{"id":432874,"date":"2026-08-14T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432874\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:50:08","slug":"a-funk-and-fermentation-party-is-happening-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432874\/","title":{"rendered":"A Funk and Fermentation Party Is Happening in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a weird concept for a festival, sure, but Afterthought is playing, so we&#8217;ll see you there!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AfterthoughtTopChefs.jpg\"  alt=\"big group of musicians stand and crouch, slightly smiling\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Afterthought (center) and the Top Chefs perform at Salesforce Park as part of Suds Francisco on Aug. 23. \u00a0(Heath Visuals)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">To the uninitiated, \u201cfunk and fermentation\u201d might sound more like a stinky hospital ward full of weird infections than it does like a party. But in fact, <a to=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/rooftoprhythms\/events\/rooftop-rhythms-sunday-199285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/rooftoprhythms\/events\/rooftop-rhythms-sunday-199285\">Suds Francisco 2026: A Funk &amp; Fermentation Festival<\/a> is a real-life Aug. 23 event where people brewin\u2019 and people groovin\u2019 collide. (Hopefully in a non-sticky way?)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">On the groovin\u2019 side is San Francisco rapper-producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11958102\/afterthought-love-letters-to-my-body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Afterthought<\/a>, who\u2019s set to perform with his big, eclectic backing band, the <a to=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/topchefsband\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/topchefsband\/?hl=en\">Top Chefs<\/a>. Expect a hearty dose of positive mental attitude, heartwarming vulnerability, and a blend of hip-hop, jazz, R&amp;B and (yes) funk, that\u2019ll leave you with the warm and tinglies before you\u2019ve even tried any spicy kimchi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\"><a to=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/rooftoprhythms\/events\/rooftop-rhythms-sunday-199285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/rooftoprhythms\/events\/rooftop-rhythms-sunday-199285\">Suds Francisco 2026: A Funk &amp; Fermentation Festival<\/a> takes place Aug. 23, 2\u20136 p.m. at Salesforce Park (425 Mission St., San Francisco).<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a weird concept for a festival, sure, but Afterthought is playing, so we&#8217;ll see you there!&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-432874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}