Festival of the Mandolins

Join us for the 12th annual San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins.  Five diverse mandolin ensembles perform.  Tim Connell of Rio Con Brio will perform Brazilian choro style; ragtime by the Ragtime Skedaddlers; Phil Lawrence Band plays jazz with David and Linda LaFlamme from It's a Beautiful Day; Billy Packard  plays Italian and Mexican music, carrying on the tradition of Tony Flores; Aurora Mandolin Orchestra plays classical and popular works for the big orchestra. There will be a special preview of the film about the Ger Mandolin Orchestra Project about the recent re-creation of a pre-war II mandolin orchestra in Poland and Berkeley. Ethnic Bulgarian food and drink by Hristo Kolev.