Concerts at the Cadillac: San Francisco Recovery Theatre
“A Night at the Black Hawk 2025”
At the Cadillac Hotel | 380 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Friday, January 24, 2024 | 1:00 - 2:00pm
Free | All Welcome!
Tenderloin community arts institution SF Recovery Theatre debuts the 2025 edition of its beloved, perennial production A Night at the Blackhawk for a joint “Concerts at the Cadillac” and “Sounds of the Tenderloin” program.
SF Recovery Theatre is a grassroots Tenderloin performing arts organization composed mainly of people in recovery that aims to provide a space where people of different cultures, races and religious backgrounds can feel valued and safe. Led by artistic director Geoffrey Grier, SFRT has regularly produced a show called “A Night at the Blackhawk,” a tribute to the music and culture at the Tenderloin’s famed jazz club that gives audiences a front row seat to the jam session. For the 2025 edition of the show, Grier leads a revue featuring vocals by Eric Ward, Vernon Medearis, Gayle Rosemond, and Sherrie Taylor, with music by Dave Austin and Trio d’Swing!
Concerts at the Cadillac is 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 Tenderloin Museum honors the longevity and resilience of this unique series by co-presenting select concerts that animate the neighborhood’s undersung cultural history through live music, the mission of TLM’s ongoing Sounds of the Tenderloin series of public programs. These monthly Friday afternoon performances bring live music to the Cadillac’s 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.
Funding for this Sounds of the Tenderloin live music program is provided by Specified General Fund for the Museum Grant Program under the California Cultural and Historical Endowment.