Red Poppy Art House

Naomi Wachira: Afro-Folk
2017-06-18 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Kenyan singer-songwriter/guitarist Naomi Wachira comes to the Red Poppy from her home in Seattle for an evening of folk music influenced by gospel, the music of Tracy Chapman and Miriam Makeba, and a desire to create music that is poignant, hopeful, and life-giving. Expect brand-new songs from her latest release, Song of Lament.
Featuring:
Naomi Wachira – vocals, acoustic guitar
Since her arrival on the Northwest music scene, Naomi Wachira has received numerous accolades, including being named “Best Folk Artist” by Seattle Weekly. She has released three recordings to date: African Girl (2012), Naomi Wachira (2014), and I am Because You Are (2015). Her fourth album, Song of Lament, is scheduled for release in June 2017.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 6:30PM / Show 7:00PM
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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Kylland/Cinnamon Lips: Cinematic, Soulful Singer-Songwriters
2017-06-17 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Kylland and Cinnamon Lips present a night of all-original music that promises to take listeners from the green knolls of Ireland to the golden hills of Laurel Canyon. These two singer-songwriters blend flavors of traditional folk music with harmonically rich songwriting and cinematic storytelling, beautifully buoyed in the velvety sea of their strong vocals.
Featuring:
Kylland – vocals
Lila Oleszkiewicz – vocals
Kylland is an American-Norwegian-Japanese composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Oakland. She will be releasing her debut album in late 2017.
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Lila Oleszkiewicz is a Polish/Roma singer, songwriter, and composer who has lived in England, Ireland, Australia, Chicago, New York City, and the Bay Area. A recent graduate of Mills College with a BA in composition, she focuses on themes derived from Eastern European folklore, as well as American popular music. Cinnamon Lips is a project created around Lila’s love for American folk traditions.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Mari Black & the World Fiddle Ensemble: A Fiery Fiddle Odyssey
2017-06-16 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Multistyle violinist and champion fiddler Mari Black comes to the Poppy with a spirited musical adventure featuring dance music from around the globe: Celtic, American, and Canadian fiddling, jazz, tango, klezmer, folk, original works, and more.
Featuring:
TBA
Mari Black’s energetic playing, engaging stage presence, and commitment to bringing people together through music have made her a favorite with audiences across the country and around the world. Equally at home in a wide variety of musical traditions, Mari is a two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion of Scotland, two-time Canadian Maritime Fiddle Champion, Canadian Novelty Fiddle Champion, and 1st Prize winner at the 2010 American Protégé International String Competition.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Alicyn Yaffee Trio: Pop, Jazz, and Rock
2017-06-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Singer/songwriter Alicyn Yaffee makes her Red Poppy debut with an evening of indie-pop sensibilities, punk, jazz guitar, and soulful vocals. Her trio includes Santana bassist/musical director Benny Rietveld, who produced her debut album, Someone Else, which features Cindy Blackman, Ronnie Foster, and Rietveld.
Featuring:
Alicyn Yaffee – guitar, vocals
Hamir Atwal – drums
Jeff Cressman – trombone
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Redwood Tango Ensemble: Modern Tango and Original Chamber Music
2017-06-11 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Oakland-based Redwood Tango Ensemble presents a concert of new works written by bandoneonist Charles Gorczynski. The sextet focuses on writing that is both fundamentally based in tango and reaching towards a personal and imaginative sound. The new works are influenced by contemporary tango groups in Argentina, modern chamber music, film music, and improvised music.
Featuring:
Charles Gorczynski – bandoneón
Kendra Vernon – violin
Mia Bella D’Augelli – violin
Anton Estaniel – cello
Elyse Weakley – piano
Daniel Fabricant – double bass
Redwood Tango Ensemble is dedicated to performing and studying traditional Argentine tango music, which has made them popular with dance communities in the Bay Area and on tour. Their arrangements are inspired by the styles of Anibal Troilo, Carlos DiSarli, Osvaldo Pugliese, and other master orchestras in tango. The group has been a consistent and strong presence on dance floors, playing for hundreds of milongas since their inception in 2011. The sextet, the featured orchestra for Chicago Tango Week in 2013 and 2015, has performed for milongas in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Montreal, NYC, and dozens of cities in-between. The ensemble keeps a highly active presence in the Bay Area tango scene, and tours regularly as the full sextet or as the Redwood Tango Trio. They have released two albums, including the critically acclaimed and fully original Unison (2016).
