January 2018
5 John McCutcheon
6,7 The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience
8 Classical at the Freight: Mozart Birthday Celebration
9 Freight Open Mic
10 Ronnie Gilbert Public Sing
11 SVER and Moira Smiley
12 The Cheap Suit Serenaders
13,14 Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives
15 West Coast Songwriters
16,17 Juan de Marcos & the Afro-Cuban All Stars
18 The Moth StorySLAM – AMBITION
19 A Cavalcade of Stars featuring Aireene Espiritu, Aki Kumar, Chris Cain, HowellDevine, Maurice Tani, The Sons of the Soul Revivers, and Xochitl Morales
20 An Evening With Hot Rize
23 Freight Open Mic
24 Legends: Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono
25,26 Mark Hummel’s Chicago Blues Harmonica Blowout: Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Deitra Farr, Oscar Wilson (Cash Box Kings), Billy Flynn, RJ Mischo, Bob Welsh, RW Grigsby & June Core
27 Ladysmith Black Mambazo
28 Ladysmith Black Mambazo – 2PM Family Matinee
28 Ladysmith Black Mambazo – 7PM
30 Berkeley High School Band and Orchestra’s Chamber Music Concert
31 Jayanti Sahasrabuddhe: Colors of Divine Love
February 2018
1 Jim Malcolm
2 The House Jacks
3 Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings with special guest Carlos Reyes
6 The Moth StorySLAM – LOVE HURTS
7,8 Bruce Cockburn
9 John Gorka with Special Guest Amilia K Spicer
10 Cris Williamson and Her Band of Friends LOVE is LOVE: The Valentine Show
11 Sing the Beatles with The Quarry Persons
11 Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir with Special Guest Linda Tillery
12 Classical at the Freight: Kay Stern and Friends
13 Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, together on stage
14 Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams
15 Laura Love
16 Jai Uttal & Friends Valentines Celebration
17 Mr. Sun
18 Dead Winter Carpenters
19 West Coast Songwriters
20 Freight Open Mic
21 Riders In The Sky
22 Väsen
23 Tom Russell
24 PATCHWORK: Gustafer Yellowgold
24 An Evening with Shovels And Rope
27 Lúnasa with Tim O’Brien
28 Chris Thomas King
March 2018
1 Greg Brown
2 Blame Sally
3 The Raz Kennedy Show II: A Birthday Bash
4 The Squirrel Nut Zippers with Special Guest Davina and The Vagabonds
6 The Moth StorySLAM – TESTS
7 Masters of Hawaiian Music: George Kahumoku, Jr., Led Kaapana, Jeff Peterson
8 Seamus Egan Project
9 Altan
10 SheSings Concert
11 Rita Coolidge
12 Classical at the Freight: Mighty Winds
13 Jim Kweskin and The King Street Giants (formerly the Dixie Giants)
14 Bruce Molsky, Thompsonia
15 Karla Bonoff w/ Nina Gerber
16 Chris Smither
17 PATCHWORK: Octopretzel
17 The Black Brothers
18 Women of Folk Sing-Along led by Suzanne Fox
18 Caitlin Canty with special guest Noam Pikelny
19 West Coast Songwriters
20 Freight Open Mic
21 Mary Gauthier
22 John McEuen and the Circle Band
23 Della Mae
24 Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra
25 Jr Bach Festival
25 Cris Williamson – Barbara Higbie – Teresa Trull: The Reunion Tour
26 Windborne
