Red Poppy Art House

Salsa Dance Party Benefit
2018-09-30 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
2018 marks the 15th anniversary of the Red Poppy Art House, a landmark accomplishment we’d love to celebrate with you all! Beginning September 30th through the end of the year, we’ll be hosting a series of events and online campaigns in honor of our sweet 15th.
To kick off our birthday season, we’re starting with a Salsa Dance Party Benefit in support of the Red Poppy. Spend Sunday dancing away the afternoon with us! Both first-time dancers and experienced salseros are welcome.
Admission is a suggested donation of $5-15 (sliding scale), but please give at the level you feel comfortable. All funds raised will directly benefit the space and its programs.
Have a favorite salsa song? Email info@redpoppyarthouse.org or message us on Facebook with your top tunes! We’re putting together a custom playlist of all your favorites for the dance party.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 3:00pm event
Admission: $5-15 sliding scale (suggested donation)
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Brian Andres Trio: Latin Jazz
2018-10-05 19:30 - 22:00
Brian Andres returns to the Red Poppy to present original compositions and arrangements of classic jazz and Latin standards.

FEATURING:
Brian Andres – drumset
Christian Tumalan – piano
David Pinto – bass

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Drummer Brian Andres leads the Latin jazz group the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel. The nucleus of that ensemble is the trio, featuring Grammy Award-winning musicians Christian Tumalan on piano and David Pinto on bass. As they have with the larger ensemble, the trio exerts a firm grip on the music’s cutting edge, playing with confidence, poise, and rhythmic imagination. Tumalan also co-leads the Pacific Mambo Orchestra, and Pinto was the music director for Peruvian songstress Susana Baca prior to relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Photo by: Harvey Castro Photography

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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October 6th MAPP @ Red Poppy Art House
2018-10-06 19:30 - 22:00
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.

RPAH PROGRAM:

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Featuring

7:30pm – 8:00pm
Trio Czinka Panna
Music from Eastern Europe
Ineke Koksma (violin), Olle ten Cate (accordion), Balder ten Cate (cimbalom)

8:10pm – 8:50pm
Rules of the Game
One-act play with music
Isabel Aks (actor), Pao Changklueng (actor), Sophia Graham (actor), Puck Hartsough (actor), Naomi Louie (actor), Yasamin Marashi (actor), Jason Tran (actor), Ruth Cavano (bass), Aiyana Greene (vocals), Gina Jacobsen (flute), Faith Lam (violin)

9:00pm – 9:25pm
Isik Berfin Band
Kurdish Sufi / Zazaki music
Isik Berfin (vocals, daf, percussion), Ozden Oztoprak (vocals, baglama), Sali Shopov (davul, percussion)

9:30pm – 10:00pm
Eastern Fusion Trio
Middle Eastern jazz blend
Nima Hafezieh (piano), Artem Zinin (bass), Aydin Kiasat (kamancheh)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Based in the Netherlands, Czinka Panna is a violin-accordion duo with a large repertoire of mostly Eastern European music, including Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, and Romani melodies, but also Klezmer, Italian, French, and romantic film music. For this performance, they will be joined by their son on cimbalom. The ensemble is named after the legendary 18th century female Hungarian-Romani violinist Czinka Panna, who lived near Budapest and would entertain the local nobility with her family band.
Five teens who are just sitting around begin a game of Truth or Dare. As it becomes clear they’re in a detainment camp for migrant children, the stakes of the game grow far higher than anyone suspected they would. Rules of the Game is a one-act play with music performed by students from the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts who are doing this play to raise awareness about the detention of migrant children and, where possible, to raise funds for non-governmental organizations working to help these children. We are trying to use art to promote ethical actions in response to a bad situation.
Ozden Oztoprak and Isik Berfin, a mother-daughter duo from Turkey’s Zaza-Alevi community, have a distinct Zaza repertoire of songs stemming from a Sufi spiritual tradition. Rumen “Sali” Shopov is a master Turkish-Romani drummer, singer, and string player from Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria. A charismatic and patient teacher, Shopov has taught at the Eastern European Folklife Center’s Balkan Music and Dance Workshops, Berkeley’s JazzSchool, UC Berkeley, University of Oregon, and more.
Eastern Fusion Trio beautifully blends Middle Eastern music with jazz through a distinct combination of instruments. Founded in May 2018, the members of the trio have all studied various genres of music for decades, and at the same time, they have been performing professionally for over 10 years. Their ongoing project, Eastern Fusion Society, unites musicians from around the world to play and enjoy music unifying multiple styles and influences.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:30pm event
Admission: Free
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Eliyahu Sills & Amir Etemadzadeh: Traditional Sacred Music from the Near East
2018-10-07 19:30 - 22:00
Eliyahu Sills and Amir Etemadzadeh are musicians of sensitivity, passion, skill, and nuance with years of experience performing. Presented with reverence, soul, and creativity, they will play music from Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Arabic-speaking world, celebrating the common musical and spiritual heritage of the region’s cultures, while honoring the great diversity found within them.

FEATURING:
Eliyahu Sills – Turkish & Persian ney, Arabic nai, oud, vocals
Amir A Etemadzadeh – tombak, daf, tar, vocals

