Open Mic w/ Michael Lindner – 6:00pm

Aubergine’s Wednesday night Open Mic is a favorite with local musicians and those on tour in California.

Michael will often join in on bass and makes sure to include new musicians looking for a spot on this busy night.

Mark Matos & Os Beaches – 10:30pm

Born to Portuguese immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1974, Mark Matos was the first American branch on his family tree and the son of one of California’s most popular Portuguese radio DJ’s. As a teen, Matos briefly trained as a Portuguese Bullfighter before thinking better of it and hitchhiking out of California to spend a decade with his back to the wind, working odd jobs in the strangest of places: in Alaska way up at the Arctic Circle, on the Big Island of Hawaii circling Terence Mckenna’s compound, a brief spell as a music journalist in Port Townsend, WA and many a Golden Couch across the living rooms of this new, weird America.

Matos settled in Tucson AZ in the early part of the century where he began performing under the banner of Campo Bravo with a rotating collective of musicians that included future members of Dr. Dog, Golden Boots, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, and a bit of cross pollination with Howe Gelb’s Giant Sand congregation. After a couple of self released efforts, Campo Bravo released Goodbye, Oklahoma on KEEP Recordings in 2006. Matos disbanded Campo Bravo and relocated to San Francisco shortly thereafter where he lived in a residential hotel on Polk Street and began work on a group of songs that would eventually make up Denver Lights & Eagle Rock Dreamer, Matos’ “lost” album recorded with members of Bad Weather California, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, The Csars, and Nathaniel Rateliff in Denver and Los Angeles in 2007. The album was scheduled to be released on Italian imprint Awful Bliss before the label abruptly closed it’s doors and, without an American label at the time and no financial backing, Matos’ Denver Lights… was shelved as he moved on to other projects, notably the formation of Mark Matos & Os Beaches.

MM & OB signed to San Francisco’s Porto Franco Records in 2008 and released Words Of The Knife in 2009, a record that featured Dave Mihaly (Jolie Holland), Tom Heyman (Court & Spark, Girls), Ben Reisdorph, Aaron Keirbal (Rupa & The April Fishes), Matt Adams (The Blank Tapes), and Charith Premawrdhana (Magic Magic Orchestra), among others, and signaled the beginning of a new chapter in Matos’ story. The record got some attention, charting at places like KVRX in Austin, TX and KUSF in San Francisco, and got some kind words from respectable rock ‘n’roll purveyors like Crawdaddy, All Music Guide, and The Bay Bridged. The anticipated follow up would take longer than expected and come at a cost. Joe Lewis, a Mission District mainstay who had spent time manning bass duties with both Thao Nguyen and Adam Stephens (Two Gallants), was brought in along with Joe Miller (the enigmatic drummer of SF’s premier Syd Barrett tribute band, Syd’s Last Trip) to form Os Beaches’ semi permanent rhythm section. A time of heavy touring and heavy living followed. Matos parted ways with long time guitarist Ben Reisdorph and severed ties with producer Eric Moffat, taking the production helm of Coyote & The Crosser (the direction of which had become a point of contention) and instilling the help of gonzo recording engineer Charles Gonzalez, Iggy & The Stooges’ sax man Steve Mackay, Matt Adams (Blank Tapes), Nathan Sabatino (Dr. Dog producer/engineer), and New, Improved Studio’s Eli Crews (Beulah) to complete the record.

The album’s journey took Matos from San Francisco to Tucson to LA and back to Oakland and in between he was hospitalized with a head injury after being assaulted by a group of Skinheads inside of a venerable San Francisco music venue, an event that persuaded Matos to venture alone into the Sonoran Desert on a Vision Quest and eventually to Nathan Sabatino’s desert getaway (Loveland Studio) where Matos and Sabatino mixed the record in nearly complete darkness, using the experimental process of sight deprivation to combat the protools era problem of what Matos calls “mixing with your eyes”.

After a support gig with Akron/Family and a memorable evening as a member of Howe Gelb’s Melted Wires (with Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, PJ Harvey’s John Parrish, members of Calexico and Victoria Williams) Matos returned to Porto Franco Records’ San Francisco headquarters and presented them with the completed record, only to be informed that PFR had decided to change their business model and move away from releasing albums. They released him from his contract, so he’s putting it out on his own Family Folk Explosion imprint, where you can download it and pay whatever you want for it or whatever you can afford given the particulars of your situation.

