photo: Paige K. Parsons
San Francisco’s Swedish American Hall, a beautiful 1907 building on Market Street, has been totally renovated while maintaining its historic detail, and now our friends at Noise Pop are curating a marvelous lineup of intimate performances from some great indie and alt.music artists. Tonight is Milo Greene (video below), tomorrow is Widowspeak, Saturday is Villagers, and next week is a terrific show with The Mynabirds, The Dead Ships, and Bad Bad Hats. Lots more in the coming month as well, and I’m particularly stoked to see Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo on Friday, November 6!
Built in 1907, the Hall was designed by noted Swedish architect August Nordin, who designed over 300 buildings in San Francisco. This building has been used as a meeting place for many generations of Swedish Americans. After a year of renovations and a nomination to become a landmark by the city of San Francisco, the Swedish is back! Noise Pop will be selecting all programming at the Swedish in 2015 as the official curator of the venue. The bar and newly redesigned Café du Nord will be curated by The Bon Vivants of Trick Dog. The brand new street level restaurant Aatxe is programmed by the Ne Timeas Restaurant Group, of Central Kitchen & flour + water.
