Lily O’Brien is a freelance writer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a passion for music and the performing arts. She has written articles for a variety of online and print publications including DownBeat, the San Francisco Classical Voice, Marin Arts and Culture, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Strings Magazine. She is a singer who has performed professionally in a variety of genres, and an avid world traveler and bicyclist.
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At 21, Sasha Berliner is already an accomplished vibraphonist, composer, bandleader, and performer. In 2018 she won the first Letter One Rising Stars Jazz Award … Read More “Vibraphonist Sasha Berliner Finds Her Own Groove”
The temperature was hot, but the jazz was cool at the Concord Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 3. At the Concord Pavilion, an outdoor venue … Read More “Live Review: 2019 Concord Jazz Festival”
Listen to Veronica Swift scat and you’d swear she’s channeling Ella. Cool, calm, confident, and elegant onstage, the 25-year-old can slide seamlessly from a difficult … Read More “Veronica Swift: Following the Family Route, Exploring Her Own”