Matos has performed at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, The Harmony Music Festival, The Mission Creek Music Festival, and the Rialto Theater (Tucson, AZ). He has shared bills with M. Ward, Neko Case, Mother Hips, Jackie Greene, Flaming Lips, Laura Viers, Bill Callahan, Okkervil River, and Akron/Family. He has played with members of Grandaddy, Giant Sand, Iggy & The Stooges, Phil & Friends, Dr. Dog, Rogue Wave, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, and the beautiful Victoria Williams. He calls his music Americalia, a tip of the hat to Brazil’s late 1960′s Tropicalia movement and to the dust bit Americana lineage of which he is just a spoke in the wheel.

Beaucoup Chapeaux – 9:00pm

From the beautiful river blessed Nevada County, CA, Beaucoup Chapeaux’s music is arranged and performed on piano accordion, violin, oboe, English horn, tenor guitar, guitar, banjo, dobro, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, flute, piccolo, and voice.

These are a very well traveled and truly eclectic bunch of individuals that form a fantastic group. Maggie has performed/recorded with many fine musicians including two time Grammy winner Mary Youngblood, Alasdair Fraser, Utah Phillips, Paul Kamm and Eleanore MacDonald, George Brooks, Ron Casat, Bill Eaglesham, Peter Wilson, Sands Hall, Ivan Najera, Bill Douglass, and Dan Scanlan. She gained her reputed wildness growing up half feral in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, and the central coast. Her curiosity and travels led her through rock, folk, blues, classical, country, bluegrass,newgrass, Canadiana, Americana, Jazz, Celtic, and Gypsy, while performing on street corners, ships, beaches, mountain tops, cafes, barns, bars, museums, cemeteries, peace marches, benefits of all kinds, and on many festival stages.

http://www.beaucoupchapeaux

Valerie Orth – 10:30pm

Described as “sexy, soulful, genuine, and edgy” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and an “indie folk powerhouse” by Bend’s Source Weekly, Valerie Orth is a fearless and genre-bending songwriter. Her distinctive hybrid of rock, groove, soul, and folk reaches out and grabs your attention; her live performances captivate and charm at once.

Rich with melody and metaphor, Orth’s tunes move nimbly betw…een darkness and light, hope and despair, taking deft turns of phrase along unforeseen rhythmic twists in the road. With gorgeous, multi-octave vocals and no fear of heights, she flirts with the edge as readily as she subverts expectations.

“Unpredictable and highly original,“ writes the Jefferson Agrarian. “Just when you think she’s going to settle into a familiar groove, off she flies into the stratosphere with phrasings you never saw coming.”

Orth’s dynamic range as a performer is made all the more compelling by what the East Bay Express calls a “completely intuitive composition style.”

Influenced by artists as diverse as Ani DiFranco and Bjork, Meshell Ndegeocello and Zap Mama, Valerie understands song as revolution, whether personal or political, and as evolution, creating change within herself and the possibility for it within her listeners.

“There is an honesty to Valerie’s music that is both brilliant and heartbreaking,” writes the San Francisco Chronicle.

Her most recent release, Faraway City, which the East Bay Express described as “a remarkable piece of work,”features Scott Amendola (Charlie Hunter) on drums, Julie Wolf (Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls) on piano and organ, and Jon Evans (Tori Amos) on bass and electric guitar. Produced by Evans, it amply displays Valerie’s range as composer, lyricist, and singer.

“I think we went a bit more ‘out-there’ than the regular singer-songwriter genre,” says Orth.

Valerie will be playing with her talented live band tonight at Aubergine after Dark, with Veronika Safarova on bass and backing vocals and Brian Scholl on drums.

www.valerieorth.com

Michael Bolivar – 9:00pm

Michael Bolivar has performed with many artists, both famous and aspiring, including his high school band (Evan P. Worthing), his college band (Prairie View A & M), Lou Rawls, the O’Jays, Billy Preston, Helen O’Connor, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Hubbard, Esther Phillips, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and many others. By performing with such a wide variety of musicians, Michael has enjoyed the benefits of a diverse repertoir, which is reflected in his performing and recording career.

Michael’s goals as a musician have never been to only be a technician or an emotionalist, but to communicate his personal musical energies in the performance. Very early in his musical career, he learned the value of improvisational development using melody, space, & time.

Because he started playing with his neighborhood friend and fellow schoolmate Michael Carvin, legendary drummer, Michael received an early opportunity to be rhythmically oriented in melodic and creative expression. These musical qualities have been vital in his desire to promote goodwill, express the oneness of being and entertaining, and to discover spiritual magic through musical technique.

