San Francisco International Arts Festival present

DIRECT FROM CUBA:

Los Muñequitos de Matanzas in Tambor de Fuego

Their first SF Show in 19 Years

Mon. April 4, 2011, 7 pm

Mission High School Auditorium

18th Street near Dolores in San Francisco

Tickets range from $15 to $50

For ticket information, please call 800-838-3006

For event Info: 415-399-9554 or visit www.sfiaf.org

Los Muñequitos de Matanzas are amongst the highest regarded percussionists in the world and masters of Afro-Cuban ritual and rumba music and dance. Founded in 1952, the group currently spans three generations of an extended family of musicians, singers and dancers. The music of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas keeps alive 500 years of drumming, chanting and dance, preserving the vibrant culture of the African Diaspora intrinsic to Cuba's living legacy. While sustaining these cultural traditions, the group's choreography and new musical compositions continue to innovate from the African roots of Cuban culture. In one evening's concert, Los Muñequitos may play the rhythms and drumming of the Santeria religion which originated with the Yoruba tribe; the songs of the Abakuá, a secret fraternal organization originally from Nigeria; and contemporary Cuban rumba in its varied and ever evolving forms. Tickets range from $15 to $50. For ticket information, please call 800-838-3006. For event Info: 415-399-9554 or visit www.sfiaf.org. Co-sponsored by KPFA.