Cannelle makes her San Francisco debut at Rickshaw Stop

The DJ, fresh off a festival year that included Montreal's Palomosa, plays a 400-capacity room on Thursday, Nov. 19, for $18.

Some of the best club nights in this city happen in rooms where you can see the DJ's hands. Rickshaw Stop is one of those rooms, and on Thursday, Nov. 19, it gets a first look at Cannelle.

Cannelle plays Rickshaw Stop on Thursday, Nov. 19, with the set starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are $18 through See Tickets. The room holds 400, which puts this squarely in the range where an electronic night feels like a party rather than a production. There is no earlier San Francisco show for Cannelle in our records, so this is, as far as we can tell, her first time playing the city.

She arrives in the middle of a North American swing. The run has already passed through Philadelphia on Nov. 3, Atlanta on Nov. 7 and Washington, D.C., on Nov. 8, and it heads to Texas for Houston on Nov. 17 and Dallas on Nov. 18 before landing here. That is a tight routing, two nights in Texas and then straight to the West Coast, which usually means an artist is riding some momentum.

The momentum is real. Cannelle was part of the lineup at Palomosa, the Montreal festival, in May, where PAN M 360's review framed her as a fashion-icon DJ, a performer whose look and presence are as much a part of the set as the tracks. That is worth knowing going in: this is the kind of DJ people come to watch, not just dance in front of.

That is also why the room matters. A 400-capacity club puts the booth close to the floor, and a Thursday night show at 9 p.m. leaves plenty of evening on either side. You can get dinner, get in early enough to find your spot, and still be home at a reasonable hour if work calls Friday morning. Or not.

For anyone who has been following the steady stream of club-scale electronic bookings through Rickshaw Stop this fall, Cannelle fits the pattern of acts the city gets to see in a small room before they move up. That's the bet you are making with an $18 ticket: that this is the one you'll be glad you caught early, before the next visit lands in a bigger space with a bigger price.

What to know before going: arrive close to the start. With a single act on the bill and a 9 p.m. start, the night builds from the first track, and there is no long opener stretch to wander in during. Check the See Tickets page for the age policy and any updates before you head out, and give yourself time to get through the door; club entry lines on a busy Thursday can run longer than you'd expect.

It's a first visit, a small room and a cheap ticket. In this city, that combination doesn't come around as often as it used to. Thursday the 19th, Rickshaw Stop, 9 p.m. See you on the floor.

Sources: Palomosa 2026: Cannelle, a fashion icon DJ — PAN M 360 (panm360.com); Cannelle at Rickshaw Stop — JamBase (jambase.com)