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Eliyahu Sills is a highly acclaimed musician of many instruments with deep knowledge in multiple musical traditions, from spiritual music of the Middle East and India to American soul and jazz. He is a leader and collaborator of many projects, most notably the Qadim Ensemble—which brings together diverse cultures of the Middle East and whose album reached #7 on Billboard’s World Music charts—and BOLO—which blends infectious rhythms of dance music, jazz improvisation, global influences, and the soulfulness of devotional kirtan. Sills also performs as a solo artist and with his duo, playing Hindustani ragas, Sufi music, and Jewish songs. Known for his authenticity and soulful musicianship, he has been performing for over 20 years on various instruments, including the bansuri, Turkish and Arabic ney, upright bass, and electric bass.
Amir A Etemadzadeh is a Middle Eastern musician, instructor, performer, and composer. Born and raised in Iran, he received an extensive education in music from various masters. After arriving in the U.S. in 2002, he expanded his portfolio to include percussion instruments from around the world. Etemadzadeh has collaborated in numerous performances and recordings with several known musicians and groups, such as Ethel String Quartet, Hafez Modirzadeh, Ramin Zoufonoun, Miriam Pretz, Qadim Ensemble, Silk Road Festival, and Cal Poly Middle Eastern Music Orchestra to name a few. Passionate about promoting peace through music and music education, Etemadzadeh manages his own organization, Mint Tea Music Production, and his music academy, Amir School of Music.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $20-25 door / $20 online. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Mini Residency: WaterSaw, Sonsherée Giles & Megan Lowe: The Sounds Inside
2018-10-11 - 2018-10-13
After an artistic residency and well-received performance in March 2018, the Red Poppy Art House invites artists Megan Lowe, Sonsherée Giles, and WaterSaw to come back and perform The Sounds Inside, a site-specific dance and sound score exploring what is going on within a space, our bodies, and our minds. The strong relationship between Lowe and Giles is supported by full trust in each other, both physically and artistically, which allows for new discoveries through proficient movement generation, risk-taking, tackling unusual physical situations, and coming up with compelling solutions. Creating layers of sound through loopers, WaterSaw uses their instruments in both conventional and experiential ways, giving way to an array of textures and sounds ranging from sparse, to rhythmic, to ethereal, to driving.

FEATURING:
Megan Lowe – dancer
Sonsherée Giles – dancer
WaterSaw
Nicole Laby – vocals, percussion
Michael Tornatore – drums
Mark Fassett – upright bass
Mia Pixley – cello

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Megan Lowe is a performance artist, dancer, singer, teacher, and administrator. She has performed with Flyaway Productions, Lizz Roman & Dancers, Scott Wells & Dancers, Nancy Karp + Dancers, Epiphany Productions, Dance Brigade, and more. Lowe continues to create her own dances, as well as collaborative works with Sonsherée Giles. She teaches for Bandaloop, Flyaway, Joe Goode Performance Group, for contact improvisation gatherings, and for her alma mater Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) at UC Berkeley.
Sonsherée Giles is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, costume designer, and founder of the collaborative container This Sweet Nothing. She enjoys making dances based on the observation of animals, landscapes, art history, and daily life experiences. Giles has an MFA in performance/choreography from Mills College, and from 2005-2015, she was a performing/teaching artist with AXIS Dance Company. She has taught contemporary dance in public school systems, institutions, dance festivals, and universities. Giles has received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Ensemble Performance, as well as a Homer Avila Award for Excellence in the field of integrated dance.
WaterSaw is a group of musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area. They are inspired to write music for modern dance choreography, film scores, or in conjunction with other art forms. Creating layers of sound through loopers, their music utilizes a contemporary minimalism approach. The rumination of textures, rhythms, or root chords creates a simple foundation from which to build melodic and rhythmic transformations. WaterSaw’s work is evocative and strives to blend audience and artist, so that the audience becomes an extension of the music. The group has received an Izzie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: (Oct 11) 7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show + artist reception
(Oct 12) 7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show
(Oct 13) 6:00pm doors / 6:30pm show
(Oct 13) 8:00pm doors / 8:30pm show + artist reception
Admission: $25 online / $30 door
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*Please be advised there will be NO LATE SEATING. We encourage guests to arrive at least 15 minutes before showtime.
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Hernán Reinaudo & Scott O'Day: The Guitar in Argentine Tango
2018-10-14 19:30 - 22:00
Argentine tango guitarist and composer Hernán Reinaudo is joined by local tango guitarist Scott O’Day for a tour of the best music that tango has to offer. Coming together for the first time in North America, this duet represents a collaboration that reaches across continents and musical backgrounds, for the love of a musical style that is still undergoing a worldwide resurgence. The guitar, an instrument with a storied past in the tango genre, will also be common ground.

FEATURING:
Hernán Reinaudo – guitar
Scott O’Day – guitar

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Hernán Reinaudo is one of the most outstanding guitarists of the new generation of tango musicians that has emerged over the last years in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has accompanied renowned Argentine singers including Susana Rinaldi, Ariel Ardit, Alberto Podestá, and Soledad Villamil among many others. Reinaudo was awarded the Clarín and nominated twice for the award Carlos Gardel for best tango group. He has performed with 34 Puñaladas and Hugo Rivas Quartet, and has also toured throughout America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. With more than 40 album productions under his belt, Reinaudo and his quintet recently released a new album, Neocriollo, which won first prize in the category Best New Work given by the National Foundation of Arts of Argentina. Since 2014, he has toured the U.S. in concerts, as well as conducted workshops and classes. (Photo by: Paola Evelina)
Scott O’Day is a local Bay Area favorite for tango music, appearing regularly in concert and at the milonga. He attended La Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda, a tango music school in Buenos Aires, and has performed with several tango groups all around the U.S., Canada, and Argentina to popular acclaim. Currently, O’Day is also the instructor for the Community Music Center Tango Ensemble in San Francisco.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Darren Johnston and The Pipes ft. Allison Lovejoy: New Chamber-Folk with a Jazz Reduction
2018-10-18 19:30 - 22:00
Bay Area trumpeter/composer Darren Johnston’s newest project for showcasing his songwriting features the distinct instrumentation of two bass clarinets—played by powerhouse composers/improvisers/bandleaders Steven Lugerner and Cory Wright—along with Johnston on trumpet and vocals, as The Pipes. From short and sweet, quirky, groove-based songs to more expansive open improvisations, they’ve created a new recipe for experimental chamber-folk with a jazz reduction, telling stories of love and loss, war and peace, and how fleeting everyday moments can contain a universe of poetry and the sublime. Also on the bill is local treasure pianist Allison Lovejoy, who will be performing original works from Bay Area composers, some classics, and more.

