Flower Piano
Sunset Piano and Gardens of Golden Gate Park Present
Flower Piano®
September 13-22, 2024
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park
We are very excited to announce that Flower Piano is set to return to the Botanical Garden this September for 10 days—September 13-22, with a special opening night event on September 12—doubling the duration from last year and spanning two weekends!
In the final days of summer and for the ninth time since 2015, Flower Piano will once again transform San Francisco Botanical Garden into the city’s own alfresco concert hall where everyone is invited to play and listen.
Back again this year during Flower Piano is the Flower Piano Lounge. The Celebration Garden in the Botanical Garden will be transformed into an intimate experience where guests will enjoy special concerts, access to full-service bars offering beverages and food for sale, comfortable lounge seating, expedited entry to Flower Piano 2024, and more. Featured Lounge performances will include Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Martin Luther McCoy & the Robin Hodge Williams Gospel Choir, Sixth Station Trio, Sumi Lee Tango Collective, and more!
The Flower Piano Lounge will host this year’s Special Opening Night Event on September 12, featuring Orquesta La Moderna Tradición bursting with their sweet yet powerful sound of the Afro-Cuban charanga orchestra, featuring violins and woodwinds interlocking with driving afro-Cuban rhythms
If you or your company would like to support this beloved community event and enjoy wonderful promotional and hospitality benefits please review sponsor levels and complete the sponsorship form or be in touch with Director of Advancement Brendan Lange at blange@gggp.org or 415-661-1316 x 416 to discuss further.
Flower Piano Program
Join us in the beautiful Celebration Garden for Opening Night. Special tickets are required.
Daydreamy classics from the last 300 years.
Family-friendly concert for all ages and abilities.
Original Cello/Piano Music with Voice.
Sound Check: Gardens of Golden Gate Park
Asiatic World Music – violin and piano
Mozart & Bonis Piano Quartets: Dramatic, Elegant, Sublime.
Sound Check: Gardens of Golden Gate Park
Featuring pianist Britton Day and members of SFB Orchestra.
Eclectic soul jazz and bebop.
A Journey through The Sondheim Songbook.
Classical Piano inspired by the outdoors.
Original compositions crossing borders and genres.
Standards, substandards, originals, aboriginals, and Beatles songs.
World Music and Sun Ra Music.
Argentine Tango Music.
Mind Blowing Opera Arias and Art Songs!
Enchanted melodies and improvised fantasies.
Melancholy Moods to Soothe the Savage Skeptic.
Depth of contrasting beauty at the piano.
Caccamo’s Cosmic Cornucopia of Cacophony.
Baroque & Beyond with period string instruments
Solo & Ensemble Performances by Faculty and Students
Swing, Blues, and New Orleans Music!
Cahill/Myers Duo performs captivating new works.
Sixth Station Trio plays Studio Ghibli
Timeless music from classical and contemporary composers
Soulful Latin Salsa Music – You Will Dance
Jazz Standards for Two Horns and Piano.
Sensual. Passionate. Playful. Deliberate. Beautiful. Compelling. Inviting.
Knuckleodious Inspirations of a Grizzled Saloon Tickler.
Latin influenced Jazz and Beyond.
Sparkling mix of jazz, Brazilian & original music.
A Sensational Classical Piano Duo.
Romantic, Impressionist and Jazz Reflections.
Mezzo soprano sings classical and folk songs.
Four-hand piano works by Bach, Poulenc, others.
SF Symphony Musicians Perform Chamber Music Selections.
Entangled Synchronicity Surfing a Global Musical Flux.
Opera, Art Songs, and Their Irreverent Stories
An Eclectic Jazz Latin Funk Fusion Project.
Musica Cubana.
Authentic Parisian Chanteuse Sings Jazz and Cabaret.
Intersection of Jazz Alley and Raga Boulevard.
Avante Garden Poetry and Music.
Irina Omelchenko.
Hard Bop, Latin Jazz, Salsa and Swing.
Classical, Solo Piano.
A Tribute to John Cage.
Music for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano.
Highlighting women composers from the world.
Original Funky Latin Jazz with a Spark!
Beethoven’s Late Piano Sonatas: Poetry Without Words.
Avante Garden Poetry and Music.
Grammy-nominee, multi-instrumentalist, and shakuhachi virtuoso in synergy
Classical & Contemporary Favorites for Piano Plus One.
Tangos and More.
Poetic & passionate vocal Jazz with effortless delivery.
Classical/Jazz Fusion.
Sonic Adventures: Contemporary & Prepared Piano Comprovisations.
The Rabbit Hole Children’s theater will perform a whimsical puppet show!
From Scarlatti to Grieg Schumann and Gribble!
Songs about the piano.
A nautical themed odyssey through a variety of classical music.
Original and spontaneous compositions and improvisations.
Avante Garden Poetry and Music.
From Mozart to Puccini.
Jazz from some of the Bay Area’s strongest top young musicians
Elegant noir, transportive, mystical sonic spells.
“Oddival” A Puppet Pageant, with Piano Accompaniment.
CARNIVAL of the ANIMALS by Saint-Saens, + Bolcom, Glass With Puppets by Niki Ulehla
All Ravel – Prism of Sentimental French.
Tango: A Music of Love & Passion
Prepared Piano, Sakamoto, New Music by Gribble.
Martuni’s Piano Bar – Standards, Showtunes, Pop.
“Oddival” A Puppet Pageant, with Piano Accompaniment
Rock and Pop Renovations, Remodeling, and Demolition.
Unexpected Covers, Cabaret Originals, Nostalgic Flapper Rock
CARNIVAL of the ANIMALS by Saint-Saens, + Bolcom, Glass With Puppets by Niki Ulehla
Music from the Classical Book and Beyond!
Chamber Music of Various Styles!
Flower Piano Fashion Show… Wear Your Finest!
An Aging Enfant Terrible of Song.
Re-imagining the Classics of the Piano.
Uplifting Soulful Music with Rhythm and Blues
Select Pieces From the Western Classical Tradition
New Music for two pianos by Benjamin Gribble
King Sized Jumpin’ and Swingin’ Sounds
Spanish music for piano for four hands.
Swingin’ Tunes & Sultry Songs
Seasonal Romance in The Jazzy Love Gardens
Crystalline melodic discoveries, interrupted by improvisational flights.
Ecstatic interpretations from the American/Caribbean Songbook.
Boogie Woogie Piano: Blended and Bunkum-Free.
Original works and classic excerpts
Dynamic award-winning trio with inventive programming
Original Tunes + Songs from Mexico and Beyond.
Singing Circle – All Voices Welcome!
Epic Piano Adventures
Hip-Hop Rooted Jazz & Classical Pianist.
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