Rocket DOG
http://www.rocketdogrescue.org/
Rocket Dog Rescue is a San Francisco Bay Area dog rescue organization run by a group of dedicated volunteers. We save dogs from death at over-crowded shelters and find them loving, happy homes. Now into our ninth year, RDR is stronger than ever, and has saved the lives of over 4,000 animals.

Deborah Crooks

Deborah Crooks
http://deborahcrooks.com
http://reverbnation.com/deborahcrooks

“Wonderful, colorful arrangements and warm, human sounding vocals….top notch,” —Don Campau, DJ at No PigeonHoles Radio.”

Singing about faith, love and loss, San Francisco songwriter Deborah Crooks is an intimate and edgy artist whose lyric driven and soul-wise music has drawn comparison to Lucinda Williams, Jesse Sykes and The Cowboy Junkies. Widely published as an essayist and journalist, her lyrics are honed by a lifetime of writing, while her music draws on folk, rock, Americana and the blues. Her first full length CD “Adding Water to the Ashes,” (2008) garnered favorable reviews and led to her receiving a Bay Bridged Recording Grant to record at Tiny Telephone Studios. The result is the new EP “It’s All Up to You” featuring 7 new tracks that range from acoustic pop to folk-rock to blues. Deborah has also showcased at the 2006 Millennium Music Conference, the 2005 Rocker Girl Magazine Music Convention, during SXSW, at the 2007 Harmony Festival and 2009′s California Music Fest. In 2010, she also appeared as a featured speaker on purpose and creativity at both MacWorld and SXSW.

Amber Snider

Amber Snider
http://ambersnider.com/

“Super talented. Catch her while you can before a ticket to her show is 50 bucks.”
—Rich Freedman, Vallejo Times-Herald

Possessing a wide emotional range and a storyteller’s appeal, Amber’s style has been compared to artists as varies as Stevie Nicks, Sheryle Crow, Rickie Lee Jones and Janis Joplin. Fusing folk-rock, country and blues, she released her 3rd CD, ‘Still Dreamin’ in 2010. Two Tracks from her CD were finalists in the Third Annual Fame Games Effigy Awards presented by Tony Cowell (Simon’s older, wiser brother and head of CowellMedia) and Amber was recently featured on San Francisco’s KRON TV’s Best of the Bay. Amber has played at many events and venues, has a weekly residency at Downtown Joe’s in Napa, and has hosted a weekly music television segment on Napa Valley TV “Another Late Night Show Early.”