January 2019
3,4 Vienna Teng
5 Blame Sally
6 Jeffrey Foucault
7 Suzapalooza – A Celebration for Suzanne Fox
8 Freight Open Mic
9 Dakh Daughters
10 SVER
11 John McCutcheon
12 Paris Combo
13 John Prine Sing-Along with Clyde Leland
13 Lucy Kaplansky
14 Classical at the Freight: Mozart Birthday Celebration
15 The Moth StorySLAM – Topic TBA
16 Words and Music ft. Laurie Lewis, Claudia Russell, Don Henry, and Nina Gerber
17 RUNA
18,19 Mark Hummel’s Southern Blues Harp Blowout w/Bobby Rush, Kenny Neal, James Harman, Johnny Sansone, Golden State Lone Star w/Anson Funderburgh
20 Loudon Wainwright III
21 West Coast Songwriters
22 Freight Open Mic
23 Martha Redbone Roots Project
24 Soft Machine
25-27 Django Reinhardt Birthday Festival
25 Django Reinhardt Birthday Festival: Boulou and Elios Ferre, The Hot Club of San Francisco, Barrio Manouche
26 Django Reinhardt Birthday Festival: Rez Abbasi and Django-shift, Rhythm Future Quartet, the Gypsy Chix
27 Django Reinhardt Birthday Festival: John Jorgenson Quintet with Special Guest Martin Taylor, Le Jazz Hot
28 Berkeley High School Band and Orchestra Chamber Music Concert
29 Kalani Pe‘a
30 Awakening Joy: The Music!
31 Lisa Zeiler & Jennie Chabon
February 2019
1,2 Booker T. Jones
4 Scott Amendola’s 50th Birthday Thing! Featuring Jenny Scheinman, Jeff Parker, Mocean Worker aka Adam Dorn, Wil Blades, Ben Goldberg, John Schott, Zach Ostroff, and More
5 Freight Open Mic
6 The Moth StorySLAM – LOVE HURTS
7 Little Village Foundation Benefit Show
8 Kinan Azmeh CityBand featuring Sepideh Vahidi
9 Jai Uttal & The Pagan Love Orchestra
10 Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
11 Classical at the Freight: Kay Stern and Friends
12 Ancient Future
13 Albert Cummings
14 La Misa Negra
15 Orquesta La Moderna Tradición
16 Patchwork Series: Alphabet Rockers
16 Masters of the Uilleann Pipes
17 The Nels Cline 4
18 West Coast Songwriters
19 Strunz & Farah
20 Ben Allison & Think Free
21 Susana Baca
22 Lúnasa
23 Cris Williamson
24 Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
25 Carol Denney, Mark Duskin, & Steven Low in “The Folk This Songbook: A Singalong for Mature Audiences”
26 Freight Open Mic
27 Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan
28 Bill Frisell Trio featuring Tony Scherr & Kenny Wollesen with Special Guest Sam Amidon
March 2019
1 Bill Frisell Solo
2 Bill Frisell featuring Thomas Morgan & Rudy Royston
3 Bill Frisell Harmony featuring Petra Haden, Hank Roberts, & Luke Bergman
5 Masters of Hawaiian Music: George Kahumoku Jr., Nathan Aweau, & Kawika Kahiapo
6 The Moth StorySLAM – IMPOSSIBLE
7 Mimi Fox with Special Guests
8 Robin Flower & Libby McLaren
9 Patchwork Series: Your Song My Song
9,10 Ladysmith Black Mambazo
11 Classical at the Freight: Peter Lemberg and Friends
12 Sun of Goldfinger
13 Ímar
15 Greg Brown
16 WeSing Vocal Festival
17 The Black Brothers
18 West Coast Songwriters
19 Dar Williams
