Yerba Buena Gardens Festival This May
/ Ronnie SharpeYerba Buena Gardens Festival’s 24th season kicks off with a sensational afternoon of Cuban soul.
The African diaspora is a vast cultural archipelago, and in each community spiritual and communal necessities gave rise to music and dance traditions reflecting the realities of the landscape.
No Bay Area ensemble has forged deeper ties to Ukrainian musicians and composers than Kitka, the revered all-women vocal ensemble known for working with artists across Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the monthly Poetic Tuesdays series runs from May to October, turning lunchtime into an oasis of creative expression.
A supergroup bringing together leading Ethiopian musicians from Addis Ababa’s 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.
It’s 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 Reynolds’ songs, which address topics both serious and lighthearted with sturdy, unpretentious melodies.