Music Day: Cannes en musique themed party, June 20

Cannes en Musique – A Fête de la Musique Celebration

📅 Friday, June 20 2025, 6pm

📍 Alliance Française San Francisco Celebrate Fête de la Musique in true French style with a glamorous twist! This year’s theme is "Cannes en Musique" – think red carpet vibes, movie star glamour, and French Riviera chic.  🎤 Live Music •  🍷 French Bites on purchase • Nice cocktails on purchase.

Get ready for a night of glamour, rhythm, and sparkle — because this year, we're rolling out the red carpet!

7 live bands will light up our 2 stages from 6 PM to midnight, bringing you a non-stop celebration of sound.
Indulge in a delicious buffet of French & Francophone flavors, perfectly paired with elegant cocktails and drinks.

Dress to impress — think strass et paillettes — and let’s party like we’re on the Croisette! Let the music play, and the night shine!

👉 RSVP Now and let the rhythm of France sweep you off your feet!

ABOUT OUR BANDS:

Violette Vieux
Violetta is a passionate singer who brings the classic sounds of 1970s through 1990s French music to life. With a warm and emotional voice, she puts a fresh spin on the beloved songs of famous French artists. Her shows are more than just music — they take the audience on a journey through a golden era of French culture.Violetta is a popular performer at French festivals, cozy gatherings, and community events around the Bay Area. Whether she’s singing the poetic tunes of Francis Cabrel or the romantic songs of Dalida, her performances are full of heart, charm, and true French spirit.

French American Quartet
They play hot club style jazz (music of Django Reinhardt and jazz standards). They have been playing together for several years and played at different venues in the city, including the Revolution Art Café and Mr Tipples.
Fabrice Urrizalqui- drums
Ian Scherer- guitar
Emily Froberg- guitar
Rob Yung- double bass

Bree Doan
Breeanna Doan is a singer songwriter mixing soul, blues, and rock to create relatable storytelling about love and loss, standing in your power, overcoming obstacles, finding balance, and using music as a force for healing us through life’s journey. She is based in Oakland, CA and is also a world traveler continuing to connect with the international community in the bay area. She believes words, language, and voice are powerful tools in expression, connection, and advocacy. She has also been a writer, language teacher, and supporter of bilingual and multicultural education programs throughout her career. 
Connect with Breeanna on IG @breestar29

Marcel
Marcel is a Chilean Latin singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist recognized for his emotionally resonant music and diverse influences. His work blends genres such as cumbia, reggae, flamenco, salsa, boleros, heavy metal, classic rock, romantic ballads, and sound healing. Marcel's music connects with listeners across different cultures.

The Mina Project
The band represents the music of Italian singer Mina Mazzini in her tradition, in particular, paying tribute to her songs of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Mina is considered the most successful proponent of the canzone italiana through Italian mainstream pop music. Mina’s work combines classic Italian pop with elements of Jazz, Blues, Swing, R&B and Soul. Her work spans 5 decades, and, having sold over 150 million records worldwide, she is the most prolific and versatile pop singer in Italian music to this day, Ask any Italian citizen... they all know MINA!
THE MINA PROJECT consists of: Anne-Marie Russo on vocals as Mina (Anne-Marie lived in Italy for a decade)
Ron Borelli on piano and/or accordion Larry Levy on guitar Josh Schultheiss on drums
The band is performing at Festivals and engagements through-out the San Francisco Bay Area.

Rue 66
Rue '66 is a modern day yé yé band from San Francisco, California. The genre known as yé yé refers to French pop music made in the 1960's. Rue '66 covers this kind of material while offering of few songs of their own. It's groovy blend of '60s harmonies, go-go boots, and surf guitar that gets everyone on the dance floor.

Children of Lucy
Afro/Asian/Latin rock-jazz dance band
Children of Lucy, comprised of drums, bass, guitar, percussion, alto sax and trombone,  play beautiful and original dance music from around the world, including a Cumbia from Colombia, a Wassalou piece from Mali, an Afro-Beat tune from Senegal, a polymetric dance from the Congo, a Hindu dance from Southern India, and some jazz and rockNroll.  All compositions are written or arranged by DrClock. 

