Ila Cantor Jazz Guitar Concert in the Park | Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
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Yerba Buena Gardens (Esplanade) | 773 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
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SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2026
The 2026 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival hosts a full lineup of free outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry, and children’s programs. The Festival opens on Saturday, May 9, 2026 with Hermán Olivera y Orquesta Taíno to kick off its 26th season. The Festival features over 100 free performances from May to November in Downtown San Francisco.
Mentored by guitar masters John Scofield and John Abercrombie, Ila Cantor made the move from New York City to the East Bay a few years ago and quickly fell in with some of the region’s most creative improvisers. A gifted composer and evocative singer/songwriter, she possesses a cool, rounded tone and a fiercely lyrical sensibility. Sought out as a collaborator by some of jazz’s leading figures, she’s a Bay Area star in the making, a guitarist in the midst of building a vivid musical world encompassing a vast constellation of influences.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music
