Chris Trinidad Trio + Conrad Benedicto at Directions In Music Making By Asian American (and Canadian!) Improvisers at Sky Cafe

Sky Cafe, Chris Trinidad Music, Asian Improv aRts, and the API Cultural Center present Directions in Music Making by Asian American (and Canadian!) Improvisers Festival.

Conrad J Benedicto is a teacher, author, and kulintang musician who studied and apprenticed with Master Danongan Kalanduyan from 1997 to 2016. He teaches social studies, environmental education, and kulintang music at Balboa High School in San Francisco. He leads his group Kulintang Dialect and collaborates with Chris Trinidad, Bo Razon, and John Calloway in Kaisahan Afrocubalintang, a project that organically unites the gong music of the Southern Philippines with the folkloric rhythms of Afro-Cuba in a way that respects both traditions....

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Sky Cafe, Chris Trinidad Music, Asian Improv aRts, and the API Cultural Center present Directions in Music Making by Asian American (and Canadian!) Improvisers Festival.

Conrad J Benedicto is a teacher, author, and kulintang musician who studied and apprenticed with Master Danongan Kalanduyan from 1997 to 2016. He teaches social studies, environmental education, and kulintang music at Balboa High School in San Francisco. He leads his group Kulintang Dialect and collaborates with Chris Trinidad, Bo Razon, and John Calloway in Kaisahan Afrocubalintang, a project that organically unites the gong music of the Southern Philippines with the folkloric rhythms of Afro-Cuba in a way that respects both traditions.

Saturday, January 20, 2024
12.00 nn - 2.30 pm

Sky Cafe
223 Grand Ave
South San Francisco, CA
94080

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