Past Gigs

Club Foot Orchestra

Paramount Theatre
2025 Broadway, Oakland CA 94612
7:00 pm Age requirement: All Ages

Don’t miss this spectacular film with Club Foot Orchestra and added instruments from San Francisco Conservatory!

David James' GPS

Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore
3036 24th St., San Francisco CA 94110
7:00 pm Age requirement: All Ages

Beth Custer

201 Franklin St., San Francisco CA 94102
7:30 pm Age requirement: All Ages

Celebrating the release of her newly published songbook All Hands on Deck, Beth Custer performs an evening of original songs and instrumentals, including music composed for the Joe Goode Performance Group, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Beth Custer Ensemble, Clarinet Thing, the films of William Farley and Cathy Lee Crane, and more.

Joining Custer (clarinets and vocals) for the All Hands on Deck concert will be guitarist/vocalist David James, drummer John Hanes, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, and many special guests.

Custer, ranked 13th in the DownBeat Readers Poll Clarinet category, is renowned for her work with the Club Foot Orchestra (purveyors of silent film scores), the otherworldly ensemble Trance Mission, the virtuosic quartet Clarinet Thing, the trip-hop duo Eighty Mile Beach, and the versatile
Beth Custer Ensemble.

All Hands on Deck, a collection of Custer’s compositions for dance, theatre, film, and chamber groups, will be available for purchase at the concert.

Russian Telegraph

People in Plazas
Rincon Center, San Francisco CA 94105
12:00 pm Age requirement: All Ages

Russian Telegraph will bathe you in deep melodic grooves for your lunchtime sunshine.

Beth Custer & Ben Goldberg

3225 22nd St., San Francisco Ca 94110
7:00 pm Age requirement: 18

Ben Goldberg & Beth Custer play a set of low tones on their massive contralto and contrabass clarinets. You will be transformed!