Quijeremá: Latin American, Jazz, and Classical Travels

Quijeremá infuses their original contemporary Latin American compositions with a deep sense of ancient musical traditions. Primal, real, and ethereal environments permeate their music, creating an amalgam of masterfully fused traditional and contemporary styles. They blend rhythm, texture, and color seamlessly and transparently to arrive at a rich sound that integrates traditional Latin American instruments and vocals with jazz, classical, and world idioms. The diversely expert musicians of Quijeremá create tableaus through which the audience is transported and transformed. Travel with us asQuijeremá presents selected works from their new album El Viaje (The Journey).

This fine-tuned San Francisco Bay Area quintet has been captivating audiences over the course of an eight-year, five-album career. Quijeremá is a 2012-2013 California Arts Council grantee and performs nationally and internationally. They have played concerts for the President of Chile and the Cultural Diversity Festival in Venezuela. When not performing, Quijeremá composes, records, and produces music for documentary films. In 2009 they were nominated by the International Documentary Association for best musical soundtrack for their PBS documentary, “Archaeology of Memory.” In addition to performing and recording, Quijeremá engages in educational outreach for youth and adults throughout the Bay Area in workshops, master classes, and multimedia museum installations.

Quique Cruz (Chile) – strings, Andean wind instruments, percussion
Jeremy Allen (USA) – bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela) – percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Zack Pitt-Smith (USA) – woodwinds, percussion
John Calloway (USA) – piano, flute, percussion

“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz” – Jesse Hamlin, SF Chronicle

“Using various methods of artistic expression, Quijeremá is more than just a band. They are poets and multi-media designers. Combining sounds from almost all over Latin America, their music contains a multi-cultural vibe that is guaranteed to impress anyone.” – SF ReMezcla

Hear their music and find out more about Quijeremá on their website and Facebook page

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Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00pm. Show at 7:30pm. All ages welcome.
Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

We are pleased to announce that we have begun some minor construction at the Poppy to make our space fully wheelchair accessible. Due to this work, we will be having audiences enter through the main front doors rather than the side door entrance that we normally use. We will have a slightly lesser seating capacity, so keep that in mind to make sure you arrive in time. 

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