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Charito
Vocalist Charito may be best known in Japan, where she has built her career, but the artist, who was born and raised in The Philippines, is often on the road, as well, touring internationally through Asia, and North and South America. The singer is in town for an intimate two sets at Meyhouse Palo Alto. Her rich, warm tone lends both brightness and depth to repertoire that spans a variety of genres, from jazz standards to the American songbook to pop. Charito has released 16 albums, including collaborations with the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, Brazilian musician Ivan Lins and French composer Michel Legrand, and she also recorded an album of songs by Michael Jackson. Her most recent album, “When Summer Comes,” was released in 2021 and highlights a blend of jazz, pop and standards, with tracks such as Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You,” John Lennon’s “Imagine” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
June 7, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., at Meyhouse Palo Alto, 640 Emerson St., Palo Alto; $50; meyhousejazz.com.
Mads Tolling and the Mads Men with Tony Lindsay
Multi-Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer Mads Tolling has performed at prestigious venues across the United States and even in front of Danish royalty. Peninsula audiences can catch him at The Guild Theatre, teaming up with fellow multiple Grammy-winner Tony Lindsay, former vocalist for Santana. Originally from Copenhagen, trained at the Berklee College of Music and now Bay Area-based, Tolling’s known for his new takes on jazz classics and his original compositions, including some inspired by Norse mythology. Tolling, joined by his ensemble and Lindsay, will give a fresh spin to ’60s jazz for this show.
June 6, 8 p.m., at The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. $40-$56. guildtheatre.com.
How Design and Architecture Change the World
Kepler’s Books hosts a panel discussion with four designers and architects whose work is highlighted in a trio of hardcover design books published in recent years: “New View California: A Curated Visual Gallery,” “modish: the book of great design” and “/be-spōk/ [bespoke]: a philosophy of beauty.” Beth Buckley, founder of boutique publishing house benton buckley books, which published these titles, will moderate the panel, which explores how architecture and design shape modern life. The panel features Neal J.Z. Schwartz of founder of SˆA | Schwartz and Architecture, specializing in modern architecture; Antonina Markoff, founder of Markoff Fullerton Architects, focused on sustainability in architecture; Kari McIntosh, founder of Keri McIntosh Design, specializing in bringing a modern touch to heritage homes; and Kelly Hohla, founder of Kelly Hohla Interiors, known for creating personal, harmonious spaces for clients. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and a reception.
June 7, 4-6 p.m., at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, #100, Menlo Park; $15; keplers.org.
Bay Choral Guild
The choir concludes its season with “If Music be the Food of Love,” a program celebrating the good and important things in life: “the divinity and necessity of music, the joys and struggles of love, and the blessings of food,” as an event description states. The concert spans centuries of music, sacred and secular, from Renaissance motets by Palestrina and Tomkins to a work by 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, whose settings of a poem inspired by a famed Shakespeare quote gives the concert its name. The concert also features compositions by living composers, including “Canticum Novum” by Swiss-Italian jazz pianist and choral composer Ivo Antognini and Kate Crellin’s “Song is Not Dead,” a pop-inspired setting of a Victorian-era poem. Sanford Dole, director of the Bay Choral Guild, will give a preview lecture before each performance.
June 8, 4:30 p.m. (lecture at 4 p.m.) at First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto. Also June 7, 7:30 p.m. (lecture at 7 p.m.) at Campbell United Methodist Church, 1675 Winchester Blvd., Campbell; $25-$30; baychoralguild.org.
