Official site of Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Free outdoor performing arts in downtown San Francisco
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Venezuelan Music Project (2 shows)
Venezuelan Music Project (2 shows)
The music of Venezuela is a cultural treasure of the Americas, a verdant but largely unknown tradition mixing indigenous, European and African influences.
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AfroSolo in the Gardens
AfroSolo in the Gardens
In collaboration with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, AfroSolo Arts Festival presents its 15th annual free concert in Yerba Buena Gardens.
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San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Freedomland
San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Freedomland
Fasten your seatbelts for another wild yet thought-provoking ride with the world-renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe.
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Raq Filipina
Raq Filipina
Fusing her Filipino roots with Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Caribbean rhythms and chill electronica, Bay Area vocalist Raq Filipina has crafted a highly personal sound that’s urgent and nostalgic, mysterious and welcoming, uplifting and challenging. An award-winning composer and performer who grew up in a musical family in the midst of Manila’s tumult, Filipina makes a […]
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Crosspulse (2 shows)
Crosspulse (2 shows)
Using finger snaps, tight slaps, chest thumps, foot drags, hand rubs, and percussive dance steps, Crosspulse Ensemble performances entrance children.
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Sonex
Sonex
Son jarocho isn’t just a style of music from Mexico’s verdant Gulf Coast state of Veracruz. It’s a way of life and a culture expression that encompasses birth, marriage, death and everything in between. In collaboration with the San Francisco Son Jarocho Festival, Brava Theater and Round Whirled Records, the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents […]
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The Unique Derique (2 Shows)
The Unique Derique (2 Shows)
This children's program repeats at 12:15pm. A beloved Bay Area institution, the Unique Derique is a prince among clowns, an internationally esteemed performer who has honed a singular blend of physical comedy and hambone body percussion. Derique (aka Lance McGee) started clowning in Berkeley at 15 with Circus A La Mode and later joined San […]
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Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
With a vast repertoire of vintage R&B, jump blues, and dance-inducing standards, the flammable Lavay Smith is the Bay Area’s undisputed queen of swing.
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Brazil in the Gardens
Brazil in the Gardens
Hailed as one of Brazil’s most important post-Jobim composers, Guinga has written songs recorded by vocalists such as Elis Regina and Nelson Gonçalves.
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Charming Hostess
Charming Hostess
The brainchild of powerhouse vocalist Jewlia Eisenberg, Charming Hostess has evolved over the years from an art-rock big band to a female vocal trio to its latest incarnation as a quintet drawing on a confoundingly diverse array of influences from the Jewish and African diasporas, with Andalusian cadences and Pygmy polyphony thrown in for good […]
Vission Latina
Vission Latina
Since moving to the Bay Area in 1996, Havana-born percussionist Carlos Caró has become a ubiquitous force on the Latin music scene, providing authoritative rhythmic support in numerous bands representing a dazzling array of Cuban styles, from 19th century danzón to 21st century timba. He launched Vission Latina 12 years ago to pursue his passion […]
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Pi Clowns (2 shows)
Pi Clowns (2 shows)
Silliness is very serious business for the Pi Clowns. A company dedicated to knock-about physical comedy, these performers don’t tell jokes.
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Cambalache + Tarimba
Cambalache + Tarimba
Community coming together in the state of Veracruz results in a party called a fandango, a celebration powered by the Afro-Mexican style of son jarocho.
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Clynton Oliver Cox
Clynton Oliver Cox
Clynton Oliver Cox is a soul-drenched guitarist, vocalist and songwriter ripe to break through to a wider audience.