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This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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KFOG KaBoom was an annual outdoor concert held by KFOG in San Francisco and which occurred in May from 1994 to 2010. It was followed by a fireworks show [1] [2] synchronized to a soundtrack broadcast by the station. The extravagant fireworks display drew over 350,000 people. [3] In 2007, KaBoom began charging admission due to rising costs. [4]
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — On New Year’s Eve, it’s all about watching the fireworks and the place to be is typically along the waterfront in San Francisco. But if you’d prefer to ring in the ...
Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. [1]
The How Weird Street Faire won the SF Weekly’s 2018 Best of SF award for “street fair that continues to improve and blow our minds”. [13] The event was named one of the 10 Best Cultural Festivals in America by USA Today in 2019. [14] 2020 saw the first How Weird World Faire, a virtual fair.
San Francisco-based SHN hosts productions of Broadway shows in its vintage 1920s-era venues in the Theater District: the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate Theatres. San Francisco has had a thriving improv theatre community, with a distinctly different style of improv than much of the rest of the country [citation needed].
Bound Together is an anarchist bookstore and visitor attraction on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Its Lonely Planet review in 2016, commenting on its multiple activities, states that it "makes us tools of the state look like slackers". [1] The bookstore carries new and used books as well as local authors. [2]