Red Poppy Art House

The Creak and John Steven Morgan: Original Indie Folk
2017-08-12 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Five-piece string band the Creak, who blend folk, pop, and Americana with intriguing songwriting, makes their Red Poppy debut with mostly original music from their latest release, You Got Eyes, as well as select covers. Joined by composer/pianist John Steven Morgan, the evening includes a hard-swinging rhythm section and memorable melodies, along with instrumental interplay honed on San Francisco’s vibrant street-corner busking circuit.
Featuring:
John Steven Morgan – piano
Joe Readel – guitar, vocals
Korey Kassir – fiddle, mandolin, vocals
Ryan Lim – bass, vocals
Joe Boone – guitar, vocals
Amy Levine – fiddle, vocals
John Steven Morgan has performed at the 54th and 56th Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey First City Festival, The Wattis Room at SF Davies Symphony Hall, and has also toured internationally. Along with composing and performing his solo piano pieces, he writes music for Wreche, an experimental black metal collaboration with drummer Barret Baumgart. John has scored various short films, most notably The Perfect Hello, by Oakland director/writer Zack Kasten (music co-written with Greg Ashley of The Gris Gris).
Learn more: The Creak | YouTube | Bandcamp | John Steven Morgan

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Red Poppy Private Event
2017-08-12 10:30 - 12:00

Danny Green Trio: Jazz, Classical & Brazilian Music
2017-08-11 19:30 - 22:00
Southern California pianist and composer Danny Green, renowned for his beautifully articulated touch and melodically charged sensibility, arrives at the Poppy with bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm for a night of Green’s latest works, as well as music from their critically acclaimed 2016 release, Altered Narratives.
Featuring:
Danny Green – piano
Justin Grinnell – bass
Julien Cantelm – drums
Learn more: Website | Facebook

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Sehoda: Coco Vocals, Jazz, and Daf
2017-08-10 19:30 - 22:00
Priscilla Portes joins David Jacob and Rouzbehan Richard for a tribute to northeastern Brazilian legend Dona Selma do Coco with an evening of vocals, piano and trumpet, and Middle Eastern daf frame drum.
Featuring:
Priscilla Portes – vocals
David Jacob – trumpet and piano
Rouzbehan Richard – daf
Priscilla met David and Rouzbehan at Berkeley and decided to bring their 10 years of jazz improvisations on a journey to the province of Pernambuco in Brazil. Along this journey, the trio has fused tales and mysteries of African gods with David’s classical and jazz culture, as well as rhythms of Persian Sufis.
Learn more: SoundCloud

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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August 5th MAPP: Music of the Banned
2017-08-05 19:00 - 22:00
Art can be used to bring awareness. Through art and culture, we can learn to identify with each other and explore what we all have in common. In a journey of peace and understanding, we can explore the six countries on Donald Trump’s travel ban, which are a source of rich music and art. We are inviting the artistic ambassadors of these Muslim countries to lay down the drawbridge to their countries’ soundscape and beauty, and invite us all in.
In today’s America, there is a lack of awareness of the unknown. Put in front of a map, most Americans cannot identify the location of the countries currently listed as America’s number-one enemies and the source of terror. This will be the first showcase of many to come later this year. Art will break down the barriers that isolate us. The barriers that either governments or media have worked hard to create.
So many have been suffering from a lack of understanding and from this travel ban in particular. This is the year for us to make art in order to make a stand. Let’s stand to welcome the culture of the unknown, make ourselves aware of those that came to this country for a better life just as our ancestors.
Finally, since we will have ongoing events, we are asking artists from Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, or Somalia to please get in touch with us!

ABOUT MAPP:
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 kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.

