SFFMC’s 2023 El Cerrito Free Folk Festival will be live and in person on Saturday, October 14.  We’re returning to last year’s location: the El Cerrito Community Center on Moeser Lane in El Cerrito.  Details are on the festival website.

Wednesday December 27th,  2023 until Monday January 1st, 2024!   We will be going back to Camp Newman, between Calistoga and Santa Rosa, which has been rebuilt since the fire there in 2017.   More info here or register now!

SFFMC’s 2023 San Francisco Free Folk Festival was live and in person for the first time since 2019!  We were at a new outdoor location in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, July 8, 2023.   For more information, check out the festival website.  This year’s festival was co-sponsored by Illuminate and the San Francisco City Recreation and Parks Department.

We’re now done with our multi-day summer music gatherings for 2023.   This year we were back at Camp Herms in the El Cerrito Hills for all three gatherings, on the weekends of Memorial Day, “July 4” (actually June 30-July 2 this year), and Labor Day. We hope to return again to Camp Herms for all three of these gatherings in 2024.  Details about our summer gatherings at Camp Herms are here.

It ran from Friday March 10 until Sunday March 12.  We plan to have this event again in 2024 – it will remain online.

SFFMC’s 2022 El Cerrito Free Folk Festival was live and in person for the first time since 2019.  The festival was on Saturday October 8 at a new location: the El Cerrito Community Center on Moeser Lane in El Cerrito.  Details are on the festival website.

SFFMC’s San Francisco Free Folk Festival was online this year on Saturday July 16, with nearly 600 people registered.   The festival’s “Watch Anytime” events are all still available for viewing!  You can find them at https://sffolkfest.org/program-2022 .

SFFMC’s online Spring Harmony event, held from April 8 through April 10, was a success, with over 200 people registered.  Thanks very much to everyone who made it happen!

The SFFMC member directory is now online at https://www.sffmc.org/member-directory!  The directory can only be viewed by current members who are logged into the website. If you haven’t logged in before and you have trouble logging in, see the instructions at https://www.sffmc.org/update-your-info.

A few things to know:
• The directory only shows current members who want to be shown in the directory. Expired members and members who prefer not to be shown in the directory do not appear.
• The directory only shows the information that a member wants to show, which can range from just the member’s name to complete contact information, with various options in between.
• The directory listings are shown alphabetically by member’s first name. This is not ideal, but it would be difficult for us to modify. However, the directory is fully searchable by first or last name by using the Search Members box on the right.
• If your own listing has incorrect information or you want to change your directory listing preferences, you can make changes at https://www.sffmc.org/member-profile. If you run into problems, contact the SFFMC membership coordinator at membership@sffmc.org .

Our musical meetings have gone online for now due to the coronavirus.  To receive Zoom invitations for them, subscribe to our Harmony email list at https://groups.io/g/harmony. More information is here.

SFFMC’s 2021 El Cerrito Festival was online on Saturday, October 23.  Many of the festival events are still available for viewing!  See the program page on the festival website for more information.

Thanks to folknik calendar editor Shelby Solomon, we have a new community folk calendar on our website!  Check it out here.

Some of you may remember that SFFMC did a member/community survey back in December 2020.  Here are the compiled results of the multiple-choice questions: https://www.sffmc.org/wp-content/uploads/SFFMC-survey-multiple-choice-report.pdf .  Thanks again to everyone who responded!