Bissap Baobab Village/ Little Baobab

06/03/2026

AFRICA AT THE WORLD CUP — WATCH PARTIES AT MUDDY WATERS ⚽🌍
San Francisco, get ready!
This June, Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge becomes the gathering place for football lovers, African communities, international fans, and everyone who believes that sports can bring people together.
Come celebrate the World Cup with great food, great people, and unforgettable energy in the heart of the Mission.
📍 Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge 521 Valencia Street, San Francisco
🇲🇦 MOROCCO vs BRAZIL 🇧🇷
📅 Saturday, June 13 🕒 3:00 PM
Can the Atlas Lions take down one of football's greatest nations?
🇨🇮 IVORY COAST vs ECUADOR 🇪🇨
📅 Sunday, June 14 🕓 4:00 PM
The Elephants march forward in a clash between Africa and South America.
🇫🇷 FRANCE vs SENEGAL 🇸🇳
📅 Tuesday, June 16 🕛 12:00 PM
A match filled with history, pride, and passion. One of the most anticipated games of the tournament.
🇩🇪 GERMANY vs IVORY COAST 🇨🇮
📅 Saturday, June 20 🕐 1:00 PM
European power meets African champions.
🇨🇩 DR CONGO vs COLOMBIA 🇨🇴
📅 Tuesday, June 23 🕖 7:00 PM
A celebration of rhythm, football, and culture from both sides of the Atlantic.
WHAT TO EXPECT
🥞 Fufu Crepes & African Fusion Food
🍗 Yassa, Pastels & Specials
🥤 Ginger Fire Root
☕ Coffee, Espresso & Drinks
🎶 Music Before & After Matches
🌍 International Crowd
⚽ World Cup Atmosphere
Whether you're African, Latin American, European, American, or simply a football fan, you are welcome.
ONE WORLD • ONE GAME • ONE COMMUNITY
At Muddy Waters, we don't just watch football. We celebrate culture. We celebrate friendship. We celebrate the world.
Bring your flags. Bring your colors. Bring your voice.
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06/03/2026

JUNE 16
🇸🇳🦁🇫🇷 THE REMATCH THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR! 🇫🇷🦁🇸🇳
FRANCE vs SENEGAL ⚽ World Cup Watch Party 📅 Tuesday, June 16 📍 Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge 521 Valencia Street, San Francisco
🔥 History. Pride. Passion. 🔥
Twenty-four years after Senegal shocked the football world, the Lions of Teranga meet France once again on the biggest stage.
Will the French Roosters fly? Or will the Lions roar once more?
🌍 Join Africans, Europeans, football lovers, and world travelers for one of the most anticipated matches of the tournament.
🎉 Giant Match Atmosphere 🥁 African Vibes ☕ Coffee & Espresso 🥞 Fufu Crepes 🍗 Yassa & African Specialties 🥤 Ginger Fire Root 🎶 Music Before & After the Match
Whether you support France 🇫🇷 Whether you support Senegal 🇸🇳 Or whether you simply love beautiful football ⚽
This is where you want to be.

🦁 FOR SENEGAL!
Bring your flags. Bring your drums. Bring your voices.
Let's turn Valencia Street into a little Dakar for one unforgettable afternoon!

🇫🇷 FOR FRANCE!
Bring your bleu-blanc-rouge spirit and cheer on Les Bleus with fellow supporters.
🌍 ONE GAME. ONE COMMUNITY.
At Muddy Waters, football is more than a game. It's culture. It's friendship. It's celebration.
📍 Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge 521 Valencia Street San Francisco
COME EARLY. WE EXPECT A FULL HOUSE!

