Fairs & Festivals
Golden Gate Bandshell Hosts 110+ Free Concerts in 2022
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco Golden Gate Bandshell welcomes back live performances with a diverse lineup of musicians to play free concerts at historic landmark. Live music has returned to the Golden Gate Bandshell’s iconic stage with a series of free outdoor concerts in Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, San Francisco more...
SF’s Polk Street “Trick or Treat” Trail 2022
Fairs & Festivals, Halloween, San Francisco, Sponsored Join Discover Polk CBD, Russian Hill Neighbors, & Lower Polk CBD for an afternoon of family-focused Halloween fun up and down Polk Street. From 11am to 3pm, we’ll have child (candy) and adult (e.g. wine tastes, tiny beers, and cheese samples, etc.) trick-or-treating at dozens of Polk Street merchants from Union Street to all the way to Geary! And more...
Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party is Back for 2022
Community, Eat & Drink, Fairs & Festivals, Get Out: Events, San Francisco, Sponsored Noise Pop’s 20th Street Block Party is back and taking over the Mission in a new location with live music, food trucks, local vendors, and more on October 15, 2022. The event is FREE with RSVP, but you can snag Headliner Experience passes if you want go baller. This year’s community more...
Win VIP Tix to SF’s Epic “Breakaway Festival (Oct. 14-15)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, San Francisco, Sponsored Set for Friday, October 14 & Saturday, October 15, Breakaway Music Festival is debuting in the Bay Area with a multi-stage spectacle at newly-announced venue, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF. The west coast Breakaway will feature live music from Gryffin, Louis The Child, Big Wild, Said The Sky, Tycho more...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Drops Full Stage Schedule
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Only in San Francisco Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, one of the largest, free-est, and beloved music festivals in the country, is back for 2022 – the first in-person version of this event since 2019. Just announced, check out the full stage schedule, so you can start planning your festival weekend. Be one of over 750,000 attendees over more...
POSTPONED: NorCal’s Largest Halloween County Fair is Coming for 2022
East Bay, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Sponsored This event has been postponed for 2022 Get ready for a haunted house, costume contests, pumpkin patch, free kids treats and more. It’s the 3rd Annual “Kids Scream Zone” at the Contra Costa County Health & Wellness Festival, Oct 29, 2022 inside the Contra Costa Fairgrounds. It’s the largest Halloween County more...
Free Outdoor Events at Thrive City (Sept-Oct. 2022)
Fairs & Festivals, Outdoorsy, San Francisco, Sponsored Don’t miss your last chance to check out the final weeks of Thrive City’s 2022 schedule of 25+ free festival-style events all summer long with free concerts, outdoor comedy spectaculars, fitness classes, giveaways and epic movie nights on the Bay Area’s biggest outdoor screen at Thrive City, the plaza right in more...
SF is Getting a Mother F*cking Cat Festival (Sept. 23-25)
Fairs & Festivals Friends of felines get your kittens ready…. the San Francisco Cat Extravaganza, a three-day festival of all things cats is coming to the Cow Palace on September 23-25, 2022. (Will we have to call it the “Cat Palace?”). The festival, which also has stops in England, Peru, Dallas, Colombia, Florida, Portugal, more...
Chase Center’s New Free Outdoor Comedy Night (Aug. 12)
Fairs & Festivals, San Francisco, Sponsored Get ready for 2022’s second outdoor comedy takeover of Chase Center’s Thrive City w/ SF’s top comics, DJs and giveaways. Friday night laughs are coming (again)! as the team behind the Bay Area’s popular HellaSecret comedy shows comes to Thrive City, the plaza surrounding Chase Center, to continue 2022 “Live at Thrive more...
SF Giving Away Free Fashion Photo Shoots (If You’re Eco-Friendly)
Fairs & Festivals, Freebies, Green, Sponsored Hey San Francisco! Want your own FREE high-fashion photo and chic reusable mug or reusable bag? Don’t miss the most glamorous (and environmentally friendly) fashion event of the year. You’ve probably seen the local advertising campaign for REUSE all over the city. Now you can get your own professional quality REUSE more...
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Drops New Lineup Updates
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates Hardly Strictly Bluegrass just announced a second round of artists to their highly anticipated live return to San Francisco, CA’s Golden Gate Park on September 30-October 2. The three-day, multi-stage free music festival, who last month announced an initial list of participants, announced their next list of performers including Emmylou Harris, more...
SF’s 2022 “Jerry Day” Free Music Festival + Excelsior Art Walk
Fairs & Festivals 20th Annual “Jerry Day” Concert Festival + Excelsior After Parties The Grateful Dead’s iconic bearded lead singer Jerry Garcia had deep roots in San Francisco, having spent his childhood in the Excelsior. After his death, the first “Jerry Day” was held in 2002 to raise money to fix a rundown playground, more...
Berkeley Kite Festival Canceled Due to Event Fee Hike
East Bay, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates Thanks to Berkeleyside for sharing the unfortunate news that the long-running Berkeley Kite Festival has been canceled indefinitely. Sadly, Tom McAllister, who has organized the festival as a labor love for over 30 years, has stated that Berkeley has raised its special event fees exponentially, to the tune of $45,000, which more...
San Francisco’s Biggest Music Festivals in 2022 & ’23
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates The San Francisco Bay Area boasts a stellar array of annual music festivals and concert series, and the list keeps getting longer with new festivals joining the lineup. New on the scene this fall are the Portola Music Festival in San Francisco and Breakaway California in Oakland. These join heavyweights such more...
Oakland’s First Ever “Festival of Immersive Arts” (July 15-24)
Artsy Fartsy, Fairs & Festivals, Oakland Join us at a multi-weekend Festival featuring artists from the Bay Area & beyond. With four world premieres, art, music and exhibitions taking place throughout downtown Oakland’s Broadway corridor, OFIA highlights the potential of immersive art to build community and spark conversations about vital issues. Join us for the Festival’s inaugural more...
