Welcome to La Peña! Promoting social justice & intercultural understanding through the arts since 1975.
FREE - Donations of any size are welcome and greatly appreciated! Enjoy a lively evening of son jarocho music, dancing, and zapateado– bring your dance shoes and instruments, or just come and enjoy the music and dance! There is no entrance fee, but any monetary donations are accepted in support of programming at La Peña. Son […]
$10 Advance / $15 at the Door Oakland-based The Source Trio uses Afro-Latin rhythm, spoken word in English and Spanish, funk, hip-hop, soul and jazz to lift and unite the culturally diverse Oakland and greater Bay Area working class community. Featuring veteran artist/activists John Santos (percussionist), Rico Pabon (lyricisist/MC) and Melecio Magdaluyo (saxophonist/flautist). More information about The Source Trio musicians: JOHN […]
Free / Donations Accepted All donations collected go to support La Peña to continue its mission of social justice and intercultural understanding through the arts! Do you ever wish you could watch one of your own ideas come magically to life on stage right before your eyes? Did you ever think you could be the […]
Door Cover: $10 general / $5 for students with ID CASH ONLY! Benefit concert for victims of recent Chilean Wildfires. Live Music ~ Art ~ DJs ~ Rifas ~ Pisco Bar Door cover: $10 GA / $5 Students with ID (18+)Come enjoy LIVE MUSIC by La Sonora de Berkeley, playing cumbia, salsa & mambo! Latin American […]
$30- $50 Ticket includes access to after-party for Festival closing night, featuring Spanish beers and wines! Special Festival closing night show! Representing the Morao guitar-playing dynasty, Moraíto's nephew Pepe del Morao is joined by two other Gypsy artists from Jerez de la Frontera singer Manuel Tañé and percussionist Luis de la Tota plus guest dancer Lakshmi […]
DOOR COVER: $5 (Cash Only) Attention Salsa Dancers (beginners encouraged)! Orquesta La Peña brings the raw power of salsa to La Peña’s stage the last Monday of every month in 2017! This evening of LIVE SALSA MUSIC goes on from 9pm-11pm! The band will perform songs from your favorite salsa artists including Eddie Palmieri, […]
