Paula West – All about Love
You and your guests are invited to the Marin Jazz-sponsored events at the Lark Theater.
Join us Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 7:30 pm. Love is a many-splendored thing, but in the world of Paula West, it’s also fraught and ferocious, carnal, capricious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. This San Francisco jazz singer thrives in cabaret settings. She will finally come back and perform at Marin Jazz in Larkspur at the Lark Theatre. Her strikingly contemporary show moves seamlessly from Bob Dylan and David Bowie to Irving Berlin and Kurt Weill.
Ms. West is one of our top supporters of Marin Jazz and an artist you just don’t want to miss whenever she plays. Bring your partner and dazzle with a romantic date.
Order your tickets today as they are going fast!
What the press thinks about Paula West:
The New Yorker
“Her style, precise and wistful, let in breezes from a mature world. “Temptation” turns twenty-five this year, and what strikes me at the milestone isn’t just my conviction that the album remains as dazzling as ever but the realization that, in twenty-five years, I have never once stopped listening to it, never taken it from frequent rotation.” — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
SF Gate about Paula West:
She’s considered one of the best jazz artists around, and Dylan, she said, has long been an influence. “I consider him my favorite composer,” she said. “He’s just a genius. I started singing his songs 12 years ago with ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues,’ but the one that I really got into was ‘Like a Rolling Stone.’ I just had to do that one.” She eventually did an all-Dylan concert at SF Jazz. Songs by Joni Mitchell, she said, have also found a significant place in her repertoire.
Paula West
NBC states: “As a frequent musical champion of the standards of the Great American Songbook, West is also known to deep dive into the catalogs of Bob Dylan and the Beatles, among other purveyors of song. Her versions are imbued with a smoky voice and a gift of fleshing out the emotions behind the words, which she’s plied in concerts between San Francisco and New York — in some of those city’s most revered rooms and halls.
Back when West first dipped her toe into San Francisco’s musical waters, most of the hotel bars had pianos, often with jazz trios. She worked five nights a week singing in hotels, bars, and restaurants, gradually honing her craft. The rooms got bigger, and the gigs took her between the East and West Coasts, backed by some of those cities’ top jazz musicians, including longtime collaborator pianist Eric Reed. Her career has taken her to temples of jazz like New York’s Lincoln Center and SF Jazz.”
We thank you in advance for your support of Marin Jazz’s effort to hire a new teacher for our expanding Future Stars, Afternoon Arts Performance Program. Your support allows us to sponsor children’s attendance @ $900/year, regardless of their parents’ income.
Saturday, May 16, 2026, from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
The Lark Theater
549 Magnolia Avenue
Larkspur, CA 94939
Please join us as we end our 2025 year of keeping American Music, including Jazz and Blues, alive. Learn more about the award-winning lineup of musicians and performers for next year by visiting our website at www.marinjazz.com or buying your tickets here.
Support Future Stars
At Marin Jazz, we’re not only committed to creating a vibrant community of artists and music that feeds the soul; we’re dedicated to youth education in the arts.
In mid-2024, Marin Jazz was born from Pied Piper Productions, a theater company and afterschool program for the arts. Their flagship afterschool program, Future Stars, directed by Sonia Perozzi, has continually been a popular and favorite across schools in San Rafael and Novato. However, the needs of local Marin families and the lack of resources for scholarships and teacher pay have been growing. Your help has allowed us to add students to the program. Together we can permit ever more students to sign up.
Did you know that over 40% of Marin County inhabitants live in low-income (14%) or very low-income families (30%)? And that 70% of all income in Marin County is earned by the top 20%? As surprising as this may seem, we experience it firsthand when students are unable to participate in our program due to financial constraints. Let’s come together to help these families with children. Many Marin students tend to fall in the lower-income bracket and need our assistance.
Recognizing the need for arts education, longtime producer and director Todd Ghanizandeh began hosting events to raise funds for the program and for families. Together, Todd and Sonia have the goal for Marin Jazz to create a community of artists and audiences who come together to share their love of the performing arts, all while nurturing and providing for future generations to carry on the torch.
We thank all of you who have helped us through your donations and your attendance at our fundraiser shows. In 2025, we were able to sign up nearly twice as many children for our program, with approximately 1/8 of them fully sponsored. You made this happen! Thank you!
With your donations and support, we hope to hire another part-time teacher to continue expanding this valuable performing arts program for Marin County kids.
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