This Quarter
ere are our weekly listings for the spring months. Watch this list for further details to be filled in and other possible updates.
| 4/4 | Return to the Light: Songs for lengthening days, featuring a new album by local musician Diana Gameros, the trio Hearthfire, Ayla Nereo, Birch Book, more. |
| 4/11 | New and Recent Releases: The latest by Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Patty Griffin, Watchhouse, Crys Matthews, the late Todd Snider, Barry Phillips & Ravi Kulur, and a different side of Irish guitar from Tompkins Square Records. In the second hour, a tribute to Phil Ochs, the protest-singing troubador who died 50 years ago. |
| 4/18 | Earth Day: Our power, our planet. This life that we are one with. |
| 4/25 | Bandits, Tricksters, & Desperadoes: Music by Solas, Steve Tilston, David Olney, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Paul Brady, Kate Rusby, Guy Clark, Woody Guthrie, Ry Cooder, Mary McCaslin, Bruce Springsteen, Loreena McKennitt. |
| 5/2 | (TBA) |
| 5/9 | Songs of Rivers and Seas: Ajeet, Ima Nazca, Murray Kyle, Starling Arrow, Alice Di Micele, Tori Amos, Cathie Ryan. |
| 5/16 | Weavers: Carla Sciaky, Karan Casey, Mae Bird, Kornog, Carolyn Hillyer, Lotte Walda, Murray Kyle, Dineh musicians. |
| 5/23 | In Memoriam, part 2: Remembering musicians who passed away in 2025 (that we overlooked in part 1). Danny Thompson, Jesse Colin Young, Eddie Adcock, Will Scarlet, Rory McNamara, Amadou (of Amadou & Miriam), and Brian Wilson, as well as some musicians who recently passed—Bob Weir, Ralph Towner, Roy Bookbinder, and Bay Area percussionist Pete Devine. |
| 5/30 | Ballads and Stories: Robin Williamson, Damh the Bard, Lady Moon, Faun. |
| 6/6 | On Air Folk Festival: Our semi-annual musical extravaganza returns with five hours of continuous live music performed by some of the Bay Area’s finest talent, hosted by JoAnn Mar, Kevin Vance, and Peter Thompson. |
| 6/13 | Summer Solstice: Songs in tune with the season. |
| 6/20 | The Return of Michele K-Tel: Guest host Michele Flannery will entertain us with her batch of new and recent discoveries. |
| 6/27 | Ensembles: From across the old world and the new. |
| 7/4 | San Francisco Free Folk Festival Preview |
Shout out to all the roses growing in concrete. I was raised in a wooden home my father built from salvage wood with only an outhouse and worked as a busser and barista through my teens. I got caught up in drugs starting at age 11 and got sober at age 23. But something deep inside me said keep going. Something deep inside me said there was a reason I am here. Something inside me said “You have a message to give.” Something inside me said you were made to change the world in service to Love and the Creator. This life is treacherous and dangerous to say the least, but we were made for danger and bravery. We were made to slice through the illusions and bring love and hope to a lost world. We will fail and get back up again a thousand times and even still, what a blessing to be alive and breathing. To fight as warriors for the Creator in humble service. No where I’d rather be.
Keep going. Don’t stop. Believe in your dreams. And go to the places that make your dreams shine brighter and come alive. Surround yourself with people who lift you up and nourish your spirit. I believe in you. Your sister from across the ether. We are a big family of people who may not know each other’s names, but dream of a beautiful world for future generations. We will succeed or die trying and what a blessing to be alive.
—Lyla June