It’s back! The 4th Annual San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival gets underway on Saturday, July 31 at Marx Meadow in Golden Gate Park (NOTE: this event was originally scheduled for June 19 but due to permitting issues was rescheduled to July 31).
The 16 hour festival is very unique in that not only are bikes celebrated, but they also power the very stage that hosts the performances. The Bicycle Music Festival is the largest 100% bicycle-powered music festival in the world.
The festival features a 2000 watt pedal-powered PA system, as many as 15 bands, up to 7 festival stops, outrageous Critical Mass-style bicycle party caravans between festival stops, and zero use of cars or trucks.
It’s also a mobile festival as the hordes of bikes, along with the music, move from location to location over the 16 hour duration (see the route map). With its completely bike-haulable stage, the event is packed up and deployed numerous times: staged sequentially at different public parks and also on a moving “Live On Bike” stage which rolls down city streets.
The first leg of the Bicycle Music Festival begins at Marx Meadow in Golden Gate Park, accessible from Fulton Street and 25th or 26th Avenues (map). The Marx Meadow portion of the festival will run from 10am until 2pm.
Bike on!
Sarah B.
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