Longest-Running Free Music Festival in America Returns for its 89th Season With Al Green, Public Enemy, P

Stern Grove 2026 Lineup Includes Patti LaBelle, Violent Femmes, Public Enemy, and Al Green

The Stern Grove free summer concert lineup landed today, and like last year, it's an impressive array of young and established talent, with a couple of truly iconic R&B legends and a pioneering rap group to finish out the season.Spring has sprung and the signs of summer are piling up. We already know what the August lineup for Outside Lands will be. And, today, we get the lineup of Sunday summer concerts at Stern Grove.Gone are the days of fairl…

Longest-Running Free Music Festival in America Returns for its 89th Season With Al Green, Public Enemy, P

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At a time when concert tickets are skyrocketing and festivals are disappearing, Stern Grove Festival continues to do something increasingly rare: bringing tens of thousands of people together for free. Running June 14 through August 16, the 2026 season brings a lineup of superstars and international talent to the Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove. Al Green, Public Enemy, Patti LaBelle, Major Lazer, Japa…

Al Green, Public Enemy, Patti LaBelle and More Headline America's Longest-Running Free Music Festival

Eighty-nine years in, Stern Grove Festival still does what almost no one else does: world-class live music, completely free. San Francisco’s longest-running summer tradition returns June 14 through August 16, 2026, with a lineup that spans Al Green, Public Enemy, Patti LaBelle, Major Lazer, Japanese Breakfast, Violent Femmes, Suki Waterhouse, Charley Crockett, and Bomba Estéreo, […] The post Al Green, Public Enemy, Patti LaBelle and More Headlin…