Bixiga 70 & Loco Bloco: Music, Beat & Colors | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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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.
São Paulo’s musical reputation isn’t as vaunted as Rio de Janeiro or Salvador de Bahia’s, but Brazil’s largest city is a furiously bustling cultural cauldron responsible for some of the world’s most exciting sounds. The new instrumental combo Bixiga 70, named after the polyglot neighborhood from which it emerged, reflects São Paulo’s confounding diversity, with a genre-smashing mix of Afrobeat, Guinean malinké, Brazilian candomblé, samba, and cumbia. This is party music from a culture that sets the standard for exuberantly joyous celebration.
Loco Bloco’s inter-generational performing ensemble is an explosion of rhythm, movement, color and passion with booming beats, funky horn lines, and high-energy dancers in multi-colored costumes, lifting everyone’s spirits. Loco Bloco combines African, Brazilian, Latin, hip hop and funk music and dance, creating an infectious high-energy vibe.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music
