Hanna Rifkin and the Handsomes + Miriam Speyer

Classic 40's jazz/Rock classics like you’ve never heard them Tight rhythm section plus witty vocals from Hanna Rifkin bring you back to a Manhattan in hand and a sexy feeling on your face. Nick Boots- Guitar Mark Davis- Piano Tom Edler- Upright Bass Elizabeth Goodfellow - Drums hannarifkin.com Facebook Page: 29thStSwingtet Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Miriam Speyer is at it again! This time she's writing, arranging,...

Brian Andres and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel: Featuring Sandra Garcia Rivera

A collaboration of Latin Jazz and Spoken Word Boricua poet chanteuse, Sandra Garcia Rivera will warm up the stage at the Red Poppy with a spotlight solo performance of Spoken Word Poetry and Acapella Song, seasoned with the Blues, Caribbean Roots Music, and Nuyorican Soul. Drummer Brian Andres brings his all star lineup of Latin Jazz musicians as they entertain with original compositions as well as classic tunes from Latin America and The United States. Brian And...

Larry Vuckovich Beyond Category Trio

Global Jazz - A Musical Journey The authenticity and musical depth that Larry Vuckovich brings to his music comes from his deep experiences with jazz masters, such as Dexter Gordon, Philly Joe Jones, Don Byas, Jon Hendricks, Bobby Hutcherson, Tom Harrell, Charles McPherson, Billy Higgins, Charlie Haden. It also stems from his Balkan birthplace, earning him recognition as a pioneer in jazz-world music. Larry’s jazz journey navigates through swinging bebop/post ...

Fely Tchaco

FELY TCHACO FROM COTE D'IVOIRE WEST AFRICA 2012 11th Independent Music Awards winner in the World Beat category, Fely Tchaco from Cote D'Ivoire West Africa will be gracing the Red Poppy Art House. Fely's music is a blend of West Africa forest traditional music with jazz and pop. Fely Tchaco "Toilata" Brian Andres - Drums Jeff Simon - Guitar Paul Sonnabend - Conga Jesse Sahbi - Vocals/Percussion Wendell Rend - Bass FelyMusi...

Lizzie Karr Band + Pieces Concert

Song birds and willows, A Lovely Evening of Sweetness, Pieces and Lizzie Karr Lizzie Karr is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. According to her fans, Lizzie's voice has "an unteachable grit" that "sits comfortably in many permutations of genre." She released her debut album "Bones" in November 2012 and is now challenging her former folk style with a new rock/soul approach. Lindsey Trowbridge will be killing as usual on the bass. lizziekarrmusic.com ...

Redwood Tango Ensemble and Trio Zincalo

CD Release Party Redwood Tango Ensemble is an energetic tango quintet from San Francisco Bay Area. The ensemble specializes in traditional tango music with transcriptions and arrangements of the classic "Golden Era" orchestras of the 30's, 40's and 50's, primarily working in the style of Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, and Pugliese. The group also ventures into the concert pieces and nuevo-tango of Astor Piazzolla, Sexteto Mayor, and modern ensembles around the world. Redwood Tango's signature...

Cambodian Dance Salon

Initiated in 2009, the Khmer Arts Salon Series is a monthly program of free lecture demonstrations, performances, and film screenings designed to engage diverse audiences with the art of Khmer classical dance and other traditional performing arts. Now in its fourth year, Khmer Arts will bring this unique program to Cambodian communities all over the Bay Area from April 1 – 6, 2013, introducing people to Sophiline Cheam Shapiro's Seasons of Migration and its exploration of culture shock...

Tin Cup Serenade Record Release Party

Record release party for Tragic Songs of Hope It's about time you say. This one better be good you say. Music today is hopeless, if someone doesn't prove me wrong soon, I'm gonna kill myself you say… It is with great pride that we here at Tin Cup Serenade Productions announce our second release, Tragic Songs of Hope. This musical statement is sure to astound the bay area's more critical ears with a veritable explosion of musical comestibles, and we ho...

Beaucoup Chapeaux

"Parisian Bistro, Italian Café--and Circus" They create an atmosphere that some people call magic. For four years they've played many a Friday night to a full café in their home, Nevada City, CA. Two tours to the Northwest, and 350 concerts later, it’s a new voyage each time, and very alive. It's been said they're uniquely talented, an astonishing juggernaut, their music hauntingly wild, gorgeous.Far from purists, they play a mix of traditional tunes from a wide swath of Europe as...

