One of the best parts of summer in the Bay Area is the abundance of concerts, especially ones performed by big artists. If you want to add some music to your 2025 summer plans, here is a guide to some of the many Bay Area concerts you can attend.
Shakira
Shakira will visit Oracle Park on June 30 as part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. Her performance will feature new choreography for her famous dances, and the singer plans to change outfits a total of 13 times in one night. Shakira will perform a mixture of her classic songs, including Hips Don’t Lie, and songs from her most recent album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. The concert is expected to be full of energy, dancing and colorful effects.
Post Malone
Just a day after Shakira’s big performance, Post Malone will take over the Oracle Park stage on July 1. The performance will be part of his BIG ASS Stadium Tour. So far, he’s performed both his rap and country songs accompanied by elaborate strobe light stage design. Jelly Roll, a rising country singer, is co-headlining the tour with Post Malone, bringing a mixture of energy and sincerity to the stage.
Kesha
As part of her tour, Kesha will stop at the more intimate Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View on July 3. She hopes to bring fun, acceptance, love, connection and celebration to her tour as a response to the current US administration. “We will not be quiet, and we will fight through joy,” Kesha said in an interview with Cosmopolitan. Kesha’s new album, titled only with the period punctuation mark, is set to be released on July 4, the day after her Mountain View performance. Attendees can expect some of her classic hits and songs from her upcoming album.
Katy Perry
Shortly after her space expedition, Katy Perry touched down on Earth for The Lifetimes Tour. She will be performing at the San Francisco Chase Center on July 18. Perry’s show is built around a robot storyline, and so far, the opinion of her tour has remained generally negative. Theories on the internet attribute a disorderly performance from her to a rushed effort to remove any references to her controversial trip to space. By the time Perry performs for the California Gurls in San Francisco, fans can hope that she makes some tweaks to her show in response to the criticism.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is currently on The MAYHEM Ball World Tour following the March 7 release of her new album MAYHEM. Gaga’s second US performance on her tour will be at the Chase Center on July 22nd. Although MAYHEM is expected to be the dominant album, Gaga will also perform many of her older hit songs. The concert will be on theme for Gaga, who is known for her elaborate costumes and dances.
The Lumineers
The Lumineers will take the Chase Center stage on August 5 as part of the North American leg of their Automatic Tour. Unlike other performers, The Lumineers don’t focus on the performative aspect of concerts, but instead on the live and instrumental features. In the past, the Lumineers have engaged the audience with call-and-response and have a strong ability to get the whole crowd to sing and dance along to the music. Rising singer Tom Odell will open for the Lumineers.
Zach Bryan
Unlike his song, Zach Bryan will be heading West for an August 15 end-of-summer revival at Golden Gate Park. The concert will be the second time he visits the Bay in his Quittin’ Time Tour that began in the spring of last year. Bryan always opens up the concerts on the tour with the song Overtime, and he is known to play lots of his more popular songs. He is not coming to San Francisco alone and will bring the rock band Kings of Leon, the country band Turnpike Troubadours, and young singer Noeline Hofmann. Bryan discovered Hoffman’s song, Purple Gas, on Instagram and later worked with Hoffman to release it as a duet.
