Yerba Buena Gardens Festival “Cabanijazz Project” (SF)

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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023 (May 6 – Oct. 28)

The 2023 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 6 at 1:00pm with John Santos Sextet + The Afro-Peruvian Coalition.

Now in its 23rd year, the Festival will run each and every week and weekend until October 28 and is located between Mission and Howard Streets and Third and Fourth Streets in downtown San Francisco.  

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023

May 6 – October 28, 2023
Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission btwn Third and Fourth, SoMa, SF
FREE

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Thursday, August 19, 2021
SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2023 (May 6 – Oct. 28)

This program is part of Yerba Buena Day on August 19 – a day full of music, art and poetry programs throughout the Yerba Buena neighborhood. All free and outdoors!

The dynamic Mexican-born conga player Javier Cabanillas has come a long way since he started performing in pop-up flea markets in the streets of Tijuana. In 2013, the Bay Area resident walked the red carpet in Los Angeles and took home a Grammy Award for his work with Oakland-based Pacific Mambo Orchestra. After that triumphant experience in LA, he decided to concentrate on composing and arranging for his Cabanijazz Project – a blazing eight-piece band featuring virtuoso instrumentalists and singers, including many of the region’s top Latin music artists. Cabanillas has released three acclaimed albums in recent years with 2018’s Infrasonic, 2019’s Retrosonic, and 2020’s Hellasonic. And he’s got lots of music in the works, with new pieces he’ll be premiering at the Gardens.

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