Karl Evangelista and Grex with Hafez Modirzadeh Solo

New Directions in Asian Improvisation, New Wave Filipino American Jazz Taglish is a new work from guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista and art rock outfit Grex (a band Tiny Mix Tapes calls "essential current-and-future listening")--an exploration of the multifaceted nature of both contemporary music and 21st century immigrant culture. The project synthesizes jazz, American song, 20th century experimentalism, and Filipino folk melody into a a genuinely multicultural, trans...

Mark Growden Duo

Voice, Accordion, Trumpet, and Bicycle Handlebars MARK GROWDEN is a singer, writer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, visual artist, and workshop leader. Growden has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Saint Judas, which was awarded “2010 Rekkid of the Year” by music blog Stash Dauber and ranked in the 2010 Village Voice Critics Poll. Growden has toured the US extensively, composed original musical scores for a number of Dance and Theater...

Red Reels and CounterCorp Present: RIP! A Remix Manifesto and officerfishdumplings

Join CounterCorp and Red Reels Thursday, April 25th at 7pm as they present an evening of film and live music including remix DJ officerfishdumplings and a screening of music the documentary RIP! A Remix Manifesto. officerfishdumplings recorded works from world musicians and integrated them into an interactive remix platform that allows users to create audio-visual remixes on the fly. He will perform an improvised remix using his platform and allow audience members to g...

Trio Garufa

Performing authentic Tango and Folk music from Argentina Trio Garufa is an international ensemble dedicated to performing authentic Argentine music. They have performed across Argentina, Canada and the US. Trio Garufa performs traditional Argentine tango, modern tango styles such as Astor Piazzolla's music or electro tangos, original tango compositions, and Argentine folk music. Their music is exciting, virtuosic, and rooted in the dance. They are the only tango ensemble in ...

Painting Workshop: The Visual Journal

Taught by Todd Thomas Brown An exploration of how the painting process can become the visual documentation of our lives, this 7-hour workshop employs the techniques of collage, texture, color, and text to transform paintings into 3-dimensional objects reflecting both mundane and discreet aspects of our personal lives. **Required Materials:- Three 12×18″ canvases- Charcoal, rags, and many mundane items for creating texture and collage (colored papers,...

Saria Idana’s Neo Soul Debut

Introducing the Urban American Jewess Vocalist, songwriter, actor Saria Idana takes the mic with an all-star band. With influences ranging from Marvin Gaye to Suzanne Vega, Wu-Tang, Yasmin Levy and Balkan Beat Box, Idana blends styles into surprising, uplifting sounds seasoned with passionate longing and hope. This spring she releases her neo-soul EP Deeper than Skin produced by Jordan Feinstein, and is featured on Women in Dub by Dubblestandart, backing band fo...

Scott Amendola Quartet

This quartet is a more traditional "jazz" type setting for Amendola's music but lacks a chordal instrument. This frees up Ben, Josh, and John to move around in ways that only 3 super deep harmonic and swinging improvisors know how. And what’s guaranteed is a non-traditional evening of improvised music. The quartet will be interpreting Scott's music from his recent record "Lift", as well as music from past releases, as well as some new things, and probably some music written by others...

DiaPa’Son + Monica Marie ft. Cristina Ibarra

Son Jarocho from Veracruz, Mexico DiaPa'Son is a local Bay Area band that plays music from Veracruz, Mexico called Son Jarocho. All of the members are actively involved in teaching youth around the Bay Area in different areas of music and in promoting culture within the community. Members of the group have studied in Mexico and Cuba and have had the privilege of sharing a stage with master musicians such as Artemio Posadas and Andres Flores. DiaPa'Son is enthusiastic about sharing...

Red Poppy Art House 10 yr Anniversary #2!

Poppy East Bay Artists - 10 Year Anniversary Celebration No. 2 The Red Poppy Art House is thrilled to announce that we are celebrating 10 years since artist and founder Todd Brown opened the doors to his studio on the corner of Folsom and 23rd Street. Admission: Free! This second event in our Red Poppy Art House 10 year anniversary celebration series features a line-up of music and dance theater from East Bay artists that have contributed their ...

AJAYU Andean Fusion

Latino Fusion Music Rooted in the Indigenous, the Andes AJAYU is a six piece band that plays Latino fusion music rooted in the indigenous cultures of the Andes. Their original compositions and modern sounds are produced by the combination of traditional Andean instruments-Zampoñas and Quenas (flutes), Bombo (Ecuadorian drum), and Charango (small 8 string guitar from Bolivia) and non traditional instruments-violin, bass, and guitar. Their lyrics are socially, culturally, and political...

Circumtext (A Reading Group/Series)

Read Something You Didn’t Write Calling all word-lovers, trash-pickers, puzzle-solvers, joke-tellers, linguists, lexicographers, and librarians: Circumtext is a literary event where participants share only text that they themselves did not write. Especially pieces that are not already recognized for their “literary” quality, by entities not known as “Authors”. Dictionaries, instruction manuals, to-do lists, internet commentary, latrinalia, random generators, transcripts of court proce...

