Las Cafeteras’ Contemporary Take On Traditional Afro-Mexican Grooves | Yerba Buena Gardens
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Yerba Buena Gardens (Esplanade) | 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025
The 2025 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 10, 2025 with La Santa Cecilia to kick off its 25th Anniversary Season.
Music builds community and communities create music, a fact exemplified by this thrilling double bill. Las Cafeteras came together when seven young men and women started taking free music classes at the Eastside Café, a bustling Chicano cultural center in northeast Los Angeles.
What started as a casual exploration of their Mexican roots quickly turned into a vital community institution, and now Las Cafeteras’ contemporary take on traditional Afro-Mexican grooves of son jarocho has turned the band into a world music force.
Soltron grew out of the Mission District’s vital arts scene, blending Latin jazz, Chicano rock, and Brazilian batucada with strains of hip-hop and electronic music. An 11-piece juggernaut with a relentlessly buoyant sound, the band features some of the Bay Area’s most exciting young players.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music
