San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM for a live multi-band performance of Daydream Nation Volume 32 on Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 7pm in the Market Garage.

SaveAlternative.com | Content Magazine| Grand Fanali Presents the "Best Free Concert Series" in San Jose as voted by Metro. "Daydream Nation" is a FREE local music showcase at San Pedro Square Market on the last Saturday of each month. Join us!

poster art by Gilbert Armendariz
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More about the bands:
THE ALBERT SQUARE | San Jose indie punk | https://www.facebook.com/thealbertsquare

TIME SPENT DRIVING | Santa Cruz indie | http://www.timespentdriving.com/

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM and San Jose Jazz for a live performance with the Mason Razavi Quartet on Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 7:00pm in the Market Garage.

The melding of rock beginnings with a devout love for classical guitar has formed the unique sound of Mason Razavi. Starting as a self-taught rock guitarist, Razavi devoted his life to the classical guitar after hearing the music of Andres Segovia at age 22. During this period Mason wrote all of the music that would form his jazz-influenced classical guitar album People, Places, and Monsters. He has since returned to jazz and the electric guitar, and his newest release Quartet Plus features originals from the perspective of a jazz quartet and nonet. Though first and foremost a jazz guitarist/composer, his diverse background has led him to play in a variety of settings ranging from rock bands to accompanying concert choirs, backing up jazz singers, and as a classical soloist. Mason holds a M.A. in Jazz Studies from San Jose State University and a B.M. from the Berklee College of Music where he studied jazz composition and majored in Contemporary Writing and Production, and  has performed at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, Paradise Rock Club, and on stage at the San Jose Repertory Theater as well as countless gigs as a sideman and leader of his own groups.

masonrazavi.com

San Pedro Square Market Special Events: Join SPSM and History San Jose for a special family & friends event celebrating San Jose's birthday!

Co-sponsored by History San Jose and the San Pedro Market

Location: Peralta-Fallon Historic Site, 175 West Saint John Street
Cost: Fallon House Tours: HSJ Members Free; 4 & under free; Adults $8; Children (5-17) $5; Hands-on Activity Wristband: HSJ Members Free; $5 all others

Celebrate San Jose’s 237th Birthday at the Peralta Adobe Historic Site! San Jose, or El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, the first Pueblo of California, was founded November 29, 1777. Come have a slice of birthday cake and help celebrate! Meet members of Founding Families, participate in hands-on activities, and visit the historic Peralta Adobe.

1:00pm – 4:00pm

• Live Music by Los Arribeños de San Francisco
• Hands-on Activities: Rope a “bull,” make a corn husk doll, dip a candle, design your own brand!
• Historical Displays
• Peralta Adobe Open House

2:00pm

Celebrate with Cake and Coffee – First Come First Served!

1:00pm, 2:00pm and 3:00pm

Three Tours of the Fallon House Leave on the Hour
Sign up fast! Each tour is limited to 12 visitors.

4:00pm

Event Ends. Thank you For Coming!

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM for a live performance with Hootenanny! on Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 8pm in the Market Garage.

Hootenanny! is an eclectic Acoustic Rock/Pop cover band from the San Jose Bay Area. We play the absolute greatest songs from the 60s, 70′s, 80s, and more.

Hootenanny! is not your average Acoustic Rock/Pop cover band.  Hootenanny! is the songs you love, the songs you grew up with, the songs you want to sing along to, and the songs you forgot about that you can’t believe we’re playing. We play an incredibly wide variety of classic rock and pop tunes, with a little country thrown in for flavor.

If you love music like we do, you’ll love Hootenanny!

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM and San Jose Jazz for a live performance with the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco on Friday, November 21st, 2014 @ 7:00pm in Downtown San Jose at the Market Garage.

Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco (LJYE), composed of talented young musicians aged 10-18, performs Latin jazz classics and original compositions at a level that has landed them gigs at the KCSM Jazz Festival, Yerba Buena Gardens, SF Museum of Modern Art and Yoshi’s. The ensemble’s mission is to preserve the traditions of Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music by teaching it to youth and to create role models for aspiring student musicians. Led by Music Director John Calloway, LJYE has shared the stage with such legends as Cuban bassist Cachao, piano virtuoso Chuchito Valdes, Latin jazz heavyweight Poncho Sanchez and the Grammy® Award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra. The ensemble was chosen as one of the top youth bands at YouthQuake 2004 and won First Place (Youth Music) at Carnaval San Francisco in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

ljye.com

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM for a live show with Casey Frazier on Saturday, November 15th, 2014 @ 8:00pm in the Market Garage.

Casey Frazier is a talented songwriter, singer and guitarist with an eclectic Americana sound with roots in country and 70s rock. Casey was born in Missouri, grew up in a small mountain town near Denver, Colorado, and spent a reasonable amount of his adolescence in Nashville, Tennessee. Casey has recently relocated to the Central Coast of California in order to continue his songwriting and expand his West Coast presence. He has shown incredible talent and growth as an artist, with upwards to 150 songs, two full-length albums, two EPs and another album on the way. He spends his time between Nashville and California. He is hoping to start expanding his audiences by taking his albums live, as well as creating a more dynamic online and print-media presence.

https://www.facebook.com/CaseyFrazierMusic/info

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM and San Jose Jazz for a live performance with Legally Blue on Friday, November 14th, 2014 @ 7:00pm in the market garage.

Legally Blue’s authentic sound comes from rare, vintage guitar amps, a classic Hammond B3 organ, and from the soulful voice of Joanne Wegener. Formed in 2010, the group brings together 5 talented musicians from Northern California: Joanne Wegener, John Keating, Mike West, Chris Wilder, and Aart de Geus. Alone, each member has performed in different groups, in different states and, even in different nations; but together they are joined by their love of music and the Blues. Mixing original and classic Blues standards with their own surprises, Legally Blue creates a nostalgic sound that’s impossible to “sit still” to.

legallyblue.com

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM for a live performance with the Honey Wilders on Saturday, November 8th, 2014 @ 8:00pm in the market garage.

"Knock-out 70s-style boogie rock" -Guitar Player Magazine

The Honey Wilders' brand of boogie is undeniably 70s-flavored, recalling the era of big hooks and big guitars before all the big hair. Their refreshing sonic cocktail is something like one part Exile on Main Street and Damn the Torpedoes, with a splash of In Color, served up Live and Dangerous. Strongly recommended for rockers and power-poppers who like to get down and get with it.

San Pedro Square Market Live Music: Join SPSM and San Jose Jazz for a live performance with the Adam Theis Quartet featuring Tiffany Austin on Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 7:00pm in the Market Garage.

Adam Theis is a versatile multi-instrumentalist bandleader/composer/producer based in San Francisco, CA who plays trombone, bass, trumpet, tuba and keyboards. Upon moving  to San Francisco’s Mission District, he founded the San Francisco JAZZ MAFIA which now consists of Realistic Orchestra, The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, The Jazz Mafia Symphony, Jazz Mafia String Quartet, Adam Theis & Subharmonic and various other projects.

This performance will feature Tiffany Austin, a Los Angeles-born vocalist, songwriter, lyricist, and U.C. Berkeley law graduate whose musical career has spanned three continents. She has performed in cities across the country and the globe at venues such as Yoshi’s (SF) and Jazz at Lincoln Center (NY). Austin is currently recording a Hoagy Carmichael project for release this year, which fuses elements of blues, swing, soul, and hip-hop.