Special Event
Rooftop Radio: (((folkYEAH!)))
Thursday, Sep 18, 2025
5:30–9 p.m.
(Doors open at 5 p.m.)
Floor 5, Jean and James Douglas Family Sculpture Garden
Ticket price: $35 / $15 for members
This event is for guests 21 and older. Ticket includes access to the entire museum (open until 9 p.m. on Sept 18)
Get ready for a one-of-a-kind live music experience, made in the Bay Area.
To top off this year’s Rooftop Radio season in style, we’re delighted to partner with (((folkYEAH!))), the presenter behind high-demand concerts at venues from The Chapel SF to Big Sur’s ancient redwoods. Three cutting-edge local bands will bring you a refreshing and energizing evening on SFMOMA’s rooftop. After sunset, the museum’s external walls will become the backdrop for a live psychedelic visual projection.
The Lineup
5 p.m. Doors open
5:30–6 p.m. | Now
6:30–7:05 p.m. | The Umbrellas
7:35–8:35 p.m. | Fake Fruit
Andy Cabic DJs the preshow and between sets. Visual projection by Zachary Rodell. Special food and drink will be available for purchase (please note: only cashless payment methods accepted).
While you’re here, check out seven floors of art-filled galleries. Don’t miss Ragnar Kjartansson’s beloved video installation The Visitors before it closes on September 28. View a complete list of current exhibitions.
Ticket Details
A ticket is required to attend this event on the rooftop. A limited number of tickets will be available for sale on-site starting at 3 p.m. on the day of the event.
The date, time, and location of the event are subject to change if rain is forecast. Ticket holders will be notified of any changes.
Highlights from Past Rooftop Radio Events
About (((folkYEAH!)))
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents is a Northern California–based boutique music and events curator and presenter. (((folkYEAH!))) shows and community benefit fundraisers are highly regarded and carefully planned affairs with an emphasis on presenting each event as a one-of-a-kind experience for both the artist and the attendees. Over the last 15 years, (((folkYEAH!))) has presented many shows and local benefit concerts in Northern and Southern California, primarily in San Francisco, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Point Reyes, Grass Valley, San Luis Obispo’s Madonna Inn, and as far south as Pioneertown.
About the Artists
Fake Fruit
Fake Fruit has been a full-fledged band for half a decade, though they originally started as the nomadic songwriting project of California native Hannah “Ham” D’Amato, who spent time living and performing in New York City and Vancouver. After moving to the Bay Area in 2018, D’Amato enlisted guitarist Alex Post and drummer Miles MacDiarmid, along with a rotating cast of bassists, to flesh out her songs. The band’s first album, 2021’s Fake Fruit, earned acclaim from VICE, Bandcamp, and Pitchfork, who praised it as a “whirlwind of biting critique, nervy post-punk guitars, and absurdist humor. Rarely does a first record speak with such a trenchant voice.” Mucho Mistrust, out on Carpark Records, reflects a collaborative and democratic unit. The adventurous LP is the result of a resilient band coming together no matter what. Pitchfork says of this release: “In 12 tightly wound tracks, D’Amato and her bandmates, drummer Miles MacDiarmid and guitarist Alex Post, forge a rickety bridge between the righteous indignation of riot grrrl and the staccato unease of the UK’s post-punk revivalists. D’Amato’s plainspoken delivery and sneering wit provide the record’s center of gravity.”
The Umbrellas
The Umbrellas are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band coalesced around a group of musicians who would frequent legendary San Francisco record emporium Amoeba Music. Singer and guitarist Matt Ferrera links with bassist Nick Oka, while Keith Frerichs is the powerhouse drummer. A chance encounter with Morgan Stanley singing karaoke at a Fourth of July party cemented the lineup around an avowed thirst for melody.
The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Their follow-up LP, Fairweather Friend, goes a step further, absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows and balancing it with studio finesse to allow the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be. The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart.
Now
Now “Does the Trick” all too well
With balance, harmony, and simplicity,
Now slips their hand into the pocketbook of modfathers
without being nicked by nostalgia
Harmony on every corner
“Beat Girl” playing on late night TV
The fantasy soundtracks People doing handstands at a party with Syd Barrett
Where the Soft Boys play in the background and no one crosses a picket line,
Like a long walk next to the train tracks on Ringo’s day out
with Sunlight Bathed in the Golden Glow:
A little blood in your teeth of an Andy and Edie bubblegum Dream.
Andy Cabic
Andy Cabic’s musical being is, like many curious 21st century musicians, shaped and sustained by divergent tangents. If he’s not crafting a melancholy folk rock diamond in his Northern California studio, he’s moving a dance floor with bossa nova and house DJ sets or helping curate a compilation of Japanese City Pop.
Zachary Rodell
Zachary Rodell is a San Francisco–based visual artist, whose psychedelic projections have enveloped venues like The Chapel and Rickshaw Stop. Rodell typically begins his process by recording a band on stage, then projecting that footage live onto a venue’s walls while layering it with fuzzed-out graphics and trippy, distorted colors. His projections create a kind of living, breathing visual companion to the music, whose metamorphosis unfolds before the audience.