FEATURING:
Darren Johnston – trumpet, vocals
Steven Lugerner – bass clarinet
Cory Wright – clarinet, bass clarinet
Allison Lovejoy – piano

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Since settling in San Francisco in 1997, Canada-born trumpeter, improviser, composer, and 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, chamber music, experimental and purely improvised music, as well as traditional music of the Balkans, Greece, and Macedonia. He has performed and/or recorded with luminaries such as ROVA Sax Quartet, Marcus Shelby, Fred Frith, Meklit, Hamid Drake, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg, Allison Miller, Brass Menazeri Balkan Brass Band, Matt Wilson, Mark Dresser, Marshall Allen, and many others.
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Steven Lugerner maintains musical ties between multiple music scenes including his home of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. As a bandleader, Lugerner leads both SLUGish Ensemble, an amoeba-like group dedicated to original compositions and arrangements, as well as JACKNIFE, a hard-hitting post-bop quintet dedicated to the music of late alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. The Bay Area native has collaborated with a heavyweight roster of jazz masters including Fred Hersch, Jason Moran, Myra Melford, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Matt Wilson, John Hollenbeck, Miguel Zenon, Ralph Alessi, and many others.
Reeds player Cory Wright has been involved in both the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 20 years, including time spent in New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He is interested in blurring the distinction between composed and improvised material, mixing the harmonious with the atonal, and groove with the arrhythmic. He has played with Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Eddie Gale, Adam Rudolph, and Yusef Lateef among others, and is a member of Bay Area groups Bristle, Wiener Kids, and the Nathan Clevenger Group. Wright leads the Green Mitchell and the Cory Wright Outfit.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Nora Stanley / Owen Clapp: Original Music Borrowing from Old & New
2018-10-19 19:30 - 22:00
With a focus on original compositions, the group brings together the influences of four rising Bay Area musicians with strong backgrounds in the jazz tradition. The music explores the blurring of lines between composition and improvisation through shared experience and close listening.

FEATURING:
Nora Stanley – saxophone
Luis Salcedo – guitar
Owen Clapp – bass
Matt Buckner – drums

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Nora Stanley is a local saxophonist, composer, and recent graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Gary Bartz. She has had the honor of sharing the stage with such greats as Ambrose Akinmusire, Dayna Stephens, Chucho Valdes, and Eddie Henderson. Stanley has performed locally at Yoshi’s, SFJAZZ, and Monterey Jazz Festival, as well as abroad in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain.
Guitarist and composer Luis Salcedo maintains an active schedule throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. From the straight ahead and swinging to the cutting edge and experimental, Salcedo brings an authenticity and musicality that is not to be missed.
Owen Clapp is a San Francisco Bay Area-based bass player, composer, and songwriter. His versatility on upright bass and electric bass has given him the opportunity to work with a variety of artists across a range of genres, including hip-hop artists Anderson.Paak, Dumbfoundead, and George Watsky, as well as Grammy Award-winning jazz musicians Kenny Burrell, John Clayton, and Ruslan Sirota. Clapp’s recording credits include sessions for Sony Pictures, Lyft, and various Los Angeles-based commercial licensing agencies.
Matthew Buckner is a drummer, composer, and producer hailing from Minneapolis, MN. Known for his musicianship and versatility, Buckner has worked with a wide range of artists and has performed at clubs and festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is currently an active member of the SF Bay Area jazz scene and can be heard with bands such as Aaron Kruziki’s Education Reform.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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14th Annual Lit Crawl SF: Hazel Reading Series / The Escapery
2018-10-20 18:30 - 21:00
Hazel Reading Series features an all-star lineup of readers. After the intermission, The Escapery readers explore life’s peaks and craters, the ways that the moonshine reaches all of us, the glint and glare of love and death, and the waning gleam of the moon as we move through our lives.

One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl throughout the city’s Mission District. Lit Crawl SF brings together 500+ authors and close to 10,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique, resonant brand: smart and silly, worldly and wacky events presented in venues usual (bars, cafes, galleries, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations, tattoo parlors, barbershops, and laundromats).

FEATURING:
Hazel Reading Series
Ciera-Jevae Gordon
Meilan Carter-Gilkey
Natasha Dennerstein
Sara Marinelli
Thea Matthews
Yang Huang
The Escapery
Nancy Au
Carson Beker
Haldane C. King
Kathryn Kruse
Ploi Pirapokin

ABOUT HAZEL READING SERIES:
Hazel Reading Series is a San Francisco-based monthly reading series and an ever-evolving community. Each month, emerging and established women writers share their work and go on to choose next month’s readers. Hazel is a place for experimentation, for support and community, for writers and literature lovers of all kinds to bump into new work and new ideas. Hazel Reading Series is also invested in creating a space that represents and celebrates the diverse ethnicity, sexuality, ability, age, and form of the Bay Area’s artists.

ABOUT THE ESCAPERY:
The Escapery is your Writing and Other Arts Unschool. We use themed classes, field trips, day-long intensives, craft intensives, five/ten week adventures, and more to create spaces for artists to play, learn, find community, create, and share. Playful, community-oriented, queer, re-centering women/NB, queer/trans artists, and artists of color. No famous white men, no tear-down workshops, zero-tolerance for micro or macro aggressions. We are always all/no levels, always genre-queer, anti-competition and pro-tearing down the walls. SF/Oakland originated, extending our kraken tentacles all over the map and in your virtual spaces.

ABOUT THE READERS:
Nancy Au is co-founder of The Escapery. Her writing appears in Tahoma Literary Review, Lunch Ticket, The Pinch, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Au’s flash fiction is included in the forthcoming Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology, and her full-length collection, Spider Love Song & Other Stories, is forthcoming from Acre Books in March 2019.
Carson Beker is co-founder of The Escapery. They are a writer, playwright, and storyteller. His stories have appeared in Foglifter (Pushcart Nomination 2016), Gigantic Sequins, and Radar Literary Series. They were a 2016 Lambda Fellow and Tin House Workshop scholar.
Haldane C. King is the founder of Terra Incognita Literary Reading Series and an instructor and board member of The Escapery. He earned his MFA degree in writing and consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. He is an editor of WTAW Press, a data analyst, and helps bring literature to the people with the Why There Are Words Literary organization.
Kathryn Kruse received her MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and holds a BA in English with a certificate in creative writing from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was an instructor with The Escapery from 2016-2017. She founded and curated the NeonLit reading series. Her work is published, among other places, in Indiana Review, The Manchester Review, The Adirondack Review, I Hope You’re Feeling Better Collaborative Exhibition.
Ploi Pirapokin has work featured in Tor.com, Apogee Journal, the Bellingham Review, Fiction International, Cleaver Magazine, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Creative Capacity Fund, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, Kundiman, and others. Pirapokin holds an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 6:00pm doors / 6:30pm event
Admission: Free
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Duo Violão Plus 1: Brazilian Jazz, Samba & Choro
2018-10-25 19:30 - 22:00
On tour from Rio de Janeiro, Duo Violão Brasil presents a special evening of choro featuring compositions by Baden Powell, Pixinguinha, Radames Gnattali, as well as originals by Rogerio Souza. They will be accompanied by special guest percussionist Ami Molinelli.

