CMC Presents! features outstanding music and educational events such as “Concerts with Conversation” with internationally acclaimed artists (in partnership with SF Performances), concerts by our award-winning faculty, master classes, clinics, and special CMC productions such as our annual Performathon, “Field Day at CMC.”
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
The Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet is one of the most multifaceted groups in any genre. The LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musicians bringing a new energy to the concert stage with programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. They consistently play to sold-out houses worldwide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground.
RSVP online here. Seating is first come, first served. RSVP does not guarantee seating. There will be space for walk-up patrons without tickets.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
Christmas in the Mission
with Community Music Center Choirs
Enjoy a Christmas concert of festive choral music from Latin America and Spain in the beautiful historic Mission Dolores Basilica featuring performances by CMC’s Coro de Cámara, and CMC Solera Singers of Mission Neighborhood Center and Coro CMC del Centro Latino de San Francisco Older Adult Choirs. The concert includes chamber songs from the Spanish and Mexican Baroque, 20th century choral music, and traditional Christmas songs from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Colombia.
Afro-Latin Dance Party with Two Generations
CMC’s Mission District Young Musicians Program and Cuban Charanga Ensemble
Two generations of CMC ensemble musicians play smokin’ dance music from the Americas in a special December MAPP event!
MDYMP will play music from throughout the Americas including cumbia, música norteña, son, danzón, and cha-cha-chá. CMC’s Cuban Charanga Ensemble will be play a swinging set of Cuban dance music, from danzón to timba.
The evening includes dance lessons and live music
6:30 dance class
7:00 MDYMP Latin youth group
8:15 – 9:30 SFCMC Cuban Charanga Ensemble
Mission District Young Musicians Program is a group of 25 middle and high school youth from the Mission District that plays music from Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Peru, as well as Latin jazz. The Mission District Young Musicians Program is a CMC tuition free program for low-income Mission District youth, in which students receive a half-hour private lesson, gather for weekly classes at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and interact with master guest artists.
Cuban Charanga Ensemble meets on Wednesdays at CMC and plays cha-cha-chá, danzón, guaracha, bolero, son, salsa and other Afro-Cuban dance music in an ensemble setting. Charanga ensembles are known for playing Cuban music with European instruments such as violin and flute in addition to bass, piano, and Afro-Cuban percussion.
MAPP is a familia, a community and a series of arts, music and activist events that has been taking place in the Mission for over 14 years. MAPP is always the first Saturday of the month every two months. MAPP is always free. MAPP will be encompasses over 14 venues as well as public spaces, street corners, BART stations, cafes, bars, taquerias, homes all over La Mission. The event features taking common spaces and for one orchestrated beautifully chaotic evening, transforming them into whatever we want: including free live music, spoken word, performance art, film screenings, BBQ’s, garage sales, unorthodox conversations and happenings. MAPP is dedicated to cultivating, building and defending the culture, history, character and community in the Mission District.
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Family. Music. Fun!
You’re invited to a free community music day for toddlers, kids, teens, and adults.
Community Music Center welcomes the public to our Mission District Branch to try out an instrument or a class for free at CMC Sundays! Bring your instrument, your voice, your family, and friends! It’s free!
Highlights include Music for Children, private lessons and class demos, jam sessions, workshops, and more. Don’t miss the crowd-pleasing favorite: Instrument Petting Zoo!
RSVP for this free event online here.
SCHEDULE
Schedule coming soon!
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
Praised for his rich tone and powerfully thrilling voice, bass-baritone Dashon Burton has proven himself to be a voice to be reckoned with, winning international competitions and performing with opera companies and orchestras across the country and in Europe. His talents make him equally at home performing Bach and Mozart to Stockhausen, as well as touring with the Grammy Award-winning contemporary vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. Burton’s repertoire includes classical and sacred music as well as programming with deeper political meaning.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
Cuban pianist and composer Alfredo Rodríguez has become a globally recognized Grammy nominee with multiple critically acclaimed releases on Mack Avenue Records since being discovered and produced by the great Quincy Jones. Rodríguez is leading the way for the new wave of Cuban musicians, including past collaborators Ibeyi and Pedrito Martinez, and exposing the rich musical history of Cuba to a wider audience.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
The free Concert with Conversation series features world-class musicians performing in the CMC concert hall. Each short concert is followed by a Q & A session, where the audience can learn about the lives, hard-work, and inspiration of these artists.
Described by the Boston Globe as “one of the world’s most remarkable singers,” American tenor Nicholas Phan is increasingly recognized as an artist of distinction. Praised for his keen intelligence, captivating stage presence and natural musicianship, he performs regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies.
Over the last decade, Gabriel Kahane has quietly established himself as a songwriter all his own, grafting a deep interest in storytelling to a keen sense of harmony and rhythm. His major label debut, The Ambassador, a study of Los Angeles seen through the lens of ten street addresses, was hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the year’s very best albums”.
CMC thanks San Francisco Performances for making these concerts free for our community.
