A Deep American South and South Asian Mash-Up
Think swampy blues, ancient incantations, angelic melodies, dark dancing rhythms, and lush harmonies.
Indian American multi-instrumentalist/singer Sheela Bringi and Southern songwriter/trumpeter Clinton Patterson are best known in the Bay Area for their work together as PremaSoul, a majestic combination of harp, trumpet, and vocal harmonies. In fact, their first show in the Bay Area happened at the Red Poppy to a packed house in 2009. For the ...
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The Yiddish Art Trio features three of the top Klezmer musicians in New York today. Blending infectious traditional melodies with new compositions, sumptuous chamber music-like arrangements and breathtaking improvisations, this rising new ensemble is out to redefine the sound of contemporary Klezmer. Veretski Pass plays Old Country Music with origins in the Ottoman Empire. They collage Carpathian, Jewish, Rumanian and Ottoman styles with seamlessly integrated original compositions.
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Join the YeYe Ensemble as they celebrate life and the beautiful processes in order to achieve dreams
Afro-Latin fusion defines the rhythms of YeYe Suarez. Their music incorporates many of the most vibrant Latin American musical traditions inspired by the rhythms of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. With a Vision to promote empowerment, unification and social justice through original musical and lyrical compositions, YeYe researches, preserves and teaches the importance of...
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Django Jazz meets South African Township jazz
Experience a unique fusion between the raw energies of Southern African Township jazz,gypsy jazz, New Orleans jazz and acoustic sounds from around the globe. South African borngypsy jazz guitarist and composer Louis Matthee created the group in 2010 with a debut album "Gypsy Jive" featuring this unique blend of music styles. His original compositions gives personal accounts of life in South Africa and executed in the craft and skill of GypsyJazz and...
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Carnival of Joy! a celebration of Hoagy Carmichael
Led by Asher's tenacious trombone and rich vocals, this all-star ensemble from New York City's vibrant early jazz scene presents a hot and charming celebration of one of the first great American singer-songwriters, Hoagy Carmichael. Audiences should expect an evening of original songs inspired by and reverently re-imagined arrangements of Carmichael classics like "Stardust," “Up A Lazy River” and "Georgia On My Mind.”
Hoagy Carmichael was ...
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The Beth Custer Ensemble is a veritable crème de la crème of Bay Area musicians and has been delighting audiences for fifteen years from across the US to abroad. Their unique blend of styles underscores the depth of the lyrics and recent projects include a commission by SF Cinematheque to compose and perform live scores from Alexandre Hammid’s films at SF MOMA as well as performing live for The Joe Goode Performance Group’s dance/theatre productions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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This is our "Funders from Under" campaign. We are looking for 100 people to donate as little as $10 throughout the day. You can come to the Poppy anytime from 10am-10pm to make your donation, pick up a complementary glass of champagne glass and appreciate the artwork from Mona Caron, Dustin Fosnot and Sebastian Alvarez. Cash or check only.
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The Red Poppy is pleased to announce and evening with poet, playwright & multi-instrumentalist Avotcja and ensemble Modúpue. Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She is a popular bay area D.J. & the Founder & Co-Director of "The Clean Scene Theater Project/Proyecto Teatral de la Escena Sobria." She teaches poetry, creative writing, music & drama in public schools & thanks to the California Arts Council she is also an artist in r...
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Long time Chilean Bay Area performers Mochi Parra and Hector Salgado team up with pianist/guitarist/composer Steve Lam, bass player and recent NY New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music graduate Joel Kruzic, drummer Juan Manuel Caipo of Bang Data, and musical guest and former Grupo Raiz member Fernando “Fena’ Torres, for an exciting night of rhythms and melodies from Latin America.
This new group of local musicians will be playing music from Chile, Cuba and Argentina. The group c...
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Acoustic global fusion bridging Africa and India
Bolo is a dynamic ensemble featuring percussionist/singer Surya Prakasha, bassist and bansuri & ney flute player Eliyahu Sills (The Qadim Ensemble), and multi-instrumentalist Evan Fraser (Hamsa Lila). With a fresh improvisational approach, the group creates songs that will move, uplift and transport. With African-sourced grooves, African and Indian melodies and songs, 'Bolo' speaks to the heart and to a musical language that bridges...
