Free concerts like Stern Grove Music Festival helping San Francisco’s comeback [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Free concerts have bloomed up across San Francisco, either in their annual return or as new additions, and there’s a belief they are pushing the city in the right direction.

For the past nearly 90 years, the Stern Grove Music Festival has been serving up head-turning headliners like Chaka Khan for free.

“We really want to be able to bring free live music to the community and make it accessible,” the festival’s marketing director Molly Fremgen said. “We really feel that, like in today’s world, concert tickets are so expensive and it’s really hard for some people to be able to go see these amazing musicians.”

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The festival draws in roughly 90,000 people to the city each year from across the Bay Area and beyond.

“I think …