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06/02/2026

THE LITTLE BAOBAB SPIRIT IS BACK ✨🌍
Every Friday beginning June 26
🗣️ 6PM–9PM Spanish Meetup 🎤 9PM–10PM International Karaoke 🎧 10PM–Late International Roots DJs
Afrobeats • Amapiano • Salsa • Cumbia • Kizomba • Soukous • Reggae • Brazilian • Caribbean • Global Sounds
🍽️ African Fusion Food 🥤 Ginger Fire Root ❤️ Good People • Good Energy
📍 Muddy Waters 521 Valencia St, San Francisco
One World. One Music. One Dance Floor.

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Artists, dancers, musicians, cultural groups, language clubs, and world travelers: join us and help make Valencia Street the international crossroads of San Francisco once again. 🌍🎶💃🏿🕺🏻☕🥞

06/02/2026

COMMUNITY MUSIC + NOCHE SONIDERA 🎶
Join us for a full evening of music, poetry, community, and dancing at Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge!
📍 521 Valencia Street, San Francisco
🎤 MAPP: Supporting the Fight for Liberation
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
📝 5:30 PM – Esteban Mestre Poesía Urbana
🎙️ 5:45 PM – Dongo Poetry Recital & Musical Walk Through Words
🎸 6:00 PM – Breeanna Doan Blues • Soul • Folk Original songs and favorite covers
🎵 7:00 PM – Breakfast Absurdist Singer-Songwriter Unexpected, creative, and unforgettable
🎶 8:00 PM – Silent Helpers Acoustic Singer/Songwriter Duo Rock and Folk influences

💃 AFTER 9 PM: NOCHE SONIDERA 💃
The party continues with:
🎧 DJ Rabeat
👑 Los Ahijados de la Changa
🔥 Cumbia
🔥 Salsa
🔥 Guaracha
Dance into the night with one of the hottest Sonidera parties in the Mission!
☕ Coffee
🍹 Drinks
🥞 Fufu Crepes
🌎 Community
🎶 Live Music
💃 Dancing
One venue. Two amazing events. One unforgettable Saturday.

Cumbia

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Come for the poetry and music. Stay for the dancing. 🎤🎸💃🌍☕

06/02/2026

🎶 Mission Community Music + Noche Sonidera 🎶
🕕 6PM–9PM Live community music from the Mission
🕘 9PM–Late 💃 Cumbia • Salsa • Guaracha 🎧 DJ Rabeat 🎤 Los Ahijados de la Changa
📍 Muddy Waters 521 Valencia St, SF
Coffee • Drinks • Fufu Crepes • Dancing • Good Vibes
Come early. Stay late.

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SHORT STORY / WHATSAPP BLAST
🔥 SATURDAY AT MUDDY WATERS 🔥
6PM–9PM Mission Community Music
9PM–Late Noche Sonidera 🎧 DJ Rabeat 🎤 Los Ahijados de la Changa
Cumbia • Salsa • Guaracha
📍521 Valencia St, SF
Dance. Coffee. Community. Culture. 💃🌎☕🎶

06/02/2026

JUNE 4TH
🎤😂 LAUGH LOUDER COMEDY NIGHT 😂🎤
Need a good laugh? We've got you covered!
Join us for a night of stand-up comedy, community, and great vibes at Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge.
🎙️ Hosted by Hence Singleton Seen on ComedyTime Networks, The Ice House (Pasadena), and The Stand (NYC)
📅 Thursday, June 4 🕡 6:30 PM 📍 Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge 521 Valencia Street, San Francisco
☕ Great Coffee
🥞 Fufu Crepes & Food
🍷 Drinks Available
🤣 Big Laughs
Bring your friends, grab a seat, and get ready for an evening of comedy in the heart of the Mission District.

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**Laugh louder. Connect deeper. See you June 4th

06/02/2026

⚽🌍 WORLD CUP ACTION AT MUDDY WATERS! 🌍⚽
Join us at Muddy Waters Coffee & Lounge as we celebrate football, culture, coffee, and community from around the world!
📍 521 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Upcoming Matches
🇧🇷 Brazil vs Morocco 🇲🇦
📅 Saturday, June 13
🕒 3:00 PM
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea vs Côte d'Ivoire 🇨🇮
📅 Sunday, June 14
🕐 1:00 PM
🇫🇷 France vs Senegal 🇸🇳
📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕘 9:00 AM
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire vs Germany 🇩🇪
📅 Saturday, June 20
🕘 9:00 AM
🇨🇴 Colombia vs Congo 🇨🇩
📅 Date & Time To Be Announced
🎶 Music
💃 Dancing
☕ Great Coffee
🥞 Fufu Crepes & International Flavors
🌍 World Vibes
We Watch. We Dance. We Celebrate.
Bring your friends, wear your colors, and cheer for your favorite team. Whether you're rooting for Africa, Europe, or South America, everyone is welcome at Muddy Waters!

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06/01/2026

🎸✨ LIVE AT MUDDY WATERS 9/11 ✨🎸
Saturday July 11.
Join us for an unforgettable evening with Gr**go Magia, blending music, culture, rhythm, and storytelling in the heart of the Mission.
Featuring special guest: Dr. Umi Vaughan – artist, author, scholar, and internationally recognized expert on Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian music traditions.
📍 Muddy Waters Cafe & Lounge
521 Valencia Street, San Francisco
🎶 Live Music
🌍 Afro-Diasporic Culture
☕ Coffee • Food • Community
Come connect, listen, dance, and celebrate the rich traditions that continue to inspire artists around the world.

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05/30/2026

Tonight

05/29/2026

Come Celebrate our festive 1st Saturday with great Cumbia maestro cumbia djs

05/20/2026

Sunday San Francisco Carnaval
Come celebrate Carnaval together this Sunday at Muddy Waters
521 Valencia st
afrobeats

04/29/2026

Samba dance party

04/16/2026

Cumbia at Muddy Waters. Hola Hole,

04/16/2026

April 25 at Muddy Waters come and celebrate franco Afro et plus!

04/13/2026

This Friday 4/17: Cuban Dance Party w/ LIVE MUSIC Salsa

Party all night with Guajirón Cuban Band

Cuban Salsa, Son & Descarga: Hot tropical grooves, tight afro-Cuban rhythms, and energetic horns.

No Salsa steps needed! Just come to groove and shake. Though if you're a salsero, grab a partner and jump in, candela 🔥!

8:30pm
$10

03/28/2026

MUDDY WATERS

03/27/2026

Forro at Muddy Waters
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03/27/2026

The Lesbitarian Church
https://www.sfiaf.org/sfiaf2026_bia_ferreira

Bia Ferreira invites the world to celebrate Mothers Day with a solo concert dedicated to women and the church she founded. The Lesbitarian Church is a space for those who have been cast out or targeted by Pentecostal and Protestant denominations. The name was taken from her 2019 album “Igreja Lesbiteriana, Um Chamado” (Le***an Church, A Calling).

"A calm, meditative prayer starts off the night, with Ferreira’s voice brewing a quiet storm. “May I be an instrument of art,” she sings, her hypnotic voice flowing into the crowd, grounding them in the moment. The first song is her invocation; a prayer to harness the transformative power of art.

The crowd is captivated by her one-woman show, her talent appearing quickly in the prayer’s intricate guitar melody. Each note and word resonate within, a testament to her belief that art can change lives. Thunderous applause follows, affirming that her prayer found its faithful congregation." -- The Daily Collegian, Amherst

Artist Biographies

Bia Ferreira

Bia Ferreira is a Brazilian singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and artivist. Her music, which she defines as "MMP — Música de Mulher Preta" (Black Woman Music),discusses topics such as feminism, anti-racism and homophobia. She claims her music is created to generate "discomfort" that in turn generates "movement", at the same time that she tries to write songs pleasant enough to get her message across. Her lyrics have been described as "escrevivência" ("writexperience"), a concept by Conceição Evaristo.

