The Red Poppy is pleased to announce and evening with poet, playwright & multi-instrumentalist Avotcja and ensemble Modúpue. Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She is a popular bay area D.J. & the Founder & Co-Director of "The Clean Scene Theater Project/Proyecto Teatral de la Escena Sobria." She teaches poetry, creative writing, music & drama in public schools & thanks to the California Arts Council she is also an artist in r...
Read MoreA Night of Latin American Music
Long time Chilean Bay Area performers Mochi Parra and Hector Salgado team up with pianist/guitarist/composer Steve Lam, bass player and recent NY New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music graduate Joel Kruzic, drummer Juan Manuel Caipo of Bang Data, and musical guest and former Grupo Raiz member Fernando “Fena’ Torres, for an exciting night of rhythms and melodies from Latin America. This new group of local musicians will be playing music from Chile, Cuba and Argentina. The group c...
Read MoreBolo
Acoustic global fusion bridging Africa and India
Bolo is a dynamic ensemble featuring percussionist/singer Surya Prakasha, bassist and bansuri & ney flute player Eliyahu Sills (The Qadim Ensemble), and multi-instrumentalist Evan Fraser (Hamsa Lila). With a fresh improvisational approach, the group creates songs that will move, uplift and transport. With African-sourced grooves, African and Indian melodies and songs, 'Bolo' speaks to the heart and to a musical language that bridges...
Read MoreJohn Calloway and the New Riders of the Clave Maze
Tales of the Mission: Past, Present and FuturePerforming for the first time at Red Poppy is flautist, multi-instrumentalist, and arts educator John Calloway, a long-time Bay Area artist with deep cultural and social ties to the Mission. His new ensemble will present a cross-generational mix of jazz, folk and Latin music, with themes related to the Mission district and social justice. John, a long time collaborator with John Santos, has also performed internationally with Israel ...
Read MoreRob Reich Trio
Jazz Accordion with Hot Rhythm
Avoid Friday the 13th blues and come enjoy the Rob Reich Trio's musical wonders. The Trio performs new original music and choice old tunes with graceful humor and effortless virtuosity. Reich grew up studying piano from age three. After graduating with a degree in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he discovered the accordion, now his primary instrument. Reich’s music defies genres. Whether it’s composing art songs based on the poetry of E E Cum...
Read MoreCamille Mai Trio EP Release and the Blind Willies
Nearly a year after their first show at last January's MAPP, the Camille Mai Trio returns to the Red Poppy for the release of their debut EP, "We Are No Beautiful Children." Mixed independently at the SF Conservatory, the EP's four tracks are a melting pot of French, Argentine, and West Coast culture, interweaving jazz harmonies with middle eastern rhythms while keeping an intimate indie-rock familiarity.
Consisting of Camille Mai on piano/voice/composition, Nahuel Bronzini ...
Read MoreKeeping the Poppy in San Francisco…
Greetings Poppy Family, If you are a fan of the Red Poppy Art House, then this is an important message for you to read. We've been pouring our hearts and minds into the labor of bringing you the best artistic programming that we are able to offer here in the Bay Area. Now we need you to have our back. We have some exciting news and big challenges ahead, but first we need to let you know about the financial reality of our little house of magic.
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Read MoreThe Nightingale Trio + Tre Sisters
Intimate harmonies from Eastern Europe
The Nightingale Trio is a women’s vocal group inspired by folk songs and vocal techniques from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Nila Bala, Rachel LaViola, and Sarah Larsson met each other as students Yale, singing with the Yale Slavic Chorus. Today, the Nightingales sound fuller than a trio, yet still maintain the intimate, tight harmonies of a family band. They are dedicated to recreating the rhythmic, complex, and stunning folk songs that have...
Read More2 Greenprints
An informal pena-art-style salon, by Marc Hors
Slide show presentation from an itinerant photographic project which moves on bicycles across the American Continent (From Alaska to the Chilean Antarctic) in search of natural, social and cultural values that characterize the countries of the American Continent. A project promoting solidarity, equity, participation and respect among cultures by linking what we learned from human behaviors, beliefs and traditions with environmen...
Read MoreExperimental Thursday: Reclaiming Bruj@s
Storytelling, Workshop, and Ancestral Tradiciones
Local healers and spoken word artists come together to share their "brujerias."The suggested donation will include medicinal herbs to take home. Admission: $5-10. Event 7:00 pm -9:00 pm. Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.