20,21 TRANSPARENT WATER TRIO Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita feat. percussionist Gustavo Ovalles
22-24 Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant Back By Popular Demand Tour featuring Sarah Lee Guthrie
26 Adrian Legg
27 Robbie Fulks
28 Karla Bonoff
29 Sierra Hull
30 Little Folkies Family Band Spring Concert
30 Rhonda Benin “Just Like A Woman”
31 Junior Bach Festival: Come Celebrate the Birthday of JS Bach
31 Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
April 2019
2 Behind the Scenes at the Freight
3 The Moth StorySLAM – BAMBOOZLED
5 Evie Ladin Band and Paper Wings Dual CD Release
6 Graham Parker
7 BOTMC Spring Situation
7 Väsen Duo
8 Classical at the Freight: Trio Foss
9 UC Jazz Ensembles Spring Concert
10 Don Ross with Michael Manring & Glass House
11 Seamus Egan Project
12 Ranky Tanky
13 Patchwork Series: Octopretzel
13 Barbara Higbie CD Release
14 Chely Wright
15 West Coast Songwriters
16 Jazz Search West Semi-Finals
17 “FiddleJazz – An Homage to The Violin in Jazz” with Kit Eakle
18 Ben Sidran
19 Mokoomba
20 Omara Portuondo – Last Kiss/Ultimo Beso with special guest Roberto Fonseca
22 Freight Open Mic
24 Amy Hanaiali’i Gilliom
25 Proteus Trio
26 San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers
27 3rd Annual Meadows Livingstone Scholarship Fund Concert
28 Mary Lou’s Apartment
29 Freight Open Mic
May 2019
1,2 Poncho Sanchez
3 For the Love of Pete: A Celebration of Pete Seeger’s Birthday with Musical Director Tammy Hall
6 Freight Open Mic
7 An Evening With Tom Rush Accompanied By Matt Nakoa
8 The Moth StorySLAM – MAMA RULES
9 John Hammond
10 Mary Fahl, formerly of October Project
11 Patchwork Series: Asheba
11,12 An Evening with Cowboy Junkies
13 Classical at the Freight: SFCO All-Star Quintet Monday Night Chamber Music Society
14 Vocal Rush featuring RISE and Encore
15 Dimmer Twins – Patterson Hood & Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers
16-19 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival
16 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Festival Kickoff Party
17 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Hot Buttered Rum, Front Country, Blue Summit
18 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – The Earls of Leicester, The Kathy Kallick Band, Fog Holler
19 Bluegrass Classics Sing-Along with High Country
19 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival – Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Jerry Douglas, Amy Scher & Hailey Pexton
20 West Coast Songwriters
21 Berkeley Middle School Jazz Night
22 Che Apalache
23 Erika Luckett: A Musical Tribute
24 Riders In The Sky
25 Cris Williamson, Barbara Higbie, and Teresa Trull
26 Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives
28 The Freight Singers
29 Country Joe McDonald – Songs and Stories
30 The Suitcase Junket
31 The Blues Broads
June 2019
1 Funny Girlz Redux
2 Women of Motown Singalong with Tammy Hall
