Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Freight & Salvage is bringing back the Berkeley Bluegrass Festival for a sixth year. The event, which will take place from April 29 to May 1,…

P!nk will perform at BottleRock Napa on May 29. Courtesy. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley have released the set times have been released for the 2022 edition of the festival. Rock bands Metallica and Greta Van Fleet will perform on the JaM Cellars main stage Friday night, while electronic…

CeeLo Green plays at the Sonoma Harvest Music Festival at BR Cohn Winery in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Sept. 15, 2019. Photo by Nic Meerholz. San Jose Jazz Summer Fest returns for its 32nd season this summer. The festival will run from Aug. 12 through Aug. 14 in and around…

CHVRCHES perform at Not So Silent Night at SAP Center in San Jose on Dec. 8, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley are once again sponsoring several weeks’ worth of concerts in the lead-up to the Memorial Day weekend festival (and beyond) Several of the festival’s…

SF Sketchfest, courtesy Bill Plympton. Updated Jan. 14 at 8 a.m.: There won’t be an SF Sketchfest this year after all. Producers of SF Sketchfest today announced that the 20th anniversary event—which was canceled in 2021 due to the pandemic, announced last November to begin later this month before another…

Pink performs at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Ariz. on March 30, 2019. She’s one of two headliners at BottleRock on Sunday, May 29. After selling out of three-day tickets, organizers for BottleRock Napa Valley released the daily lineups for the annual festival and announced that the on-sale for…

Metallica (photographed at Chase Center in San Francisco on Dec. 17, 2021) will headline BottleRock Napa in 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Metallica, P!nk, Twenty One Pilots and Luke Combs top a bill of 75 acts scheduled to perform at BottleRock Napa Valley this May. The festival is back nine months…

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong perform at High Sierra Music Festival at Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy on July 4, 2019 Michael Smyth/STAFF. After being canceled in 2020 and postponed again this year, High Sierra Music Festival will return to Quincy, California in 2022 to celebrate its 30th year. The multi-day…

BottleRock Napa Valley 2019. Courtesy Christopher Helkey. The producers of BottleRock Napa Valley will sell a limited number of advance tickets to the 2022 iteration of the festival before the holidays. The holiday presale three-day general admission, VIP, Skydeck and Platinum tickets will go on sale on Dec. 7…

SF Sketchfest, courtesy Bill Plympton. Tributes to Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, original “Saturday Night Live” cast member and comedian Laraine Newman and actor David Alan Grier, a roast of “Evil Dead” star Bruce Campbell, dozen of sketch and band-up comics and numerous podcast tapings were announced as part of…