Red Poppy Art House

Pezhham Akhavass: Traditional Music Of Persia
2012-01-21 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
This evening’s performance will be based on the traditional music of Persia by one of Iran’s foremost Percussionist Pezhham Akhavass. Based on the art of improvisation, the listener will be taken through an introspective and meditative journey through sound. Pezhham Akhavass is known as a virtuoso percussionist of the Tombak and Daf percussive instruments. He has a degree in music from the University in Tehran and has recorded and performed around the world with the leading masters of Persian music including Kayhan Kalhor, Hossein Alizadeh and Saied Farajpouri. He now lives in San Francisco where he teaches and performs. Pezhham’s unique approach to rhythm has defined him as one of the leading figures in his generation for his ability to create new and innovative techniques in Tombak, creating a new dimension in sound.
Pezhham Akhavass – Tombak/Daf/percussion
Special guests – TBA
“Pezhham does not miss a beat.” ~ Matthew Forss, Inside World Music
www.akhavass.com
$15-20 admission. Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

CHELLE! AND FRIENDS: Chelle And Friends Commemorates The Music Of Mardi Gras
2012-01-20 19:30 - 22:00
CHELLE! and Friends, commemorates the music of Mardi Gras, New Orleans, and celebrates its Creole people and their remarkable music. Michelle Jacques was born in New Orleans. She began this journey to find out what it means to be Creole, to understand her culture, her language and her history and after the devastation of Katrina in 2005, her mission has evolved into her determination to keep the history and the music of New Orleans alive. Michelle has been awarded the 2008 City of Oakland Individual Artist grant helping her dream come alive. From the joyous mix of Spirituals, the pulsating rhythms of the Wild Magnolias’ “Herc Jolly John”, and Irma Thomas’ “You Can Have My Husband”, to Nina Simone’s ode to peace “Come Ye”, CHELLE! And Friends will take you on a musical and historically rich roller coaster ride that you won’t soon forget! With drums, percussion, bass, horns and powerful voices, CHELLE! And Friends delivers a musically rich performance of Jazz, R&B, world music and Spirituals, that transcends ethnic boundaries, uplifts, brings news, protests, motivates and honors our richness and diversity.
Michelle Jacques – vocals
Rhonda Crane – vocals
Jay Lamont – vocals
Bryan Dyer – vocals
Donna Viscuso – saxophone, harmonica, flute
Ken “Snakebite” Jacobs – flute
Sam Bevan – bass
Bob Scott – bass
“Chelle has put together a dream team of accomplished performers. This group completely rocks! They’ve been a hit every time we’ve worked together.” Russ Jennings, Common Soul Productions
“New Orleans is visiting us with the powerhouse group of CHELLE! and Friends! This is spiritual gospel fused with Caribbean rhythms, Cajun mix of spicy vocals that will make you dance, sing, pay attention and certainly will give you chills and lift your spirit! This is one of my favorite performing groups in the Bay Area…” Stephanie Dalton, Urban Music News
http://urbanmusicpresents.com/chellefriends
Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYVyHAbHy4&feature=player_embedded
$10 advanced admission. $12 door admission. Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Live figure drawing class/Session de dibujo en vivo
2012-01-19 18:30 - 21:30
Jan 19th, 6:30-9:30pm
Live figure drawing class/Session de dibujo en vivo
Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St @ 23rd
$10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

In keeping with the traditions of master artist communities of old, we are experimenting with offering life-drawing workshops. Our first one will be help Thursday, January 19th, from 6:30 – 9:30. Each 3-hour session will cost $10, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds…
Artists of all levels are invited into this supportive environment to experiment and explore new drawing techniques or further practice and hone old ones. Poses will vary from 1 – 20 minutes, possibly longer if requested.
The sessions will be held at the Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom – on the corner of Folsom and 23rd.
Suggested Materials to bring: drawing pad, drawing board or easel, whatever drawing media you would like to use to draw (charcoal, pencils, ink…)

