The San Francisco Brass Quintet returns for their third annual Classical at the Freight concert in a program of exciting music guaranteed to chase those winter blues away. One of the Bay Area's favorite brass quintets since 1984, the SFBQ maintains a busy performing schedule and also tours irregularly. John Pearson and James Dooley (trumpets), Doug Hull (horn), Craig McAmis (trombone), and Forrest Byram (tuba) are known for their polished, high-energy performances. If you haven't heard a brass "band" since the Fourth of July parade, you owe it to yourself to come hear these five virtuosi blow their horns!

Classical at the Freight brings the Bay Area's best classical musicians to the Freight for an hour of top-flight chamber music in an informal, friendly atmosphere. San Francisco Chamber Orchestra music director Benjamin Simon is your host; his goal is to un-stuffify and de-mystify classical music for the general music lover, sharing the joys and rewards of this timeless art with new audiences young and old.