*Drummer A C Lewis, AKA DrClock, has been a musician, composer, freelancer, teacher, and student of music for 56 years now. Starting as a Trombonist, he switched to Congas in High School, started drumset in College, and classical percussion at the S F Conservatory of Music, where he earned a Bachelors degree, He also has a Masters from the Juilliard school, a Post Grad diploma from the Mannes College of Music, a teaching certificate from the Lewis-Clark State University in Idaho, 2 Masters in Conducting from the Universidad Juan Corpas in Bogota Colombia and SF State U. He has performed worldwide with ensembles including the Mexico City Phil, the Orquesta Nacional de Colombia, the New Zealand Symphony, and 20 years with the San Francisco Symphony. Luminaries with whom he has had the pleasure to perform include Ritchie Havens, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Zappa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Steve Reich, YoYo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Joan Jett, Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez, Jeffery Kahane, and Kent Nagano, among other. He’s shared the stage with Moby Grape and members of the Grateful Dead, and studied Composition with John Adams at the SF Conservatory. He “made it there” in N Y, as freelancer on Broadway and countless ensembles, but is happily settled now in our fair Bay Area. As bandleader he toured Colombia with the A C Lewis Trio, in 2005 created and is still occasionally performing with the poymetric octet Deep Hip Pocket, and is now steering Children of Lucy. 

*Guitarist David El covers a lot of ground. As vocalist, he’s an adept rapper and a sensitive crooner, as a guitarist he rips rocking solos with articulate jazzy harmonic sophistication, displaying a familiar yet renewed sound that blends elements of jazz and blues tonality into a latin rock, hip hop vibe. David Has been making waves in the Bay Area Music scene both as a side man and with his David El 3-oh! trio. 

*Alto Saxophonist Eric Scheide is also a band leader and composer. He studied saxophone performance at San Francisco State University, and has performed with Einsteinium Quartet, SF Civic Symphony, City Swing Big Band, Gina Maadrid, Detour, SF L/G Freedom Band, Ray of Light Theater, Jazz Beaus, What's Cookin' Quintet, David Mcfarland Project, The Soul Miners, Left Coast Project and many others, including performing with and recording DrClock’s previous band Deep Hip Pocket.

*Trombonist Rick Brown was born & raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Rick started playing trombone when he was 8 years old, and has now been playing trombone for 63 years, in big bands, concert bands, & Dixieland Bands and more. An alumnus of Berklee College of Music in Boston, he attended as a Composition & Arranging Major, with trombone as his major
Rick spent many years immersed in Omaha, & Lakota Sioux communities, learning, & singing at powwows, Lakota Sioux sundance’s, and ceremonies for over 35 years. He was an over-the-road truck driver for 27 years, and used to practice on cornet (while driving) along with bootlegged Jamey Aebersold (shh!) cassettes that were in all 12 keys, to keep his chops up. He didn’t lose any teeth from bumping into the steering wheel, and nobody was kiilled, so he's OK. Rick studied the Turkish Ney with Timuçin Cevikoğlu when he moved back to the Bay Area in 2011. After employment injuries as a SF Bay Area driver, he was taken off work, and started playing trombone full time.
Rick has played as a member of several Bay Area jazz, brass, & Latin Rock, Salsa bands, and has performed as solo trombonist, also in duets, trios, quartets, at many venues. He’s played at Bird & Beckett, Mr. Tipples, The Ramp, Sausalito Seahorse, The Cheeseboard, Revolution Cafe, Cocotte, The Saloon, Savoy Tivoli, Tupelo, Winters, and Bay View Boat Club. He is the trombonist for the renowned Stinkfoot Orchestra, a Zappa/Mothers band. He has been playing a weekly Wednesday gig for 3 years at Comstock Saloon, with his quartet, “Peninsula Project” in North Beach SF.

*Electric bassist Noah Magor, is from Santa Cruz CA. He got into music relatively recently, and at 21, is already one of the best bassists in the Bay Area.

* Percussionist Mar Stevens, drum warrior, connected with her inner rhythms as a child drumming on my grade school desk. She began her drum journey twenty years ago with Master Drummer, Afia Walking Tree, of Spirit Drumz. The Drum transformed her life and continues to inspire and heal herself and those who hear her.  She continued her studies of West African rhythms by attending the Fore-Fote drum camp in Guinea, West Africa, where she studied with Master Drummers and dancers on the Island of Roume, learning songs, dances, and rhythms. She presently teaches and shares the love of rhythms of West Africa with the Bay Area community. She leads and performs with the ensemble Sistahs of the Drum, a Bay Area group of Women of African descent (www.sistahsofthedrums.org). The group’s mission is to heal, transform, and witness through the power of the drum. She also led Sista Boom, a women’s Brazilian marching band, for 12 years. She currently teaches at Meadows Livingstone school, an Afrocentric elementary school in San Francisco, as well as at Born to Drum, a summer camp in the Bay Area, and has a studio of private students. She performs regularly at various Bay Area venues including Ashkenaz, Bioneers Conference, Mills College, UCSF, Cal State East Bay, SF State, Oakland Temescal Festival, among others. 

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