Weekend Odds & Ends: Pride In The Haight, Music & Pianos In The Park

Weekend Odds & Ends: Pride In The Haight, Music & Pianos In The ParkPhoto: Camden Avery/Hoodline
Camden Avery
Published on June 27, 2015

This weekend is, of course, San Francisco Gay Pride: there are going to be parades, parties, and concerts all over the city, including in our own little hamlet.

If you're not planning to brave the crowds down in the Mission for today's Dyke March at Dolores Park, or hit the Pink Party tonight, or tomorrow's parade down Market Street, there are still plenty of ways to participate.

Trax Bar, at 1437 Haight, the only remaining queer bar in the Upper Haight, will be hosting its classic Pride festivities: cheap drinks, music, and dancing until 2am.

If you want to get involved in the Pink Triangle installation on Twin Peaks, business gets started at 7 am and runs to 10:30. Bring work gloves, a hammer, and sneakers. Can't make the setup? Breakdown is Sunday, June 28th from 4:30 to 8pm.

Today at noon is also the Maud's Reunion at Finnegan's Wake, at 937 Cole. Finnegan's Wake was formerly Maud's Bar, a lesbian bar operating form 1966 to 1989. Entry is free, 21+; the bar is cash only.

Not feeling so proud? Local music options also include a show at Milk Bar: The Soft Bombs, tonight at 8pm for $10 at the door.

If you're already looking to next month, keep an eye out for the San Francisco Botanical Garden's "Flower Piano," an installation from July 9th to the 20th that will place 12 pianos around the garden for the public to play, and for small outdoor mini-concerts.

According to the Botanical Garden's Nina Sazevich, " It's ... the latest project of piano ninjas Mauro ffortissimo and Dean Mermell who together launched Sunset Piano in 2013 when ffortissimo covertly rolled an old grand piano onto the bluffs over Half Moon Bay. Since then, Sunset Piano has expanded this impromptu musical and social experiment, temporarily placing pianos in a wide variety of unexpected natural and urban settings around the Bay Area every year, from the top of Montara Mountain to Market Street."

Admission to the Botanical Garden is free for San Francisco residents with a proof of local address, and $7 for non-resident adults.