A list of Venues featuring improvised music. Select a venue name for details.
| Name | Description |
| 1510 8th St Performance Space | Creative Music Space for house concerts and rehearsals/recordings |
21 Grand | Art Gallery and Creative Music Venue | 964 Natoma | Performance space in SOMA | ACME Observatory | Experimental New Creative Music Series [currently on hiatus] | Artists' Television Access | screening venue for independent film and video | Berkeley Arts Center | Community Arts Center | Bluesix | Acoustic, Jazz, Other | 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 | 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 | Dance Mission Theater | Music and Dance in the Mission | Edinburgh Castle | Irish Pub and Avant-Rock club in San Francisco | Epic Arts | A grassroots non-profit organization that promotes collaboration and community development through the arts | 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 | Jupiter | Bar with lots of microbrews and once in a while some adventurous music | Kingman's Ivy Room | lounge with experimental and improv music on Monday nights | Mama Buzz Cafe | café, gallery and gathering place for artists, creators and their communities | Meridian Gallery | Contemporary pan-ethnic, non-profit art gallery | Mills College Concert Hall | The Center for Contemporary Music | 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 | Old Ironsides | hosts the weekly series The Prescott Showcase on Sundays | Outsound Presents Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series | A weekly Thursday night creative/experimental music series | Outsound Presents...The SIMM Series | New Sonic Music Series (usually 2nd and last Sunday of Each Month) | Pacific Film Archive | Film screenings and music | Project Artaud Theatre | Theatre space | Recombinant Media Labs | Spatial Media Synthesis | 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 | Space Gallery | Gallery and performance space | Starry Plough | Irish bar with an occasional Creative Music show | Stork Club | Mostly rock, with some Creative Music | Temescal Arts Center | performing arts cooperative | Temescal Cafe | Restaurant | The Jazz House | youth-oriented, jazz-focused performance space | The Lab | Interdisciplinary Artists' Organization | THE MILK BAR at The Biscuit Factory | series featuring music, theater, dance and film | Venue 9 | VENUE 9 MUSIC SERIES | 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 | |