Read MoreVoices for the Poppy: A Special Benefit Concert
If you love the Red Poppy Art House, then be there for this special evening occasion and make your support known. Hosted by Ethiopian-born songstress and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero, this unique musical program features an interweave of performances by jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin with Grant Levin on piano, songcraftsman Tom Sway, and instrumentalists Prasant Radhakrishnan, Todd Thomas Brown, Schuyler Karr, and acclaimed poet Michael Warr. 100% of the proceeds will go towards a fun...
Read MoreEnsemble Mik Nawooj
Hip-Hop Orchestra
Taoist composer-pianist JooWan Kim performs with his hip-hop orchestra, Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN), a chamber orchestra with a rotating personnel of MCs and an opera singer. Ensemble Mik Nawooj "defies such categories as jazz, classical, and hip-hop" (Oakland Tribune), is "ambitious” (The New Yorker), and is “a cosmic melding of culture and genres” (SF Chronicle). MTV called the group “thirsty to change the name of the game”, and NPR praised it by saying “...
Read MoreDance Party @ The Poppy!
All Proceeds benefit the Red Poppy!
Latin Dance Party Benefit for the Poppy
Feat DJ Boludo, El Profe, and DJ Guruila, El Estudiante For those of you that know DJ Boludo, then you know what's in store for this dance party. Some of you may recall the epic 2007 dance party that he was in on hosted by Indira Urrutia and Todd Brown at Brown's then loft space on Stevenson St. For those of you that don't know, DJ Boludo is not someone you will find in ...
Read MoreThe Suppression of Sound
An Evening of Poetry and Music
An evening of poetry and sound by Thomas Sayers Ellis and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. This eclectic duo has been performing together for nearly two years and was recently given the thumbs up by poet Amiri Baraka (for their mixture of free Jazz, GoGo, Be Hip Bop Hop and deep Groove) when they opened for him in New York City. The combination of Mr. Ellis's bold, lyric activism and meditations on race and American culture are pushed and pu...
Read MoreSeeds of Gold
SEEDS OF GOLD: A Community Premiere of the New Documentary Film
Join us for the Community Premiere of the yet-to-be released film SEEDS OF GOLD (40 min), followed by an audience discussion with the filmmakers. Seeds of Gold takes us to the Andes of Colombia to share the true story of a community's journey to awaken the memory of their ancestors and restore a future for their children. Working to reclaim damaged farmland, establish nature preserves, revive the unspoken langu...
Read MorePoppy Day
Join us for a community gathering. Bring some food, poems, music to share. In addition, we will have a opening for the "Dia De Los Muertos" visual exhibition.
Read MoreMakrú
Healing music for a hurting Mission
Landing in San Francisco from different parts of the world, Makrú fuses Rumba Flamenca, Reggae, Cuban Son, Cumbia, Ska, and other global beats to create a unifying, positive vibe in the Bay Area through its music. Lyrics in Spanish and English bring reality, fiction, hope and joy together, in hopes of spreading a message of respect and love. Raúl Vargas - cajón & Vocals
Martina Castro - Vocals
Vinicio Peñate - Bass
Bob ...
Read MoreTarimba
'Tarimba' is believed to be the African root word of 'tarima', which is the most important instrument and symbol of the Son Jarocho tradition of Veracruz Mexico. TARIMBA is a band comprised of local Bay Area musicians who have embraced the traditional genre of Son Jarocho music from southern Veracruz, Mexico. The members of TARIMBA have all been active performers and teachers in the Bay Area music community for over ten years, and they are excited to have the opportunity...
Read MoreTriBeCaStan
Genre-bending Jazz and World Music Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan are one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse and exciting bands. The New York Times describes TriBeCaStan's sound as "genre-bending jazz and world-music" and The Washington Post hails them as "an international jazz and folk festival unto itself, fusing Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American, and African musical elements to bold and dazz...
Read MoreThe Chamber Players
Classical Meets Contemporary: A Cross-Century Performance
Hailing from across North America and Europe, The Chamber Players met on the idyllic coast of Thisted, Denmark through a shared passion for chamber music. Mike Kaufman, Etienne Gara, Tatiana Trono, and Cassandra Bequary have collaborated in the United States and abroad on a range of projects, from solo to orchestral, bringing together both masterworks of the classical music repertoire, and brand new compositions from notable...
