SF’s “Fiestas Fridas” Frida Kahlo Festival + 10th Annual Coronation Walk (2023)

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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.

Saturday, July 22, 2023
SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2025

Yerba Buena Gardens and the Mexican Museum present the 10 Year anniversary of Fiestas Fridas. Wear a flower crown and a unibrow and stroll the catwalk with Frida. Music by Banda Sin Nombre.

Frida Kahlo loved San Francisco, and Fiestas Fridas show how much we have come to love her in return, in our own unique style, of course. In the 10th year celebrating the inimitable painter (1907-1954), Fiestas Fridas features music, activities and numerous opportunities to demonstrate devotion. The goal isn’t to replace Mexico City’s iconic Casa Azul as a pilgrimage site. Rather, it is to highlight the fact that Frida came into her own as an artist in Depression-era San Francisco, where she lived, created, explored, celebrated and loved. Years later, after a traumatizing stint in Mexican jail following the assassination of Leon Trotsky (her former lover), she returned to the City, where she and Diego Rivera reconciled and remarried at San Francisco City Hall. Fiestas Fridas culminates with the Coronation Walk, a promenade to evoke her spirit by donning a unibrow and flower crown. Everyone is Frida be who you are.

This celebration of everything Frida also features lively music from San Francisco’s own Banda Sin Nombre, an ensemble combining folk music from around the world with performance art, drag and dance. With creative roots in San Francisco’s Mission District, the band features rich vocal harmonies with acoustic instruments including guitar, fiddle, charango, jarana, cajon, upright bass and saxophone. The band’s musical influences range from Peruvian chicha to Catalan rumba and Appalachian old time to cumbia.

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