California Choro Club: Celebrating 40 Years of SF Carnaval!

Celebrating 40 years of SF Carnaval, the Red Poppy Art House and curator Andrew Scott present two days of Carnaval-inspired performances. On Saturday, California Choro Club brings the upbeat sounds of samba and choro directly from Brazil to San Francisco.
 
FEATURING:
Katia Moraes – vocals
Eduardo Souza – Brazilian guitar
Ted Falcon – violin, mandolin
Rebecca Kleinmann – flute
Ami Molinelli – percussion
 
ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Since arriving from London 30 years ago, Andrew Scott has been an active Bay Area musician, producer, and audio engineer. He runs Studio 401 in Bernal Heights providing recording, mastering, and live-sound services. His wife, Pauline, is a highly regarded local artist, and his children, Chloë and Jody, are established local musicians.
 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Katia Moraes began performing in the 1980s, sharing the stage with the high-energy Brazilian band O Espirito da Coisa. Since then, she has worked with some of the foremost acts around the globe, including Sergio Mendes, Airto Moreira, Oscar Castro-Neves, Rita Lee, Elba Ramalho, Sandy and Junior, Banda Cheiro de Amor, George Duke, Alex Acuña and Justo Almario’s Tolú, Latin Project, and Praful. In 1990, Moraes moved to LA, where she began working as a voiceover artist in film and television. In 2011, she created the annual musical entitled Brazilian Heart, a celebration paying homage to inspiring Brazilian singer-songwriters. (Photo by: Jorge Vismara)

Brazilian guitarist Eduardo Souza performs with the choro group Folha Seca, as well as with Gypsy Jazz Club, Tiago Tunes, Sérgio Morais, and Alessandra Terribili. He leads his own samba trio where he sings original compositions and plays guitar. His musical influences include Chico Buarque, Villa-Lobos, Dilermando Reis, Adoniran Barbosa, Manu Chao, Piazzolla, Bach, Flaming Lips, and Camarón de la Isla.

American violinist, mandolinist, and composer Ted Falcon grew up listening to jazz and the Brazilian music of Villa-Lobos, Tom Jobim, and Luiz Bonfá. He has lived and worked as a professional musician in New York City, Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Brasília. Falcon has written and published several books about Brazilian music for the Escola de Choro Raphael Rabello (Clube do Choro), the nation’s most respected choro school. He has performed with Hermeto Pascoal, Dominguinhos, Armandinho Macêdo, Thiago Espirito Santo, Hamilton de Holanda, and many other incredible Brazilian musicians. In the U.S., Falcon has performed alongside David Grisman and Mike Marshall, and has recorded with Suzanne Vega and Ben E. King.

Rebecca Kleinmann is an acclaimed flutist, singer, and composer with a 20-year professional career marked by diversity and improvisation. An explorer at heart, she rockets and flows between genres, one day leading The Rebecca Kleinmann Jazz Quartet, the next day performing with a Brazilian choro ensemble, and then later at night jamming in flamenco juergas. Kleinmann’s international career has taken her to perform on stages across the globe, including Melbourne’s International Women in Jazz Festival, SESC in São Paulo, Birdland in New York City, Blue Whale in Los Angeles, SF Jazz Center, San Jose Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s San Francisco and Oakland, Piedmont Piano, the Sound Room, Oracle Arena, and the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

Ami Molinelli is a professional percussionist and educator specializing in Brazilian and Latin percussion, especially the pandeiro. She is the co-leader of the Brazilian choro and jazz ensemble Grupo Falso Biano, whose last CD was released in 2017. She has toured with Duo Violao, which consists of acclaimed seven-string Brazilian guitarist, composer, and choro master Rogerio Souza and Edinho Gerber. Molinelli’s performance and recording credits include theater, television (NBC), and live performances with artists such as Rogerio Souza, Jovino Santos-Neto, Hamilton de Holanda, Teka, Jai Uttal, and Michael Spiro. (Photo by: Rosaura Sandoval)

 
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $20-25 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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