SF Live with Boom Boom Room @ The Golden Gate Bandshell
IT’S THE LAST SHOW OF SF LIVE’S 2024 SEASON!
Schedule
1:00 pm – Doors & DJ
2:00 pm – Los Calderones
3:45 pm – Afrolicious
Meet the Artists:
Afrolicious
The Afrolicious sound is eclectic, electric, and funky. It relentlessly grabs hold of the audience and pulls them onto the dance floor. Mixing African, Latin, and percussive rhythms with electronic breaks, club beats, and heavy bass drops, an Afrolicious show is a non-stop dancing frenzy. Whether touring as DJs, a sound system with live percussion or as a full 6 piece band, Afrolicious has established a legendary reputation across the U.S. from their home in San Francisco, CA. With recordings on ESL Music produced by Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza, their sound is known among industry tastemakers and fans around the globe. Afrolicious has performed at storied venues and festivals such as Red Rocks, High Sierra Music Festival, Bottle Rock Napa, The Fillmore San Francisco, Stern Grove Music Festival, Electric Forest Festival, Guitarfish Music Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, SXSW, Wakarusa, Burning Man, Redwood Mountain Faire, Firefly Gathering, Mountain Sol Music Festival, Hangtown Music Festival, and For the Funk of It, among many, many others.
Los Calderones
Obrayan Calderon was born and raised in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba. At the age of six Obrayan’s father gifted him his first instrument, a trumpet. He quickly discovered his natural talent in music after receiving a lesson from his father’s friend, a local trumpet player.
Obrayan initiated his study of European classical music in piano, vocal, and trombone at the EVA Juan Pablo Duarte in Güira de Melena, Cuba. He further advanced his training as a musician specializing in the trombone at The National School of Arts (ENA) in Habana. An institution of excellence, leading in Cuba’s art educatio nproducing widely recognized musicians such as Arturo Sandoval, Alexander Abreu, Yosvany Terry and many others.
After graduating, Obrayan recorded extensively and toured internationally with major Cuban musicians like songwriter Adalberto Alvarez y su Son, Juan Carlos Alfonzo y su Dan Den, Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco, Tania Pantoja, Mariana y la Maquinaria, and Jorgito Melodía. Later, he moved to the U.S. and settled in California joining the Bay Area’s music scene, taught Afro-Cuban music at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music and toured with Dirtwire, Chucho Valdés, Changüí Majadero, Afrolicious, and Edgardo Cambon. In 2020, he formed his own Latin band now known as Los Calderones. Following that year, he recorded his first single, ¡Dale Mambo!. In 2023, his single Veneno was recorded and became available on music streaming platforms.
