CHELLE! & Friends at Leydecker Park
$ FREE - RSVP Recommended
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Saturday, July 15, 2023

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PAL in the Parks Noontime Family Concert Series

Join Rhythmix and ARPD this summer as Performance, Art & Learning “PAL” in the Parks brings people of all ages together to experience and explore music, dance, visual art and educational opportunities through a series of family-friendly festivals and concerts in Alameda’s City Parks.

On Saturday, July 15th at Leydecker Park, CHELLE! & Friends will get you movin’, groovin’ and dancin’ to the sounds of New Orleans.

Led by New Orleans-native Michelle Jacques, the Bay Area’s own CHELLE & Friends presents a fun-filled family show that features the soul of New Orleans. CHELLE! & Friends is made up of some of the most distinguished and accomplished musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Rhonda Crane and Bryan Dyer on vocals and percussion, Donna Viscuso on saxophone, Eric Swinderman on guitar, Kevin Scott on bass and Michaelle Goerlitz on drums.

CHELLE! & Friends’ kids concerts deliver music to make you move your feet, play instruments, sing along and join a Mardi Gras parade!

PAL in the Parks is made possible with support from the City of Alameda’s Recreation and Parks Department, Radium Presents, Rhythmix 2023 Sponsors and donors like YOU!

To help support free multicultural programming for the community, please consider donating to Rhythmix’s Spring 2023 FUNdraiser!

About CHELLE! and Friends

The mission of CHELLE! Music, is to present known and lesser-known music, dance and theater arts of New Orleans, by developing, preserving and producing live and recorded performing art works, and teach a curriculum of New Orleans music, from Spirituals to Storyville to the Mardi Gras Indians, in various educational settings. CHELLE! Music creates programs that promote intercultural communication through the arts, with applications well beyond the arts.

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More PAL in the Parks Summer Family Concerts

See schedule below for details.

Asian and Pacific Islander Arts & Culture Festival

Saturday, May 20th @ Bohol Circle Immigrant Park • 12pm–4pm

Celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with family and friends at Alameda’s beautiful, new Bohol Circle Immigrant Park! Feel the resonant sounds of the kulintang from the Philippines, enjoy the gentle sway of Hawaiian hula, and hear the vibrant stringed instruments from Vietnam – all while enjoying the beautiful waterfront views. Featuring hands-on art activities for youth with the Alameda Education Foundation, Swings & Wings and the Alameda Free Library Book Bike. Food Trucks by: Chef Hits the Street (Poke Bowls) and Ayobowan (Sri Lankan Cuisine).

Gamelan Sekar Jaya – Balinese Music & Dance

Saturday, June 17th @ Jean Sweeney Open Space Park • 12pm–1pm

Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s jegog ensemble presents an interactive and engaging program designed to encourage kids and kids at heart to get out of their seats and bang on some bamboo! Jegog is a dynamic and athletic artform from West Bali that uses giant bamboo instruments arranged in a four-tone scale, demonstrating the wide array of musical techniques that are possible with just a few notes. This performance includes exciting jegog standards like “Makepung” (“Buffalo Race”), a crowd-pleasing social dance called “Joged,” and a brand-new 2023 composition called “Bagog Gede” from Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s jegog director, I Gede Oka Artha Negara, which combines traditional jegog with a Balinese bronze instrumental genre called baleganjur. Audience members will get a chance to clap along, dance alongside our troupe, and even try out the instruments for themselves!

Rogue Rhythms – Latin-American, Caribbean & African Percussion

Saturday, Aug 26th @ Seaplane Lagoon Promenade • 12pm–1pm

What would the world of sound be without percussion instruments? Rogue Rhythms brings the vitality of drumming to a whole new level for the young and young at heart! Rogue Rhythms travels around the world, introducing drums and rhythms from different cultures and countries, giving new and veteran drummers thrilling examples of sound, beat, and rhythm! Rogue Rhythms will get you dancing, playing shakers, & grooving to the beats of global drumming traditions, encouraging onlookers to join in the fun of music making for all.

Hispanic Heritage Festival

Saturday, Sept 23rd @ Chochenyo Park • 12pm – 3pm

From the sounds of the cajon to the rhythms of bomba, the Rhythmix PAL in the Parks Hispanic Heritage Festival highlights culture, tradition, music, dance, art and food from Central and South America, the Caribbean and Mexico. Featuring performances by the Ka-Hon Ensemble, Taller Bombalele and more!


This event is made possible with support from:

PAL in the Parks is presented by Rhythmix Cultural Works and the City of Alameda’s Recreation and Parks Department. PAL in the Parks API and Hispanic Heritage Festivals are co-produced by Forward Alameda with additional support from the City of Alameda’s Public Art Commission.

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