Experience the resurgence of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown nightlife at the Lion’s Den. Tucked away on Wentworth Place, this bi-level lounge and performance space blends modern cocktail culture with the...
Harmonica player and vocalist Aki Kumar teams up with The Arrows trio for a live set at Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe in North Beach. Mumbai-born and South Bay–based, Kumar is widely known for pioneering his signature Bollywood blues style alongside mastery of traditional amplified Chicago harp in the lineage of Little Walter. For this...
Collectivity is a jazz/funk, psychedelic soul band originally formed in Shanghai, China and now based in the SF Bay Area. We're talking about blistering energy and genre blending from an ensemble of world class musicians with a focus on exploration through collective improvisation. Upbeat grooves, soulful guitar work and tight arrangements are things to expect...
WestSide Jazz Club performs at Local Edition. This is a high-energy quartet known for blending traditional jazz with funk, soul, and Latin rhythms. The Band: Fronted by tenor saxophonist and vocalist Scotty Silver (Scott Silverberg). The lineup typically includes John Watson (Guitar), Craig Kleinman (Bass), and Chris Gamper (Drums).
Chris Siebert on the Hammond Organ and the legendary saxophonist Jules Broussard! Prepare to be transported into a "Twin Peaks" dreamscape of deep red lighting and vintage curiosities at The Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge. This evening features a rare, high-fidelity collaboration between two of San Francisco’s most respected jazz and blues veterans. With the house...
San Francisco! Get yourself off the couch and move it on up to BBR—Robby D and the EFG’s are hitting it hard all night long kicking off at 8:30pm until 1:30am++ If you’re not in the know, Robby D and the EFG’s is a kick ass show! Our style throws blistering renditions of new wave,...
A wide-ranging night of musical and comic performances led by Matt Berkeley at Tupelo. Matt Berkeley & The Electrictronic Folk is a San Francisco Bay Area-based group known for playing a mix of dubfunk Soul music. The band features Matt Berkeley on keyboards and vocals, along with a rotating lineup that includes musicians like Dylan...
Deeply swinging, modern jazz from two master improvisers with decades of chemistry and serious fire. Pianist and keyboardist Marc Seales brings his distinctive blend of post-bop language, rich harmony, and fearless spontaneity to Black Cat alongside legendary tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts. Seales has toured and recorded with Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, Benny Carter, Mark Murphy,...
The Saloon welcomes legendary blues firebird Cathy Lemons — a Dallas‑born vocalist and songwriter whose “velvety and hypnotic voice, resonant of a female Howlin’ Wolf” has mesmerized audiences for over 30 years. Drawing inspiration from Aretha Franklin, Lou Ann Barton, and Big Mama Thornton, she earned her stripes across Texas, recording with Anson Funderburgh, sharing...
Mike Henderson, dubbed “the Blues Professor” by John Lee Hooker, is a veteran blues guitarist, singer, and bandleader who holds a monthly afternoon slot at The Saloon, San Francisco’s oldest bar. His sets lean into electric Chicago and West Coast blues, with lived‑in vocals and sharp guitar work. It’s barroom blues at close range.
Katy Stephan’s residency at Comstock Saloon turns the room into a small, candlelit listening space. At the piano she blends jazz‑inflected originals with reimagined standards and art‑pop tunes, her clear, expressive voice sitting right on top of the clink of glassware and low conversation. It’s an intimate, song‑forward set that feels equally at home as...
The Magic School Busk holds weekly residency directly in front of The Red Window at the corner of Stockton and Columbus. This high‑energy busking collective has become one of North Beach’s unofficial “resident joy‑makers,” blurring the line between band and audience as people pause, sing along, or dance on the sidewalk. Whether you are enjoying a...
Hipsteria is one of San Francisco’s favorite jazz, soul and party bands! Members of Hipsteria have included some of music’s legendary musicians! Featuring “Tender Tim” on drums and some vocals Hipsteria plays every Friday at Etcetera Wine bar.
