Traditional-music mavens from around the country converge for a week of fiddle and banjo tunes, ancient ballads, workshops, sprightly dancing, and lots of jamming.
American Bach Soloists is training dozens of young artists in the discipline of early music performance just as the early music movement itself opens up.
On the eve of the S.F. Electronic Music Festival, intermedia artist Pamela Z talks about her career and the new music community, in which she is now both adventurer and patron saint.