27 Duck Baker and Friends
28 The Guitarsonists – Chris Cain, Mighty Mike Schermer, and Daniel Castro
29 Cheryl Wheeler with Special Guest Kenny White
30 The Seldom Scene
31 Rhonda Benin’s “Just Like A Woman”
April 2018
3 50th Anniversary of UC Jazz
4 The Moth StorySLAM – AWARDS
5 R. Carlos Nakai Quartet
6 From the Buena Vista Social Club™ Omara Portuondo
7 PATCHWORK: The Okee Dokee Brothers (11am)
7 PATCHWORK: The Okee Dokee Brothers (2pm)
7 Marc Cohn
8 Woody Guthrie Sing-Along with Robin Flower & Libby McLaren
8 Marc Cohn
13,14 “The Freight and Salvage Woody Guthrie All Stars” Featuring the cast of Woody Guthrie’s American Song and Special Guests
15 Cry Cry Cry (4:00pm)
15 Cry Cry Cry (7:00pm)
16 Classical at the Freight: Robin Sharp and Friends
17 BHS Jazz Spring Concert: 2 O’Clock and 4 O’Clock Bands
18 Jazz Search West Semi-finals
19 Bettye LaVette (4/19/18)
20 Bettye LaVette (4/20/18)
21 An Evening with Shelby Lynne
22 Safe Harbor Benefit Concert for Immigrants & Refugees Fundraiser for JFCS East Bay
22 Vieux Farka Touré
23 West Coast Songwriters – 4/23/18
24,25 Los Lonely Boys
26 Crystal Bowersox
27 Mipso
May 2018
1 Women of the World
2 The Moth StorySLAM – EGO
3,4 Meshell Ndegeocello
5 Funny Girlz! Lisa Koch, Vickie Shaw & Roxanna Ward
6 Pete Seeger Sing-Along with The San Francisco Folk Music Club
6 Mary Lou’s Apartment
7 Kurt Ribak
8 Freight Open Mic
9 Molsky’s Mountain Drifters
10,11 Madeleine Peyroux
12 Your Song My Song
12,13 Madeleine Peyroux
14 Classical at the Freight: Röntgen Trio
15 The Freight Singers
17 Barbara Dane & the Tammy Hall Trio 91st Birthday Celebration
18-20 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival
18 BBF: Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands with Molly Tuttle, Sean Watkins with the Bee Eaters, Crying Uncle
19 BBF: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Molly Tuttle Band, Phantoms of the High Country, Jeff Scroggins and Colorado
20 BBF: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Darol Anger’s Blur-Grass All-Stars, The Get Down Boys, The Page Turners with Bill Evans and Max Schwartz
21 West Coast Songwriters
22 Berkeley Middle School Jazz Night
23 Peter Bradley Adams
24 OSA Vocal Rush
25 Ghost Of Paul Revere
26 Shemekia Copeland
27 Irene Young’s Glass Half Full Benefit for Breast Cancer Prevention
29 Freight Open Mic
31 Pacific Mambo Orchestra
June 2018
1 Pacific Mambo Orchestra
2 Zigaboo Modeliste and the New Aahkesstra
3 Mouths of Babes
5 Slaid Cleaves
6 The Moth StorySLAM – ENDINGS
7 Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, Blame Sally, Thompsonia, Jenner Fox – River of Song – A Musical Celebration of California’s Life-Giving Waters
8 Maurice Tani
9 Dance Party with Red Meat and special guests
10 Motown Sing-Along with Tammy Hall
12 Freight Open Mic
13 Justin Townes Earle
14 Edgar Pantoja and the Afro-Cuban Tribe
15 Moonalice
16 Mark Hummel’s Summer Folk Blues Series with Guy Davis, Barbara Dane, Lazy Lester, Joe Beard, HowellDevine, and Deep Basement Shakers
