10
Doors open 6:30PM | Show 7:30PM to 10PM
Kevin is currently the General Manager of the Empress Theatre in Vallejo and a very accomplished saxophone player and vocalist. He has had the pleasure of sitting in with many popular bay area musicians that perform at the theatre and also plays with the Jazz Explosion who will be his back-up band for this show. He has invited a number of popular bay area artists to sit in, so this is going to be a fun night of music for sure. Kevin delivers when playing smooth jazz saxophone to the grooves of David Sanborn, Boney James, Grover Washington Jr. and others. His soulful sound is infectious and soothing at the same time. A few years ago, Kevin was featured on a major collaboration CD titled “Sierra Nights” which includes incredible musicians from across the country. He also released a solo CD earlier in his career titled “Gemini”.
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Film Club – Dark Star
Tickets: $10 | Free for Film Club Members
Doors open 6:30PM | Film Starts 7:30PM
Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised. The late Commander Powell is stored in deep freeze, where he is still able to offer advice. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a “smart bomb” who thinks it is God.
Brian Narelle who stars as Lt. Doolittle, will be here to answer questions after the screening.
Dark Star began as a student film by John Carpenter, who went on to direct many Hollywood features including Escape from New York and Starman.
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An Incredible Night of World Music featuring Badi Assad and George Brooks & Kala Ramnath’s “Global Conversation” with Frank Martin and Selvaganesh Vinayakram
Doors 7PM | Show 8PM
Brazil’s Badi Assad is one of the most innovative, passionate and talented Artists of all times and is lauded as one of the world’s most unique and cross-transcendental performance artists of this generation. She transcends traditional styles of her native Brazilian music with a mixture of pop, jazz and world/ethnic sounds from around the world. As a result, the extraordinary singer, guitarist, and percussionist is successfully forging an exhilarating genre of music that quite literally defies categorization.
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Eric EQ Young & Friends
$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
Starring Bass Player Sensation, Eric “EQ” Young & his All Star Funk Band will be bringing you the Funkiest Old School music. Get Ready to Dance!
Eric is a performer with a huge conscience, driven by a passion to help and heal through his music; he has performed overseas for the troops Japan,Germany and countless States. Eric ‘EQ’ Young is a man of honor and integrity as well an incredible showman and talent, in a world of flash in the pan artists and quick fix disposable pop culture; EQ is a solid as they come, a rare musician who connects with his audience on a personal level, putting smiles on faces is what he loves to do.
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Wednesday Night Live in the Lounge with The Funky Spuds
General Admission: $10
Doors open 6:30PM | Show 7:30PM to 10PM
Funky Spuds is a funk band with something to prove. Created to demonstrate the possibilities of brass, Funky Spuds crafts performances to maximize funkiness; from the extended techniques of the sousaphone, to the dynamic soloing displayed by the band’s veteran leader on both saxophone and guitar.
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Kids Summer Camp Stage Play
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 5PM | Show starts at 6PM
Children’s Art Exhibition & Live Performance
Art Exhibition – 4:30PM at Template Arts Loft, 707 Marin St.
Live Performance – 6PM, Empress Theatre
Film Club – Metropolis
Tickets: $20 General Admission | $10 Film Club Members
Doors open 3:30PM
4 PM Moving Silently A collection of experimental video curated by Veronica Shimanovskaya
6 PM Metropolis (Complete) The legendary futurist film directed by Fritz Lang
Original Scores by Richard Marriott & Ensemble
Performed by Club Foot Modern Machines
With Special Guests: Obtainium Works, Gino Robair, Kal Spelletich, Alisa Rose, Kymry Esainko, Matt Heckert
Superfly – Curtis Mayfield tribute
$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office | $125 VIP Table of 4
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
Back by popular demand, the ultimate 70’s style tribute show will be appearing live @ the wonderful Empress Theater for a night of classic soul, funk and R&B while paying tribute to the greatest Black Movie Soundtrack ever produced “SUPERFLY” written & composed by music icon, Curtis Mayfield.
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The Boys of Summer – Eagles Tribute
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
A great Eagles cover band that has is really tearing up the rock scene all around Northern California. With well over 100 high profile shows already throughout the U.S. in 2016, BOS have become known as the top touring Eagles Tribute band in America. The Eagles themselves sold over 120 million albums worldwide, and their music brings instant fond memories to the millions who bought their records and attended their concerts. It has been said repeatedly by fans of The Boys Of Summer after watching them, “Close your eyes, and you’re there”. There is a lot of high energy here. They are as much fun to watch on stage as to dance to.