La Gente: Reggae, Latin, Hip-Hop
2012-01-14 19:30 - 22:00
La Gente is a Bay Area-based group led by Colombian/Nicaraguan, San Francisco-born, singer-songwriter and Red Poppy resident artist Rafael Bustamante Sarria. The group is a cultural and musical combination that created its own unique Cali-fusion of Reggae, Salsa, Hip-Hop, Cumbia, Rock, and Reggaeton. Expect a high-energy dance party with politically and socially charged lyrics and freestyles in Spanish and English. The Group has toured all over the United States as well as Central and South America and Europe. La Gente will be performing new compositions, soon to be released on their newest EP and will be joined by guest MC’s and musicians from the Bay Area. La Gente recently closed out the night at the Red Poppy during Dec 3rd MAPP. 1-LOVE
Michael Shiono: bass
Juan Carreon: drums
Mario Silva: -trumpet, vocals
Imanuel Junaedy: keyboards
Rafael Bustamante Sarria: lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
www.lagentemusicsf.com
http://youtu.be/JptaaRGtEvY
http://youtu.be/-4-pwmxGJH0
$12-$15 admission. Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Family Art Program: Dia Internacional de dar Gracias! International Thank-You Day!
2012-01-14 13:00 - 16:00
Actividad: De Cuantas maneras puedes decir gracias?
Activity: How many ways can you say thank you?

Melissa Czarnik with Eric Mire: Jazzy-Hip Hop-Poetry
2012-01-13 19:30 - 22:00
Melissa Czarnik (Zar-nik) is one of the most vital emcees to emerge in recent years. Mixing potent poetry, soulful hip hop and improvisatory Jazz, Czarnik’s music exemplifies artists such as Lauryn Hill, Ani Difranco and Nneka.
Hailing from Milwaukee, Czarnik’s first two albums Strawberry Cadillac (HMP, 2008) and Raspberry Jesus (HMP, 2010) have earned her recognition by NPR, Bitch Magazine, Bust Magazine, Anattitude Magazine (Europe), and Democracy Now among others. She has toured extensively throughout the United States and was a special guest performer at the Supafly Hip Hop Series #3 in Brussels, Belgium. In 2010, Czarnik was interviewed on Billy Jam’s WFMU “Women in Hip Hop Special” which also featured Rah Digga and Ayana Soyini.
Currently Czarnik is booking a 2012 European tour and is preparing for her French artist residency, where she will complete her forthcoming album, Non Merci.
Melissa Czarnik – vocals
Eric Mire – key board, loop pedal, vocals
“This incredible young rapper from Milwaukee had me under her spell from the first to last moments of her album. Some of the songs are biographical, some are issues-based and many touch on the theme of love in a raw and wise way. Whatever the subject, Czarnik’s tracks are all verbally and musically smart. She has clear diction and there’s a musicality to the way she raps — her speaking is very much like singing. The sonic palette is very broad. I loved the use of a garbled-up Delibes “Flower Duet” in the song “Been this Way” and there are some gorgeous, tripping saxophone solos in “Canned Nutrition.” This girl is going all the way.” – Chloe Veltman, VoiceBox, KALW 91.7FM
“Czarnik is a soulful, fluid rapper, backed by the five-piece Eric Mire Band. Together, they’ve produced a surprising, potent and thoughtful mix of funk, jazz, soul and hip-hop.” -Robin Hilton, NPR, All Songs Considered
“With slammin’ poetry, precise beats, and DIY authenticity, Czarnik is an inspiration to young MC’s everywhere.”- Claire Ashton, Bitch Magazine
Website: http://www.melissaczarnik.com/default.html
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kdc1Qnv8E
Audio Clip Melissa Czarnik “Thunder Summer Storm”: http://www.melissaczarnik.com/tss.mp3
$10-$12 admission. Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Califa: Afro Middle Eastern Balkanalia
2012-01-12 18:30 - 21:00
The brainchild of Rosa Rojas (formerly of the Bay Area’s Ballet Afsaneh) and Fabrice Martinez of Fishtank Ensemble, Califa is a Los Angeles based world music party onstage. Featuring musicians from LA bands Plotz and Rootsystem, the essence of Califa is an offering of highly concentrated musical virtuosity, fun, and party hopping all across the musical world. Featuring three dancing, singing and musician divas at the center of its universe, Califa is a dazzling concentration of love for music, culture and beauty.
Fabrice Martinez – violin
Daniel Rosenboom – trumpet
Robby Marshall – clarinet
Momo Loudiyi – guitar
Orest Balaban – bass
Austin Wrinkle – drums
Rosa Rojas, Ursula Knudson, Molly Roth- vocals, percussion, Theremin
$15-$20 admission. Doors at 6:30pm. Show at 7:00pm.

