If you didn’t get into the Side Door last weekend – Thursday, Friday and/or Saturday – you missed some incredible jazz, Cuban salsa, a powerful soul singer and the Palladium’s first-ever Conga Line! This weekend promises to bring even more crowd-pleasing, head-bobbing, finger-snapping, table-thumping, dance-floor-jamming music. If you haven’t[…]
Our audiences already know that the Side Door Cabaret is the best listening room in the bay area. Musicians know it too and our downstairs room is quickly becoming THE place to record a live CD. Palladium favorite Nate Najar (www.natenajar.com) was the first one in the pool, recording his Live at the Side[…]
To celebrate the April birthdays of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, the Palladium is bringing in some top notch-talent from the New York City jazz scene. Amy London, a jazz singer and vocal professor with a Broadway pedigree, will be handling the Ella side. Her husband, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur, will[…]
Thanks to St. Petersburg College, the restoration of the historic Palladium Theater is continuing. While a lot of improvements – like our new air conditioning and wiring – aren’t easy to see, our latest renovation project will be visible to everyone. This week workers are replacing all of our front doors. […]
What you remember about a Roy Book Binder performance is his mastery of delta blues guitar, his knowledge of the genre and its now-legendary performers, and, his dry wit. I first heard Roy in the early 1980s playing at a new-age, vegetarian restaurant north of USF called the Sprout House.[…]