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Skynnyn Lynnyrd
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
Skynnyn Lynnyrd is: Larry Woodruff, Curt Posthuma, Chris Durham, Jason Miller, Brad Andersohn, Wade Olson, Mike Klepic, Debra Lee Andersohn and Heather Rose. This compilation of outstanding musicians and talented artists have joined forces to play tribute to the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in History, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Vallejo Jazz Society presents Akira Tana and Otonowa
$20 General | $10 VJS Members | Up to two students free with adult ticket purchase
Doors open 4PM | Show starts at 5PM
Akira Tana – Drums/Leader
Art Hirahara – Piano
Masaru Koga – Reeds, Percussion
Ken Okada – Bass
Special Guest, Shoko Hikage – Koto
Akira Tana co-led a quintet with the bassist, Rufus Reid called TanaReid, has five releases, “Yours and Mine” and “Passing Thoughts,” on Concord Records and “Blue Motion” and “Looking Forward,”and “Back to Front,” on Evidence Music. On Sons of Sound, Akira has three releases as a leader, “Moon Over the World, Secret Agent Men. and a project by the Secret Agent Men Band playing themes from the movies of James Bond, entitled “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” This project features Rodney Jones, Gary Versace, Jimmy Greene and Annie Sellick, among others.
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Wednesday Night Live – Too Slim & The Taildraggers with opener Red’s Blues Band
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 6:30PM | Show 7:30PM to 10PM
If Tim “Too Slim” Langford only played slide guitar, he would slither around most other blues guitarists and put a ferocious bite on their pride. However, as the sole six-string slinger, songwriter and lead singer of the power trio Too Slim and the Taildraggers, he is a total force of nature.
Opener: Red’s Blues has a finger-poppin’ attitude—straight outta the golden years when blues, R&B and swing all meshed together and dance floors every night were filled with snake hips and slow drags. Beth, with her sensual, southern voice and classy behind-the-beat phrasing is more a Julie London or Bobbie Gentry-styled singer: smoky with languid, sexy sophistication.
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Mirage – Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
Mirage – Visions of Fleetwood Mac celebrates the classic lineup of the legendary superstar band. Based in Los Angeles, the members of Mirage capture the look and sound of Fleetwood Mac live in concert. The band is a spinoff of the highly successful band, Bella Donna – A Tribute to Stevie Nicks, which was awarded the highest honor of being praised by the real Ms. Nicks after she heard a live performance by singer Michelle Tyler and the band. Bella Donna also appeared on AXS TV after being crowned one of The World’s Greatest Tribute Bands. Mirage focuses squarely on Fleetwood Mac and their Greatest Hits in the five piece authentic concert recreation.
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The Eve of Jackie Wilson
$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
Chester Gregory is a multi award-winning actor and singer. A native of Gary, Indiana, Gregory worked as a teacher for the Lake County Public School System by day, and moonlighted as an actor in Chicago’s theater scene at night. Gregory wrote and produced plays and musicals for his students, nurturing their creative talents to become successful working professionals. He became a full-time actor and performer soon after landing the lead role in the critically acclaimed stage play The Jackie Wilson Story (which had a three-year run of sold out performances) at the Black Ensemble Theatre in Chicago. Gregory has since performed all over the world in iconic roles on stage and on screen.
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The GetItIndy Cake Concert II
Tickets go on sale June 1, 2019 on Eventbrite.com
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
I can see it on your face as your reading this description that you could use a REAL night out. Something that you will store deep in your memories forever and think about years down the line like “Man, I wish i can go back to that night” or “Man that was one of the best concerts ive ever been to” … This … The GetItIndy Cake Concert II … THIS IS THAT NIGHT. The GetItIndy Cake Concert II is not just a “show” its an experience . Its like watching an underground, slightly ratchet version of Beyonce perform before she even blows up . Dont cheat yourself. Treat yourself to a concert experience with GetItIndy and friends that will leave you wanting more year after year! Between the live music, dancing, DJ, drinks (If you’re 21+) and merchandise, YOU DESERVE IT.
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Special Wednesday Night with Rick Braun – CANCELLED
Event CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances
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2019 VCAF Gala Fundraiser
Date: August 24th – 5:30 pm
Location: Mare Island Waterfront
Theme: USO Tribute
Entertainment: Live Music with Swing & Jitterbug dancers
Music: 5:30 pm
Elegant Dinner with full Table service.
Dress Black Tie Optional – 40’s Period Dress – Military Uniforms
Fundraiser for VCAF/Empress – Live & Silent Auction.
