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Andrew Gilbert

Andrew Gilbert

Los Angeles native Andrew Gilbert is a Berkeley-based freelance writer who covers jazz, roots and international music for publications including the Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Express, San Francisco Classical Voice and Berkeleyside.

The Jewish Folk Chorus, which turns 100 years old this year, performs at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco, May 14, 1939. (Courtesy)
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Jewish Folk Chorus of S.F. celebrates 100 years with renewed energy

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert June 9, 2026June 9, 2026

When Renée Enteen joined the Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco in the mid-1980s, the vocal ensemble was facing an uncertain future.  Founded by socialist-minded Petaluma chicken farmers in 1926 […]

The Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra performs. (Bill Hocker/Courtesy BCCO)
Posted inMusic

Berkeley premiere sings a requiem for the dead of Terezín

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert May 20, 2026May 26, 2026
People sing and play instruments outside
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Sacred jam sessions in East Bay braid religions and cultures

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert October 6, 2025October 7, 2025
Steven Pinker is the author, most recently, of "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life." (Christopher Michel)
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Steven Pinker reflects on his Maimonides moment in a new book

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert September 25, 2025September 25, 2025
Dmitri Gaskin
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KlezCalifornia reboots with a young leader and a big, new festival in Berkeley

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert September 8, 2025September 9, 2025
Music Director Lahav Shani conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. (Shai Skiff)
Posted inMusic

Israel Philharmonic to return to San Francisco with deeply personal program 

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert February 27, 2025March 3, 2025
A black woman sings with a choir in robes behind her
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San Francisco’s Glide church may be the ‘only place where a Jewish girl can run the gospel choir’

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
And old man sits smiling and holding a pair of drum sticks
Posted inMusic

Nothing can stop the 99-year-old drummer behind the Holocaust Survivor Band

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert November 8, 2024November 8, 2024
American Modern Opera Company performs Olivier Messiaen’s “Harawi.” From left: Julia Bullock, Or Schraiber, Bobbi Jene Smith and Conor Hanick. (Hanne Engwald)
Posted inDance

Techniques from Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company infuse ‘Harawi,’ opera premiering in U.S. at UC Berkeley

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert September 18, 2024September 23, 2024
Reider sits playing the accordion. The album cover is superimposed to his left.
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Oakland composer Sam Reider puts Jewish folklore’s most famous monster to music 

Andrew Gilbert by Andrew Gilbert August 23, 2024September 23, 2024

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