Lambert premieres a good old fashioned musical variety show: great music, fun stories, and some of the coolest guest stars.

A breakout star of Honey Mahogany's Black Thursday, Lambert opens The Roar Shack's third season with a show of their very own.

With support from The Living Earth Show, Lambert has created a good old fashioned musical variety show. Expect a night of great music, fun stories, and some of the coolest guest stars.

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Danny Clay's latest release played live--with Doug Machiz, cello.

About the piece: Piano on tape loops and cello. Released on IIKKI as part of a book featuring the photography of Gunnar Smoliansky. Cello by Doug Machiz.

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About Danny Clay: I’m a composer and arts educator based in San Francisco. As both a creator and a teacher, I collaborate with curious people of all ages - from kindergarteners to professionals - to design playful arts experiences that foster creativity, community, and connection.

As a composer, I devise situations where simple inquiries about sound and other forms of media are transformed into immersive sandboxes for collective discovery, often with the help of collaborators from a range of artistic backgrounds and experience levels. My work takes the form of concert music, albums, sound installations, films, video games, printed zines, and everything in between.

As an arts educator, I aim to provide resources that encourage agency and growth through creative challenges and invitations. In addition to teaching classes, lessons, and workshops related to music and arts integration, I’m deeply interested in creating curriculum resources for students, educators, and institutions alike in the form of lesson plans, videos, and interactive web widgets.

PeachOut Productions and The Living Earth Show celebrate the darkly dramatic world of goth music.

Lineup TBA.

PeachOut Productions returns with Rock Out Volume 4: Gagged by Goth, an electrifying collaboration with The Living Earth Show that celebrates the darkly dramatic world of goth music. Following the success of their previous Rock Out performances, Peaches Christ and Edwin Outwater of PeachOut reunite with Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show to transform The Roar Shack into a live concert experience drag spectacular (lineup TBA). Join us for an unforgettable evening of haunting melodies, big emotions, and beautifully dark music and glamour. Doors open at 6:45, and the show begins promptly at 7:30.

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Del Sol Quartet brings the music of Julius Eastman to the Roar Shack.

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On Julius Eastman: The Nation

San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet believes that music can, and should, happen anywhere - screaming out Aeryn Santillan’s Makeshift Memorials from a Mission District sidewalk or a rural high school, bouncing Ben Johnston’s microtonal Americana off the canyon walls of the Yampa River or the hallowed walls of Library of Congress, bringing Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio home to the island detention barracks or across the Pacific to the Singapore International Arts Festival. Del Sol’s performances provide the possibility for unexpected discovery, sparking dialogue and bringing people together.

Since 1992, Del Sol has commissioned or premiered hundreds of works by composers including Terry Riley, Tania León, Frederic Rzewski, Vijay Iyer, Mason Bates, Pamela Z, Chinary Ung, Chen Yi, Andy Akiho, Erberk Eryilmaz, Theresa Wong, and Reza Vali. They especially value their ongoing relationship with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, California.

Huang Ruo - A Dust in Time, Del Sol’s eleventh album, was described in the New York Times as “excavations of beauty from the elemental.” Recent Del Sol recordings include The Resonance Between, a collaboration with North Indian musicians Alam Khan & Arjun Verma, SPELLLING and The Mystery School with Oakland magical-futurist pop phenomenon SPELLLING, and their podcast “Sounds Current,” an official selection of the Tribeca Festival.

delsolquartet.com / @delsolquartet

Benjamin Kreith & Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violins

Charlton Lee, viola

Kathryn Bates, cello

A night of live fantasy synthesizer music with Refusa, Frogknight, Reyhan, and Chitin Shield. Dress to quest!

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Prepare to quest!

Edge of the Wild Records is bringing another night of fantasy synthesizer music to San Francisco. Gather your party on Thursday October 29 at The Roar Shack Gather your party! Three days before All Hallows’ Eve!

With vile and treacherous spellcraft by the great

REFUSA, GODDESS OF TRASH – jaunty post-food synth by @refusagoddessoftrash
FAUNALOTH – a dark dungeon music trio with bagpipes by @loudsoundclub
FROGKNIGHT – comfy synth about a frog in Lothorien by @frogknightmusic
REYHAN – oldschool dungeon synth by newcomer @reyhan.songcraft

What’s dungeon synth, you ask? Fantasy synthesizer music. Think: film and video game soundtracks with the aesthetics of black metal, cloaks, and lots of fog. You’ll love it.