The Evan Francis Group: Adventurous And Heartfelt Original Music
2012-01-08 19:30 - 22:00
The Evan Francis Group is a boundary-pushing, six-piece ensemble that presents melodic and rich woodwinds over an organic patchwork of Afro-Latin, Avant-garde and Groove rhythms. The rhythmically-active music is adventurous, dramatic and entirely heartfelt. Inspiration for this music is especially drawn from modern Cuban Timba music as well as wildly expressive Americans like Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Charlie Mingus. Evan Francis is a San Francisco-based woodwind artist and composer who made his way performing and recording with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Marcus Shelby, Billy Higgins, Talib Kweli, Darren Johnston, Lyrics Born, Dr. Art Davis, Jazz Mafia, and Mike Keneally.
Kasey Knudsen- tenor sax
Marcus Stephens- tenor sax
Evan Francis- alto sax and flute
Sam Bevan- upright bass
Matt Lucas- tumbas
Colin Douglas- timbal
“I can visualize the spirits of Rahsaan Roland Kirk & Eric Dolphy looking on with pride… a bit of the funk/soul/house groove, tasty beats…it’s invigorating & refreshing to hear a contemporary jazz group actually moving the dialog ahead.” – Jeffrey Jones, Music Director WOJB FM 88.9
“Aside from being a hefty instrumentalist, he’s a terrific composer …..Francis likes to experiment. He’s the composer’s equivalent to a restless teenager, always shifting grooves or mixing and matching” -Rachel Swan, East Bay Express
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Evan-Francis-Group/92287671670
$10-15 admission. Doors at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

ON EXHIBIT: Artists of EDELO - "Where The United Nations Used To Be"
2012-01-08 08:00 - 2012-02-19 20:00
The Red Poppy Art House currently presents, Where The United Nations Used To Be, curated by Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow, co-founders of EDELO, the Poppy’s sister Art House in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibit highlights a cross-section of EDELO resident artists, past and present, with works that represent both local and international cultural political movements. The Red Poppy Art House and EDELO wish to create an inter-communal exchange forum of diverse practices from all areas of the planet – where individuals from various walks of life exchange thoughts and actions as gifts.
Artists’ Reception, Thursday February 2nd, 6-9pm

the pickPocket ensemble: New Music For The World Cafe
2012-01-07 19:30 - 22:00
Inspired by many world musical traditions, the pickPocket ensemble inhabit a country all their own. Original, fresh and engaging, the pickPocket ensemble create a contemporary chamber café music that moves both body and soul.
“Always rich in mood and atmosphere, they deftly meld inspirations and instrumentation from around the globe. Some are fleeting like single threads in their lustrous tapestry, while others (such as the Appalachian folk and Balkan gypsy influences) appear more solidly, forming artfully arranged patches of the PPE musical quilt. Along the mesmerizing way, they visit and revisit the twist and turns of jazz, flamenco, tango and chamber music.” – Aquarius Records
“Their dark, austere, gypsy-tinged acoustic melodies linger over tricky rhythms that sometimes shift shape to the point where it’s impossible not to get lost. Plaintive but not sentimental, wistful without being hokey, this is tremendously captivating rainy-day music.” – Lucid Culture
Lila Sklar – violin
Rick Corrigan – accordion and composition
Yates Brown – guitar and banjo
Kurt Ribak – double bass
Brian Rick – percussion
http://www.pickpocketensemble.com
http://youtu.be/rJ9-bxNhuw4
$12-$15 admission. Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Valerie Orth: Intimate Trio Show Plus Music Video Screening
2012-01-06 19:30 - 22:00
Described as “sexy, soulful, genuine, and edgy” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and an “indie folk powerhouse” by Bend’s Source Weekly, Valerie Orth is a fearless and genre-bending songwriter. Her distinctive hybrid of rock, groove, soul, and folk reaches out and grabs your attention; her live performances captivate and charm at once. Rich with melody and metaphor, Orth’s tunes move nimbly between darkness and light, hope and despair, taking deft turns of phrase along unforeseen rhythmic twists in the road. With gorgeous, multi-octave vocals and no fear of heights, she flirts with the edge as readily as she subverts expectations. On January 6 at the Red Poppy, while featuring the band’s newest addition, Brian Scholl on drums, Valerie will be showcasing new songs, telling you the secrets behind her songs (ssshhhh!), and screening her band’s latest music video. There will be some surprise audience participation as well… Get your creative hats on and come join us for this intimate performance.
Valerie Orth – guitar, vocals
Veronika Safarova – bass, backing vocals
Brian Scholl – drums
“There is an honesty to Valerie’s music that is both brilliant and heartbreaking.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Valerie’s full length album, Faraway City, is “a remarkable piece of work.” – East Bay Express
“Unpredictable and highly original…Just when you think she’s going to settle into a familiar groove, off she flies into the stratosphere with phrasings you never saw coming.” – Jefferson Agrarian
“Indie folk powerhouse” – Bend’s Source Weekly
www.valerieorth.com
www.youtube.com/valerieorth
$10-$15 admission. Cash Only.
Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Maria Morrell, Stina Da Silva, & Maria Machetes: Songstress Salon
2012-01-05 18:30 - 21:00
The Songstress Salon features original music of three powerful enigmatic Bay Area singer-songwriters. These three ladies recently performed at the de Young museum as part of the Artist Fellows program.
Maria Morrell is an artist who writes her songs with an empathic flair for life’s joys and pains. Her folk and soul influenced music gives way for an unpretentious, reminiscent experience. She is also one of the lead singers for the group Pop Fiction and performs all over the West coast.
Stina da Silva is a soulful songstress whose lyrics and melodies are passionate and sometimes quirky. She incorporates a variety of styles and languages into her music but her main influence is rooted in blues and folk. Stina is a performer and educator based in the Bay Area.
Maria Machetes is a singer songwriter, poet, community educator and activist. Her music is rooted in Latin American traditions and addresses everything from poetry to politics. She describes her music as “Traditional Fusion Tropical Pop”
Maria Morrell: vocals guitar
Stina da Silva: vocals, guitar, ukele
Maria Machetes: vocals
Kat White: vocal, guitar
Gil Barraza: guitar
Fer Checa: bass
Jose Vergelin: congas, bongos, cajon
Mario Patinio: flute
Edison Bolanos: charango
Maria Morrell: www.popfictionlive.com
Stina da Silva: www.youtube.com/user/Stinakat
Maria Machetes: http://youtu.be/yNUTHoR-Mzo
$10-$20 admission. Doors at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

