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Melissa Etheridge Talks About San Francisco, Love and Her Upcoming...
Two hot summer nights are coming up, and we’re not just talking about the weather. On the last two days of this month, iconic singer-songwriter and musician Melissa Etheridge will join the San...
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Legendary Singer-Songwriter Tret Fure to Perform at SF’s Park Presidio United...
Tret Fure could easily rest on her laurels. Her music career spans four decades and includes work recording and producing some of the best of Women’s Music, such as “Meg and Cris at Carnegie Hall.” SF...
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Christophe Caballero Dazzles and Rocks a Bowler Hat in Chicago
Great cities have inspired great songs and performances. Think of crooning Tony Bennett or Jeanette MacDonald standing under the earthquake ruins (in film) singing, “San Francisco, open your Golden...
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Coming to a Holiday Event Near You: Musician Stephanie Teel
Recently I caught up with San Francisco native Stephanie Teel, an icon in the Bay Area music scene and beyond. Kit Kennedy: Your dad Mark Teel was a renowned sax player. When did you know that you...
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Acclaimed Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical Comes to SF for Limited Run
Sylvester’s music and inner light were so powerful that we have yet to come down from the natural highs he generated with song hits like “Do Ya Wanna Funk” and “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).” He was...
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Why Whitman and SFGMC?
This spring, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus presents “Passion” on April 1 & 2 at Davies Symphony Hall. “Passion” features three stunning premieres that span three centuries, from Walt Whitman...
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Dawn Harms Directs Bay Area Rainbow Symphony with Skill, Passion
Dawn Harms, Music Director and Conductor of the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, continues to astound us with her incredible career. She is a chamber musician, violin soloist, and is on the faculty at...
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Carolyn Brandy Is Born to Drum
All of us at the San Francisco Bay Times were completely blown away by legendary drummer Carolyn Brandy who, along with other incredible Women’s Music musicians, joined us at the San Francisco Pride...
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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Readies for Incredible 38th Season: Expect The...
By Dr. Timothy Seelig Next week, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus begins rehearsing its amazing 38th season: Expect The Unexpected. For the past 37 years, the Chorus has been known for its tireless...
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Opera Superstar Frederica Von Stade to Sing Street Requiem in Support of...
Famed mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will join with a mass chorus of singers and chamber orchestra in two California premiere performances of Street Requiem by Australian composers Dr. Kathleen...
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Remastering Women’s Music in Political Times
“Gripping” feminist energy literally resulted from a recent meaningful handshake and meeting between Margie Adam and Hillary Clinton. Adam, who is based in the Bay Area and is one of the lesbian...
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HoliGays Are Here! Beyond the Footlights
By Dr. Tim Seelig Perhaps you’ve asked yourself, “I wonder what it’s like to be in the audience at a San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus concert?” For me, that’s a difficult question. For the past five...
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Local Award-winning Filmmaker Teams with Canadian Singing Star for New Video
Bay Area-based filmmaker Stacy Poulos is a one-woman dynamo. For the past 30 years, she has run her own production company, Playback.net Video Film Multimedia. She is also the creator of Girlpages...
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Celebrating 40 Years of ‘Tales of the City’ and a New Beginning for Me
(Editor’s Note: We are tremendously honored to be launching a new column in the San Francisco Bay Times authored by Dr. Tim Seelig, who is the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus....
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Tales of Our City: Our Lives, Our Heroes Takes SFGMC and the Bay Area Rainbow...
Sometimes, we get caught “telling tales out of school.” For you youngsters, that means to gossip or throw shade. Well, there will be none of that “out of school” business when the San Francisco Gay...
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Montclair Women’s Big Band to Launch New Women’s Music Series at Feinstein’s
The San Francisco Bay Times and “Betty’s List” are proud to present a new women’s music series at Feinstein’s. The first show kicks off Pride month in grand style with a performance by the Montclair...
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Sanctuary
Sing along: “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.” I sang along to that catchy tune in 1972, but little did I know the lyrics were foreshadowing my life four decades later. I had no...
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San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus to Become the Ultimate Boy Band Photos...
Generally, boy bands range from three to five members, but this Pride weekend, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will become the biggest boy band the world has ever seen when they bring over 250...
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Disney’s Hit Musical Beauty and the Beast Tells Tale as Old as Time About...
We cannot even type Beauty and the Beast without humming Angela Lansbury’s beautifully sung tune of the same name from the animated movie. Just as memorable and powerful–perhaps even more so–is the hit...
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Bi-Coastal Cabaret Star Leanne Borghesi to Debut New Show BDSM: Beautiful...
At a recent San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band fundraiser, members of our team were lucky to have sat near Leanne Borghesi as she performed. We were so close that we could hear Borghesi singing...
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