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Cuban Salsa Outdoor Dance Party | SoMa

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Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm | Cost: FREE
Jessie Square | 736 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94199

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | 2012
The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (YBGF) features over 90 free outdoor events from May to October on three stages including music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, family festivals and children’s programs with artists from all over the world Africa, Bali, Italy, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Sweden, China and the Bay Area.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
3 outdoor stages. 100 programs. FREE.
- May through October, 2012
- FREE and open to the public

Concerts and events take place at either Yerba Buena Gardens (located in between the Metreon and YBCA near Mission and 3rd) or across the street at Jessie Square on Mission right in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Jesús Díaz: Cuban Salsa Groove | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | 2012

Percussionist Jesús Díaz brings a contemporary Cuban salsa groove, specializing in the Cuban salsa genre known as timba.

Hard-driving piano montunos and standard salsa instrumentation are augmented with an electric bass to produce the modern timba sound.