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This week, catch performances by indie folk singer-songwriter Haley Heynderickx, accordionist and composer Alejandro Brittes, and jazz flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson and browse handcrafted, one-of-a-kind items at FabMo’s Artisan Market. Plus, celebrate the Grateful Dead with two different events: Jerry Garcia Night at Feldman’s Books features musical performances and scenes from a new play about the band, then at Kepler’s Books, hear recollections about the band’s early days on the Peninsula with a talk about a 1960s manuscript written by late Grateful Dead lyricist Rob Hunter.
Haley Heynderickx
Indie folk singer-songwriter Haley Heynderickx comes to the Guild for a concert co-presented by Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Heynderickx released her first album, “I Need to Start a Garden,” in 2018. According to the Guild, she takes influence from her Filipino-American upbringing, 1960s and ’70s folk music, jazz and the acoustic guitar styles of Leo Kottke and John Fahey. Opening the show will be LéPonds, the solo project of California experimental folk musician Lisa Houdei, who’s released four albums and compares her song styles to Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega. $2 from each ticket sold benefits Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.
Oct. 6, 7 p.m., The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park; $45.20-$112.40; guildtheatre.com.
Alejandro Brittes
Acclaimed accordionist and composer Alejandro Brittes is known as a masterful interpreter of music of the Argentine Littoral region. According to Stanford Live, The Boston Globe has called him “the premier exponent of chamamé” a centuries-old genre with roots in the meeting of the native Guaraní cultures of South America with Baroque musical influences transported during the colonial period. He’ll perform at Stanford with his group (André Ely on seven-string guitar and Carlos de Césaro on double bass).
Oct. 4, 7 p.m., The Studio, Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford; $15-$45; live.stanford.edu.
Elsa Nilsson/Band of Pulses
Jazz flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson originally hails from Sweden, moved to Seattle, where she earned her bachelor’s degree from Cornish College of the Arts and eventually ended up in New York City, where she’s an adjunct professor at The New School College of Performing Arts. According to her website, “Her music imbibes the energy of rock ‘n’ roll, the cadence of street protest, the visceral improvisations of Jazz and the compositional language of classical music.” She’ll perform in Palo Alto at a show sponsored by Earthwise Productions with Band of Pulses, a group featuring Nilsson, Santiago Leibson, Marty Kenney and Rodrigo Recabarren that was the recipient of the 2022 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant. On Oct. 11, Nilsson will release the second installment of “Atlas Of Sound,” a project exploring humankind’s relationship to place. “Quila Quina -40°17’38.21”N, -71°45’68.48”S,” a collaboration with Leibson, was written in Patagonia and involves descriptions of local ecosystems, art by Maia Heidel and poetry by Pukem Inayao.
Oct. 5, 8:30 p.m., Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto; $20; eventbrite.com.
FabMo Artisans Market
Find handcrafted items made from textiles, leathers, wallpaper, tiles, and other materials saved from the landfill by FabMo at the FabMo Artisans Market. FabMo is an organization that collects and preserves materials from designer showrooms that would otherwise be thrown away and gives them new life by making them available to the public to use. One-of-a-kind items for sale at the artisans market include whimsical stuffed animals, colorful bags, jewelry, accessories and much more.
Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Los Altos Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos; fabmo.org/artisans-market.
Grateful Dead-centric events at Feldman’s and Kepler’s
The Grateful Dead is an iconic band with roots on the Peninsula, and local Deadheads have two Menlo Park bookshop events at which to celebrate this October.
On Oct. 5, Feldman’s Books will host a Jerry Garcia night, celebrating the life and music of the late frontman. The event is presented in collaboration with the Magic Theatre and Culture Clash and takes place near the site where the Grateful Dead, in their earlier incarnation as the Warlocks, reportedly played their first concert at Magoo’s Pizza Parlor in 1965. Musicians including Steve Wyreman, Joshua Raoul Brody and David Gans will perform, and there will be select scenes from Richard Montoya’s upcoming jukebox musical “Jerry Garcia in the Lower Mission.” Montoya and Gans will also offer a talkback session about Garcia’s lasting legacy. Later, Bistro Vida’s owner will give a private tour in advance of the opening of his new cocktail bar, Loretta, located at the former home of Magoo’s.
Oct. 5, 6-8 p.m., Feldman’s Books, 1075 Curtis St., Menlo Park; $39.19; eventbrite.com.
On Oct. 7, Gans and author Dennis McNally will discuss “The Silver Snarling Trumpet,” a manuscript written in the 1960s about the birth of the band and its early days around Palo Alto by the late Grateful Dead lyricist Rob Hunter, at an event at Kepler’s, a fitting locale when considering the bookshop’s relationship to the band. “Roy Kepler and the staff at his bookstore in Menlo Park allowed us to exist in an intellectual atmosphere with a built-in library,” Hunter wrote in the manuscript, which offers a snapshot into the band’s early days and the local scene, as well as Hunter’s thoughts on creativity and collaboration, according to Kepler’s site.
Oct. 7, 7 p.m., Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (virtual admission via Zoom is also available); $16.74-$51.39; eventbrite.com.
