JUMP TO: Santa Rosa / San Francisco
March 29-April 4th, 2023
– Masks are encouraged, but not required
Friday, March 31st | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – POP/FOLK
Michelle Lambert
Pop-folk artist Michelle Lambert graces the stage with her chart-topping, genre-defying artistry.
Recommended if you like: Ed Sheeran, Amy Winehouse, Lindsey Stirling
Saturday, April 1st | Doors at 7:30 Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK MUSIC
Joselyn & Don with The Musers
Joselyn & Don with The Musers bring listeners to a wild garden of blues, folk, and jazz, plus “free range folk”, soaring harmonies and award-winning, foot-stomping, high energy songs.
Recommended if you like: Watkins Family, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Sunday, April 2nd | Matinée Doors at 4:00pm Show 4:45-7:00pm – BALKAN MUSIC
Sunday Afternoon Balkan w/ Gradina and Helm
New quarterly matinée series, Sunday Afternoon Balkan, features Gradina and Helm with music from the Middle East and the Balkans.
Recommended if you like: World Music
We’re offering full refunds for non-attendance or cancelations due to COVID exposure, so there is no risk in showing your support by getting advanced tickets.
The Lost Church Santa Rosa is located on Ross Street (between Mendocino & B) in Downtown Santa Rosa
(23-min from Petaluma, 40-min from San Rafael, 1 hr 6-min from San Francisco, 1 hr 9-min from Oakland)
SANTA ROSA
SAT 4/8 Parson Jones and James Houlahan (LA) – INDIE-SOUL/AMERICANA – TIX
FRI 4/14 Mr December & The Redwood Flowers – FOLK – TIX
From the The Lost Church Video Archives
Kalinders performs “Strange” at The Lost Church – Santa Rosa 2.18.23
Kalinders https://kalinders.com/
March 29-April 4th, 2023
Friday, March 31st | Doors at 7:30pm Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK/JAZZ/EXPERIMENTAL
Humbird (Minneapolis) with Cole Pulice
Humbird (Minneapolis) with Cole Pulice share an evening of electroacoustic, experimental folk and environmental Americana.
Recommended if you like: Kelly McFarling, Watchhouse, Perfume Genius, ambient-jazz-psychedelia
Saturday, April 1st | Doors at 7:30pm Show 8:15-10:30pm – MUSICAL THEATRE
SongRise Does Showtunes
SongRise Does Showtunes showcases singers from SongRise Studios, a program that fosters a community based environment, providing lessons in vocals, performance and artist development.
Recommended if you like: New Singers, Musical Theater
Sunday, April 2nd | Doors at 7:30pm Show 8:15-10:30pm – FOLK MUSIC
Joselyn & Don with special guest Elaine Ryan
Joselyn & Don with special guest Elaine Ryan bring listeners to a wild garden of blues, folk, and jazz with a dark understory illuminated by lyrical truth plus a blend of 90’s R&B and indie folk.
Recommended if you like: Alison Krauss & Robert Plant Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Maggie Rogers, Tracy Chapman, Maren Morrismale led bands, or singer/songwriters
In addition to hosting an eclectic mix of music, literary events, theater, comedy and a variety of performing arts, The Lost Church is also available for private event rentals. In the coming months people have rented TLC for a Video Shoot, a Film Festival, and a Memorial. Click HERE to book your event.
Evening performances end at 10:30pm
We’re offering full refunds for non-attendance or cancelations due to COVID exposure, so there is no risk in showing your support by getting advanced tickets.
ADA Accessible.
The Lost Church San Francisco is located at 988 Columbus Avenue at Chestnut Street in North Beach
(26-min from Oakland, 33-min from San Rafael, 52-min from Vallejo, 1 hour and 6-min from Santa Rosa)
SAN FRANCISCO
FRI 4/21 Briget Boyle Heartbreak Residue Album Release with Katie Cash – AMERICANA/ROCK AND ROLL – TIX
MON 5/8 An Evening with Ira Wolf – FOLK – TIX
FRI 6/9 Daniel Weingarten – STANDUP COMEDY – TIX
From The Lost Church Video Archives
Aireene Espiritu and the Itch perform “Diving Board” at The Lost Church – San Francsico on 1.29.23
Aireene Espiritu: https://www.aireeneespiritu.com/
This Local Venue Survived Covid, but It Couldn’t Survive Crushing Debts
SF Standard article by Sarah Hertz
Farewell PianoFight — there’s a huge hole in our community now.
