LET'S DANCE ❀ VAMOS A BAILAR ❀ SUNDAY JULY 21 ❀
LET'S DANCE ❀ VAMOS A BAILAR ❀ SUNDAY JULY 21 ❀
The Music
12pm-1pm
PETATE
Petate is an Oakland band with the aim of uniting the passion and love for music.
It is comprised of professional musicians from different parts of the Mexican Republic who have collaborated with groups from Mexico and the United States.
Petate is a different band with a unique style: Indie, Latin, Fusion and new sounds.
They stick to established rhythms but integrates a different touch into each melody.
1:30pm-2:30pm
RADIO CAFÉ
Radio Café, the Bay Area's premier cajón, electric guitar, and tuba trio, plays an unusual blend of traditional Afro-Peruvian rhythms and song forms mixed with a New-Orleans-style tuba on the low end and a twangy electric guitar.
Master percussionist Pierr Padilla, who grew up in a family of Afro-Peruvian musicians, brings his deep landó, festejo, and zamacueca grooves along with traditional Afro-Peruvian poetry and dance, while Luke Kirley adds brass bounce on the bottom with tuba and sousaphone basslines. The quixotic electric guitar of Camilo Landau explores the intersections of the Americas in this one-of-a-kind trio based in diverse traditions but always searching for common musical ground.
3pm-4pm
SANG MATIZ
Afro-Latin tropical spice best describes this band. Sang Matiz has garnered a reputation for enlivening audiences with their insatiable World and Afro-Latin beats which fuse Tropical elements and touches of Funk.
With musical finesse, they’ve perfected a unique combination of styles that weaves catchy, syncopated melodies with flamenco-infused guitar licks. Sang Matiz takes you on a journey of cultural expression with a spicy blend of rhythms full of passion, energy, and wild creativity.
4:30pm-6pm
VIBRASÓN
VibraSÓN, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, brings the hip sounds of the Latin vibraphone music and artists such as Joe Cuba, Jimmy Sabater, Cal Tjader and many more to contemporary audiences.
Populated with top Bay Area based musicians, VibraSÓN plays tight Latin and Salsa music with swing.
The Performers
Festival Emcee
PER SIA
With a pedigree from weekly performances at the late, iconic Esta Noche, her trajectory has gone on to include art curation, stand-up, television, and maybe a quinceañera or two, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and México.
Currently she is a regular performer in the nationally acclaimed "Drag Story Hour" as well as an educator in residence at an after school arts program in the San Francisco Unified School District profiled on KQED Arts, National Public Radio and CNN.
Short Dance Sets & Free Dance Classes
IN LAK'ECH DANCE ACADEMY
This organization offers many opportunities to explore Afro-Latin dance, within an affirming and inclusive community.
Whether you take an entire dance series, drop in to one of our pop-up classes, or spend one-on-one time in a private session, you are guaranteed to gain a clear understanding of the fundamentals needed on your journey to Latin dancing.
1:15pm-1:45pm
GRUPO FOLKLORICO TLAPALLI
Grupo Folklorico Tlapalli is a Mexican folk dance group. The group is dedicated to teaching Mexican dance and culture. It is also great exercise.
The group is actually made up of two groups, one that practices out of the Sun Gallery in Hayward and the other that practices out of a middle school in Livermore. The dancers come in all shapes, sizes, cultures, and ages.
It is also a family affair. Jose, the main instructor, has enlisted his parents, sister, aunts, uncles, wife and children to help with the practices and performances. The parents of his younger dancers are asked to help.
2:45pm-3pm
BATALÁ SAN FRANCISCO
Batalá San Francisco is a community band that plays samba reggae, an Afro-Brazilian genre of music developed in Bahia, Brazil. Founded in 2012, Batalá San Francisco is the Bay Area contingent of the international drumming organization Batalá Mundo, founded by Giba Concalves in 1997.