Everybody dance now! Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and Rhythm & Motion present the 3rd annual YBG Dance Day, transforming the Gardens into an outdoor dance studio where participants can sample a variety of art form’s traditions and styles with some of the Bay Area’s most talented teachers.

Bay Area percussion maestro Michael Spiro, a 10-time Grammy Award nominee, created Spirology as a vehicle to explore the relationship between Afro-Cuban folkloric music and Cuban popular music.

Wednesdays at Noon. Free RSVP encouraged, drop-ins are welcome.

Wednesdays at Noon. Free RSVP encouraged, drop-ins are welcome.

Wednesdays at Noon. Free RSVP encouraged, drop-ins are welcome.

Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the monthly Poetic Tuesdays series runs from May to October, turning lunchtime into an oasis of creative expression.

A joyous celebration of departed ancestors, Bon is a Japanese Buddhist festival that’s been observed for more than five centuries with a traditional folk dance known as Bon-Odori.

The 5th Annual African Arts Festival celebrates the glorious diversity and extraordinary creativity of the continent’s peoples. 

A wind quintet with a powerful mission, Quinteto Latino is a singular Bay Area-based chamber ensemble devoted to breaking down the racial and social barriers that have long plagued the classical music world.

When it comes to Afro-Cuban percussion, Jesús Díaz is Bay Area royalty.

Wednesdays at Noon. Free RSVP encouraged, drop-ins are welcome.

The dynamic San Francisco percussionist Ahkeel Mestayer creates music steeped in The City’s history as a hotbed of musical innovation and political ferment.

A charismatic sonero whose resonant voice evokes the legendary Cuban vocalist Beny Moré, Fito Reinoso is one of the finest practitioners of música cubana in North America.

As the co-artistic director of Duniya Dance and Drum Company, San Francisco choreographer Joti Singh has forged a singularly powerful body of work combining Bhangra with West African rhythms.

After founding Cascada de Flores in San Francisco in 1999, vocalist Arwen Lawrence and guitarist Jorge Liceaga spent several years gathering songs around Mexico, honing a verdant body of rancheras, boleros, sones and guarachas that embody Mexico’s embrace of sounds from Cuba, Puerto Rico and Colombia.

Marcus Shelby is an iconic figure on the Bay Area jazz scene, and over the past 20 years the bassist, composer and bandleader has created extraordinary, historically informed musical settings for some of the Bay Area’s most exciting vocalists.