Tito y su Son de Cuba Quinteto: Celebration la Noche Buena en Havana Vieja
2011-12-23 19:30 - 22:00
Heriberto “Tito” Gonzalez, “El Trecero mayor”, arrived in the San Francisco Bay area in the summer of 2000. His music is typical and primarily “El Son”. Now, with a new life in San Francisco and the songwriter’s freedom to experiment and story-telling, Tito, a consummate master of Cuban traditional music, brings a fresh sound to a lifetime of experience.
Tito Gonzales spent his young life picking up guitar licks around the rim of the sea thanks to a Cuban-run company that sent fisherman like him far and wide to find the catch. The open water swept him into the urban narrows, and, back on dry land, he traded up for the sound of the tres (small Cuban guitar) and the Cuban son, yet his talent only led him to ordinary labor. Fate had in store for him a different destiny -a rapid ascendence from cabbie to celebrity and a star of the Cuban music scene.
Tito Gonzalez: lead singer, tres guitar, percussion
Miguel Martinez: flute and percussion
David Fraizer: congas
Antonio Garcia: bass
Mario Artino: piano
www.titoysusondecuba.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm8VgYkcaSc
$15-$18 admission. Cash only.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Erik Deutsch, Scott Amendola, John Shifflett
2011-12-22 18:30 - 21:00
An Evening Of Original And Improvised Music, And Reinterpretation Of American Rock Music
Erick Deutsch, John Shifflett, and Scott Amendola have been playing as a trio on and
off for a few years now. Erik lives in NY but comes out west just enough to make this
trio feel like a band. From the first note things gelled. We share the appreciation for pop music and enjoy reinterpreting it with our own voices. We also enjoy playing our original music so there’s a nice balance of both worlds that intertwine and help us all arrive at a very interesting place. Whether it’s Mr. Bojangles, or one of our originals, the music is always unpredictable. But the listener is brought along for the ride as the 4th band member.
Erik Deutsch: piano
John Shifflett: bass
Scott Amendola: drums

“…drummer/signal-treater Scott Amendola is both a tyrant of heavy rhythm and an electric-haired antenna for outworldly messages (not a standard combination).”
– Greg Burk, LA Weekly
www.scottamendola.com
www.hammerandstring.com
http://gateway.geolog.com
$12-$20 admission. Doors at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