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Tales of the Mission: Past, Present and Future
Performing for the first time at Red Poppy is flautist, multi-instrumentalist, and arts educator John Calloway, a long-time Bay Area artist with deep cultural and social ties to the Mission. His new ensemble will present a cross-generational mix of jazz, folk and Latin music, with themes related to the Mission district and social justice.
John, a long time collaborator with John Santos, has also performed internationally with Israel ...
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Jazz Accordion with Hot Rhythm
Avoid Friday the 13th blues and come enjoy the Rob Reich Trio's musical wonders. The Trio performs new original music and choice old tunes with graceful humor and effortless virtuosity. Reich grew up studying piano from age three. After graduating with a degree in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he discovered the accordion, now his primary instrument. Reich’s music defies genres. Whether it’s composing art songs based on the poetry of E E Cum...
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Nearly a year after their first show at last January's MAPP, the Camille Mai Trio returns to the Red Poppy for the release of their debut EP, "We Are No Beautiful Children." Mixed independently at the SF Conservatory, the EP's four tracks are a melting pot of French, Argentine, and West Coast culture, interweaving jazz harmonies with middle eastern rhythms while keeping an intimate indie-rock familiarity.
Consisting of Camille Mai on piano/voice/composition, Nahuel Bronzini ...
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Greetings Poppy Family,
If you are a fan of the Red Poppy Art House, then this is an important message for you to read.
We've been pouring our hearts and minds into the labor of bringing you the best artistic programming that we are able to offer here in the Bay Area. Now we need you to have our back.
We have some exciting news and big challenges ahead, but first we need to let you know about the financial reality of our little house of magic.
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Intimate harmonies from Eastern Europe
The Nightingale Trio is a women’s vocal group inspired by folk songs and vocal techniques from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Nila Bala, Rachel LaViola, and Sarah Larsson met each other as students Yale, singing with the Yale Slavic Chorus. Today, the Nightingales sound fuller than a trio, yet still maintain the intimate, tight harmonies of a family band. They are dedicated to recreating the rhythmic, complex, and stunning folk songs that have...
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An informal pena-art-style salon, by Marc Hors
Slide show presentation from an itinerant photographic project which moves on bicycles across the American Continent (From Alaska to the Chilean Antarctic) in search of natural, social and cultural values that characterize the countries of the American Continent. A project promoting solidarity, equity, participation and respect among cultures by linking what we learned from human behaviors, beliefs and traditions with environmen...
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Storytelling, Workshop, and Ancestral Tradiciones
Local healers and spoken word artists come together to share their "brujerias."The suggested donation will include medicinal herbs to take home.
Admission: $5-10. Event 7:00 pm -9:00 pm.
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.
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If you love the Red Poppy Art House, then be there for this special evening occasion and make your support known. Hosted by Ethiopian-born songstress and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero, this unique musical program features an interweave of performances by jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin with Grant Levin on piano, songcraftsman Tom Sway, and instrumentalists Prasant Radhakrishnan, Todd Thomas Brown, Schuyler Karr, and acclaimed poet Michael Warr. 100% of the proceeds will go towards a fun...
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Hip-Hop Orchestra
Taoist composer-pianist JooWan Kim performs with his hip-hop orchestra, Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN), a chamber orchestra with a rotating personnel of MCs and an opera singer. Ensemble Mik Nawooj "defies such categories as jazz, classical, and hip-hop" (Oakland Tribune), is "ambitious” (The New Yorker), and is “a cosmic melding of culture and genres” (SF Chronicle). MTV called the group “thirsty to change the name of the game”, and NPR praised it by saying “...
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All Proceeds benefit the Red Poppy!
Latin Dance Party Benefit for the Poppy
Feat DJ Boludo, El Profe, and DJ Guruila, El Estudiante
For those of you that know DJ Boludo, then you know what's in store for this dance party. Some of you may recall the epic 2007 dance party that he was in on hosted by Indira Urrutia and Todd Brown at Brown's then loft space on Stevenson St. For those of you that don't know, DJ Boludo is not someone you will find in ...
