When: Sat Jan 23
Time: 9pm
Cost: $6 (w/ costume); $8 (no costume)
Details: Sonbird Winter Festival Presents – An evening of Bay Area Music and The Annual Cheshire Rock Opera. Costumes strongly encouraged….Think Alice and wonderland….

Fuzzpod

Fuzzpod – Electronica / Ambient / Down-tempo
http://www.myspace.com/fuzzpodmusic

Fuzzpod is an eletronic music group based out of San Francisco and features the talents of Captain Electric, Ms. Maki and Ms. Momo. Right now they are finishing the next album entitled: The Garden of Fuzzy Delights, Due out in February 2010.

Barbary Ghosts

Barbary Ghosts – Folk / Roots Music / Acoustic
http://www.myspace.com/thebarbaryghosts

Three castaways washed up on the shores of San Francisco telling tales of whiskey, women, and mutiny on the high sea. Having no boat and no money, they took to playing the dives, dance halls, and street corners of the Barbary Coast. The rest is history…

the Triffles

The Triffles – Rock Comedy Punk
http://www.myspace.com/thetrifles

How unexpectedly taxing it is to locate adequate images of trifles. I have been trolling the virtual galaxy for what seem like endless hours, my mind clogged with dense, creamy images of suffocated strawberries and pieces of dessicated cake, cast adrift in the cold lava of custard. These forlorn fossils of British dessertery sling me back to dark summer afternoons where the clouds hung low, and I sought comfort in the brilliant depths of the fridge, as the moon prepared for its evening chores… As for the band, it’s a multilayered melange of odd-shaped bits that stick in your throat and make you want to sing for joy! Trifles! And now, the all-new MINI TRIFLES!!! It’s the Trifles gone all cute and acoustic, with accordion, vibraphone, tinkly-tackity percussion, and even a bit of violin. Same people, same songs – VERY DIFFERENT!!!

Cheshire Rock Opera

Manbanjo Presents:
Cheshire Rock Opera – Psychedelic / Classical Opera and Vocal / Melodramatic Popular Song
http://www.myspace.com/cheshirerockopera
The Annual Cheshire Rock Opera

Culminated from an early love of the writings of Lewis Carroll (who was also a favorite literature of my household), into a rock opera which features his effect on popular music & some of the poetry from the book set to music of my own device. it’s first performance, first show was january 27, 2004 @ Van Kleef’s in Oakland. It was quite a production including the queen’s concert, tea party trio, suitcase puppet show of walrus & carpenter and the jabberwock monstermasks. Twas a mad evening of fun… [myspace]

Oblio

Live music w/ Oblio
When: Mon Jan 18
Time: 7pm
Cost: $3-5
Details:
Oblio
http://www.myspace.com/oblioindreamland
Expanding experimental pop/electronic band combining aspects of folk, R&B, & hip hop with the aforementioned genres.

Casey Chisholm

Live music w/ Casey Chisholm

When: Mon Jan 18
Time: 7pm
Cost: $3-5
Details:

Casey Chisholm
http://www.myspace.com/caseychisholm
Reigning from Northern California, Casey Chisholm blends a broad spectrum of electronic and organic elements in creating a signature, Indie sound.

Makeing Tents • image by Jean Yaste

Live music w/ Makeing Tents

When: Wed Jan 13
Time: 7pm door; 8pm show
Cost: $5
Details:

Makeing Tents
http://www.myspace.com/makeingtents

Blood and Sunshine

Live music w/ Blood and Sunshine

When: Wed Jan 13
Time: 7pm door; 8pm show
Cost: $5
Details:

Blood and Sunshine
http://www.myspace.com/bloodandsunshine
electro shoegaze soul

Blood and Sunshine was conceived in the death of a dream. James Brennan, a house-music producer who’s inspiration had gone, abandoned his long held ambition to be a successful dance music DJ. After a short period of mourning came a long period of woodshedding whereby James rebuilt the songwriting and performing muscles that had atrophied from years of neglect. (cue exhilarating music: montage of James hunched over a guitar in a broken down apartment, interspersed with the open mics of San Francisco. Enter: Joseph)

Joseph Macrino came through the door at Lennon Studios where James was prepping what would eventually become Blood and Sunshine’s first EP. Joseph liked what he heard. More importantly, he liked James. James liked Joseph too. And so, a musical friendship began. [taken from the bowels of their myspace]