RED POPPY SCHEDULE:
7:00-7:15 – Sirvan Manhoubi
Kurdish & Persian traditional music, with tombak, oud & setar
7:20-7:35 – Emad Bonakdar & Nima Hafezieh
Persian fusion, with tar & piano
7:40-8:05 – Raman Osman & Faisal Zedan
Arabic music from Syria, with saz & doumbek
8:05-8:25 – Gari Hegedus & Faisal Zedan
Turkish & Greek music, with oud & doumbek
8:35-9:00 – Dina Zarif & Amelia Romano
Harp & vocal duo performing love songs from around the world
9:05-9:25 – Mazin Jamal
Groovy soul songs inspired by North Africa, Black America & the world
9:30-10:00 – Communal Song & Improvisation

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Event 7:00PM
Admission: Free
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Sandy Cressman and Homenagem Brasileira: Brazilian Jazz Celebration
2017-08-04 19:30 - 22:00
Homenagem Brasileira plays the full spectrum of Brazilian jazz, from Rio-based bossa nova and samba to baião and frevo from Brazil’s northeast. At their Red Poppy show, they’ll present music from classic composers like Jobim and Caymmi, as well as music from Cressman’s most recent album, Entre Amigos, which features collaborations with Jovino Santos Neto, Ian Faquini, Antonio Adolfo, Spok, and other contemporary composers.
Featuring:
Sandy Cressman – vocals, percussion
Jeff Cressman – trombone
Murray Low – piano
Fred Randolph – bass
Phil Hawkins – drums
Sandy Cressman is a San Francisco-based jazz vocalist whose passion for Brazilian music led her to form Homenagem Brasileira in 1998. She has toured the U.S., Europe, and Brazil, and she has released three critically acclaimed CDs: Homenagem Brasileira, Brasil-Sempre no Coração, and Entre Amigos. She will play Monterey Jazz Festival in September 2017.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | YouTube

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Douyé Trio: A Night of Jazz
2017-07-30 19:30 - 22:00
Los Angeles-based singer Douyé brings her trio to the Poppy to celebrate her first album of jazz standards, Daddy Said So. After two well-received R&B releases, the Nigerian-born vocalist goes back to her roots with an evening of classics inspired by legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Dinah Washington.
Featuring:
TBA
Her upbeat R&B track “Life Is Good” made it to #9 on the UK soul chart, but Douyé, born in Lagos, Nigeria, is right at home as a jazz singer. Daddy Said So is packed with heavyweights, including bassist Ron Carter (“Nature Boy”), pianist Kenny Barron (“Mood Indigo” and “I Loves You Porgy”), guitarist Russell Malone (“Body And Soul”), as well as pianist-arranger John Beasley, saxophonist Bob Sheppard, bassist John Clayton, and drummer Roy McCurdy (“Round Midnight” and “In A Sentimental Mood”).
Learn more: Website | YouTube

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Fula Brothers: Multilayered African Roots & Blues
2017-07-29 19:30 - 22:00
Fula Brothers is the high-spirited meeting of three seasoned touring performers, each of whom has spent decades pursuing the shared heartbeat in music from around the globe. All three musicians creatively weave a history filled with intercontinental collaborations–from West Africa and Scotland to Haiti and the U.S.–into a rich tapestry of sound and rhythm. The result? An ecstatic and intricate groove-based dialogue which the heart (and the feet) cannot resist.
Featuring:
Mamadou Sidibe – Kamale Ngoni
Walter Strauss – guitar
Kendrick Freeman – percussion
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Boca do Rio: A Brazilian Celebration
2017-07-28 19:30 - 22:00
Boca do Rio, the immensely danceable result of a two-decade musical partnership between guitarist/singer Kevin Welch and percussionist Alex Calatayud, brings their multi-layered electro-funk party boat to the Poppy. Their musicá organicá, born of Brazil and the San Francisco Bay, showcases the rhythms of living and working between the Americas.
Featuring:
Kevin Welch – guitar, vocals
Alex Calatayud – percussion
Learn more: Website | Facebook

