Noise Pop, SF Parks Alliance and Rickshaw Stop are excited to present a FREE all ages outdoor concert with Sudan Archives at Crane Cove Park on July 27 as part of San Francisco’s newest live music series: SF Live!
Over the next six months, SF Live is creating stages for San Francisco music to shine — all in some of the most iconic outdoor locations like Golden Gate Park’s Bandshell, Union Square, and so much more!
Learn more on the SF Live website!
Sudan Archives
As Sudan Archives, Brittney Parks has combined left-field strains of R&B, hip-hop, and experimental electronic music with hypnotic string loops and the fiddling style of West Africa, as heard on her critically acclaimed album Natural Brown Prom Queen (2022). The self-taught violinist, singer, songwriter, and producer started playing violin in her native Cincinnati, Ohio. After Parks moved to Los Angeles to study music technology, she started producing beats on a tablet computer with the addition of her vocals and strings, the latter increasingly inspired by immersion in Sudanese music. “A swaggering statement of intent with all the idiosyncratic charm that makes her music so memorable” – Pitchfork (Best New Album, 2022)
Kossisko
Kossisko is an innovative musical artist, actor and composer. The gender-fluid artist has appeared in HBO’s wildly successful Euphoria, and portrayed themself in two seasons of Netflix’s Sex/Life. Kossisko’s music had been lauded publications like NYLON, Fader, SPIN, Vulture, VICE and Pitchfork to name a few. With a passion for using their creativity to encourage everyone to live authentically, the Grammy nominated songwriter believes this is the best gift one can give to the planet and themselves
Lalin St. Juste
Lalin St Juste has been a staple in the Bay Area music scene for a decade with her genre-bending band The Seshen. In 2021 Lalin officially launched her solo career with the release of her debut EP entitled ‘behind my eyes’ via 7000COILS, a label and art house she co-founded with Dan X (KKINGBOO) that is committed to elevating the queer voices of the African and Caribbean diaspora through the creation of digital and live portals and sacred play through a wellness lens.
Lalin returns in 2022 with the first of a two-part EP series, the first entitled Vertulie; a powerful homage to her ancestors and Haitian spirituality. Thanks to funding from the Gerbode Foundation, Lalin St Juste collaborated with Women’s Audio Mission, an organization established to support women and nonbinary creatives in the music industry, to record, engineer, mix and master Vertulie.