Our events celebrate diversity and honor ancient traditions, featuring world-renowned folk music, movement, art, theater, and spoken word artists. These events seek to nurture and support the Bay Area's world folk communities and to facilitate networking, collaboration, friendship, and cross-cultural understanding.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/526779410397
IN THE BAMBOO ROOM
7pm: Soji Sai (Nigerian Afrobeat & Highlife)
Nigeria’s legendary guitar master and singer Adesoji ""Soji"" Odukogbe was, among other things, the lead guitarist for Fela Kuti for five years. Odukogbe draws on an extensive background in Nigerian Afrobeat, highlife, and spiritual music, bringing a unique sensibility to his highlife guitar interpretations.
9pm: Los Alegres Callejeros (Afro-Colombian Cumbia)
Alegre means cheerful, Callejero means street performer. Traditional Colombian style of Cumbia and range to (Peruvian) Chicha, Salsa, and Boleros. Having played at numerous Oakland street fairs, band members have roots from Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and Chile, and draw from long traditions to bring forward a distinct musical experience. Whether upbeat Latin dance music or slow hypnotic minor key vamps, their melodies are infectious and their rhythms are guaranteed to make you move & groove!
IN THE RED ROOM
7pm Nar Ashk (Turkish Music & Whirling Dervish)
Evening of mystic Turkish music and journey into the Whirling Dance of the Sufi. Anna Whirling and Dervish Aziz will offer whirling prayers. Music offering by Gary Haggerty, Nur Yavuz, and Duygu Gun. Mystic Sufi Whirling dance is a practice that uses body movements to open a heart, and experience the Unity of Love in the human body.
8:30pm Mizuho Sato (Flamenco Dance)
Award-winning Flamenco Artist Mizuho Sato was born in Iwate, Japan and started classical ballet at the age of three. She later developed a love for flamenco, the art form from Andalucía, Spain. Focusing on flamenco's intricate and complex rhythms, she will play live percussion, showcase her "taconeo" (footwork) talents, and move with the fluidity of upper body expression using "braceo" (arm movements) and "floreo" (hand movements).
9pm: Arcush (Romani, Balkan, Mediterranean)
Arcush brealks stereotypes. Balkan is not (just) brass. Featuring the voice of Aya Safiya and her violin, the viola and violin of Marco Ghezzo, the cello of Leo Peringer, and percussion of Sean Tergis, Arcush tells histories blown in from the East to the Bay.
IN THE PARLOR
Gourmet Gong-Fu Tea Service
OUT ON THE PATIO
7-9pm: Acoustic Folk Music Jam
Gourmet Gong-Fu Tea Service