So get ready for a fun night! Dress to quest (costumes encouraged but optional), listen to some epic live dungeon synth, and support local artists!

Thursday October 29

The Roar Shack

34 7th Street, San Francisco

Doors: 6:45

Music: 7:30

$20 at the door (suggested)

See you there!

Hank Dutt and Kate Campbell play Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Fodé Lassana Diabaté.

The Dutt Campbell Duo, are thrilled to perform their program “Metamorphosis” for you at the Roar Shack, in one of the duo's first concerts in the Bay Area. 

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“Metamorphosis” features music by Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, and others. The title reflects the change we are undergoing as musicians, shifting into the Duo form of viola and piano, a new, inspiring configuration for both of us. “Metamorphosis” is also the title of one of our signature pieces by Philip Glass, with whom we both share a strong connection.

About the Dutt Campbell Duo: With an energizing and adventurous repertoire focusing on both new works by living composers and contemporary classics, the Dutt Campbell Duo unites the talents and vision of two prominent figures in today’s new music: violist Hank Dutt, who performed with the three-time Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet for nearly 50 years; and pianist Kate Campbell, a current member of the groundbreaking San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the West Coast’s largest and longest-running new music ensemble.

Given their focus on contemporary works, it’s fitting that Campbell and Dutt were introduced to each other (in 2024) by a noted composer—Mary Kouyoumdjian, whose alternately elegiac and turbulent Children of Conflict: A Boy with a Makeshift Toy for viola and piano has become a flagship work for the duo. Campbell and Dutt also workshopped their musical partnership early on with a movement—in a new duo arrangement by Dutt—from a Kronos-commissioned work from Dutt’s past, Sunjata’s Time for string quartet and balafon by Malian balafon virtuoso and Trio Da Kali member Fodé Lassana Diabaté.

The duo is committed to commissioning new works, including a forthcoming piece from Kouyoumdjian and compositions by Missy Mazzoli and former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Dutt and Campbell are also ardent supporters of New York’s nonprofit Luna Composition Lab and look forward to premiering a new composition by a Luna Lab alum and to performing additional works by Luna Lab mentors and alumni. Looking to the immediate precursors and influences of many of today’s leading composers, Dutt and Campbell offer their own singular interpretations of now-classic works by the likes of Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Toru Takemitsu, and Benjamin Britten.

About Hank Dutt

The violist of the world-renowned Kronos Quartet for most of his five-decade career, Hank Dutt has been hailed for “exquisitely songlike phrasing” (New York Times) and “one of the most humanly haunting viola sounds around” (Santa Barbara News Press). He has appeared on more than 70 recordings (including three Grammy Award–winners), premiered more than 1,100 new compositions and arrangements, and taken the stages of the world‘s most revered concert venues and festivals thousands of times. He has also shared in numerous other national and international honors, including the Polar Music Prize, Avery Fisher Award, and "Musicians of the Year" from Musical America.

About Kate Campbell

Hailed as a “brilliant pianist” (Financial Times) and “an artist of remarkable commitment and insight” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Kate Campbell has been the pianist of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players for 12 years and regularly collaborates with other new music ensembles like After Everything and Eco Ensemble. Her recent honors include a Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, a distinguished fellowship at Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, and a residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. Her recorded work can be heard on New Amsterdam Records, Pinna Records, and New Focus Recordings. She currently serves on the collegiate faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

— Artist Bio by Matthew Campbell

https://www.duttcampbellduo.com/

Experimental music, noise, and one-night installations launch Ratskin Records' 20th-anniversary series.

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Ratskin Records is excited to launch a new ongoing music series at The Roar Shack in San Francisco. Centered on adventurous live performances and pop up installations in celebration of Ratskin Records 20th anniversary. The series will showcase experimental music, noise, electronic, avant-garde, and genre-defying artists from the Bay Area and beyond, creating a recurring home for adventurous sounds and creative community, co curated by Ratskin Records in collaboration with Bay Area multidisciplinary artist Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt.

Each installment over the next year will feature a curated lineups incorporating special one-night only installations that complement the live performances and pull from both past and future Ratskin projects bringing in twenty plus years of collaborations . The series will also include a Ratskin Records pop-up shop featuring new and archival releases, books, zines, prints, apparel, and exclusive 20th anniversary merchandise, giving audiences the opportunity to explore two decades of independent music and artist-led publishing. There will be a special release produced that will only be available at these special events.

