Friday Night at 7 pm, ending at 7 pm Saturday Night (July 28-29).

All ages welcome! Bring your blankets and pillows and join Bobby McFerrin and our Faculty, in The Unbroken Circlesong, a 24-hour, non-stop, and uninterrupted circlesongs experience. Continuously morphing, it’s a celebration of music and a prayer inviting all of us to bring our voices to the circlesongs.

Bobby opens and closes The Unbroken Circlesong, with purely improvised circlesongs led by himself and the circlesongschool 2023 Faculty for a full 24 hours.

We encourage everyone, whether you have musical experience or not, to join. Circlesongs is practiced by Bobby on concert stages around the world with hundreds to thousands of people and continues in this 24 hour event that is bound to be full of prayerful surprises, fun and profound beauty. In addition to circlesongs, Illuminate, the organization that brought the Bay Lights to the Bay Bridge and Grace Light to Grace Cathedral, is celebrating a Summer of Awe with WINDOW, a laser installation that will shine from the roof of the Fairmont Hotel through the cathedral’s Rose Window from sunset to sunrise.

The 2023 circlesongschool Faculty

The circlesongschool 2023 Faculty includes internationally acclaimed and diversely gifted teachers who have sung or taught Circlesongs with Bobby over many years: Rhiannon (Hawaii), Judi Vinar (Minnesota), Joey Blake (Rwanda) &  David Worm (Oakland), Destani Wolf (Berkeley), Bryan Dyer (Oakland), Tammi Brown (Santa Cruz), Tiago “Rizumik” Grade (Portugal), Varijashree Venugopal (India), Sofia Ribeiro (Portugal), Juan Andres Ospina (Colombia), Goussy Celestin (Haiti), Christiane Karam (Lebanon), and Manuel Linhares (Portugal).  

Learn more about CirclesongSchool

Event Details

Your ticket gives you entry to the entire 24-hour period, with unlimited in-out privileges. You are also welcome to stay for the entire period, and if you would like to nap, we encourage you to bring yoga mats, blankets, pillows, etc. There is plenty of space in the cathedral to stretch out. No eating is allowed in the cathedral, nor any drinks other than water. There will be no food or drink offered for purchase. We will have tables and chairs set up on the plaza next to the cathedral, should you wish to bring a picnic with you or order food to be delivered to eat outside (the address for deliveries is 1231 Sacramento Street – pick up your order at the driveway leading from the plaza to Sacramento Street).

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