FOLK CLUB EVENTS
1st & 3rd Tuesdays on Zoom 1-3:30 pm. For access, join our email list.
Our online Friday musical meetings are now on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month at 7 pm. For updates and access, join our email list.
Our in-person musical meetings in San Francisco are at a new location, now on the 3rd Sunday of the month from 1 pm to 5 pm. Details are here!
1st & 3rd Tuesdays on Zoom 1-3:30 pm. For access, join our email list.
Our online Friday musical meetings have moved to 1st and 3rd Fridays at 7 pm. For updates and access, join our email list.
Three days of online music, from Friday March 6 until Sunday March 8, 2026. Save the dates!
Saturday and Sunday May 23 & 24, 12 noon – 8:00 pm (no overnights). Cedar Rose Park, 1300 Rose Street, Berkeley, near the North Berkeley BART station. Details here.
Multi-day in-person event at Camp Herms in the El Cerrito Hills, starting on Friday afternoon July 3 and continuing until Monday July 6. You can either camp overnight or come for day use. More info here!
Our 50th annual SF Free Folk Festival! More information is here.
Save the date! Details here as they become available.
FOLK CLUB NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
SFFMC’s 2026 Spring Harmony Online event will run from from March 6 to 8. Save the dates! More info is here.
On summer holiday weekends, SFFMC hosts multi-day music gatherings in the Bay Area. This year’s gatherings will be on May 23-24 (Memorial Day weekend) at Cedar Rose Park in Berkeley , July 3-6 (July 4 weekend) at Camp Herms in the El Cerrito hills, and September 5-6 (Labor Day weekend) at the Center for the Blind in Berkeley. Save the dates! More info about our summer gatherings is here.
SFFMC’s 2026 San Francisco Free Folk Festival (our 50th annual festival!) will be on Saturday July 11 in our current location in Golden Gate Park. For more information about the festival, check out the festival website. Our festivals in Golden Gate Park are co-sponsored by Illuminate and the San Francisco City Recreation and Parks Department.
SFFMC’s 2026 El Cerrito Free Folk Festival will be on Saturday October 10 at the El Cerrito Community Center. Save the date! More info is on the festival website.
SFFMC’s in-person musical meetings have started up again, initially on the third Sunday afternoons of each month! The next ones will be on December 21, January 18 and February 15 from 1 pm to 5 pm. More information about our in-person and online musical meetings is here, or contact Glen at gvanlehn@sonic.net .
Camp Harmony, SFFMC’s New Year’s camp, ran from December 30, 2025 to January 4, 2026. See you at the 2026-27 camp! More info about Camp Harmony is here.
The SFFMC member directory is online at https://www.sffmc.org/member-directory! The directory can only be viewed by current members who are logged into the website. If you run into problems, contact the SFFMC membership coordinator at membership@sffmc.org .
Thanks to folknik calendar editor Shelby Solomon, we have a new community folk calendar on our website! Check it out here.
Some of you may remember that SFFMC did a member/community survey back in December 2020. Here are the compiled results of the multiple-choice questions: https://www.sffmc.org/wp-content/uploads/SFFMC-survey-multiple-choice-report.pdf . Thanks again to everyone who responded!