Zoe Jakes and Coven are taking a "belly dance show" and throwing a clown box at it, and inviting YOU to participate!! So you want to be a Belly Dancer??? Sign up to take part in the show.. We pull names out of a hat.. if it's your name.. Then you are now IN the Show!!!
Tammy's Camaro was spawned from the artistically fertile avenues of Oakland. The prolific power octet reproduces solar plexus-punishing, pulsating rock from every era for hours, turning any party or performance into a gyrating frenzy. Dance. Drink. Revive. Repeat. Viva fun.
The Uptown Nightclub presents Bay Area rock bands Zed (San Jose),STIMULI (Oakland), La Fin Absolute du Monde (Oakland) & HalphoriO (Oakland).
The Active Music Series (AMS) presents performances of experimental notation, conduction, noise, compositions with improvisation, avant jazz, free improvisation, chamber, electronic & electroacoustic music.
We're back next Wednesday with a TOP SHELF LINEUP featuring: Matt Gubser (SF Punchline, Cobb's Comedy Club) Amy Miller (Last Comic Standing) & David Studebaker! (SF Weekly's Top 10 Comics to Watch) including regulars Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin!
This Is My Fest 3! comes to the Uptown with 11 bands and 2 stages, featuring Get Dead, Heartsounds, Switchblade Riot (reunion show) and many more. Visit timfestoakland.com for more information and tickets!
A regular weekly event offering live local music, Taropy with Miss Ginger and delicious cocktails. There is no cover and much magic. Music from 8 to 10pm.
We are back next Wednesday 9/21 featuring a fiery lineup including the hilarious: Walker Glenn (Savage Henry Comedy Festival) Phil Griffiths (SJ Improv, Rooster T Feathers) Emily Van Dyke! (SF Sketchfest, SF Punchline) and special guests!!!
Don't miss the return of Dead Prez to the Uptown! Dead Prez, stylized as dead prez, is a hip hop duo from the United States, composed of stic.man and M-1, formed in 1996 in New York City.
Together with Empathy FX International, Alumni Dance Collective is hosting our first performance event featuring a number of contemporary and urban dance small groups, duet, and solo performances from dancers around the Bay Area.
Hubba Hubba Revue is back with an Oktoberfest themed night of music, burlesque and more! Featuring music by the beer-powered Philip Der Stein Sextet.
A regular weekly event offering live local music, Taropy with Miss Ginger and delicious cocktails. There is no cover and much magic. This week featuring the cabaret-folk rock melodies of Alzara & Brother Spellbinder. Music from 8 to 10pm.
A night of folk, indie and pop from up-and-coming Bay Area artists Annie Bacon & Her Oshen, Thunderegg, On Dolphin and Maximillian!
A night of Bay Area rock bands you won't want to miss: come celebrate Sister Grizzly's EP release with their pals The Shams and Sweetwater Black!
The 1st Tuesday of every month is Queer Sessions, a celebration of local and live performers. Music and more.. Taropy with Miss Ginger and bar treats with Victoria Victrola. Music starts at 8pm. There is no cover and much magic.
Don't miss the best of local indie artists performing on the Uptown stage as part of First Friday in Oakland. No cover! This month featuring: Abbot Kinney, Books on Fate, The Quirk, Life in 24 Frames.
Join us for our monthly celebration of Poetry, Weird Film and Alt Music. There will be Taropy with Miss Ginger and cocktails too. There is no cover and much magic. 7 to 9pm.
The Active Music Series (AMS) presents monthly performances of experimental notation, conduction, noise, compositions with improvisation, avant jazz, free improvisation, chamber, electronic & electroacoustic music.
Live Stand-Up Comedy Showcase every Wednesday 7pm-9pm. Hosted by Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin. FREE event!
Glistening with insight and whimsy, Handmade Moments are a fearless all-weather duo - complementary spirits of musical tightrope and magic - serving up entrée to their secret river of goodness. Free show!!
Bay Area Soul cohorts The Humidors and Midtown Social are teaming up again for a night of ensemble grooves and sweaty funk! This will be a one-two punch for the ages, so come help us get our Friday night dance party on in downtown Oakland!
