Neighborhood Concerts

Featuring

Local Musicians

You’re invited to an afternoon at CPC as we enjoy local, professional talent!

2024 Concerts on the Corner

The Parker Grant Trio

March 3 at 2pm
Jazz

The Forget Me Knots

April 21, 3pm
Celtic and Scandinavian

Juneteenth Family Festival

June 15, 11a-3p
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Blues Sunday & Off the Hook

July 20, 5pm
Rock & Alternative

Alessandro Penezzi & Friends

August 25, 5pm
World-Renowned Brazilian Guitarist

The Kyle Athayde Dance Party

September 22
Big Band, Big Party

Off the Hook | Convergence | Blue Sunday

July 20
5pm

Off the Hook plays soulful classic and alt rock favorites from the 70s to 90s. The set will include Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, and Susan Teseschi.

More coming about Blue Sunday and Convergence

Alessandro Penezzi and Friends

Aug 25
5pm

World-renowned guitarist, composer and arranger, Alessandro Penezzi also plays the 7-string guitar, tenor guitar, cavaquinho, mandolin and flute. Born in Piracicaba, in São Paulo, he began studying guitar at the age of 7 and later graduated in classical guitar at the Escola de Música de Piracicaba. He has a bachelor's degree in Popular Music from Unicamp with a specialization in Creative Processes from Faculdade Souza Lima.

The standard-bearer for Brazilian Choro music, Penezzi recently launched an online school for students to learn to play Choro with him as a teacher.

He has worked in several countries around the world such as the USA, UK, Japan, Russia, Gabon, Angola, Italy, Germany, Holland, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Morocco, Portugal, Cape Verde, among others.

His songs have been recorded by artists such as Beth Carvalho, Yamandú Costa, Danilo Brito, Bruno Moritz, Dexter Payne, Brian Silber, Regional de NY. He participated in Violões do Brasil, a project dedicated to Brazilian guitar masters, and opened Wayne Shorter's show at the 30th edition of the Skopje Jazz Festival in Macedonia.

In 2017, the great North American flutist Jane Lenoir and Penezzi released an album, performing only Penezzi’s music.

Jane Lenoir has performed with the Oakland Symphony, Ballet and Opera, San Jose Symphony, SF Opera, SF Ballet, San Francisco Chamber Music Society, and University of California Contemporary Chamber Players. She is the principal flute of the Music in the Mountains Orchestra and appears regularly as a soloist at the festival.

For the past 8 years, Jane has been involved with Brazilian music and other Latin flute styles, and was a founding member of the Berkeley Choro Ensemble, co-director of the Berkeley Festival of Choro. In 2017, two albums of Brazilian music were produced: Jane Lenoir plays Penezzi, with composer and 7-string guitarist Alessandro Penezzi, São Paulo, Brazil, and The View from Here, with Berkeley Choro Ensemble, featuring the music of contemporary Brazilian composers.

Jane is on the faculty of San Domenico School Conservatory of Music in San Anselmo and has taught at the SF Conservatory of Music, Cazadero Performing Arts Summer Chamber Music Workshop, National Flute Association Conventions, and conducted workshops in the US and Europe. Full Bio Here.

Kyle Athayde Dance Party

Sept 22

The Kyle Athayde Dance Party returns to CPC! Last year’s show was sold-out - we can’t wait for this performance in September!

This bi-coastal, 18-person band features Bay Area natives and musicians nationwide, including Boston and Los Angeles.

Kyle Athayde is a San Francisco Bay Area-based composer, arranger, performer, teacher, and bandleader. A native of Orinda, California, Kyle primarily plays vibraphone, piano, trumpet, and drums, as well as bongo, congas, timbales, string bass, bass clarinet, sousaphone, and vocal percussion. He is the leader, conductor, and principal writer for the San Francisco/New York-based big band, "Kyle Athayde Dance Party", a group acclaimed for its versatility in the wide scope of styles it performs. He is also the composer and arranger for Eddie Barbash’s double quartet, as well as a member of the Nate Sparks Big Band, the Jon Hatamiya Big Band and Nonet, Ryan DeWeese’s RADJazz Orchestra. Kyle has been awarded several Downbeat awards and participated in the Grammy Band and Next Generation Band. He is also the Director of curriculum for the Lafayette Summer Music Workshop. Kyle also is one of CPC’s accompanists on Sunday mornings. Learn more here.