Filoli’s Summer Stage Concert Series wraps up with blues, jazz

Concerts at Filoli

Filoli Historic House & Garden is closing its Summer Stage Concert Series with a reverend singing the blues and a band playing music from the Roaring ’20s to the Swinging ’60s.

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The Reverend Shawn Amos performs blues and soul on Monday, Aug. 25, and Halsey and the Hi-Hats jazz things up on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

Both shows will run from 7-8:30 p.m. Check-in starts at 5:30 p.m., and the house and garden will be open to visitors prior to the concert. Filoli is located at 86 Cañada Road in Woodside.

Tickets are $55 for general Admission and $125 for VIP at https://filoli.org/summer-stage

Cool hikes

Bay Area Older Adults is hosting events in September to get folks out near the shore where it’s cooler and to help clean up the city.

Birders can take a leisurely two-mile expert-led flat walk out at Shoreline Lake Park on Sept. 10, 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., to see the shorebirds that inhabit the salt marsh, salt ponds, sloughs and mudflats. Binoculars can be borrowed.

A Guadalupe River Cleanup Day is set for Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Volunteers should be prepared to be standing up for the duration of the event. Supplies and tools will be provided in addition to snacks, lunch and a bottle of water.

Learn about the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge and its history, including the endangered species it protects and the different habitats it contains, on a a leisurely three-mile expert-led flat walk on Sept. 24, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

All events include transportation and lunch. For more information and to register, visit https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/september