SoFA Street Festival — Downtown San Jose

San Jose’s SoFA Street Fair returned Sunday, April 26, with a free afternoon-to-evening takeover of South First Street in the SoFA arts district. (sofaspring26.sched.com) (mercurynews.com) The spring 2026 schedule listed performances starting at 2 p.m. Pacific and running into the evening, with acts spread across named stages including Caravan, Circle A, Pobladores, Project X, Silver Truck, Soul Street and William. (sofaspring26.sched.com) The lineup mixed local bands, solo artists and specialty performances. Sunday’s bill included Andre Thierry, MiloGreen, Toy Called God, Dream Tellers, Ragweed, Pluie and a SoFA Drag Race, alongside sets by Gunderson High School Band and Gunderson High School Jazz Band. (sofaspring26.sched.com) Metro Silicon Valley described the fair in 2025 as a free, all-day event built around music, crafts and food, and said the festival had reached what organizers called its “second 10th anniversary.” (metrosiliconvalley.com) Visit San Jose lists the SoFA district as one of downtown’s core arts neighborhoods, with murals, theaters, bars and recurring events including South First Fridays, SubZERO Festival, summer street markets and SoFA Street Fairs. (sanjose.org) That helps explain why the fair is organized as a street-level crawl instead of a single-stage concert. The district’s regular venues and public spaces are part of the event footprint, and the spring schedule showed programming clustered across multiple blocks and corners of SoFA. (sanjose.org) (sofaspring26.sched.com) The fair was also prominent enough to appear in the Mercury News’ April 24 weekend roundup alongside the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival, Half Moon Bay’s Dream Machines and San Jose’s Nikkei Matsuri. (mercurynews.com) By Sunday afternoon, the event calendar showed SoFA doing what it has done for years: turning downtown blocks into a public showcase for San Jose bands, performers and small vendors, without a ticket gate. (sofaspring26.sched.com) (sanjose.org)