FEATURING:
Rogerio Souza – 7-string guitar
Edinho Gerber – 7-string guitar
Ami Molinelli – percussion

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Duo Violão Brasil is the result of guitarists Rogério Souza and Edinho Gerber’s reverence for Brazilian guitar—the violão—and their desire to explore and expand the musical possibilities of putting two “violões” together. With a repertoire from composers like Pixinguinha, Baden Powell, and Tom Jobim, the duo navigates effortlessly through the many styles of 20th century Brazilian popular music while showcasing original works and inventive arrangements.
Learn more: Ami Molinelli

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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RagaMenco: A Musical Journey from India to Spain
2018-10-26 19:30 - 22:00
Javier and Luis Jiménez, founders of the acoustic global music septet Barrio Manouche, present new project RagaMenco along with Mallar Bhattacharya, Nilan Chaudhuri, and Satish Pillai. The group has been working together on the great adventure of blending Indian classical music with flamenco grooves and melodies. They will perform original arrangements influenced by ragas with an improvisational jazz approach.

FEATURING:
Devi SenGupta – vocals
Mallar Bhattacharya – sarode
Javier Jiménez – guitar
Satish Pillai – piano
Nilan Chaudhuri – tabla
Luis Jiménez – cajón

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
A collaboration between Indian and Spanish musicians from the Bay Area, RagaMenco explores an exciting new territory that combines the traditions of Indian ragas with Spanish flamenco and contemporary jazz grooves. The ancient traditional sounds of the Old World find a new voice in California.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Teslim: The 7 Decades Project
2018-10-27 19:30 - 22:00
Teslim (tes-LEEM) consists of three composers—violinist Kaila Flexer, multi-instrumental string wizard Gari Hegedus, and Elana Brutman on Cretan lyra with sympathetic strings—who share a common love of modal music from Turkey and Greece. Joined by percussionist Joshua Mellinger, the group presents the 7 Decades Project, which features original compositions by Flexer in honor of her parents, Abe and Bobbie.
Flexer’s parents met when they were just 11 years old. Now 83, the two have been together for over seven decades and continue to be madly in love. Over the years, Flexer has written many compositions for birthdays and anniversaries, and more recently pieces about Bobbie’s diagnosis (two years ago) and treatment of Grey Zone Lymphoma. Bobbie has been doing very well for the past year on an experimental drug. Flexer has been honing these pieces and collaboratively arranging them with the ensemble, and they are thrilled to be sharing these compositions, as well as works by Brutman and Hegedus.

FEATURING:
Kaila Flexer – violin, tarhui
Gari Hegedus – oud, mandocello, saz, tarhu
Elana Brutman – Cretan lyra with sympathetic strings
Josh Mellinger – percussion

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Kaila Flexer is a violinist, composer, music educator, teacher, producer, mother, and plant lover. She has recorded three albums with her groups Third Ear, Next Village, and Teslim. Between 1989 and 2013, Flexer founded and produced Jewish music events Klezmer Mania! and Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music, as well as smaller music events. Over the years, she has performed with various groups including Club Foot Orchestra and Kitka, as well as with artists such as Shira Kammen, Ross Daly, Kelly Thoma, Hamed Nikpay, and Hollis Taylor. Flexer can be found teaching and composing in her Oakland studio.
Gari Hegedus plays violin, viola, and a variety of lutes from Greece and Turkey, including laouto, oud, and saz. Along with playing in Teslim, he also performs with global music group Stellamara, as well as Bay Area groups Janam and The Helladelics. Hegedus has studied with oud master Naseer Shamma and has studied, recorded, and performed with Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma. He has toured with the Mevlevi Dervish Order of America and continues to participate in Turkish ceremonial and devotional gatherings around the country. In addition to being a composer and performer, Hegedus is a talented luthier, repairing stringed instruments of every variety; coaxing sound from sazes, violins, and rebabs; restoring lutes and lyras; making bows; and finding ingenious ways to allow the true voice of an instrument to come forth.
Elana Brutman has dedicated the last several years of her life to the intensive study of the lyra with sympathetic strings, an instrument which is based on the Cretan lyra and incorporates elements of the Byzantine lyra and Indian sarangi. She has spent the last five summers traveling to Greece to study at Labyrinth, Ross Daly’s center for modal music instruction and practice, where she studied with Kelly Thoma and many other master musicians from Greece, Turkey, and Iran.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $20-25 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2018-10-28 14:00 - 17:00, 2018-11-25 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 bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making, hip-shaking, and good company.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 2:00pm event
Admission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10)
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3 + 3: A Collaboration Between 3 Poets & 3 Musicians
2018-10-28 19:30 - 22:00
Three musician-poet pairs each perform a set—one new poem inspired by an original song, one new song inspired by an original poem, and one piece of pure collaboration.

