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New Acoustic Collective
New Acoustic Collective, the Bay Area-based jazz fusion band led by composer and multiinstrumentalist Jason Keiser, is the featured band in the latest edition of Red Rock’s 2nd Story live music series. The group, featuring bluegrass, jazz and classical musicians, explores a variety of acoustic sounds, with influences from many genres.Â
May 31, 7-9 p.m., Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St., Mountain View; suggested donation $15, according to an Instagram post by Red Rock; redrockcoffee.com/2nd-story.
‘Twelfth Night’
Los Altos Stage Company’s production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” features a jazz-funk score with music and lyrics by Shaina Taub, promising a “soulful shake-up” of the classic romantic comedy about mistaken identity, gender confusion, self discovery and true love. It’s a contemporary musical adaptation, conceived by Taub and Kwame Kwei-Armah, about the shipwrecked Viola, who turns up in Illyria on the 12th night of Christmas, disguises herself as a man and falls for a duke.
May 29-June 22, Thursday (and Wednesdays, starting in June)-Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos; $28-$41; losaltosstage.org/twelfth-night.
Music on the Square
Music on the Square, downtown Redwood City’s annual free, al-fresco summer music series, kicks off its 2025 season with a performance by Carnaval, a Santana tribute band. The series runs every Friday evening through Aug. 29 (with the exception of July 4, which has its own downtown holiday celebrations). A Music on the Square kickoff party and fundraiser will precede the May 30 performance, with tastings from local restaurants, a wine and beer cash bar, and live music from Sound Union.
May 30, 6-8 p.m., Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City; free; Kickoff fundraiser 4-6 p.m. on Hamilton Avenue (next to Courthouse Square); redwoodcity.org.
Miranda Liu with Redwood Symphony
Violinist Miranda Liu, celebrated for her technique, returns to the Redwood Symphony’s stage to perform Erich Korngold’s theatrical Violin Concerto, Op. 35. There’s a touch of Hollywood in the piece: The Austrian-born Jewish composer began his music career in his home country, but moved to the United States to write music for early films — many of them rousing adventure movies such as “Captain Blood” — and stayed after the Nazis invaded Europe. This 1945 concerto was Korngold’s first non-film composition since the start of World War II, though it drew on musical themes he had used in his film music, according to the Houston Symphony’s program notes about the work.
Liu, who began playing violin at the age of 3, has performed throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. Though she was born in California, her musical roots are firmly based in Europe. She graduated summa cum laude from the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary, according to her bio, and at just 19, she became concertmaster for the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Liu would go on to found the New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival and Academy in Budapest. Redwood Symphony Founder and Artistic Director Eric Kujawsky will conduct the concerto and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Op. 73. The program will open with Elizabeth Maconchy’s Proud Thames Overture, led by Redwood Symphony Assistant Conductor Kyle Baldwin.
May 31, 8 p.m., at Cañada College Theater, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City,$10-$35 at the door/$12-$33 purchased online in advance; redwoodsymphony.org.
PV Palooza
Back for a fourth installment, this free, all-day summer music festival brings 20 bands and three stages to the Portola Valley Town Center. Audiences can catch a variety of local bands, including Dr. Sig & The Supernaturals, This Way Up, Alec Lytle and Them Rounders, Los Trancolizers, Squirrels of Wisdom and many others, including an hour programmed by Woodside High’s 1.99 Records, according to the schedule. The event also offers food and drink from area restaurants and brewers and browse offerings from local artisan vendors offering everything from jewelry and ceramics to honey.
May 31, 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., at the Portola Valley Town Center, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley; free admission; pvpalooza.com.
South Bay Guitar Society Gala Concert
The longtime local nonprofit dedicated to promoting classical guitar music holds a gala concert at the Museum of American Heritage. Catch solo performances by South Bay Guitar Society board members Josh Friedman, Yuri Liberzon and Bowen Zheng plus the South Bay Guitar Ensemble. The concert aims to raise funds to support the society’s mission of presenting performances by international guitar virtuosos and supporting the local guitar community through musical events and education.
May 31, 2 p.m., at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto; free admission with donations welcome; sbgs.org.
“Sacred Places of the World”
Photographer Frances Freyberg has traveled to over 70 countries and captured everything from wildlife to architecture with her lens. Her “Sacred Places of the World” show at Portola Art Gallery features images of temples from Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia; India’s Taj Mahal and the Mir-i-Arab Madrasa in Uzbekistan; and ruins of sacred places such as Tintern Abbey in Wales and Teotihuacán in Mexico. As the show wraps up its run, the gallery hosts a Meet the Artist day in which visitors can drop by to chat with Freyberg about her work and the differences and similarities she found visiting sacred sites around the globe.
May 31, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Portola Art Gallery at Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. portolaartgallery.com.
Coldplay
British rock band Coldplay comes to Stanford Stadium for two performances as part of its ongoing “Music Of The Spheres” world tour, with support from Willow and Elyanna. Primary tickets are sold out, but resale tickets are still available.
May 31 and June 1, 5:25 p.m.; Stanford Stadium, 625 Nelson Road, Stanford; primary tickets sold out; resale ticket prices vary; events.stanford.edu.