17 Father’s Day at the Freight with Steve Seskin, Keith Greeninger, & John Lester
17 Barrio Manouche: Gypsy Jazz & Flamenco Fusion Celebrating La Peña’s 43rd Anniversary
18 West Coast Songwriters – 6/18/18
20 Nels Cline & Scott Amendola are Stretch Woven
21 Perla Batalla in The House of Cohen
22 Kittel & Co. & Simon Whorls Tour
23,24 Shawn Colvin
26 Freight Open Mic
27 Ramana Vieira
28 Don Arbor
29 Red Molly
30 Fiddlekids End of Camp Concert
30 Guitar Shorty
July 2018
1 Silly Song Sing-Along: Songs of Nonsense & Silliness
1 Hip Spanic Allstars
5 Hills to Hollers
6 Fanna-Fi-Allah
7 Tribu Baharú
10 Monterey County High School All-Star Band
11 The Moth StorySLAM – AGE
12 Niyaz featuring Azam Ali
13 Korean Men featuring Lee Heemoon & Prelude
14 Shasta String Celebration feat. Jody Stecher, Kala Ramnath, Sean Watkins, many more!
15 Margaret Belton’s Tribute to Patsy Cline
16 West Coast Songwriters – 7/16/18
17 Freight Open Mic – 7/17
18 Huun-Huur-Tu
19 Peppino D’Agostino in Concert
20 KML Goes to the State Fair (Killing My Lobster)
21 Bill Kirchen and the Hounds of the Bakersfield
22 Tyminski
25 Shawn Mullins
26 Joe Rut
27 Marcia Ball
28 ÌFÉ
29 Deva Mahal
30 Ethan Ostrow Trio: A Cancer Benefit
31 Freight Open Mic – 7/31
August 2018
1 Little Village Foundation
3 Jazzschool Girls Jazz & Blues Camp Concert
4 Novalima
5 Country Classics Sing-Along with Maurice Tani
5 Junior Brown
7 Dan Bern Backed by Jane’s Great Dane
8 MaMuse “Prayers For Freedom” CD Release Concert
9 Hamilton De Holanda with Special Guest Roberta Sá
10 The Blues Broads
11 Don McLean
14 Sawyer Fredericks and Parsonsfield
15 The Moth StorySLAM – COLLABORATION
16 John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band
17 John Santos “Puerto Rico Del Alma”
18 Skip The Needle
19 A Circle Has No Beginning by Sameer Gupta
20 Local Songsmiths: The Musers, Michael Patch with Clinton Day, and Max and the Mighty Demon Wranglers
21 Freight Open Mic – 8/21
22 Kahulanui
23 Freight Fiddle Summit 2018 with Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Anders Hall, Adam Johansson and Jens Linell of the band SVER, Moira Smiley, Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards, Cali McKasson and Nic Gareiss
24 West Coast Songwriters Competition Finals
25 Duo Quartet – Featuring Chris Webster, Nina Gerber, and Pam Delgado, Jeri Jones (of Blame Sally)
26 Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg
28 Freight Open Mic – 8/28
29 Candi Staton
30 Che Apalache
31 Arlo Guthrie Re:Generation Tour
September 2018
1,2 Arlo Guthrie Re:Generation Tour
4 Kalí Rodríguez-Peña
5 The Moth StorySLAM – EDUCATION
6 John Sebastian
7 Linda Tillery’s 70th Birthday Extravaganza: Global Friendships
8 Linda Tillery’s 70th Birthday Extravaganza: The Blues and More
9 Carter Family Sing-Along with Laurie Lewis
9 Crying Time – George Jones Tribute
10 Shay Black: Celebrating One Thousand Songs
12 Freight & Salvage 50th Anniversary with the Legendary Mavis Staples
13,14 Dave Mason & Steve Cropper Rock & Soul Review Introducing Gretchen Rhodes
15 T Sisters
16 Tannahill Weavers
17 Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
18 Freight Open Mic – 9/18
19 Kathy Kallick: My Route to 66
20 Ray Wylie Hubbard
21 True Blues: Corey Harris & Guy Davis
22 Freight & Salvage Music Festival: Playing with Tradition
24 Ms. Lisa Fischer And Grand Baton (9/24/18)
25 Marc Broussard
26 Ms. Lisa Fischer And Grand Baton (9/26/18)
27,28 The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention (9/27/18)