Lester T. Raww’s Graveside Quartet brings their macabre, noir-tinged sound to Haight Street’s vintage cocktail lounge and music institution, The Deluxe. Formed by members of Bay Area horrorbilly stalwarts The Pine Box Boys, the ensemble trades rustic banjos for a distinctive instrumentation of accordion, ukulele, trombone, trumpet, and musical saw. Often described as Tin Pan...
Deeply swinging, modern jazz from two master improvisers with decades of chemistry and serious fire. Pianist and keyboardist Marc Seales brings his distinctive blend of post-bop language, rich harmony, and fearless spontaneity to Black Cat alongside legendary tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts. Seales has toured and recorded with Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, Benny Carter, Mark Murphy,...
Jamie Davis performs at Keys Jazz Bistro. Globally acclaimed, Jamie Davis has worked venues in Paris, Rome, Dubai, Tokyo, Osaka Istanbul, Milan, Croatia, Kuala Lumpur, Serbia, Sochi, Croatia, Moscow, Finland, and Spain. He has also appeared at the famous Royal Albert Hall in London. In the States, he has performed at Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s and...
Eric Shifrin, piano/vocal; Heath Proskin, bass; Mark Lee, drums. Part of the Bird & Beckett Jazz in the Bookshop / Happy Hour series (Fridays 6–8pm). Seating is limited — reservations recommended: 415-586-3733. Suggested contribution: $20–30; students $10–15; younger kids free.
Dos Bandoleros and Friends at The Lost Church brings the San Francisco-based duo’s flamenco rumba and Latin fusion to an intimate North Beach stage. Their Spanish guitar rhythms and upbeat vocals move between original songs and inventive covers, with friends joining them for a fuller ensemble sound.
The Charles Unger Experience brings saxophone-led Bay Area jazz to Sheba Piano Lounge, blending original music and familiar tunes with R&B, soul, blues, world-beat color, and New Orleans funk. Unger is a San Francisco saxophonist, composer, and bandleader with more than four decades on the local scene, and Sheba has long been a regular stop...
Two-time Latin Grammy nominee Eddy Navia and Quentin Navia are joined by master violinist Georges Lammam, dancers and dancing. Their performances blend the charango (a traditional ten-string instrument), haunting sounds of panpipes (zampoñas) and notched flutes (kena) with high-energy rhythms. You don’t need a plane ticket to experience a "little piece of South American carnaval,"...
Patrick Wolff Trio at Stookey’s Blue Room features saxophonist and clarinetist Patrick Wolff with David Ewell on bass and Smith Dobson on drums. Wolff’s lyrical, deep-swinging approach reflects his long history in New York City and San Francisco Jazz, while Ewell’s grounded acoustic bass and Dobson’s responsive, hard-driving drumming give the trio room to explore...
Gaucho at the Comstock Saloon plays energetic, guitar-led early jazz that blends 1930s Gypsy jazz with New Orleans swing, ragtime, and gutbucket blues. Led by guitarist Dave Ricketts, the band’s sound is lively, acoustic, and built for a crowded barroom.
Experience the resurgence of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown nightlife at the Lion’s Den. Tucked away on Wentworth Place, this bi-level lounge and performance space blends modern cocktail culture with the East meets West spirit of the Chinatown’s golden age. Every week, the venue transforms into a unique destination for live music, featuring a rotating roster...
Fog City Swing was created by Trumpeter Daniel Herrera in 2023, the goal, to become the “world’s smallest big band!” Rapidly becoming one of the preeminent Jazz and Swing bands in the Bay Area, their ongoing Friday night residency at San Francisco’s premier Jazz venue, the Dawn Club, features some of Northern California’s top vocalists...
The New Accidents at Boom Boom Room headline a four-band night of original ska, reggae, rock and punk. The San Francisco band, formed in 2017, builds its originals on Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff, with The Specials, The English Beat, Madness and Fishbone in the mix, and describes the result as neither rootsy,...