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Ricardo Peixoto and Felipe Senna: An Evening of Brazilian Music
2017-06-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Bay Area-based Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Peixoto welcomes São Paulo pianist/arranger/composer Felipe Senna for an evening of original compositions, as well as selections of Brazilian classics, including choro, samba, baião, and bossa nova.
Featuring:
Ricardo Peixoto – guitar
Felipe Senna – piano
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, guitarist/composer Ricardo Peixoto is among the top representatives of Brazilian guitar in the U.S. today. His fluid, melodic style, original harmonic approach, and keen compositional sense explore Brazil’s rich and diverse traditions, both in his original work as well as in arrangements of Brazilian classics. His recording and performance credits include Claudia Villela, Flora Purim and Airto, Bud Shank, Dom Um Romão, Sivuca, Claudio Roditi, Toots Thielemans, Dori Caymmi, Guinga, Arturo Sandoval, Spok, Jovino Santos Neto, Paul MCCandless, and Terra Sul. He has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan, and Brazil.
Felipe Senna was born in São Paulo, where he began his musical education at the age of 6. Surrounded by music lovers and amateur players in his German-Brazilian family, Senna was the first to follow the path professionally, initiating his career as a pianist at age 14. Senna has performed as music director, arranger, and pianist for many artists, including Toquinho, Claudete Soares, Jane Duboc, Airto Moreira, Nailor Proveta, and Filó Machado. He is the winner of many composition awards, including the prestigious Camargo Guarniere Composition Competition, and he has composed for and conducted various symphonic and chamber groups in Brazil.
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Opera on the Spot: Works by the Romantics
2017-06-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Bay Area performance troupe Opera on the Spot celebrates intense and passionate love, the sublime, the morbid, the beautiful, and the strange with a show dedicated to art songs and arias from the late 18th-century/early 19th-century Romantic era of Western classical music.
Featuring:
TBA
Opera on the Spot is a group of young, classically trained singers embarking on professional careers in opera. With no set venue, they choose less-conventional places for performances, including bars, restaurants, and community spaces.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Zona Blu: Soul Jazz Collective
2017-06-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Ready for an easygoing evening of friendly, familiar jazz tunes? Local quintet Zona Blu, whose Italian name is a nod to Milanese jazz club “blue zones” and Miles Davis’ iconic Kind of Blue, presents a laid-back night of Latin, funk, and swing grooves that’s sure to ease you into the weekend.
Featuring:
David Kaufer – guitar
Jim Wasco – piano
Steve Teich – alto saxophone/flute
Greg Galli – drums
Tom Donald – bass
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Girl Named Nino: Indie, Soul, and Jazz
2017-06-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Songwriter and producer Nino Arobelidze, born in the formerly Russian republic of Georgia and raised in Chicago, boasts a sound influenced by jazz, soul, indie rock, her time in a funk duo, and her travels around the world. For her Red Poppy debut, Nino will be joined by frequent collaborator Pablo Gordy on guitar and vocals.
Featuring:
Nino Arobelidze – vocals, guitar, keys
Pablo Gordy – electric guitar, vocals
(Special guests TBA)
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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STOOP: Nosotros, los de a pie
2017-06-03 12:00 - 15:00 | CA
“Nosotros, los de a pie”
Homenajeando a los ciudadanos de a pie, a los ambulantes, los invisibles a la sociedad. Al inmigrante europeo, latino, africano, a ellos y ellas, los ciudadanos del mundo, sosten del planeta. ¡A quiene nadie les canta, ni dedica poemas, a quienes ningún pintor inspira!
“We, The Ordinary Ones”
We honor the ordinary citizens, the street people, those invisible to society. We honor the citizens of the world—from Europeans to Latinos to Africans—and the immigrants who sustain the planet. We honor those who do not inspire painters, and to whom no one dedicates a song or a poem.

