Friday, October 13th – SF Songbird Festival Opening Night at Chile Lindo Kitchen – Danny Brown and Ed Corzo

Danny Brown

San Francisco based multi-instrumentalist Danny Brown leads his own bands and can be heard regularly with many groups including Marcus Shelby, Lavay Smith, Daniel Herrera, Lucky Devils Band, Azure McCall. DB has performed with Stevie Wonder, Dan Hicks, Pete Escovedo, Mingo Lewis, Zakir Hussein, Glide Church Ensemble, SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and countless others. He was a member of the sfjazz high school all star ensemble, is the music director at GeeLou in the marina district and opened record store Noise in 2015. Follow him on IG @noisesanfrancisco

Ed Corzo

Ed Corzo, is a professional Cuban musician from Havana, Cuba. Piano and clarinet player. Composer and Arranger.

He began musical studies with his father, Gregorio Corzo, a violinist from the Cuban National Symphony Orquestra. Ed was an independent guitar and piano student until the age of 21. Then, he decided to complete a formal education at Ignacio Cervantes Conservatorio, where he graduated as a Clarinetist. Around that time, he composed music for Cuban TV and served as musical director of the Conjunto Nacional de Espectaculos.

Ed Corzo had the opportunity to tour Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US, where he explored musical roots and sonorities, and expanded his repertoire to a variety of music genres. Additionally, he has arranged and composed music for films, television, radio, and theater in those countries.

Today he is a Professor at Community Music Center (San Francisco), and a freelance performer for local and international bands.

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Sunday, October 15th – San Francisco Songbird Festival at The Box Shop

Join us for an afternoon of free live music, dance, and art!

Get ready to groove to the beats and enjoy incredible performances by talented artists from around the world, and check out over 100 vibrant, locally-made murals. This in-person event will showcase a diverse range of musical genres, from soulful melodies to foot-tapping rhythms. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant music scene, see and tour over 100 murals, and connect with fellow music and art lovers. Mark your calendars and get ready to have a blast at the Songbird Music Festival at The Box Shop!

The Festival is a collaboration of diverse local presenters and talent celebrating their original unique expressions in music, performance art, and film.

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– Mural Tours at 1 pm and 2 pm (timing may change; please check here)
– Live Music 3 – 6 pm
Free to Attend – Please Register
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Songbird Presents was founded in the Mission and is the outcome of the San Francisco Songbird Festival founded in 2008 Songbird Presents is deeply rooted in the heart of the San Francisco, Mission District. The events presented bring performers and the community together for traditional and non-traditional music, dance, and visual arts events.

The Box Shop is a collaborative workspace in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, with affordable studios for Bay Area artists, makers, and small businesses focused on metal and industrial arts.
Our mission is to support artists and the creation of high-quality art through shared access to tools, skills, and knowledge. We focus on enabling artists from underrepresented communities.

The Songbird Festival is made possible by The San Francisco Arts Commission.

Dunun Bay

Dunun Bay presents traditional West African rhythms and dances, from Guinea. The group was formed by Maria Young who dedicated her life to the study and teaching of the rich material the group shares. The group performs to spread healing and joy.

Maria Young

Maria Young was first captivated by West African rhythms when she was introduced to them through a drum class at CCSF in 1994. Shortly after, she was introduced to the dance and knew that she would commit her life to the study, and eventually teaching, of this beautiful art form. She is honored to be a part of a group that shares this rich cultural expression in San Francisco, her birthplace.

Tim Renner

Tim Renner is a multi-instrumentalist from Portland, Oregon, where he played orchestra and band instruments from a young age and was eventually drawn to acoustic bass. He has performed professionally in many styles of music while maintaining a praxis that is consciously free from the imperatives of commodification. Tim has found a meaningful community playing drums for West African dance.

Jeannette Diaz

Jeannette Diaz has studied West African drumming and dance with master teachers in Guinea and throughout the United States. Prior to joining Dundun Bay, she played with several Atlanta-based West African performance groups. She performs regularly with SF mission’s Loco Bloco and with Berkeley-based Marimba Pacífica.

IИTI

IИTI (formerly Inti Batey), is a captivating Latin experimental fusion band that pushes the boundaries of musical genres, creating a unique and mesmerizing sonic experience.

Their innovative compositions and lyrics blend elements of traditional Latin rhythms with modern electronic sounds, Hip Hop, and rock influences. With their vibrant performances and infectious energy, IИTI takes audiences on a thrilling musical journey that transcends cultural boundaries, igniting a passion for connection and community. IИTI is proudly a product of the San Francisco arts ecosystem.

