Check Out SF’s 75+ Free Outdoor Concerts (Summer 2022)
“People in Plazas” is a free annual outdoor summer music festival that puts on over 75 free lunchtime concerts featuring an array of different styles from July to September in over 12 different public plazas near Market Street.
“People in Plazas” 2022 Market Street Music Festival
July, August, September, 2022
– Weekdays (Tuesdays through Fridays)
– Most concerts are from Noon to 1 pm
– 75+ free lunchtime concerts
– 12 different venues in SF on (or near) Market St.
- See the full 2022 schedule (subject to change)
Concert Locations (All in Downtown SF)
- Sidney Walton Plaza aka North Point Park
- 333 Market Street
- Rincon Center
- 425 Market Street
- One Bush
- 525 Market Street
- 595 Market Street
- 555 California Street
- 303 Second Street
- 405 Howard
- 505 Howard
- 555 Mission Street
Residents, office workers and tourists can hear live music for FREE weekdays during July, August, and September. Concerts take place Tuesday through Friday and are paid gigs for musicians who all live in the Bay Area.
Every year the festival consciously strives to produce events that bring a diversity of music to our audiences, and we are committed to hiring women-led bands and people of color.
Why Downtown? Why Market Street?
The festival aims to use music as the vehicle to change perceptions and invite use of otherwise underused or blighted public spaces. It is especially important this year as workers begin to return to office buildings. Live music encourages workers, tourists, and residents to assemble outdoors to enjoy local food, support local small businesses, meet with friends, have a respite from their workday and take advantage of what our City as to offer. PIP returns these sometimes underutilized spaces to again feeling like “everyone’s neighborhood”.They partner with local building management and owners to produce local groups playing Blues, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Salsa, Classical, Folk, Americana, Old-Timey, Gypsy, World, R&B, Soul, Swing, Country, Bluegrass, and more.
