Red Poppy Art House

Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2018-10-28 14:00 - 17:00, 2018-11-25 14:00 - 17:00, 2018-12-23 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country, rock, and blues, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana 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.

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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.

EVENT DETAILS

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
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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.

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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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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Contact cristinalovesart@gmail.com

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.
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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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EVENT DETAILS

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.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Drómeno: Greek Roots Music
2018-12-07 19:30 - 22:00
Drómeno returns to the Red Poppy with Turkish-influenced tunes from Asia-Minor, featuring oud, kanoun, violin, and vocals. This nostalgic music came with refugees from Smyrna, and the sounds are shared among other formerly Ottoman-occupied lands, like Macedonia, as well as the Sephardic Jews of this area. Joined by special guest percussionist Sean Tergis, the first half of the evening will be a sit-down concert, then the floor will be open for some lively regional Greek music for dancing!

FEATURING:
Christos Govetas – oud, clarinet, vocals
Ruth Hunter – kanoun, accordion, vocals
Eleni Govetas – violin, saxophone, defi
Sean Tergis – percussion

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Made up of the Govetas family, Drómeno is well-versed in subtle and distinct regional music from musically rich Greece, as well as other areas in the Balkans. In 2017, Christos Govetas and Ruth Hunter received the Gordon Ekvall Tracie Award, which recognizes an ethnic performing artist(s) for excellence in ethnic performance and for his/her significant contributions to the development and presentation of the traditional cultural arts in the Pacific Northwest.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Dos BandOLEros: Power Rumba Flamenca in the Mission
2018-12-08 19:00 - 20:15
Founded by Bay Area musicians Raúl Vargas (Makrú) and Alberto Gutiérrez (La Mandanga), Dos BandOLEros performs rumba flamenca covers and original compositions for an energetic night full of positive messages.

FEATURING:
Alberto Gutiérrez – guitar, vocals
Raúl Vargas – cajón, percussion, electric kazoo, vocals

Learn more: Website | Facebook

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Time: 6:30pm doors / 7:00pm show
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Antonio Feula Jazz Trio: Modern/Funk Jazz
2018-12-09 19:30 - 22:00
Antonio Feula Jazz Trio performs songs from its latest modern jazz album, Joint Path, and from the upcoming funk jazz album. With influences ranging from bebop, blues, and funk to classical music, the group’s original compositions have already impressed varying audiences, with people commenting on the catchy yet sophisticated nature of the music. Genuine improvisation and amazing interplay are also strong points of the trio.

FEATURING:
Ian McArdle – keyboard
Mike Quigg – drums
Antonio Feula – guitar

Learn more: Bandcamp

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Leni Stern Trio: Groove-Filled Jazz
2018-12-13 19:30 - 22:00
Award-winning jazz guitarist Leni Stern leads her trio project featuring original compositions written with reverence to the rhythms and tonalities of Mali and Senegal. Stern’s performance celebrates her most recent release, 3, an authentic exploration of the interplay between traditional West African music and American jazz.

FEATURING:
TBA

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Leni Stern is an unstoppable force of bottomless energy. Her long-time fans know her from a successful jazz career that saw her touring the globe on the stage of every major festival and legendary club, performing with some of the biggest heavyweights on the scene like Dennis Chambers, Paul Motian, and Bill Frisell to name a few. Everything changed when, in 2005, Stern was first invited to perform at the Festival au Desert in Timbuktu, Mali. It was there that she would meet Bassekou Kouyate and his wife, Ami Sacko. Embraced by their family and their bands, she dove headfirst into the traditions of West African guitar and later the n’goni, an African banjo. It was a natural path from jazz, a journey to where her playing and sound all began, a spiritual exploration coupled with devoted study and practice. Stern’s recent compositions pay humble homage to the drum patterns of traditional Senegalese folk songs. What emerges is a new repertoire of cross-pollinated ideas and reverence to jazz, blues, Africa, and folk music of today’s diaspora.
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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Flamenkeando: Flamenco Meets Gypsy Jazz (Night 1)
2018-12-14 19:30 - 22:00
Caminos Flamencos, an award-winning flamenco troupe, collaborates with members of gypsy jazz group Barrio Manouche to present two special nights of flamenco, jazz manouche, and Latin vibes on December 14 and 15. Seven artists improvise and explore between their musical worlds to create a blend of sounds rooted in flamenco dance and music, yet open in a free-style form much like a chamber jazz ensemble.

