Saturday, December 6th Happy Hour Show at Amnesia

Happy Hour Show

– 6-9PM
– $8-10 sliding scale/door
– 21+ show

Songbird Presents – Happy Hour Show: 

6 pm – TELL Hour (Spoken Word and Live Music) Curated by Hiya Swanhuyser featuring Shanley Jacobs, Robert O’Connell, Clare Ramsaran and the band Rich Hell.

7 pm - Strange Ideas: 

“… lo-fi, California-style, indie pop rock deliciousness… Strange Ideas will commiserate with your pain… while still offering up enough instrumental energy to spark a sense of accomplishment in your bones… poignant lyricism and garage rock distortion.” 

— Sarah Sexton, Oaktown Indie Mayhem

LISTEN: http://strangeideas.bandcamp.com/

8 pm - Gringa:

Gringa is a musical collective for culturally confused women navigating the globalized, digitized world. Gringa plays Brazilian covers from artists like Jorge Ben Jor, Djavan, and Luis Gonzaga, as well as originals that put a Latin spin on American pop and feature lyrics in English and Portuguese.

LISTEN: http://www.reverbnation.com/gringamusic

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Saturday, December 6th – Late Show at Amnesia

 

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– $8-10 sliding scale/door
– 21+ show

11:30 – 1:00 a.m

Brazilvox brings Brazilian flavor to the San Franciso Bay Area with Samba, Funk, Samba Reggae, Brazilian Pop (MPB), Forro and other Brazilian styles. The eight-piece band plays a mix of original music and unique arrangements of some of Brazil’s greatest music – from Chico Buarque to Seu Jorge.

visit https://www.facebook.com/brazilvox

 

 10 pm Darren Johnston’s Broken Quartet - http://darrenjohnstonmusic.com

Darren Johnston – trumpet/vocals

Faisal Zedan – riqq/derbekki/vocals

Jake Leckie – bass

Hamir Atwal – drum set

MSK.fm

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Antonino Musco (aka Msk / MSK.fm), producer/engineer, radio host and jazz trained musician with a strong improvisational and audiovisual background. Italian-born, Antonino traveled and networked across Europe before relocating to San Francisco in 2010.

As a solo artist or with his band Sicilian AV project, Antonino performed in some of the Old Continent most exclusive festivals and events, including the XIII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival in Rome, IT; Praguebiennale3 in Prague, CZ; Crazycurators Biennale in Bratislava, SK.

Resident DJ at Elbo Room, Amnesia and Revolution Cafe in San Francisco; Antonino also host a weekly radio show (since 2008) on Party 934 94.9FM in Hudson Valley, New York.

 

www.soundcloud.com/mskfm | http://eermusica.bandcamp.com

 


“Johnston explores the limits of his instrument with a hankering for originality…running away and never looking back.”

– San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Pick of the Week,” July 5-11, 2006.

“fantastic…with a big bell tone and a tart phrasing style that really cuts through.”
– Signal to Noise #48.

“a resourceful improviser who writes vivid, episodic themes.”
– Downbeat Magazine, June 2007, “25  Trumpeters for the Future.”

“Someone to watch, on trumpet of course, but as a composer and bandleader as well.”
– John Corbett, Downbeat Magazine, Aug 2009

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Saturday, November 1, 2014 – Happy Hour and Late Show @ Amnesia

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San Francisco Songbird Festival presents:
Saturday, Nov 1st Early Show 6-9 pm Late Show 10 pm – Close – $8-$10 per show.

 

Amnesia Music Hall
853 Valencia Street, SF, CA

 

::: Early Show :::

 

6-9 pm – T.E.L.L. Hours

 

Featuring Viola Booth, Tyler Weiss, Deborah Crooks, Jen Burke Anderson, Bird and Boat (Featuring Travis Ortiz and MMara Ann) Hall Harry Scifres Robins, Kevin Munroe and Shaun Lamar.

