Lavay Smith Live Swing & Jazz Music | 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 2025
The 2025 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 10, 2025 with La Santa Cecilia to kick off its 25th Anniversary Season.
With a vast repertoire of vintage R&B, jump blues, and dance-inducing standards, the flammable Lavay Smith is the Bay Area’s undisputed queen of swing. Backed by her all-star Red Hot Skillet Lickers, she delves into the most soulful chapters of the Great American Songbook. The most sincere form of flattery in jazz is being yourself, and Smith puts her own inimitable stamp on material associated with a glittering pantheon, including songs made famous by Billie Holiday, Etta James, Sarah Vaughan, Patsy Cline, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington.
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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Live Music