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Michael Zilber: Trane, Wayne, and Other Originals
2017-07-27 20:00 - 22:00
On the heels of a celebrated new album, acclaimed saxophonist/composer Michael Zilber brings in some of his favorite musicians (and some of the Bay’s very best) for an evening of modern acoustic jazz steeped in the tradition of John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter but firmly in the present, too.
Featuring:
Michael Zilber – saxophones
Peter Horvath – piano
Peter Barshay – bass
Jason Lewis – drums
Bay Area-based saxophonist and composer Michael Zilber has been described by NEA Jazz Master David Liebman as “one of the best players and composers around anywhere. Period!” The Canadian-born ex-New Yorker has 11 albums to his name as a leader or co-leader, and he has performed or recorded with everyone, from Liebman and Miroslav Vitous to Mike Clark, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bob Berg. His current project, Originals for the Originals, was hailed by Jazz DJ Brad Stone as “one of the premier releases of all time on Origin Records.”
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM
Admission: $15-25 sliding scale
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Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2017-07-23 14:00 - 17:00, 2017-06-25 14:00 - 17:00
Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country, rock, and blues, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana are bringing their own contribution to the Red Poppy for a free afternoon of beat-making, hip-shaking, and good company.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Event 2:00PM
Admission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10)
All ages are welcome.
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Lavay Smith: The Great American Road Trip
2017-07-22 19:00 - 22:00
Bay Area favorite Lavay Smith returns to the Poppy for a musical road trip that celebrates America’s cities, states, and regions. Expect favorites like “Basin Street Blues,” “Bourbon Street Parade,” “Goin’ To Chicago Blues,” “Kansas City,” “St. Louis Blues,” and “Take The ‘A’ Train.”
Featuring:
Lavay Smith – vocals
Jules Broussard – tenor and alto saxophones
Danny Armstrong – trombone
Ron Belcher – bass
Chris Siebert – piano
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 6:30PM / Show 7:00PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Honey Whiskey Trio: Folk, Bluegrass, and Melody
2017-07-21 19:30 - 22:00
The Honey Whiskey Trio celebrates the release of their new album, Rye Woman, by exploring harmony in folk, bluegrass, and melody on a Friday night at the Poppy. With body percussion, haunting melodies, and powerful yet sweet harmonies, this show promises to be a special one.
Featuring:
Courtney Politano – vocals, mandolin, body percussion
Ann Louise Thaiss – vocals, guitar, body percussion
Christina Wilson – vocals, banjo, body percussion
In 2013, after singing together for only five months, Honey Whiskey Trio won the Harmony Sweepstakes National Competition, also winning Audience Favorite at both the regional and national sweepstakes. They have gone on to headline the Los Angeles A Cappella Festival, the Women’s A Cappella Association‘s SheSings Festival, and the South Eastern Minnesota A Cappella Festival. They have been featured artists at the FAR-West Folk Festival, the Rogue Valley Roots Festival, the Long Beach Folk Revival Festival, and the Shedd Institute for the Arts.
Learn more: Website | Facebook

