Crosspulse Body Percussion Show | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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Yerba Buena Gardens, Children’s Garden | Yerba Buena Children’s Garden, Howard St. btwn 3rd & 4th Sts. SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2026
The 2026 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 9, 2026 with Hermán Olivera y Orquesta Taíno to kick off its 26th season. The Festival features over 100 free performances from May to November in Downtown San Francisco.
Using finger snaps, tight slaps, chest thumps, foot drags, hand rubs, and percussive dance steps, Crosspulse Ensemble performances are designed to entrance children with an international array of rhythms, instruments, and obscure musical practices. With five extraordinaryartists versed in body percussion and a diverse array of traditions, Crosspulse features Keith Terry (jazz, body music), Evie Ladin (Appalachian), Omar Ledezma (Afro-Venezuelan), Bryan Dyer (beatbox), and Amber Hines (African-American spiritual). Creating a joyful noise that sure to entrance adults as well as kids, Crosspulse is a Bay Area treasure known for bringing body music into classrooms, theaters and nightclubs around the world.
This program repeats at 12:15pm.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: **Annual Event**, Kids & Families