ABOUT STOOP
Mission Stoop Fest (STOOP) is a civil society arts experiment that transpires on the front stoops of local residences, where traditional and contemporary artists perform and where local residents share stories and histories. The front stoop represents a literal threshold between the public and private spheres and is a historic site of spontaneous community interaction and exchange. Occurring during the day on the same bi-monthly dates as sister-project, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP), STOOP will provide a program and a map of multiple neighborhood stoops where performance and storytelling will unfold simultaneously.

PARTICIPANTS
Alejandro Meza – collaborative drawing and poetry
Claudio Talavera-Ballon – live street painting of Mission residents
Naomi Quiñoez – bilingual poetry
(Plus Lotería family game!)

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Event 12:00PM
Admission: Free
Location: 1018A Shotwell Street
All ages are welcome.

MAPP: Mission Arts & Performance Project
2017-06-03 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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-numbered month, 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 of artistic and cultural exchange.
RED POPPY SCHEDULE
Stay tuned for details!

EVENT DETAILS

Time: TBD
Admission: Free
All ages are welcome.
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RHQuartet ft. Richard Howell: This Is What Love Sounds Like
2017-06-02 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Returning to the roots of improvisation, saxophonist Richard Howell reunites with fellow improvisers from the acclaimed group RHQ, which featured phenomenal pianist Frederick Harris and spirited bassist Gary Brown. Elé Howell, a disciple of the great E.W. Wainwright, brings an energetic flow and a powerhouse approach.
Drawing upon the ancestry of jazz, the essence of soul, and the sensibility of pop, award-winning saxophonist Richard Howell and his group RHQuartet push the boundaries of the genre while honoring the roots of the music. Howell honed his craft performing alongside artists like Etta James, Chaka Khan, and Maurice White, and his latest CD, Burkina (with guest Christian Scott), reflects the passion and joy Howell brings to his music.
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $20-25 sliding scale
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Tom Griesser 3: Embracing Tradition and Sedition
2017-06-01 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Saxophonist Tom Griesser and his longtime collaborators, bassist Ollie Dudek and drummer Dan Foltz, present selections performed during their three-year stint at the Burritt Room in San Francisco, as well as new compositions to honor visionaries and rebels in a variety of endeavors. The trio draws from a wide range of influences, including 1930s Benny Goodman, 1940s Ellingtonia, the Sonny Rollins Trio recordings of the 1950s, hard bop classics, and avant-garde figures such as Odean Pope and Roswell Rudd.
Featuring:
Tom Griesser – tenor saxophone
Ollie Dudek – bass
Dan Foltz – drums
Saxophonist Tom Griesser has been performing on the San Francisco scene for 25 years, starting with the swing revival of the 1990s and branching out with a straight-ahead jazz quintet, the Section 8 Project. Since then, he has been a longtime member of both the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra and Brass Monkey Brass Band, recording several albums with both ensembles. In addition to his own trio, Tom plays in B3B4, a jazz organ quartet, and frequently plays both tenor saxophone and clarinet with the Cottontails, as well as other early jazz and swing groups in the Bay Area.
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Photo credit: Eric Vogler

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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Ali Dineen & Hannah Sassoon: Resistance & Healing in Shadow Puppetry & Song
2017-05-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
New York City-based musicians and visual artists Ali Dineen and Hannah Sassoon present an evening of music and shadow puppetry, telling personal and historical tales of healing and resistance. They will perform original music, including new songs from Ali’s recent album Light Comes In, as well as selections from different folk music traditions with guitar, accordion, cello, fiddle, vocal harmony, and harmonium.
Featuring:
Ali Dineen – vocals, guitar, accordion, harmonium
Hannah Sassoon – vocals, cello, fiddle
Ali Dineen is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist based in Brooklyn. She performs original, acoustic folk music, as well as songs from U.S. folk traditions, and she incorporates historical and sociopolitical commentary into her work. Her music, deeply personal and also political, explores the intersections of personal stories with larger histories. In her work, Ali navigates the forces that divide human beings and cause conflict, and she seeks to dismantle them through honest lyricism and intimate acoustic music. She has worked with Bread and Puppet Theater as puppeteer and musician, and performs regularly in NYC.
Hannah Sassoon is a visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, and environmentalist resistor living in Nashville, TN. Ali met Hannah in 2014 and has collaborated with her closely ever since.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | Bandcamp

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-25 sliding scale
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Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2017-05-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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.