IИTI has been invited to perform and share medicine music on important stages such as the SF MOMA, Oakland Museum of CA, KQED Live, Azkenash, The Chapel, and Amado’s, Collaborating with community arts organizations such as MCCLA, La Peña Cultural Center and Brava Theater. Participating in local festivals and community events like 41st Encuentro del Canto Popular with Acción Latina, or the World Folk Jam as well as the Galas for organizations such as the Mission Economic Development Agency, Edificio de las Mujeres, and Jobs for Justice.

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Friday, October 20th – SF Songbird Festival at Chile Lindo Kitchen – Alexandra Rieloff Trio

Alexandra Rieloff Trio

Alexandra Rieloff Trio

Alexandra Rieloff is a multidisciplinary artist, who builds her career between SF &  NYC; her birthplace. Ms. Rieloff is an actor, filmmaker, choreographer and vocalist. She  has 4 decades of experience, both being in front and behind the camera. Alexandra was  composing music from the age of nine, and from a very early stage in her career, she  was a backup vocalist for a Brazilian band. Her father was a Jazz musician, so jazz  would be her choice of music when she resumed her singing career. 
Rob Bassinette is originally from New York. Mr. Bassinette journeyed from southern  California to San Francisco. His musical journey includes stints playing electric and  upright bass in many styles, from punk rock to musical theater and punk rock to jazz. An  in-demand bass player, we may hear him playing rock, folk, country and jazz in venues  throughout the Bay Area. With the ARQ, Rob anchors the bottom, creating the canvas.

Ed Corzo

Ed Corzo, is a professional Cuban musician from Havana, Cuba. Piano and clarinet player. Composer and Arranger.

He began musical studies with his father, Gregorio Corzo, a violinist from the Cuban National Symphony Orquestra. Ed was an independent guitar and piano student until the age of 21. Then, he decided to complete a formal education at Ignacio Cervantes Conservatorio, where he graduated as a Clarinetist. Around that time, he composed music for Cuban TV and served as musical director of the Conjunto Nacional de Espectaculos.

Ed Corzo had the opportunity to tour Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US, where he explored musical roots and sonorities, and expanded his repertoire to a variety of music genres. Additionally, he has arranged and composed music for films, television, radio, and theater in those countries.

Today he is a Professor at Community Music Center (San Francisco), and a freelance performer for local and international bands.

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Thursday, October 26th –  DITO LANG and SF Songbird Festival Present Taking Up the Space

DITO LANG

✨ right here right now ~ a multi-sensory art installation by Jenn Ban utilizing interactive soft-sculpture serpents, collaborative soundscapes, scents, and visual words of affirmations to create a safe space for individual and collective healing .

Take Up the Space

Inter-generational Queer MEDIA SCREENING and ARTIST Q&A

Take Up the Space started when Momos had a vision: an intergenerational artist residency for queer & trans artists of all stripes that got them making new media-based works. After two months of planning and recruitment, with the production an producer support of Queer Rebel Production Momos launched the Queer Rebel Productions – “Taking up The Space”artist residency in July 2022. Over the two and a half months seven artists and Momos got busy creating new work, sharing their progress over WhatsApp and zoom, and giving and receiving feedback. And our presentation of  new-media  based work is the fabulous result. 

Why does this matter? Well, first Black, Indigenous, immigrant, POC, disabled, and poor trans and queer artists need even MORE opportunities to take up space and try out new mediums free from judgment, shame, and critique. Momos’ residency did just that. In fact, most of the artists do not identify as media-makers and tonight’s artists deeply appreciated being stretched in new ways while being supported by their peers. 

Second, generation upon generation upon generation of trans and queer storytellers and artists have been and will continue to claim and take up ALL the space we need to not only live our lives but to survive and thrive in a world that still hates trans and queer peoples. All seven artists tonight carry this legacy with them, and their works presented represent the generations that have come before and the ones still waiting to be born. 


About the Media Based Work:

Forced2fly dedicates “Padre lo Más Sagrado”, to her father, exploring themes of life and death and the transference of energy; and “Time For a Revolution”, to women’s rights, compassion for others, humility, and resistance.

“BITAW”, from Jenn Ban, is a story captured on super8-film, documenting them in the meditative act of releasing trauma to reclaim their strength. Witnessed by intimate friends, Jenn sits meditating as her long hair is shaved off by Fenna Lang. 

