...ns because of their command of the poly-rhythms that were essential to the music... The dances, too, startled many Americans, who thought the hip movement t ...ike the fairway of an enormous circus or carnival. Colors, lights, crowds, music, candy, hawkers, ballyhoo--everything is there but the elephants and the sa

[[Image:Italian-men-making-music-on-Potrero-Hill-backyard 005.jpg|800px]] '''Italian neighbors making music in Potrero Hill backyard, early 20th century.'''

...assage between the Conservatory to the north, and the original site of the Music Concourse (where the tennis courts are now) to the south. ...e, view west toward the current Aids Grove. The bridge led from the second Music Concourse and Bandshell (site of today's tennis courts) toward the Conserva

...l streetfair has brought thousands to Clarion Alley to enjoy the art, live music, and connecting with friends old and new. This scene is from the 2007 stree

...Francisco in the 1960s” (Bill Graham Civic Auditorium), his impact on the music scene was much more nuanced. His business acumen and the way he ran his bus ...is partly owed to) the heyday of late 60s counterculture movement and its music scene in San Francisco. Greg Gaar, a native San Franciscan photojournalist,

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...o Banducci’s the hungry i nightclub, and Faith Petric’s San Francisco Folk Music Club. Banducci debuted and fostered influential performers like the Kingsto ...ith Craig Petric of the San Francisco Folk Music Club—San Francisco’s folk music scene rose to national prominence, leading the 1960’s folk revival and sh

...or your color or your gender, even. If you wanted to go out and listen to music that's where you could go." [[category:African-American]] [[category:music]] [[category:Western Addition]] [[category:1940s]] [[category:1950s]] [[cat

...long with "The Rememberator" performance by "Shaking San Francisco," live music; a 120-foot-long graffiti mural wall; and SF’s biggest potluck picnic eve

Rock music on the radio? As late as the mid-1960s, this concept was foreign to most Sa ...ound" station in that its DJs played extended experimental and psychedelic music that addressed the culture of sex and drugs more openly than any previous S

...days, and by which he still abides today. At Jimbo's Bop City, the intense music served as a binding agent, uniting the audience and musicians in a shared p ...re playing at Bop City, from her black perspective: "It's such a spiritual music, it really binds people together. And for that time, people that had any ki

...e center of the photo is the old Infant Shelter, later the Conservatory of Music, and now a French school at 19th and Ortega.'''

...he Loading Zone, America Needs Indians, Open Theater, [[San Francisco Tape Music Center|Tape Center]], the Merry Pranksters, and The Music

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...Angels, at the peak of their "outlaw" reputation, corralled lost children. Music was provided by a host of local rock bands including [[Jefferson Airplane a ...tegory:1960s]] [[category:Haight-Ashbury]] [[category:Hippies]] [[category:Music]]

...cisco as the capital of the counterculture philosophy and the epicenter of music and protest. 30,000 people gathered to turn on, tune, and drop out in peace ...o’s 1967 [[Human Be-In|Human Be-In]] gathered thousands of people to enjoy music and community, ultimately setting in motion the Summer of Love, an event th

...to a pronounced degree, she was famous for the "Spider Dance." Set to the music of a tarantella (an Southern Italian folk dance in 6/8 time), it represente

...wonderful creative experience working with the Looters Co-Directing their Music Video for Island Records, then our independent documentary. But it wasn't j ...ences including Central American and so called "Third World" movements and music as well as other parts of the world. European activists came frequently to

...ell distributed free newspaper, the ''Music Calendar'' (which covered punk music ignored by the ''Bay Guardian)'' carried a lengthy article by a WCT organiz

...munity interests. It isn't unusual, for example, to hear the sound of folk music or bagpipes floating over the hill on a quiet evening.