San Francisco: Music Events/Festivals/Series Index
Acme Observatory - A concert series presenting bi-weekly events of new music by 20th and 21st century composers and performers.
Ashkenaz - Events and concerts listings: 1317 San Pablo Ave., at Gilman (Berkeley).
Asian Improv - Dedicated to the cultivation, presentation, and documentation of the Asian American experience.
Audium - Pioneering the exploration of space in music. The theatre's 169 speakers bathe listeners in sounds that move past, over, and under them."Sound sculptures" are performed in darkness in the 49-seat theatre.
Berkeley Arts Festival -
Ongoing concert series, now in residence at now in residence at 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, California..
Bimbo's - Events and concerts listings: 365 Club 1025 Columbus Ave., at Chestnut in North Beach (SF).
Black and White Ball - Every two years, some 15,000 people gather in the heart of San Francisco for a night of revelry that features multiple stages and dozens of top bands and performers.
Cafe DuNord - Events and concerts listings: 2170 Market St SF (415) 861-5016.
Croatian American Cultural Center Calendar of Events -
A center to share the rich cultural heritage Croatia, the Center has become an important gathering place for enthusiasts of Croatia and other Slavic music and dance, and recent immigrants as well as long time members.
Freight and Salvage - Events and concerts listings: 1111 Addison St., Berkeley.
Gilman Street Project - The 924 Gilman Street Project a.k.a the 'Alternative Music Foundation', is an all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music and performance venue. We do shows on Fridays, Saturdays, and occasionally on Sundays. It is located in North Berkeley, about 1 1/2 miles from the North Berkeley BART station, at the corner of 8th St. and Gilman.
Golden Gate Park Band - Concerts every Sunday April through October in Golden Gate Park: classical, marches, opera, Broadway shows, swing, ethnic programs.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass -
Investment banker Warren Hellman's annual clambake. The heart of the festival remains the traditional folk and bluegrass musicians who appear on the Banjo Stage at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park.
Herbst Theater - Events and concerts listings: Located inside the War Memorial Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue.
Ladyfest Bay Area - Grassroots arts & music festival that gives back to its community.
LovEvolution - A celebration of electronic music culture and technology, love, community, peace, respect and love. Takes place in October.
Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series - Luggage Store Gallery - Programs are dedicated to broadening social and aesthetic networks, by encouraging the flow of image and ideas between different cultural and economic communities. Three venues, 1007 Market Street, 509 Ellis Street and Cohen Alley. Monthly exhibitions, weekly Tuesday comedy open mike/workshop, weekly Thursday Creative Music, experimental, improvisation and electronic; and other events.
Meridian Gallery: Concerts - This concert series celebrates new, traditional and world music through monthly performances. The concerts take place on the first Friday of every month, in the intimate setting of Meridian Gallery.
Monterey Jazz Festival - The longest running jazz festival in the world and one of the world's most respected.
Noe Valley Music Series - Located at The Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St @ 23rd (SF), an intimate and acoustically ideal 110 year old Victorian church in the picturesque Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, the series has garnered praise for its programming of nationally and internationally known musicians (many who've won Grammys, Guggenheim Fellowships and other awards) and Bay Area performers of the highest quality. Over the last 16 years the series featured the first concert hall performances of: Bobby McFerrin, Voicestra, Turtle Island String Quartet, The Modern Mandolin Quartet, Trance Mission and The Bobs.
Noontime Concerts - Begun in Old St. Mary's Cathedral, at the crossroads of the Financial District and Chinatown, the series' mission is to enrich the cultural life of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Performed by professional local and international touring artists, the concerts are not ticketed, but free-will donations are solicited so everyone can enjoy the music regardless of ability to pay. Low-cost, live musical performances are offered at a time convenient for downtown workers, visitors, students, shoppers, and music lovers.
Old First Concerts - Known since 1970 for innovative programming and high quality performances, Old First offers a congenial setting to hear music ranging from chamber and choral to jazz and world - all at affordable prices. Conveniently located in San Francisco's mid-town district, most performances are Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
Organ Music - Every Saturday and Sunday 4:00 p.m. at the Legion of Honor art museum.