 

7:30 – 9:30 – Jazz and Standards by Emily Anne and Heather Thiel and Friends
::: Late Show :::

 

10 pm – Inner Ear Brigade

 

11:15 pm – Brasil

 

 

Music by Msk.fm throughout the night

 

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Saturday, October 4th Early and Late Show at Amnesia 853 Valencia Street

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EARLY Show: 6-9:30

6:00 pm TELL Hour – Featuring Deborah Steinberg, Jessie Roadkill, Linda Robertson,  Kevin Munroe, Spy Emerson and Hal Robins

7:00 pm  – The Anita Lofton Project

8:00 pm – Nick Culp Trio

Sliding Scale $8-$10

DeborahAbout Deborah
I am a writer whose fiction and prose poetry explore themes of healing, the body, gender, and what it’s like to live without wings in a post-apocalyptic society. My short work is published in literary journals, and I am seeking representation for my speculative fiction novel, Splitting The Wind. I serve as Fiction Editor at Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks and I am co-editor, with Liana Holmberg, of the anthology Writing That Risks: New Work from Beyond the Mainstream, published July, 2013 by Red Bridge Press, where I am a founding editor. I hold a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Bard College and an M.A. in English Literature from the Université Michel Montaigne – Bordeaux III, where my thesis explored the intersection of literature and medicine. I spent seven years teaching English and singing in bands in Bordeaux, France. Now based in San Francisco, I facilitate creative writing workshops with a focus on healing through Heal Write and work as a freelance editor. I also serve on the board of the Bay Area Generations reading series and sing in the a cappella group Conspiracy of Venus. 
Jesse Roadkill’s  murder ballads are best accompanied with
jessie roadkilla glass of red wine and a cold cut of meat. Make sure th lighting is at an earyly low set as her eyes are used to the cold unforgiving night. Prepare your ears for her stories by sharing in a joke, sharp and witty is best, and sipping upon whatever libation fits your mood best. She will spin her tales of laughter and betrayal while you sit back and bask in your good decision.
Spy Emerson is an accomplished practicioner of the graphic and plastic arts. As boldly inventive Performance Artist, Spy’s numerous and playful works include stage shows of dance and drama, collage and assemblage of found materials, photography, painting, film and video.
  Linda RobertsonAbout Linda Robertson I read things I’ve written, play songs on the accordion and violin, and make up jokes to go in between. In days of yore, my songs were performed with the bands Cotton Candy and The Trifles, and the recordings here are all made with those wonderful folk. In 2008, Harper Collins were kind enough to publish my seedy, tell-all memoir “What Rhymes with Bastard”, and I’m working on my next collection of tales…all this dense history is woven into my mini-shows – packed full of suffering!

10351312_10152262449663789_5001131097864949274_nKevin Munroe is a Trinidadian Comedian and Actor based in San Francisco. He was co-creator of “Ebony and Irony Show”, opened for Tracy Morgan (yes, that guy) and W. Kamau Bell, and was recently seen at the 2013 Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
spySpy Emerson is an accomplished practitioner of the graphic and plastic arts. As boldly inventive Performance Artist, Spy’s numerous and playful works include stage shows of dance and drama, collage and assemblage of found materials, photography, painting, film and video.
Hal RobinsHarry S. Robins, known as “Hal”, is a voice artist and screen writer. Robins is best known for his vocal work in the Half-Life series of computer games, and has made a return as the voice of Tinker in Dota 2. He is also a prominent member of the Church of the SubGenius as Dr. Howland Owll. In that persona he voiced the narrator in Arise! The SubGenius Video and made brief appearances in Grass. His official title within the church is “Keeper of Church Secrets”.
anitaloftonprojectI started this project to build a bridge between what black girls are known to do in the music world (sing) and what we are capable of doing (composing music, writing lyrics, and playing wonderful instruments). My mission is to introduce audiences to a sight they probably have never seen before, to promote good will, and awesome music.
Nick Culp
Nicholas Culp was born in L.A. and did his early training with John Magruder and local jazz piano experimentalist Larry Karush. He later spent 2000 to 04 At Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France where he obtained a concertist degree and studied harmony and composition with renowned jazz pianist Bernard Maury. He now composes, records and performs locally.

LATE Show: 10:00 pm to Close

10 pm – Wicked Mercies

11 pm – Pangea Futbol Club

DJ Sets throughout the night by Msk.fm Sliding Scale $8-$10

 

 

 

 

Wicked Mercies

wickedmerciesWicked Mercies are a soul band from San Francisco. The line-up features vocals that embody the classic sound of all great female – fronted soul acts through out time. The band is made up of players with roots in soul, R&B, funk and punk. The band takes a stripped down, un-pretentious approach to the music, grabbing a hold of the grooves and driving them into the sound. Wicked Mercies have received local and international airplay including critical acclaim from the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show BBC6 music London.

