Kronos Festival 2019 starts next week on Thursday, May 30, and runs through Saturday, June 1 at the SFJAZZ Center.

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Kronos Festival 2019 is in less than five weeks, and Kronos has some exciting new developments:

NEW UPDATE (May 6, 2019) – Oakland-based writer, poet, spoken word artist, actor, dancer, emcee, and choreographer Michael Wayne Turner III has also been added to Voices of a People’s History on Opening Night (May 30). He and Kronos previously collaborated on Echoes, a spoken-word chamber opera composed by Danny Clay, written and performed by Youth Speaks with Kronos and The Living Earth Show, and presented by San Francisco Performances and Kronos Presents.

ADDITIONAL UPDATE (April, 29, 2019) – Musician, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and band leader Brian Carpenter of Beat Circus and Ghost Train Orchestra will join the June 1 Day 3 concert as part of Kronos and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger at 100.

San Francisco Bay Area singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero will join the May 30 Opening Night concert as part of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History and June 1 Day 3 concert as part of Kronos and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger at 100.

Also on Opening Night, Kronos will premiere Enthusiasm Strategies, composed by Missy Mazzoli for Kronos’ 50 for the Future education initiative.

Kronos’ oft-requested arrangement of Sigur Rós‘s “Flugufrelsarinn” has been added to the Day 2 concert on May 31.

The complete program for the June 1 Saturday morning Family Concert has been announced.

Listen to playlists on Spotify or YouTube to get a taste of many of the guest artists and composers who will be featured during our fifth annual music festival, including CocoRosie, Sam Amidon, Jlin, Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon, Jherek Bischoff, Trio Da Kali’s Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, San Francisco Girls Chorus, filmmaker Sam Green, and many many others.