Nato Green

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Jennie Legary

Advance tickets are available online. You are advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Nato Green In the Darkest Hour: The Most Political ComedySan Francisco-based political comedian Nato Green brings a residency to the Red Poppy for one night only, with a work-in-progress show of the most political comedy to get us through this, the hour of darkness.Featuring:Nato Green with guests TBDSaturday, March 15th, 2025 Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm...

Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Jennie Legary

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Advance tickets are available online. You are advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet Contemporary TangoBandoneonist and composer Charles Gorczynski returns to the Bay Area, for the first time with his acclaimed Minneapolis quartet: pianist Alex Woods, violinist Devan Moran, and bassist Sarah Lahasky. The quartet is touring to support their new album Dead Stars (Caverns Records 2025), a set of original and contemporary tangos t...

Grupo Falso Baiano (trio) ft. Catiá Lund

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Jennie Legary

Advance tickets are available online. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Grupo Falso Baiano (trio) ft. Catiá Lund Roots Samba, Bossa Nova, and Brazilian ChoroGrupo Falso Baiano will feature Brazilian vocalist, Catiá Lund to present wonderful instrumental Brazilan samba classics, Samba-Choros, and Bossa Nova in an evening of intimate music featuring percussion, guitar, and clarinet. From the nightclub district in Lapa of Rio de Janeiro to our own cul...

LIONESS: A Short Film Fundraiser

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Jennie Legary

LIONESS: A Short Film Fundraiser A Fundraising Event for a compelling film about courage and resilienceJoin Us for the LIONESS Film Fundraiser Event sponsored by Aviva Arts! Set in 1977 Morocco, LIONESS tells the story of a young woman who coaches the town's first girls' soccer team, challenging tradition and inspiring her players to dream beyond their limits. This film is a powerful exploration of resilience, courage, and the transformative power of representation.T...

Love Songs for the Soul: Amelia Romano & Asaf Ophir

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Jennie Legary

Valentines landscape Amelia Romano Medium

Advance tickets are available online. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Love Songs for the Soul: Amelia Romano & Asaf Ophir A Take on Popular Love SongsLooking for something fun to do around Valentine's Day? Love Songs for the Soul presents an evening of popular love songs, poems, and stories, arranged for harp, voice, woodwinds, and guitar. From Norah Jones to Bob Marley and everything in between, there is room for everybody. If you are lookin...

Sudamericanto

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Jennie Legary

Advance tickets are available online. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Sudamericanto Latin American folk-jazz fusionOur unique brand of Latin-American music takes audiences along a journey through South America and the Caribbean traditions with a Brazilian jazz twist. Featuring multi-faceted Puerto Rican vocalist/interpreter Madeleine Zayas and high caliber Bay Area musicians/educators natives from Peru, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the US coming toge...

Ana Vieira: Contemporary Fado artist

Posted on January 2, 2025January 2, 2025 by Jennie Legary

Advance tickets are available online. You are advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Ana Vieira: Contemporary Fado artist Exploring the music of the legendary Fado artist out of Portugal, Amalia Rodrigues, and beyond.This music is sometimes called “Portuguese Blues.” Ana's work captures the essence of Fado from her parents' homeland and well beyond. She performs and records music that ranges from the soulful, haunting ballads and catchy, playful songs o...

Sibarg Ensemble

Posted on January 2, 2025February 11, 2025 by Jennie Legary

Advance tickets are available online. You are advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. Sibarg Ensemble Persian/Jazz ImprovisationThe Sibarg Ensemble explores creative intercultural music-making by combining the sounds of Persian music, jazz, and free improvisation. Through original compositions, arrangements of classical melodies and folksongs, and improvisations, ensemble members draw on their distinct musical backgrounds while creating a unique dialogue with ...

Mijo de la Palma: A Ray of Caribbean Light Over This (Other) Great City by the Sea

Posted on July 4, 2012July 4, 2012 by Red Poppy

Being Puerto Rican, a recent arrival to San Francisco and being thousands of miles away from the Isla del Encanto, Borikén, Puerto Rico (it has so many names to those who know of it and its rich history) I fell into absolute nostalgia when I first heard Mijo de la Palma, a musical act that I had not encountered while I was living in San Juan, a city that like San Francisco lies by the sea. His sounds are remittent to nova trova, rock del patio, música jíbara and all the music made ...

Steam & Ice: The Recent Work of Hiroyo Kaneko

Posted on May 21, 2012May 21, 2012 by Resident Artist

Currently on view at the Red Poppy Art House is the work of photographer Hiroyo Kaneko (b. Aomori, Japan) which explores the relationship between her subjects and the element of water in two very poetic contexts, in the steamy bathhouse and the outdoors as an accumulation of snow. The exhibition showcases two parallel series of photography, selected by Exhibitions Director Marisa Aragona, based on the poetic relationship of the subjects in Kaneko’s photographs and the mutable element of water. ...