Other Minds - New and unusual music in all its forms.
Palace of Fine Arts - Events and concerts listings: 3301 Lyon St., SF Box Office: 415 563-6504.
Paramount Theatre - Events and concerts listings: 2025 Broadway (Oakland).
Power to the Peaceful - Produced in San Francisco as an annual open-air series of free, community music and arts festivals.
Red Poppy Art House - Events and concerts listings: 2698 Folsom St., at 23rd (SF) 415 826-2402.
Saint John Coltrane Church - Founders Archbishop Franzo King and Reverend Mother Marina King began this work in 1971 under the name of "One Mind Temple Evolutionary Transitional Body of Christ." The inspiration came after the young couple had seen John Coltrane perform live in San Francisco in the year 1965. Being raised in the Pentecostal Church, Franzo King knew the presence of the Lord when it came through the power of the Holy Ghost. Seeing John Coltrane and hearing his sound that night was that familiar feeling he knew since childhood. It was the presence of God. Archbishop King refers to this as a "sound baptism" which touched their hearts and minds. Further investigation into this man proved him to be not just a "jazz musician" but one who was chosen to guide souls back to God. The centrepiece of the "Coltrane liturgy" is his 1964 album, A Love Supreme, what the church calls his "testimony ". As the band goes into Acknowledgement, the first part of A Love Supreme, the choir sings the words to Psalm 23. When they reach the part where, on the album, Coltrane chants the words "A Love Supreme" over and over like a mantra, Archbishop King walks among the congregation with a microphone."Let's have some love!" he yells."Don't just take it! Give!"
San Francisco Alt Music Festival - Promoting the New Music scene in Oakland, San Francisco, and throughout the Bay Area, including -Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Creative Music, New Classical, Experimental, Computer/Electronic, and Noise.
San Francisco City Chorus (SFCC) - Dedicated to providing exciting and affordable musical performances to Bay Area residents, choral music lovers, singers and audiences. SFCC has about 65 members and performs three concerts each year. Its Christmas caroling throughout the city is a San Francisco tradition.
San Francisco Free Folk Festival - Nationally and internationally acclaimed performers, as well as gifted local musicians, singers, dancers and storytellers, will offer concerts and workshops throughout the festival.
San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ) - A not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the traditions and encouraging the growth of jazz through presentation and education in the San Francisco Bay Area. SFJAZZ is the presenter of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival, the SFJAZZ Spring Season, and multiple series of free outdoor concerts from June through October.
San Francisco Mixedtape Society -
A monthly event dedicated to the friendly art of making and exchanging music mixes. Everyone is invited to assemble a mix tape, mix CD or mix USB stick according to the theme. The mixes are traded over the course of the evening through a spirited raffle. The best mixtapes, as selected by the audience and by judges, win prizes. The Mixtape Society is free to attend and open to the public.
San Francisco World Music Festival - This annual event which brings together musicians from all over the world to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Stanford Jazz Festival - The Stanford Jazz Workshop's Summer Festival traditionally ranks among the best.
Static Illusion Methodical Madness Music Series (SIMM) - A musician run bi-monthly music performance series bringing highly professional and truly adventurous music that would not normally be heard or supported by mainstream society.
Stern Grove Festival - The oldest admission-free summer performing arts festival of its kind in America. A continuous and much beloved Bay Area tradition for seven decades, each summer nearly 100,000 music and nature lovers gather at Sigmund Stern Grove Park to enjoy live Sunday afternoon concerts, picnicking, and relaxation in a serene and majestic natural amphitheater surrounded by giant eucalyptus, redwood and fir trees.
Yoshi's Oakland (Jack London Square) - Events and concerts listings: 510 Embarcadero West between Washington and Clay Streets around the corner from the Jack London Square Cinema Complex on Washington.
Yoshi's San Francisco - Events and concerts listings: 1330 Fillmore at Eddy on ground floor of Fillmore Heritage Center.
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