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Cosa Nostra Strings & Alligator Spacewalk: Blending 1920s Jazz & EDM | Yerba Buena Gardens

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Saturday, July 23, 2016 - 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm | Cost: FREE
Yerba Buena Gardens (Esplanade) | 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA

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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
FREE

Directions & Parking | Admission-Free Seating | Performance Times | See the Full Calendar

A wildly charismatic trumpeter with a global musical vision, Will Magid has earned a devoted following with his Bay Area concert series World Wide Dance Party, a moveable musical feast serving up celebratory sounds from around the world.

The multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ returns to the Gardens with Alligator Spacewalk, what Magid describes as “a sonic journey through time and space blending 1920s jazz, French Impressionism, funk, and global sounds.” The singular ensemble features trombonist Adam Theis, violinist Shaina Evoniuk, Kevin Wong on B3 organ, guitarist Zebuel Early, drummer Paul Oliphant, percussionist Enrique “Quique” Padilla, and vocalist Ziek McCarter.The Cosa Nostra Strings, a spin-off of Theis’s Jazz Mafia, shares this stylistically expansive, personnel-overlapping program.

Featuring Theis and Evoniuk, violist Keith Lawrence, and Lewis Patzner on cello and trombone, the CNS specializes in original hybrid crossover music encompassing acoustic heavy metal and soaring power ballads.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.


Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music
Address: 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA