Music in San Francisco

Upcoming live music in San Francisco, from park concerts and festival stages to library programs and club shows. Each listing links to the organizer's own page and shows the date we last checked it, and only upcoming dates are shown. Set times and lineups can change, so check the organizer's page before you go.

Several of the city's best-known music events are free and come back every year. The Stern Grove Festival presents free summer concerts at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard and calls itself the nation's longest-running free music festival. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass fills Hellman Hollow and the nearby meadows of Golden Gate Park for a free weekend in early October, with no tickets needed. Downtown, the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival stages free outdoor performances from May through October. San Francisco Public Library also hosts performances at its branches, and all of its programs are free and open to the public.

Sources: Stern Grove Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, SF Public Library.