THE 2026 SF PORCHFEST KICKOFF PARTY @ THE UTAH!

Schedule

Fri, 29 May, 2026 at 05:00 am

UTC-07:00

Location

500 4th Street, San Francisco, CA | San Francisco, CA

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SF Porchfest & Hotel Utah present
THE 2026 SF PORCHFEST KICKOFF PARTY!
Friday, May 29, 2026
Hotel Utah Saloon
500 4th St San Francisco, CA
7P $10 adv $10 door 21+
Full Bar & Kitchen
Make it cocktails, dinner, and a show at The Utah!

SF PORCHFEST
is a day of music on the porches, backyards, and stoops of the Mission.
We celebrate community, fun, and music, all for free, and all created by YOU. We are back for year 8 on May 30th, 2026!
SF Porchfest reflects the creativity and diversity of the city we all love, with musical acts across many genres, ages, and backgrounds. We seek to foster an environment that welcomes all and brings people together through the arts. SF Porchfest is an incredible day, and we're excited to bring the event back to San Francisco’s Mission District for an eighth year! Just so everyone knows, the SF Porchfest Team (Beth, Scott & Robert) have never accepted any payment for Porchfest activity…everything we raise is going directly back into SF Porchfest (permits, insurance, performers, promotional materials, graphic designers….real live human designers, not AI, etc.).
sfporchfest.org

THE SF PORCHFEST HOUSE BAND
The Porchfest House Band is an ever evolving group that knows how to get the people dancing.
Formed by Porchfest vets, they understand the power of free live music. Traveling between funk, soul, and Latin-inspired grooves, the SFPF House Band draws inspiration from their local environment.
Brothers, sisters, and childhood friends, this group has been jamming together for nearly a decade. Come groove along!
instagram.com/sf_porchfest

GEN11
Big hooks, tight harmonies and wall of guitars held together by a rock solid rhythm section. San Francisco’s GEN11 is Rock & Roll.
Their singles on Code 213 Records were picked up by radio stations across the country, around the world and featured regularly on
Little Steven’s Underground Garage. Check ‘em out where they are most at home, on stage.
instagram.com/genelevensf

MAURICE TANI
Maurice Tani is a San Francisco born and based singer-songslinger, known for his wry/rye-to-romantic writing, agile guitar style and expressive singing. With his band, Maurice Tani & 77 El Deora has been the source of untold, but exquisite suffering on the west coast Americana scene for over twenty years. Tani now has ten albums to his credit. The latest is “All In!” (Little Village - LVF1052), a broad-spectrum tincture folk, soul, Americana and gospel featuring a wide array of guests from the Little Village roster.
instagram.com/tani.maurice

C-BREEZY QUARTET
Local musicians that love songwriting and jamming, blending influences of heavy and upbeat
styles into new grooves, with backgrounds ranging from classical to latin and punk.
instagram.com/cbreezy_music

JERRY GIDDENS
Jerry Giddens is a singer-songwriter, poet, and teacher. He was born on the banks of the Red River, in Shreveport, Louisiana and raised at a crossroads six miles from Ringgold, Louisiana, a small town of 1500 people. His earliest memories of pop music are “the Fats Domino records my older sisters smuggled out of New Orleans where us kids spent many Mardi Gras and summer vacations at my Aunt Nina Ruth’s home.” But his earliest memories of music are those housed at Springhill Baptist Church, a little country church down the road from his home. There, Jerry first sang from the stage, at age six. As a teenager he would direct the church’s youth choir for Sunday services and appearances around North Louisiana. On Saturdays he and a local guitar player would sing Everly Brothers tunes for the new coffee houses springing up in the 60s.
jerrygiddens.com

THE FRICKS
The tracksuit dance Rock boys. Guitar and rhythm focused original music that has been influenced by genres spanning all across history.
For the SF Porchfest Kick-Off Party, they will be playing as a stripped down acoustic duo.
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100084227826372

GUTTER SWAN
Americana duo Gutter Swan emerged onto the San Francisco music scene almost a decade ago, featuring the powerful, emotive vocals of Loryn Barbeau, and the disarming yet complex guitar of Steve Egelman, with the duo bonding over a love of acoustic music, whiskey, and punctuality.
instagram.com/gutterswan
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