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Cowboy Mouth
New Orleans alternative rock band Cowboy Mouth formed in 1990, with diverse influences including blues, punk, funk, country, pop and soul. The group may be best known for the song “Jenny Says,” and currently features frontperson and drummer Fred LeBlanc, guitarist John Thomas Griffith, bassist Brian Broussard and guitarist Frank Grocholski. Opening for Cowboy Mouth at their upcoming show at the Guild is surf-rock band The Deadlies.
Aug. 14, 8 p.m., The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park; $42-$181; guildtheatre.com.
Talk and dance demo with Dr. Farima Berenji
Farima Berenji is a performing artist, choreographer, educator and scholar specializing in Iranian mysticism and ethnochoreology. The founder of Dance of the Soul, she comes to Feldman’s Books to present her book, “Companions of the Sun: History and Mystery of Iranian Sacred Dance, Music and Rituals.” In addition to her lecture, she will demonstrate sacred movements, including Sufi turning.
Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m., Feldeman’s Books, 1075 Curtis St., Menlo Park; free; eventbrite.com.
Goose
Genre-blending American rock band Goose (Rick Mitarotonda on vocals and guitar, Peter Anspach on vocals, keys and guitar, Trevor Weekz on bass and Cotter Ellis on vocals and drums) comes to Stanford for a performance at Frost Amphitheater. Goose’s most recent album is “BIG MODERN!”, released this year, following 2025’s “Chain Yer Dragon” and “Everything Must Go” (the band’s debut record, “Moon Cabin,” came out in 2016).
Aug. 15, 6 p.m., Frost Amphitheater, 351 Lasuen St., Stanford; general admission $74.43; live.stanford.edu.
Toto, Christopher Cross and The Romantics
Long-running rock band Toto (“Africa,” “Rosanna”) has joined forces with soft-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Christopher Cross (“Sailing”) and power-pop and new-wave group The Romantics (“What I Like About You”) for a summer tour that makes a stop in Mountain View this month.
Aug. 15, 6:45 p.m., Shoreline Amphitheatre, One Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View; prices vary depending on area; ticketmaster.com.
Shakespeare in the Park
The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival brings its free outdoor production of “Antony and Cleopatra” to Redwood City this month. Directed by Katja Rivera, the production follows the turbulent relationship between Roman general Mark Antony and Egyptian queen Cleopatra, set amid the political conflict between Rome and Egypt. The production runs approximately 90 minutes without an intermission, and no tickets or previous familiarity with Shakespeare are required.
Saturdays and Sundays, 6 p.m., Aug. 15-30 at Red Morton Park, 1120 Roosevelt Ave, Redwood City; free admission; sfshakes.org
Andrew Sean Greer
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer — known best for his comic novel “Less” — discusses his latest book “Villa Coco” at Kepler’s Books. The novel is set in the Italian countryside and follows an aspiring archivist who takes a job cataloging the art and antiques of a flamboyant 92-year-old baroness. Surrounded by eccentric aristocrats and mysteriously disappearing antiques, he becomes swept into an unexpected romance and a final search for lost love. The novel blends humor, warmth and Mediterranean adventure while exploring the questions of identity and how seriously people should take themselves.
Aug. 19, 7-8 p.m. at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real #100, Menlo Park. eventbrite.com