FEATURING:
Heather Bourbeau – poet
Raman Osman – musician
Maw Shein Win – poet
Evan Karp – musician
Nick Johnson – poet
Arula – musician

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Heather Bourbeau’s writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Eleven Eleven, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and the anthology Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a contributing writer for Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast.
Raman Osman is a Kurdish composer and master tembûr (saz) musician from Al-Hasaka, Syria. In his early age, he was exposed to a variety of music and cultural sources like Kurdish, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Assyrian, and more. Osman has performed at a variety of venues, including the Damascus Opera House, several universities in Syria, and throughout the Bay Area.
Maw Shein Win‘s writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing, Cimarron Review, and Poetry International. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone (Nomadic Press), and her new full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems (Manic D Press) was a City Lights Books bestselling paperback. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito.
Evan Karp is the creator and executive director of Quiet Lightning, founding editor of Litseen, and half of Turk & Divis—a musical collaboration with his brother Miles. He developed the interdisciplinary performance series Under the Influence and Call and Response, as well as the interview profile series The Write Stuff.
Nick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. Johnson’s work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Eleven Eleven, Metazen, and other fine journals. His book, music for mussolini, was released by Nomadic Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award.
Arula has been singing and composing songs since childhood. She views sound and movement as sacred expressions of a universal language—a language that connects, empowers, and unites people from all backgrounds. Music and dance have been central themes in her life; of all her gurus, they are the most revered teachers. With haunting vocals amid sensual beats, Arula creates a cohesive yet dynamic spectrum of sound. Her music is a rich interplay of her many influences; her sultry vocals and downtempo melodies take and hold shape as they blend with global music rhythms and become ancestral and grounded while dancing over trap and hip-hop beats.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Daniel Fabricant Trio / StringQuake: Melodic French Jazz & Improvisations
2018-11-01 19:30 - 22:00
Daniel Fabricant Trio joins forces with StringQuake for an evening of melodic French jazz, electrifying improvisations, and unusual meters.

FEATURING:
Daniel Fabricant Trio
Daniel Fabricant – bass
Aaron Kierbel – drums
TBD – piano
StringQuake
Amelia Romano – electric harp
Misha Khalikulov – cello
Josh Mellinger – cajón, tabla, frame drum

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Daniel Fabricant is a versatile bassist, playing both upright and electric, that can adapt to a wide range of musical settings, from intimate chamber groups to sprawling dance bands and Latin ensembles. A founding member of the award-winning Nice Guy Trio, he also regularly performs with Bay Area groups The Cosmo Alleycats, Rupa and the April Fishes, and Redwood Tango Ensemble. Fabricant has performed internationally with renowned artists Betty Buckley, Joan Rivers, Spencer Day, Ann Hampton Callaway, Petula Clark, Lucie Arnaz, Andrea Marcovicci, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes among many others. A skillful arranger for jazz, theater, and pop ensembles, Fabricant is also an accomplished music instructor, teaching guitar, bass, and ukulele to students of all ages in private and group settings.
With an emphasis on exciting and unexpected grooves, adventurous improvisations, and rich soundscapes, StringQuake has captivated audiences far and wide. The trio formed in 2012 with the mission to use their distinct instrumentation—electric harp, cello, and percussion—to transcend audience expectations. StringQuake’s stylistic influences include traditional classical chamber music, jazz, Latin, classical Indian, West African folk, and Balkan music. The group has toured Mexico, Oregon, and performs extensively in the Bay Area.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Yoga Society of San Francisco Presents: Mark Deutsch & Cornelius Boots
2018-11-02 19:30 - 22:00
Visionary musician, composer, and inventor of the bazantar—a 39-string upright bass—Mark Deutsch presents his long-awaited magnum opus, The Picasso Tunings, a box set of epic, otherworldly bazantar compositions. Maestro Deutsch will be joined by master bamboo bluesman Cornelius Boots playing the shakuhachi, the Zen Buddhist bamboo flute. Boots will start the evening off with a solo set of both traditional and original compositions, as well as his own provocative take on certain well-chosen covers before joining forces with Maestro Deutsch for some final musical alchemy.

FEATURING:
Mark Deutsch – bazantar
Cornelius Boots – shakuhachi

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Mark Deutsch is a visionary artist with a background in nonlinear mathematics, sacred systems, and cosmology. His work as a musician, inventor, and philosopher of sound have put him in rare company. In 1999, he was awarded a patent for his creation, the bazantar. Audiences are consistently amazed by what at times sounds like a group of violins or an analog synthesizer or an otherworldly Tibetan choir coming out of what looks like a decked-out upright bass.
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Shakuhachi composer-performer Cornelius Boots is the world’s only full-time bamboo bluesman. A master of lost techniques, his breath-defying compositions weave together threads from rock, blues, heavy metal, and the traditional Zen Buddhist repertoire honkyoku. Boots’ experience as a jazz saxophonist, funk bandleader, orchestral clarinetist, and founder/composer of the renowned bass clarinet quartet Edmund Welles have made him a sought-after composer for bold woodwind soloists and chamber groups.
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ABOUT YOGA SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO:
Founded by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati in 1972, the Yoga Society of San Francisco is an educational institution with the intention of fostering physical, mental, and spiritual growth through the study and practice of yoga, meditation, Sanskrit language, music, and other disciplines. Mark Deutsch leads the Jazz Department at YSSF where he teaches improvisation and leads workshops in music, mathematics, and mysticism.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Seth Ford-Young Quartet: Swinging Jazz Meets Cinematic Chamber Music
2018-11-04 20:00 - 22:00
Composer, bandleader, and bassist Seth Ford-Young leads his dream quartet on a mission to integrate the transparent textures of chamber music and the ebullient bounce of Django Reinhardt-style jazz. The group will perform pieces from their newest release, Time Memory Beauty Hope, as well as favorites from their first album, Seth Ford-Young.

FEATURING:
Seth Ford-Young – bass
Evan Price – violin, octave violin
Rob Reich – accordion
Jason Vanderford – guitar

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Seth Ford-Young has collaborated with a dazzling array of artists, from Tom Waits and Edward Sharpe to Barry Manilow and Beats Antique. Ford-Young, a mainstay on the Bay Area music scene for nearly two decades, now resides in Los Angeles.

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Time: 7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show
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Florist: Soft-Synthesizer Folk
2018-11-08 19:30 - 22:00
Florist is a soft-synthesizer folk band and the friendship project of Emily Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker. Born in the Catskill Mountains in 2012, the three began making, playing, and recording together after discovering their shared love for many things musical, as well as for each other.

