San Francisco Metro: Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · Folk · East Bay · 6 events · data version 20261021-173303
1:00 PM · SAN FRANCISCO LEONARD COHEN FESTIVAL · The Freight & Salvage (Berkeley) · $15/$20
(INCLUDES ALL FEES) · live_music, festival, folk · rating 8
secure.thefreight.org · details The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival presents a screening of Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love , renowned filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s most personal and romantic film of his storied career. The documentary starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of a community of expat artists, writers and musicians.
7:00 PM · JEFFREY FOUCAULT · The Freight & Salvage (Berkeley) · $39/$44
(INCLUDES ALL FEES) · live_music, folk · rating 8
secure.thefreight.org · details In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” ( The New Yorker) , "Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” ( Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar…
2:00 PM · Bluegrass Jam / Irish Session · The Starry Plough (Berkeley) · Free · live_music, folk · rating 7
thestarryplough.com · details Bluegrass jam 2-4 PM, Gaeltacht 4:30-5:30PM, Irish session led by Shay Black 5:30PM
7:00 PM · Chris Acker with Nikolai Shveitser · Ivy Room (Albany) · TICKETS · live_music, folk · rating 7
ivyroom.com · details ivy room presents - genre - folk, alt-country, americana
4:30 PM · Gaelhtacht & Irish Session · The Starry Plough (Berkeley) · Free · live_music, folk · rating 0 · no longer listed thestarryplough.com · details Gaelhtacht 4:30-5:30PM, Irish Session led by Shay Black 5:30PM
time TBA · INAUGURAL CONCERT! · Piedmont CFTA (Piedmont) · https://www.ticketsignup.io/lefe · live_music, classical, folk · rating 0 · no longer listed ticketsignup.io · details LAND’S END FOLK ENSEMBLE:CLASSICAL MUSICIANS EXPLORE FOLK MUSIC Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/lefe