Music Festival Performers 2026
Kaylah Marin
Artist, filmmaker, and writer Kaylah Marin is dedicated to social causes, having worked with organizations such as the Dolores Huerta Foundation and the Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival. As a former board member of Community Services United, she focused on health and economic restoration in Berkeley.
Kaylah contributes her expertise to KAJE Creative, a consulting business that leverages media, music, art, and film to enhance branding, marketing, and promotional efforts with a focus on community building through stories and visual media. She co-directs the SF Social and Economic Justice Film Festival and chairs the UPS Pride Alliance.
Kaylah is most proud of her invitations to perform at the Ron Dellums Memorial, Dolores Huerta’s 80th birthday, and WorldPride NYC – Stonewall 50.And as a Billboard-charting artist, Kaylah has collaborated with top industry names, including Narada Michael Walden, the Perry Twins, Josh Harris, Mike Rizzo, and Tracy Young. Her work with the Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival earned her the title of Ambassador of Music in both 2017 and 2018.
SAT: Performing @ 7-7:30PM in the Auditorium
SUN: Performing @ 6-6:30PM in the Auditorium
Francisco Herrera
Francisco Herrera, from Calexico, California, grew up blending rancheras, mariachi, and garage rock. Influenced by Liberation Theology, he used music to champion social justice, performing at events and church meetings while traveling Latin America and attending seminary. “Reflection and prayer matter, but they should inspire action,” he says, sitting under portraits of Che Guevara and Monseñor Oscar Romero. His album Honor Migrante tackles immigrant rights and globalization, fusing norteño, corrido, electro-cumbia, and Latin rock. Produced by Greg Landau, it embodies his mission to unite music and activism. Available at livingwage-sf.org.
SAT: Performing @ 10:30AM in the Courtyard
Avotcja
Avotcja, a Bay Area icon, is a Poet, Playwright, Multi-Percussionist, and Teacher whose work has been published widely in English and Spanish. An award-winning artist, she has performed with legends like Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez and leads the group Avotcja & Modúpue.
Her poetry and music have been featured in anthologies, recorded by notable artists, and performed by groups like The Purple Moon Dance Project. A popular DJ, founder of The Clean Scene Theater Project, and dedicated teacher, she continues to inspire through her artistry and advocacy.
SUN: Performing at 7:30PM in the Auditorium.
Vukani Mawethu
Vukani Mawethu is a multi-racial community based social justice choir which sings freedom songs of Southern Africa, as well as songs showing links between struggles in the United States and around the world. We are united in our strong opposition to racism and injustice, and by our love of rhythms, melodies and harmonies which have grown out of many struggles for freedom. We collaborate, perform and organize to inspire and unite people to strive and work for peace, justice and equality for all.
SAT: Performing @ 8-8:30PM in the Auditorium
Liberation Line Dancing with Aya de Leon
Aya de Leon is a writer and dancer who teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She organizes with the Movement for Black Lives, the Working Families Party and the Black Organizing Project of Oakland.
SAT: Performing @ 5:30PM in the Courtyard & 7PM in the Auditorium
La Peña Community Chorus
La Peña Community Chorus has been performing songs of peace, freedom and social justice since 1979 at concerts, demonstrations, Bread and Roses venues, as well as for senior residences, and juvenile detention centers. The Chorus was formed by community members in solidarity with refugees who escaped the death and torture of the Pinochet regime after the violent U.S.-sponsored coup in Chile in 1973.
SAT: Performing @ 8:30-9PM in the Auditorium
David Rovics and Kamala Emanuel
Songs to fan the flames of discontent, telling stories of social movements past and present, singing songs to educate and inspire, in the tradition of artists like Pete Seeger or Billy Bragg, but with vocal harmonies.
SAT & SUN: Performing @ 3-4PM in the Courtyard
Soul Repair
Soul Rock
SAT: Performing @ 3-4PM in the Auditorium
Po' Poets Project
Po’ Poets of POOR Magazine are poor, houseless, disabled, youth and elder poets in resistance… using the word, to heal, educate, and relate.
SAT: Performing @ 4:30-5PM in the Courtyard
Hali Hammer and Randy Berge
Original Americana songs (for lack of a better name).
SAT & SUN: Performing @ 4-4:30PM in the Courtyard
Pete Kronowitt & The EveryDay Items
The EveryDay Items are committed to use our performances to inspire and motivate others to get engaged, make a difference, focus on where we can have an impact, join local, effective grassroots groups and encourage others to get involved. We strive for anthemic to quirky, from sarcastic to tender, from your couch to the street. We believe in the power of the people when it’s used in a focused way to weaken the support for those stopping progress and hurt humans.
SAT: Performing @ 4-5PM in the Auditorium
The Zingeray Ensemble
Singing group accompanied by guitar and harmonica, performing Yiddish Songs of Solidarity, from the past 100 years through today.
SUN: Performing at 12-1PM in the Courtyard.
Andrew Potter
Andrew Potter hails from Jamestown Rhode Island, and delivers great original syncopated finger-style guitar, and stride piano songs in blues, jazz, folk and rock genres. He performs his shows at bars, clubs, hotels and other venues in New England and the San Francisco Bay Area. His current album, “I Haunt My Own House”, is co-written with his long time cohort Mr. Wheeler Cole. Potter’s driving syncopated guitar style and Cole’s snarky and sublime lyrics create vivid musings on family, love, hope, fate and regret. Mr. Potter’s second album “Underwater Palace”, a rock ballad on sea level rise, was released January 2025.
“The art of songwriting is done pristinely within the album and anyone who appreciates it is sure to enjoy listening to Potter’s latest release. There’s a certain authenticity within the songs, which is a rarity these days, and its quality deserves praise. “
Rob Duguay, The Independent, Rhode Island
SAT & SUN: Performing @ 2-3PM in the Courtyard
Jon Pogorelskin
Blues singer/songwriter solo acoustic.
SAT & SUN: Performing @ 1-2PM in the Courtyard
Marco Bianchi
Marco Bianchi a lifelong musician and songwriter. Over the last twenty years, he’s been involved in many projects including Los Nadies (Latin Rock) and more recently the Rainy Sundays (Americana/UK Roots). Since 2015 he has been performing as a solo artist with occasional guest musicians. His musical style resurrects early seventies folk-rock combined with personal, soulful songwriting.
SAT: Performing @ 2:30-3PM in the Auditorium