This event is one mile west of California Memorial Stadium plan for a 30 minute walk with a slight uphill when you head to the game. Photos courtesy of Cornerstone (Photo: Kelly J. Cornerstone Berkeley is a 5-minute walk from the Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza. The shows are great, the food is tasty, the vibe is laid-back, and the beer is world-beating. Any place that can turn a music venue into a games room (not only ping pong, but corn-hole and giant Jenga too) outside showtimes, and make it feel like its all part of the vibe, is a treasure. The venue makes you feel welcome almost immediately, the ambiance is warm and homely, and there’s a genuine home-spun feel to the place which isn’t contrived. This is – and it’s no idle boast – the biggest selection of beer in Berkeley.Ĭornerstone sits in a sweet-spot you may not have realized you wanted until you see it: it’s laid-back without being scuzzy, exciting without being overbearing, well-crafted without drowning in smugness.
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There’s no doubting the thought that goes into the beer here: two full bars, forty-two beer taps, and a constantly-changing roster of beers drawn from 100 breweries. The restaurant is a great option before the show: the food is great, with generous portions of food that brings some thought and inventiveness to the great global tradition of food with beer: cheese and cured meats, soft pretzels for a central European vibe, and only-in-America beauties including BBQ pork belly nachos and mozzarella-stuffed meatballs.īut the deal with Cornerstone is that while the music is great and the food delicious, the beer is world-beating.
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Shows are usually all-ages (with a fair minimum age of 6 years old), and when dining in the Shattuck restaurant, designated drivers get free soda and coffee. family is still committed to using the finest ingredients from all over the world ensuring that quality remains the cornerstone of the Porto tradition. For a great music venue, Cornerstone is surprisingly accessible and friendly: an intimately designed space offers everyone in the 500-person audience space a place to belong with the artists and their peers, with early entry and ADA accessible certification. This is no small thing when you’ve got reggae newcomer HIRIE, Ozomatli and Jurassic 5 legend Cut Chemist, and so-hot-right-now Wolf Alice on the upcoming shows list. Start with the hardware for the audiophiles: the central room has a three-way subcompact line array system which is paired with 12000 HD amplifiers and a state-of-the-art soundboard. Spread out over 13,000 square feet, Cornerstone is a treat. Posted on JJoin Our Mailing List Just Announced Ian Santillano w/ Hear In Color & Clover Hail The Sun: The Divine Inner Tension Tour The Latin Dead feat. Patrons enjoy a beer on the gorgeous patio of The Cornerstone in Berkeley
Cornerstone is the rare example of the great venue done well. Pictures & Write up by Eye Ree for Worldareggae.Berkeley isn’t poor in great music venues – from the Alternative Music Foundation to the celebratory vibe of the Ashkenaz, from the highbrow of UC Berkeley’s several performance spaces to the somehow old-school Greek Theatre, the town has musical heritage in its bloodstream, and Cornerstone, with a music venue on Durant Ave and a restaurant with its frontage on Shattuck Ave, is an exciting addition to the scene.Ĭornerstone’s positioned itself to bridge a gap in services in a way which could feel a bit contrived (not only craft beer, but a high-end sound system! Also ping-pong!) but it’s no pretender in any of the things it wants to be known for. They are all currently touring the US west coast on the 2019 Put On An Iron Shirt Tour with Max and Azizzi. If you love classic roots and good dub (like me) these are your guys. These guys are relatively new to me but have been around for a while. But his command on the microphone is all business. Azizzi did his own set of tunes and it was obvious he will be part of the new wave of talented reggae artists from here on out. Chase The Devil, War Inna Babylon, One Step Forward…you get the idea.
He performed what seemed like an endless wave of hit after hit.
It continued until finally Max acknowledged with a “I love you too Berkeley.” In the 40+ year career of foundation artist Max Romeo, this was the first time ever he made his way to the California city. See, for example, John Walton Caughey, Gold is the Cornerstone (Berkeley.
The cheering didn’t stop at the usual place between songs. 2 Tom Cole, A Short History of San Francisco (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2014). It was obvious the crowd was happy to see him. Impressions of Max Romeo and Dubtonic Kru at Cornerstone Berkeley, Sunday March 31, 2019.
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