Organization

The Zodiac Trio - Chamber Music

Presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at Douglas Beach House

February 12, 2012

The Paris-based ensemble is quickly becoming an international sensation by offering definitive performances with effervescent style and enthusiasm, bringing the clarinet-violin-piano instrumentation to the foreground of the chamber music scene with a "rare musical intensity", "impeccable technique" and "infectious enjoyment of the music". ( - New York Concert Review )

Kenny Washington & Michael O’Neill - Jazz

Presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at Douglas Beach House

January 29, 2012

Vocalist Kenny Washington and saxophonist Michael O’Neill have developed a rare simpatico that characterizes their musical collaboration. With Michael’s quartet, they will be presenting a brand new set of arrangements and original vocal tunes they have been honing for an upcoming recording specifically crafted as settings for Kenny's soulful interpretations, seemingly limitless range, and rapid-fire scatting.

Marcus Shelby Orchestra - Black History Month Program

Presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at Douglas Beach House

January 29, 2012

Bassist Shelby leads his fifteen-piece orchestra in a special Black History Month Program featuring music from their latest CD release, Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and music from their previous releases Harriet Tubman and Port Chicago.

The program will also feature excerpts from Black, Brown, and Beige, Duke Ellington's perennial 1943 composition about African American history. Shelby’s SF-based orchestra has made

Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig Trio

Presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at Douglas Beach House

January 15, 2012

If it were possible to distill the Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig Trio experience to one word, it might well be "engagement." Total, concentrated engagement between the band members coupled with a demand for audience engagement.

“When we play together, we don't feel like we play our instruments. We feel like we all play the same big instrument at the same time, the trio, and it's like we are sharing thirty fingers and three brains to make one and only entity.” –

The Beat Goes On - A Bach Society Fundraising Concert

Presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at Douglas Beach House

January 8, 2012

Larry Vuckovich is heading up a lineup of Bay Area musicians who will perform three sets in appreciation of their favorite venue for the past forty-six years. Total proceeds from the entry fee and raffle will go toward maintaining future quality programming.

Kenny Werner Quintet - Jazz

Presented by Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society at Douglas Beach House

December 4, 2011

Kenny Werner is a world-class pianist and composer whose prolific compositions, recordings and publications continue to impact audiences around the world and influence an entire generation of musicians and artists. Kenny was recently awarded the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, No Beginning No End, that is on the level of such other extended jazz composers as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.

"If we help the audience discover their own inner voice