FREE concert of mesmerizing alt Latin stars Helado Negro and Reyna Tropical in San Francisco, only at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

Opening Set from Camilo y los Cruzers

The son of Ecuadoran immigrants, Roberto Carlos Lange is a producer and singer-songwriter who has created an expansive, intoxicating body of music as Helado Negro. Known for crafting compassionate, atmospheric, and experimental pop music, he joins forces with Reyna Tropical, a decade-long project led by Fabi Reyna, the Mexican-born, Texas-raised activist, and guitarist who also founded She Shreds Magazine - the world's first and only print publication dedicated to women guitarists and bassists. Reyna Tropical expands on their highly personal blend of Afro-Indigenous drum beats, Reyna’s gauzy guitar riffs and environmental samples.

The two artists whose works orbit similar questions around language, identity and music, are finally landing in the same room with the debut of their collaborative album Helado Tropical. Their YBG Festival performance comes at the heels of their album release and promises to be an experience that is ambient and rhythmic, intimate and expansive, unified by movement.

Sharing the double bill is the latest project by prolific multi-instrumentalist Camilo Landau, Camilo y los Cruzers. Designed to create open-ended new musical avenues for Latino and Black musicians, he’s assembled a stellar crew including drummer Darian Gray, keyboardist and synth bassist Jeremiah Haynes, percussionist Javier Navarrette and special guests. Determined to break down cultural silos, Landau brings together musicians from the Black music world and the Latin music world to collaborate “in a way that lets each players' unique voice and artistic vision come through,” he says. “The name invokes cruzando fronteras - crossing borders - and cruising through historic periods when Black and Latin mixed such as the lowrider era of Chicano soul.”

Pre-show music from KALW DJ Wonway Posibul at 1pm.