Doors 7PM | Show 8PM

Tickets: $45 Orchestra, $40 Loge, $30 General Admission in Upper & Lower Balcony.

TANGO DEL CIELO (Tango of Heaven), leads you through the tight turns, dips and smoky cafes of Argentina, the bull fights of Spain, and the jungles of South America. Harp, Strings, Percussion and Dance perform the dramatic and fiery Spanish compositions of De Falla, Albeniz, and Rodrigo as well as the sensuous and passionate tangos of Astor Piazzolla with special arrangements by recent Grammy Award winner Pablo Ziegler. The program features a tribute to the Silent Films and is full of delightful surprises and appropriate for all ages. With tango and flamenco dance, film and effects, we invite you to experience this captivating music in a way never before presented!

$25 Online | $30 Phone & Box Office
VIP Cocktail / Dinner (Empress Lounge) 6PM
Doors open (theatre) 7PM | Show (theatre) 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!

Doors 7PM | Show 8PM

Tickets: $45 Orchestra, $40 Loge, $30 General Admission in Upper & Lower Balcony.

Larry Braggs (Former Tower of Power Vocalist),
Blake Aaron (Top 5 Billboard smooth jazz guitarist) and
Tom Braxton (Featured Saxophonist with Keiko Matsui, Earl Klugh, and formerly with Wayman Tisdale)

Pre-Concert Talk 7PM | Performance 8PM

Barber Symphony No. 1
Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3
Bobby Mitchell, piano
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Modelled on Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1 launched his career. From great beginnings to profound endings, Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3, his last composition, was a birthday gift to his wife. I can’t wait to share the stage with the gifted Bobby Mitchell playing Bartok’s final testament! To conclude this concert, we begin our traversal of the last three symphonies of Antonin Dvořák. His Symphony No. 7 in D minor is one of his most fiery works, modeled on Brahms, but with Dvořák’s unmistakable, sparkling use of Czech folk idioms.

Pre-Concert Talk 7PM | Performance 8PM

Barber Symphony No. 1
Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3
Bobby Mitchell, piano
Dvořák Symphony No. 7

Modelled on Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1 launched his career. From great beginnings to profound endings, Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3, his last composition, was a birthday gift to his wife. I can’t wait to share the stage with the gifted Bobby Mitchell playing Bartok’s final testament! To conclude this concert, we begin our traversal of the last three symphonies of Antonin Dvořák. His Symphony No. 7 in D minor is one of his most fiery works, modeled on Brahms, but with Dvořák’s unmistakable, sparkling use of Czech folk idioms.

Doors 7PM | Performance 8PM

Come and join us for a celebration of life, music, family and friends as legendary and highly-acclaimed Filipino songwriter Cecile Azarcon celebrates her 60th birthday and her 40th anniversary in the music industry.

Cecile Azarcon is considered one of the Philippines’ most prolific songwriters. Her numerous hit songs like I Think I’m In Love, Lift Up Your Hands, Even If, So, It’s You, Ikaw Ang Lahat Sa Akin, Special Memory, Reaching Out and How Did You Know have been sung by a virtual “Who’s Who” in the Philippine music industry and her heartfelt ballads are now considered OPM (Original Pilipino Music) classic hits.

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.

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

Doors 7PM | Show 8PM

Tickets: $40 Orchestra, $35 Loge, $30 General Admission in Upper & Lower Balcony.
VIP Meet & Greet Add-on $45 – includes Free download of concert footage after the show.

How could The Beatles possibly top themselves after their 1967 opus Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band release? Their answer: the spellbinding classic The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ released on November 22, 1968. The material of their double-disc release was mostly penned in India while on retreat and exploring Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi. The Beatles songwriting and musical talents continued to reach new heights on the White Album. The bluesy, rock n’ roll, folk, country, as well as avant-garde numbers that fill this collection make the “White Album’ arguably their best body of work.

Doors 7PM | Show 8PM

Tickets: $45 Orchestra, $40 Loge, $30 General Admission in Upper & Lower Balcony.

Stef and Peppino met in Benicia, California around 1999 because both their children went to the same school. They both had the “Italian connection” and a passion for guitars. Their friend Richard Freedman got them together to do a show to benefit the school, and they quickly found out that their different playing styles complimented each other so they decided to make an album together and start touring! “Bayshore Road” on Favored Nations Label by Steve Vai. After many tours, and the normal life path changes, they are reuniting for a special event on November 30, 2019 8PM at The Empress Theater in Vallejo, California!

Doors 7PM | Show 8PM

Tickets: $40 Orchestra, $35 Loge, $30 General Admission in Upper & Lower Balcony.

“Jazz Group of the Year” nominee, The Lao Tizer Band feat Eric Marienthal & Karen Briggs make their debut appearance at the beautiful new Empress Theatre in Vallejo, CA on Friday, December 6, 2019 in support of their new, Billboard Jazz Top 10 CD/DVD combo-pack release, “Songs From The Swinghouse”! Led by pianist, keyboardist, composer and former “Best New Jazz Artist” nominee, Lao Tizer (Special EFX, Down To The Bone), the group also features Grammy winning sax legend, Eric Marienthal (Chick Corea, The Rippingtons), violinist extraordinare, Karen Briggs (Yanni, Stanley Clarke), Grammy winning drummer, Gene Coye (Larry Carlton, Terence Blanchard), dynamic vocalist, Tita Hutchison (Michael McDonald, Rick Rubin) and bass phenom, Anthony Crawford (Alan Holdsworth, Erykah Badu). Please join us for a memorable evening of music not to be missed!