Goldenvoice Partners With SF’s Slim’s and Great American Music Hall

Owners of iconic San Francisco venues Slim’s and The Great American Music Hall have announced a partnership with promoter Goldenvoice, whose staff in San Francisco will join the venues in a number of joint promotions. 

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AEG Presents subsidiary Goldenvoice operates The Fonda Theatre, El Rey Theatre and The Novo in Los Angeles as well as the Regency Ballroom, Warfield Theatre and Social Hall in San Francisco.

The announcement says the venues will utilize Goldenvoice’s booking services and promotion expertise, but doesn’t elaborate on the promotions. Pollstar has reached out for clarification. Both venues will continue to host private events.

“We at Slims and the Music Hall are excited about working with the folks at Goldenvoice,” said Boz Scaggs, who opened Slim’s in 1988.  “They bring a new level of outreach and imagination, along with a genuine love of music to our clubs and to the Bay Area.”

The move appears to give AEG / Goldenvoice a stable of venues in the market to compete with the one-time Bill Graham portfolio that is now Live Nation, which includes the iconic Fillmore.

“I am honored that Goldenvoice was chosen to book these two legendary San Francisco landmarks,” said Goldenvoice Vice President and General Manager Paul Billings. “Our teams share similar values and we look forward to this new relationship.”

In February it was announced that GM Dawn Holliday was retiring after 28 years at the helm of both venues, although she remained as key contributor to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free, three-day music festival at Golden Gate Park that she developed in 2001 with the late financier Warren Hellman.

Hellman died in 2011, but left an endowment to fund the free festival for years to come. 

Marcy Guiragossian-Marcy G. Photography) – Hoobastank Playing Slim

The 430-capacity Slim’s, in the city’s South of Market district, is a mainstay in the Bay Area, with upcoming shows including Anti-Flag, Metalachi and Mac Sabbath, and has historically hosted the likes of Radiohead, Prince, Kings of Leon and Curtis Mayfield.

The 600-capacity Great American Music Hall, constructed in 1907 after the earthquake of 1906, was reborn as a rock club in the ’70s, and in 2001 was acquired by Boz Scaggs’ Big Billy Inc.

Upcoming shows include two nights of Drive-By Truckers, John Oates, Pop Evil and the Noise Pop Festival with Girlpool, Billy, Superchunk and others in February.