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John Wells Public Safety Scholarship Fundraiser
Tickets: $25 General Admission
7PM Doors | 8PM Main Concert featuring the World Fusion sounds of “Five Ten Music”
Film Club – Loving Vincent feature film + Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream making of documentary
Tickets: $10 | Free for Film Club Members
6:30PM Doors | 7:30PM Feature Film followed by Making of Documentary
LOVING VINCENT is the world’s first fully oil painted feature film. Written & directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, produced by Poland’s BreakThru Films & UK’s Trademark Films.
The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painterswho travelled from all across the worldto the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings, is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death.
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Top Shelf Classics!
$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
Top Shelf Classics, the Bay Area’s Number One Party and Show band returns to Empress Theatre, for a soul-stirring “Lady Soul” Tribute, followed by a Soul Power Review of Funk, Motown and R&B!
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D. Patton MY WORLD CONCERT
Doors 7PM | Show 8PM
DUANE PATTON, was born and raised in Richmond California. His incredible love for music started at an early age. At 11 Duane was teaching himself to play keyboard, and joined a Garage Band.
In the late 70s, Duane was blessed with signing a contract with CBS records, and joined as the lead singer of “The Together Band. The band was so fortunate to be produced by the late great Henry Cosby, who’s successes included producing Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Duane had the exciting pleasure of performing at the CBS artists convention with Barbra Streisand and Earth Wind and Fire.
| Event Info & Tickets »September 2019
Bee Gees Gold and The Sunshine Experience
$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office
Doors open 7PM | Show starts at 8PM
John Acosta as Barry Gibb has performed in Bee Gees Tributes all over the world. His portrayal of lead singer Barry Gibb is with a zest for detail, like no other. From the look to the falsetto you will close your eyes and say its Barry! John Acosta’s Bee Gees Gold tribute Is the ultimate salute, and experience of seeing the Bee Gees in their prime, LIVE ONCE AGAIN! With the detailed vocal stylings of John Acosta (Barry) , Daryl Borges (Robin) , Jeff Celentano (Maurice) as the brothers Gibb, there is a sensation that will make you blurt out , Wow.. I just seen and heard the Bee Gees! Backed by a live band, the Vegas Bee Gees tribute recreates the look and sound of the Bee Gees from the 60’s to the late 70’s, with their unique falsettos that made them legends.
The Sunshine Experience is the first and only KC and The Sunshine Band tribute act in the world!It may be hard to believe because KC and The Sunshine Band have had five #1 hits and sold over 100 million records. KC virtually single handedly created the dance revolution of the 70’s and beyond. His music has been played everywhere on the planet, yet he remains unsung in the tribute world, until now…..
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For Folk’s Sake! An itty-bitty, teeny-weeny Music Festival
$20 Online | $25 Phone & Box Office
T-shirt + Ticket = $30
Doors: 1:30pm | Show: 2-10pm
PUDDLE SIREN RECORDS & THE EMPRESS THEATRE PRESENT:
For Folk’s Sake! An itty-bitty, teeny-weeny Music Festival…
Spend your Saturday, October 12, 2019 at the Empress theatre with an eclectic lineup of Folk / Rock / Blues / Country & Soul singer-songwriters and bands.
Guaranteed to keep you moving and groovin’ all day long!
+ Raffle prizes, full bar, snacks.
November 2019
Mindi Abair’s Music & Wine Festival featuring Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers, Chris Thomas King, Daniel Castro & Alvon Johnson
Doors 6:30PM | Music 7PM – 11PM
VIP Wine and Food Pairing with Special Meet & Greet 5:30PM-7PM (must purchase festival ticket to attend)
2-time Grammy Nominated Mindi Abair is one of the most recognized saxophonists in the US. No one since Junior Walker has brought saxophone & vocals in one package to the forefront of modern music, with a raucous tone and dynamic stage presence. Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers live, eat and breathe music as a collective — it’s their oxygen. Add to that a balanced mix of diverse musical backgrounds, big personalities and the bond of mutual respect coupled with friendship, and what transpires on the stage is sonic magic.
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Stanley Jordan and Raul Midon
Doors 5PM | Show 6PM
In a career that took flight in 1985 with commercial and critical acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has consistently displayed a chameleonic musical persona of openness, imagination, versatility and maverick daring. Be it bold reinventions of classical masterpieces or soulful explorations through pop-rock hits, to blazing straight ahead jazz forays and ultramodern improvisational works—solo or with a group—Jordan can always be counted on to take listeners on breathless journeys into the unexpected.
The New York Times has called Raul Midón “a one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus.” Now, with his exciting new album – If You Really Want, to be released via Artistry Music/Mack Avenue on September 14 – Midón’s voice and guitar ride the waves of an actual orchestra: the acclaimed Metropole Orkest, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Dutch ensemble that has collaborated with artists from Al Jarreau and Elvis Costello to Laura Mvula and Snarky Puppy
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