The Todalo Shakers play vintage jug band party blues and old time rags & stomps which sound like they are lifted right out of 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee or Dallas, Texas. The band features lots of harmony singing, making for a rich palette of vocal blends and a great feeling of camaraderie; the exuberance and fondness that the musicians feel for their material and for each other is unmistakable.
If you’ve ever seen Greg Brown in concert, you remember the voice, the deep, sometimes gruff, sometimes tender, always compelling voice that might sing – or say – just about anything. And you remember the sense of humor, in the songs and between the songs, sometimes dark, sometimes irreverent, always perfectly Greg. The songs stick in your mind too. They’re memorable enough that Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Ani DiFranco, Joan Baez, Jack Johnson, and Mary Chapin Carpenter have all recorded his songs.
Singer, songwriter, and activist Noel Paul Stookey rose to prominence as the “Paul” in Peter, Paul & Mary, and has continued to spread his gospel of melding the spiritual to the practical in 45 albums over his illustrious career, including his most recent, One and Many, which ranges from romantic ballads to politically charged portraits to intimate meditations. The vocals, says folk critic Scott Alarik, “are strong and sweet, confidential even at peak emotion, as if singing only for you.
Mouths of Babes – that’s Ty Greenstein of Girlyman fame and Ingrid Elizabeth of Coyote Grace – brings together a tender tomboy and rough-and-tumble lady to make music that melts hearts and shakes souls with undeniable chemistry and unexpected wisdom. Their sound is equal parts celebration and blues, folk and soul, salve and anthem—an invitation to love this life, to sing your sob story and end it with a smile.
Check out the future when the West Coast Songwriters present their monthly Songwriter Competition, where members take the stage and perform their material live on the Freight stage. Performers sign up from 7:00 to 7:20, and at 7:30 the house lights go down and the show goes on!
This is your chance to play at the Freight. Our Open Mic has brought in some of our brightest performers, including Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Patrick Landeza. The audience is friendly – and people actually listen! So come on down and join the fun. All performers welcome.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
Signups – on a first-come, first-served basis – begin when the door opens at 7:00 p.m. The show starts promptly at 7:30 pm.
Celebrating Women in Blues from Ma Rainey to Bonnie Raitt
Pamela Rose and her Wild Women of Song musicians (Tammy Hall, Ruth Davies, Pat Wilder, Daria Johnson and Kristen Strom) perform musical treasures as they tell stories, punctuated by rare historical film footage. The audience is transported to the early roots of America’s most enduring art form, and travel through the decades in a vibrant concert event.
There’s more to Eilen Jewell than meets the eye. National Public Radio, on its listing for Song of the Day, says, “She’s got a sweet and clear voice with a killer instinct lurking beneath the shiny surface.” USA Today describes her as “Dark and haunting, but alluring just the same...Give me more of that voice.” Her voice certainly stays with you, a captivating blend of wild and under control.
Cascada de Flores specializes in achingly beautiful songs from Latin America’s golden age, including bolero to fill your heart to bursting, rancheras to break it, and guarachas that make you want to jump up and dance. At the heart of the music is the gorgeous voice of Arwen Lawrence and the expressive guitar of Jorge Liceaga. Together they create a wonderfully lush, intimate atmosphere.
Five world-renowned acoustic masters spanning three generations join forces for this special, one-night-only Freight performance featuring original music as well as bluegrass and old-time favorites spotlighting the talents of each performer. Look for driving full-band pieces as well as solos, duets and trios from artists who represent the best in 21st century acoustic/bluegrass music.
Tim O’Brien’s career is maddeningly eclectic. A founding member of Hot Rize, he’s also a notable solo performer, and his songs have been recorded by Nickel Creek, Garth Brooks, and the Dixie Chicks. His recent album, Pompadour, features originals, Woody Guthrie and James Brown songs, and a traditional fiddle tune.
