Mamboleo

Mamboleo

Mamboleo mix the fire of traditional Cuban rhythms with the adventure of modern jazz, and the sound is all their own. Based in San Francisco, they play regularly with the Mission Arts Performance Project, have performed at Bird & Beckett and Brick & Mortar, and have shared the stage with artists such as La Doña. Their set moves through Cuban standards, jazz classics and their own original music. It's music handed down and made new by a new generation.

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A Word About the Venue
The Red Poppy Art House is a room on a corner in the Mission District of San Francisco, nestled between a myriad of communities. It is a place for slowness and the nuanced intermingling of ideas and activities generally termed “art.” In this little room, we present a vigorous performance program spanning multiple disciplines and embracing both traditional and contemporary forms. We also host artist residencies, a socially engaged professional development track, and assist in curating space for the neighborhood-wide bimonthly MAPP happening (Mission Arts & Performance Project). Behind the scenes, we relish in the role of matchmaker, seeding new relationships wherever we can, among friends and strangers, artists, community members, people without communities, people from near and far, and just about anyone who comes through the door. Our desire is to serve as a space of multiplicity, not defined by a singular culture or aesthetic, but as a well-spring of socially engaged art and discourse that invites growth and transformation. If we had to name our dominant aesthetic, we would call it… “slow.”