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $10-20 sliding scale
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Cellista/Joshua Icban/Ransom Dance: “Testimony”
2017-07-20 19:30 - 22:00
“Testimony,” a reprise of Cellista’s performance art piece “Wants,” confronts issues of identity, loss, displacement, and acceptance within the Bay Area arts community, is an avant-garde response to the experiences of artists during these uncertain, sour times. The evening features sound design and performance by Cellista, choreography by Lilith Ransom of Ransom Dance, and the ambient music of composer and guitarist Joshua Icban.
Featuring:
Cellista – cello, live score
Lilith Ransom – choreography, dancing
Joshua Icban – guitar
Cellista is an acclaimed American cellist and the artistic director of the for-profit performing arts company Juxtapositions. She is known for her multidisciplinary installations, which involve collaborations with artists across various media and across a range of genres including pop, hip-hop, and classical. Her live performances incorporate elements of classical music, theater, improvisation, and visual art, sometimes in unconventional spaces.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | Bandcamp
Joshua Icban, winner of Vallejo High’s Louis Armstrong Award for Excellence in Jazz, earned an associate’s degree in music at Solano Community College under the mentorship of local music great Delbert Bump. He has performed with numerous music projects, including the Savages, the Jazz Cartel, and Blood Sweat and Funk. Both of his recent groups, Joey Ramone and the Dynamics, perform around the Bay Area.
Lilith Ransom grew up training and choreographing with the Santa Cruz Ballet Theater, moving on to study with the RDA/P Craft of Choreography Conference, Pacific Northwest Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and LINES Ballet. After a career that included work with the Nashville Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, and the Missouri Contemporary Ballet, she began teaching youth at the Presser Performing Arts Center in Mexico, Missouri, as well as choreographing for the Missouri Contemporary Ballet and her students. She now teaches and choreographs with Kid Stock Inc, and she teaches private and group ASL-accessible ballet classes for all age ranges and genders in the Bay Area.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Matt Munisteri w/ special guest Rob Reich: Virtuosic Guitar, Accordion & Piano
2017-07-16 19:30 - 22:00
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Matt Munisteri brings Red Poppy favorite Rob Reich back to the Poppy for an evening of accordion, piano, guitar, and vocals. Whether singing his own songs, presenting his unearthed and discarded treasures of the American Songbook, or simply playing guitar, Munisteri will demonstrate a distinctly pre-rock sensibility that allows for emotional directness without the gauzy veil of retro-chic.
Featuring:
Matt Munisteri – guitar, vocals
Rob Reich – accordion, piano
Called one of “New York’s finest vintage guitar stylists” by Downbeat magazine, Matt Munisteri is a Brooklyn native who has worked with singer Catherine Russell, violinist Mark O’Connor, and Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra over the last few years. Besides collaborating with a long list of notables such as Matt Glaser, Vince Giordano, Jenny Scheinman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman, Frank Vignola, Loudon Wainwright, Holly Cole, Madeline Peyroux, Diana Krall, “Little” Jimmy Scott, and Geoff Muldaur, Munisteri has played and sung on a wide range of movie soundtracks, television shows, and commercials.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | YouTube

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event – please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. All ages are welcome.
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Shimkas Jazz Group: Standards, Soul, and More
2017-07-15 19:30 - 22:00
Vocalist Audrey Shimkas, heavily influenced by Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, and contemporaries such as Mary Stallings, Kenny Washington, and Madeline Eastman, brings her ensemble to the Poppy for a night of American and Brazilian jazz standards, as well as contemporary material by Blood, Sweat & Tears, Prince, Lorde, and Billy Childs.
Featuring:
Audrey Shimkas – vocals
Jason Martineau – piano
Peter Barshay – bass
Kelly Park – drums
Learn more: Website | Facebook

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Rini: Dramatic Art-Rock and Indian Electronica
2017-07-14 19:30 - 22:00
New York-based singer, composer, and violinist Rini comes to the Poppy with her cadre of international musicians, who draw inspiration from Indian classical music, electronica, art rock, and jazz, presenting groovy, pulsing music.
Featuring:
Rini – vocals, violin, electronics
Aleif Hamdan – guitar
Achal Murthy – bass
Yogev Gabay – drums
Íñigo Galdeano Lasheras – saxophone, ewi
Harini “Rini” Raghavan has recorded and performed with Grammy-winning composer A.R. Rahman, headlined festivals in the U.S. and India, and performed as a soloist and core member of the Berklee Indian Ensemble. The South Indian musician’s two albums, Kural and Alone in the Blue, have garnered critical acclaim, including a feature in Rolling Stone India. She was ranked #1 world music band in New York City by The Deli NYC magazine in November 2016.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | YouTube | Bandcamp

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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French Oak Gypsy Band: French Jazz Manouche & American Dixieland Swing
2017-07-13 19:30 - 22:00
French Oak Gypsy Band, led by vocalist Stella Heath and guitarist Thierry Gabriel Pirard, makes their Red Poppy debut with an evening of songs in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Roma, Catalan, and English. Expect a fresh spin on French and American swing-era classics, as well as a setlist packed with French chanson, jazz manouche, and Dixieland jazz.
Featuring:
Stella Heath – vocals
Thierry Gabriel Pirard – guitar, harmony vocals
James Inciardi – bass, tenor, and soprano saxophones
TBA – bass
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Renewal: Artist Reception w/ Mimi Herrera-Pease
2017-07-12 18:00 - 21:00
The Red Poppy invites you to join the artist and curators of Renewal, its third exhibition of 2017, which will be on view until August 21. For her first solo exhibition at the Red Poppy Art House, Mimi Herrera-Pease picks up the tempo with spring and summer shades on canvas. Come by and feel the harmony between the sonic and visual arts!

