Mission Music Night with Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP)

Listen, play, connect with neighborhood community, and don't forget to wear your dancing shoes! CMC joins the bimonthly neighborhood favorite Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) for an energetic night of music. CMC’s Cultural Traditions department will present a series of free performances and jam sessions from group class ensembles as part of the MAPP events, featuring our talented faculty and student ensembles—from jazz to Latin to R&B and more.

February features a Jazz Jam Session and Cuban Dance Party!

Saturday, February 7
6:00–9:00pm (jam session signups start at 5:45pm)
CMC Mission District Branch
FREE

Bring your instrument and sign up to play with others in this student-friendly Jazz Jam Session hosted by Charlie Gurke and his Jazz ensembles. Experience the energy of real-time musical conversation in this welcoming jam session is the perfect place to connect, play, and be inspired.

How to participate: Sign up at the door starting at 5:45pm and musicians will be rotating through the jam session. Drums, piano, bass and guitar amps are provided. Below is a list of tunes that are likely to be called at the jam session. Memorization is encouraged, but bring charts if you need them. If you have a tune you'd like to call please talk with the Jam Facilitator! All instruments welcome. House band will kick things off.

Possible Tunes:
All The Things You Are
On Green Dolphin St.
Song for my Father
What Is This Thing Called Love
Autumn LeavesStraight No Chaser
Tenor Madness
Birks Works
Pent Up House

Advanced RSVPS are appreciated to help us plan but do not guarantee your spot in the jam. Be sure to sign in at the door!

Featruing a salsa dance lesson and live music by CMC Cuban Charanga Ensembles led by Tregar Otton—everything from Cuban Danzón and Boleros and Cha Cha Cha to Timba, across the spectrum of Cuban dance music from the 1940s through today. We'll have beverages for sale and an open dance floor!

We’re thrilled to welcome Jeanne-Marie Hughes, City College of SF Dance Department Faculty with dance partner Alex Hosmer, who will lead 2 short salsa dance lessons so you can dance the night away!

• 7:00–7:30pm: Salsa dance lesson with Jeanne & Alex
• 7:45–9pm: CMC Cuban Charanga Ensembles

MAPP is a lively, old-school Mission-wide party, well-attended by folks from the neighborhood and afar with bimonthly events all over the Mission for over 15 years. MAPP is dedicated to cultivating, building and defending the culture, history, character and community in the Mission District—transforming public spaces, non-profits, street corners, BART stations, cafes, bars, taquerias, garages and homes, into venues with free live music, spoken word, performance art, film screenings, delicious food, and a wide range of unique happenings.

Be sure to check out additional CMC-MAPP performance events throughout the year!

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