Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2024 Free Concert in the Park (CO-LLAB Choir)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

As the founder, director and guiding spirit of Oakland-based CO-LLAB, Cava Menzies has created a powerful vehicle for bringing musicians together for synergistic collaboration. The 20-member contemporary vocal ensemble develops new works by vocalists and singer-songwriters through an exacting process of co-arranging and co-writing. The ensemble also collaborates with professional artists on studio recordings and performances.

CO-LLAB Choir Directed By Cava Menzies
Saturday, May 25, 2024 | 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. & 3rd St., SF
FREE

Following up on its Yerba Buena Gardens Festival debut last year, the choir presents a soul-steeped program with special guests, including rapper/vocalist Rob Woods and soul star PHER, who recently performed at Living Jazz’s Stevie Wonder tribute at the Paramount Theatre.

The concert also features the choir’s house band MeloDious, an Oakland sibling trio featuring keyboardist Micaiah, bassist Matthias, and drummer Memphis Dempsey. Highlighting original compositions created by the singer-songwriters and arrangers within the ensemble, including a new composition commissioned by YBG Festival, the concert represents the next step in a deepening relationship between two organizations that share a common vision.

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.

APRIL 2024 – Pre Festival Events

• Earth Day 2024 – April 20
• Bay Area Dance Week Kickoff – April 27

MAY 2024

• 2024 Official Season Kickoff w/ Pedrito Martinez – May 4
• Balaklava Blues & Kitka: Songs for Ukraine – May 11
• CAAMFest – May 18
• Islands by the Bay Festival – May 19

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.