Amnesia Music Hall 853 Valencia Street – Doors at 6:30 pm show at 7 pm
Sliding Scale $8 – $10 – Support local artist’s by paying what you can
 10 pm – H.U.M.A.N.W.I.NE
9:00 pm – The Sansa and Shiri Show
7:45 pm – Eliza Rickman
7:30– pm Reading by Linda Robertson
7:00 pm- Jessica Pony Hunt Â
 
7:00 pm- Jessica Pony Hunt Â
Jessie 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.
7:30– pm Reading by Linda Robertson
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7:45 pm – Eliza Rickman
There is always a hint of menace and reservoirs of force haunting the corners of Eliza Rickman’s voice, whatever register it occupies. Her presence on stage—whether she wears flowers in her hair, or stuffed birds; whether she plays a toy piano or a grand piano—is an enveloping, soft darkness, impossible to ignore. It is quite a surprise that Rickman didn’t even realize she could sing until after she earned a degree in orchestration from Azusa Pacific University, because her voice is the most enthralling and salient feature of any on the tracks from her new album ‘O, You Sinners’. And this is saying something, considering her deftness as a pianist and her subtlety as a composer. Like Kate Bush’s work, or like PJ Harvey’s album ‘White Chalk’, the arrangements on ‘O, You Sinners…’ are edged with dissonance. Like Andrew Bird, she favors pizzicato strings over junkyard percussion and complex lyrical melodies. Indeed, Rickman’s co-producer Mark Greenberg is a frequent contributor to Bird’s albums (as well as to Wilco’s ‘The Whole Love’ and to the Grammy Award-winning Mavis Staples’s album ‘You Are Not Alone’).
Religious themes pervade Rickman’s work—her album is, after all, titled ‘O, You Sinners’. She is the daughter of a pastor, and started playing piano in church at the age of 13. But like one of her great influences- Nick Cave- her writing belies ambivalence about religion. Good and evil; love, both God’s love and carnal love; sinners and saints; desire and repentance, all find a place in Rickman’s songs. They lurk behind the scrim- whatever stage she sets. The coin of her realm is stamped with the will of God, and whether you are a doubter or a believer you must deal in her currency if you want her to ferry you ashore. “O, you sinners†she sings, “hear me.†And how could we not listen?
9:00 pm – The Sansa and Shiri Show
The Sansa & Shiri show is a romantic, fast-paced medley of German cabaret, 1940’s harmonies, skits, jokes, tap dancing and more!
You’ll laugh and fall in love with these two adorable sailor girls as they take you on a wild journey across the sea “through treasured isles and distant lands”, and the never-ending depths of the imagination.
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Their powerful voices beckon you, as they sing 1940’s inspired harmonies, sea shanties, love songs, and catchy tunes. Their musicianship is shockingly skillful, coming from a pair of rhine…stone be-decked, glamorous sailor pin-up girls.Their skits and jokes are perplexing yet hilarious, and to top it all off they even tap dance together while singing vintage harmonies.
Their show is a truly romantic, fast-paced medley of german cabaret, 1940’s harmonies, skits, jokes, tap dancing and more!
Hailing from a secret artist enclave by the sea in Oakland, California, Sansa and Shiri spend the fall and winter months brainstorming their magic into the beautiful art piece that is The Sansa and Shiri Show. They are both singer/song writers and write originals for The Sansa and Shiri Show, as well as perform obscure covers from the 1920’s to the 40’s. They tour the United States and Europe usually in the spring and summer, and hope to find themselves performing their magic in even further outer reaches of the planet.
They have been in productions with members of The Yard Dogs Road Show, Beats Antique, Zoe Jakes, and the Indigo.
There’s never a dull moment in the Sansa and Shiri Show. You can hardly blink an eye and not miss something that will tickle your funny bone and make you laugh down deep in your belly. Sansa also has been working with world class burlesque dancers across the country, and recently they added “synchronized swimming” burlesque choreographed numbers to canned music you would least expect from acoustic instrument enthusiasts.
Both girls have vaudeville in their blood. Literally, they are lucky descendants of theater people from the 1800’s to the present and most interested in keeping their inherited dream alive.
Really, you just have to see the show to believe it.
“The blonde bombshell with the accordion” – High Times Magazine. Sansa has toured the country with The Yard Dogs Road Show, a circus-inspired vaudeville show, for the last ten years. She’s known as a prolific accordion player, singer, tap dancer, song writer, choreographer, costume designer, samba dancer, and all-around vaudevillian.
Shiri Goldsmith is a multi-instrumentalist to say the least, switching between the trombone, ukulele, accordion, kazoo, and even the maracas. She has astounded audiences with her charm, singing, and overall musicianship for a decade.
10 pm – H.U.M.A.N.W.I.NE
The award winning Muzik of HUMANWINE is a collabortaive effort with Holly Brewer and M@ (Mat) McNiss at the center as the writers and composers.
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While some songs are set in a modern or near future setting singing the praises of the local farmer, teacher, janitor, Mother, Father, cobbler and the community who gather skills to combat a non renewable lifestyle while other songs blatantly call attention to ‘Vinland’, a land filled with a mindless cog populace, the terrible Not-Me, YerYerOwns, Abrogated Munificents, Enjoyeurs, Hordes and a whole assortment of various shaped and sized creatures including ogres, beetles and missing seafarers.
