Founded in 1968 by Nancy Owens in an 87-seat former furniture store on San Pablo Avenue, the Freight and Salvage is one of America's oldest continuously operating folk music venues. The nonprofit coffeehouse moved to a 220-seat room on Addison Street in 1988 before opening its current 440-seat home in Berkeley's Downtown Arts District in 2009. Programming has expanded well beyond its bluegrass and folk roots to embrace global roots music, Americana, jazz, Celtic, and world traditions, while maintaining a strong commitment to music education and community engagement. The Freight's warm acoustics and dedicated seated-listening format have made it a rite of passage for acoustic musicians touring the West Coast.
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Upcoming Shows
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Pride at the Freight (Curated by Vicki Randle)
Sun, Jun 28
·7:00 PM
·$39/$44 General Admission, $25 Livestream
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George Brooks 70th Birthday and SUMMIT Reunion (featuring Steve Smith
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Fareed Haque
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Kai Eckhardt
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and Selvaganesh Vinayakram)
Fri, Jul 17
·8:00 PM
·$39/$44 General Admission, $25 Livestream
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with special guest Lenny Kaye
Sat, Jul 18
·8:00 PM
·$49/$54
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The Complete Unknowns: A Tribute to Bob Dylan with special guest Maria Muldaur
Thu, Jul 23
·8:00 PM
·$39/$44
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Recent Shows
Shows from the last 90 days
Thu, Jun 25
Blues
Ruthie Foster
8:00 PM
Mon, Jun 22
A Cappella
Bobby McFerrin and MOTION
12:00 PM
Sun, Jun 21
Western Jarocho
Olas Perdidas
7:00 PM
Sat, Jun 20
Singer-Songwriter
Teresa Trull + Barbara Higbie
7:00 PM
Thu, Jun 18
Americana
Trillian Welch
8:00 PM
Mon, Jun 15
A Cappella
Bobby McFerrin and MOTION
12:00 PM
Sat, Jun 13
Jazz
Stella Heath
7:30 PM
Fri, Jun 12
Gospel
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
7:30 PM
Thu, Jun 11
Reggae
Third World
8:00 PM
Thu, Jun 11
Rental Event
Berkeley Public Library Story Time Band
10:30 AM
Tue, Jun 9
Rental Event
Whose Live Anyway?
7:30 PM
Mon, Jun 8
A Cappella
Bobby McFerrin + MOTION
12:00 PM
Sun, Jun 7
Soul
Booker T. Jones
7:00 PM
Sat, Jun 6
Soul
Booker T. Jones
8:00 PM
Fri, Jun 5
Modern Acoustic
Natalie Haas + Brittany Haas
8:00 PM
Mon, Jun 1
A Cappella
Bobby McFerrin + MOTION
12:00 PM
Thu, May 28
Jazz
Oscar Peñas
8:00 PM
Tue, May 26
Jazz
Jazzschool Studio Band + Dave Eshelman's Jazz Garden Big Band
7:30 PM
Sun, May 24
Persian Classical
Marjan Vahdat + Sahba Motallebi
7:00 PM
Sat, May 23
Bluegrass
Tony Trischka's EarlJam + Michael Daves
8:00 PM
Fri, May 22
Folk
Ramblin' Jack Elliott + Jason Crosby + Maria Muldaur + Eric & Suzy Thompson + Mike Beck + Lowell 'Banana' Levinger + Jesse DeNatale + Kathy Kallick
8:00 PM
Mon, May 18
Vocal
Freight Singers Community Chorus + Tony Lindsay
7:30 PM
Mon, May 18
A Cappella
Bobby McFerrin and MOTION
12:00 PM
Sun, May 17
Avant-Garde
Bang on a Can All-Stars + Hank Dutt + George Brooks + Molly Holm + Joel Davel + Sameer Gupta
8:00 PM
Sat, May 16
Indian Classical
Rakesh Chaurasia + Amit Kavthekar
8:00 PM
Fri, May 15
Genre Bending
Derek Gripper + Alam Khan
8:00 PM
Mon, May 11
A Cappella
Bobby McFerrin + MOTION
12:00 PM
Mon, May 11
Community Mondays - Country Bluegrass Jam
Richard Brandenburg
7:30 PM
Sun, May 10
Country
Margaret Belton
7:00 PM
Sat, May 9
Scottish Folk
San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers
7:00 PM