Josiah Johnson + Friends: Intimate Songwriting, Community Collaboration
2017-05-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Best known for being co-frontman of The Head and The Heart, Josiah Johnson heads an evening of songwriting based in a folk tradition that emphasizes connection to the internal source while recognizing the importance of communion and the connection to the light of others.
Featuring:
(Full lineup TBA)
Southern California native, current Bay Area resident, former Seattleite, one-time Torontonian, and longtime tour-bus resident Josiah Johnson’s solo performances highlight a stripped-down, emotive, lyrics-first kind of songcraft, inimitable in sincerity.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Pamela Parker's Fantastic Machine: Rock Funk Soul Love
2017-05-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Standout Bay Area producer/songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Pamela Parker brings her trio to the Poppy for a dynamic performance that will feature selections from her upcoming album, Fantastic Machine, a fresh rock & roll landscape that evokes Alabama Shakes, Thin Lizzy, and Funkadelic.
Featuring:
Pamela Parker – vocals, piano, guitar
Spence Murray – bass
Chris McGrew – drums
Pamela Parker studied opera and commercial music production before establishing herself as a solo performer in the Washington D.C. area. After touring nationally and internationally, she moved to San Francisco in 2007 and released her self-produced debut, Beautiful Day. Parker and her handpicked band completed her second album, Evolutionary Process, while she earned studio time working as an engineer at Hyde Street Studios in 2013. The band’s infectious blend of funk, rock, and soul touched a nerve in Vancouver, British Columbia on the radio station CHLY 101.7FM, where the album debuted at No. 1 and was up for Album of the Year. Fantastic Machine has opened for acts such as Heart and Big Brother & the Holding Company and headlined festivals like the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, Earth Day SF, and Bay Vibes Summer Fest.
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EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Dina Maccabee/Ron Shalom: Viola Ballads & Baroque Death Pop
2017-05-25 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Dina Maccabee performs lush, ethereal music using viola, vocals, and electronic processing. Taking an experimental approach to folk sensibilities, she crafts a singular, intimate sound world around each of her original and often personal songs. Ron Shalom presents songs from the peripheries of consciousness utilizing electronics, video, and storytelling.
Featuring:
Dina Maccabee – viola, vocals, laptop
Ron Shalom – guitar, vocals
Dina Maccabee is a multifaceted string player, songwriter, composer, and performer who was deeply involved in the Bay Area live music scene for many years. Best known locally for her work with Ramon & Jessica and Real Vocal String Quartet, she has recently toured extensively with Julia Holter, while putting creative energy into imagining her solo set. Her viola playing and vocals can be heard on records by Feist, Vetiver, Beats Antique, We Are the West, Vienna Teng, Silian Rail, Michael Musika, Aaron Novik, and many more.
Ron Shalom is a composer-instrumentalist and leader of the Cult of the Illuminated Orifice. His work attempts to seek out the boundaries between forms of performance in public life, as well as between the musical and the theatrical, through the creation of spectacle. One of his recent projects includes a third full-length album of songs with his baroque death pop ensemble.

