2024 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents “Ambrose Akinmusire” (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

After a period of stripping his music down to the barest essentials, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire is once again painting on an expansive canvas. A perpetual sonic explorer eager to investigate fresh terrain, he released two remarkable albums last year, the solo trumpet recital Beauty is Enough, and Owl Song, a strikingly spacious project with guitar great Bill Frisell and New Orleans drum poet Herlin Riley. Following up on his 2018 album Origami Harvest, the Oakland-reared Akinmusire presents the West Coast premiere of his new project Honey From A Winter’s Stone.

Ambrose Akinmusire
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts., SF
FREE

This event is expected to be highly attended.

Featuring a string quartet, DC-based rapper/producer/singer Kokayi, and longtime Akinmusire bandmates Sam Harris on piano/keyboards and fellow Berkeley High alum Justin Brown on drums, it’s a radiant synthesis of hip-hop, chamber jazz and new music. Recently named Artistic Director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance (formerly known as the Monk Institute), Akinmusire has maintained a singular status as both a leading force on the horn–Downbeat Magazine named him 2023 Trumpeter of the Year – and an edgy conceptualist unbound by genre conventions.

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024

May 4 – November 2, 2024
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission btwn Third and Fourth, SoMa, SF
FREE

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2024 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Programming Highlights

All events are free and take place outdoors in Yerba Buena Gardens, off Mission Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, and the Yerba Buena Children’s Garden located at Howard & Fourth Street.

AUGUST 2024

• San Francisco Mime Troupe – August 4
• Pistahan – August 10-11
• Brazil in the Gardens – August 15

SEPTEMBER 2024

• 5th Annual African Arts Festival – September 7
• YBG Dance Day – September 28

OCTOBER 2024

• San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day – October 14

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.