Yeraz Trio is a cross-cultural collaborative project that explores traditional and popular music from Armenia and the Levant, adding new, rich, and delectable layers of texture through its distinct instrumentation. Following the journey of band member Khatch’s background and upbringing, the trio weaves together music from Armenia, Lebanon, and Syria, with Eastern European elements.Saideh & Khatch explore an enchanting and soulful blend of Persian and Armenian music in their album, Delbedel. ...
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SECOND SHOW ADDED! Advance tickets are now available online for the 8:45pm show. Additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door for both the 7:00pm (6:30pm doors) and 8:45pm (8:30pm doors) shows. Please arrive when doors open the day of the event.Internationally acclaimed cellist, composer, and multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin is back in Bay Area with his freshest original compositions and latest acquisitions from his world travels—from the Balkans to Lake Baikal and from th...
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San Francisco-bred Taraf de Locos reunites for a special birthday celebration! The band performs music from the Balkans to Latin America, as well as original compositions inspired by those styles. Tastefully combining the elements of innovation and authentic tradition, Taraf de Locos produces groove-based music that will make you dance, and moments of mellow, soaring harmonies that will leave you in awe.
FEATURING:
Aya Safiya - vocals, violin, timple
Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea - voc...
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Dive into the rich folk traditions of Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Mongolia, and Americana through songs and folk tales with Mozaik and storyteller Dana Sherry. Harmonies are woven together with legends and tales to create a colorful tapestry of the distinct sounds and images from cultures around the world.
FEATURING:
Mozaik
Sandy Hollister - vocals, percussion
Adina Sara - vocals
Hilary Seamans - vocals
Liz Stuart - vocals, accordion, percussion
Natalia Ukrainska - vocals
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George Cole and EUROCANA fill it to the brim with unforgettable music featuring three-part harmonies delivered by top-tier vocalists and amazing instrumental virtuosity. Influenced by Django Reinhardt, rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, and French chanson, the group swings with infectious joy, bringing audiences to their feet the old-fashioned way.
FEATURING:
George Cole - guitar, vocals
Madeline Tasquin - guitar, vocals, percussion
Kaeli Earle - bass, vocals
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
San Franc...
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Originally from Berkeley, Will Bernard is now a renowned New York guitarist. He joins San Francisco treasure Beth Custer in performance of original compositions ranging in styles from funky blues, to plaintive contemporary classical, to rollicking jazz. Always soulful and in synch, this duo has been playing together since they met in the 1980's.
FEATURING:
Will Bernard - guitars
Beth Custer - clarinets, vocals
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Grammy-nominated guitarist Will Bernard has pe...
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Antonio Feula Jazz Trio performs songs from its latest modern jazz album, Joint Path, and from the upcoming funk jazz album. With influences ranging from bebop, blues, and funk to classical music, the group’s original compositions have already impressed varying audiences, with people commenting on the catchy yet sophisticated nature of the music. Genuine improvisation and amazing interplay are also strong points of the trio.
FEATURING:
Ian McArdle - keyboard
Mike Quigg - drums
Antoni...
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A collaborative performance between Moroccan musician Rachid Halihal and Syrian musician Faisal Zedan, the evening will include songs and instrumental melodies from different Arab countries, such as Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Iraq, and more.
FEATURING:
Rachid Halihal - oud, violin, vocals
Faisal Zedan - Arab percussion
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
An accomplished Moroccan singer, oud, and violinist, Rachid Halihal is a classical and folkloric musician with a wealth of experience in perfor...
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Caminos Flamencos, an award-winning flamenco troupe, collaborates with members of gypsy jazz group Barrio Manouche to present two special nights of flamenco, jazz manouche, and Latin vibes on December 14 and 15. Seven artists improvise and explore between their musical worlds to create a blend of sounds rooted in flamenco dance and music, yet open in a free-style form much like a chamber jazz ensemble.
FEATURING:
Jason “El Rubio” McGuire – acoustic guitar
Felix de Lola – vocals
Javi ...