Marcus Shelby Trio Featuring Ed Reed: Nat King Cole, Blues, Ballads and Swing
2011-12-17 07:30 - 22:00
The Marcus Shelby Trio was founded in 1997 and performs regularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, including national and international festivals. The trio consists of Marcus Shelby (bass), Adam Shulman (piano) and Jeff Marrs (drums). The MST performs original compositions, re-arranged Standards, Spirituals, Rhythm and Blues, and Pop music—all with a progressive influence of Swing, Ballads, and Blues. The MST has released 2 CDs (“Un Faux Pas”, “The Sophisticate”), and serves as the rhythm section for the Marcus Shelby Orchestra, which has released 4 CDs, including their last recording on Porto Franco Records Soul of the Movement. Tonight’s program will feature the dynamic vocalist Ed Reed who has made the Downbeat Critics Rising Star poll (2008, 2009, and 2011), and also a selection of original and standard compositions by Marcus Shelby. Ed Reed has several CDs out and tours and performs locally regularly.
Ed Reed: “Growing up in Watts, California in the 1930s and 40´s provided a rare musical learning environment. I was in high school talent shows with “Little Esther” Phillips and Bobby Nunn of the Coasters. I learned to sing chord changes from the man who would become jazz master Charles Mingus while he was minding his sister´s kids across the street from my house. Alienated by teachers who wanted me to go to shoe shop when I wanted to study debate, I left high school before graduation and joined the Army where I became addicted to heroin. I served four stints in San Quentin and Folsom prisons on drug-related charges. I think, partly due to my love of jazz, I was able to survive those ordeals. In two of my incarcerations, I was a featured singer in the warden´s show performing with an inmate big band with Art Pepper soloing on all of my tunes. When I wasn´t doing time, I did many “open mikes” with jazz greats like Wardell Gray, Art Farmer, Hampton Hawes, Dexter Gordon, and others.”
Ed Reed: vocals
Adam Shulman: piano
Marcus Shelby: bass
Jeff Marrs: drums
www.marcusshelby.com
http://edreedsings.com/index.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrSBoArCUJ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIK666kgUk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJyJbFyngLE
http://edreedsings.com/index.htm
$15-20 admission. Cash only.
Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Maquina del tiempo! / Time Machine!
2011-12-17 01:00 - 16:00
Activity: Time Machine!
Actividad: Maquina del tiempo!
** PLEASE NOTE: There will be NO FAMILY ART on Dec 24th, 31st. Please join us again on January 7th!

Boca do Rio: Brazilelectro Acoustic Madness
2011-12-16 07:30 - 22:00
Boca do Rio duo, Kevin Welch and Alex Calatayud, explore the band’s new EP, The Dam is Breaking. These tracks present new beats and old traditions in an eclectic mix of organic songs and sounds. The lyrics are sung in both English and Portuguese and topically range from love in the time of climate change to a young prodigy growing up in the Favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro. The musicians have lived these songs in live performances throughout the Bay Area and the sound is translated into a deep understanding of the harmonies and rhythms of daily life in Brazil. The songs are profoundly respectful of past traditions but are clearly syncretic and forward-looking, heralding the arrival of an organic blend of lives lived between the Americas, where Electronica meets the skin of the drum and all the saints dance!
Kevin Welch: guitar, vocals
Alex Calatayud: percussion
“Boca do Rio, an Afro-Brazilian World music group from Northern California, delivers a unique blend of pop hooks, pleasing vocal harmonies, funky rhythms, and African percussion with contemporary beats on their EP The Dam is Breaking. The result is joyously melodic and uplifting, with the contemporary accessibility of the Rippingtons and the depth of Stan Getz’s “The Girl from Ipanema” and the Brazilian bossa nova from years past. Boca do Rio (Portuguese for “mouth of the river”) strikes the perfect balance between delicate smoothness and energetic edginess, resulting in vibrant, vast landscapes of sound. Rooted in distinct instruments that seem both timeless and yet also grounded in the here and now, The Dam is Breaking is full of energy, passion, vitality and life. Possessing an urgent environmental message, every song is impeccably written, arranged and performed, resulting in an EP that is superbly crafted and expertly produced.” -Brian Farish Radio
www.bocadorio.com
$10-$15 admission. Cash only.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Kardash: A Night of Psychedelia Oriental
2011-12-15 18:30 - 21:00
Join us as Kardash sweeps you away on a magic carpet ride through the Mediterranean, Anatolia, Levant and Egypt. Kardash blends the ancient and modern, renewing musical traditions for today’s hectic world, creating a space for you to wander in – hypnotic, meditative, joyous and tragic. Taking a strong nod from the classic Anatolian psychedelic sounds of the 70’s, as well as modern Jazz and the Classical music of the Near East, Kardash is about that timeless space evoked in song and dance that can ideally point to the commonality of the various traditions they encompass as well as our greater humanity. A breathing space for a world on the edge…
Phaedon Sinis: kanun, yayli tanbur, kemenche
Murat Bayhan: doumbek, riq, bendir
Sam Foster: cajon, doumbek, riq, bendir
Doug Ebert: upright bass

www.kardashmusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/kardashmusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfZ9Fjem3Qk
$10-$15 admission. Cash only.
Doors at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

