Ronnie's Awesome List, The Ultimate Kids Events Round-Up In Marin And Beyond.
September 10-20, 2026
Flower Piano is set to return for it’s 11th anniversary in the Botanical Garden for 10 days, spanning two weekends—September 10-20. In the final days of summer, Flower Piano will once again transform San Francisco Botanical Garden into the city’s own alfresco concert hall where everyone is invited to play and listen.
12pm, Tango No. 9, Tangos Old and Nuevo: Gardel to Piazzola
12pm, Marc Capelle, Pop, Soul, Gospel and Original Compositions
1pm, Danny Sullivan, Don’t Stop Be-Leafing: An 80s Odyssey
1pm, Paul Caccamo, A Polite Recital Goes Off the Rails
1:30 pm, John Coltrane Arts SF, “A Love Supreme” 1965/2025 Coltrane Centennial Birthday
2pm, Kymry Esainko, Melancholy Moods to Soothe the Savage Skeptic
2pm, Calvin Huang, Dazzling Spirits, Macabre Nights: A Transcendental Odyssey
2:30 pm, San Francisco Ballet School, Piano Concert & Interactive Demo with SF Ballet Parkinson’s Dance Class
3pm, Andy Singer, 1890 to 1920, Europe in Transition
3pm, Long-Killion-Ffortissimo Trio, Piazzolla, Avant-garde, and More
4pm, Free Key Choir (50+ singers), Choral arrangements of songs by local songwriters
5pm, Jill Tracy, Elegant, Dark, Cinematic, Haunting Sonic Spells
5pm, The Pacific Jazz Group, Selections From the Short-lived Pacific Jazz Label
11am, Noe’s Garden, Delight Your Child With Songs and Puppetry!
11am, Mandy’s Piano Studio, Inspired by Nature, Growing Through Music Together.
12pm, Joshua Raoul Brody, Standards, Substandards, Originals, Aboriginals, and Beatles Songs
12pm, Kymry Esainko & Allison Lovejoy, Two Americans in Paris: Gershwin, Bolcom, Ravel
1pm, Alon Nechushtan Trio, Three Instrumentalists Perform Audacious Jazz Music
1pm, Van-Anh Nguyen, Chopin, Rachmaninoff & Beyond
1pm, Colin Farish, Originals and Improvisations inspired by Jarret, Gershwin, & more
2pm, Ramiro Boero with the Awesome Orchestra, Latin Grammy Nominee Ramiro Boero Premiering Tango Symphonic Works w/ Conductor, David Möschler
3pm, Dawn Oberg, Botanical lounge act that brings the originals!
3pm, Robert Dehlinger and His Alpha Rhythm Kings, King Size Swingin’ Sounds!
4pm, Mr. Lucky & The Cocktail Party, Playing Your Favorite Songs!
4pm, Musica Cubana, Musica Cubana
5pm, Madelyn Sonoma, Singer-Songwriter Rooted in Soul and Rock
5pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Swing, Blues, and New Orleans Music!
11am, San Francisco Ballet School, Interactive Family Dance-Along for All
12pm, Motoko Honda, Beyond the Piano – Contemporary/Prepared Piano Music
12pm, Philharmonia Baroque, Baroque and Beyond with Period Stringed Instruments
12pm, Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, Nineteenth-Century Garden Visions at the Piano
12pm, Plumrose Piano Studio, Faculty and students of Plumrose Piano Studio
1pm, Dred Scott, An Irreverent Veneer Disguises Old-school Jazz Scholarship
1pm, Rob Reich Swings Left Legacy Band, Original swing music for dancing, or not
2pm, Little Mission Studio, Little Mission Studio Student and Faculty Performance!
