In celebration of the beginning of the 2024 baseball season, the Marcus Shelby Orchestra will present excerpts from Shelby's Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues, a suite that honors the history of Black baseball. The music includes songs, text, and instrumental compositions about Satchel Paige, Rube Foster, Effa Manley , Jackie Robinson, Toni Stone, barnstorming territory bands, umpires, and much more. Concertgoers should expect surprises, including clowns, video, and physical comedy. Baseball fans are encouraged to wear your favorite baseball jersey!

Sit back, relax, and experience the best band in town at Teen Night. Dress up, dress down, and come as you are for a fun night out that is not your parents’ concert.

A bilingual program includes both old and new songs that span the musical traditions of North America.

Experience this one-of-a-kind interactive musical storytelling of Hansel and Gretel. For ages 4-10 and families.

A purely delightful experience for all ages.

Kids aged 5-10 are invited to sit next to playing MSYO members, experiencing the magic of orchestral music firsthand. The 45-minute concert features 4 excerpts from classical works. Your kids are welcome to change seats between pieces to explore different instruments including Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion.

Pamela Rose’s celebrated Blues Is a Woman blurs the boundaries between concert and theater, using storytelling and music to bring to life the colorful history of the bold and singular women who wrote and popularized the blues. Our ensemble of powerful artists will take you on a journey from the very earliest days of 'trouble' songs—which mothers sang to their children—through the decades in a celebration of blues and blueswomen!

For the Young & Young at Heart: Share the joy of music with all your loved ones in captivating performances created with your entire family in mind.

Join the Mill Valley Library for a special offsite Sing & Stomp performance at Sweetwater Music Hall featuring musician Emily Bonn and her band, the Sing & Stompers!

Join us at the Golden Gate Bandshell for a children-focused musical variety show.

Join all five of OIGC's youth ensembles as they present songs honoring and celebrating Black History.

Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Terrance Kelly, the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir presents a captivating musical revue in celebration of Black History Month. From heartfelt Negro spirituals performed with an authenticity not often found outside of the South, to energetic and upbeat contemporary gospel, the show also offers historical context for each piece throughout and is sure to uplift and inspire an audience of all ages.

Watch the Looney Tunes gang in hilarious and unforgettable scenes on the big screen as the SF Symphony performs the reimagined classics of Rossini, Wagner, and more.

Get ready to swing and sway as you learn about jazz and its roots through the music of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers.

Join us for a family friendly concert in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in the Celebration Garden with MISTER G.

Please join us at the Freight & Salvage, one of Berkeley's oldest and most beloved music venues, for a special musical story time series with the Berkeley Public Library's Story Time Band. These FREE events will take place *every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from November 2023 through March 2024. Each session will feature live music, movement activities, and read-aloud stories for children ages 2-7. See you there!

Members of the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District Non-Marching Band—or Sewer Band, for short—all have one thing in common: Their homes are all connected to the same Marin County sewer district! Join them for good, clean, big band fun.

Feel the beat with Mika Scott’s Drumming Magic—an interactive musical experience for the whole family.

Kyle Foster is a magician, performing artist, and educator. He produces fun and engaging performances for audiences of all ages.

Manuia Polynesian Revue will take audiences on a journey through the Polynesian islands via song, dance, and the beat of the drums.

See the beloved holiday hit Home Alone on the big screen like you never have before, with John Williams’ exuberant score performed live by the San Francisco Symphony. The highest-grossing holiday film of all time, and starring an adorable Macaulay Culkin, this hilarious and heartwarming comedy is holiday fun for the entire family. (PG)

Quickly becoming an annual tradition at SFJAZZ for Bay Area jazz fans of all ages, pianist Adam Shulman reprises his tribute to Bay Area jazz legend Vince Guaraldi and his beloved soundtrack to Charles Schulz’s 1965 holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Join us for a joyful look and listen back as we get grooving and swinging to favorites including “Linus and Lucy” and “Christmas is Coming,” and celebrate the holidays with the entire family! 

This concert for kids and families shares the music of Tom Petty with a new generation of music lovers, but is not associated with or endorsed by the artist.

Superb swordsman. Violin virtuoso. Coruscating kaleidoscopic composer. Widely considered to be the first known classical composer of African heritage, Joseph Bologne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges took the 18th-century French music scene by storm. This brand-new Classical Kids LIVE! show features 15 of Bologne’s compositions as well as several guest appearances from other composers of his era. Whether this is your first introduction to Bologne or you’ve loved him for years, Saint-Georges’ Sword & Bow is sure to delight you, excite you, and inspire you to dream big.

Get up close and personal with musical instruments and get inspired by the power of music!