Tickets for the beloved (and free) San Francisco music festival are expected to sell out quickly when they go live for each act.
Now in its 87th year, Stern Grove Music Festival — which, fun fact, is the oldest non-profit music festival series in the entire country — is set to be a staple on your calendars this summer, courtesy of a stellar lineup.
Announced at a lively party at Local Edition on May 10th, the admission-free concert series (for general seating, sans designated picnic areas, and other more embellished arrangments) was met with a fit of joy and levity. Matthew Goldman — whose family has run the free concerts at San Francisco’s Stern Grove for five generations now — waxed that the festival’s innate “funk” has remained a staple memory ever since he experienced his first festival — “[myself and other concert goers] suddenly in the middle of a big funk party! How did that happen? I love my job!”
48hills was spot-on in showing how this year’s lineup of dazzling talent truly does span the game of musical tastes, creating a series of concerts organized around the invaluable connection between musicians and their listeners as opposed to focusing on any one specific genre. (The pop-minded among us will take splendid delight in seeing that San Francisco’s 87th annual Stern Grove Festival will kick off with the likes of Tegan and Sara; indie-R&B tour de force King Isis will open for the duo.
Fittingly, Chaka Khan is set to wrap up the festival on August 25th — and may we all aspire to have this much vitality and as few fucks to give in our 70s.
Below, you’ll find the full lineup for this year’s Stern Grove Festival Lineup.
- June 23rd: Tegan and Sara, King Isis
- June 30th: Chicano Batman, Lido Pimienta
- July 7th: SF Symphony with Special Guest Jessica Vosk
- July 14th: The Commodores, The Grease Traps
- July 21th: Masego, Satya
- July 28th: Franc Moody, Drama
- August 4th: Alex G, Fake Fruit
- August 11th: Herbie Hancock, SFJAZZ Collective
- August 18th: Lucinda Williams, Jobi Riccio
- August 24th: Sylvan Esso, Poolside
- August 25th: Chaka Khan
// Tickets for the 2024 Stern Grove Festival are released in batches… with the first bunch of tickets released one month before the show date at 2 pm PST. — Tegan and Sara’s tickets were released on May 23rd at 2 p.m.; those sold out within a few hours; tickets for table buyouts (so you can have a guaranteed spot to sip wine and eat picnic fare from with unobstructed views of the stage) are still for sale, however — and are free on a first-come, first-served basis. The remaining tickets, which number in the thousands, for each show, are released randomly in the weeks and days leading up to the show date.
Feature Image: Courtesy of photos by Paige Parsons
