San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Leaving home behind for top music scenes
Janice Hodges, left, and Jasia Hodges enjoy the 2018 Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park. This year’s event takes place Aug. 911.
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festival that offers not only a variety of music but also children’s activities, yoga and camping.
Who’s playing:
Kinky, the California Honeydrops, Afrolicious, Yak Attack, Diggin Dirt, Mestizo Beat, Smoked Out Soul, others.
SAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST
The highlight of Silicon Valley’s summer concert season remains San Jose Jazz’s Summer Fest, which offers a dozen stages of live music for thousands of people in and around Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park in
downtown San Jose.
Who’s playing:
The Family Stone, Marquis Hill Blacktet, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Fred Hersch, Gregory Porter, Sons of Kemet, Pink Martini, Dianne Reeves, the O’Jays, others.
OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
Set in San Francisco’s most beautiful venue — Golden Gate Park — Outside Lands has brought some of the biggest names in entertainment, from Elton John and Paul McCartney to Kanye West. The colorful festival also offers a full spectrum of street art, miniature golf, a farmers’ market and, of course, four-star food and wine. Just be prepared for when the fog rolls in.
Who’s playing:
Paul Simon, Childish Gambino, Twenty One Pilots, the Lumineers, Flume, Blink-182, Kygo, Anderson Paak & the Free Nationals, Leon Bridges, Kacey Musgraves, Lil Wayne, others. world premiere of “If I Were You,” a new commission from San Francisco composer Jake Heggie.
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY OUTDOORS
Once the curtain comes down on the regular concert season at the end of June, the San Francisco Symphony shifts to lighter fare — not only in its regular home at Davies Symphony Hall, but outdoors as well. In addition to the orchestra’s annual free concert at Stern Grove, conducted by Edwin Outwater, this summer brings a new offering: a series of concerts at Stanford’s newly refurbished Frost Amphitheater, with Gemma New conducting music of Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Ravel.
WEST EDGE OPERA
The dynamic and always innovative West Edge Opera continues its forlorn search for a permanent performance home — but in the meantime, its annual three-opera season continues to be among the summer’s most eagerly awaited musical offerings. This summer brings the first local production of “Breaking the Waves,” composer Missy Mazzoli’s acclaimed 2016 adaptation of the Lars von Trier film, as well as inventive productions of Brecht and Weill’s “Threepenny Opera” and Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice.”