San Fran Voice

You’ve probably noticed that San Fran Voice has been quiet recently. And your attention to the matter has been appreciated! Rest assured that San Fran Voice will resume a normal posting schedule shortly. We’re undergoing some changes with behind-the-scenes work in order to bring you an improved site. Once we get going again, you’ll get your regular dose of San Francisco music, arts and creativity news.

If you don’t want to keep checking back, you can request that an email be sent to you when the site picks up again. Simply send an email to cmfpublications@yahoo.com with “SFV request” in the subject line. I’ll send you an email as soon as it’s ready. And I’m here to answer any questions that you might have in the meantime.

Rob Owen released his new CD, Barefoot in the Rain, a few months back and San Fran Voice paid attention. He told us a bit about that CD in his initial interview with us, giving us insight into its uplifting qualities and its “organic minimalism” approach to sound. I explored that further in my music review which was on the site about a month after the interview. And then things fell kind of quiet around here as far as Rob was concerned because he was busy play around the Bay Area but wasn’t here in the city. Well, that city hiatus is coming to an end. Rob Owen will be performing live at The Red Victorian in The Haight tonight, Friday November 2, starting at 7:30 p.m. He’ll be followed by singer-songwriters Ronnie Cato, Ryan David Orr and Star Lebetter and Ryan Salet (what is this, the night of the guys whose names start with R?!) The venue is casual and fun and the event should be a good time.

Remember way back in July when we interviewed Chris Stroffolino about his music? If you don’t, you can check out the original interview with Chris. But as a refresher course, we learned about his solo music, his busking days, and his work with “literate garage rock” band Continuous Peasant. I’m sure you already know this, but reading about music isn’t the same as actual going to hear music. So now’s your chance to get off the page and go check out what Chris is doing.

The event is called “A Tribute to Unacknowledged Godmother of ‘Freak Folk’, Helen Adam”. The title pretty much says it all, but for those of us that are looking at this through a haze of some sort, Chris is taking some of the lyrics to Helen Adam’s original music and performing it to some music of his own. This all happens tonight, November 1st, over at the SFSU Poetry Center. For those who don’t know, that’s located at the Unitarian Church off Geary street near Franklin and Polk.

If you like the show, be sure to ask Chris about a project that he’s putting together in which other musicians will also be recording versions of Helen Adam’s work for an eventual album.

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