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Pasatempo Rebetika: Soulful Greek Blues

Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco

Pasatempo Rebetika presents the heart and soul music of Greece with authenticity and depth. Christos Govetas and wife, Ruth Hunter, are well-known proponents of this music, both in the U.S. and Greece, and form the core of the group. Vocal harmonies blend to tell the stories of love, loss, exile, and more. They are joined […]

$15 – $20

Wahid: Sublime Inspirations from the Levant

Red Poppy Art House 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco

Wahid is a duo that blends jazz, Ottoman maqam, and traditional rebetika—Greek regional blues from the 1920s. While their instrumentation pairing of the oud and frame drum dates back thousands of years, they have created a new approach using a chromatic bass frame set and improvisation over song forms. Their fifth release, Resonance, is in […]

$15 – $20