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Mimi Herrera-Pease is a San Francisco-based painter who was born in Mexico City. Under the tutelage of the late Carlos Villa, a Guggenheim Fellow, Herrera-Pease learned technique and self-expression through oil painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. The immediacy of action painting and abstract expressionism became her vocation. Influenced by the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Figurative, and Neo-Expressionist movements, she honed her skills as an abstract painter.

ABOUT THE CURATORS:
Elena Mencarelli moved to San Francisco after concluding her Master Degree in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna, Italy. Previously, she was the artistic director of the Make Your Mark Art Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to her artistic practice and curatorial background, she is also engaged in art criticism. Elena is the co-writer of the catalogue of the double exhibition Maria Rebecca Ballestra – Alan Sonfist, a better landscape (Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy) and is the author of Maria Rebecca Ballestra, a phenomenology of posthumanism, soon to be published in both Italian and English.
Zena Carlota is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and visual artist based in the Bay Area. Her traditional background in kora and West African harp has inspired her to combine her love of classical West African string music with Appalachian folk, Delta blues, and soul to create narratives of memory and migration in the African Diaspora. An accomplished visual artist, Zena finds it a natural progression to apply in her own art the same themes of ritual and tradition found in West African music. As a fifth generation Bay Area resident, she values the notion of longevity and sustainability in community and sees the role of the Red Poppy as a vehicle for creativity and support for artists.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Event 6:00PM
Admission: Free
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CANCELLED - Joanna Wallfisch: Post-Folk Art Music with Ukulele & Looper
2017-07-09 19:30 - 22:00
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Hafez Modirzadeh/Mark Dresser/Diane Moser/Vijay Anderson: Creative Music Quartet
2017-07-08 19:30 - 22:00
The Red Poppy is proud to present an evening of works by four masterful composer/improvisers, each of whom has developed original concepts towards creative music, informed through a lifetime of exploration and reaching beyond an array of musical traditions.
Featuring:
Hafez Modirzadeh – saxophones
Mark Dresser – bass
Diane Moser – piano
Vijay Anderson – drums
Mark Dresser is a Grammy-nominated, internationally renowned bass player, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator.
Diane Moser has been a featured performer and composer throughout the U.S. with jazz ensembles, big bands, orchestras, chamber music ensembles, dance companies, and theater companies.
Vijay Anderson is a freelance drummer, bandleader, composer, and teacher who lives and works in Oakland, California.
Saxophonist/theorist Hafez Modirzadeh has performed, recorded, published and lectured internationally on original cross-cultural musical concepts.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $20-25 sliding scale
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Trio Colibrí: Classic & Original Latin American Music
2017-07-07 19:30 - 22:00
Trio Colibri is comprised of John Santos, Jose Roberto Hernandez, and Manuel Constancio, three stalwart Bay Area musicians drawn together by a common passion for the lyrical and poetic music of Latin America. Using guitars, Afro-Latin percussion, and beautiful vocal arrangements, they transport audiences to other countries, realms, and eras – always with an element of originality – while honoring profound musical traditions and innovators. Mambo, bolero, son, joropo, and guaracha are some of the rhythms they use, igniting dancers and daring concert audiences to stay still in their seats.
Featuring:
Jose Roberto Hernandez – vocals, guitar
Manuel Constancio – vocals, guitar
John Santos – percussion
Jose Roberto Hernandez is a highly respected multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, arranger, producer, musical educator, and ethnomusicologist. He was born in the city of Cardenas, Tabasco, Mexico, surrounded by master folklorists. He is a unique artist whose devotion, creativity, and studies in the genres of traditional music from Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Argentina have earned him great recognition and fan appreciation.
Learn more: Website
Bay Area native Manuel Constancio Jr. is an accomplished and versatile guitarist/vocalist whose 25-year association with the Navy Band found him directing the NATO Band in Naples, Italy; on Treasure Island, in San Francisco; and in San Diego, California. He was the Navy’s first “minority” band director. He co-directs the band Sabrosito with his brother José.
