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The Bay Area Musical Improv Festival brings together musical improvisers from around the San Francisco bay area and across the country for a weekend of musical improv shows, workshops and jams!

08/27/2026

Start planning your weekend, because our 2026 festival lineup is now live!

Check out our website (https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/festival) for all the details on the shows and workshops on offer for the third-annual Bay Area Musical Improv Festival this October 22 - 25, 2026!

We've got an incredible lineup of nine shows, featuring 29 acts from across the country, plus eight workshops to take your musical improv to the next level.

Workshop registration opens September 9th at 12:00pm Pacific. Show tickets go on sale October 1st at 12:00pm Pacific.

Learn more about our shows: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/shows

Learn more about our workshops: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/workshops

08/11/2026

This is your last chance to perform in the 2026 Bay Area Musical Improv Festival!

Applications are open to join one of this year's Mixer Teams close on August 15th.

If you're not already performing in the festival, this is a great way to get involved and be a part of the action. Each Mixer Team will feature 8 experienced players who will rehearse together for two hours, then perform a set as part of the festival on either Saturday or Sunday!

The deadline to apply is this Saturday, August 15th. Be sure to get your application in before then to be considered!

Get more info and apply: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/mixerteams

08/08/2026

Exciting news: Our weekend schedule is almost complete!

Workshop instructors and topics are being finalized now, but we're releasing a preview of the weekend schedule to help folks plan!

This year's festival includes a full day of workshops and shows on Friday you won't want to miss. Take the day off and make a full weekend of it!

More updates to come! As always learn more on our website: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/festival

Knockoff Broadway BATS Improv Un-Scripted Theater Company Flash Mob Musical La Spazzatura Improv Cabaret - An Improvised Fosse Musical The Incidentalists - live improvised theatre

07/19/2026

Applications are open to join one of this year's Mixer Teams at the Bay Area Musical Improv Festival!

If you're not already performing in the festival, this is a great way to get involved and be a part of the action. Each Mixer Team will feature 8 experienced players who will rehearse together for two hours, then perform a set as part of the festival on either Saturday or Sunday!

The deadline to apply is August 15th. Be sure to get your application in before then to be considered!

Get more info and apply: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/mixerteams

07/17/2026

We are thrilled to announce the full roster of acts for the 2026 Bay Area Musical Improv Festival, featuring acts from around the Bay Area, plus New York City, Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Denver, Omaha, Portland, and Seattle.

That’s right, we’re back for a THIRD year and bringing some incredible musical improv talent together right here in the heart of the Bay Area.

Come watch these 27 incredible acts this fall, October 22-25, 2026 at the All Out Comedy Theater in Oakland, CA!

Knockoff Broadway BATS Improv Un-Scripted Theater Company Flash Mob Musical La Spazzatura Improv Cabaret - An Improvised Fosse Musical The Incidentalists - live improvised theatre

05/27/2026

LAST CALL for applications to the 2026 Bay Area Musical Improv Festival!

This coming Monday, June 1st, is the FINAL day to apply to perform at year's festival at the All Out Comedy Theater in Oakland, CA the weekend of October 22 - 25, 2026.

Building on the success of our last two events, this year's festival will feature a mix of shows, workshops and jams over four days, including an opening pizza party and a closing party with live-band improvised karaoke!

There are currently two applications still open for a few more days: One to apply to perform at the festival and one to apply to teach a workshop.

Both applications can be found here: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/submissions

05/21/2026

Bay Area Musical Improv is excited to announce we're hosting a summer intensive series with instructors from Los Angeles right here in the Bay Area!

LA to the Bay will feature two 6-hour intensive musical improv workshops taught by the legendary Shulie Cowen and Tara Copeland! Join Shulie in Oakland on Saturday June 20th or Tara in San Francisco on Sunday, July 12th.

Registration for both workshops opens this coming Tuesday at 12:00pm.

Learn more about both workshops at https://bayareamusicalimprov.com

04/20/2026

A big thank you to everyone who came out this past weekend for our first-ever Weekend of Workshops! It was such a delight to see so many local musical improvisers teaching new and different topics and for some to teach for the first time.

And we were thrilled to cap it off with our annual Jam & Bread event: The community was thriving, the food was overflowing, and the songs were absolutely bopping!

A big round of congratulations and thank yous to our workshop teachers and musical directors:

Shawn Amaro
Liz Baker
Ben Bigney
Diana Brown
Isaac Dunn
Grant Ewing
Andy Feldman
Camila Frausto
J. Maddox
Dave Möschler
Jessica Neighbor
Myles Nye
Molly Robertson
Jacob Russell-Snyder
Debra Schifrin
Lukas Tannenbaum
Bryan Wong

And thank you to Endgames Improv for hosting us all weekend!

Looking for more musical improv community goodness? Don't forget to mark your calendars for this year's Bay Area Musical Improv Festival: October 22 - 25, 2026! If you have a musical improv act, you can still apply through June 1st!

Get more information here: https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/festival

04/13/2026

Join us for our annual spring potluck, mixer and jam with live-band improvised karaoke this Sunday in San Francisco!

Jam & Bread is a totally FREE event for any and all Bay Area musical improvisers. Come make new friends from the community, connect with old friends, bring a snack to share, and take part in live-band improvised karaoke! That's right, we'll be drawing song titles from a hat, then making them up with the help of a full band!

The event starts at 5:00pm, with the live-band improvised karaoke starting at 6:00pm.

This event is a potluck (that's the "bread" part of 'Jam and Bread'), so we encourage guests to bring a food item or treat to share.

Tickets are FREE, but we require RSVPs in advance, due to space limitations. Get your free tickets now!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jam-bread-spring-musical-improv-mixer-potluck-and-jam-tickets-1982936454314

Address

2550 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA
94612

Website

https://bayareamusicalimprov.com/festival

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