With Mariposa and AmihanCh’íníbaa’ Villaluna, we sit around the campfire and see ME’ME -hood (“memmay”) up close, understanding that truly Love Makes a Family.

MOOD5WING from Dustin García is a short motion comic musical about mental health following the superhero protagonist MOOD5WING as they fight the battle of the mind with rhymes. In the end it’s the LOVE within that silences GLOOM and brings peace to MOOD5WING’s inner planet panic.

Momos Cheeskos weaves together poetry and soundscapes of her vocals and original music by DF Tram by Taking Up the Space  with 54 a celebration of purpose, Juicy Dreams, a reflection on desert times, “Repurposed Judgment”, is what happens when music vibe meets artist portraits, a remix of Nara Dennings Kitchen Window Experiment featuring Momos Cheeskos

Taneesh Kaur’s Feather, Part 1 of the whole Feather to Flesh,  is a series of four paintings and four poems, an ekphrastic exploration of the collapse of the spirit and physical worlds and a quest to heal past trauma. 

In The Dawn of Tray, Tray Smith shows how he takes up space unapologetically in the world, showcasing his queerness through multi-paced instrumentals, fluid visuals and spoken word pieces—a love letter to the strong black women who raised him.

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Friday, October 27th – SF Songbird Festival at Chile Lindo Kitchen – Latin Jazz

Ed Corzo

Ed Corzo, is a professional Cuban musician from Havana, Cuba. Piano and clarinet player. Composer and Arranger.

He began musical studies with his father, Gregorio Corzo, a violinist from the Cuban National Symphony Orquestra. Ed was an independent guitar and piano student until the age of 21. Then, he decided to complete a formal education at Ignacio Cervantes Conservatorio, where he graduated as a Clarinetist. Around that time, he composed music for Cuban TV and served as musical director of the Conjunto Nacional de Espectaculos.

Ed Corzo had the opportunity to tour Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US, where he explored musical roots and sonorities, and expanded his repertoire to a variety of music genres. Additionally, he has arranged and composed music for films, television, radio, and theater in those countries.

Today he is a Professor at Community Music Center (San Francisco), and a freelance performer for local and international bands.

Fidel Hernández González

Singer, multi-instrumentalist born in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba (Cuba).


He grew up in a musicall family and, at three years old he began playing music with his brothers and father he made his first appearances singing with his family’s band at the age of 5 years old.

His repertoire includes:

Latin, jazz and vivacious rhythms of Cuban son, salsa, cha-cha-cha, guajira, rumba, bolero

and well-known international and own songs.

With livemusic from Cuba:

plays music like Buena Vista Social Club, Sound Latin Music, House, Vocal House.

From fine Bolero, the magical drum mood of the dance rhythm of the music to the modern lounge.

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Friday, November 10th – SF Songbird Festival Closing Night at Chile Lindo Kitchen – Gypsy Jazz

Rob Reich

Rob Reich is quintessentially what makes the San Francisco music scene a vibrant and vital mecca for independent music; he’s become one of its stalwart underground artists. His music defies genre, combining strong melodic ideas, rhythmic drive, and a spirit of irreverence and experimentation. He is best known for his work with Tin Hat, Gaucho, and Circus Bella.

Vic Wong

Vic Wong photo credit – With Sean Krazit and the Juniper Jazz Band. Photo credit: Grant Fukui

Vic Wong is a jazz guitarist, double-bassist, tenor banjoist, and ukulele(ist?) in based in San Francisco. He specializes in early jazz styles of the ’30s and ’40s. Sometimes, in the comfort of his home, he makes horrible noises on lap steel when nobody is around to hear.

Vic proudly plays regularly in a wide variety of local bands, including jazz/blues/swing combo the Cottontails, earth’s only theremin-lounge band: Project Pimento, and swing-era Hawaiian group the Alcatraz Islanders. He wont bother to list every band because that would be unproductive use of our time.

Also, if you twist his arm not very hard, you can find him playing solo jazz guitar, reggae, ska, soul, R&B, funk, rock, folky singer-songwriter, bossa nova, choro, top-40 or whatever the paycheck is sufficient for. He’s likes everything and is versatile, is what I’m saying.

For much of 2020, Vic  recorded short solo arrangements of his favorite jazz standards and songs that get stuck in his head while he had coffee. He dubbed them “Morning Coffee Sessions”

It has been great creative practice, and I’ve done over 100 of them! Check them out in this playlist.

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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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