Octobop featuring Lisa Engelken
West Coast Jazz
Monday, July 16, 2012
6:00-8:00pm
2600 Block of Broadway (map)
Octobop - Cool jazz. Images of the early days on the West Coast when new ideas, harmonies, ensemble playing and great improvisation were all happening. Recreating and updating that experience is the mission of Octobop. Performing and promoting the music that began with The Birth of the Cool -- and the innovations of Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Dave Pell, Jimmy Guiffre, and Howard Rumsey among others -- Octobop makes cool jazz hot again.  Lisa Engleken is a fearless singer with a daunting stage presence.  Part freight train, part junkyard trombone, the tumbleweed Engelken alternately locomotes and floats through a myriad of moods & vocal styles, spicing her tunes with Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian.  But operatic and theatrical training couldn’t polish off the rough edges as she wields her acrobatic 3-octave range like a weapon, like a wand, intensified by sheer joy, crankiness and irony.

Rotary Farmers' Market
Tuesdays, May through September
4:00-8:00pm
Downtown, on Broadway and Hamilton Streets (map)

**NEW** Redwood Shores Farmers Market
(West Coast Farmers Market Association)
Fridays, Year-Round
11am-6pm
Redwood Shores Library Parking Lot
399 Marine Parkway, Redwood City 94065 (map)

Also, Cañada College has added a Farmers' Market on Sundays from 9am-1pm in Parking Lot 7 of the Redwood City campus near Interstate 280.

Samba
instructed by Imperial Dance Club

Tuesday, July 17, 2012
6:00-8:00pm
Courthouse Square (map)
Everyone can join in and kick up their heels on Tuesday evenings with our free dance series, while watching – and learning! - Tango, Swing, Cha-Cha, Salsa, Waltz, Country Western, and others. The fun will begin on June 19th from 6 – 8 pm, with a 30-minute demonstration, and continues on with public participation.

Featuring free minilessons and open social dancing for all ages and all levels, no experience needed and no partner required. The community is invited to join friends, learn to dance, step out in style and have some serious fun!

FULL SCHEDULE

SF Mime Troupe*
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
6:30pm (music starts at 6pm)
Courthouse Square (map)
“Pity  the poor one percent! Abused in that sliver of press   they don't own,  condemned in the streets by a rabble to who don't appreciate the  benefits of being trickled down on, raked over the coals   by the few  politicians who aren't in their back pockets.Talk about an oppressed minority! Well, finally someone is stepping up to tell their story as the San Francisco Mime Troupe presents For the Greater Good, or The Last Election, a melodramatic tale that should warm the hearts of every billionaire - if they have one. Based on the classic "The Poor of New York," the    Troupe ironically turns the story on its head, telling it from the  point of view of the misunderstood Godzill-ionaires who have made this country what it is today: broke.

Super Diamond
Neil Diamond Tribute
Friday, July 20, 2012
6:00-8:00pm
Courthouse Square (map)
When your parents popped in a Neil Diamond tape on repeat during long interstate road trips, you reluctantly sang along. Never thought you'd turn out to be a Diamond fan now, right? But singing along to "Sweet Caroline" and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show" is so addictive now, you'd do anything to see Neil on stage. A band out of San Francisco can put a rest to that Diamond thirst. Super Diamond delivers a high-octane Diamond tribute show that rocks!
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