Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
Nashville Honeymoon brings a high-energy blend of classic and contemporary country to the Riptide on May 3, with tight harmonies, twangy guitars, and road-tested originals that feel instantly familiar yet freshly dialed-in for a West Coast crowd. Drawing on the storytelling tradition of Nashville and the grit of barroom honky-tonks, they mix dance-floor-ready two-steppers with...
Burl Haggard at the Riptide features the Bay Area’s self-described “western swing Mama warned you about,” delivering a lively blend of country swagger, swing, and honky-tonk charm in a welcoming neighborhood setting. Known for his playful, rootsy style and rotating collaborations with vocalists like Tarah Williams and Bonnie Sarkar, Burl Haggard brings a danceable, old-school...
Metzger's Field plays 60s country and jazz at the Riptide.
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
The Tides & Tunes Sessions is a monthly concert series hosted by Charlie Kaupp at The Riptide in San Francisco every fourth Sunday of the month from 7:30-10pm. The series is intended to showcase a new pair of musical acts each month. Acts span all genres and styles, but are focused on solo, duos, and...
Junk Parlor brings their deeply rooted, genre-bending sound to the Riptide — born from the story of Yanos, a Hungarian accordion player who immigrated to Oakland in 1907, the band was formed four generations later by his great-grandson, with Eastern European harmony alive and sparkling throughout the music. A lyrical collage of Eastern European folk,...
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
Country music with a twist as Velvetta takes the stage a the Riptide.
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
The Riptide in the Outer Sunset welcomes The DisRespectors, bringing their Mission District punk rock party mode straight to the beach for a high‑energy night of loud guitars, big hooks, and rowdy sing‑along anthems tailor‑made for one of San Francisco’s classic neighborhood dives.
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
Nashville Honeymoon brings a high-energy blend of classic and contemporary country to the Riptide on May 3, with tight harmonies, twangy guitars, and road-tested originals that feel instantly familiar yet freshly dialed-in for a West Coast crowd. Drawing on the storytelling tradition of Nashville and the grit of barroom honky-tonks, they mix dance-floor-ready two-steppers with...
The SBGs bring the electrifying energy and raw soulful sounds of 1950s blues and rock 'n' roll to the Riptide — composed of some of the finest blues musicians in the SF Bay Area, the band delivers an authentic, unforgettable musical experience that celebrates the pioneers of an era when music was pure, visceral, and...
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
The Tides & Tunes Sessions is a monthly concert series hosted by Charlie Kaupp at The Riptide in San Francisco every fourth Sunday of the month from 7:30-10pm. The series is intended to showcase a new pair of musical acts each month. Acts span all genres and styles, but are focused on solo, duos, and...
The Low Rollers bring two decades of San Francisco rock 'n' roll know-how to The Riptide, powered by brothers Joel and Tom Murach on guitar/vocals and drums, with Austin transplant Colin Peden locking in the low end on bass and backing vocals. The trio has a tight, road-worn sound, and on special nights pedal steel...
Metzger's Field plays 60s country and jazz at the Riptide.
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
Doc Sawyers brings the infectious energy of Irish rock to The Riptide, channeling the beloved songs of the Saw Doctors for a night of high-spirited, sing-along fun. San Francisco's own Saw Doctors tribute band, Doc Sawyers debuted in August 2025 and has been spreading the Galway spirit up and down the Bay Area ever since....
Radio Incognito returns to the Riptide. The SF Bay Area based band blends elements of punk, blues, and alternative rock, and consists of members Keith Moonlight (guitar and vocals), Steven Wiig (drums), and Doran.
Best of The Bay Award Winning Charlie Kaupp's Riptide Open Mic! The Riptide Open Mic is a long-running, award-winning weekly event held at The Riptide, a popular honky-tonk dive bar in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Sign ups start at 7pm. Music starts at 8. Bring your instrument or borrow ours. Piano available....
The Funky Cha! debuts at the Riptide playing funky soul and reggae.
The Harkenbacks, Appalachian-urban folk heroes from the far lands of Berkeley, play at the Riptide. Fiddle, guitar, mandolin and upright bass figure prominently in their arrangements, while occasional blasts of harmonica, tambourine and even kazoo lend an element of surprise. They clap, stomp, crow and croon, Corry-Jo's enchanting melodic tenor stitched deftly through the high...