FEATURING:
Emily Sprague – vocals
Jonnie Baker – guitar
Learn more: Website | Facebook

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Mean to Me: Classic Jazz Reworked with a Funky Step
2018-11-09 19:30 - 22:00
Mean to Me is a quintet that resurrects classic jazz of the 1920s through 1940s—sometimes interlaced with the more modern stylings of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Ahmad Jamal—and an eclectic variety of soul and Latin jazz.

FEATURING:
Judy Butterfield – vocals
Ben Slater – saxophone, piano
Dave Shaff – trumpet, washboard
Cairo McCochran – drums
TBA – bass

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Mean to Me is comprised of four core members: Judy Butterfield, who trained as a cabaret singer but whose love is for soul music; Ben Slater, a pianist interested in exploring jazz’s roots after living in New Orleans; Cairo McCochran, a drummer with a deep knowledge of music the world over; and Dave Shaff, a trumpeter drawn to more modern and funky sounds. All four grew up in the Bay Area and have played together on and off for ten years.
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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Invisible Bird: Endsley, Devine & Amendola Trio
2018-11-10 19:30 - 22:00
Invisible Bird is a guitar, trumpet, and drum trio collectively led by three engaging artists from the Bay Area—Scott Amendola, Shane Endsley, and Dave Devine. Together, their distinct compositional voices craft original music that transports the listener from rootsy back beats, to anthemic indie rock, to acoustic modern jazz, to ambient electronica.

FEATURING:
Shane Endsley – trumpet, whammy bass, electronics
Dave Devine – guitar, effects
Scott Amendola – drums, percussion, electronics

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Formed in 2017, Invisible Bird broadly employs the use of electronics to branch out from the raw acoustic trio sound. Trumpet and guitar take turns covering bass lines, and all three players create swirling digital textures with a hefty collection of boutique stomp boxes. Invisible Bird also reinvents the classic repertoire from artists like Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell by integrating new hits from artists like Bruno Mars and Rihanna. To be released in the spring of 2018, the group’s debut album, Flutter to Fuzz, features cameos from special guests Sam Amidon and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray).

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Morley: Acoustic Global Journey to Sites of Soulful Resilience
2018-11-15 19:30 - 22:00
Thousand Miles, Morley’s sixth studio album, is the culmination of a global journey to sites of incredible resilience and tremendous trauma—from the United States, Rwanda, and Hiroshima, to the open uranium mines at the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Black Hills—where human dignity, love, and resolve are expanding the frontiers of change, justice, and healing. The 13 songs resound with a layered serenade to the most elemental forces holding humanity together—friendship and love—and to the sanctity of the elements that bind us to the rest of nature—water, air, and soil.

FEATURING:
TBA

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Morley weaves the threads of jazz, soul, and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor. Co-produced with Toshi Reagon and Ken Rich, her new album, Thousand Miles, features celebrated musicians like drummer Brian Blade, bassists James Genus and Will Lee, pianists Jon Cowherd and Marc Cary, along with special guests Toshi Reagon, Richard Bona, Joan Wasser of Joan As Policewoman, Martha Redbone, and Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Morley’s hope is that Thousand Miles will be part of the great map of art that reveals time and time again how short the distance from one another truly is. (Photo by: Sandrine Lee)

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Brazil in Trio & Rebecca Kleinmann: Brazilian Acoustic Trio w/ Local Virtuosic Flutist
2018-11-16 19:30 - 22:00
Flutist Rebecca Kleinmann celebrates her birthday by inviting Brazil in Trio directly from Goiania, Brazil. The trio presents their dynamic music ranging from choro and baião to originals.

FEATURING:
Rebecca Kleinmann – flutes, vocals
Julio Lemos – guitar
Everton Luiz – clarinet, flute, soprano saxophone
Diego Amaral – percussion

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Brazil in Trio creates fresh arrangements of traditional and modern Brazilian music with their dynamic guitar, wind, and percussion instrumentation. The three members are all graduates and now music teachers at the Federal University of Goiás. They have performed with Brazilian greats including Yamandu Costa and Hamilton de Holanda. The group helped found the Brazilian instrumental music festival Goiânia Revives the Choro.
Rebecca Kleinmann is an acclaimed flutist, singer, and composer with a professional career marked by diversity and improvisation. In the words of Latin Grammy-nominated pianist Jovino Santos Neto, “Rebecca plays flute with the passion of a flamenco dancer.” An explorer at heart, she rockets and flows between genres, leading her jazz quartet and performing in Brazilian choro and flamenco shows. Her international career has taken her to perform on stages in Brazil, Argentina, Europe, Africa, and Australia, as well as the SF Jazz Center, the San Jose Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s, and the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Follow Your Lead - A Workshop
2018-11-18 13:00 - 14:30
“How can we build a movement if we can’t move together?”
As artists, administrators, culture workers, and professionals with “many hats,” we often learn to lead by necessity without exploring the nuances of leading within diverse communities, or confronting what it might mean to follow instead of lead. Through the lens of movement and partner dance, this workshop explores alternate understandings of “leadership,” core issues of trust, and the role of regenerative practices in creating a healthy, sustainable, and creative life.
We’ll use tools and techniques from Argentine tango and salsa rueda, two highly social dance forms, to explore leadership, connection, power structures, and the ways in which one moves through the world to affect social change. No dance or leadership experience is necessary. Space is limited!
This project is generously supported by Emerging Arts Professionals SF/BA’s MADE Incubator Program.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Cristina Ibarra wants to rock your world. She knows the arts are a great way to do this and has dedicated the last 10 years to empowering artists and youth to use their talents and creativity to inspire us all. She’s an enabler. She’s an administrator. She’s an artist. She’s a facilitator. Whether in the space between a dance embrace or a ukulele chord, behind an office desk or in front of an audience, Ibarra’s mission is to help people connect with themselves, the world, and others around them through the sublime experience of art.
Currently Events Manager at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco, Ibarra has previously worked with ArtSpan, Red Poppy Art House, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP), and Oakland-based LATE NITE ART. She is a member of APAP’s Emerging Leadership Institute, Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA), Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), and is a past EAP Fellow. In her spare time (yeah right!), she enjoys teaching dance, performing with local musicians, and exploring the Bay Area.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 12:45pm doors / 1:00pm event. Latecomers will not be admitted – please arrive on time.
Admission: $5 EAP member / $10 general. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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Duo Moldova & Mahala: Moldavian & Romanian Lautari Music (TWO SHOWS)
2018-11-25 19:00 - 22:00
Moldavian and Romanian traditional music is known for swift, complex rhythms, musical improvisation, and rich, melodic ornamentation. Traditionally performed by Romani musicians, the Lautari musical style encompasses soul-wrenching ballads, high-energy wedding dances, and village-style tunes. Hailing straight from the source and having been steeped in this tradition from birth, Duo Moldova passionately embodies these traditions, transporting the audience back to the weddings and the summer nights on the porches where the duo grew up. Opening the evening is San Francisco-based group Mahala.

