The Golden Gate Gramble!! Featuring

• The Skinny Singers
• Ball Point Birds
• Lebo
• Big Light
• Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers
• DJ Superchill
• And Many More Surprises TBA!!!

Buy Tickets

$15

LATE NIGHT SHOW!!

9pm - ???

21+

- Skinny Singers

Skinny Singers is comprised of two of California’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, Tim Bluhm and Jackie Greene. Together, they represent a musical force that is awe inspiring. They are also very skinny.

- Ball Point Birds

Long-time friends and musical soul mates, Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, comprise Ball-Point Birds. The two have created and released their second record together to indulge our softer sides and tender ears. The duo’s self titled record, Ball-Point Birds, released in 2000, has been succeeded by their current release, Two Discover……. The records we make definitely serve as journals or photo albums of our lives and this one is no exception. Themes include new homes, inter-personal challenges, physical time versus psychological time, environmental concerns, magic, practical space travel, William Mulholland and Alan Watts and even dinner-table politics. See for yourself. - Tim Bluhm ……..We feel very proud of the work we have put into this record. We have explored some sensitive territory and we found some unanswered questions and some positive actions that have enhanced our friendship and our musicality. I would like to note that the song My Heavenly Wish is dedicated to possibility. - Greg Loiacono

- Lebo

Dan Lebowitz of is joined by bandmate Steve Adams and will play Dan’s original rock tunes and other special surprises!

- Big Light

Big Light frontman Fred Torphy says that, when pressed up against a wall to describe the band’s big rock sound, he’ll often say “psychedelic.” “We’re experimental, but we also keep things tight, songwriting-wise,” says Torphy. “Maybe that’s where our love for Jeff Tweedy shines through.” Quick to shoot down Wilco comparisons, Torphy says that Big Light is more directly influenced by the songwriting of Dire Straits, the arrangements of The Sea & Cake, and the sensibilities of Stephen Malkmus.

Big Light’s debut performances featured Nathan Moore (ThaMusement/Surprise Me Mr.Davis) at the helm. After hearing some of those early performances, Apollo Sunshine’s Jeremy Black offered to produce their first self-titled EP released in June 2008.After recruiting friend Steve Adams (ALO) to record on the Big Light EP they felt a greater connection and decided he should be more than just a special guest and become a touring member.

- Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers

San Francisco singer-songwriter Nicki Bluhm is as tough to pigeonhole as the eclectic city she hails from. Just as the urban bustle of the Mission district quickly gives way to the solitude of Ocean Beach, Nicki’s songs effortlessly wander through eclectic styles to create a sonic landscape that is all her own.

A Bay Area native, Nicki didn’t take a typical path into music. She realized early on she had a voice, but was in no hurry to use it. After moving to San Diego she bought a guitar and began trying her songs out at open mic’s until she was ready to take her act up north. Since moving to San Francisco, Nicki has become a familiar face in the city’s thriving music scene. With her acoustic guitar and electric guitarist Deren Ney she earned a reputation as one of the Bay Area’s fastest rising stars. She has spent the last two years taking her tunes through several of the city’s top venues, earning a coveted spot in the Noise Pop festival, opening for national artists like Josh Ritter, touring through California, and recently sitting in with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh during Americana phenom (and member of Nicki’s backing band) Jackie Greene’s recent show at The Fillmore.

Greene in fact plays several instruments on Nicki’s new record, Toby’s Song, along with some of the finest musicians in the Bay Area, including Nicki’s husband Tim Bluhm of the Mother Hips (who produced the album at Mission Bells Studio), ALO’s Steve Adams and Mother Hips/Persephone’s Bees drummer John Hofer. A genre-wandering mix of 70’s pop, back-porch bluegrass, plaintive coastal ballads and ragged, driving rock songs, Toby’s Song is at once a throwback and utterly fresh. Nicki’s voice is in the tradition of classic female singers like Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell, yet she has a character and attitude all her own. Her music recalls bands as diverse as Bill Withers, the Beach Boys, The Band and Taj Mahal. Nicki currently resides by the beach in San Francisco with her husband and two cats.