Very very impressed, it seems in the last year this San Francisco group has really tighted-up their sound, they have a great new singer and the musicianship…they’re as good as anything out there.  – Craig Charles, Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show BBC-6Music UK

 

 

 

Pangea Futbol Club

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It is on Tuesdays and Saturdays religiously.  International residents of San Francisco gather to kick the ball around in the Wester Addition, and then gather in simple brethren to chat about their lives, their moves, their homes back home.  Soon the musical instruments come out, and it is here that Pangea Futbol Club is founded.  Pangea FC is a band of musicians from all over the world who gather together to make music to one festive heartbeat.  The members are from Argentina, Iran, Italy, Cuba, the Bay Area, New York City, and beyond.  The music seeks to reach even farther:  A bosa nova montuno that turns into a cumbia.  A cumbia that has New Orleans feel.  A klezmer en español supporting the Palestinian struggle.  An Arabic beat that turns Andean.  And ironically, as Pangea spans the globe, you may not even notice, because you suddenly find yourself dancing all night long.

 

MSK.fm

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Antonino Musco (aka Msk / MSK.fm), producer/engineer, radio host and jazz trained musician with a strong improvisational and audiovisual background. Italian-born, Antonino traveled and networked across Europe before relocating to San Francisco in 2010.

As a solo artist or with his band Sicilian AV project, Antonino performed in some of the Old Continent most exclusive festivals and events, including the XIII Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (BJCEM), Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival in Rome, IT; Praguebiennale3 in Prague, CZ; Crazycurators Biennale in Bratislava, SK.

Resident DJ at Elbo Room, Amnesia and Revolution Cafe in San Francisco; Antonino also host a weekly radio show (since 2008) on Party 934 94.9FM in Hudson Valley, New York.

 

www.soundcloud.com/mskfm | http://eermusica.bandcamp.com

 

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Saturday, September 6th – Happy Hour and Late Show at Amnesia

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EARLY Show: 6-9:30

7:00 pm  – Leila Adu

7:30 pm – The Wyatt Act

8:30 pm – Inner Ear Brigade

Sliding Scale $8-$10

TELL Hour – Featuring Jen Anderson, Deborah Steinberg, Lauren Wheeler,  Kevin Munroe and Linda Robertson

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Jen Burke Anderson is a writer in San Francisco. She has been chosen to read at Litquake three years running, and was chosen this summer to read at the Why There Are Words series in Sausalito. She has been published in Instant City, The Fabulist, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Her blog Civilization Party can be found at jenburkeanderson.com. She is traveling to Hungary this autumn to conduct research for her first novel. Tonight she presents her monologue “As Told by Yevgeny.”
DeborahAbout Deborah
I am a writer whose fiction and prose poetry explore themes of healing, the body, gender, and what it’s like to live without wings in a post-apocalyptic society. My short work is published in literary journals, and I am seeking representation for my speculative fiction novel, Splitting The Wind. I serve as Fiction Editor at Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks and I am co-editor, with Liana Holmberg, of the anthology Writing That Risks: New Work from Beyond the Mainstream, published July, 2013 by Red Bridge Press, where I am a founding editor. I hold a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Bard College and an M.A. in English Literature from the Université Michel Montaigne – Bordeaux III, where my thesis explored the intersection of literature and medicine. I spent seven years teaching English and singing in bands in Bordeaux, France. Now based in San Francisco, I facilitate creative writing workshops with a focus on healing through Heal Write and work as a freelance editor. I also serve on the board of the Bay Area Generations reading series and sing in the a cappella group Conspiracy of Venus. 
lauren-wheelerLauren Wheeler writes poetry, really short fiction, and what happens when they rub up against each other. A recovering slam poet, she twice competed at the National Poetry Slam and has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Lauren curated and hosted two poetry series in Ithaca, Tongue & Groove at Stella’s Wine and Whiskey Bar and Re-Verse at the Oak Café, and was a core organizer of the ForWord Girls poetry and spoken word festival in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Other Magazine, 365tomorrows, Lodestar Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, PANK Magazine, and The Nervous Breakdown. 

Lauren lives in a drafty old house in West Oakland, California with her partner and two brown dogs. With several years of experience in the video game industry, she’s currently working on The Sims 4. In her off hours, she enjoys dancing, performing offbeat burlesque, and singing (as Lola Vauntz) and occasionally deejays (as DJverse)
  Linda RobertsonAbout Linda Robertson I read things I’ve written, play songs on the accordion and violin, and make up jokes to go in between. In days of yore, my songs were performed with the bands Cotton Candy and The Trifles, and the recordings here are all made with those wonderful folk. In 2008, Harper Collins were kind enough to publish my seedy, tell-all memoir “What Rhymes with Bastard”, and I’m working on my next collection of tales…all this dense history is woven into my mini-shows – packed full of suffering!

10351312_10152262449663789_5001131097864949274_nKevin Munroe is a Trinidadian Comedian and Actor based in San Francisco. He was co-creator of “Ebony and Irony Show”, opened for Tracy Morgan (yes, that guy) and W. Kamau Bell, and was recently seen at the 2013 Bridgetown Comedy Festival.

LeilaLeila Adu travels the spaceways of music without limits. From tours of the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East, London’s Time Out says, ‘Avante-garde pop that recalls Nina Simone and Tim Buckley,” and Italy’s popular music mag Blow Up describes her last album Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker as “splinters of folk and blues but also hypnotic and ghostly prog.” Steve Albini who produced her second album dubbed her “Spooky Adu.” Leila was awarded a doctoral fellowship in composition at Princeton in 2011 — the same year she was voted MTV Iggy’s artist of the week who wrote:

This young New Zealander of Ghanaian descent treats genre distinctions in much the same way that Godzilla treated those little cities made out of cardboard…

She is a singer-songwriter, but more than that, she is part of a generation of highly accomplished young musicians such as Micachu, Joanna Newsom, and Esperanza Spalding who are eroding the distinctions between popular music and the increasingly academic worlds of jazz and instrumental music.

Leila’s unreleased fifth album and new live set take a new direction into Avantronica, replacing her acoustic sound for layers of, both live and pre-recorded, organ and vintage synth mixed with Ableton Live music software. The live set is a duo of Leila’s vocals, synth and piano with New York based Italian drummer, Federico Ughi who divides his time between New York and international tours with legends such as Daniel Carter, William Parker and spends time playing with Ornette Coleman and her latest recordings with kiwi beatmaker/drummer, Riki Gooch.

Leila is currently a Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University and recently wrote for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brentano String Quartet and So Percussion. She is 2014′s Wellington Orchestra’s Emerging-Composer-In-Residence and will première and perform in a new work for voice and orchestra on tour in New Zealand in 2015.

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“Adu’s music reflects her own rich and diverse identity, blending indigenous sounds from the South Pacific and Ghana with tangibly fantastical instrumentation – a sonic funhouse of second glances and expanded perceptions.”
–Art Nouveau Mag   The Wyatt Act photo by Zachary Walters The Wyatt Act Enforced by Guinevere Q on Bass and Vocals, Young Sun on Drums, Breakfast on Sax and Keys, and Professor Capsicum on Guitar, The Wyatt Act is an Act of the Parliament of Rock that authorizes local citizens to declare any group of people to unlawfully rock out or face punitive action. Inner Ear Brigade                   Inner Ear Brigade’s music stretches boundaries and sweeps genres. Their music fits somewhere between jazz, experimental new music, art-rock, funk, and progressive rock. Utilizing the vintage sounds of a Hammond B3 organ, Fender Rhodes, and Moog synthesizer, vocals, vibes,and viola, you may notice sounds that are all at once sweet and silly, riff-crazed, but deceptively free and simple. We are inspired by the sounds of Sunra, Japanese prog duet ‘Ruins’, French epic proggers ‘Magma’ as well as a host of other denizens of boundary pushing music.

History

Inner Ear Brigade formed around 2005 in Oakland, CA by Bill Wolter. The band started with a self released four song EP Belly Brain. The EP featured the talents of Doug Port – Drums, Marvin Ibe – bass, Max Stoffregen – keyboards, and Bill Wolter – Guitar. Throughout the later 2006 – 2008 the performing band formation shifted around and with the addition of Eric Hoagland – tenor sax, and Alex de Soria – Bass. IEB played several venues and festivals around the Bay Area with other like minded bands. Around 2009 the band expanded from a 5 to 7 members with the addition of Ivor Holloway – Tenor Sax, and Melody Ferris Vocals, and Ryder Shelly – Vibraphone. In January 2012 IEB released their first full length album ‘Rainbro’ on AltrOck Records (Italy).

LATE Show: 10:00 pm to Close

10 pm – Diana Gameros

11 pm – Banda Sin Nombre

DJ Sets throughout the night by Msk.fm Sliding Scale $8-$10

Diana Gameros Diana Gameros is a Latin singer/songwriter who performs songs of love, longing, and hope. Originally from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and now living in San Francisco, Gameros creates authentic, inspiring music that reflects the 21st century experiences of a young indie artist at the borderlands between cultures, languages, and genres. Whether teasing every ounce of expression from her acoustic guitar in an intimate cafe or bringing people to their feet in a club with her dynamic full band, Gameros transfixes listeners with her soaring vocals, impressive playing and captivating stage presence.

