Las Mermeladas: Free Music Jam in Berkeley (All Ages & Skill Levels)
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 18:30 -
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 20:30
Event duration 2 hours
$10 - Suggested Donation:
USD 10.00
RSVP:
USD 0.00
About Las Mermeladas: Free Music Jam in Berkeley (All Ages & Skill Levels)
Monthly community music jam in Berkeley. All ages and skill levels welcome. Play, sing, or listen. Free, low-pressure gathering at La Peña.
Every 3rd Wednesday
Looking for an open Berkeley music jam where you can play live music, meet other musicians, and feel supported while exploring Latin American music styles?
Las Mermeladas is a relaxed, welcoming space to connect through music in community.
This monthly jam centers Latin American and Afro-Latin music styles like salsa, cumbia, boleros, Latin jazz, and regional folk music.
Musicians are invited to take solos, vocalists are welcomed throughout the night, and there are often opportunities to try out instruments like güiro, bongos, and congas.
All ages. All instruments. All skill levels welcome.
Led by José Roberto Hernández, the jam is gently facilitated so newcomers, seasoned musicians, and families alike can participate and feel included!
No jam experiance needed.
No instrument needed.
Bring your curiousity, your compañerismo, and your love of music!
¡Nos vemos en La Peña!
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 18:30
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 20:30
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La Peña Cultural Center
https://lapena.org/
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Since 1975, La Peña Cultural Center has been a central site for Latinx, Caribbean, and Indigenous diasporic communities of the Bay Area to preserve and celebrate cultural traditions, present new interdisciplinary creative works, and to nurture grassroots social justice movements with artists, activists, and allies. Our founding as a “peña”—or place offering music, food, and political support to cultures of resistance in South America in the 1960s-70s—has guided our program of challenging dominant narratives and centering marginalized positions for nearly fifty years, and we proudly stand as the last such “peña” still in existence today.