GAMH: Tenderloin Museum 10th Anniversary: Howard Wiley & Friends

Tenderloin Museum turns 10 on July 16, 2025! To celebrate, TLM invited composer, arranger, bandleader, and saxophone great Howard Wiley to organize a musical tribute to the neighborhood featuring an intergenerational revue of legendary Bay Area performers. This extraordinary gathering of musicians will highlight how the TL has shaped the Bay Area’s music scene and pay homage to iconic venues like Black Hawk Jazz Club to GLIDE Memorial Church to Hyde Street Studios and the Great American Music Hall itself. Special guests include the Bay Area’s queen of the blues and gospel Lady Bianca Thornton; multi-talented rapper, pianist, producer, and frequent Wiley collaborator Kev Choice; Fillmore jazz legend and saxophonist John Handy; poet, activist, educator, and SF’s 8th poet laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin; the poet, public theologian, and current Minister of Celebration at GLIDE Memorial Church Marvin K. White, the legendary GLIDE Ensemble choir featuring vocalist Ashling Cole; and vocalist Lavay Smith and pianist Chris Siebert, who have regularly featured Wiley in their swingin’ big band the Red Hot Skillet Lickers for over two decades.

Wednesday July 16, 2025 | Doors 7pm + Show 7:30pm

at the Great American Music Hall | 859 O’Farrell St. SF, CA 94109

Tickets $20 GA / $35 Reserved | Purchase via See Tickets

TLM Members get $10 off any ticket