FEATURING:
Duo Moldova
Sergei Popa – accordion
Valy Lautar – violin
Mahala
Andrew Cohen – accordion
Annie Cilley – violin
Balder ten Cate – cimbalom
Matt Stein – violin
Travis Hendrix – upright bass

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Sergiu Popa (Duo Moldova), born in Chisinau, Moldova, completed his studies at Stefan Neaga College of Music, as well as two years of studies at the Conservatory of Moldova, before emigrating to Canada in 2002. Since a young age, he simultaneously studied traditional folk and Roma styles with his father, Ion Popa, himself a well-recognized accordionist in Moldova. Over many years of playing alongside his father at weddings, he became familiar with Jewish, Turkish, Russian, Serbian, and Bulgarian styles as well. Despite his young age, he is quickly establishing a reputation as one of most brilliant accordionists in Canada today.
Valy Lautar (Duo Moldova) also grew up in Chisinau, where he graduated from the Conservatory of Moldova and collaborated with several Moldavian professional orchestras. He worked for five years as a musician on transatlantic cruise lines before permanently settling in the new world. Lautar currently lives in Montreal, where he collaborates with Popa and many other local musicians. He specializes in a wide array of musical styles, including traditional wedding music from Moldova and other parts of Eastern Europe, as well as classical and “cafe concert” music.
Mahala is a collaborative project bringing together some of the finest musicians from the local Bay Area Balkan music scene. The group performs both traditional as well as original music in the Romanian and Moldavian Lautari style.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: (First Show) 6:30pm doors / 7:00-8:15pm show
(Second Show) 8:30pm doors / 8:45-10:00pm show
Admission: $20 online / $20-25 door. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Anton Schwartz & Josh Nelson: Acclaimed Sax & Piano Jazz Duo
2018-11-28 19:30 - 22:00
Anton Schwartz and Josh Nelson have toured the U.S. and Canada with the award-winning Anton Schwartz Quintet, the 2017 Northwest Acoustic Jazz Ensemble of the Year. Following one sold-out festival performance, they decided to play a pared-down duo concert, and the chemistry was palpable. Every now and then, they reassemble as a duo, to the delight of audiences, performing jazz standards and their own compositions.

FEATURING:
Anton Schwartz – saxophone
Josh Nelson – piano

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Anton Schwartz, a Bay Area favorite now based in Seattle, has earned a national name for his big tone and his smart and soulful compositions and improvisations. Over the past two decades, Schwartz has performed at the most prestigious jazz clubs and festivals, from the Blue Note and Dizzy’s (NYC) and Yoshi’s (Oakland) to the Regatabar (Boston), Blues Alley (DC), and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Each of his five albums as a leader has drawn sterling reviews and strong airplay; his most recent release, Flash Mob, earned a four-star DownBeat review and a long run on the jazz radio Top 10 chart.
Josh Nelson is without a doubt one of the most in-demand pianists on the Los Angeles jazz scene. He has performed extensively with many of the most respected names in jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, Benny Golson, Sheila Jordan, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Richard Galliano, Dave Koz, Seamus Blake, Matt Wilson, Sara Gazarek, Jack Sheldon, Tom Scott, and Peter Erskine. Nelson has recorded on countless albums, films, and television, and has released five acclaimed records of his own.
Learn more: Anton Schwartz Facebook | Josh Nelson Facebook

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Decoda: Chamber Music w/ the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall
2018-11-29 19:00 - 20:15
In a co-presentation with Noe Valley Chamber Music’s SNAPSHOTS series, Decoda—one of the country’s premier classical ensembles—performs an informal happy-hour concert of delightful and virtuosic music by Prokofiev, Schubert, Evan Premo, and more.

FEATURING:
Owen Dalby – violin
Meena Bhasin – viola
James Austin Smith – oboe
Alicia Lee – clarinet
Evan Premo – double bass
Mary Bonhag (special guest) – soprano

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Decoda is a NYC-based collective of versatile artists dedicated to creating dynamic performances and creative programs designed for social impact. Decoda’s pursuits place equal emphasis on artistry and engagement to create meaningful musical experiences around the globe through concerts in major international venues and neighborhood projects with vibrant community partners. In addition to being the only named Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall (where they are presented twice this season), Decoda makes debuts at Stanford Live and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Their work has been recognized by CNN, Huffington Post, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, and Billboard Magazine among others.
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Time: 6:30pm doors / 7:00pm show
Admission: $25. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Gamelan Sekar Jaya: Music & Dance of Bali
2018-11-30 20:00 - 22:00
Gamelan Sekar Jaya presents a rare opportunity to experience Balinese music and dance in an intimate setting. The program will feature Sekar Jaya’s master artists-in-residence, renowned composer I Nyoman Windha and dancers I Made Moja and Shoko Yamamuro, leading 20 performers in an exciting range of traditional and new works.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s music and dance range from traditional Balinese repertoire to cutting-edge compositions. The 60-plus company of musicians and dancers of GSJ play on several sets of Balinese instruments, consisting of various combinations of bronze-keyed metallophones, bamboo marimbas, gongs, drums, and flutes. GSJ is the first foreign group to receive the Dharma Kusuma, Bali’s highest award for artistic achievement. The company is renowned for its exploration of traditional and contemporary forms through long-term residencies with Bali’s finest artists. Formed in 1979, GSJ has performed in various venues, from bustling village squares in Bali to the famed Hollywood Bowl. (Photo by: M. Ramirez)
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Time: 7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show
Admission: $25 online / $30 door. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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December 1st MAPP @ Red Poppy Art House
2018-12-01 19:05 - 22:00
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.