elizabeth!: Jazzy Pop Songs
2011-12-11 18:30 - 21:00
CD Release – Brainchildren
LA-based vocalist, trombonist, and songwriter, elizabeth!, is a fun and interactive performer and educator who connects with audiences through the thrill of improvisation and personal, accessible musical stories. Like Nat “King” Cole and Ella Fitzgerald before her, she’s a playful storyteller with a twinkle in her eye that comes through in her music. In her jazzy pop tunes inspired by travels around the world, elizabeth! also harnesses the power of pregnant moments, carefully phrasing her vocals to give each word its own special place.
Her new album, Brainchildren (Canopy Jazz), tells stories real and imagined, outlining the similarities found in our experiences no matter where we reside. One was even inspired by a taqueria in San Francisco’s Mission District. She’s just moved West from NYC, where she spent years recording, performing, and touring with folks like Michael Bolton, St. Vincent, and Matt Wilson. Join us for her San Francisco CD release party!
elizabeth!: voice, trombone, songs
Dan Zemelman: piano
“Every moment of this album has something to offer” – College Music Journal
“Crisp trombone playing…. an enjoyable confection!” – Sun Chronicle
http://www.elizabethjazz.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/elizabethjazz?feature=mhee
$15 admission. Cash only.
Doors at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

Quijeremá: A Potent Mix of Latin American Folk Music & Jazz
2011-12-10 19:30 - 22:00
Quijeremá infuses their original contemporary Latin American compositions with a unique sense of ancient musical traditions. The blending of rhythm, texture, and color in their music is seamless, transparent, and always original. Delighting audiences over the course of an eight-year, five-album career, this finely tuned Bay Area quintet mixes the best of roots music with spontaneity and verve.
Quijeremá has performed throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America, and has collaborated with a variety of distinguished international musicians such as John Santos, Anthony Blea, Manuel Moreno, Mads Tolling, as well as members of renowned Chilean groups Congreso, Illapu, The Latin American Sax Quartet, La Pedro Band, Entrama, and Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. In 2006, they were invited to Venezuela to perform as part of the Fiesta de la Diversidad Cultural Music Festival. A year later, they were invited to inaugurate the Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi memorial amphitheater, afterwards touring throughout Santiago, Chile.
Quique Cruz: strings, Andean wind instruments, percussion
Jeremy Allen: bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña: percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Henry Hung: trumpet, flugelhorn
John Calloway: piano, flute, percussion

“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz.”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
“Using various methods of artistic expression, Quijeremá is more than just a band. They are poets and multi-media designers. Combining sounds from almost all over Latin America, their music contains a multi-cultural vibe that is guaranteed to impress anyone.”
—Remezcla.com
www.quijerema.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEYyXM49cQ&feature=player_embedded
$12-$15 admission. Cash only.
Doors open 7:30 pm. Doors open at 8:00 pm.

Tomemonos de las manos proclamando nuestros derechos! / Let's hold hands and claim our rights!
2011-12-10 13:00 - 16:00
Celebrando el dia Internacional de los Derechos Humanos
Celebrating the International day for Human Rights

World Blues Band with Nezb & Mamadou Sidibe: Acoustic West African Caribbean Fusion
2011-12-09 19:30 - 22:00
Born Ernesto Browne in Pt. Fortin, Trinidad, NezB has been singing since his youth when he sang onstage with Miriam Makeba. He has sung with OJ Ekemode, Lynn Taitt, Jackie Mittoo, One Love (Randy Jackson on bass), Obeah, Mystic Wariyah, Vision, DV8, Bass Culture, and more…
Mamadou Sidibe (Mali) played a groundbreaking role in transforming the music of Mali’s Wassalou region from its origins in hunters’ sacred melodies – played on six string donso ngoni (hunter’s harps) – to a music of philosophical observations, political commentary, women’s rights, and daily life. He was one of the first to expand the instrument’s range with two extra strings, creating the popular kamalengoni. He has recently enhanced the kamalengoni even further, by creating 10 and 12 string versions. Mamadou, with artists Coumba Sidibe, Oumou Sangare and Ramatu Diakite, spread the new sounds through recordings and performances in Europe, Africa and the United States. He has also performed with Toumani Diabate, Mamadou & Vanessa, & more…
NezB: lead vocals
Mamadou Sadie: kamalengoni, Bambara vocals, calabasse, guitar, bolon
Gary Nelson: acoustic guitars, vocals
Ollie Dudek: contrabass
Waahid: percussion, congas, tabla

