American history turns into propulsive grooves in the hands of Bay Area bassist/composer Marcus Shelby, a jazz master who knows that the past isn’t past.
It’s a long way from Casablanca, but Moroccan-born vocalists and multi-instrumental masters Yassir Chadly and Bouchaib Abdelhadi have found fertile musical soil in Northern California. Together, they collaborated in the East Bay’s Maghreb-meets-jazz Mo’rockin Project, and their paths have intersected with brilliant improvisers like Cuban piano maestro Omar Sosa and protean tenor sax legend Pharoah […]
With Ancestral Memories the New York-based Cuban alto saxophonist Yosvany Terry and French pianist Baptiste Trotignon have designed an unprecedented suite.
Born in Ethiopia and raised in an academic family in Iowa, New York and Florida, Meklit found herself as an artist in San Francisco. A luminous songstress and a cultural visionary, she’s a TED Global Fellow who spearheaded the transformational Nile Project with Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis, bringing together musicians from the 11 nations traversed […]
Yerba Buena Night is a FREE outdoor arts festival in the heart of San Francisco’s most exciting district. Come out and see, hear, and experience the Yerba Buena district come alive with music, video, art, and dance. Enjoy over 30 different types of performance throughout Jessie Square, Yerba Buena Lane, the Yerba Buena Center of […]
Our 15th annual Halloween Hoopla features interactive performances and games for kids under 10 and their adults.