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An Evening of Poetry and Music
An evening of poetry and sound by Thomas Sayers Ellis and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. This eclectic duo has been performing together for nearly two years and was recently given the thumbs up by poet Amiri Baraka (for their mixture of free Jazz, GoGo, Be Hip Bop Hop and deep Groove) when they opened for him in New York City. The combination of Mr. Ellis's bold, lyric activism and meditations on race and American culture are pushed and pu...
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SEEDS OF GOLD: A Community Premiere of the New Documentary Film
Join us for the Community Premiere of the yet-to-be released film SEEDS OF GOLD (40 min), followed by an audience discussion with the filmmakers. Seeds of Gold takes us to the Andes of Colombia to share the true story of a community's journey to awaken the memory of their ancestors and restore a future for their children. Working to reclaim damaged farmland, establish nature preserves, revive the unspoken langu...
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Join us for a community gathering. Bring some food, poems, music to share. In addition, we will have a opening for the "Dia De Los Muertos" visual exhibition.
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Healing music for a hurting Mission
Landing in San Francisco from different parts of the world, Makrú fuses Rumba Flamenca, Reggae, Cuban Son, Cumbia, Ska, and other global beats to create a unifying, positive vibe in the Bay Area through its music. Lyrics in Spanish and English bring reality, fiction, hope and joy together, in hopes of spreading a message of respect and love.
Raúl Vargas - cajón & Vocals
Martina Castro - Vocals
Vinicio Peñate - Bass
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'Tarimba' is believed to be the African root word of 'tarima', which is the most important instrument and symbol of the Son Jarocho tradition of Veracruz Mexico.
TARIMBA is a band comprised of local Bay Area musicians who have embraced the traditional genre of Son Jarocho music from southern Veracruz, Mexico. The members of TARIMBA have all been active performers and teachers in the Bay Area music community for over ten years, and they are excited to have the opportunity...
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Genre-bending Jazz and World Music
Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan are one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse and exciting bands.
The New York Times describes TriBeCaStan's sound as "genre-bending jazz and world-music" and The Washington Post hails them as "an international jazz and folk festival unto itself, fusing Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American, and African musical elements to bold and dazz...
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Classical Meets Contemporary: A Cross-Century Performance
Hailing from across North America and Europe, The Chamber Players met on the idyllic coast of Thisted, Denmark through a shared passion for chamber music. Mike Kaufman, Etienne Gara, Tatiana Trono, and Cassandra Bequary have collaborated in the United States and abroad on a range of projects, from solo to orchestral, bringing together both masterworks of the classical music repertoire, and brand new compositions from notable...
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Noche de Trova y Música Folklórica Latinoamerica with Special Guest: José Roberto Hernández
Friends of Buena Trova Social Club is a multi-cultural Bay Area band whose share a passion for world art and culture through music. Friends of BTSC sing unique interpretations of covers and original compositions with Latin, Caribbean and contemporary sabor! Well crafted harmonies, wind, percussive and acoustic instrumentation propel their songs which are inspired by traditional ...
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Red Reels presents: Montaje: Caso Bombas, a Spanish-language documentary about the political environment in Chile.
"Montaje: Caso Bombas"
Muchos estados y gobiernos, amparados en la impunidad que les otorga el ejercicio del poder, han recurrido a los montajes como arma política para desacreditar, invalidar y encarcelar a sus detractores. Pero, ¿qué es un montaje político y policial?, ¿cómo se hace?, ¿quienes los hacen? Esas preguntas son las que aborda este ...
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An Evening of Soulful Folk: Originals, Covers, Conversation Exploring Americana
Singer/songwriter, Amy LaCour, has recently made the Bay Area her home. She has brought along a suitcase full of songs that chronicle her years as a performing musician in New York, LA, and abroad. Described by Urban Network as “a thinking woman's cross between Bill Withers and Norah Jones,” Amy is a lover of the songwriting tradition and seeks to explore the full definition of “Americana.”
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