The Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to support the return of Concerts at the Cadillac, a free concert series open to the public that, since 2007, has provided high-quality music for the residents of the Cadillac Hotel and San Francisco's Tenderloin District. The covid-19 pandemic may have paused the monthly performances in 2020, but this summer, the Cadillac Hotel breaks the series’ hiatus with shows programmed as part of the Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin series that animates the neighborhood’s undersung cultural history through live music. Renegade Orchestra performs on Friday June 15th.

About Renegade Orchestra: Welcome to the Renegade Orchestra–it’s time to throw out all the old conventions of a quiet, sleepy, stuffy show of musicians locked in straight jackets of tradition. Clap your hands, tap your feet, and yell all you want–the Renegade Orchestra embraces the virtuosic skills of top bay area musicians and turns them loose on songs orchestras have never or maybe shouldn’t do. Check out this video of cellist Rebecca Roudman performing with Dirty Cello at the Cadillac Hotel in 2017:

About the Concerts at the Cadillac: For 15 years, the Cadillac Hotel has hosted monthly Friday afternoon live music in its spacious lobby, which hints at the grandeur of the historic building when it was constructed in 1907 and now features the Patricia Walkup Memorial Piano, a meticulously restored 1884 Steinway Model D concert grand piano. Focused on jazz, Latin, and classical, the Concerts at the Cadillac’s programming features local, working musicians steeped in an instrumental or vocal practice, brings live music into the home of Tenderloin residents, and is “dedicated to the power of great music to uplift and inspire.” Many of the performances have been documented with high quality audio and video, creating a vast archive of full length concert videos that reveals the hotel’s dedication to its live music program and traces a loose network of the city’s most talented musicians and ensembles, many of whom have returned to perform for the series multiple times. The Tenderloin Museum and the Cadillac Hotel honor the community and longevity of the series in booking artists for the series’ return from its pandemic break and for the Sounds of the Tenderloin; each of the featured musical acts have performed at the Cadillac several times over the years!

FREE

Open to the public | Mask wearing required