[free] Orquesta La Moderna Tradición @ Yerba Buena // SF
#SalsaNights are back and we can’t wait to dance!
Get ready to groove with the captivating sounds of Orquesta La Moderna Tradición, a charanga orchestra featuring strings, woodwinds and percussion! 💃🌴
Free. Outdoors. Fresh. | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
Thursday, August 1st from 6pm – 7:30pm.
Location: East Garden of Yerba Buena Gardens
Third Street between Mission & Howard Streets, SF.
Admission: Free.
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Biography:
Founded in 1996 as the West Coast’s first ensemble devoted to danzón, an insuperably elegant and foundational 19th century style of Afro-Cuban music and dance, Orquesta La Moderna Tradición is a charanga orchestra with strings, woodwinds and percussion.
Delivering driving and gracefully interlocking Afro-Cuban rhythms, the 12-piece group is led by veteran violinist Tregar Otton and legendary percussionist Michael Spiro, a 10-time Grammy nominee who’s also the first and only American ever nominated for a Cubadisco award (the Cuban “Grammys”) in the traditional Afro-Cuban category.
While rooted in the dance music that coalesced in the final years of Spain’s dominion over Cuba, the band is also fluent in soaring boleros and surging cha-cha-chás redolent of pre-revolutionary Havana.