Read MoreFriends of Buena Trova Social Club
Noche de Trova y Música Folklórica Latinoamerica with Special Guest: José Roberto Hernández Friends of Buena Trova Social Club is a multi-cultural Bay Area band whose share a passion for world art and culture through music. Friends of BTSC sing unique interpretations of covers and original compositions with Latin, Caribbean and contemporary sabor! Well crafted harmonies, wind, percussive and acoustic instrumentation propel their songs which are inspired by traditional ...
Read MoreRed Reels presents: Montaje: Caso Bombas
Red Reels presents: Montaje: Caso Bombas, a Spanish-language documentary about the political environment in Chile. "Montaje: Caso Bombas" Muchos estados y gobiernos, amparados en la impunidad que les otorga el ejercicio del poder, han recurrido a los montajes como arma política para desacreditar, invalidar y encarcelar a sus detractores. Pero, ¿qué es un montaje político y policial?, ¿cómo se hace?, ¿quienes los hacen? Esas preguntas son las que aborda este ...
Read MoreAmy LaCour
An Evening of Soulful Folk: Originals, Covers, Conversation Exploring Americana
Singer/songwriter, Amy LaCour, has recently made the Bay Area her home. She has brought along a suitcase full of songs that chronicle her years as a performing musician in New York, LA, and abroad. Described by Urban Network as “a thinking woman's cross between Bill Withers and Norah Jones,” Amy is a lover of the songwriting tradition and seeks to explore the full definition of “Americana.”
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Read MoreOur Mission: No Eviction!
Brava! For Women in the Arts announces:
~Our Mission: No Eviction! A community action to benefit Rene Yañez & Yolanda López~ In solidarity with this important event held at Brava Theater, The Red Poppy Art House has canceled it's evening programming to support the efforts of this fundraiser and tribute to longtime Mission district residents and artists: Rene Yañez & Yolanda López. Featuring: Culture Clash, Marga Gomez, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Las Bomber...
Read MoreLOVE is a short poem
Come and enjoy a night of short LOVE poems and performances with specialists and experienced artists in the matter of love and other crisis. Poets: Jack Hirschman, Nina Serrano, Jennifer Barone, Adrian Arias, and direct from Argentina Teresa Palazzo Conti & Salomé Audisio releasing their new book "A Woman's Plea", under the local new publishing house "Mariposa Blanca" SF-Oakland. Performers: Mamacoatl & La Tania With the admission you wi...
Read MoreLitcrawl
Litquake 2013 will present more than 800 authors and journalists in more than 160 events over 9 days, culminating with with the closing event, Lit Crawl on Saturday, October 19th. Spread over three hours, the LitCrawl hosts live readings of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and more in bookstores, bars, art galleries, restaurants, stores, cafés, laundromats, community spaces… even a police station and beekeeping supply store. More at: litcrawl.org The Red Poppy will celebr...
Read MoreTito Gonzales y su Quinteto
Tito will be playing all of the famous rhythms that has made Cuban music popular...Rumba, Guaracha, Son and of cause romantic boleros. Tito's plays high energy authentic Cuban music.
Tito Gonzalez - Lead singer, tres guitar and minor percussion
David Frazier - Congas
Tony Garcia - Bass
Rubin Hurtado - Piano
Miguel Martinez - Flute Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30. Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive...
Read MoreExperimental Thursday: Reclaiming Bruj@s
Storytelling, Workshop, and Ancestral Tradiciones Local healers and spoken word artists come together to share their "brujerias." The suggested donation will include medicinal herbs to take home.
Read MorePersian Starr aka Shirzad Sharif
An evening of Classical Royal Court Music with Persian Starr
Shirzad Sharif (Persian Starr) is the inventor of a custom built Persian-Electric Acoustic instrument & creator of many Middle Eastern cross genre musical projects ranging from World Music collaborations, Avant Garde Persian Music, Persian Electronica, Persian Gothik & other forms of Persian Music. Shirzad Sharif will be performing on his custom built lute which is a hybrid combination...
Read MoreColm Ó Riain
Irish Fission
Irish-born violinist and former Red Poppy Resident Artist, Colm Ó Riain and some highly select friends mix the music of Ireland with rhythms and melodies from all over the musical world – jazz, blues, Roma (gipsy), India, Cuba, Brazil and many more. An accomplished and fiery improviser in many genres, Colm has performed in festivals and venues throughout the world—from Argentina and Brazil to Sweden and Vietnam — while also thrilling audiences at festivals ...
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