Fondly known as the girl with the African thumb piano (mbira instrument), Piwai has been wowing American, and Zimbabwean audiences with her reverberating soulful voice, interlaced with catchy, genre fusing melodies and exotically mystifying sounds. There is no cover and much magic.
Live Stand-Up Comedy Showcase every Wednesday 7pm-9pm. Hosted by Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin. FREE event!
Along with the Queen of Halloween herself, Shotzi Blackheart, The World's 2nd Greatest Rock n Roll Band, THE MEMPHIS MURDER MEN, will be doing their special ALL MISFITS set! Cramp-ons will bring The Cramps from the dead! Burlesque! Costume contest and more!
Dressy Bessy is back on tour with their latest album KINGSIZED, the Denver band's first release in 7 years! Featuring Bearcats, Horrible/Adorable and The Total Bettys with DJ Pointdexter (KALX) & Zola Goodrich, plus release party for Yr First Crush zine.
Two Piece Tuesdays is a weekly event offering live local performance and cocktails. There is no cover and much magic.
Live Stand-Up Comedy Showcase every Wednesday 7pm-9pm. Hosted by Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin. FREE event!
Iron Fist Circle Productions presents: Helstar! A night of epic metal at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland with From Hell, Mudface and Wrath of Babylon.
Our gigantic, annual HALLOWEEN BASH at The Uptown Nightclub is back! -- Join the gorgeous ghouls of Hubba Hubba Revue for a tantalizing, terrorizing night of sexy, spooky fun in fabulous Oakland! --with musical guests ROADSIDE MEMORIAL!
Comedy Night at The Uptown is a live stand up comedy showcase located in the heart of downtown Oakland. Each week features some of the best local and traveling comedians as seen on Comedy Central, HBO, Seeso & Viceland. Every show is hosted by local favorites Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin.
Join us every First Friday for a FREE local band showcase! This week featuring The Y Axes, Your Fearless Leader, Aloha Screwdriver and Oakland Stroke! Music starts at 9pm.
Comedy Night at The Uptown is a live stand up comedy showcase located in the heart of downtown Oakland. Each week features some of the best local and traveling comedians as seen on Comedy Central, HBO, Seeso & Viceland. Every show is hosted by local favorites Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin.
Reason to Rebel returns to Oakland, CA for a show at Uptown Nightclub w/Unlikely Heroes & Fellow Wolf. Show starts at 9pm. $6 advance/$8 at the door.
The 45 Sessions presents DJ Z-Trip! Come out to your favorite party featuring all 45s, all day/night -- little records, big sound!
The Active Music Series is focused on presenting new creative jazz and improvised music across the Bay Area. It is dedicated to highlighting the work of artists that embrace experimentalism, are informed by traditions, and demonstrate the confidence to combine complex concepts into unified works.
Comedy Night at The Uptown is a live stand up comedy showcase located in the heart of downtown Oakland. Each week features some of the best local and traveling comedians as seen on Comedy Central, HBO, Seeso & Viceland. Every show is hosted by local favorites Adam Pearlstein, Adrian McNair & Josef Anolin.
Dont miss a special, intimate performance by Cuban rapper, musician, and spoken-word artist Telmary on her visit to Oakland. No cover!
Paufve| dance presents 8x8x8, featuring 8 contemporary dance works by 8 local choreographers, created for the Uptown stage. Paufve | dance created 8x8x8 as a way to bring the raw physicality and urban intelligence of modern dance out of the theater into spaces where dance-goers and those new to dance alike can convene.
From overgrown houses in north Oakland, Trails and Ways make guitar pop, thick with warm noise, driving beats, four voices, and the open chords of bossa nova. Debut album Pathology landed in 2015, earning the band a spot on Barsuk Records and São Paulo's Balaclava Records, and launching the band to shows across North America and Brazil.
A regular event offering live local music and performance, Taropy with Miss Ginger and delicious cocktails. There is no cover and much magic. This week featuring indie-folk duo Solate!