FEATURING:
Jason “El Rubio” McGuire – acoustic guitar
Felix de Lola – vocals
Javi Jimenez – guitar
Luis Jimenez – percussion
Yaelisa – flamenco dance
Fanny Ara – flamenco dance
Marina Elana – flamenco dance

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Caminos Flamencos is an Emmy Award-winning dance troupe lead by Yaelisa and extraordinary guitarist Jason “El Rubio” McGuire. Considered the finest flamenco troupe in the U.S., the group has been nominated and received Izzy Dance Awards. They perform throughout California and are known for their collaborations with musicians spanning many genres including Latin, jazz, and French manouche. (Photo by: Mayumi Acosta Photography)
Learn more: Barrio Manouche | Yaelisa

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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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Flamenkeando: Flamenco Meets Gypsy Jazz (Night 2)
2018-12-15 19:30 - 22:00

Jamie Zee: A Night of Neo-Soul
2018-12-16 19:30 - 22:00
Inspired by daily life, Jamie Zee composes music that embodies the experience of an LGBTQ Chinese-American woman.​ Her newly written works span various genres and blend musical traditions ranging decades. The vocalist is joined by guest, Bay Area Latin jazz legend, Dr. John Calloway.

FEATURING:
Jamie Zee – vocals
John Calloway – flute
Madison Bohrer – saxophone
William Bohrer – electric bass
Max Brody – guitar
Julian Lopez – piano
Alex Shapiro-Romano – drums

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Growing up as a local around the San Francisco Mission District, Jamie Zee began her career as a songwriter at the young age of 17. Continuing the documentation of her experiences singing and dancing along to the driving rhythms of salsa, rumba, funk, soul, R&B, and jazz, Zee has cultivated her own compositions illustrating her story. She has sung at world-renowned venues including Carnegie Hall, SFJAZZ Center, Super Bowl 50 City Stage, Yoshi’s San Francisco and Oakland, Fox Theater, The Freight and Salvage, Brava Theater, DNA Lounge, and Teatro Valle in Rome.
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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Rachid Halihal & Faisal Zedan: Arab Music Experience
2018-12-20 19:30 - 22:00
A collaborative performance between Moroccan musician Rachid Halihal and Syrian musician Faisal Zedan, the evening will include songs and instrumental melodies from different Arab countries, such as Egypt, Morocco, Syria, Iraq, and more.

FEATURING:
Rachid Halihal – oud, violin, vocals
Faisal Zedan – Arab percussion

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
An accomplished Moroccan singer, oud, and violinist, Rachid Halihal is a classical and folkloric musician with a wealth of experience in performing different styles of Arab music. He is a long-time resident of New York City and travels throughout the city performing and teaching.
Faisal Zedan is a Syrian/Lebanese percussionist currently residing in Oakland, California. He specializes in Arab drums and performs various genres of Arab, Middle Eastern, Greek, and Balkan music. Zedan plays and teaches derbakki, riqq, and frame drums, and has been performing and collaborating with many musicians in different projects with a focus on Middle Eastern music and drumming.

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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
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Will Bernard & Beth Custer: Original Chamber Jazz
2018-12-21 19:30 - 22:00
Originally from Berkeley, Will Bernard is now a renowned New York guitarist. He joins San Francisco treasure Beth Custer in performance of original compositions ranging in styles from funky blues, to plaintive contemporary classical, to rollicking jazz. Always soulful and in synch, this duo has been playing together since they met in the 1980’s.