03/18/2026

Touchez pas à notre football.
Le Sénégal n’est pas seul.

Don’t touch our football.
Senegal is not alone.

03/13/2026

03/10/2026

Show $5 at the door
M7ddy WTers
521 Valencia st

AFRO-NATIVO FRIDAY 🔥🌍
This Friday the Mission lights up with Ricky Aguilar & the Afro-Nativo Band.
Afro-Latin rhythms, powerful percussion, and the kind of groove that makes the whole room move.
Come dance.
Come celebrate.
Come feel the Mission vibe.
🎶 Live band
🥁 Afro-diaspora rhythms
💃 Dance all night
Friday – The rhythm is calling.




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03/10/2026

🎶 This coming Saturday at 8PM — Live Latin Rhythms! 💃
Come out to Muddy Waters and enjoy an unforgettable night with Janet and her Sound Latino!
Let yourself be carried away by Janet’s captivating voice and dance the night away to the best cumbia, salsa, bachata, and more. 🌟🔥

Bring your friends, grab a drink, and feel the rhythm!

📍 Muddy Waters
⏰ 8:00 PM

Don’t miss this vibrant night of music, dancing, and Latin flavor. See you on the dance floor! 🎤✨

03/10/2026

Thee Snake Charmers Duo is the intimate project by band leaders Connie and Jesse Walkershaw, as a change in directions from their more standard latin Balkan rock band. The walkershaws decided to get down to the nitty gritty of what makes their music so distinctive a bleend of world music, 2930’s hit parade, and muscular modal jazz. You have heard many of their influences, but you never heard them quite like this.

The players

Connie WalkershawConnie has a mixed up musical resume. She plays alto Tenor and Soprano Saxophones sometimes 2 at a time. She cut her teeth playing Middle eastern music as a tween in a belly dance orchestra and later formed a succession of art bands bringing her own angular take on genres as diverse as Klezmer and Latin Boogaloo imbuing all of them through her composition’s with a different vitalit.

Jesse WalkershawJesse plays the bass in the pocket but is often searching the pockets of other musical ideas for loose change adding rhythmic elements between his notes which are the bane of many a recording engineer. With a transistor radio glued to his ear the youthful Jesse absorbed the hit parade of New York City radio in it’s most fertile decade which shines through in both his instrumentals and his very retro pop song writing.

03/04/2026

LITTLE DAKAR POP-UP
Senegalese Street Food at Muddy Waters
Something new is cooking on Valencia Street.
Two chefs from Senegal , Chef M’Boji and Chef Aziz, want to test a bold idea:
Little Dakar Pop-Up.
For one night (or maybe more), the sidewalk in front of Muddy Waters Café becomes a small corner of Dakar.
On the menu:
🔥 Fataya
🔥 Gambas
🔥 Legendary Jollof Rice
🔥 Spiced Lamb
🔥 Fufu Crepes
Real Senegalese street food, cooked outside, with the aromas of Dakar floating through the Mission.
But this is also an experiment.
The chefs told me:
“If San Francisco loves it… next stop is Downtown.”
So Mission District…
are you ready for Little Dakar on Valencia Street?
Come taste.
Come decide.
— Marco
Muddy Waters Café

Little Dakar might go Downtown next.
🔥 Stay tuned.





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03/04/2026

🎬 Lights, Camera… Muddy Waters! ☕💃
Today our café turned into a movie set for the biography of the incredible Maria Sanchez, a celebrated name in the flamenco world and a powerful storyteller on screen.
You wouldn’t believe it: 35–40 people on set for just one scene…
and 10 takes to capture the magic! 🎥
Seeing this energy inside our little café in the San Francisco is pure joy.
Who knows… maybe Muddy Waters is about to travel around the world on film. 🌍
Until then, the real show continues every morning:
☕ Dark Roast Power
7:00 AM weekdays
8:00 AM weekends
Come feel the vibe on Valencia Street