RSSFestivals | San Francisco Travel Blog - Part 10
SF Design Week
San Francisco Design Week 2017 is currently running across the city from June 14-22. It is a series of events being held over a week and encompassing all of the variety that San Francisco has to offer. More than 60 studio tours will be open and 200 events held from the heart of Silicon Valley to the streets of downtown. Participants will be able to interact and engage with some of the greatest design minds that San Francisco and the world has to offer.
35th SF Jazz Festival
San Francisco has a rich history in the world of jazz. The rise of Jazz led to clubs being opened in the 40’s and 50’s. Fast forward to 1983, when the first San Francisco Jazz Festival premiered. Since it’s inception, the festival has prided itself in exploring all facets and sub-cultures of Jazz. The festival runs from June 6th to June 18th. It boasts 43 concerts, 13 days, and 5 venues all within the Hayes Valley. This years venues include the Joe Henderson Lab, the Miner Auditorium, the Herbst Theatre, Davies Symphony Hall, with a Kick-off Party at the Corner of Hayes and Octavia Streets. Ticket prices vary for the different concerts on offer. If you can see all 43 concerts, by all means do so. For those of you on a limited budget or with limited time, we’re here to suggest some acts that are poised to tear down the house.
Festival Bubble?
Festivals are a staple of the California lifestyle. They’re also proving to be a rather undeniable part of the California economy. The festival economy seems to be growing at such an fast rate, there’s concern that it may overheat and burst. The Coachella Arts and Music Festival recently increased it’s capacity to a bulging 125,000 people. It still managed to sell out in just under three hours. The Stagecoach festival is the country music cousin of Coachella and it’s current capacity is 75,000. These two large festivals continue to sire spin off festivals within the golden state. These festivals only account for big ticket sales. The reality is that a Californian could literally spend their entire year at smaller festivals, regional events, and community events that the weather of California awards us. You could do this, and still not see everything on display.
40th Annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair is returning (of course) this year for a day full of art, music, dance, costumes, laughter, and food. Taking place on Sunday, June 11th, the HASF begins at 11 in the morning and runs until 5:30 in the evening; plenty of time for you and your family/friends to fill yourselves with the magic of the neighborhood.
39th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
Dance, like music, is a universal language. No words are needed to accompany the movement of bodies on a stage. Whatever our cultural background, whatever our life experience, dance exists as a powerful signifier of the human spirit and its potential. Few events recognize this power like the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Now headed into its 39th year, the SFEDF has been highly praised by such outlets as The New York Times as being one of the most compelling annual dance events in the country. Visitors to San Francisco in the early weeks of June have the opportunity to experience for themselves this magical cultural event.
Union Street Music Festival
The Union Street Festival is back, bigger and better than ever before, ready to thrill you and fill you with great food, marvelous handmade crafts, delicious beer, and so, so much more. In order to show just how much more than just a street fair this year’s Union Street Festival will be, the organizers have even rebranded the entire event as the Union Street Music Festival. This means that in addition to all the usual offerings that one can find at the festival, this year’s production will also include some of the Bay Area’s best musicians performing at numerous small stages all around the event’s location.
Peace, Love, and Music
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Summer Of Love. 1967 was a high point for the counterculture movement of the Boomer generation. San Francisco became an outpost for the youth of the day, a place where they could come together and let their feelings on the world be known. Most of this exploration came in the form of music. So it’s only natural that San Francisco is looking to celebrate its historical and cultural importance with a large variety of events around the city this year. Here’s some information on the places you need to be out and about this summer.
2017 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival
Whether you are a car collector, car enthusiast, or a fan of car racing, the 2017 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival will fulfill your desire to gape at beautiful vehicles in beautiful surroundings. Hosted from June1st to June 4th, the 2017 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival is the latest addition to a popular event that takes place yearly at the Sonoma Raceway.
35th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival
There are few musical styles that can be as convincingly claimed as “American” than jazz. Born out of the joie de vivre of the post-war attitude found in many American cities after WWI and combined with the compelling passion of musical styles like gospel and blues, jazz weathered the storm and scandal of its infancy (when it was seen as immoral and sinful) and is now considered one of the most illustrious and dignified styles of musical expressions available to musicians. If you love jazz, if you like jazz, or even if you don’t, you will want to know about the 35th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival happening over the course of two weeks in Hayes Valley, only a short hop from downtown San Francisco.
Petaluma Music Tour
Big things sometimes come in small packages. Petaluma California is only an hour north from San Francisco, but from a lifestyle standpoint, it can seem light years away. The town has been cast multiple times as a sleepy town in multiple classic movies. Perhaps most famous, it was used as the shooting location for George Lucas’ classic ‘American Graffiti’. In fact, the yearly event in the town is Butter and Egg Days Parade. Not quite the thing that your average Silicon Valley developer might find interesting on a Saturday afternoon. It’s a town of rich agricultural heritage and pride. For most city dwellers, it is a town that you pass through on your way to tour a winery.
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