Free Jazz & Blues Concert in the Park: Red Hot Skillet Lickers | Yerba Buena Gardens

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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.

Saturday, May 25, 2013
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers | SF’s Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 2026

The Queen of classic jazz and blues is back with her “little big band,” the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, featuring the sensational Big Bones, one of the world’s great blues harmonica players.

Lavay Smith’s all-star 7-piece band will perform a wide selection of instrumental and vocal numbers from the heyday of Kansas City jazz and blues, including music by Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Lester Young, and of course, the great Count Basie.

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