2pm, Sandra Simich, Debussy, Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms, Glass, Prokofiev
2pm, San Francisco Symphony, SF Symphony Musicians Perform Chamber Works
2pm, Svetlana Rudenko & Haunted Planet Studios, Music composed for flowers, art of Dalí
3pm, Allison Lovejoy & Special Guest, PIANO EXPLORATIONS: Chopin, Ravel, Liszt, Jazz Fantasies
3pm, Mark Whidden, Tenderness, Radiance, Warmth, Joy, Love, Dreams, Stillness
3pm, Sumi Lee Tango Quartet, Passionate Piazzolla & New Compositions, Award-Winning Maestros
4pm, Cahill/Myers Duo, Inspiring and Brilliant Music for Two Pianos
4pm, Trio Tangazo, Argentine Tango
4pm, Students of Christian Tumalán, Students showcase classical, jazz and beyond!
5pm, Diana Gameros and Friends, Original Tunes + Songs from Mexico and Beyond
11am, Paul Hogarth, Songs About Cities: San Francisco and Beyond
12pm, Betty Roi Trio, Authentic Parisian Chanteuse Sings Jazz and Cabaret
1pm, Joshua Grayson, Ballade #1 (Chopin), Piano Symphony (Charles Alkan)
2pm, Rebecca Hass, Joyful Brazilian music: originals and classics
4pm, Rami Bar-Niv, Rhapsody in Blue: an all Gershwin program
11am, Jenny Ma and Franz Zhao Piano Duo, An Offering of Piano Duos
12pm, Dave Rocha Jazz Trio, Modern Jazz Playing in a Trio Format
1:30 pm, Steve Carter Trio, The Trio Plays Original World-Jazz
2pm, Caroline Dahl, Boogie Woogie Piano: Blended and Bunkum-Free
3pm, Mauro, Dean, and Friends, A Tribute to John Cage
3pm, Osvaldo De Leon Davila, Make It Classy (As in Classical Music…)
4pm, Duo LaMophon, Beethoven: Odd-Numbered Violin Sonatas
12pm, Charged Particles, Original Funky Latin Jazz with a Spark!
1pm, Trinity Alps Festival Trio, Trinity Alps Festival plays Beethoven, Dvorak, and Smetana
1:30 pm, Paulo Sultanum & Casulo, Brazilian Bossafolk
2pm, Saki Minamimoto, voice, Brett Carson, piano, Poetic & passionate vocal Jazz with effortless delivery
2pm, Irina Omelchenko, Classical, Boogie Woogie, Rock and Roll
3pm, TonaLaura Jazz Duo, Sparkling Jazz to Feed Your Hungry Ears
3pm, Briarbird, Mozart Piano/Violin Sonatas Played on Flute
3pm, Silk Tone Duo, Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalists in rhapsodic spontaneity
4pm, LaMantia & Friends, Enchanting Original Love Songs to Wild Compositions
4pm, Robin Krop, Sing Along With Classical Piano Melodies!
11am, Lucas and Alex Perry, San Francisco’s Own Identical Twin Jazz Phenoms
12pm, Doug Goodkin & The Pentatonics, Playful Jazz for all Ages-Kids Welcome
12pm, Kennedy Realness, An Interactive Deep Listening Soundscape Experience
1pm, Jasnam Daya Singh & Hugo Wainzinger, South American Folklore with a Tone Poem Style
1pm, Eric Chase, J.S. Bach-analia in the Garden
2pm, Anna Muravitskaya, voice Naomi Stine, piano, Opera stripped down. Emotions turned up!
2pm, Gabriela Calderón & Astrid Morales, American Sketches: Tales of a Continent
3pm, Bob Bralove / Patti Weiss Group, We are a World Music/Grateful Dead Group
3pm, BEAT CORNER, Avante Garden Poetry and Music
4pm, Sojourn Duo & Friends, Four-Hand Piano: The 20th Century and Beyond
11am, Ian Scarfe, Classical Masterpieces for the Trees
12pm, Mose Def, Music of the Great Mose Allison
1pm, Ruth Asawa School of the Arts Piano Department, SOTA students present a program of piano ensembles.
1pm, AB Keys, Angela Dwyer, Bella Chen, Four hands, classical twists and pop favorites.