Django Djazz Extravaganza

"Django and Monk: Jazz Originals" "Django Djazz Extravaganza" — featuring Vic Wong's "Panique" and "DjangoSphere " with Kit Eakle and Mark Holzinger is a celebration of Djypsy Djazz and it's influence on the American Jazz scene. Panique is a gypsy jazz band from San Francisco specializing in Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli‘s music of the ’30s and ’40s. Think of the backdrop to romantic Paris cafes, smoky underground jazz clubs, and Woody Al...

Near East Flamenco: La Ruya

NEAR EAST FLAMENCO at RED POPPY! Sounds of Andalusia woven in with the Black Sea, the modes, movement and tonalities of flamenco with Arabic and Turkish maqam, all grounded in a latin jazz pulse - this is La Ruya, a new direction in "flamenco fusion." At the heart of the band lay the meeting of oud with guitar, and in turn of both with the dance. Kinetic and expressive, La Ruya is delighted to once again perform at the Mission's one of a kind art house, the Red Poppy.&nb...

Eric Garland’s Hodge Podge Ensemble + Marcus Stephens’ Marcstep Trio

Modern Jazz SF Offside Festival is proud to present music by two of the Bay Area’s leading composers and improvisers. Eric Garland’s Hodge Podge Ensemble features his original compositions for an eclectic collection of instruments, forcing Garland and members to explore new ways to tackle the modern jazz chamber group. Marcus Stephens’ Markstep Trio is a fresh take on the classic organ trio, mixing elements of jazz, funk, soul and hip hop. Eric Garland’s Hodge P...

Emy Tseng & Q Morrow

Brazilian and Modern Jazz Vocals DC-based singer Emy Tseng returns to the Bay Area to celebrate the release of her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Sonho’ (meaning ‘Dream’ in Portuguese). Drawing upon her diverse musical background in early music, classical art songs, folk-pop, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz, Emy has forged a unique sound with her "remarkably clear voice" and "stellar musicianship". Emy and her band will perform an eclectic mixture of Brazilian and modern jazz arrange...

Trash Memories

About the Art Installation: "TRASH MEMORIES is the collection of visions and visual experiences of artists who have faced on their way interaction with the human body, litter and soil, as creator shaft" Indira Urrutia (Chilean born) & Marc Hors (Barcelona, Spain) both photographers that had documented a four-year journey on a bicycle across the American Continent. A project in harmony with the essence of human being, evolution, adaptation, survival. Fac...

Family Art

Date: Every Saturday AfternoonTime: 1pm-4pm All Activities are FREE unless otherwise listed. Todas las actividades del programa de Arte en Familia son GRATIS a menos que esté indicado en el calendario. Calendar activities are subject to change. Check website for updates. Las actividades están sujetas a cambio. Revise la página web.

10 Year Anniversary Party!

The Red Poppy Art House is thrilled to announce that we are celebrating 10 years since artist and founder Todd Brown opened the doors to his studio on the corner of Folsom and 23rd Street. We are grateful to our incredible community for allowing us the opportunity to cultivate and celebrate the arts in such a special and intimate way. That being said, we want to celebrate with you! We are collaborating on convening of Poppy Familia, taking place on Friday, February 15th. This ...

Fernandito Ferrer

From Puerto Rico: singer-songwriter Fernandito FerrerBorn on july 27th 1978, Fernando Antonio Ferrer Cruz has been a young pioneer among the new breed of singer-songwriters in Puerto Rico. He first appeared on stage in Lares ’97 and from then on has gotten himself known all around the Island and abroad. Originally from San German, Ferrer draws from the Nueva Trova giants of the ‘70s but has also developed his own language within his work. His percussive guitar technique and impre...

Women Reclaiming Sovereignty Healing Arts Workshop

In Honor of International Woman’s Day Women Reclaiming Sovereignty workshops, facilitated through Creative, Shamanic and Therapeutic techniques, intend to root human consciousness in the present moment with all vital centers free from programming, entities and projections, ready willing and able to step into a place of grace, love and compassion I call sovereignty. Through Authentic Movement, you will learn your Soul’s dance, through Essential Musical Intelligence, your very own m...

Todd Sickafoose

Somewhere between Pitchfork and Downbeat “A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration.” – San Francisco Chronicle Todd Sickafoose (bass), Matthew Szemela (violin), Rob Reich (accordion/guitar), Ben Goldberg (clarinets), and Kane Mathis (kora). Todd Sickafoose.com Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors Facebook Page Admission $12-15. Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.