A list of Venues featuring improvised music. Select a venue name for details.
| Name | Description |
| 21 Grand | Art Gallery and Creative Music Venue |
ACME Observatory | Experimental New Creative Music Series [currently on hiatus] | Artists' Television Access | screening venue for independent film and video | Berkeley Art Museum | L@TE: Friday Nights | Berkeley Arts | concerts with some of the most creative people in Berkeley and the Bay Area | Berkeley Arts Center | Community Arts Center | Bird & Beckett Books and Records | Book and record store with live music shows | Bottom of the Hill | Rock club in Portrero district | Bruno's | Bar and supper club in the Mission | Cafe Du Nord | SF bar near the Castro | Cafe Royale | neighborhood coffee & tea house with a variety of live music | Cafe Van Kleef | Nighclub with Jazz | Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford | Recital hall on the campus of Stanford University | CELLspace | Gallery and performance space | Center for New Music | A community center for participants of new music in San Francisco | Chez Hanny | A Sunday afternoon jazz salon | Climate Theatre | The biggest little theater in the world! | CNMAT | Center for New Music and Audio Technologies | Community Music Center | Mission District Music Center | Compound Gallery | | Dance Mission Theater | Music and Dance in the Mission | Edinburgh Castle | Irish Pub and Avant-Rock club in San Francisco | El Valenciano Restaurant & Bar | Bar in the Mission with Salsa Dancing and Jazz | Epic Arts | A grassroots non-profit organization that promotes collaboration and community development through the arts | Flux 53 | Collective theater and gallery producing and hosting exhibitions, workshops, music, film, and live theater in all genres. | Freight & Salvage | Coffehouse/theater for mostly folk and bluegrass music | Great American Music Hall | Classic music hall venue in SF | Headlands Center for the Arts | LiveARTS Series | Hemlock Tavern | Adventurous Rock Club on Polk Street | Hertz Hall | Concert hall on the UC Berkeley campus | Hotel Utah | Fine drinks, tasty food, and hot music | Intersection for the Arts | San Francisco's oldest alternative art space | Jazzschool | The Jazzschool offers a comprehensive program of educational music classes and workshops in addition to a diverse weekend concert series | Jewish Community Center SF Kanbar Hall | Kanbar Hall is located within the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, which is the oldest Jewish center on the West Coast | Jupiter | Bar with lots of microbrews and once in a while some adventurous music | Luggage Store New Music Series | Outsound Presents the longest running weekly Thursday night music series in Northern California | Make-Out Room | Bar in the Mission | Mama Buzz Cafe | café, gallery and gathering place for artists, creators and their communities | Meridian Gallery | Non profit exhibition and performance space | Mills College Concert Hall | The Center for Contemporary Music | Musically Minded Academy | music school and a community center | New Langton Arts | Art and Performance Space | Oakland Metro | Opera and beyond, near Jack London Square | ODC Dance Theatre | Mostly dance, with some New Music | Pacific Film Archive | Film screenings and music | Project Artaud Theatre | Theatre space | Revolution Cafe | French style beer & wine cafe that hosts great live music | Rio Theatre | Music, Film and Video theatre in Santa Cruz | San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum (SFPALM) | Dedicated to the performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area | SFEMF | San Francisco Electronic Music Festival | SIMM Series | Outsound Presents...This New Sonic Music Series on alternate Sundays | Space Gallery | Gallery and performance space | Starry Plough | Irish bar with an occasional Creative Music show | Stork Club | Mostly rock, with some Creative Music | Studio 1510 | Studio available for recordings and concerts | Subterranean Arthouse | Interdisciplinary community art space | Temescal Arts Center | performing arts cooperative | Temescal Cafe | Restaurant | The Jazz House | youth-oriented, jazz-focused performance space | The Lab | Interdisciplinary Artists' Organization | The Layover | Music Bar & Lounge | THE MILK BAR at The Biscuit Factory | series featuring music, theater, dance and film | The Red Poppy Art House | A working artists’ studio, gallery, classroom, and performance space | Tom's Place | Contemporary Art Music in an Intimate Setting | Turquoise Yantra Grotto | House-concert venue near Glen Park in San Francisco | Uptown | Niteclub with live music | Woody Woodman's Finger Palace | | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | Contemporary Classical and Other Music | Yoshi's Oakland | Nightclub for mostly mainstream jazz | Yoshi's San Francisco | jazz club and Japanese restaurant | |
