Caroline Cabading: Club Mandalay: Live Jazz at the I-Hotel!

Live jazz at the I-Hotel—Club Mandalay features Caroline Julia Cabading and the Manilatown Jazz Ensemble in an intimate community gathering Club Mandalay is a monthly live music gathering at the International Hotel Manilatown Center—a place to slow down, listen deeply, and be together. This month features the Manilatown Jazz Ensemble, offering an intimate afternoon of jazz and improvisation. Music here is shared as a form of care, remembrance, and community connection. Rooted in the legacy of Manilatown and the I-Hotel, these gatherings welcome people of all backgrounds to feel strengthened, less alone, and gently inspired to imagine a future shaped by perseverance, creativity, and shared responsibility for our common home. All are welcome. This event is free, with donations greatly appreciated in support of Manilatown’s community programs. Come as you are. Stay for the music. Leave a little more connected. Caroline Cabading, a 4th-generation San Franciscan, is an actively performing jazz and R&B vocalist, indigenous Philippine percussionist, composer and traditional arts educator with over 20 years experience performing, touring and teaching. She has been commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) the California Arts Council (2018, 2020, 2022), Zoo Labs (2021) and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (2022) to compose original music contributing to the Filipino-American jazz genre and she has been funded by the California Arts Council (2018, 2020, 2022) and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (2021, 2022) to teach and present pre-colonial Philippine music to the local San Francisco Bay Area community. Caroline currently leads the jazz ensemble “The Autonomous Region” and the traditional Philippine ensemble, the “Manilatown Ancestral Ensemble”. As a roster artist of Young Audiences of Northern California and Rhymmix she presents curriculum-based assemblies, workshops and residencies to K-12 students throughout the Bay A