The Starry Plough is a full service restaurant, pub and nightclub that has been a staple of the East Bay scene since 1973. With deep roots as an Irish Revolutionary watering hole, the history of protest runs as deep today as it did when we opened four decades ago.
We have entertainment and events 7 days a week, and feature the best acts from the Bay Area and beyond.
We're pleased to have hosted and continue to present artists such as:
Alex Chilton, ALBINO!, Amendola vs. Blades, Ani DiFranco, Antioquia, Asylum Street Spankers, Big Light, Bitch, Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Jeff Buckley, Cake, California Honeydrops, Ralph Carney, Guy Clark, George Cole, Country Joe McDonald, Damnations TX, Bart Davenport, Dead Rock West, Dead Winter Carpenters, Quinn DeVeaux, Mark Eitzel, Foxborough Hot Tubs (Green Day), Foxtails Brigade, David Gans, Mark Growden, He's My Brother, She's My Sister, Hot Buttered Rum, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Will Kimbrough, Jim Lauderdale, Little Wings, Erin McKeown, Monte Montgomery, Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers, Old 97’s, Or, the Whale, Polkacide, Chuck Prophet, Rambling Jack Elliott, Jonathan Richman, Amy Rigby, Rosin Coven, SleepyTime Gorilla Museum, Moe! Staiano, Tempest, The Brothers Comatose, The Counting Crows, The Devil Makes Three, The Gibson Brothers, The Japonize Elephants, The Moore Brothers, The Mother Hips, The Naked Barbies, The Stone Foxes, Bernie Worrell and many more talented musicians.
In everything we do, we hold dear the motto that we proudly present as the center of our establishment.
"No Revolutionary movement is complete without its poetic expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, fears, and hopes the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by the joyous , defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinctive marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it is the dogma of the few and not the faith of the multitude"
-James Connolly 1907
