Concerts

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $15.00 – $32.50 (regular price $30 – $65)
March 11, 2010 7:30pm
Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, CA

Ladysmith Black Mambazo gained worldwide renown with an appearance on Paul Simon’s album Graceland, and their uplifting sound came to symbolize the hope of post-apartheid South Africa.

Vonda Shepard (Ally McBeal)

Buy Half Price Tickets Only $22.50 (regular price $45)
April 2 & 3, 2010
Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)

Best known for her role as a nightclub singer on TV’s Ally McBeal, for which she recorded four soundtrack albums, Vonda’s soulful and melodic sound has earned her more than 12 million record sales worldwide.

Paula West

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $20 – $22.50 (regular price $40 – $45)
Mulitple dates in March
Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, CA

Acclaimed Jazz Singer Paula West sings at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, accompanied by the George Mesterhazy Quartet. Paula’s sound is often compared to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne.

Bobby McFerrin

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $12.50 – $22.50 (regular price $25 – $45)
April 10, 2010, 8pm
Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco, CA

Ten Grammy Award-winner McFerrin’s signature is his performance of completely improvised solo concerts using only his voice and his body to create a multi-layered sound, leaving onlookers slack-jawed in disbelief.

Soweto Gospel Choir

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $13.50 – $18.50 (regular price $25 – $35)
Multiple Dates Available
The Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA

The two Grammy Award winning 25-member Soweto Gospel Choir blends traditional, tribal and modern African gospel with Western spiritual sounds.

Circus

Cirque du Soleil Ovo

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $36 – $51 (regular price $60 – $85)
Mulitple dates available
Taylor Street Bridge, San Jose, CA

“Cirque du Soleil’s latest show, OVO, takes you into the colorful little world of insects …”

Under Hearts On Fire (Teatro ZinZanni)

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $79 – $109 (reg. $107.50 – $153.50)

Multiple dates available
Teatro ZinZanni, San Francisco, CA

“Set along San Francisco’s historic waterfront, Teatro ZinZanni is a bewitching evening of European cabaret, cirque, divas and madmen, spectacle and sensuality with live music & a gourmet five-course dinner …”

Sports

Golden State Warriors

Buy Half Price Ticket or better 50% to 75% discount, starting at $12, NO FEES, NO TAXES. Use BAYCHEAP in the Special Offer box.
Multiple Dates Available
Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA

The Golden State Warriors will play several games in 2010, and we’ll just keep adding the best discounts here …

San Francisco Giants – Oakland Athletics

Buy Half-Price Tickets starting at $12 or $13 for the $26 seats
4/4/10 A’s vs. Giants, plus Multiple Dates
The Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA

The Athletics’ season features several young players & former Padres 3rd baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff. Giants led by power hitter Pablo Sandoval …

Shows

Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $18.50 – $31.50 (regular price $37 – $63)
Mulitple dates in March
Roda Theater / Berkeley Rep, Berkeley, CA

Taking its title from a treatise on photography translated into Japanese, the play shifts between the present and the 1880s when a weird new technology first seized the world in freeze frame.

Rajiv Joseph’s Animals Out of Paper

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $20 (regular price $40)
Multiple dates available
The SF Playhouse, San Francisco, CA

“When a world-renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage, hip-hop, origami prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can’t always be neatly arranged …”

Beach Blanket Babylon

Buy Half Price Tickets for only $24 – $25.50 (regular price 48 – $51)
Multiple dates available
Club Fugazi, San Francisco, CA

“This zany musical spoof of pop culture is world-renowned for its extravagant costumes, huge hats and biting satire. Even if you’ve seen it before, you need to see it again …”

Smucker’s Stars on Ice

Buy Half Price Kids Tickets when you use password MUSIC. (Must buy an adult full price ticket  — 2 kids tickets per adult ticket.)
May 23, 2010, 4pm
HP Pavilion, San Jose, CA

Men’s World Champion Evan Lysacek; Olympic Silver Medalists Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto; and Olympic Silver Medalist Sasha Cohen …”

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