Saturday, May 18 at 8pm
Quijerema
New Latino-Americana

Tickets $12 general & $10 students/seniors/
Online, Wildberries Marketplace, Wildwood Msuic or 822-1575

Quijeremá's dynamic reinterpretation of Latin American music is showcased in selections from their forthcoming project and CD "Al Son del Tunduki" - a musical journey to unearth and celebrate the importance of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Their music features traditional instruments, vocal poetry and merges jazz, classical and world idioms to create a unique musical experience. Quijeremá performs nationally and internationally, including concerts for the President of Chile and the Venezuelan government, and was a 2009 IDA nominee for best musical soundtrack for their PBS documentary "Archeology of Memory".

Quijerema is a fine-tuned Oakland (SF Bay Area) based performing arts ensemble that is recreating the concept of mixtura in World Music.

Friday, May 24 at 7pm
Saturday, May 25 at 2pm & 7pm
Sweet Can Circus
San Francisco Circus Theater returns!

Tickets $12 general & $10 students & members
Online, Wildberries Marketplace, Redwood Yogurt, Bubbles or 822-1575

Last year's hit is back for the Playhouse Family Series finale!

Sweet Can Circus will bring their show “Yes, Sweet Can” for some captivating circus theater with live music and dance. This dynamic young ensemble has been thrilling audiences in the Bay Area since 2006. The show includes circus skills of aerial silks, acrobatics, slack rope, and hula hoops, propelled by the infectious music of EO, the one-man orchestra. Take a trip through a surreal storm where gravity is challenged, garbage cans dance and magic and wonder come alive. 

Sunday, May 26 at 8pm
Laura Cortese
with Lyndsey Battle & Cory Goldman

Tickets $12 general & $10 students & members
Online, Wildberries Marketplace, Wildwood Music or 822-1575

Welding the propulsive grace of ancient fiddle styles to disarmingly open-hearted original pop songs, Laura Cortese has emerged among the most intriguing and versatile, musicians in the bountiful New England post-folk scene. At home in any number of traditional styles, her highly-visible work as a supporting musician (on fiddle, vocals, and bass) includes appearances with Uncle Earl, Tao Seeger, Band of Horses, and – as part of Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden – Patterson Hood and Michael Franti. The past two years have found Cortese in creative overdrive, balancing sideman duties, solo tours, and recording sessions with an increased devotion to her own music: a kaleidoscopic hybrid that is enriched by roots music undertones and yet remains defiantly contemporary. Laura Cortese tours internationally with her string trio featuring Mariel Vandersteel on fiddle/hardangerfiddle and Valerie Thompson on cello.