October 9, 2025 | 5-8pm
At Dodge Alley (Turk & Larkin St.)
Free to attend | No registration required
$15 vouchers for food/drink at nearby businesses first come first serve
TLM teams up with Movement, a local “musical discovery platform” highlighting immigrant musicians, to present a special musical encounter between master musicians for 2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley. Los Calderones, a band featuring Cuban brothers Obrayan & Dayron Calderon, perform with a special guest, the Carnatic jazz saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan.
Tenderloin Museum continues the 2025-2026 season of “Sounds of the Tenderloin” programs with another “2nd Thursdays at Dodge Alley in collaboration with the TLCBD. This month, TLM highlights the contributions of immigrant musicians and the connections forged by musical collaborations with a concert organized with Movement. The local “musical discovery platform” founded by Ethiopian-American artist Meklit Hadero includes both live concerts and a podcast–nationally syndicated on radio via PRX–featuring interviews with immigrant musicians.
Our October program features Los Calderones, a Cuban band organized around brothers Dayron and Obrayan Calderon, the latter of whom has recording credits at the TL’s Hyde St. Studios and played the very first Sounds of the TL program with neighborhood favs MJ’s Brass Boppers. As at other Movement live shows, the headliner is paired with a collaborator from another musical culture; Los Calderones will play with jazz saxophonist and master of South Indian Carnatic traditions Prasant Radhakrishnan, who performed at TLM earlier this year with fusion ensemble The Alaya Project, who drew an illuminating connection between Carnatic guru Palani Subramaniam Pillai and Blackhawk mainstay Dave Brubeck.
Free, outdoor, music-centric happenings at a once notorious Tenderloin alley began in 2022 through a collaboration between TLM, the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, and longtime residents of the alley. These events were some of the first “Sounds of the Tenderloin” programs, a series of events “animating the TL’s under-sung cultural history through live music” that began with a grant from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, continued with more support from the State of CA’s Museum Grant Program, and now exists as a monthly block party at Dodge Place. Since those initial shows, the alley has benefited from substantial community investment, including a Community Challenge Grant project that brought two stunning murals to the alley and an ongoing grant through the TLCBD to bring monthly music to the Alley along with free food/drink vouchers to spend at adjacent businesses. TLM is thrilled to return to programming Dodge Alley and to grow the vibrancy of this amazing community space and truly urban venue.
Programmed in collaboration with the TLCBD & SF Office of Economic and Workforce Development. A limited number of vouchers for free food and drink at local businesses will be available!