Gameros was born to a musical family where she was surrounded by traditional mexican songs of love and revolution. The first of her family to receive formal music lessons, Gameros left Mexico as a teenager to study piano and recording technology in Michigan. During those formative years, she soaked up the sounds of classical music, underground rock, the avant-garde, world music, and jazz, forever influencing her own deeply diverse style. Indeed, Gameros’ music has been likened in its subtlety, beauty, and nuance to Rosa Passos, Beirut, Johanna Newsom, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. One music journalist referred to Gameros as “the Latin Feist.” Indeed, her Latin American influences — including contemporary artists like Bebel Gilberto, Fabulosos Cadillacs and Cafe Tacvba — are woven into her musical DNA.

After just a few years in San Francisco, Gameros’ talent and versatility as a performer has brought her a steady stream of high profile gigs at such notable venues as Herbst Theater, Brava Theater, Yoshi’s Lounge, The Independent, The Red Poppy Art House, The New Parish, Fox Theater, and dozens of other venues small and large. She has opened concerts for Cecilia Bastida, LoCura, Latin Grammy-nominee Ximena Sariñana, Torreblanca, and Bebel Gilberto.
sin nombreAbout Banda Sin Nombre Support local communities in the bay area with our passion for music.
Nombre is a five-piece street band from San Francisco’s Mission District dedicated to performing folk music from around the world. Mixing rich vocal harmonies with acoustic instruments including guitar, fiddle, accordion, sousaphone, and cajon, the band’s inspirations range from Peruvian chicha to Catalan rumba and Appalachian old time to cumbia.
Band Interests
Supporting community music, arts, local business and diverse cultural events in San Francisco and beyond. 
Street performance, busking.

Learning and sharing folk music from around the world.

DJ sets throughout the night by Antonino Musco (Msk | Eclectic Electric Recordings)

antoninoMsk.fm is the brainchild of Antonino Musco, italian-born producer, musician and radio host now based in San Francisco.

The City and the Bay inspired the 6 tracks of the EP, a blend of urban, funk, electronic, downtempo and trip-hop, influenced by the love of world music, the eclectic taste of Antonino and the international melting pot of the line-up that includes NYC guitarist Andy Averbuch (The Joe Bataan Band, Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra), brazilian trumpet maestro Leandro Joaquim (Marcos Valle, Lucas Santana, etc), italian cellist Stefano Di Leginio and the SF rising stars Christopher Burch, Jessy Manuel, Hanna Rifkin on vocals/lyrics. Made of a balance of global musicians and local singers, MadeInSF EP was composed, recorded, mixed and produced by Antonino Musco, who also plays keys, guitars, sampler, drums and percussions. The experienced engineer Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto, Hercules & Love Affair) mastered the EP at Room Five Studio.

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Saturday, August 2, Early and Late Show at Amnesia Musical Hall

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Early Show 6-9 pm  – Sliding Scale $8-$10

6 pm – T.E.L.L. Hour – Variety Hour with Bay Area Poets,
Words by Lauren Wheeler and Ginger Murray and comedy by Kevin Munroe

6:00 – Lauren Wheeler

lauren-wheelerLauren Wheeler writes poetry, really short fiction, and what happens when they rub up against each other. A recovering slam poet, she twice competed at the National Poetry Slam and has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Lauren curated and hosted two poetry series in Ithaca, Tongue & Groove at Stella’s Wine and Whiskey Bar and Re-Verse at the Oak Café, and was a core organizer of the ForWord Girls poetry and spoken word festival in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Other Magazine, 365tomorrows, Lodestar Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, PANK Magazine, and The Nervous Breakdown.

Lauren lives in a drafty old house in West Oakland, California with her partner and two brown dogs. With several years of experience in the video game industry, she’s currently working on The Sims 4. In her off hours, she enjoys dancing, performing offbeat burlesque, and singing (as Lola Vauntz) and occasionally deejays (as DJverse)

Ginger Murray

6:30 – Kevin Munroe

10351312_10152262449663789_5001131097864949274_n Kevin Munroe is a Trinidadian Comedian and Actor based in San Francisco. He was co-creator of “Ebony and Irony Show”, opened for Tracy Morgan (yes, that guy) and W. Kamau Bell, and was recently seen at the 2013 Bridgetown Comedy Festival.

 

 

6:45 – Allison Lovejoy


AllisonStories about characters, both real and fictional, have always had great appeal to me.

After reading a magazine article about a murderess in my neighborhood, I was inspired to set her story to music. “Foxglove” was the title and the name of the poison. Since then, over 30 additional songs have been added to the roster.

