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The Stern Grove Festival is an admission-free series of performing arts events held during the summer months in San Francisco. Established in 1938, the festival is held at Sigmund Stern Grove, a eucalyptus-wooded natural amphitheater on a 33-acre (130,000-square-meter) site about two miles (three kilometers) south of Golden Gate Park that ranges from 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard west to ...
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO) is a youth orchestra organized by the San Francisco Symphony. The SFSYO performs an annual concert series and has made several recordings. The orchestra rehearses in Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall and has been directed by Radu Paponiu since the 2024-2025 season. [1]
The Jerry Garcia Amphitheater is an outdoor concert venue located in McLaren Park in San Francisco, California, [2] [3] opened in 1971. [1] Its maximum capacity (as of 2022) is 1,200 people. [1] It is named after Jerry Garcia of the rock band Grateful Dead, [1] and is the site of the annual Jerry Day event, at which various musical groups ...
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
The group played five shows a day for nine days, running to a tight schedule with only two songs in their set. [26] They toured West Germany in April, [27] followed by a short Scandinavian tour. [28] In June, the Who began their first tour in the United States. [29] They played their first concert at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco on 16 ...
SFGMC presents an annual subscription concert series that includes holiday concerts in December; a spring concert at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall — home of the San Francisco Symphony; an Annual Pride Concert with other San Francisco LGBT organizations; [39] plus a concert featuring the chorus's small ensembles and a cabaret featuring its ...
The Beatles' final paid concert of their career took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. The band played to an audience of 25,000, [54] leaving 7,000 tickets unsold. [70] A local company called Tempo Productions was in charge of the arrangements.
In 1992, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to rename the auditorium after the rock concert impresario Bill Graham, who had died the previous year in a helicopter crash. [ 6 ] Long before Bill Graham came along, James T. Graham (no relation) managed the Civic Auditorium from 1954 to 1970 and booked some of the biggest names in show ...