Changüí Majadero’s Afro-Cuban Musical Performance | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023 (May 6 – Oct. 28)
The 2023 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 6 at 1:00pm with John Santos Sextet + The Afro-Peruvian Coalition.
Now in its 23rd year, the Festival will run each and every week and weekend until October 28 and is located between Mission and Howard Streets and Third and Fourth Streets in downtown San Francisco.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023
May 6 – October 28, 2023
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission btwn Third and Fourth, SoMa, SF
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Playing Cuban roots music straight outta East LA, Changüí Majadero is a blazing five-piece band that has honed a deeply informed and highly personal take on changüí, a surging Afro-Cuban musical tradition that took shape in the late 19th century on the eastern side of the island around Guantanamo.
It’s one of the foundational styles that gave birth to son, salsa and timba, and in the hands of Changüí Majadero the music feels as fresh and intoxicating as a stiff shot of rum. Founded by vocalist Gabriel García, an expert on Cuban tres guitar, the band features bassist Ross Schodek, Norrell Thompson on vocals and guayo (metal scraper), George Ortiz on the low pitched bongó de monte and Alfred Ortiz on maracas and vocals.
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Cost: FREE
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