FEATURING:
Will Bernard – guitars
Beth Custer – clarinets, vocals

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Grammy-nominated guitarist Will Bernard has performed and/or recorded with Stanton Moore Trio, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Tom Waits, Ben Sidran, Dr John, Booker T. Jones, Steven Bernstein, George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, Global Noize, Greyboy Allstars, Galactic, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Mike Clark, Idris Muhammad, and others. In addition to leading his own groups, Bernard performs regularly with the New York collaborative Pleasure Drones, W-Beez with Wil Blades, Peter Apfelbaum’s Sparkler, and John Medeski’s Mad Skillet with Kirk Joseph and Terence Higgins.
Beth Custer is an Emmy Award-winning composer and recording artist. She is a member of the Beth Custer Ensemble, Eighty Mile Beach, Clarinet Thing, Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra, and Will Bernard/Beth Custer Ensemble. Custer has composed for Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Zeitgeist, Earplay, Campo Santo and San Diego Repertory Theatres, Joe Goode Performance Group, Roco Dance, Flyaway Productions, and for the films of William Farley, Brad Coley, and Cathy Lee Crane. This fall, she is an artist-in-residence in Prague where she will premiere her score for a 1919 comedic silent film at the Czech National Archive.

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EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $25. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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Taraf de Locos: Birthday Bash
2018-12-27 19:30 - 22:00
San Francisco-bred Taraf de Locos reunites for a special birthday celebration! The band performs music from the Balkans to Latin America, as well as original compositions inspired by those styles. Tastefully combining the elements of innovation and authentic tradition, Taraf de Locos produces groove-based music that will make you dance, and moments of mellow, soaring harmonies that will leave you in awe.

FEATURING:
Aya Safiya – vocals, violin, timple
Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea – vocals, trumpet, güira
Han Beyli – guitar
Miguelito León – vocals, percussion
Mireya León – bass
Tano Brock – vocals, saxophone, clarinet

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Founding members Aya Safiya, Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, Miguel Leon, and Tano Brock grew up together at a world music camp in California. In 2014, they formed the band Taraf de Locos, a name that fits perfectly as it is the meeting point between the group’s most predominant genres. “Taraf,” meaning “band” in Romanian, represents the Balkan styles of music, while “locos,” meaning “crazies” in Spanish, represents the Latin styles of music.
During the recording of their debut album, Taraf de Locos recruited bassist Mireya León to join, and following their album release show at Red Poppy Art House, the band embarked on a U.S. tour. Once the tour was finished, the group took a hiatus while the five members individually traveled and went on to follow personal goals. Taraf de Locos currently reunites once in a while for special occasions.
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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $20 online / $15-20 door. Ticket availability at the door is limited and contingent on online sales.
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George Cole and EUROCANA: Jazz Manouche, Uptown Swing, French Chanson
2019-01-11 19:30 - 22:00
George Cole and EUROCANA fill it to the brim with unforgettable music featuring three-part harmonies delivered by top-tier vocalists and amazing instrumental virtuosity. Influenced by Django Reinhardt, rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, and French chanson, the group swings with infectious joy, bringing audiences to their feet the old-fashioned way.

FEATURING:
George Cole – guitar, vocals
Madeline Tasquin – guitar, vocals, percussion
Kaeli Earle – bass, vocals

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
San Francisco native George Cole brings an expertise to his guitar playing and singing that is filtered through rock and roll, jazz manouche, and all things American. A BAMMIE Award winner, Cole plays guitar for the David Grisman Quintet and was a guitar teacher/mentor to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day.
Madeline Tasquin is a Canadian-Californian songcrafter who weaves between jazz folk to soul ballads in odd meters, to playful harmonic pop to delicately dark musical fairy tales, delivering it all with a stage presence that radiates joy.
Kaeli Earle is a singer and bass player from Bellingham, WA, and a graduate of Berklee College of Music. She loves coming to the Bay to gig and play shows, inciting crowds with her high energy. Her music is a mix of jazz, rock, pop, and soul.
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Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: $15-20 sliding scale. A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.
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