Freight favorites Robin Flower and Libby McLaren return for an exhilarating evening of innovative instrumentals, tight vocal harmonies, wild creative energy, and loads of fun. With Robin on fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, Libby on piano and accordion, and both of them sharing vocals, this polished and passionate duo creates their own marvelous blend of roots music—they call it Celtic Americana—grounded in tradition but with a sound that’s always fresh and contemporary.
Jazz Search West is the Bay Area’s Annual Jazz Talent Search for instrumentalists and vocalists (15 and up). Five exciting weekly events, open to the public, are held during March and April at Bay Area Jazz venues, and culminate in a Semi-Final at Freight And Salvage and Grand Finale at Yoshi’s in Oakland.
At each week’s event, 16 contestants have the chance to perform with a professional rhythm section for our live audience, receiving valuable feedback from a panel of prestigious judges.
With the full dance floor open and the compelling rhythms of Cuba and swing at play, this “Bay Area institution” of a big band will transport you to Havana and back.
Ruthie Foster is a blues powerhouse, but her music also embraces gospel and soul, rock and folk. She’s a fantastic guitarist and The Austin Chronicle says, “When she sings a cappella, the heavens part.”
NOTE: All tickets are subject to a $4 perticket facility fee.
Väsen take the traditional music of their native Sweden and blend it into a delicious mixture of distinctive rhythms, gorgeous melodies, and unstoppable grooves. Roger Tallroth (12-string guitar), Olov Johansson (nyckelharpa), and Mikeael Marin (viola), blend rock, jazz, traditional, and classical sounds in unexpected ways that are sure to delight.
Founded in the spring of 2013, the CMSSF is four young,
passionate players (and SFCO All-Stars) dedicated to bringing
masterworks of the chamber music repertoire to diverse
audiences in intimate settings around the Bay Area. Jory
Fankuchen and Natasha Makhijani (violins), Clio Tilto (viola) and
Samsun van Loon (cello) present an exciting and wide-ranging
program for their Freight debut.
This is your chance to play at the Freight. Our Open Mic has brought in some of our brightest performers, including Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Patrick Landeza. The audience is friendly – and people actually listen! So come on down and join the fun. All performers welcome.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
Signups – on a first-come, first-served basis – begin when the door opens at 7:00 p.m. The show starts promptly at 7:30 pm.
Versatile doesn’t begin to cover it, and neither does excellent. Jim Lauderdale is just so damn good at so many styles of music – maybe the word is masterful. Bluegrass, country, soul, folk – for Jim, it all falls under the umbrella of Americana – roots music at its finest, and that’s the music he makes.
Advance tickets for this show are sold out. Standing room only tickets will be available when the music starts at 8pm.
The T Sisters, born and raised in California and now based in the creative hub of Oakland, embody harmony. It’s in their blood, bones, and history. Erika, Rachel and Chloe have been singing and writing music together since childhood, and the lifetime of practice shows.
Check out the future when the West Coast Songwriters present their monthly Songwriter Competition, where members take the stage and perform their material live on the Freight stage. Performers sign up from 7:00 to 7:20, and at 7:30 the house lights go down and the show goes on!
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
We are sold out of advance tickets. Standing room only tickets will be available once the show starts at 8pm.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
We are sold out of advance tickets. Standing room only tickets will be available once the show starts at 8pm.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
*NOTE: All tickets are subject to an additional $4 per ticket facility fee
Joshua Redman, Charlie Hunter, Benny Green, and Peter Apfelbaum are just a few of the extraordinary jazz musicians to emerge from Berkeley schools. Tonight is your chance to catch some future stars—middle school musicians from King, Longfellow, and Willard middle schools playing the Freight stage!
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
Liana Bérubé (violin), Michelle Kwon (cello) and Jeffrey LaDeur
(piano) are the award-winning Delphi Trio, praised for their “…spot-
on ensemble playing and a beautifully blended sound…” (San
Francisco Classical Voice). The Delphi’s have concertized throughout
the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany; their
Classical at the Freight debut promises to be a note-worthy musical
event.
