Grammy-winning Mads Tolling Jazz Concert in the Park | SoMa

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Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | 2012

The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (YBGF) features over 90 free outdoor events from May to October on three stages including music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, family festivals and children’s programs with artists from all over the world Africa, Bali, Italy, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Sweden, China and the Bay Area.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
3 outdoor stages. 100 programs. FREE.
– May through October, 2012
– FREE and open to the public

Concerts and events take place at either Yerba Buena Gardens (located in between the Metreon and YBCA near Mission and 3rd) or across the street at Jessie Square on Mission right in front of the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Saturday, August 18, 2012
Mads Trolling Quartet | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | 2012

Grammy-winning Mads Tolling, one of the best violinists of his generation, pays tribute to his friend and mentor, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, performing compositions by Ponty in new arrangements.

France’s Jean-Luc Ponty has been at the forefront of jazz violin for decades. He single-handedly brought the electric violin and the European tradition of great jazz-violin playing to the United States. Tolling and Ponty remain in contact with a mutual goal: the evolution of the violin in modern music.

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