Edgar Pantoja & the Afro-Cuban Tribe: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | SF

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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

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Thursday, June 27, 2019
SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023 (May 6 – Oct. 28)

One of the West Coast’s leading Cuban bands, Edgar Pantoja and the Afro-Cuban Tribe is a rhythmic powerhouse designed to deliver Pantoja’s original compositions. It’s a book that combines Cuban roots sources of rumba, son, and timba with international rhythms of samba, Moroccan Gnawa, jazz and funk. Born in Santiago de Cuba, Pantoja has spent more than two decades touring and collaborating with an international array of stars, including Rubén Blades, David Murray, Angelique Kidjo, and most recently as pianist/keyboardist and arranger for Cuban conga maestro Pedrito Martinez.

Pantoja’s Afro-Cuban Tribe brings together a brilliant cast of Cuban players with guitarist David Lechuga-Espadas, bassist Ernesto Mazar Kindelán, percussionist Carlitos Medrano (an esteemed bandleader in his own right featured at YBG Festival on May 16) and drummer Josh Jones.

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