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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Three Poets and Their Music: LOAN, Contraband, and Fried Axolotl
2017-05-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Music, poetry, history, and future converge powerfully when three poets–Tongo Eisen-Martin, Bonnie Kwong, and Josiah Luis Alderete–explore themes of immigration, migration, language, cultural identity, social justice, revolution, and love through collaborations with guitarists Peck the Town Crier, Oliver Mok, and Eli Carlton-Pearson.
Featuring:
LOAN (Tongo Eisen-Martin, poetry; Peck the Town Crier, guitar)
Contraband (Bonnie Kwong, poetry; Oliver Mok, guitar)
Fried Axolotl (Josiah Luis Alderete, poetry; Eli Carlton-Pearson, guitar)
Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra judicial killing of black people throughout the United States. His latest curriculum, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.
Peck The Town Crier has been recording and performing “hist-hop” and “song-rap” since 1994. His music has been featured on MTV UK, Current TV, and the Wall Street Journal online. Peck teaches guitar in San Rafael and can often be found crying a capella on the corner of 16th and Mission.
Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is an artist in many mediums and languages: Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Ruby, and Javascript. Her first book of poetry, ravel, is a finalist for New Rivers Press’ Many Voices Project and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work has garnered a number of Pushcart nominations and an artist residency at Stanford University.
Josiah Luis Alderete is a full-blooded Pocho Indio who refries his beans and poems in Spanglish. He was a founding member of outspoken word group the Molotov Mouths and is currently living on the border of Oakland and Berkeley waiting for Quetzalcoatl to arrive.
Eli Carlton-Pearson is an instrumentalist extraordinaire, musical visionary, and inventor of many strange musical objects.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:30PM / Show 8:00PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Édessa: The Heart of Balkan Music
2017-05-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Often-rambunctious Balkan quartet Édessa, known for playing intricate time signatures and highly ornamented modal music with authority and joy, brings to the Poppy a night of wide-ranging, non-dance repertoire and new material.
Featuring:
George Chittenden – clarinet, gaida, zurna, guitar
Ari Langer – violin
Lise Liepman – santouri, accordion
Sean Tergis – davul, darabuka, defi
Using both traditional and modern instruments, Édessa plays a variety of styles that interweave melodies and improvisation with a big Balkan beat, including the ancient and mesmerizing music of the zurna and davul; the lyrical and sweet music of the Greek islands; the haunting, trance-like pentatonic music of Epirus; and — at the other end of the acoustic spectrum — the contemporary Bulgarian genre known simply as “wedding music.”
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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Naina & Salma: In Search of Eternal Love
2017-05-14 19:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Performance artist Naina Shastri and visual artist Salma Arastu collaborate on a show that uses Indian classical dance, poetry, video projection, and live music to connect 13th-century Persian mystic Mevlana Rumi and 16th-century Indian saint Meera Bai, who both spoke of finding salvation in love.
Featuring:
Naina Shastri – dance
Salma Arastu – Rumi poetry recitation
Ghalib Grooves Carnatic Band – music
With over 20 years of experience as a performer, choreographer, and teacher of the Mysore style of Bharatanatyam dance, Naina Shastri runs Ushanjali School of Dance in the East Bay. Naina, a RAW residency artist at SAFEhouse and artist-in-residence at OACC, was chosen to perform at the APERTURE Festival in 2016.
East Bay visual artist Salma Arastu practices Eastern spirituality through Western techniques of painting using mixed media. She’s had over 30 years of experience, 40 solo shows, and three books published, and she’s a recipient of the East Bay Community Foundation’s Fund for Artists award and the City of Berkeley Individual Artists grant.
Photo credit: Swagato Basumalick

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 6:30PM / Show 7:00PM
Admission: $10-20 sliding scale
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Darren Johnston's Broken Shadows: Love, Loss, and Resistance
2017-05-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
With songs emphasizing lyrics and storytelling, as well as world-class musicianship that prizes spontaneity and dialogue, this highly adaptable ensemble led by trumpeter/composer Darren Johnston brings poetry, interplay, vocal harmonies, and a cross-section of musical interests into a curious new blend of roots/art/dance music.
Featuring:
Darren Johnston – trumpet, vocals
David Phillips – pedals, steel guitar, vocals
Jordan Samuels – guitar, vocals
Miles Wick – upright bass, vocals
Jordan Glenn – drums
Since settling in San Francisco in 1997, Canada-born trumpeter/composer/songwriter Darren Johnston has collaborated and recorded with an extremely diverse cross-section of artists. His interests rotate around composing instrumental music, writing songs, and performing all styles of jazz, experimental, and purely improvised music, as well as traditional music of the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, and the Arab world. These interests have coalesced into his primary ensemble of late, the Americana-influenced Broken Shadows. He has performed and/or recorded with luminaries such as Fred Frith, ROVA Sax Quartet, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg, Matt Wilson, Mark Dresser, Marshall Allen, Hamid Drake, Marcus Shelby, the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, and many others.
Learn more: Website | Facebook
Photo credit: Julie Caine

