Stern Grove Festival

June-August, Sundays

Stern Grove Free Summer Concerts
19th Avenue & Sloat Blvd.
San Francisco, CA
Free General Admission Reservations are required for entry,  sterngrove.org

Reserve tickets 1 month prior to show date with Limit of 4 tickets per reservation, online only!

2024 Concerts 

2 p.m.

June 23, 2024 Tegan And Sara
King Isis

June 30, 2024 Chicano Batman
Lido Pimienta

July 7, 2024 SF Symphony
With Special Guest Jessica Vosk

July 14, 2024 The Commodores
The Grease Traps

July 21, 2024 Masego
Satya

July 28, 2024 Franc Moody
Drama

August 4, 2024 Alex G
Fake Fruit

August 11, 2024 Herbie Hancock
SFJazz Collective

August 18, 2024 Lucinda Williams
Jobi Riccio

The Big Picnic Weekend
First Annual Two-Day End Of Season Fundraiser

August 24, 2024 Sylvan Esso
Poolside

August 25, 2024 Chaka Khan

Stern Grove concerts are an annual tradition but now require pre-registration for free reserved tickets 1 month prior to concert.

San Francisco Golden Gate Bandshell Concerts

Music Concourse Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
Free. goldengateparkband.org

2024 Concerts

1 p.m. on Sundays (except July 4 & Labor Day)

• April 28, 2024, 2024 Spring Perfection, 2024 The Symphonic Gershwin, Gustav Holst 2nd Suite in F and much more.
• May 5, 2024 Polish Cultural Celebration, 2024 works of Weinberger, Chopin, plus song and dance from the Lowiczanie Polish Folk Ensemble of San Francisco.
• May 12, 2024 A Pops Mom's Concert, 2024 on Mother's Day in honor of Mothers everywhere.
• May 19, 2024 A Cast of Characters: In “Bay to Breakers Fashion” La Forza Del Destino by Verdi, The Typewriter and more.
• May 26, 2024 Armenian Echos in partnership with the Hamazkayin Armenian Cultural and Educational Assoc. Works by Armenian composers, including the Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto featuring principal trumpet Mark Nemoyten.
• June 2, 2024 Trumpet Palooza, 2024 a concert featuring our amazing trumpet section!
• June 9, 2024 Golden Gate Park Band Festival with guest ensembles from around the Bay Area and beyond. The Festival starts June 8, 2024
• June 16, 2024 Father's Day / Juneteenth, 2024 Featuring Music of African American Composers and Artists.
• June 23, 2024 Songs & Dances including works of Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Morton Gould.
• June 30, 2024 GGPB annual Pride Concert program featuring LGBTQ composers.
• July 4, 2024 (Thurs.) A Red, White & Band Independence Day Celebration of American Music.
• July 7, 2024 Treasures of the Band World including Suite of Old American Dances by Bennett, Variations on America by Ives, First Suite in Eb by Holst.
• July 14, 2024 Disney Magic: Band Fantastic including music from Encanto, Frozen, Moana, Mary Poppins and more!
• July 21, 2024 Something Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue including works of Sousa, Leroy Anderson, Claude Bolling and more.
• July 28, 2024 Tune Town, 2024 Music for Kids of all ages; Variations on Pop Goes the Weasel, Barnum & Bailey's Favorite, music from The Wizard of Oz and more.
• August 4, 2024 A concert in honor of Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams and First Responders including works of The Beatles, Gershwin, Frank Erickson and more.
• August 11, 2024 Kilts, Ceilidhs, Castles, & Haggis, 2024 Music of Scotland with the Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers.
• August 18, 2024 St Stephen's Day Celebration of Hungarian Culture with performers from the Hungarian Heritage Foundation, the band will play favorite Hungarian pieces.
• August 25, 2024 Guest performers from the Bay Area Ukrainian community and beyond.
• September 1, 2024 Big Band Day: Glen Miller and more!, 2024 Including Big Band jazz classics from the Swing Era and beyond. Dancers welcome
• September 2, 2024 Labor Day (Monday), 2024 Winds of Work: a Labor Day Celebration honoring working people everywhere.
• September 8, 2024 Viva Mexico! with guests Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Carlos Moreno
• September 15, 2024 The Emerald Isle in partnership with the United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco.
• September 22, 2024 Celebrating the Flair of Spanish Flamenco featuring guest performers from Toque Tercero Flamenco lead by Damien Alvarez.
• October 6, 2024 Season Closer Sounds from the Screen: Music of Film and TV including music from John Williams, Henry Mancini, Danny Elfman and other famous film composers.

Concerts are approximately 70 to 90 minutes in length. Programs subject to change. Check back often for updates. More program details will be on the calendar as they become available.

