The Klezmatics & The Charming Hostess: Yiddish Celebratory Music | 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.
As America’s most renowned ensemble devoted to the secular, celebratory music of Eastern European Jewry, The Klezmatics emerged from the unique alchemy of New York City’s downtown music scene 30 years ago with the single-minded mission of making Yiddish culture a vital force. Known for collaborations with a glittering array of artists, from John Zorn and Itzhak Perlman to Pilobolus Dance Theatre and the Master Musicians of Jajouka, the Grammy-winning sextet explores new creative frontiers while delivering scorching dance music and heart-rending laments.
The inveterately inventive Bay Area band Charming Hostess kicks off the afternoon of radical Jewish culture with a program of Sephardic women’s music from the Balkans, songs that date back centuries to Spain’s expulsion of Jews in 1492. Led by vocalist and intellectual provocateur Jewlia Eisenberg, Charming Hostess combines beautifully unsettling vocal harmonies with the propulsive grooves of Oakland freak-folk soul.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music
