The Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to support the return of Concerts at the Cadillac, a free concert series open to the public that, since 2007, has provided high-quality music for the residents of the Cadillac Hotel and San Francisco's Tenderloin District. The covid-19 pandemic may have paused the monthly performances in 2020, but this summer, the Cadillac Hotel breaks the series’ hiatus with shows programmed as part of the Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin series that animates the neighborhood’s undersung cultural history through live music. The Dave Casini Latin Jazz Quartet performs on Friday August 19th.

About the Dave Casini Latin Jazz Quartet: Dave Casini has been playing jazz in the Bay Area for 50 years. He released two albums of his compositions in 2019, is on CDs with Tribu, Octobop, as well as 9 videos at the Cadillac Hotel. While the pandemic has limited gigging, Dave is the vibist with Primavera Latin Jazz, Joel Dorham’s Latin Jazz Octet, Orion’s Joy of Jazz and drummer with the Bob Roden Quintet. Dave has played multiple performances at the SF Jazz Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s and the Fillmore. Check out this video of Casini performing with Primavera Latin Jazz at the Cadillac Hotel in 2019:

About the Concerts at the Cadillac: For 15 years, the Cadillac Hotel has hosted monthly Friday afternoon live music in its spacious lobby, which hints at the grandeur of the historic building when it was constructed in 1907 and now features the Patricia Walkup Memorial Piano, a meticulously restored 1884 Steinway Model D concert grand piano. Focused on jazz, Latin, and classical, the Concerts at the Cadillac’s programming features local, working musicians steeped in an instrumental or vocal practice, brings live music into the home of Tenderloin residents, and is “dedicated to the power of great music to uplift and inspire.” Many of the performances have been documented with high quality audio and video, creating a vast archive of full length concert videos that reveals the hotel’s dedication to its live music program and traces a loose network of the city’s most talented musicians and ensembles, many of whom have returned to perform for the series multiple times. The Tenderloin Museum and the Cadillac Hotel honor the community and longevity of the series in booking artists for the series’ return from its pandemic break and for the Sounds of the Tenderloin; each of the featured musical acts have performed at the Cadillac several times over the years!

FREE

Open to the public | Mask wearing required