John Santos, a multi-Grammy nominee and San Francisco Latino Heritage Arts Awardee, is one of the foremost bandleaders, composers, producers, percussionists, and educators in Afro-Latin music. He has worked with acknowledged masters, including Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Cachao, Eddie Palmieri, and Omar Sosa. He has lectured and taught throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America since 1973.
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Eileen Torrez/Maya Hall/Dyllan Hersey: Acoustic Night
2017-07-06 19:30 - 22:00
Local singer/songwriter/guitarists Eileen Torrez, Maya Hall, and Dyllan Hersey present a night of soulful, folky acoustic originals.
Featuring:
Eileen Torrez – guitar, vocals
Maya Hall – guitar, vocals
Dyllan Hersey – guitar, vocals
Eileen Torrez performs a powerful and unexpected blend of folk-pop and neo-soul. Her music builds on themes of resilience, community, anti-capitalism, and women’s empowerment.
Vocalist Maya Hall, born in Fukuoka, Japan, moved to San Francisco in 2014 in search of bigger musical pastures. The self-taught guitarist/songwriter’s chord progressions, dainty riffs, and interesting rhythms are a perfect match for her silky, sweet vocal style.
Learn more: Website
Fairfax native Dyllan Hersey released her first full-length album, Dyllan Hersey, in 2012. The Bay Bridged called it “a compelling album with just a single voice and guitar… Her guitar work is more intricate than typical folk-singer strumming, yet avoids taking attention away from the beautiful simplicity of the arrangements.”
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Brian Andres & the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel ft. Alexa Morales: Latin Jazz
2017-07-01 19:30 - 22:00
Grammy-winning singer Alexa Morales joins Brian Andres and his Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel for a night of original compositions and classic Latin jazz standards.
Featuring:
TBA
The Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, rooted firmly in a Bay Area Latin jazz tradition that includes artists from Cal Tjader to Armando Peraza and John Santos to Wayne Wallace, was formed to contribute its own mark to that storied history. Led by Brian Andres and featuring Grammy Award-winning musicians, as well as esteemed music educators, the ACJC never fails to perform its music at the highest level.
Learn more: Website
Since 2004, Oakland-based songwriter Alexa Weber Morales has made 12 studio recordings, including three solo albums, Jazzmérica, Vagabundeo, and I Wanna Work For You, and a solo EP, From Me To Yule. In 2010, her vocals graced the Grammy-nominated Latin jazz album Bien! Bien! In 2012, she was commissioned to write lyrics and sing on Pacific Mambo Orchestra’s debut release, which won the Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Album, marking a historic triumph for the Bay Area Latin music scene and for indie musicians everywhere.
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Amanda Abizaid: Bridging East and West With Song
2017-06-30 19:30 - 22:00
Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Abizaid makes her Red Poppy debut with an evening of sophisticated pop, lyrics for peace and equality, touches of her Lebanese heritage, and a special appearance by San Francisco pop band Anna Karney and Beautiful Losers.
Featuring:
Amanda Abizaid – acoustic guitar, flute, vocals
Lindsay Gillis – acoustic guitar
Kim Manolius – bass
Jeff Herrera – drums
Lebanese-American artist Amanda Abizaid, best known as the vocalist on the theme song “A Place In Time” from sci-fi show The 4400, released her latest EP, Walking In Twos, in support of HelpPhilippineSchools.org, a nonprofit organization that helps children get the best education possible through the betterment of existing schools. The project’s goal is to create a self- sufficient revenue stream using proceeds from the song’s downloads and streams to buy school supplies for the Aeta children of the Philippines.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event – please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. All ages are welcome.
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The Helltones: Surf in a Suit
2017-06-29 19:30 - 22:00
Darwin Siegaldoud and his intrepid Helltones present an evening of music that ranges from surf to jazz to soul and back again, featuring classics by the likes of Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, and an Elvis song or two.
Featuring:
Darwin Siegaldoud – guitar, vocals
Paul Bowman – drums
Tim Eggerding – bass
Victoria Sepe – vocals
Kyle Debuff – vocals
Jordan Edwards – vocals