My cabaret takes its influence from theater, classical music, vaudeville, rock, jazz, blues and tango.
“Cabaret Nouveau” blends dark cabaret, sassy lyrics, hot piano stylings, great grooves and crafty songwriting. Echoes of Nina Simone, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, and Elton John are heard in the music and lyrics, as well as a connection to members of the “Dark Cabaret” movement such as The Dresden Dolls, Jill Tracy, Antony and the Johnsons and The Tiger Lilies.

She was winner of the “Best Modern Cabaret Artist” Competition in 2010.

Burlesque and the Shadow Puppet Theater.

7:15 – Pony Hunt

Pony Hunt

Pony Hunt is a writer and performer from Oakland by-way-of Chicago. Her guitar playing is reminiscent of delta blues with a tin pan alley flare. Her distinct, almost ghostly voice, coupled with her personal and intimate song writing, is both vulnerable and confident and cuts straight to the heart.

 

8 pm – Banda Sin Nombre

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Music from around the world.

Biography
In fall of 2011 a fantastic person by the name of Jane Stitt began to tactfully bring people recently moved to San Francisco into her circle of music that spanned from bluegrass and folk to Mexican baladas and classical French and Italian songs.The thing that we all had in common was a love for learning and sharing music…specifically old, raw, traditional music that managed to be mutually intertwined into each of our cultural histories and interests.After many months of gathering people we formed a band called Sin Nombre that included members Larry del Carlo, Kevin Caulfield, Randall Carvajal, WillBill DeGrush, as well as the current members Hannah Gallagher, Kate Goldstein, Eva Mas and Douglas Gallagher.Despite changes in our members and instrumentation, we hold every person who has brought their passion for music, community and joy as part of what we create together. Our goal is to learn and share music that has inspired and moved people everywhere for hundreds of years and to support local communities in the bay area with our passion for music.

Description

Sin Nombre is a five-piece street band from San Francisco’s Mission District dedicated to performing folk music from around the world. Mixing rich vocal harmonies with acoustic instruments including guitar, fiddle, accordion, sousaphone, and cajon, the band’s inspirations range from Peruvian chicha to Catalan rumba and Appalachian old time to cumbia.

Band Interests

Supporting community music, arts, local business and diverse cultural events in San Francisco and beyond. Street performance, busking.

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Late Show 9:30 – Close – Sliding Scale $8-$10

DJ sets throughout the night by Antonino Musco (Msk | Eclectic Electric Recordings)

antoninoMSK.fm is the brainchild of Antonino Musco, italian-born producer, musician and radio host now based in San Francisco.

The City and the Bay inspired the 6 tracks of the EP, a blend of urban, funk, electronic, downtempo and trip-hop, influenced by the love of world music, the eclectic taste of Antonino and the international melting pot of the line-up that includes NYC guitarist Andy Averbuch (The Joe Bataan Band, Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra), brazilian trumpet maestro Leandro Joaquim (Marcos Valle, Lucas Santana, etc), italian cellist Stefano Di Leginio and the SF rising stars Christopher Burch, Jessy Manuel, Hanna Rifkin on vocals/lyrics.
Made of a balance of global musicians and local singers, MadeInSF EP was composed, recorded, mixed and produced by Antonino Musco, who also plays keys, guitars, sampler, drums and percussions. The experienced engineer Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto, Hercules & Love Affair) mastered the EP at Room Five Studio.

10 pm – The Broken Shadows Family Band

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Broken Shadows Family Band has a rootsy sound with an emphasis on lyrics and song-writing, with raucous violin and trumpet solos over deep grooves.
Biography
About Darren JohnstonSince settling in San Francisco in 1997, Canada-born trumpeter/composer/songwriter Darren Johnston has collaborated and recorded with an extremely diverse cross-section of artists. Whether playing with straight-ahead jazz luminaries such as bassist/composer Marcus Shelby, experimental icons like ROVA, Fred Frith and Myra Melford, rising star voclaist Meklit Hadero, or traditional Balkan brass band giants Brass Menazeri, he manages to blend in while still sharing his unique voice.As a bandleader he has made his mark with the award winning Nice Guy Trio, The Darren Johnston Quintet, the category defying Broken Shadows, and more. For an upcoming commission by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, “Letters From Home,” Johnston will be forming a multi-generational chorus with over eighty participants.
Description
The Oakland-based Broken Shadows Family Band is an all-star cast of musicians from greatly diverging backgrounds. Western European to Arabic Classical music, Slavic choral music to Americana, sounds of Macedonia, Ethiopia, classic jazz and R&B are all ingredients in their family recipe. They’ve created a truly unique sound, balancing the old with the new, telling human stories over grooves that beg to be danced to. Along with some surprising covers, they play originals by trumpeter/composer Darren Johnston, including selections from two different suites for which he used recorded interviews and collected letters by immigrants living in the US to create lyrics. (Songs of Seven Miles and Letters to Home). Collectively, members also play with Meklit Hadero, Kitka, Quartet San Francisco, Incognito Orkestar, Qadim Ensemble, Fanfare Zambaleta, The Nice Guy Trio, Inspector Gadje, the Oakland Active Orchestra, and others.
Band Interests

