The Freight and Salvage, Folk music venue in Downtown Berkeley, United States.

The Freight and Salvage is a nonprofit music venue on Addison Street in downtown Berkeley, California, with seating for close to 490 people. The hall is built mainly from wood, which gives it a warm sound suited to acoustic performances.

Nancy Owens founded the Freight in 1968 in a former used furniture store on San Pablo Avenue, and it incorporated in 1983 as the Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music. It moved to a 220-seat space on Addison Street in 1988, then opened a 490-seat venue in the Downtown Arts District on August 27, 2009, a $12 million LEED-standard project.

The name comes from the used furniture store that occupied the San Pablo Avenue space before 1968. Its open mic is the longest-running open stage in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Shawn Colvin, Dana Carvey and Alvin Youngblood Hart have appeared there. A yearly free street festival, Freight Fest, put two stages of music outside the venue with acts all day inside.

The venue is about a block from the Downtown Berkeley BART station, so getting there by train is straightforward. Buying tickets in advance is a good idea for popular shows, as the hall fills up quickly.

The current building was constructed using reclaimed materials from the previous structure and features a green roof. It is one of the few music venues in the Bay Area built to meet environmental standards from the ground up.