Traditional tunes reign supreme when the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival rolls into town on Friday. The ninth annual grassroots music showcase is set to deliver the best of bluegrass and old-time to the Bay Area for nine days straight. With 57 bands on board for 30 shows, a two-day film fest and workshops galore, there’s certainly plenty to choose from. To get things started, here are five toe-tapping acts definitely worth checking out: Baby bluegrass
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Friends and performers will gather for a night of comedy and music on Friday to help raise funds for Rocket Dog Rescue and its founder, Pali Boucher, who lost her home and three beloved foster dogs in a house fire Dec. 21. Liam Maycelm will emcee the evening, which will feature stand-up from Johnny Steele and Marga Gomez, and music from Red Meat, Parker Brothers, Josh Klipp and the Freeplay Dance Troupe and Caroline Lund.
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Mary Gauthier has worn many metaphorical hats in her career. She emerged from a drug-abuse/teenage-runaway past in Louisiana to become a serious student of philosophy in college, then became a renowned Cajun-cooking chef in Boston.In her early 40s, she became one of Nashville’s most promising new songwriters with her 2005 breakthrough "Mercy Now."
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Makana, the slack-key guitarist, singer and songwriter, is returning to the City for two performances this Thursday, showcasing a range of genres including Hawaiian slack-key, bluegrass, celtic, open-tuning blues, folk and rock.
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Phil Egan exhibits paintings in oil and drawings in conte crayon. These works, done almost entirely from life or still-life, represent a continuum of his art created before and after 2003, when he retired after 32 years of teaching studio art at Cañòada College.
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Move over Mitt Romney. Someone — a loud, proud, divorce-and-defunct gay Mormon guy with a savage sense of humor — is parading across America. It’s Steven Fales, the self-described "Mormon American Princess." His one-man show of the same name, a sequel to the hit "Confessions of a Mormon Boy," has its world premiere next week at San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre Center.
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The Marsh, San Francisco’s prime location for solo performance, presents the world premiere of "Come Home." Jovelyn Richards’ one-woman play is about 26 black soldiers who leave their home in lynch-torn rural
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In yet another brave season of new plays, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre has come up with a winner. The world premiere of Betty Shamieh’s "Territories" provides a gripping play of sustained interest. Thoughtful, provocative, well-acted, this a vitally contemporary story, although set in the time of the Crusades. Except for a few meaningful but half-hidden references to the situation in the Middle East today, "Territories" speaks of timelessly important issues.
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The famous love story of an American boy and a Puerto Rican girl set against the backdrop of clashing street gangs in New York remains true to its Shakespearean "Romeo and Juliet" model. Of course, the show is "West Side Story"; a new production by San Mateo High School comes to the stage Feb. 1-3 and Feb. 8-10. The musical, featuring a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, combines drama, opera and ballet. It’s a classic tragedy in a modern setting.
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How many times do we need to be subjected to a remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"? With each iteration, the original film’s brilliance continues to fade. We’ve gone from the 1956 classic to the suspenseful 1978 remake to the terrible 1994 remake to this re-imagining, which stars Nicole Kidman.
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