Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (Christelle Durandy & SankTET)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A mesmerizing vocalist, Christelle Durandy has forged an Afro-Caribbean repertoire as intricate and multifarious as her own identity. Raised in France by a mother from Reunion Island and a father from Guadeloupe, she fuses Afro-Caribbean, jazz and other polyrhythmic sounds in a provocative exploration of the African diaspora’s diffuse and powerful musical energy. 

Christelle Durandy & SankTET
Thursday, June 20, 2024 | 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. & 3rd St., SF
FREE

Backed by her band SankTET (a play on the French “cinq têtes,” or “five heads”), Durandy draws on her polyglot background to celebrate and expand the diaspora’s vibrant musical conversation, joyfully and fearlessly blending Cuban guaguanco, Guadeloupe’s gwo ka, bebop and many other idioms. She’s spent her entire life absorbing an array of sounds, from her childhood singing in her family’s band to her footloose years working across Europe, Cuba and the U.S. Along the way Durandy has collaborated with luminaries such as Jon Faddis, Ricky Ford, Allison Miller, Pedrito Martinez, John Benitez and John Santos.

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.

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.