Beloved San Francisco jazz festival canceled for 2025
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The 2025 Fillmore Jazz Festival has been cancelled, according to a statement on the event's website. The beloved two-day festival, which typically takes place over 12 blocks of the Fillmore neighborhood, won't take place this year due to lack of funding.
'Producing a free two-day festival in San Francisco incurs hundreds of thousands of investments in production, security, recycling, staffing, staging, city fees, musicians, marketing, porta-potties and much more,' read a statement on the event's website. 'The non-profit association is in debt due to production costs.'
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With this year's festival no longer viable, festival organizers are turning their focus to next year's festival.
'We need to save the Fillmore Jazz Festival — after all these years of gifting jazz to San Francisco — we need to give back. We need to be loyal and support each other for all to be successful,' said Jones Memorial United Methodist Minister of Music Ricardo Scales.
The largest free jazz festival on the West Coast, the Fillmore Jazz Festival was launched in 1986. Illustrious performers to have graced its stages over the years include Lonnie Smith, Lady Memphis, Pete Escovedo, Jules Broussard, and Brendy Boykin.
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