The Golden Gate Park Band has been presenting free concerts in Golden Gate Park for 142 years thanks to the generous support of San Francisco Grants for the Arts and public donations. Thank you for supporting the arts in San Francisco.
 

San Francisco SF Giants Levi's Stadium  Free Concerts

May-September, Fridays

Seals Plaza at Oracle Park
24 Willie Mays Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94107
Free, no game ticket required, mlb.com/ giants/ tickets/ specials/ levis-concert-series

2023 Concerts

5-7 p.m.

May 20, 2023 Stone Foxes
This concert is postgame in Seal Plaza

June 9, 2023 Fast Times

July 28, 2023 Las Chikas
Salsa, all female salsa band
laschikas.com

August 25, 2023 Mustache Harbor
Soft rock, yacht rock

September 29, 2023 Freestone Peaches

This free, San Francisco Giants pre-game event invites the public to attend great summer concerts. You don't need a ticket to watch, and you are welcome to buy a ball game ticket and come enjoy the game after the concert if you like. The concerts are held on select Friday, home game nights. Drink specials are offered during the concerts.

 

Union Square Summer Music Series

July, Saturdays

Union Square
San Francisco, CA
Free, visitunionsquaresf.com

2023 Concerts

1-4 p.m.

July 8, 2023 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
swing and blues.
lavaysmith.com

July 15, 2023 Barry 'The Fish' Melto
Founding member of the psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish

July 22, 2023 Soul Glitch
Electro-Pop

Family activities and rotating food vendors. Public invited to this outdoor concert series.

 

Yerba Buena Gardens Music Festival

May-October, All Concerts are Free!

Yerba Buena Gardens
Mission Street between 3rd & 4th Streets
San Francisco, CA
Free, ybgfestival.org

Free Outdoor Performing Arts In Downtown San Francisco

2024 Concerts

• May 16, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Qwanqwa
• May 18, 2024 1-3:30 p.m. Caamfest Directions In Sound: Thao
• May 19, 2024 11-4 p.m. Islands By The Bay Festival
• May 23, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pher
• May 25, 2024 1-2:30 p.m. Co-Llab Choir Directed By Cava Menzies
• June 7, 2024 11-11:30am Rhythmallogy (Kids' Show)
• June 7, 2024 12-12:30 p.m. Rhythmallogy (Kids' Show)

• June 8, 2024 1-3 p.m. Dyertribe: Steve & Bokani Dyer + Izithunywa Feat. Ndabo Zulu & Linda Sikhakhane
• June 13, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Darrell Grant & Mj New

• June 14, 2024 11-11:30am René Y Familia (Kids' Show)

• June 14, 2024 12-12:30 p.m. René Y Familia (Kids' Show)

• June 14, 2024 6:30-8 p.m. Rawdance: Drawing On A Decade

• June 15, 2024 1-2:30 p.m. Rawdance: Drawing On A Decade

• June 16, 2024 12-3 p.m. Native Contemporary Arts Festival
• June 20, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Christelle Durandy Sanktet

• June 21, 2024 12-1 p.m. Circus Bella Wow! (Kids' Show)

• June 22, 2024 12-1 p.m. Circus Bella Wow! (Kids' Show)

• June 22, 2024 2:15-3:15pm Circus Bella
  Circus Bella's “Wow!” (Kids' Show)

• June 27, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. The Alaya Project

• June 28, 2024 11-11:30am Calvin Kai Ku (Kids' Show)

• June 28, 2024 12-12:30 p.m. Calvin Kai Ku (Kids' Show)

• June 29, 2024 11-4 p.m. Sf Uke Jam's Summer Uke-Splosion Presented By Kala Brand Music

• July 5, 2024 11-11:30am  & 12-12:30 p.m. Chelle! & Friends (Kids' Show)

• July 6, 2024 1-2:30 p.m. Get Free Festival

• July 11, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Uzumaru

• July 12, 2024 11-11:30am Ka-Hon (Kids' Show)

• July 13, 2024 1-2:30 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens Choreofest (Day One)

• July 18, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Batey Tambó

• July 19, 2024 11-11:30am, 2024 12-12:30 p.m. Unique Derique (Kids' Show)

• July 20, 2024 1-2:30 p.m. Yerba Buena Gardens Choreofest (Day Two)

• July 25, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Destani Wolf

• July 26, 2024 11-11:30am Coventry & Kaluza (Kids' Show)

• July 26, 2024 12-12:30 p.m. Coventry & Kaluza (Kids' Show)

• July 27, 2024 12-5 p.m. Color Your Mind Festival

• August 1, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Afrosolo Arts Festival Presents Charles Unger