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale
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San Francisco Youth Theatre Presents: Homegrown One Act Festival
2017-05-11 - 2017-05-13 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Written, directed, acted, and produced by San Francisco Youth Theatre students, Homegrown is a brilliant collection of original, one-act plays that tells stories of having an incarcerated parent, Black Lives Matter, the beauty standard, LGBT relationships, being an artist, and yes, our changing San Francisco. This project is supported by The Youth Empowerment Fund.
Playwrights:
Abraham Frankfurter Davis
Yasmina Eldredge
Kenyah Evans
Mateo Friedenbach
Lauren Hernandez
Xitlally Lupian
Camila Raimond
Daniel Vigil
San Francisco Youth Theatre is dedicated to creating cutting-edge theater for children and youth ages 3-24. SFYT offers classes and performance ensembles, and produces adult-performed productions for young audiences, school residencies, and a repertoire of original productions that speak to the unique sensibilities of youth. The organization fosters personal expression through the arts, creating and performing theater that tells the compelling stories of our community. Classes are accessible to all children and youth, and all classes are offered on a sliding scale tuition basis; no student is turned away for lack of funds. SFYT is changing the world, one play at a time.

EVENT DETAILS

Dates/Times: May 11 & 12 @ 7:30PM / May 13 @ 2:00PM
Admission: $10-20 sliding scale / Advance tickets available!
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome.
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John Wubbenhorst and Facing East: India Meets Jazz
2017-05-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Led by bansuri flutist John Wubbenhorst, a composer influenced by decades of studying classical Indian music, Facing East combines Hindustani and Carnatic sounds with modal jazz in the vein of icons such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, and Oregon.
Featuring:
John Wubbenhorst – flutes, keyboards, vocals
Eric “Doc” Smith – Zendrum
Steve McQuarry – keyboards
Jason Everett – 7-string bass
The compositions of John Wubbenhorst, a disciple of the great Indian bansuri flute maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia, have been heralded as a “fresh new approach to East/West music.” His illustrious list of collaborators has included Victor Wooten, Jack DeJohnette, and Paul Horn.
Learn more: 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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Kathleen Grace: American Song
2017-05-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Ready for authentic storytelling, original compositions, and selections from the Great American Songbook? Globetrotting Arizona native and Los Angeles resident Kathleen Grace brings a pure sound and her honest and soaring voice to the Poppy for an evening of jazz, folk, and Americana.
Featuring:
Kathleen Grace – vocals
Storm Nilsson – guitar
Jeff Denson – bass
Kathleen Grace’s latest album, No Place To Fall, is a sun-drenched landscape of music rooted in her desert upbringing and elegant country spirit. Recorded at Carriage House Studios and produced by Sheldon Gomberg (Ryan Adams, Ben Harper, Lucinda Williams), No Place To Fall is the undeniable evolution of Grace as a naturally exquisite singer and songwriter, whose soulful instincts are skillfully honed by her prior experience in jazz and blues.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | YouTube | Bandcamp

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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Bret Higgins' Atlas Revolt: Cinematic Jazz, Global Sounds
2017-05-05 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
This Canadian quartet explores instrumental music that draws inspiration largely from film scores, jazz, rock, surf, and elements of Eastern European, African, and South American music. At the Poppy, the only San Francisco stop on their first U.S. tour, Atlas Revolt promises music from their acclaimed debut alongside selections from their upcoming album, due this year.
Featuring:
Bret Higgins – upright bass
Aleksandar Gajic – violin
Tom Juhas – electric guitar
Robbie Grunwald – electric piano
Max Senitt – drums
Upright bassist Bret Higgins formed Atlas Revolt in 2013 as a vehicle for his original instrumental compositions, and the band’s self-titled debut, released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records in 2015, has been met with glowing reviews. Based in Toronto, Higgins performs regularly with Canadian folk-rock groups Great Lake Swimmers, Beyond The Pale, Zebrina, and Ozere.
Learn more: Website | Facebook | Bandcamp