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Caminos Flamencos, an award-winning flamenco troupe, collaborates with members of gypsy jazz group Barrio Manouche to present two special nights of flamenco, jazz manouche, and Latin vibes on December 14 and 15. Seven artists improvise and explore between their musical worlds to create a blend of sounds rooted in flamenco dance and music, yet open in a free-style form much like a chamber jazz ensemble.
FEATURING:
Jason “El Rubio” McGuire – acoustic guitar
Felix de Lola – vocals
Javi ...
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Inspired by daily life, Jamie Zee composes music that embodies the experience of an LGBTQ Chinese-American woman. Her newly written works span various genres and blend musical traditions ranging decades. The vocalist is joined by guest, Bay Area Latin jazz legend, Dr. John Calloway.
FEATURING:
Jamie Zee - vocals
John Calloway - flute
Madison Bohrer - saxophone
William Bohrer - electric bass
Max Brody - guitar
Julian Lopez - piano
Alex Shapiro-Romano - drums
ABOUT THE AR...
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Harpist Amelia Romano, joined by trumpeter Matt Ebisuzaki and bassist Tim Renner, presents an evening of original compositions and arrangements. With influences ranging from South American harp, symphonic brass, and odd-meter dance music, to minimalism, post-bebop, and spaghetti western soundtracks, this intrepid trio finds a song-line under San Francisco’s Mission District and tracks it to the Red Poppy.
FEATURING:
Amelia Romano - harp, vocals
Matt Ebisuzaki - C rotary-valve trumpet
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Founded by Bay Area musicians Raúl Vargas (Makrú) and Alberto Gutiérrez (La Mandanga), Dos BandOLEros performs rumba flamenca covers and original compositions for an energetic night full of positive messages.
FEATURING:
Alberto Gutiérrez - guitar, vocals
Raúl Vargas - cajón, percussion, electric kazoo, vocals
Learn more: Website | Facebook EVENT DETAILS
Time: 6:30pm doors / 7:00pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is ...
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Drómeno returns to the Red Poppy with Turkish-influenced tunes from Asia-Minor, featuring oud, kanoun, violin, and vocals. This nostalgic music came with refugees from Smyrna, and the sounds are shared among other formerly Ottoman-occupied lands, like Macedonia, as well as the Sephardic Jews of this area. Joined by special guest percussionist Sean Tergis, the first half of the evening will be a sit-down concert, then the floor will be open for some lively regional Greek music for dancing!
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kal...
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"How can we build a movement if we can't move together?"As artists, administrators, culture workers, and professionals with "many hats," we often learn to lead by necessity without exploring the nuances of leading within diverse communities, or confronting what it might mean to follow instead of lead. Through the lens of movement and partner dance, this workshop explores alternate understandings of "leadership," core issues of trust, and the role of regenerative practices in creating a healt...
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Gamelan Sekar Jaya presents a rare opportunity to experience Balinese music and dance in an intimate setting. The program will feature Sekar Jaya's master artists-in-residence, renowned composer I Nyoman Windha and dancers I Made Moja and Shoko Yamamuro, leading 20 performers in an exciting range of traditional and new works.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s music and dance range from traditional Balinese repertoire to cutting-edge compositions. The 60-plus company of musicians a...
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In a co-presentation with Noe Valley Chamber Music's SNAPSHOTS series, Decoda—one of the country's premier classical ensembles—performs an informal happy-hour concert of delightful and virtuosic music by Prokofiev, Schubert, Evan Premo, and more.
FEATURING:
Owen Dalby - violin
Meena Bhasin - viola
James Austin Smith - oboe
Alicia Lee - clarinet
Evan Premo - double bass
Mary Bonhag (special guest) - soprano
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Decoda is a NYC-based collective of versatile a...
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Anton Schwartz and Josh Nelson have toured the U.S. and Canada with the award-winning Anton Schwartz Quintet, the 2017 Northwest Acoustic Jazz Ensemble of the Year. Following one sold-out festival performance, they decided to play a pared-down duo concert, and the chemistry was palpable. Every now and then, they reassemble as a duo, to the delight of audiences, performing jazz standards and their own compositions.
FEATURING:
Anton Schwartz - saxophone
Josh Nelson - piano
ABOU...