4 Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s PARLOUR GAME
5 The Moth StorySLAM – CHEMISTRY
6 Zoe Ellis, Jenna Mammina, Leah Tysse: Forget About It – The Music of Allison Krauss
7,8 Leo Kottke
9 Zoë Keating
10 Freight Open Mic
11 The World For All: a Fundraiser for Omar Mokhtari
12 Dave Alvin with special guest Greg Leisz and Christy McWilson
13 Stanley Clarke
14 The John Lee Hooker Foundation Presents Zakiya Hooker, Pamela Rose, and Paula Harris
15 Fanna-Fi-Allah
16 Margaret Belton’s Tribute to Patsy Cline
17 West Coast Songwriters
19 Raul Midón and Lionel Loueke
20 Edgardo Cambón “La-Ti-Do” Salsa-Bachata-Cumbia-Merengue
20 Wee Willie Walker & The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra featuring Terrie Odabi
21 Maurice Tani
22 Barrio Manouche
24 Freight Open Mic
25 The Singing OUT Tour 2019 with Crys Matthews & Heather Mae featuring JJ Jones and Joe Stevens
26 Old Blind Dogs
27 Rahim AlHaj & Sahba Motallebi
28 Tribu Baharú
29 Fiddlekids End of Camp Concert
29 Bill Kirchen | Airmen Reunion
30 Skerryvore
July 2019
5 The Ray Charles Project
6 Alvin Youngblood Hart – Solo
7 Taimane – Elemental Tour
8 A Tribute to Melanie Berzon
9 The Lonely Heartstring Band
10 The Moth StorySLAM – BOLD
11 Midsummer Mozart Festival’s Piano Recital
12,13 Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra Birthday Celebration
14 SonoMusette
15 West Coast Songwriters
16 Le Vent du Nord
17 BKO Quintet
18,19 Rickie Lee Jones
20 Borderless Band, Featuring Mike Block – Co-presented by Diaspora Arts Connection
21 The OGMC presents Dollylicious
22 Freight Open Mic
23 Wood & Wire
24,25 SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK®
25 Strike Iron | Freight Live on the Plaza
26 Andy McKee’s Guitar Masters featuring Mike Dawes, Trevor Gordon Hall, and Calum Graham
27 The Marco Diaz Quartet Insight CD Release Concert
28 The Seldom Scene
29 Freight Open Mic
30 Films at The Freight: The Wrecking Crew
31 CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band
August 2019
1 The Waifs (8,10PM)
2 Los Hermanos Arango
3 Adrienne Shamszad – Co-presented by Diaspora Arts Connection
4 Marcia Ball
6 Films at The Freight: Muscle Shoals
7 The Moth StorySLAM – ANIMALS
8 Perla Batalla in The House of Cohen
10 Eilen Jewell
12 Freight Open Mic
13 Gretchen Peters
14 Celia Ramsay and Friends
15 Willie K
16 San Francisco International Piano Festival Presents: Bobby Mitchell Performs Rzewski: Songs of Insurrection (US PREMIERE)
17 Little Village Foundation Benefit Show
18 River of Song: A Musical Celebration of California’s Life-Giving Waters
20 Films at The Freight: Woodstock
21 San Francisco International Piano Festival Presents: Piano Illusions & Concert Confidential
22 Freight Fiddle Summit 2019
23,24 Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music hosted by Margaret Belton
24 Bang Data
25 Wil Blades’ 40th Bday Bash and Farewell Party! feat. Donald Harrison Jr., Mike Clark, Scott Amendola, Jeff Parker, and more
