🍀A St. Patrick’s Day song for San Francisco. The Pied Piper of the Castro, who serenaded his neighborhood from his rooftop throughout the #COVID19 pandemic, played Irish tunes tonight. Hal Wilkes is fully vaccinated and optimistic about the city’s future. #TotalSF 🍀
One of my favorite columns from dreadful 2020 was introducing San Francisco to Hal Wilkes, who began playing the bagpipes on his rooftop March 17, the first day of the city’s shelter-in-place orders. He vowed to play every night to console his neighbors. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
Hal played for 111 straight nights before packing it up. He still plays every Sunday evening and on special days like St. Patrick’s Day. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…
The past year and its scores of bagpipe concerts have brought good things to Hal’s apartment building. The neighbors who didn’t know each other before have become close friends through the concerts. And they’re ecstatic about the building’s “pandemic baby,” 10-day-old Franklin. 
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