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Composer, bandleader, and bassist Seth Ford-Young leads his dream quartet on a mission to integrate the transparent textures of chamber music and the ebullient bounce of Django Reinhardt-style jazz. The group will perform pieces from their newest release, Time Memory Beauty Hope, as well as favorites from their first album, Seth Ford-Young.
FEATURING:
Seth Ford-Young – bass
Evan Price – violin, octave violin
Rob Reich – accordion
Jason Vanderford – guitar
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
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Visionary musician, composer, and inventor of the bazantar—a 39-string upright bass—Mark Deutsch presents his long-awaited magnum opus, The Picasso Tunings, a box set of epic, otherworldly bazantar compositions. Maestro Deutsch will be joined by master bamboo bluesman Cornelius Boots playing the shakuhachi, the Zen Buddhist bamboo flute. Boots will start the evening off with a solo set of both traditional and original compositions, as well as his own provocative take on certain well-chosen cover...
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Daniel Fabricant Trio joins forces with StringQuake for an evening of melodic French jazz, electrifying improvisations, and unusual meters.
FEATURING:
Daniel Fabricant Trio
Daniel Fabricant - bass
Aaron Kierbel - drums
TBD - pianoStringQuake
Amelia Romano - electric harp
Misha Khalikulov - cello
Josh Mellinger - cajón, tabla, frame drum
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Daniel Fabricant is a versatile bassist, playing both upright and electric, that can adapt to a wide range of mu...
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Moldavian and Romanian traditional music is known for swift, complex rhythms, musical improvisation, and rich, melodic ornamentation. Traditionally performed by Romani musicians, the Lautari musical style encompasses soul-wrenching ballads, high-energy wedding dances, and village-style tunes. Hailing straight from the source and having been steeped in this tradition from birth, Duo Moldova passionately embodies these traditions, transporting the audience back to the weddings and the summer night...
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Flutist Rebecca Kleinmann celebrates her birthday by inviting Brazil in Trio directly from Goiania, Brazil. The trio presents their dynamic music ranging from choro and baião to originals.
FEATURING:
Rebecca Kleinmann - flutes, vocals
Julio Lemos - guitar
Everton Luiz - clarinet, flute, soprano saxophone
Diego Amaral - percussion
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Brazil in Trio creates fresh arrangements of traditional and modern Brazilian music with their dynamic guitar, wind, and perc...
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Thousand Miles, Morley’s sixth studio album, is the culmination of a global journey to sites of incredible resilience and tremendous trauma—from the United States, Rwanda, and Hiroshima, to the open uranium mines at the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Black Hills—where human dignity, love, and resolve are expanding the frontiers of change, justice, and healing. The 13 songs resound with a layered serenade to the most elemental forces holding humanity together—friendship and love—and to the sanctit...
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Invisible Bird is a guitar, trumpet, and drum trio collectively led by three engaging artists from the Bay Area—Scott Amendola, Shane Endsley, and Dave Devine. Together, their distinct compositional voices craft original music that transports the listener from rootsy back beats, to anthemic indie rock, to acoustic modern jazz, to ambient electronica.
FEATURING:
Shane Endsley - trumpet, whammy bass, electronics
Dave Devine - guitar, effects
Scott Amendola - drums, percussion, electron...
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Mean to Me is a quintet that resurrects classic jazz of the 1920s through 1940s—sometimes interlaced with the more modern stylings of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Ahmad Jamal—and an eclectic variety of soul and Latin jazz.
FEATURING:
Judy Butterfield - vocals
Ben Slater - saxophone, piano
Dave Shaff - trumpet, washboard
Cairo McCochran - drums
TBA - bass
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Mean to Me is comprised of four core members: Judy Butterfield, who trained as a cabaret sin...
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Florist is a soft-synthesizer folk band and the friendship project of Emily Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker. Born in the Catskill Mountains in 2012, the three began making, playing, and recording together after discovering their shared love for many things musical, as well as for each other.
FEATURING:
Emily Sprague - vocals
Jonnie Baker - guitarLearn more: Website | Facebook EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-...
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