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The Alternative Music Foundation located at 924 Gilman Street, often referred to simply as "Gilman", is a non-profit, [1] all-ages, collectively organized music club.It is located in the West Berkeley area of Berkeley, California.
After relocating from Los Angeles to attend University of California, Berkeley, Nadel formed a dance troupe. The troupe started renting spaces on San Pablo Avenue. Nadel, along with six other people, would go on to buy the building where Ashkenaz is located today. He named the organization after his Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. The original ...
California Shakespeare Theater ("Cal Shakes") was a regional theater located in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Its performance space, the Lt. G. H. Bruns III Memorial Amphitheater, is located in Orinda, while the administrative offices, rehearsal hall, costume and prop shop were located in Berkeley.
This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
The Tsubo had been opened by entrepreneur Glenn Ross in September 1961 with the Berkeley jazz radio station, KJAZ-FM, also housed in the same building. [1] As a jazz club, the venue is best-remembered for being where guitarist Wes Montgomery recorded his live album Full House on June 25, 1962. [2]
Forbidden City was a Chinese nightclub and cabaret in San Francisco, which was in business from 1938 to 1970, [1] and operated on the second floor of 363 Sutter Street, [a] between Chinatown and Union Square.
Amoeba Music is an American independent music store chain with locations in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It stocks media, primarily music, but also films and television programs via DVD and VHS. Its music selection includes rock, pop, blues, soul, funk, rap, and jazz. It is popular as a tourist destination ...
The Rainbow Sign was an African-American cultural center in Berkeley, California, that operated from 1971 to 1977. [3] [4] Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris frequently attended the center as a child, and described it as influential on her. [5] The Guardian stated that "Rainbow Sign was a little bit of everything to the black ...