SF Music Day 2023

/ San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center/

InterMusic SF presents SF Music Day 2023, the free, all-ages, daylong music marathon that celebrates the past, present, and future of Bay Area music, on Sunday, October 15, 2023 at the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center at 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.   Now in its 16th edition, SF Music Day will present more than 25 local groups, 100+ artists celebrating diverse musical styles and traditions, including early music, electronic, jazz, choral, blues, Western classical, new, hip-hop, experimental, world-influenced, free improvisation, and more.  For more information, visit sfmusicday.com.  

SF Music Day is produced and presented by InterMusic SF. Now celebrating its 25th year anniversary, the nonprofit serves as a trusted advocate for the arts that is dedicated to nourishing and sustaining the Bay Area creative environment for music creators and audiences.

SF Music Day 2023 will run continuously for six straight hours with artists performing on all four stages throughout the day, so attendees can move freely from performance to performance in the same building.  The event will also be live streamed via sfmusicday.com.

This year’s SF Music Day 2023 is guest curated by The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol, the award-winning vocalist, performer, and educator. Carol’s lineup of artists will be featured on the Herbst Theatre stage and will include Lady Bianca’s Quartet, Stephanie Crawford Quartet, Jesus Diaz y su QBA, Glen Pearson Trio, Jaz Sawyer Trio, featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Eric Wyatt Quartet.

SF Music Day will present several exclusive and one-time-only performances from Beast Nest, Lorin Benedict + AURA, Brass Over Bridges, Classical Revolution, Charles Gorczynski Tango Quintet, Jahi & The Collective, James Mahone Trio, Melody of China, Members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale with director Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Quinteto Latino, Rob Reich Quartet, Stanton Street Duo, Telegraph Quartet, Trio 180, TROUBLE TROUBLE, Where the Sun Grows, ZOFO Duet, and more! InterMusic SF will welcome Classical KDFC hosts Maggie Clennon Reberg and Rik Malone as announcers for the day.

“SF Music Day is an event that brings so much joy to audiences of all genres and disciplines,” said InterMusicSF Executive Director Crystal Pascucci-Clifford. “As InterMusic SF celebrates its 25th Anniversary, we are proud to bring together generations of audiences and musicians from all areas of the Bay Area musical spectrum to perform under the same roof and for the same cause - improving and enhancing the lives of artists.” 

“I am so honored and excited to be presenting this dynamic and powerful, multigenerational lineup of renowned performers,” said SF Music Day guest curator The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol.  “It is very important to highlight the deep pool of strong, beautiful, melanated artists in our community. SF Music Day will be a diverse cornucopia of world-class singers, instrumentalists, and poets.”

Many of the performers are recipients of funding through InterMusic SF’s annual Musical Grant Program, which supports the creation and production of  musical projects through a competitive application process. The featured Musical Grant Program artists include Brass Over Bridges, Classical Revolution, Charles Gorczynski (for Redwood Tango), Melody of China, Quinteto Latino, Telegraph Quartet, and ZOFO Duet.

With the expansion of curatorship for SF Music Day, many artists are new to the festival. First-time performing acts include AURA, Beast Nest, Lady Bianca’s Quartet, Stephanie Crawford Quartet, Jesus Diaz y su QBA, Jahi & The Collective, James Mahone Trio, Glen Pearson Trio,  Jaz Sawyer Trio, featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin, TROUBLE TROUBLE, Where the Sun Grows, and Eric Wyatt Quartet.

InterMusic SF is a Bay Area nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining and nourishing the Bay Area creative environment by offering dynamic programming and vital resources for music creators and audience members. InterMusic SF aims to empower and engage creators to bring people together for shared experiences of music and fosters community building. InterMusic SF champions artists from diverse musical traditions and serves as a trusted advocate for the shifting needs of the creative community by offering performance opportunities, admission-free concerts, fiscal sponsorship, professional development workshops, and project funding.