The great Óscar d’ León will perform Saturday, August 21, at Roccapulco Super Club, 3140 Mission Street, SF. For info call 415-821-3563.
by the El Reportero’s staff
Filosofía Caribeña is a specially commissioned, cross-disciplinary composing project by The John Santos Sextet, inspired by, and steeped in the great Afro-Caribbean traditions of jazz, resistance, the ancestors, and life from the creole perspective.
In what has become John’s trademark, Filosofía is a fresh twist on timehonored artistic expressions from the heart of the barrio that will illuminate the marvelous, undeniable, and unheralded historical connections between the Black and Latino communities, so often pitted against each other due to lack of information, and direct competition for government services such as housing, education and healthcare.
A wide variety of Cuban and Puerto Rican musical forms, spoken word performance, and improvisation are also at the foundation of Filosofía. As it will be a work-in-progress over the next year and a half, these concerts at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland will be the world premiere of the first compositions of the project.
On Saturday, August 21st, 2010, 8:00 p.m., and on Sunday, August 22nd, at 3:00 p.m. at the Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. between 22nd and 23rd Avenues, Oakland. For info call at (510) 533- 6629. www.eastsideartsalli ance.org Tickets $10.00 at the door. Limited seating – please arrive early.
Flamenco singer and guitarist at LaPeña
A show you don’t want to miss if you love flamenco.
Salvadora Galan is a singer/guitarist born in Olvera, a small town near Ronda in Cadiz, Spain. At the age of nine she moved with her family to Utrera, Seville.
Salvadora grew up in a family where flamenco was a way of life. Her father was a singer, her brother, now retired, was a very well known dancer in Utrera who performed in the Carmen Amaya movie, Los Tarantos. By the age of 13 Salvadora won her first flamenco singing competition in Utrera.
At 17 Salvadora began her professional career as a professional singer traveling all over Spain and Portugal. She later sang in tablaos in Madrid including Las Brujas where she worked with flamenco icons La Fernanda and Bernarda de Utrera. She has also performed throughout Mexico and in the US.
On August 27, 8:00 p.m., at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door, or call at 510-849-2568 ext 20 or at www.lapena.org.
Final weeks to see birth of impressionism at the de Young Museum
Time is running out to see the first magnificent exhibition of paintings on loan from the Musée d’Orsay at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibition Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay closes on Monday, September 6, 2010 (Labor Day). The second exhibition, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, opens to the public on September 25, 2010. Tickets for both exhibitions are timed and dated. The de Young is the nly museum in the world to host both exhibitions.
• Thursdays—Impressionism at Twilight–open until 8:45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m.
• Fridays—Friday Night at the de Young–open until 8: 45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, August 28— open until 8:45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, August 29— open until 8:45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, September 4—open until 8:45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, September 5—open until 8:45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m.
• Monday, September 6 (Labor Day)—open until 8:45 p.m., last ticket at 7:30 p.m. At Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco,, for more call 415.750.3600, or visit www.deyoungmuseum.org
