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<\/p>\nThe music festival coincides with Folsom Street Fair and a packed weekend of events at Bay Area clubs.<\/p>\n
Sep 23, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 12:19 pm PT<\/p>\n
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Festival attendees dance late into the night as Justice performs at Portola Music Festival in San Francisco on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.\u00a0(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)<\/p>\n
Portola Music Festival<\/a> returns to San Francisco\u2019s Pier 80 on Sept. 26 and 27, showcasing the Bay\u2019s dance and electronic music scene among a huge, international lineup that features\u00a0 Kelela, Zara Larsson, Swedish House Mafia and more.<\/p>\n \nSaturday, Sept. 26\n<\/p>\n The drag queens will be outside for Folsom Street Fair. Brunch Queens<\/a> at Mayes Oyster House will feature RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race stars Hershii LiqCour Jete, Heidi N Closet and Honey Davenport, alongside Tila Pia and host Aurris Garcon.<\/p>\n If drag and leather aren\u2019t exactly your thing, Earthling<\/a>, the experimental outdoor listening party, will be in Golden Gate Park, merging out-there electronic production with nature. Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes, The Space Lady, Dream Crease and W.A.L.A. will fill the Elk Glen Meadow with ambient sound.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking to dance, Juke WRLD<\/a> is taking over Mission District staple El Rio. DJs Twoseven, Mars Kasei, Tha Nxxt Step, New Juicy and DJ Ari B will spin Jersey and Baltimore club, ghettotech from Detroit and footwork from Chicago.<\/p>\n SXTPS<\/a>, a body-positive dance party dedicated to Black and brown queer people, will have the dance floor moving at DNA Lounge for a Folsom pre-party with DJ Kidd, Iloveducky and Charles Hawthorne. Bringing the underground sounds of Black queer communities from New York, L.A. and Chicago to San Francisco, anything goes \u201cas long as it\u2019s gay and Black as fuck,\u201d according to the organizers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \nSunday, Sept. 27\n<\/p>\n If you\u2019re craving something slower after all that partying, Bar Shiru in Oakland will host their Silent Sunday <\/a>listening session, playing Stevie Wonder\u2019s Songs in the Key of Life on their hi-fi speakers. This could be a much-needed break from all the dance and electronic music pumping through the streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sunday night also offers some solid concert options: Chicago rapper Lucki <\/a>will be at The Warfield, performing music from his Drugs R Bad album. Mexican singer and multi-instrumentalist Julieta Venegas is doing two nights at the Masonic<\/a>, and the Mexican regional music band Elsabon Armado, who hail from the Central Valley, will be at the Fillmore<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The music festival coincides with Folsom Street Fair and a packed weekend of events at Bay Area clubs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-474370","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\/474370","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=474370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/240810_OutsideLands__EG_040.jpg\")
Channel Tres performs at Outside Lands on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024.\u00a0(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2276773845.jpg\")
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, Trinity The Tuck, Aquaria, Heidi N Closet and Sugar arrives at the The Abbey\u2019s 35th Anniversary at The Abbey Food & Bar on May 20, 2026 in West Hollywood, California.\u00a0(Steve Granitz\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2278960165.jpg\")
Singer Julieta Venegas performs during a concert at Escenario GNP on May 29, 2026 in Monterrey NL, Mexico.\u00a0(Medios y Media\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n