Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (Batey Tambó)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Oakland percussionist Denise Solís founded one of the first ever all-female ensembles devoted to the Afro-Indigenous Puerto Rican tradition of bomba, Las Bomberas de la Bahia, and she’s been drumming down barriers for women in the art form ever since. Working with Julia Caridad Cepeda (Julia Danse), who hails from a venerated Puerto Rican family that has carried bomba rituals for more than eight generations, Solís founded and co-directs Batey Tambó, a Bay Area-based, women of color-led cultural group grounded in bomba music and dance. The high-energy troupe, which takes its name from the space (bateys) where bomba is practiced, builds on the legacy of the groundbreaking La Bomba es Nuestra conclave in 2007. Solís was one of the directors/facilitators of the event, the first-ever convening of an all-women drumming ensemble that brought together bomberas from the diaspora and Puerto Rico to learn, share and collaborate in a series of epic performances.

Batey Tambó
Thursday, July 18, 2024 | 12:30-1:30p
Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd & 4th Sts., SF
FREE

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.

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.