Wishing everyone at PF all the best for their next ventures.
When Covid started, Rob Ready was staring down a live entertainment apocalypse and, potentially, the demise of his creative community.
“It sucked,” said Ready, the co-founder and artistic director of PianoFight, an independent arts venue with locations in the Tenderloin and Downtown Oakland that centers local visual and performing artists. “And it’s been touch-and-go for the past three years.”
The theater quickly organized an online fundraiser that brought in $50,000—enough to keep staff on the payroll until they could sign up for unemployment. Unfortunately for PianoFight, it was merely the first act in a three-year saga that is about to end on a tragic note. The venue will permanently shutter on March 18. PianoFight’s closure is only the latest in a long line of Covid casualties. On March 18, 2020, Boz Scaggs informed his staff that Slim’s final days would be cut short—the musician and owner had privately decided to close his nightclub in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood in late 2019. Two months later, the Saddle Rack, a beloved honky-tonk in Fremont (originally in San Jose) also shuttered for good. The fall of 2020 ushered in more closures. The Uptown Nightclub in Oakland called it quits. The Stud—San Francisco’s longest-running queer bar—remains in a holding pattern to this day, as its ownership collective searches for a new home. The future of countless live performance venues appeared to be hanging in the balance.
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
D’Arcy Drollinger, a drag performer and the owner of SoMa club Oasis, quickly dreamed up creative ways to keep his business afloat, launching “Meals on Heels,” a delivery service where drag performers provided dinner and a show from the safety of the curbside. “It wasn’t a huge money maker, but we were able to bring sparkle into people’s lives and employ some drag performers,” Drollinger said.
When Covid’s one-year mark rolled around, and Oasis hadn’t yet received a relief grant from the local or federal government, Drollinger said he realized he had spent all of his savings and…
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FOR BOTH SAN FRANCISCO & SANTA ROSA THEATERS
Seating is First Come, First Served.
All Ages are welcome
(Except for babies, children, and adults who may be disruptive.)
ADA Accessible.
We’re offering full refunds for non-attendance or cancelations due to COVID exposure, so there is no risk in showing your support by getting advanced tickets.
Our Current Safety Protocols
Vaccines, boosters, and masks are strongly encouraged, but are not required as per local Public Health Policy.
From Your Ever Lovin’ Editor
Hello friends,
This week at TLC San Francisco and TLC Santa Rosa is another example of the fun mix of genres and performance types we have the good fortune to host!
We’re thrilled to present each and every one of these showcases and hope that you’ll take a chance and see something new to light up your world.
We’re sad that we all had to say goodbye to the awesome PianoFight this month. We and other local theaters and venues will soon present some of the fantastic performers who once called PianoFight their home, but our community will never be the same.
We’ve lost so many performance spaces and clubs recently. It’s daunting to keep our chins up and push onward, but with the support of our Anchor Donors, Audience Members, and Bulletin readers like you — we’re optimistic and flat out excited for the future of TLC.
Love,
Michele & The Lost Church
Email us at hq@thelostchurch.org with your questions and comments, testimonials, rentals…and share your favorite memory!
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We STRONGLY RECOMMEND MASKS be worn while inside our theater to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Masks are no longer mandated by the State of California and are no longer required for entry, but are encouraged since colds, the flu, and COVID are on the rise.
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In addition to hosting an eclectic mix of music, literary events, theater, comedy and a variety of performing arts, The Lost Church is also available for private event rentals, film and video shoots and more.
In the coming months people have rented TLC for a Video Shoot, a Film Festival, a Memorial, and a Movie Night.
Click HERE to book your event.
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