Yerba Buena Gardens
Saturday, May 4
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Season Kick-Off w/ Pedrito Martinez & La Dame Blanche (SF)
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival’s 24th season kicks off with a sensational afternoon of Cuban soul.
Season Kick-Off: Pedrito Martinez & La Dame Blanche
Saturday, May 4, 2024 | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens | Mission St. & 3rd St., SF
FREE
Pedrito Martinez arrived in New York ...
Thursday, May 9
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (Neblinas del Pacifico)
The African diaspora is a vast cultural archipelago, and in each community spiritual and communal necessities gave rise to music and dance traditions reflecting the realities of the landscape. Neblinas del Pacífico is an ensemble devoted to marimba de chonta music from the Afro-Colombian Pacific ...
Saturday, May 11
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (Kitka)
The women in Kitka are fearless sonic explorers, and you can hear their intrepid spirit in every haunting song. Over nearly four decades the nine-women Oakland ensemble has developed a vast, breathtaking repertoire of traditional songs from the Balkans, Caucasus and Slavic lands, as well as ...
Thursday, May 16
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 w/ Supergroup “QWANQWA” (SF)
A supergroup bringing together leading Ethiopian musicians from Addis Ababa’s fervently creative music scene, QWANQWA features Endris Hassen on the bowed, one-string masinko, Bubu Teklemariam on groove-driving bass krar, Misale Legesse on goat-skin kebero drum and incantatory vocals by Selamnesh Zemene.
QWANQWA
Thursday, May 16, 2024 | ...
Saturday, May 18
“CAAMFest: Directions in Sound” Free Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Concert (SF)
CAAMFest returns to the SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Heritage District for a renewed collaboration with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
CAAMFest: Directions in Sound
Saturday, May 18, 2024 | 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens | Mission St. & 3rd St., SF
FREE
Featuring a dynamic music program showcasing emerging ...
Thursday, May 23
SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 w/ Jazz Artist “PHER”
Deeply versed in jazz and classic soul music, PHER is equally comfortable in both musical realms, and often brings the techniques and cadences of one idiom into the other. Formerly known as Chris Turner, the Oakland native has become a phenomenon over the past decade, ...
Saturday, May 25
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (CO-LLAB Choir)
As the founder, director and guiding spirit of Oakland-based CO-LLAB, Cava Menzies has created a powerful vehicle for bringing musicians together for synergistic collaboration. The 20-member contemporary vocal ensemble develops new works by vocalists and singer-songwriters through an exacting process of co-arranging and co-writing. The ...
Thursday, May 30
Free “Community Music Center Neighborhood Choirs” Concert at Yerba Buena Gardens (SF)
In reclaiming the legacy of a Bay Area giant, Beth Wilmurt has uncovered a trove of long-forgotten songs by Malvina Reynolds, the San Francisco-born singer-songwriter devoted to environmental and human rights activism (1900-1978). Directed by Wilmurt, singers from four Community Music Center Neighborhood Choirs perform ...
Saturday, June 8
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 w/ South Africa’s Best Jazz Artists
Marking the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s first free, post-apartheid election, this double bill presents the perfect artists to celebrate the momentous occasion. Saxophonist Steve Dyer is one of South Africa’s most influential jazz artists, and his music was shaped by the revolutionary anti-apartheid movement. ...
Thursday, June 13
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (Darrell Grant & MJ New)
Decked out in bespoke tuxedos to perform an elegant fusion of state-of-the-art jazz and classical music in the world’s most august concert halls, the Modern Jazz Quartet set an unimpeachable musical and sartorial standard for 45 years (1952-1997).
Darrell Grant & MJ New
Thursday, June 13, 2024 ...
