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DESCRIPTION:Bread & Roses will provide an opportunity for the music-loving public to 
 learn more about the normally behind-the-scenes benefits that it provides 
 to Bay Area communities in an outreach program throughout May, in public 
 concerts at a variety of venues throughout the Bay Area.\n\nSince 1974, 
 Bread & Roses has been bringing live music and performing arts to hidden 
 audiences of all ages in places like homeless shelters and hospitals. These 
 shows provide hope and healing to individuals isolated in a broad range of 
 facilities in eight counties around the Bay Area, day in and day out, year 
 after year. Last year, we brought live music and other performance art to 
 more than 24,000 people by providing over 550 shows in 115 facilities. 
 \n\nThe May Around the Bay shows are designed to raise public awareness of 
 the benefits that these performers bring to our communities, and to 
 hopefully make new friends for Bread & Roses.\n\nWe could not do our 
 program without the support of performers like Si and Max Perkoff, a 
 father/son team on jazz piano and trombone, who along with global 
 percussionist Ian Dogole, will bring their inventive quartet Skin & Bone to 
 Anna's Jazz Island in Berkeley on May 22 for this year's May Around the 
 Bay. They will be joined by virtuoso bass player Sam Bevan.\n\nSo many of 
 our isolated audiences in senior convalescent and other facilities have 
 been thrilled to hear these players perform their unique arrangements of 
 jazz pieces from legendary composers with unusual combinations of 
 instruments. For this special show at her warm and intimate club, talented 
 jazz vocalist Anna de Leon, another regular Bread & Roses volunteer 
 performer, will sit in on the first set.\nA portion of the proceeds from a 
 selection of these concerts will come to Bread & Roses.\n\nThis 
 third-annual May Around the Bay concert series takes place at the following 
 public venues throughout the Bay Area:\n\nFRIDAY, MAY 22\nSkin & Bone with 
 Anna de Leon at Anna's Jazz Island, Berkeley. 7:30 p.m. \n\nSATURDAY, MAY 
 23\nThe Acoustic Vortex Presents Calaveras with The Triplicates at the 
 Sleeping Lady, Fairfax. 9:30 p.m. \nThe Acoustic Vortex is a Larkspur-based 
 non-profit organization that promotes high caliber acoustic music through a 
 house concert series, performs benefit concerts for other non-profit 
 organizations, and mentors young musicians.  For more information: 
 www.acousticvortex.com.\n\nSUNDAY, MAY 24 \nRoy Rogers at Yoshi's  San 
 Francisco. 2:00 p.m.\nKnown as one of the leading slide guitarists in the 
 world, as well as producing records for John Lee Hooker and Rambin' Jack 
 Elliott, Roy Rogers is the epitome of the modern travelling blues 
 musician.\n\nWEDNESDAY, MAY 27\nFreddy Clarke and Wobbly World, at Pena 
 Pachamama, in North Beach, San Francisco. 8:30 p.m.\nFlamenco 
 guitarist/singer/songwriter Freddy Clarke brings together musicians from 
 Pakistan, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Morocco, Cuba, Iran, Bulgaria, Denmark and the 
 US singing in 9 native languages to create a sound that is a rhythmic and 
 melodic feast. They utilize a variety of eclectic ethnic instruments guided 
 by the flamenco guitar, bass and drums.\n\nTHURSDAY, MAY 28\n"Salt & Pepper 
 Showcase" with Bronkar Lee at The Mixing Bowl, Oakland. 7:00 p.m. \nA night 
 of comedy, music, juggling, beatboxing, and more…\n\nABOUT BREAD & 
 ROSES\nBread & Roses is dedicated to uplifting the human spirit by 
 providing free, live, quality entertainment to people who live in 
 institutions or are otherwise isolated from society. We also seek to create 
 a social awareness of people who are isolated from society and to encourage 
 the development of similar organizations in other communities.\n\nThe 
 audiences we serve live in hospitals, senior convalescent homes, AIDS 
 facilities, special needs schools, shelters for the abused or homeless and 
 other facilities serving children, teens, adults and elders.\n\nThe 
 audience members we serve do not have the physical, emotional or financial 
 capacity to attend live performances outside of the facilities in which 
 they live. Their circumstances are such that if the live art does not come 
 to them, they will not have access to it. In this way, their isolation is 
 increased. While it may be tempting to dismiss live art as a luxury in 
 times of crisis or economic scarcity, it is during these lonely times that 
 its benefits can be most powerful.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/13/18594592.php
SUMMARY:Bread & Roses presents: May Around the Bay - a public concert series
LOCATION:Anna's Jazz Island\n2120 Allston Way, Berkeley CA 94704 (just east of 
 Shattuck Avenue & downtown Berkeley BART)\n(510) 841-JAZZ
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/13/18594592.php
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