Yerba Buena Gardens Festival This May
/ Ronnie SharpeA supergroup bringing together leading Ethiopian musicians from Addis Ababaβs fervently creative music scene, QWANQWA features Endris Hassen on the bowed, one-string masinko, Bubu Teklemariam on groove-driving bass krar, Misale Legesse on goat-skin kebero drum and incantatory vocals by Selamnesh Zemene.
CAAMFest returns for a renewed collaboration with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
Itβs island time! Celebrating the various cultures of the Asian Pacific islands, including Micronesia and Macaronesia,
Deeply versed in jazz and classic soul music, PHER is equally comfortable in both musical realms, and often brings the techniques and cadences of one idiom into the other.
As the founder, director and guiding spirit of Oakland-based CO-LLAB, Cava Menzies has created a powerful vehicle for bringing musicians together for synergistic collaboration.
In reclaiming the legacy of a Bay Area giant, Beth Wilmurt has uncovered a trove of long-forgotten songs by Malvina Reynolds, the San Francisco-born singer-songwriter devoted to environmental and human rights activism (1900-1978). Directed by Wilmurt, singers from four Community Music Center Neighborhood Choirs perform Reynoldsβ songs, which address topics both serious and lighthearted with sturdy, unpretentious melodies.