29,30 DakhaBrakha
October 2018
1 Rajeev Taranath with special guest Rimpa Siva
2 Eliza Gilkyson with Special Guest Nina Gerber
3 The Moth StorySLAM – SCANDAL
4 Delgres
7 Fatoumata Diawara
8 Classical at the Freight: Happy Birthday, Robin Sharp!
9 The Jacob Jolliff Band
10 George Brooks and Aspada
11. Trace Bundy + Sungha Jung
12,13 FERRON and her All-Star Band
14 Celtic Song Sing-Along with Celia Ramsay and Shay Black: Favorite Songs from Scotland and Ireland
14 Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish Quartet
16 Skerryvore & We Banjo 3
17 Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
18 Misner & Smith
19 Best In Show – Stories from Beyond the Shelter, A Benefit for Berkeley Humane
20 International Body Music MiniFest – Pass It Down
21 The Steel Wheels
22 West Coast Songwriters
24 Martin Hayes Quartet
25 The Subdudes
26 Ron Miles Circuit Rider Trio featuring Bill Frisell & Brian Blade
27 Patchwork Series: Doug Goodkin & The Pentatonics
27 Tommy Castro And The Painkillers
28 Wake The Dead
29 Choir! Choir! Choir!
30 Freight Open Mic
31 The Fright & Salvage Presents: The Austin Lounge Lizards
November 2018
1 Richard Shindell
2,3 Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
4 Benny Green Trio with David Wong and Kenny Washington
4 Jon McLaughlin and Matt Wertz
5 UC Berkeley Jazz Ensembles
7 The Moth StorySLAM – BEGINNINGS
8 David Wilcox
9 StringShot Featuring Roy Rogers, Badi Assad, & Carlos Reyes
10 7th Annual California Banjo Extravaganza with Bill Evans, Ned Luberecki & Chris Coole and Their All-Star Band (John Reischman, Chad Manning, Jim Nunally, & Sharon Gilchrist)
11 Patchwork Series: Mister G
11 Between War and Here – with Ensemble Galilei, Neal Conan and Anne Garrels
12 Classical at the Freight: Michael Gilbertson
13 Freight Open Mic – 11/13
14 Richie Furay – Deliverin’
15 Maria de Barros
16 Darrell Scott with special guest Carlos Reyes
17 3rd Annual Meadows Livingstone Scholarship Fund Concert
17 Robin Flower & Libby McLaren
18 John Prine Sing-Along with Clyde Leland
18 Caitlin Canty and Peter Bradley Adams
19 West Coast Songwriters – 11/19/18
20 Conspiracy Of Venus, Colm O’Riain
21 Steven Page Trio
23 Tuck and Patti
24 Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
25 The Nutcracker Sweet
25 Kim Nalley & Tammy Hall Pay Respect to Aretha Franklin
27 Freight Open Mic
28 Miramar: Boleros from Puerto Rico
29 The Travelin’ McCourys
30 Shelley Doty X-tet
December 2018
1 Holly Near with Tammy Hall and Jan Martinelli
2 Patchwork Series: The Bug Family Band
3 Jazzschool Studio Band, Dave Eshelman’s Jazz Garden Big Band
4 Over The Rhine
5 The Moth StorySLAM – INSTINCTS
6 Mary Gauthier
7 Hawktail
8 Peter Rowan: Carter Stanley’s Eyes with special guests Don Rigsby and Scott Law
9 Freighter Tots Sing-Along with Clyde Leland
9 San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
10 Classical at the Freight: Delphi Trio
11 Freight Open Mic
12,13 Peter Yarrow & Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary)
14,15,16 Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
16 Kurt Elling Quintet
17 Holiday Seasonings Concert with SoVoSó
18 Christmas Jug Band
19 Tinsley Ellis
20 Freight Holiday Revue with The John Santos Quartet and special guest Kimiko Joy
21,22 David Grisman Sextet
28 Zigaboo Modeliste’s Birthday Extravaganza with Special Guest George Porter, Jr.
29 Hot Tuna Acoustic
30 Hot Tuna Electric
31 Hot Tuna Acoustic and Electric