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2017 Community Nite Event Update

3/23/2017

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A few more 2017 Community Nite tickets are still available here. Doors open at 7:00, and the music and poetry will start at 7:30:
  • 7:00: Doors Open
  • 7:30 - 8:15: First set
  • 8:15 - 8:30: Intermission
  • 8:30 - 9:20: Second Set
There will be some excellent appetizers and drinks available during the evening. However, if you would like to arrive in the area early and forage beforehand, may we recommend the following eateries:
  • Drake's Dealership Restaurant and Beer Garden, 2325 Broadway
  • Agave Uptown, authentic Oaxacan cuisine, 2135 Franklin St.
  • Calavera Mexican Kitchen & Agave Bar, 2337 Broadway
  • ​Mua Oakland Bar & Restaurant, 2442a Webster Street
Appetizers
  • Local cheese display featuring Cow girl creamery served with gluten free crackers and baguettes 
  • Crostini with grilled chicken, onion marmalade and crème fraiche
  • Beet and goat cheese stack (GF)
  • Collard green Dolmas: collards stuffed with black beans and rice (vegan, GF)
  • Ahi tuna Poke served on crisp wontons
  • Grilled Tri-tip & bacon bites with horseradish sauce (GF)

Dessert
  • Chocolate pots de crème with vanilla whipped cream (GF)
  • Miso sugar cookies
  • Berry tartlets​
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Video Highlights from 2015 Community Night at Yoshi's

6/9/2015

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Camera work by Alena Shure, edited by Piedmont High School students Quinn Porter and Lorenzo Rael.
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Photos from Community Night at Yoshi's

5/4/2015

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Photos by Alena Shure and Kobi Eshun.
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Community Night 2015 Opening Performers: Mike Rufo and Far I Shields

3/2/2015

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Piedmont's own singer/songwriter Mike Rufo will be opening Jazz Nite 2015, along with Reggae artist Far I Shields. 
Mike "Roof" Rufo is a local singer/songwriter and activist. His songs arc across the waves of life, reflecting his impassioned engagement with the world. Rufo's musical language builds upon powerful lyrics, soaring vocals, driving rhythms, and melodic riffs that explore emotional depths and transformation. Mike also plays his original songs, and those written by co-band leader, David Johnson, in the Bay Area rock group No Exit.

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Far I Shields: A beautiful sunrise, the rush of a waterfall, and the flight of the phoenix, all can be heard and felt in the music created by the Far I.  Far I’s music flows from a reggae foundation with vibrations from the entire Diaspora.  Far I has performed at numerous shows and venues including Oakland Art and Soul Festival, Kimball’s East, Reggae in the Park, Harmony Festival, Big Time Pow Wow, and Maritime Hall, among others.  At the core is his commitment to create healing music that will uplift the listener. 

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Community Night 2015 Featured Artist: Mingus Amungus

2/14/2015

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PADC is  proud to feature Bay Area favorite Mingus Amungus at our 2015 Yoshi's Jazz Nite. Band leader Miles Perkins, a Piedmont resident, brings Charles Mingus' musical philosophy into the the new millennium with his all-star 7-piece band. They weave their way through Mingus' intricate charts with hard-hitting be-bop, funk and classical. The band then sprinkles San Francisco's native Hip-Hop Jazz flavor into the mix with a variety of lyricists, thereby bringing Mingus' work into the contemporary age.
Musically, Mingus never played it safe. His artistic intent was to create an immediate emotional statement through what he created. While he relied on the individual strength of his players, he would always inspire and channel their creative energies toward collective expression. 
With the individual strengths of his players in mind, Miles Perkins brings Mingus' musical philosophy into the the new millennium with Mingus Amungus. Musically, he too, like Mingus, never plays it safe. 
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Charles Mingus is one of the most difficult players and composers of the bop and post-bop era to define. His complex rhythms and tempos made him a stand-out artist within the jazz genre. His thematic compositions, were often inspired by political events and/or people, such as "Fables of Faubus," named after Orval E. Faubus, Governor of Arkansas who, in 1957, deployed the National Guard to prevent a few black children from entering Little Rock's Central High School. His music covered a wide range of styles, from his earliest work with Louis Armstrong to his later free-form orchestral compositions.

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PADC Jazz Nite at Yoshi's, April 30, 2015

2/14/2015

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Yoshi's in Jack London Square
 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA 94607 
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Doors: 7:30PM / Show: 8:00PM

$25.00 / $20.00 Students
Sheila E's Horn SectionSheila E's horn section playing at our 2014 Yoshi's Nite
Join us for a night of music, spoken word and visual arts as students from Piedmont collaborate with Bay Area favorite Mingus Amungus for a night of creative exploration and celebration. This all-star jazz band will be joined by Together 
We Slam, a group of talented Piedmont middle and high school students, who also performed at our recent MLK Jr. Day celebration.

The event is produced and sponsored by the Piedmont Appreciating Diversity Committee (PADC) and proceeds will benefit PADC’s Grants program. The PADC grants program typically awards between $8,000 and $10,000 a year to fund educational projects that support and promote diversity and inclusiveness in our schools and community.


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