Upcoming Shows
April Bay Area Jazz & Groove Calendar
Thursday, April 27
On Monday April 27, Bird and Beckett Cultural Legacy will be having a fundraiser at Proposition Chicken in West Portal. They’ve got delicious tofu options as well! I’ll be leading my trio of Giulio Xavier and Malachi Whitson, bass n drums respectively. 8-9pm, then heading over to the Woods Lowside Jammiversary put on by Lucien Muir, til 10 but hopefully later.
May
Sat 2 keys late night 10:30 w/ simon rowe
Fri 8 tipples 6pm and 9pm sets, two different bands. First with a great singer from LA named Nic Jackson, then a great saxophonist Kazemde George!
Sat 9 oakmont with Larry Vuckovich, 7pm
Thu 14 keys jazz bistro with great bassist Amina from NOLA
Fri 15 keys jazz bistro – Ritmo y Voz – 9pm
Sat 16 tipples with klipple 9pm
Sat 23 dawn club w/ klipple 8-midnight
Sunday 24 parading with Loco Bloco (musical directors Chris Aschman and the one and only Will Martins) from 24th and Bryant to 18th-ish and Misson. Grand stand seats next to the judges near 20th and Mission available for about 30 bucks each. SF Carnaval!
Sat 30 6pm tipples with dan white, saxophonist of the huntertones, then 9pm with sami stevens, singer for norah jones.
May 31 cmc performathon sometime between 2-5pm. Great fundraiser for a great cause. Might be flying out Sinsonte for this one. Stay tuned!!
That’s all for now folks!
Kai
About
Kai Lyons is from the Excelsior District of San Francisco and was surrounded by music and community from an early age. He completed his studies at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in 2012 as the first to graduate from the acclaimed Classical Guitar Program, directed by Scott Cmiel. From 2012-2014, on full scholarship, Kai attended the prestigious jazz program at William Paterson University of New Jersey, directed by Mulgrew Miller. He studied with Vincent Herring, Gene Bertoncini, Harold Mabern, Rich Perry, and Hal Galper. Kai received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from San Francisco State University where he studied with Andrew Speight, Michael Zisman and Hafez Modirzadeh.
Ever since returning to the Bay Area in 2015, he has freelanced extensively and also traveled frequently to New York City, New Orleans, Brazil, Cuba and the Caribbean on music trips. In 2018 he participated in Master Class: Orff-Afrique 2018 in Ghana, Africa.
Besides working with his own trio, Kai has performed with Mike Clark and Donald Harrison of Herbie Hancock’s Original Headhunters, The San Francisco Ballet and the 2024 production of Carmen composed by Arturo O’Farrill, Karl Perazzo, John Santos, award-winning organist Wil Blades and Larry Vuckovich.