peace via empathy via music and dance

Artists We Also Like

Ikoyenia Pazerentsi, Gillian Welch, Meklit Hadero, Louis Armstrong, Inspector Gadje, Oum Koulsom, Fanfare Zambaletta, Ornette Coleman, Dejan Avdic, Miles Davis, David Byrne, Billy Holliday, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Billy Strayhorn

11 pm – The Mano Cherga Band

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Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you to The Mano Cherga Band experience. Growling of the tuba, wailing of the accordion, spring reverb on the semi-hollow, clinking of the glasses, wind from the skirts on the dance floor, sweat running down your back, a smile on your lips and tears in your eyes. That’s what it’s all about for us, and we love to share those moments with you. 
We are Jamie, Beodan, Sasha, Nino and Zhenya – tuba, guitar/voice, accordion, drums, bass – US, Serbia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Ukraine – respectively and always respectfully. The recipe is simple: take Balkan Romani, traditional and popular tunes, apply swing, turn up the bass, don’t be shy on the snare and sing like this is the last song you will ever sing.
Sound good? Check the calendar section for information on upcoming shows and be sure to join our Facebook group.
With pleasure,
The Mano Cherga Band

 

 

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Saturday, June 28th – Conspiracy of Venus Season Finale & Indiegogo Campaign Launch with Jeremy Rourke & Vanessa Verlee

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Seaweed Sway and Songbird Festival Present a Celebration for Conspiracy of Venus:

We are celebrating the end of a wonderful, fun, incredible, challenging, and vocally expanding season at one of our favorite places to sing in the city, the Make-Out Room. 

This performance features the premiere of Joyce Todd McBride’s new work for CoV: The Buddha’s Parable of the Burning House, on a text by Bertolt Brecht. 

We also are excited to launch our indiegogo campaign, in which we will raise funds to (finally!) record more of our songs. Stay tuned! 
Joyce Todd McBride’s Conspiracy of Venus
:::Opening this special evening, are special folks::: 
*Jeremy Rourke. Vanessa VerLee. & their band*
at the Make-Out Room

Early Show!! 
7:30-9:30pm for reals!
$8-10

 

 

 

 

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Thursday – 5/1 – Songbird Presents: Happy Hour Show

Songbird Presents: Happy Hour Show

Cradel Duende
Cradle Duende – http://www.cradleduende.org/
Cradle Duende presents a fusion of Klezmer & Balkan influenced melodies with Latin rhythms, and eco-conscious hip-hop lyrics. Cradle Duende takes its name from the Spanish word “duende,” in reference to a musically heightened state of emotion, expression; and a merging of disparate musical traditions that each evolved from independent cradles of civilization. Cradle Duende brings the strength of deep cultural roots into the party atmosphere!

Linda Robertson

Linda Robertson – http://www.soundcloud.com/poppycockery

About Linda Robertson
I read things I’ve written, play songs on the accordion and violin, and make up jokes to go in between. In days of yore, my songs were performed with the bands Cotton Candy and The Trifles, and the recordings here are all made with those wonderful folk. In 2008, Harper Collins were kind enough to publish my seedy, tell-all memoir “What Rhymes with Bastard”, and I’m working on my next collection of tales…all this dense history is woven into my mini-shows – packed full of suffering!

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Kotorino – http://www.kotorino.com/
A Brooklyn band that play darkly elegant, trippy, gypsy-flavored “parlor rock‚” with carnivalesque touches. Our instrumentation includes, but is not limited to: guitar, violins, tuba, bass clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, pump-organ, voice, banjo, drums, accordion, bass and musical saw.

Cover $8-$10 sliding scale

Amnesia Music Hall
853 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110

6 – 9 pm

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Wedsnesday 4/30 – Kotorino, The Bodice Rippers and Jessie Roadkill

Songbird Presents – A Lovely Evening at The Legionnaire Saloon

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Happy-town-kotorino-group-shotKotorino has one of the most unique and unusual sounds of any band, ever. Even in a music scene saturated with “chamber-pop” bands and odd instrumentation, Kotorino stands out with its use of all variety of winds, strings, and other musical gadgetry. The music itself is omnivorous in its source material, quite pretty, and downright haunting.