26 Freight Open Mic
27 Films at The Freight: Buena Vista Social Club
29 Edgardo & Candela’s “Tributo a los 70s”
30,31 The Dawg Trio – with David Grisman, Sam Grisman, & Danny Barnes
September 2019
1 Jenny And The Mexicats
3 The Spark Songwriter Series: Feel Better
4 The Moth StorySLAM – LESSONS
5 San Francisco String Trio
6 West Coast Songwriters Competition Finals
7 Junior Brown
8 Films at The Freight: Buena Vista Social Club
9 Freight Open Mic
10 Los Wembler’s de Iquitos
11 Across the Sea: Jeff Peterson, Tsun-Hui Hung, Greg Sardinha
12 Peter Bradley Adams
13 Bill Monroe Birthday Celebration
14 Bobi Céspedes
17,18 David Bromberg
19,20 The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
21 Films at The Freight: Buena Vista Social Club
21 La Cuneta Son Machin CANCELLED
22 Tannahill Weavers
24 Kurt Ribak and his Mighty Combo
25,26 Elvin Bishop Big Fun Trio with Special Guest Coco Montoya & his band
27 Leyla McCalla
28 FREIGHT FEST
29 Pokey LaFarge (solo)
30 Freight Open Mic
October 2019
1 Huun Huur Tu
2 The Moth StorySLAM – SPOOKY
3-6 Madeleine Peyroux
7 Annual Fundraising Celebration
8,9 DakhaBrakha
10 JJ Grey Solo – Front Porch Sessions
11 Abbie Gardner & Eli West
12 El Sur También Existe, Musical Dreams
13 Patchwork Series: Your Song My Song
13 Mari Boine
14 Classical at the Freight: Robin Sharp and Friends
15 Lula Wiles
16 An Evening with Kris Allen
17 Choir! Choir! Choir! – Hallelujah: EPIC Anthem Singalong!
18 Best In Show – Stories from Beyond the Shelter
19 Monica Pasqual
20 John Gorka
21 West Coast Songwriters
23 Robin & Linda Williams
24 BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
25 Richard Shindell
26 Duo Quartet featuring Chris Webster, Nina Gerber and Pam Delgado, Jeri Jones (of Blame Sally)
28 Freight Open Mic
29 UC Berkeley Jazz Ensembles Fall Concert
30 Dàimh
31 StringShot featuring Roy Rogers, Badi Assad, & Carlos Reyes
November 2019
1 Del McCoury Band
2 Wake The Dead
3 Cheryl Wheeler with Special Guest Kenny White
4 Freight Open Mic
5 Flat Earth Society
6 The Moth StorySLAM – GRATITUDE
7,8 Yemen Blues Plays Hallel
9 8th Annual California Banjo Extravaganza with Leroy Troy, Gina Furtado, Bill Evans & Their All-Star Band
10 Soul Dance Party with DJ Harry Duncan
10 Novalima
11 Classical at the Freight: ViolaMania 4
12 Aireene Espiritu & A Color-Coded Symphony
13 Steel House featuring Edward Simon, Scott Colley, and Brian Blade
14 Roots Rising! featuring Matt Andersen, Gaby Moreno & Liz Vice
15 Tim O’Brien Band
16 Patchwork Series: Sara Lovell
16,17 John Craigie: Keep It Warm 2019 Tour
18 West Coast Songwriters
19 Over The Rhine
21,22 Bruce Cockburn
23 Cupping the Flame of Women’s Culture – Montclair Women’s Cultural Arts Club Closing 1996-2015
23 Darrell Scott
24 Ladies Sing The Blues – with Kim Nalley, Denise Perrier, Tiffany Austin, Tammy Hall
26 Films at The Freight: Amazing Grace
29 Tuck and Patti
30 Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
December 2019
1 San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus “Holigays Are Here”
2,3 Issac Delgado
4 The Moth StorySLAM – FAMILY
5,6 Asleep at the Wheel “Merry Texas Christmas Y’all”
7 Tord Gustavsen, Mahsa Vahdat, Greg Ellis co-presented by Diaspora Arts Connection
9 Classical at the Freight: San Francisco Chamber Music Society
10 Dayramir González “Afro Cuban Jazz”
11 Kiran Ahluwalia
12 Xmas Blues Feat. Meredith Axelrod and Suzy Thompson with special guest Del Rey
13 Peter Rowan & the Free Mexican Airforce Featuring Los Texmaniacs
14 Patchwork Series: Octopretzel
14 T Sisters
15 Eve Decker CD Release – Album for Children and Families!
15 Lucy Kaplansky
16 West Coast Songwriters
17 Holiday Swing with Maria Muldaur & John Jorgenson
18 SoVoSó Annual Holiday Seasonings Concert with special guest The Freight Singers
19 SWAG HOLIDAY
20 The 35th Anniversary of Windham Hill’s Solstice Celebration featuring Will Ackerman, Barbara Higbie, Todd Boston with special guest Mia Pixley
21 Trace Bundy’s Acoustic Holiday
22 Klezmer Music with Kugelplex
27,28 Charlie Musselwhite
29,30 Vienna Teng
31 Afro-Cuban New Year’s Eve Dance Party with Jane Bunnett & Maqueque and Louie Romero Y Su Grupo Mazacote