“Led by dreadlocked singer/songwriter Ernesto Browne, DV8 evolved out of his previous Bay Area band VISION. Ernesto fronts the band with a vibrant stage presence, finely phrased grainy vocals and a strong set of message songs, the band is one of the strongest local reggae outfits in recent history.” – Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian.
www.primogaleria.com/basscultureproductions
www.myspace.com/abuandgary
$10 – $15 admission. Cash only.
Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Claire Brandt: Mission Lascaux
2011-12-08 18:00 - 2012-01-01 21:00
Claire Brandt: Mission Lascaux
Site Specific Installation at The Red Poppy Art House
On Exhibition: November 7 – January 1, 2011 (EXTENDED)
Reception: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 6-9pm
The Red Poppy Art House is excited to present Mission Lascaux, a site-specific installation by Claire Brandt exploring communication, embodiment, movement and the connection between all three. Mission Lascaux will be an installation of life-size cut-paper wild animals of the land, sea and air mid-movement on the gallery walls of the Red Poppy Art House. Visitors to the Poppy will be able to compare their own bodies to animals they would not usually have an opportunity to be close to—Orca whales and coyotes for example—giving them an opportunity to feel a physical connection with beings outside of usual urban experience. Brandt’s installation will develop over the course of November, culminating in a final closing reception on December 8, 2011, 6-9pm.
Brandt’s work has been shown in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, most recently at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. She maintains an active studio practice in San Francisco’s Infill Studios (of which she is a founding member). Brandt has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Headlands Center for the Arts: Open to the Elements. She received her A.B. in English and American Literature from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. She was raised in Bellingham & Tacoma, Washington.

Makru: Peru Tour Fundraiser
2011-12-04 18:30 - 21:00
With influences of anything that can shake their soul, Makru sounds like smashing the Earth and then playing it on a record player. The group has an acoustic flavor that fuses elements of Rumba, Flamenco, Reggae, Cuban Son, Cumbia, and many other global beats. Makru’s music is performed with a combination of Spanish and English lyrics that bring reality, fiction, hope and joy.

Raul Vargas: composer, cajon, guitar and vocals
Martina Castro: vocals, palmas
Javi Monge: congas, percussion
Vinicio Penate: electric & acoustic bass
Bob Sanders: electric & acoustic guitar
Izzy Wieser: melodica, flute

http://vimeo.com/31089602
http://soundcloud.com/you/tracks
http://www.facebook.com/makrumusic
http://missionlocal.org/2011/08/la-musica-makru/

Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP)
2011-12-03 15:00 - 2011-12-04 00:00
Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP)
Saturday, December 3, 2011
The MAPP is a homegrown, intercultural, multidisciplinary neighborhood event that takes place the first Saturday every two months in the Mission District. MAPP is a collage of a dozen or so spaces—garages, cafés, studios, gardens, street corners—which artists transform into makeshift venues for the intimate experience of people and culture. Bridging cultural divides, the MAPP gives space and voice to the multiplicity of perspectives and experiences that exist within urban settings. For more information about the MAPP program click here.
Music and Art Fritanga
6:30-7:00 Carlos Ramirez & Clara Hsu: Tribute to Langston Hughes
7:00-7:30 Meklit Hadero (singer songwriter) Jon Jenkins ( NASA’s Kepler Labs): Star Guitar
7:30-8:25 Javier Navarretts’s Occupy (Cumbia, Plena, Jazz)
8:25-8:55 Miguelito Martinez & Alejandro Chavez
9:10-9:50 Sol Tevel (Hebrew Roots Soul)
10:15-10:45 YeYe Suarez (Dancing words through Latin American music )
11:00-11:40 La Gente Jam (Reggae, Latin, Hip-Hop)
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/243152225739731/