• August 1, 2024 6-7:30 p.m. Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion

• August 2, 2024 11-11:30am, 2024 12-12:30 p.m. Caterpillar Puppets (Kids' Show)

• August 3, 2024 1-3 p.m. Ana Tijoux + J Noa

• August 4, 2024 2-4 p.m. San Francisco Mime Troupe

• August 8, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Audiopharmacy

• August 10, 2024 11-4 p.m. Pistahan

• August 13, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Poetic Tuesdays With Moad

• August 15, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Brazil In The Gardens: Monica Salmaso, 2024 Guinga And Teco Cardoso

• August 22, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Mae Powell

• August 29, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Foleada

• August 31, 2024 1-2:30 p.m. Meklit's Movement Immigrant Orchestra

• September 5, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Quinteto Latino[

• September 5, 2024 6-7:30 p.m. Jesús Díaz Y Su Qba

• September 7, 2024 11-4 p.m. African Arts Festival

• September 8, 2024 1-3 p.m. American Bon Dancing
• September 26, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Spirology

• October 3, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. The Chris Trinidad Collective

• October 3, 2024 6-7:30 p.m. Agua Pura

• October 5, 2024 1-3 p.m. Ouida + Ian Santillano

• October 10, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Rojai & The Pocket

• October 14, 2024 12-3:30 p.m. San Francisco Indigenous Peoples Day]

• October 17, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Amihan

• October 24, 2024 12:30-1:30 p.m. Michelle Jacques – Daughters Of The Delta Project

• October 26, 2024 1-3:30 p.m. Kokoroko + Jada Imani

YBG Festival presents classical, world, and jazz music, contemporary and traditional dance, theater, children's and family programs, and cultural events reflecting the rich cultures and creativity of the region. The outdoor venue includes gardens, patios and places to stand or sit and mingle. You can buy food and bring it with you to eat while enjoying the amazing, free entertainment.

 

Past bands at Stern Grove

2023: Snarky Puppy, Indigo Girls, Santigold, Lyle Lovett And His Large Band, Angelique Kidjo, Sf Symphony, Bob Moses, Buddy Guy, Patti Smith, The Flaming Lips 

2021: Ledisi, Perfume Genius, San Francisco Symphony, Thievery Corporation, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, X | The Avengers, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Thundercat, Fitz & the Tantrums, Tower of Power  The Big Picnic Concert

2019:  Digable Planets | Bang Data | Los Van Van | Banda Sin Nombre| Galactic | Baby & The Luvies | San Francisco Symphony Edwin Outwater, Conductor | Mitski | Madeline Kenney | Toots And The Maytals | Lee Fields And The Expressions | San Francisco Ballet Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director | The Psychedelic Furs | Pink Martini | Barrio Manouche | The Isley Brothers 

2018 Peabo Bryoson & Jeffrey Osborne|  Ziggy Marley | Flavia Coelho |  M. Ward | Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | Mexican Institute Of Sound With Special Guests | Ginkgoa | Anoushka Shankar, Land Of Gold | Han Han | San Francisco Symphony | Jayce Ogren, Conductor  |  San Francisco Ballet | Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director | Femi Kuti And The Positive Force | Sol Development | Ronnie Spector And The Ronettes | The Humidors  | The Revolution | Big Blu Soul Revue

2017: Mavis Staples | Kev Choice Ensemble | Brazilian Girls | Moon Hooch | WAR | Malo | Amadou & Mariam | Ibibio Sound Machine | San Francisco Ballet | Los Angeles Azules | featuring Ximena Sarinana and Kinky | Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco | Eric Burdon and the Animals | The Stone Foxes | San Francisco Symphony | Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers | Fantastic Negrito | Kool & The Gang | Quinn DeVeaux

2016: Janelle Monae | George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic | Hieroglyphics | San Francisco Symphony | Joan Osborne's Soul Revue | Julieta Venegas | San Francisco Ballet | The O'Jays | Atomic Bomb! | The New Pornographers

2015: The Doobie Brothers | The California Honeydrops | Pacific Mambo Orchestra with Sheila E. and Marlow Rosado | Randy Newman | San Francisco Symphony | Amy Hanaiali'i | tUnE-yArDs| San Francisco Ballet| Mary Chapin Carpenter| Morris Day And The Time | Zakiya Harris

2014: Smokey Robinson | Patti Austin | Rufus Wainwright | Quartet San Francisco | Allen Stone
Yuna | Andrew Bird And The Hands Of Glory| Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors | San Francisco Symphony | Funky Meters | Sugar Pie DeSanto | Sergio Mendes | LoCura | The Zombies | Vetiver

Events are not guaranteed. It is your responsibility to confirm before going.