Organizers with San Francisco’s Stern Grove Festival on Tuesday announced the full schedule of free concerts for summer 2025, including Motown legend Diana Ross, iconic Bay Area R&B group the Pointer Sisters and more.
On Tuesday morning, the lineup for the 88th annual edition of the festival was made public. The popular free concert series that draws thousands of music fans to Stern Grove every weekend begins on Sunday, June 15. The festival concludes with its Big Picnic Weekend featuring reggae legends Damian and Stephen Marley on Saturday, August 16 and Ross on Sunday, August 17.
Festival organizers also shared the line-up on their social media accounts.
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“We’re doing everything we can to preserve this incredible San Francisco tradition,” said Bob Fielder, the festival’s executive director. “In a world where most concerts are very costly, this is one of the last remaining places where music is free, accessible, and truly for everyone. It’s remained that way for 88 years and the only way we can do it is from the support of our amazing community.”
Other highlights of this year’s schedule include groundbreaking Northwestern punk group Sleater-Kinney, who perform with support from rising Sacramento band Destroy Boys, laptop mash-up DJ Girl Talk with electro-funk purveyors Chromeo and masked South African country singer Orville Peck. The Bay Area also sees substantial representation with appearances by such local acts as Oakland roots/soul group the California Honeydrops, veteran rapper/singer Lyrics Born and the aforementioned Pointer Sisters.
Stern Grove 2025 Lineup
June 15: The California Honeydrops + The Dip
June 22: Channel Tres + ASTU
June 29: Sleater-Kinney + Destroy Boys
July 6: San Francisco Symphony with Special Guest Taimane
July 13: Phantogram + Ha Vay
July 20: Girl Talk + Chromeo
July 27: Orville Peck + Jaime Wyatt
August 3: Michael Franti & Spearhead + Black London
August 10: The Pointer Sisters + Lyrics Born
August 16: Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley & Stephen Marley (Big Picnic Weekend Day 1)
August 17: Diana Ross (Big Picnic Weekend Day 2)
New Ticketing System
With demand far exceeding the 10,000 person capacity of the grove, the festival is implementing a new lottery system for tickets this year.
Under the new system, the lottery opens up six weeks before a show and people interested in attending have one week to enter. Those who have won a spot will have one week to claim tickets, with additional ticket releases possible 4-5 weeks before each show.
An additional 1,000 tickets will be available through “Community Box Offices” located throughout San Francisco the day before each concert, first come, first serve. Additional details about the box offices will be released in May.
Other ways to get tickets include volunteering with the festival, ticket giveaways from community partners and sponsors, along with table reservations.
Additional information about the festival and tickets can be found on the Stern Grove Festival website.
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