Banda Sin Nombre is a five-piece street band from San Francisco’s Mission District dedicated to performing folk music from around the world. Mixing rich vocal harmonies with acoustic instruments including guitar, fiddle, charango, cajon, and bass, the band’s inspirations range from Peruvian chicha to Catalan rumba and Appalachian old time to cumbia. Guitar player and vocalist Hannah Gallagher was raised in a musical family in Costa Rica, and has studied a wealth of Latin American folk songs, American folk and blues, and Eastern European music. Fiddler and singer Kate Goldstein was raised in a bluegrass and old time music-loving home in Delaware. Cajon player and singer Eva Mas Silberstein was raised between Barcelona and the U.S.; her fluency in Catalan, Portuguese, French, and Spanish has added to the diversity of the band’s influences. Since 2015, the band has grown to include charango player and singer Angel Rodriguez, who was raised in Los Angeles and has learned a range of Mexican, Peruvian, and other Latin American music. The fifth member, upright bassist Ashley Adams, was classically trained on the bass at the University of Arizona School of Music, and has played and toured professionally with a wide variety of folk, jazz, and experimental bands.
Band Website: www.bandasinnombre.com/
