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Herbst Theatre401 Van Ness Ave.San Francisco, CA 94102 map cross street: McAllister district: Civic Center Tel. 4153924400 Website |
Events Calendar
| Fri Oct 17 - Sat Oct 18 Humanities West, a Bay Area non-profit, will present Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America, a two-day program of lectures, discussions, and musical presentations exploring how Franklin’s influence as a creative thinker, colonial patriot, mas... More |  |
| Sun Oct 19 A benefit gala concert to support Pets Unlimited, San Francisco. Emmy® Award winning conductor and event founder George Daugherty will lead a roster of extraordinary soloists and a world class 35-member Chamber Orchestra in a stunning program designe... More | |
| Tue Oct 21 Elliott Yamin performs at the 9th Annual Brower Youth Awards celebration!
On October 21 six young environmental leaders will be given the Brower Youth Award in San Francisco for their achievements for a greener planet. Join us for an exciting awar... More | |
| Wed Oct 22 Jimmy Scott is the ultimate soul survivor, a haunting jazz crooner whose influence filtered through American music long before he attained late-career recognition as a jazz treasure. At 83, his sense of time remains impeccable, and he is a master sto... More |
| Thu Oct 23 A rare U.S. concert by an icon from the 1960s free jazz era! Known for his collaborations with New Thing avatars Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, Shepp refined an Afrocentric methodology on his classic albums Fire Music and The Magic of Ju-Ju. Shepp c... More |
| Sat Oct 25 Two thrilling young talents, both from the former U.S.S.R, highlight the global reach of jazz. Milman, 25, was born in the Ural Mountains and discovered jazz while living in Israel. A massive star in Canada, the sultry Toronto-based chanteuse won a J... More |
| Sun Oct 26 Always a formidable improviser, alto saxophonist Maceo Parker was baptized by the two supreme prophets of funk, James Brown and George Clinton. After a quarter century of collaborating with the two soul visionaries he started spreading the gospel of ... More | |
| Sat Nov 01 Like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is equally gifted as a performer and entertainer. His Grammy-winning discography contains work as a founding member of the Cuban supergroup Irakere, classical recordings, and the score for th... More | |
| Sun Nov 02 There could not be a better time for the re-emergence of Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. A seminal figure since anchoring Ornette Coleman’s revolutionary 1950s quartet, bassist Haden fomented his own revolution on his debut album as a lea... More | |
| Mon Nov 03 Elliott Carter celebrates his 100th birthday this year; former punk guitarist Mario Diaz de León is just establishing his reputation as a composer at 29. In between these two extremes is a varied sampling of American music, including the newest insta... More | |
| Wed Nov 05 Toumani Diabaté is the living voice of one of the most beautiful sounds in the world: the African kora, a 21-string West African harp that has been played by griots in the Diabaté line for 71 generations. Born in Mali, he has collaborated with artis... More | |
| Thu Nov 06 Musically and geographically, Natacha Atlas has always been an itinerant. The Anglo-Egyptian singer has spent more than a decade fusing electronic beats with North African and Arabic music, finding links between seemingly disparate musical genres, ex... More | |
| Fri Nov 07 A double dose of soul is just what the doctor ordered. Dr. Lonnie Smith that is, the reigning old-school Hammond B3 maestro who’s been handing out funkified prescriptions since breaking in with George Benson in the mid-1960s. Another 1960s B3 avatar,... More | |
| Tue Nov 18 - Wed Nov 19 "The most accomplished interpretive folksinger of the 1960s, Joan Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in t... More | |
| About Herbst Theatre Purchase Herbst Theatre Tickets from TicketMaster The Herbst Theatre, located in the center of the War Memorial Veterans Building, is a vital and active performance venue for numerous organizations presenting a wide range of artistic, cultural and entertainment programming. Originally designed as the Veterans Auditorium, the theatre was refurbished and renamed Herbst Theatre in 1977. It was on this stage that the United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, making the Herbst Theatre of singular and international historic importance. |
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