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Spend a Saturday with KQED, the Bay Area’s beloved public media station, for a free and festive block party and open house at our headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Highlights include:
KQED, NPR and PBS programs live on stage.
Crafts, games and resources from neighborhood vendors and cultural organizations.
Fireside chats with KQED reporters and personalities.
Behind-the-scenes looks at the KQED newsroom operations.
Community media-making workshops and studio recording sessions.
Interactive all-ages art, science and learning activities.
Bites from food trucks and carts featured in KQED Food.
Local live music presented by Noise Pop’s Homegrown Stage.
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Christelle Durandy Biography
Christelle Durandy fuses Afro-Caribbean, jazz and other polyrhythmic sounds in a provocative exploration of the African diaspora’s diffuse and powerful musical energy - a multicultural complexity Christelle herself embodies, having been raised in France by a mother from Reunion Island and a father from Guadeloupe. Backed by her band Sanktet (a play on the French “cinq têtes,” or “five heads”), Christelle draws upon her polyglot background to celebrate and expand the diaspora’s vibrant musical conversation, ranging joyfully amongst - and fearlessly blending - such varied forms as Cuban mambo, Guadeloupe’s Gwo Ka, traditional jazz and myriad others.
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Jazz
Jazz Fusion
Afro-caribbean Jazz
Afro-cuban Jazz
French Antilles
Salsa
Afro-cuban
Latin
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