Saturday, June 28, 2025
7:30 PM
A musical collective made up of Grammy®-nominated and award-winning musicians from around the Bay Area, Vitamin Em celebrates jazz, funk, R&B, soul and fiddle music with enthusiasm. Founded in 2016 by violist Emily Onderdonk, Vitamin Em presents a broad and exciting range of improvisatory styles of music to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond.
The band is serious about having fun, and its members, steeped in an abundance of musical traditions – jazz, funk, blues, Klezmer, indie, rock, Balkan, fiddle, classical – bring a wealth of experience, creativity and fearless improvisation to each performance. Vitamin Em is about sharing with audiences a fun-loving spontaneity and exhilaration for the groove.
Vitamin Em has appeared around the Bay Area as featured artists with Mason Bates and Mercury Soul, Berkeley Symphony & Friends, Crowden Music Center’s Sundays @ 4, Epworth Community Concerts, NPR’s Says YOU! and at the Piedmont Piano Company, Throckmorton Theater, Pt. Richmond Jazz, The Back Room, Piedmont Center for the Arts.
Members can also be found performing, recording or touring with artists like Jon Batiste, The Who, Beyoncé, Santana, Bob Weir, Hot Club of San Francisco, Brothers Comatose, Wayne Shorter, the Klezmatics…or with the San Francisco Opera and Ballet orchestras, at SF Jazz, and recording movie soundtracks at Skywalker Sound.
Composers in their own right, Vitamin Emmers have contributed works to the SF Symphony, the SF Chamber Orchestra, Turtle Island Quartet, Cirque du Soleil, and many others.
What stands out about all Vitamin Emmers is their strong drive to push the boundaries of their field, try new things, establish their own voices, and above all have fun doing it.
Doors open 7:00 PM, shows start promptly, please arrive on time.
Please note:
- Refreshments will be served before the show and through the end of intermission and can be consumed inside the hall. Refreshments are not served after intermission. Please return bottles, cups, and cans to the refreshment window before returning to your seat.
- Per our ABC licensing requirements alcohol must be always kept inside the hall. No outside wine and beer are allowed.
- We have increased our hall ventilation. Dress warmly on a cold day.
*Member Price is for current members only. Membership status will be confirmed and if necessary, the ticket price will be adjusted upon arrival at check-in, before seating.