NOTE (5/10/17): Due to unforseen circumstances, the Rodney Crowell show on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 has been rescheduled to MONDAY, MAY 29 at 7PM (Memorial Day - and please note the EARLIER showtime of 7PM). All tickets will be honored for the future date. For questions or more information please contact our box office at (510) 644-2020, x120
* All tickets are subject to an additional $4 per ticket facility fee
*NOTE: All tickets are subject to an additional $4 per ticket facility fee
Get ready to enjoy great music for a great cause. Tonight, Real Vocal String Quartet, guitarist Justin King, True Life Trio, and Faisal Zedan are getting together to benefit Syrian Refugees and Islamic Relief USA.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
Get ready for a wild morning of singing, dancing, acrobatics, and silliness! ClownSnotBombs is a Bay Area troupe of acrobats, circus performers, teachers, and musician who are guaranteed to delight the young and young at heart.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
This is your chance to play at the Freight. Our Open Mic has brought in some of our brightest performers, including Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Patrick Landeza. The audience is friendly – and people actually listen! So come on down and join the fun. All performers welcome.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
Signups – on a first-come, first-served basis – begin when the door opens at 7:00 p.m. The show starts promptly at 7:30 pm.
*NOTE: All tickets are subject to an additional $4 per ticket facility fee
The month of May being Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, tonight we are proud to celebrate the official release of Patrick Landeza’s new book, "From the Island of Berkeley," along with his new CD, "Ho`mana`o, nominated for the prestigious 2017 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award!
"The Freight and Salvage is my home...." --Patrick Landeza
Check out the future when the West Coast Songwriters present their monthly Songwriter Competition, where members take the stage and perform their material live on the Freight stage. Performers sign up from 7:00 to 7:20, and at 7:30 the house lights go down and the show goes on!
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
NOTE: All tickets priced $12 or more are subject to a $4 per ticket facility fee. For this show, the facility fee has been built into the published price.
*NOTE: All tickets are subject to an additional $4 per ticket facility fee
This is the RESCHEDULE of the previously postponed show on May 10. TICKETHOLDERS: If you wish to attend the rescheduled date, you do not need to do anything except bring your original tickets. If your order was held at will call, it will be available at the Freight & Salvage box office the evening of the new date. If you cannot attend the rescheduled date, please contact the box office.
This is your chance to play at the Freight. Our Open Mic has brought in some of our brightest performers, including Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Patrick Landeza. The audience is friendly – and people actually listen! So come on down and join the fun. All performers welcome.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
Signups – on a first-come, first-served basis – begin when the door opens at 7:00 p.m. The show starts promptly at 7:30 pm.
Check out the future when the West Coast Songwriters present their monthly Songwriter Competition, where members take the stage and perform their material live on the Freight stage. Performers sign up from 7:00 to 7:20, and at 7:30 the house lights go down and the show goes on!
The Todalo Shakers play vintage jug band party blues and old time rags & stomps which sound like they are lifted right out of 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee or Dallas, Texas. The band features lots of harmony singing, making for a rich palette of vocal blends and a great feeling of camaraderie; the exuberance and fondness that the musicians feel for their material and for each other is unmistakable.
If you’ve ever seen Greg Brown in concert, you remember the voice, the deep, sometimes gruff, sometimes tender, always compelling voice that might sing – or say – just about anything. And you remember the sense of humor, in the songs and between the songs, sometimes dark, sometimes irreverent, always perfectly Greg. The songs stick in your mind too. They’re memorable enough that Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Ani DiFranco, Joan Baez, Jack Johnson, and Mary Chapin Carpenter have all recorded his songs.
Singer, songwriter, and activist Noel Paul Stookey rose to prominence as the “Paul” in Peter, Paul & Mary, and has continued to spread his gospel of melding the spiritual to the practical in 45 albums over his illustrious career, including his most recent, One and Many, which ranges from romantic ballads to politically charged portraits to intimate meditations. The vocals, says folk critic Scott Alarik, “are strong and sweet, confidential even at peak emotion, as if singing only for you.
