Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (The Alaya Project)
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Yerba Buena Gardens | Mission St. & 3rd St., San Francisco, CA
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Indian-American percussionist and composer Rohan Krishnamurthy has staked out fertile soil where ancient Carnatic musical forms flow into the improvisational fields of jazz. A disciple of the legendary Indian percussion maestro Sri. Guruvayur Dorai, with whom he studied in Chennai, India, Krishnamurthy has developed a hybrid kit that encompasses a jazz/funk drum set and the South Indian mridangam drum.
The Alaya Project
Thursday, June 27, 2024 | 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. & 3rd St., SF
FREE
Requiring both hand and stick techniques, the self-designed kit is at the center of The Alaya Project, an Indo-jazz-funk experiment with world-jazz luminaries Prasant Radhakrishnan (saxophone) and Colin Hogan (keyboard/accordion). Built over two decades of friendship, dialogue and musical immersion across genres and continents, The Alaya Project features driving grooves, soulful ragas, melodic improvisation and a jazz-infused harmonic foundation embodying the permanence of a changing soundscape.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024
May 4 – November 2, 2024
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission btwn Third and Fourth, SoMa, SF
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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.
JUNE 2024
- Native Contemporary Arts Festival – June 16
- RAWdance: Drawing on a Decade – June 14-15
- Circus Bella – June 21-22
- SF Uke Jam – June 29
JULY 2024
- Get Free Festival – July 6
- Yerba Buena Gardens ChoreoFest – July 13 & July 20
- Color Your Mind Festival – July 27
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.
Cost: FREE
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