Join an African dance lesson with Comfort at 9 p.m. then dance the night away to Kotoja, the Bay Area's World Beat and Afrobeat scene.
From Ashkenaz:
Kotoja was created by Nigerian singer-bassist Babá Ken Okulolo and features bandmembers from West Africa and America playing a bubbling brew of African highlife, juju, jazz, and world dance rhythms with driving guitars, riffing horns, and persuasive percussion. New York clothier Dan Storper was so moved by a Kotoja concert in Golden Gate Park 15 years back that he started the popular Putumayo record company, whose many releases (including the most recent Kotoja CD, “Super Sawale”) offer positive, uplifting music from around the world in the spirit of Kotoja. “We see the world as one family,” Okulolo says of Kotoja’s style. “Our music expresses this message.”