Janis Joplin (Wikimedia Commons)

Historical artifacts from the pioneering music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area are on view in ""Something's Happenin' Here: Bay Area Rock 'n' Roll 1963-73," an exhibit now at the Museum of Performance and Design, located in the Veteran's Building in San Francisco's Civic Center.

The exhibit features rarely seen footage, posters, images, and costume from private and public collections and from the artists themselves. Visitors can see and hear rare audio and video clips, some of them drawn from the archive of recordings from San Francisco’s legendary free form radio station KSAN that are now in the museum's permanent collection.

The artifacts include clothing worn by Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana and Sly Stone, the original painting featured on the Grateful Dead’s Anthem of the Sun album cover, the “Captain Trips” hat worn by Jerry Garcia, original posters from classic Bay Area venues, including the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore Auditorium, rare letters, documents and one-of-a-kind itemsfrom the Bay Area's 1960s rock'n' roll heyday, previously unseen photographs from the archives of photographers such as Baron Wolman, Herb Greene, Bob Seidemann, Bill Brach, and Elaine Mayes and musical instruments used by John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service), Merl Saunders and Dan Hicks.

A donation of $5 from non-members is suggested. The Museum is located on the on the fourth floor of the Veterans Building at 401 Van Ness Avenue between MacAllister and Grove Streets in San Francisco.

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