1pm, Ars Minerva, Seeds: The Buried Beginnings of Forgotten Music
1:30 pm, Steve Abrams Trio, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Salsa and Hard Bop
2pm, Craig Garfinkel, Top 10 Countdown of ‘70s Piano Ballads
2pm, Samer Fanek, A decade of stories in 5 albums
2pm, Earth, Wind, and Flowers, Chamber Music of Various Styles for Everyone!
3pm, Diva Marisa and Martin Strauss, Arias, Sonatas, and Musical Inspiration
3pm, Liz Kennedy, Critically acclaimed, San Francisco-based singer-songwriter
3pm, BEAT CORNER, Avante Garden Poetry and Music
4pm, Hadley McCarroll, Passionately Persuasive Piano Playing from Oakland CA!
5pm, John Brothers Piano Company, High energy original compositions with spontaneous chaos
11am, Glide Ensemble, Sing and Sway in the Spirit of Empowerment
11am, Soprano Jou-Lu Hung with Pianist Sumi Lee, Italian Opera and French Art Songs
12pm, Kitten On The Keys, Playful, unexpected, covers, originals, cabaret , deco, pop
12pm, San Francisco Opera, Enchanted Melodies: Interactive Fairytale Opera for All
1pm, Katy Stephan, Les Fleurs: Hand-Picked Songs in English and French
1pm, Angela LaFlamme & Co.,Wild Women Who Shaped the Blues
2pm, FASHION SHOW!, Everybody is a Flower at the 3rd Annual Flower Piano Fashion Show
2pm, The Straw Dogs + Jamie Narushchen, Music in Motion
3pm, Kash Killion and Killion’s Trillions, Sun Ra, Reggae, Jazz and World music
4pm, Pedro J. Pastrana & Oskar Ly, Ecstatic interpretations from the American/Caribbean Songbook
4pm, Georgeann Strong, Texan Pianist and Garden Lover Returns Again!
5pm, Christian Tumalán Trio, Intimate Latin Jazz, Avant-garde Exploration
11am, Jaron Lanier, Musical Hide and Seek in the Fog
11am, SF Conservatory of Music, Pre College Students Present Master Solo Works
11am, San Francisco Opera, Enchanted Melodies: Interactive Fairytale Opera for All
12pm, Joe Mag from Martuni’s, Piano-Bar – Pop, Standards, Show Tunes,
12pm, Rhonda Sauce & Adam Klipple, Whimsical songs for lovers, loners, and fools
1pm, Classical Revolution Orchestra, From the Café to the Gardens
1pm, Mariah Parker’s Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble, Sonic Journeys with Indo Latin Jazz
1pm, Tin Yi Chelsea Wong, DDR Spectacular – Dance, Death, Romance
2pm, Dan Cantrell Trio, Balkan and Romany inspired classical compositions
2pm, St. Larson Duo, Original Compositions for Two Pianos by Benjamin Gribble
2pm, Anne Sajdera, Ravel, Debussy, Duke Ellington, and Bud Powell
3pm, SERENE, Epic Piano Adventures with Rachmaninoff, Ravel, etc.
3pm, The Kevin Gerzevitz Trio, Soulful, Eclectic, Post-Bop Jazz
3pm, Wavefront Manifold, Reimagined: Songs You Know, Sounds You Don’t
4pm, The Cottontails, Vintage Swing, Jazz / R&B
5pm, Kev Choice Chamber Ensemble, Pianist with Strings, Hip-Hop, Jazz to Classical
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1pm, CAROLUNA, soprano and Jennifer M. Lee, piano, Opera in the Garden with Caroluna
1pm, Sixth Station Trio, Sixth Station Trio performs Ghibli and VGM
2pm, Tony Parisi, Neil Young Piano – More Than Just a Guitarist
2pm ZFW Trio, Love, Hope, Longing-Classics Weaving Heartfelt Tales
3pm, The Mina Project, Italian Jazz and Pop of the 60’s & 70’s
4pm, Les Arts Lounge, “French Enough”: Gainsbourg, Brel and more!!
4pm, Classical Revolution Jazz Orchestra, Kind of Blue, with Strings
5pm, La Gente SF, Caribbean, Latino, World Music, Cumbia, Salsa, & Reggaeton