The Helltones were first conceived by high school friends and bandmates Darwin Siegaldoud and Paul Bowman in 2016. Having played together in a variety of punk, blues, and rock bands, they decided to put together an act that could play a sultry love song as well as tear through a two-minute surf rocker. Shortly thereafter, Tim Eggerding joined on bass, and ever since, they’ve been doing their part to keep romance alive and well.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event – please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. All ages are welcome.
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Molly Holm and Her Trio: Extended Jazz & Improvised Music
2017-06-24 19:30 - 22:00
Vocalist/composer Molly Holm, with her all-star jazz trio, makes her Red Poppy debut exploring the multicultural crossroads of improvised music through original compositions, straight-ahead and modal jazz tunes, and traditional folk songs. Molly’s music, often intertwined with the elements of North Indian raga, experimental vocals, or playful free-form improvisation, also reveals the rhythmic and note-bending influences inherited from the music of the African diaspora.
Featuring:
Frank Martin – piano/arrangements
Jeff Chambers – bass
Deszon Claiborne – drums
Molly Holm is an unconventional singer/composer who blends jazz, improvisation, and North Indian raga, reflecting her studies with master vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. Singing with Bobby McFerrin’s original Voicestra, Molly has also performed with composer Terry Riley, tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, choreographer June Watanabe, and George Coates Performance Works. Other projects include collaborations with African-American roots-music vocalist Linda Tillery and Indo-fusion saxophonist George Brooks. Molly has also composed music for Marcus Gardley’s plays, most notably “This World in a Woman’s Hands.” Her 2013 CD, Permission, described as “musically left-leaning,” was produced by pianist/arranger Frank Martin and features Famoudou Don Moye, Jeff Chambers, Larry Schneider, Deszon Claiborne, and Wayne Wallace.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $20-25 sliding scale
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event – please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. All ages are welcome.
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David James's GPS: Jazzy Border Crossings
2017-06-23 20:00 - 22:00
David James (Afrofunk Experience, Beth Custer Ensemble) brings his rhythm-horns-and-strings sextet back to the Poppy for an evening of stylistic border-crossing. This performance will feature songs from the acclaimed album Billionaire Blues, as well as new compositions and arrangements.
Featuring:
David James – guitar, voice
Beth Custer – clarinets
Alan Williams – trombone
Ela Polak – viola
Lisa Mezzacappa – bass
John Hanes – drums
GPS (Good People, Son) is a jazz-meets-chamber rock sextet led by celebrated guitarist and composer David James and featuring local luminaries Beth Custer, Alan Williams, Lisa Mezzacappa, Ela Polak, and John Hanes. A lifelong Bay Area resident, David has been involved with seminal local groups for decades, sculpting guitar feedback and ambient sounds with Thessalonians, touring and recording hip-hop with Spearhead and the Coup, playing Afrobeat with Afrofunk Experience, and presenting funky art-song with the Beth Custer Ensemble, all of which has led to GPS, whose 2016 album, Billionaire Blues, was highlighted as an outstanding debut by NPR.
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EVENT DETAILS
Time: Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event – please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. All ages are welcome.
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Jazz Mafia's NOT a Brass Band: Chamber Jazz/Groove
2017-06-22 19:30 - 22:00
Bandleader Adam Theis and this five-piece ensemble will present a night of new original compositions and arrangements, as well as tributes to artists who have influenced them. Expect a wide dynamic range, rock and EDM rhythms, plus melodies, harmony, and phrasing more common to chamber, jazz, and music from around the world – and a hint of New Orleans second line that occasionally surfaces for a wild horn romp.
Featuring:
Max Miller-Loran – trumpet/piano
Charlie Gurke – baritone sax
Adam Theis – trombone
Jonathan Seiberlich – tuba
Aaron Kierbel – drums/percussion
Adam Theis & NOT a Brass Band, the latest offshoot of the 17-year-old Jazz Mafia collective, was formed by five musicians with extensive experience in New Orleans-style brass groups who wanted to take the instrumentation into new and unexplored territories.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event – please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. All ages are welcome.
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