Mouths of Babes – that’s Ty Greenstein of Girlyman fame and Ingrid Elizabeth of Coyote Grace – brings together a tender tomboy and rough-and-tumble lady to make music that melts hearts and shakes souls with undeniable chemistry and unexpected wisdom. Their sound is equal parts celebration and blues, folk and soul, salve and anthem—an invitation to love this life, to sing your sob story and end it with a smile.
Check out the future when the West Coast Songwriters present their monthly Songwriter Competition, where members take the stage and perform their material live on the Freight stage. Performers sign up from 7:00 to 7:20, and at 7:30 the house lights go down and the show goes on!
This is your chance to play at the Freight. Our Open Mic has brought in some of our brightest performers, including Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Patrick Landeza. The audience is friendly – and people actually listen! So come on down and join the fun. All performers welcome. 
Singer, guitarist, composer, drummer, and percussionist, Vinicius Cantuaria is a well-known Brazilian musician in the sphere of Bossa Nova and Jazz.
Celebrating Women in Blues from Ma Rainey to Bonnie Raitt
There’s more to Eilen Jewell than meets the eye. National Public Radio, on its listing for Song of the Day, says, “She’s got a sweet and clear voice with a killer instinct lurking beneath the shiny surface.” USA Today describes her as “Dark and haunting, but alluring just the same...Give me more of that voice.” Her voice certainly stays with you, a captivating blend of wild and under control.
Cascada de Flores specializes in achingly beautiful songs from Latin America’s golden age, including bolero to fill your heart to bursting, rancheras to break it, and guarachas that make you want to jump up and dance. At the heart of the music is the gorgeous voice of Arwen Lawrence and the expressive guitar of Jorge Liceaga. Together they create a wonderfully lush, intimate atmosphere.
Individually, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas are consummate musicians. Together, they’re pure magic.
Tim O’Brien’s career is maddeningly eclectic. A founding member of Hot Rize, he’s also a notable solo performer, and his songs have been recorded by Nickel Creek, Garth Brooks, and the Dixie Chicks. His recent album, Pompadour, features originals, Woody Guthrie and James Brown songs, and a traditional fiddle tune.
Freight favorites Robin Flower and Libby McLaren return for an exhilarating evening of innovative instrumentals, tight vocal harmonies, wild creative energy, and loads of fun. With Robin on fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, Libby on piano and accordion, and both of them sharing vocals, this polished and passionate duo creates their own marvelous blend of roots music—they call it Celtic Americana—grounded in tradition but with a sound that’s always fresh and contemporary.
Jazz Search West is the Bay Area’s Annual Jazz Talent Search for instrumentalists and vocalists (15 and up). Five exciting weekly events, open to the public, are held during March and April at Bay Area Jazz venues, and culminate in a Semi-Final at Freight And Salvage and Grand Finale at Yoshi’s in Oakland.
With the full dance floor open and the compelling rhythms of Cuba and swing at play, this “Bay Area institution” of a big band will transport you to Havana and back.
Make music with the love of your life. Sell a million records. Tour the world. Have 3 kids. Get Stage 3 breast cancer. Survive.
Ruthie Foster is a blues powerhouse, but her music also embraces gospel and soul, rock and folk. She’s a fantastic guitarist and The Austin Chronicle says, “When she sings a cappella, the heavens part.” 
NOTE: All tickets are subject to a $4 perticket facility fee.
Versatile doesn’t begin to cover it, and neither does excellent. Jim Lauderdale is just so damn good at so many styles of music – maybe the word is masterful. Bluegrass, country, soul, folk – for Jim, it all falls under the umbrella of Americana – roots music at its finest, and that’s the music he makes.
The T Sisters, born and raised in California and now based in the creative hub of Oakland, embody harmony. It’s in their blood, bones, and history. Erika, Rachel and Chloe have been singing and writing music together since childhood, and the lifetime of practice shows.
The month of May being Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, tonight we are proud to celebrate the official release of Patrick Landeza’s new book, "From the Island of Berkeley," along with his new CD, "Ho`mana`o, nominated for the prestigious 2017 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award!