RPAH PROGRAM:

Time
Performance/Event
Description

7:05pm – 7:35pm
Adrian Arias
Dream Number #7

7:45pm – 8:10pm
Lewis & Elektra
Cello & Piano Duets

8:15pm – 8:40pm
Mauro ffortissimo
Piazzolla Tangos: Piano, Melodica

8:45pm – 9:10pm
SAN
Vocal & Body Percussionist

9:20pm – 10:00pm
Mark Deutsch
Soundscape of Solo Bazantar

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Adrian Arias is a visual poet from Peru, living and performing his art in the Bay Area since 1999. He has received much recognition in his different disciplines, including his work as a poet for which he obtained prizes that culminated in book publications. As a visual artist, Arias has participated in artist residences with museums, such as the de Young, and in international exhibitions, like the Biennial of Venice and the Ibero-American Biennial. His video-art pieces have been selected and won prizes in San Francisco and Berkeley.
Lewis Patzner is an Oakland-born cellist and composer who plays a variety of styles, including classical, jazz, rock, and pop. Known for his 11-year stint playing metal with Judgement Day, Lewis now plays with the Town Quartet, Cosa Nostra Strings, Trio Étrange, the Composer Arranger Performer Orchestra, and the Proteus Trio. Pianist Elektra Schmidt has been active in the San Francisco Bay area as soloist and as chamber musician for the past nine years. Originally from Athens, Greece, she has performed locally, as well as in the UK, Greece, and France. Lewis and Elektra have been collaborating for several years. Their program for the MAPP includes a selection of their favorite repertoire for cello and piano featuring compositions by Bach, Schumann, and Piazzolla.
Mauro ffortisimo grew up in Argentina, where his interest in art and music led him to study classical piano and visual arts. Emigrating to California in 1981 to further his artistic explorations, he took classes in printmaking, sculpture, and painting in numerous academies including San Mateo College, Art Institute, and Berkeley Extension. He is a founding member of 849 Folsom Music—a 13-member music and spoken-word performance troupe—as well as the Enso Art Collective and the Miles Davis Memorial Hall. ffortisimo has been investigating sounds with the deconstruction of pianos, becoming able to expand the 12-tone scale. He does not subscribe to the romantic notion of a solitary artist, a suffering individual, hidden in a state of despair, creating work that only few can appreciate; instead, he travels the world, looking to the mundane, the sacred and the original with the same eyes, and listening to the music of diverse cultures.
After a childhood spent with the children choir Maitrise de Radio France, SAN discovered traditional music and singing at the age of 17. She fell in love with Iranian singing, Portuguese fado, and Romanian and Bulgarian musical styles. In order to finish her master’s degree in ethnomusicology, she moved to Bulgaria to learn from singers such as Yanka Rupkina and Svetla Karadjova. After four years spent in Bulgaria and the Balkans, she returned to France in 2007 and built a career as a singer performing the repertoire of the Balkan region, singing in groups such as Trio Tzane, Electrik Gem, and Sebastien Giniaux Balkan Project. SAN continued to travel across the world—Morocco, India, Spain, Brazil, and Japan to name a few—and began to write her own music influenced by these cultural experiences. Since 2010, she has been involved in projects around global music and pluridisciplinarity, also working with dancers and visual artists. In Brazil, she discovered body percussion with Pedro Consorte (Stomp) and is fascinated by this new way of expressing herself. SAN’s first album, Don’t take my head, was released in 2013, and she is now preparing her second to be released this spring 2019.
Mark Deutsch’s work as a musician, inventor, theoretician, and philosopher of sound have put him in rare company. He is a visionary artist with a background in nonlinear mathematics, sacred systems, and cosmology, and has extensive experience in orchestral and world music ensembles, jazz combos, and solo sitar performance. While studying Indian classical music, Deutsch began delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and its underlying frequency structures. This, in turn, inspired him with the desire to develop a new musical instrument that could more audibly reproduce his findings. This work culminated in the creation of the bazantar, a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing soundscape of resonance and evokes all the power of Western classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions, for which he has been granted an international patent #5883318. His latest work, The Picasso Tunings, is a vast revolutionary soundscape of solo bazantar compositions. Maestro Deutsch has recently started teaching at the Yoga Society of San Francisco and the the Resonance Center in Los Angeles.

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Time: 7:05pm event
Admission: Free
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Luminance Ensemble: A Celebration of Concert & Folk Traditions
2018-12-06 19:30 - 22:00
Harpist Amelia Romano, joined by trumpeter Matt Ebisuzaki and bassist Tim Renner, presents an evening of original compositions and arrangements. With influences ranging from South American harp, symphonic brass, and odd-meter dance music, to minimalism, post-bebop, and spaghetti western soundtracks, this intrepid trio finds a song-line under San Francisco’s Mission District and tracks it to the Red Poppy.

FEATURING:
Amelia Romano – harp, vocals
Matt Ebisuzaki – C rotary-valve trumpet
Tim Renner – upright bass

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Based in San Francisco, Luminance Ensemble’s music is an original blend of styles drawing from concert and folk traditions. It begins with the electric lever harp of Amelia Romano, whose playing is rhythmic and dynamic. Enthralled by an intricate muse, she covers low and high registers with contrapuntal panache. Romano is joined by Matt Ebisuzaki on C rotary-valve trumpet and Tim Renner on upright bass. Luminance Ensemble forges each composition from multiple perspectives, passing melodies and improvisation from player to player. This is spirited, creative music from collaborators who encourage each other to push their technical and expressive capabilities.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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