Mapas del cuerpo sin cadenas / Body Maps without chains
2011-12-03 01:00 - 16:00
Honorando el 2 de diciembre Día Internacional de la Abolición de la Esclavitud
Honoring Dec 2nd – The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Prasant Radhakrishnan's VidyA: South Indian Classical Meets Jazz
2011-12-02 19:30 - 22:00
VidyA merges Jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of South Indian Classical (Carnatic) music. Led by critically-acclaimed saxophonist, Prasant Radhakrishnan along with David Ewell (bass), Sameer Gupta (drums) – Hamir Atwal performs as guest drummer at this performance. VidyA has emerged with a soulful, penetrating sound that pushes the labels of “fusion” or “world music.”
These artists have an almost telepathic interplay, incorporating the forward motion of both Indian Classical and Jazz rhythms while elaborating Carnatic ragas infused with melodic richness. The group weaves in and out of the two genres while all the time merging them into one. VidyA translates the language of Carnatic music into the idiom of Jazz.
VidyA has been featured at venues such as SFJazz, San Jose Jazz, Yoshi’s, Asian American Film Festival, Recontraire Internationale in France and more. Radhakrishnan’s original compositions for VidyA have been commissioned by the De Young Museum via the Jazz at Intersection series and awarded the Zellerbach Family Fund grant among others in 2010. VidyA will release their second studio album of original compositions later this year.
Prasant Radhakrishnan: Saxophone
David Ewell: Bass
Drums: TBA
“…Pioneering trans-cultural terrain.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“VidyA’s music breathes at the very center of a cultural crossroads between the North American jazz idiom and the Carnatic music of South India. VidyA’s music is a new vein of North American music… present tense, present location, new culture in the making.” – Todd Brown, Red Poppy Art House
“…when these patterns are played on saxophone, violin, string bass, and jazz drums, there is a build-up of emotional energy and intellectual complexity which seems to recreate the energy that was present at the birth of bebop in 1940s New York. In fact, if Charlie Parker or Dizzie Gillespie had heard VidyA at that time, I think it would have never have occurred to them that VidyA’s music was Indian. They would simply have wondered where these cats had found a sound that was so mercilessly free of the standard melodic and rhythmic clichés.” – Teed Rockwell, India Currents
“A style that’s madly percussive and sparkling… combines jazz’s sweet dreaminess with the Indian form’s insistent rhythmic and tonal changes.” – SF Weekly
“Imagine ragas and American blues folded into a single moment. It’s a fusion of Indian classical and jazz, and the leader, Prasant Radhakrishnan, 24, points the way for a number of Bay Area improvisers.” – San Francisco Chronicle, “Year in Jazz” (January 2007).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hv9eW47W4A
http://vidyamusic.com
http://prasantmusic.com
http://music.prasantmusic.com/album/vidya
$15 admission. Cash only.
Doors at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Jimmy Kansau & His Trio: 20th Century Latin American, Opera & Jazz
2011-11-27 18:30 - 21:00
Reviewed as an “unusually strong-voiced tenor” who “shows great sensitivity,” Kansau possesses vocal flexibility and a range of experience spanning from Latin American music to opera halls and venues. Jimmy Kansau brings his love and appreciation for the music of early to mid 20th century Latin America and the Caribbean combined with his sensitivity and understanding of the elegance of classic American jazz that inspires him to freshly fuse the best of both worlds. It is to that exquisite nexus of sensuousness and musicality where he and his musicians take us with a smile.
Jimmy Kansau: vocals
Sam Bevan: bass, arranger, co-producer
Beth Goodfellow: drums
John R. Burr: piano
www.jiimmykansau.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmWNWIAais
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhceiU8vDwM
Doors at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm. $12-$20, cash only.

CLASSICAL REVOLUTION PRESENTS “SQUID INC.”: Future Of The String Quartet
2011-11-26 19:30 - 22:00
Classical Revolution presents chamber music performances in neighborhood venues all over the Bay Area featuring the best local and touring classical musicians. November marks the 5 year anniversary of Classical Rev, with special events planned throughout the entire month
Where is the future of the string quartet heading? The answer lies with Squid Inc. Squid Inc. is a string quartet made up of some of the Bay Area’s fiercest string players and will open your ears as the world of popular music dances with classical tradition. Squid Inc. is not just pushing the boundaries, they are not even aware they exist. You will hear original tunes by Squid Inc. and arrangements done in their own unique style – The Police a la Tango with a little Sibelius thrown in, a habanera via Britney Spears, and the ever-contemplative Radiohead. SI members have played and recorded with Death Cab for Cutie, Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Rosin Coven, Jazz Mafia, Third Eye Blind, Amy X. Neuberg, Nice Guy Trio and dozens more. Recent collaborations include Opey Tha Poet from The Freeze, singer songwriter Rachel Efron and Patrick de la Esperanza from Rosin Coven. Also in the works is a song cycle with Carrie Katz and Laura Inserra involving the “hang” – a beautifully sonorous and melodic Swiss percussion instrument.
Hrabba Atladottir – violin
Jory Fankuchen – violin/viola
Darcy Rindt – viola
Beth Vandervennet – cello
www.classicalrevolution.org
www.squidincstrings.com

Armandonos de paz / Preparing for Peace
2011-11-26 13:00 - 16:00
November 26th
Honorando el 25 de Noviembre el Dia Internacional de la Eliminacion de la violencia contra la Mujer.
Honoring November 25th the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Actividad: Armandonos de paz
Activity: Preparing for peace.
