Upcoming
Sunday, April 5, 2026
4:00 PM
Jon Raskin + Jon Bafus Duo
Time Tested Books
1124 21st St.
Sacramento
https://timetestedbooks.blogspot.com/
Description:
Raskin - reeds
Bafus - percussion
Friday, April 17, 2026
8:00 PM
Hears Doves
Larry Ochs – sax; Ben Davis – cello; Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello
Palo Alto Art Center
1313 Newell Rd.
Palo Alto
Description:
Presented by Earthwise Events.
Opening for Mads Tolling-Sam Reider Duo
Sunday, April 19, 2026
4:00 PM
Jon Raskin (sax); Alan Ernst (piano); Leo Tallman (drums)
Time Tested Books
1124 21st St.
Sacramento
https://timetestedbooks.blogspot.com/
Description:
Friday, April 24, 2026
7:30 PM
Bruce Ackley (soprano sax and Bb clarinet); David Michalak (skatch boxes; lap steel guitar; etc.) Ben Davis (cello); Darren Johnston (trumpet)
Medicine for Nightmares Books
3036 24th St. and Treat St.
San Francisco
https://medicinefornightmares.com/
Description:
Thursday, April 30, 2026
8:00 PM
inkBoat (featuring Jon Raskin)
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
Z Space
450 Florida St.
San Francisco
https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf2026_inkboat
Description:
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.”
Early bird tix available through March 31.
Friday, May 1, 2026
8:00 PM
inkBoat featuring Jon Raskin
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
Z Space
450 Florida St.
San Francisco
https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf2026_inkboat
Description:
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.”
Early bird tix available through March 31.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
8:00 PM
inkBoat featuring Jon Raskin
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
Z Space
450 Florida St.
San Francisco
https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf2026_inkboat
Description:
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.”
Early bird tix available through March 31.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
3:00 PM
inkBoat featuring Jon Raskin
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days
Z Space
450 Florida St.
San Francisco
https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf2026_inkboat
Description:
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.”
Early bird tix available through March 31.
Friday, May 8, 2026
7:30 PM
Subconscious Life + DYMAXION
(featuring Larry Ochs and Bruce Ackley)
Medicine for Nightmares Books
3036 24th St. and Treat St.
San Francisco
https://medicinefornightmares.com/
Description:
Subconscious Life:
Ochs (tenor and sopranino saxes); Lisa Mezzacappa (bass); Darren Johnston (trumpet); Ben Davis (cello)
DYMAXION:
Bruce Ackley (soprano sax and Bb clarinet); Pete Schmitt (bass); Dave Brandt (percussion)
Sunday, May 10, 2026
2:00 PM
Ackley/Mezzacappa Duo
Ackley (soprano sax and Bb clarinet); Lisa Mezzacappa (bass)
Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge
521 Valencia St.
San Francisco
Description:
San Francisco Arts International Festival Presents.
Early bird tix available through March 31.
https://www.sfiaf.org/calendar_2026
Sunday, May 24, 2026
2:00 PM
Robinson/Ackley/Loos
Music and Poetry
Jack Kerouac Alley next
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Description:
Jessica Loos – poet; Donald Robinson – drums; Ackley – soprano saxophone
Sunday, June 7, 2026
7:15 PM
Rova + Gongwoman
West Oakland Sound Series
2201 Poplar Street
Oakland 94607
Description:
SET 1: Rova presents new quartet works and recently recorded commissions
SET 2: Rova + Karen Stackpole (gongs) in quartet works arranged especially for this collaboration.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
7:30 AM
Rova Quartet: New Works
Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco
https://birdbeckett.com/events/
Description:
In our first concert in nearly two years the quartet will present two sets of new and recent works.