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
Admission: $10-15 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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McKasson & McDonald: A Modern Take on Traditional Folk
2017-05-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
The Poppy warmly welcomes Ryan McKasson and Eric McDonald, masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges. Pulling from parallel strands of influence, the duo creates a swirling level of intensity that traverses darkness, light, and everywhere in between. Their new album focuses on the relatability of music hundreds of years old, weaving new ideas and tunes with the old to create a timeless sound.
Featuring:
Ryan McKasson – fiddle, vocals
Eric McDonald – acoustic & electric guitar, vocals
Despite living active musical lives thousands of miles apart, Ryan McKasson and Eric McDonald are committed to working together to forge a new musical path. Ryan, an acclaimed performer, composer, collaborator, and teacher, was the youngest ever to win the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship. Eric, who studied at Berklee College of Music under world-renowned musicians such as guitarist/mandolinist John McGann and cellist Eugene Friesene, is now considered one of the United States’ premier accompanists.
Learn more: Website | Facebook

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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Kristine Barrett: Songs of Sanctuary
2017-04-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Kristine Barrett presents an evening of experimental folk melodies exploring the concept of refuge: a place that nurtures, extends, bridges; that asks us to appeal to our highest selves, to seek deeply the difficult questions and to be brave in the face of them. Her setlist: traditional music and ritual song from Norway, Iran, Estonia, Ireland, Sephardic Spain, Hungary, Brazil, and the Republic of Georgia.
Featuring:
Kristine Barrett – vocals, harmonium, piano
David Robert Johnson – guitar
Temple of Light Georgian Community Choir – vocals
Kristine Barrett is a transmedia artist, composer, and vocalist specializing in traditional music and ritual song from the Republic of Georgia, the Caucasus, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, Ireland, and the Americas. Balanced between conservation and experimentation, Barrett acts as both monk and medium, honoring tradition while concurrently allowing the music to be alive in present bodies, reflecting the shape of the living. In addition to her solo work, she currently performs with the acclaimed Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Cantadora Sephardia with David Robert Johnson, and is the Artistic Director of the Temple of Light Georgian Community Choir.
Learn more: Website | Bandcamp

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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Spectrums & Prisms, Bodies & Realms: Artist Reception w/ Lise Silva
2017-04-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
The Poppy invites you to join the artist and curators behind its second exhibition of 2017, Spectrums & Prisms, Bodies & Realms, on view until June 24. For her first exhibition at the Red Poppy Art House, Lise Silva Gomes has created a fiber art installation that serves as a metaphysical exploration where woven knots of various shapes and colors invade the Red Poppy’s performative space, creating an ambiance of other-worldliness that evokes wonder, deep mystery, possibility, fantasy, and curiosity.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lise Silva lives in Oakland and works from her studio in Berkeley. Her artistic practice is strongly influenced by meditation, mysticism, classic film, psychedelic illustration, Surrealism, and Art Deco design. She explores the power of symbols through her Sacred Knots line of fiber jewelry and wall hangings.
ABOUT THE CURATORS:
Musician, composer, and visual artist Zena Carlota is the executive artistic director of the Red Poppy; Elena Mencarelli, a visual artist, is currently collaborating with the Poppy as a lead host and art curator. Spectrums & Prisms, Bodies & Realms is the result of Lise, Elena, and Zena working together to realize the multidisciplinary vision of the Red Poppy Art House, a dynamic space where visual and performing arts, cultural diversity, and creativity come together to enrich community experience.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: Event 3:00PM
Admission: Free
All ages are welcome.
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Andrea Claburn Sextet: Jazz Album Release Celebration
2017-04-29 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Jazz vocalist/composer/arranger Andrea Claburn will be joined by an all-star band to celebrate the release of her debut, Nightshade, a collection of original compositions and new arrangements of lesser-known standards by Duke Ellington, Betty Carter, and Pat Metheny.
Featuring:
Andrea Claburn – vocals
Dan Zemelman – piano
Aaron Germain – bass
Greg Wyser-Pratt – drums
Terrence Brewer – guitar
Erik Jekabson – trumpet, flugelhorn
San Francisco-based Andrea Claburn, born in Baltimore and raised in the classical tradition, studied both piano and violin before turning to jazz. She is a graduate of the California Jazz Conservatory and a recipient of the CJC’s Mark Murphy Vocal Scholarship.
Learn more: Website | SoundCloud

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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