FOLK CLUB EVENTS
Multi-day in-person event at Camp Herms in the El Cerrito Hills, starting on Friday afternoon July 4 and continuing until Monday July 7. You can either camp overnight or come for day use. More info here!
Our in-person musical meetings at Cyprian’s have started up again on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month! More info here.
Live and in person in Golden Gate Park. Save the date! More information is here.
1st & 3rd Tuesdays on Zoom 1-3:00pm. For access, join our email list.
Our online Friday musical meetings are now on 1st and 3rd Fridays at 7 pm, since we now have in-person meetings on 2nd and 4th Fridays. For updates and access, join our email list.
Our in-person musical meetings at Cyprian’s have started up again on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month! More info here.
Our online Friday musical meetings have moved to 1st and 3rd Fridays at 7 pm, since we are now having in-person ones again on 2nd and 4th Fridays. For updates and access, join our email list.
1st & 3rd Tuesdays on Zoom 1-3:00pm. For access, join our email list.
Our in-person musical meetings at Cyprian’s have started up again on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month! More info here.
Our online Friday musical meetings have moved to 1st and 3rd Fridays at 7 pm, since we are now having in-person ones again on 2nd and 4th Fridays. For updates and access, join our email list.
1st & 3rd Tuesdays on Zoom 1-3:00pm. For access, join our email list.
Our in-person musical meetings at Cyprian’s have started up again on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month! More info here.
Multi-day in-person event at Camp Herms in the El Cerrito Hills, starting on Friday afternoon August 30 and continuing until Monday September 2. You can either camp overnight or come for day use. More info here!
Save the date! Details here as they become available.
December 30, 2025 to January 4, 2026. Save the dates! More information about Camp Harmony is here.
FOLK CLUB NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
On summer holiday weekends, SFFMC hosts multi-day music gatherings in the Bay Area. For Memorial Day weekend this year, we were be at Cedar Rose Park in Berkeley. For our July 4 and Labor Day weekend gatherings we will return to Camp Herms, a 20-acre camp high in the El Cerrito hills, on Friday July 4 to Monday July 7 and Friday August 29 to Monday September 1. At Camp Herms, most people come for day use and go home to sleep, but overnight camping (including motorhome parking) is also available. More info about our summer gatherings is here.
SFFMC’s 2025 San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be on Saturday July 12 in our current location in Golden Gate Park. For more information about the festival, check out the festival website. The deadline to submit proposals for workshops and performances was March 15. Our festivals in Golden Gate Park are co-sponsored by Illuminate and the San Francisco City Recreation and Parks Department.
SFFMC’s 2025 El Cerrito Free Folk Festival will be on Sunday, October 19 at the El Cerrito Community Center on Moeser Lane in El Cerrito. Save the date! Details are on the festival website.
The 2024-25 Camp Harmony, SFFMC’s New Year’s camp was a success, with nearly 200 people there. Our next Camp Harmony will be from December 30, 2025 to January 4, 2026. Save the dates! More info about Camp Harmony is here.
Our in-person musical meetings have started up again! They’re on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month from 7 pm to 11 pm. We are back at our pre-pandemic site at Cyprian’s in San Francisco at 2097 Turk St., at the corner of Lyon. Details are here.
Questions? Contact Glen at gvanlehn@sonic.net .
SFFMC’s 2025 Spring Harmony Online event ran from from March 7 to 9. We plan to do it again next year! More info is here.
The SFFMC member directory is 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 run into problems, contact the SFFMC membership coordinator at membership@sffmc.org .
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!