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This week, Filoli hosts a variety of summer concerts, Galactic gets funky at The Guild and mayday mae! performs at Feldman’s. Plus, Redwood City holds a concert for kids, Springline screens outdoor movies and artist Livien Yin opens their first solo museum show at the Cantor Arts Center.
Filoli Summer Stage
Woodside’s Filoli estate is making the most of this season for outdoor music with a series of concerts in a variety of genres throughout the month of August, from bluegrass to pop to Mariachi, kicking it all off with a full weekend of shows. Never Come Down, a five-piece band based in Portland, Oregon, gets the music series underway on Aug. 16 with their blend of traditional and modern styles of bluegrass. The following day, Aug. 17, will see Los Angeles-based Indian American singer-songwriter Paravi take the stage with ethereal alt-pop with thoughtful lyrics. The final show of the weekend, on Aug. 18, goes back in time with the U.K.’s Alex Mendham and His Orchestra performing 1920s and ’30s-style swing. Then the series gives the middle of the week a brassy boost with The Outlaw Mariachi performing on Aug. 20, with more shows to follow later in the month.
Concerts take place at 6:30-8 p.m. at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. Admission for each show is $55 per person, filoli.org/summer-stage
Galactic
This New Orleans-based quintet draws on its hometown funk as the basis for a sound that embraces an array of genres, including blues, hip-hop and alternative pop. The band’s funky style is driven by jazz horns and complex drumlines, underscored by groovy bass. Joining the lineup in recent years is vocalist Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, who also hails from New Orleans herself. Joseph previously fronted fellow NOLA band, the Original Pinettes, an all-female brass band, and also appeared on “American Idol.” She amps up the energy even more on stage, making for an incandescent live show. Favorite local blues and soul artist Frank Thibeaux opens the show, along with DJ Harry Duncan.
Aug. 16, 8 p.m., at The Guild, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, $84.59-$198.15, guildtheatre.com.
mayday mae!
Singer-songwriter mayday mae! unleashes a colorful musical roller coaster of emotions and storytelling with their latest EP, “My Post-Desert Hearts Renaissance,” just released this summer. The title, along with the track “Ms. Desert Hearts,” references influential 1980s lesbian film “Desert Hearts,” according to this post from the Grrrl Music label. Their sound blends pop with kicky touches of the mod ’60s and a punk-inspired edge, with vocals that range from breezy to belting, plaintively introspective to straight-up shouts. mayday mae! performs an all-ages show at Feldman’s Books.
Aug. 16, 6-7:30 p.m. at Feldman’s Books, 1075 Curtis St., Menlo Park. no admission fee; donations encouraged, eventbrite.com.
Kids Rock
Redwood City winds up its Sunday Kids Rock summer concert series with a performance by Asheba, a musical storyteller. Asheba performs Caribbean music for children, specializing in calypso, which has roots in Trinidad, where Asheba is from. He performs a mix of originals and classics. Though some of these tunes will be familiar to generations of listeners, such as “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and “You Are My Sunshine,” Asheba reimagines them through a bright, fun calypso kaleidoscope.
Aug. 18, 10 a.m.-noon, Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City, free, redwoodcity.org.
Springline Movie Nights
Springline in Menlo Park hosts a weekend of movies under the stars. First, on Aug. 16, get in tune with the original “Pitch Perfect,” the 2012 comedy starring Anna Kendrick that kicked off a film franchise and a TV series, all about the antics of dueling hyper-competitive college a cappella groups. Then, on Aug. 17, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” revists the game so intense that it literally transports its players to another land, full of dangerous wild animals. The sequel to 1995’s “Jumanji,” starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, finds this most adventurous board game transformed into a video game in which players become their own avatars trapped in a jungle. Guests are asked to bring their own chairs and blankets.
Aug. 16-17, 7:30 p.m., at Springline, 1302 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, free (RSVP encouraged); eventbrite.com.
‘Livien Yin: Thirsty’
The Cantor Arts Center opens the first solo museum exhibition by artist Livien Yin, who earned their M.F.A. from Stanford in 2019 and is now based in Brooklyn. The show features new and recent paintings that employ “their sensitive, research-based approach to creating scenes of contemporary subjects alongside historical Asian Americans and their environments,” according to the Cantor Arts Center website. Taking inspiration from historical photographs, and also often using friends as models, Yin’s work draws parallels between past and present. Their recent paintings explore “paper sons and daughters,” who were born in China but came to the U.S. during the 61-year period of the Chinese Exclusion Act with forged papers indicating they were the children of U.S. citizens.
Opens Aug. 21 at Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford, free, museum.stanford.edu.