Some words from the band:

We love the West Coast! Besides the majestic beauty of the nature, and access to some of the best food imaginable, the people we on our last trip was amazing.

We were well taken care of by the warm and inviting people we came in contact with, we even gained a tuba player / pastry chef in San Francisco!

Kotorino is excited to share our own take on the music swirling around New York, from tilted tangos to banjo dub, latin waltzes to gypsy carnival hayrides, urban mambo to Satie jazz. Most importantly Kotorino is looking to connect we people on a personal, emotional and musical level. There is no better way to make those connections than traveling, sharing food, story and song.

The Bodice RippersThe Bodice Rippers are based in Shadetree, in Oakland’s little-known 5th Ave Marina Arts district, and is comprised of members of Rube Waddell, The Apocalypse Puppet Theater, Knees and Elbows, and the various guises of The Reverend Screaming Fingers.

jessie roadkillJesse Roadkill’s murder ballads are best accompanied with a glass of red wine and a cold cut of meat. Make sure th lighting is at an earyly low set as her eyes are used to the cold unforgiving night. Prepare your ears for her stories by sharing in a joke, sharp and witty is best, and sipping upon whatever libation fits your mood best. She will spin her tales of laughter and betrayal while you sit back and bask in your good decision.

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Saturday, January 4th – Songbird Presents – First Show of 2014 – Allison Lovejoy and Friends

 

 New Nocturnes for Piano Kickstarter 

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm  $8-$1000000000000000000000 Sliding Scale Cover

Amnesia Music Hall 853 Valencia Street, $8-$10 Cover

 

ALLISON LOVEJOY

pianist and composer

ALLISON LOVEJOY is a classical pianist, keyboardist, composer, cabaret singer, accordionist, educator and producer of musical events.

 

CLASSICAL:    “Lovejoy’s presentation was absolutely stunning” -Pacifica Review

 

Allison Lovejoy is an extraordinarily exciting and versatile pianist. Specializing in early 20th century repertoire, she also plays the music of the masters with insight and passion. She began studying piano at age 5, and has been in demand as soloist and collaborator throughout her conservatory and professional careers.

Allison Lovejoy has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist. Her insightful and passionate performances have received wide acclaim, and her varied repertoire highlights virtuoso works of the late 19th and early 20th century. She has performed the Beethoven “Emperor” Concerto with the Orchestra of the International Festival of Music in Nicaragua under the baton of Maestro Urs Leonhart Steiner, and has also appeared as soloist in Rachmaninov’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and the Prokofiev Concerto No. 3. She was a prizewinner in the San Jose Young Artist and the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra Competitions, as well as a recipient of a Shenson Concert Series Grant. A guest speaker and performer at the 1998 San Francisco Symphony all-Gershwin concert at Stern Grove, she regularly presents concert-talks throughout California.

Miss Lovejoy received her M.M. from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, her B.M. from the University of the Pacific and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her teachers include Robert Helps, Daniell Revenaugh, Mack McCray, Nathan Schwartz and Gyorgy Sandor. She was also a participant in the Holland International Music Sessions for young artists, where she participated in master classes with John O’Conor and Marie-Francois Bucquet.

She has recorded a CD of solo works by Rachmaninov, Ravel, Debusssy and Bartok on Metro Records, and her album “Nocturnes for Piano” includes rare and popular gems by Chopin, Faure, Satie,  Poulenc, Barber and others.

New works  by composers William Bolcom, Kirke Mechem, George Rubissow, Ted Wiprud, Marcus Shelby, Rob Reich and Chus Alonso have been commissioned or selected by Miss Lovejoy for “New Nocturnes for Piano“, which will be released in 2012.

As a chamber musician, Allison presents concerts in collaboration with notable cellist Emil Miland, violinist Karsten Windt, trumpeter Dave Scott and vocalists Indre Viskontas and Zoltan DiBartolo.

Early show with jazz and more!Please come support the New Nocturnes for Piano Kickstarter – we are half way to our goal and need your help to reach it by January 10!Music by:The one and only Mr. Lucky with Michael Groh on guitar!!Fabulous vocalist Karina Denike and Michael Mccintosh on piano!!Diana Strong, accordion and the amazing Anna Ishida, vocals (singing some original Allison Lovejoy songs/arrangements)Allison Lovejoy playing some original music.and other special guests!!Films by Nara Denning!
Silent Auction with prizes music lessons, artwork by David Baillon, Mr. Lucky, and CDs!

 

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