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The Festival will culminate in LOVE and BULLETS: A San Francisco Love Story, a one night fundraising gala on November 12, 2011 starting at 7 pm. All three floors of the house will be enlivened with performances by Russian jazz vocalist Anya Malkiel accompandied by Walter Bankovitch and Ken Okada, erhu by Nevin Tang, tango by Christy Cote and Darren Lees, and the debut of Meridian Xings a twelve instrumentalist musical happening by recent Meridian composer in residence, Søren Kjærgaard. There will be a lecture and exhibition entitled, Overdress and Undress in the Working Life of Tessie Wall by costume historian Erin Algeo. Multi-instrumentalist Freddi Price will be the evenings musical host and raconteur and will later be joined by Allison Lovejoy performing period songs about and around Tessie Wall.
This gala celebrates the Meridian Center for the Arts 21 years of successful service to our community and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of our home and its most famous earlier residents - Tessie Wall and her husband Frank Daroux. Honoring their time in San Francisco history with historic libations and hors d'oeuvres, costumes, sound art and dance.
Cost: $50, buy at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/198706
