2024 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents “KOKOROKO + Jada Imani” (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Over the past decade London’s creatively roiling jazz scene has made waves that have swept right across the Atlantic, and one of the most exciting groups to emerge in recent years is KOKOROKO. An eight-piece band led by trumpeter, vocalist and visual artist Sheila Maurice-Grey, KOKOROKO has forged a kinetic, horn-driven fusion of jazz and Nigerian highlife and Afrobeat. Named a band to watch by the Guardian in early 2019 after their track “Abusey Junction” garnered 23-million views on YouTube, the combo went on to win Best Group at the 2020 Urban Music Awards. With the critically praised 2022 debut album We Could Be More on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings and an album of remixes, KOKOROKO has plenty of material to introduce on their inaugural North American tour.

KOKOROKO + Jada Imani
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts., SF
FREE

This event is expected to be highly attended.

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.

OCTOBER 2024

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