Program 2026

The 2026 San Francisco Free Folk Festival was on Saturday July 11.

The festival program is still available for viewing below. Click on any box for more details about that performer or workshop. 2026 festival photos and video are available for viewing too.

Bandshell Stage

Singer-songwriter

Bluegrass/Americana

Treble by the Bay

Celtic music & dance

T Marie & Bayou Juju

South Louisiana sounds: Cajun, Creole, Lala-Zydeco, swamp pop, blues, New Orleans R&B

Celtic folk-rock

Acoustic Stage (starts at 2 pm)

Hali Hammer & Randy Berge

Singer-songwriter

Folk/Americana singer-songwriter

Trad British Isles

Folk, Americana, singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Acoustic fingerstyle instrumental

Singer-songwriter

Acoustic Americana

Indie-folk, Americana

Pete Kronowitt & The Everyday Items

Positive acoustic Pop

Singer-songwriter

Dance area

Klezmer Dancing

Sasha Waniewski & the Ellis Island Old World Folk Band

Alice Erickson & Berkeley Morris

Spanish California Dance

Jim Letchworth & members of Los Arribeños de San Francisco

Workshop Area 1

Cajun-Creole Music

Blair Kilpatrick & Steve Tabak

This Instrument Also Fights Fascism

Workshop spaces available these hours for informal jamming

Oldtime Tune Jam

Quebecois Tune Jam

Workshop Area 2

SAC Storytelling Performance

SAC Storytelling 101 Workshop

Songs from a Hat

Workshop spaces available these hours for informal jamming

Sacred Harp Singing

Jenny Solheim & Dami Osoba

Songs from around the Campfire

Peg Healy & Casey Casebeer

Workshop Area 3

Let’s Sing Rounds

Ballads of Mistaken Identity

Sea Songs and Shanties

Dick Holdstock & Travis Pratt

Workshop spaces available these hours for informal jamming

Deborah Sandler

Workshop Area 4

To our Changing Places

Diana Ruta Lempel

Folk Songs of Women’s History

Estelle Freedman

Workshop spaces available these hours for informal jamming

Political Songs

Songs for the Moment

Nancy Schimmel, Bonnie Lockhart, & Hali Hammer