The first installment happens November 6th - lineup announced September 1st - until then, it’s a secret!

More than a concert series, this unique collaboration aims to build on the communal aspect of Outsider Sounds & Visions and continue to establish The Roar Shack as a destination for forward-thinking live music and art intersecting with a community rooted in togetherness and outsider out in San Francisco.

Ratskin.org

Co Curated By: Ratskin Records & Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt

A provocative live reimagining of the creation story, starring Boyfriend and featuring the voices of Billy Porter, Big Freedia, Jake Shears,

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Blending provocative storytelling with genre-bending music, In the Garden explores identity, autonomy, temptation, and rebellion. As Eve questions her role in a world created for her, she confronts the consequences of desire, knowledge, and freedom — reframing one of humanity’s oldest stories through a fiercely contemporary lens.

The production stars Boyfriend as Eve and features the voices of Tony and Grammy winner Billy Porter as Narrator, New Orleans icon Big Freedia as God, Jake Shears as Adam, and legendary feminist performance artist Peaches as the Serpent.

Bold, theatrical, and unapologetically original, In the Garden is part concert, part musical, and entirely unforgettable.

Cast

BOYFRIEND ……………. Eve

Featuring the voices of:

BILLY PORTER ………… Narrator

BIG FREEDIA ………….. God

JAKE SHEARS …………. Adam

PEACHES ……………… Serpent

LISTEN TO IN THE GARDEN:

https://orcd.co/xointhegarden

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Raw, provocative, fan favorites, deep cuts, and surprise guests before the alter ego retires.

Boyfriend’s 15 Year Celebration brings it all back to where it started: small clubs, sweaty rooms, and gloriously provocative, raw performance. This intimate farewell show dives into fifteen years of Boyfriend’s world, trading spectacle for closeness as she tears through fan favorites, deep cuts, and the songs that built a cult following — with the occasional surprise guest dropping in along the way. It’s a last-chance, up‑close communion with the character before she returns to her role as an alter ego.

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Queer rap-metal mayhem: COMMANDO returns for a rare live performance.

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Featuring five of the most powerful queer vocalists in California music history–Juba Kalamka (Deep Dickollective), Lynnee Breedlove (Tribe 8, The Homobiles), Drew Arriola Sands (Trap Girl), Krylon Superstar (Double Duchess), and Honey Mahogany (San Francisco Democratic Party)–COMMANDO simultaneously confronts our shared cultural past while making music unlike anything that has come before it.

Quarterbacked by a rhythm section of bassist Van Jackson-Weaver and virtuosic San Francisco experimental chamber duo The Living Earth Show (drummer Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews), COMMANDO synthesizes rock, punk, hip hop, experimental music, metal, screaming, shredding, and poetry create something entirely unique.

A new macabre holiday show built by Peaches Christ, David Flower, and The Living Earth Show.

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Peaches Christ is a San Francisco–based filmmaker, event producer, and theatre creator renowned for fusing drag, horror, and cult cinema into large-scale live experiences.

A new macabre holiday show built by Peaches Christ, David Flower, and The Living Earth Show.

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Peaches Christ is a San Francisco–based filmmaker, event producer, and theatre creator renowned for fusing drag, horror, and cult cinema into large-scale live experiences.

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Classic brings music, movement, and the personal histories of the performers into playful conversation, using the idea of “canon” as a lens through which artists explore the traditions, influences, and knowledge that shape their practice. Through rigorously structured improvisational scores and curated musical remixes, the work creates a dynamic space for virtuosity, individuality, irony, and surprise to emerge. Rather than presenting fixed choreography, Classic highlights the dancers’ extraordinary skills, instincts, and wealth of knowledge, revealing each artist as both interpreter and author.

BODYSONNET (2019) is a New York-based company committed to site-responsive work. Led by Co-Founders Moscelyne ParkeHarrison (AD) and Mio Ishikawa (AAD), BODYSONNET initiates projects that center dance to yield highly physical works unique to the communities with which we engage. Our work demonstrates the intersection of movement with many mediums through collaboration with local artists and institutions. We redefine the viewer’s experience by developing innovative work that reinforces our shared humanity.

BODYSONNET has presented more than 25 original works for site-specific locations, film, and fixed mediums in The Berkshires (MA), Cologne (Germany), The Hudson Valley, NYC, San Francisco, Northwest Arkansas, and online.

@bodysonnet_

https://www.bodysonnet.org/