Michael has maintained the loyalty and commitment for over 40 years to play the Eb alto saxophone professionally. His sound has become a voice that speaks to audiences about this emotions and intentions. Being aware of these actions towards good vibrations for himself and his neighbors in the universe. It is with the greatest amount of love that he says “thank you” for the olpportunity to share his music.

Mister Elements Presents……Skater Fader……..a dangerously spastic and fun Disc Jockey Crew featuring Tony Manfre and Mr. Element

with special guest DJ Broken Record opening the night with his special pair of freaky, fun dance pants!

A night of futuristic flavors of electronic dance music.

You’ll hear original, “never heard before” tunes mixed with super booty rockin’ beats for the community to absorb, freak out to and dig, like WOW!

Irish Seisún with Riggy Rackin – 5:00pm on the last Sunday of the month!

A Seisún is a gathering of musicians playing Irish Music. These take place in pubs all across the globe, where a specific body of exciting tunes and songs are shared by an informal yet impassioned group, who produce musical magic.

Riggy Rackin has invited a select group to participate on the last Sunday of the month at 5pm at Aubergine. There will be lots of opportunities to dance a jig or sing along with a rousing chorus.

REACH School Benefit! – 1:00pm

A great afternoon of music to help send the 7th grade class to Ashland Oregon for the Shakespeare fest for a week, where they will get to see some world class actors and even participate in workshops.

It’s an all-star line up folks.

Featuring

David T, Carter and the Trailer park rangers

http://www.davidtcarter.com/index.php

The Endorphins: vintage tunes from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s with a wide range of upbeat, danceable tunes sprinkled with romantic , inspired originals.

Alex Moore and Antonio Foggetti: They sing, they dance, they are crazy good jugglers and sometimes play with fire.

Dan Aguilar and Jeff Kross: Stunning and beautiful classical guitar.

Paul Henry and Laura Shafer: Folk/jazz for the ages.

Please keep in mind that this is an afternoon show.

Remember folks…this is a benefit. Without your help, we won’t make it. So help us send our great kids on a once in a lifetime adventure. And tell a friend.

Special thanks to all the performers and volunteers who are generously donating their time and talent. Also a very special thanks to Kyle ,Sooz and the entire Aubergine family for giving back to the community in a huge way.

If you are curious about Reach go here: http://www.reach-program.com/homepage.php

Aubergine Video Shoot – 8:00pm

Aubergine Vintage Emporium will be shooting a music video for promotional use on Television and the Internet.

We want you to be part of this one night free event. Doors will be open to the public at 8pm.

This will be a working video shoot, which entails participants be willing to take direction during the filming of the original song, “L’Aubergine Morceau”.

There will be belly dancers, fire dancers, swing dancing, silk rope acrobatics and more, including live “Hot” jazz featuring Sonoma County’s best following the video shoot.

This is Aubergine, DRESS TO IMPRESS! BRING YOUR AUBERGINE STYLE!

It’s going to be a fun night, we can’t wait to see you there!

Open Mic w/ Michael Lindner – 6:00pm

Aubergine’s Wednesday night Open Mic is a favorite with local musicians and those on tour in California.

Michael will often join in on bass and makes sure to include new musicians looking for a spot on this busy night.

Tito Ramsey (Seattle)- 10:30pm

http://www.titoramsey.com

Seattle’s Tito Ramsey will be traveling down to Sebastopol to debut music from his upcoming electro-soul-pop album and it’s “very far from brainless, sunny club music” (Ball of Wax). Tito’s creations are a synergy of aggressive pop, electronica, and soul, often drawing comparisons to Jeff Buckley and Little Richard. He has played shows in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona and many cities around the US. He has shared the stage with various well-known musicians, from The Head and the Heart to jazz great Yusef Lateef.

Frankie Boots (Sebastopol)- 8:30pm

https://www.facebook.com/frankieboots

Alcoholic arrests and major facial injuries all fell by the wayside like defeated foes as our hero… pillaged the path to Mega-Awesomeness! Now, he sings tales of his journey and passes it on to his fellow humans through the majesty of song. Frankie’s first album, Teenage Pregnancy Music (Booze Pirate Records, 2009), was met with both applause and appall. It was touted as “a spectacular account of life in a fast world with compromised morals. Catchy little ditties that might just make you want to take an article of clothing off and have the time of your life”. His highly anticipated sophomore LP Jukebox In Heat (Booze Pirate Records, 2010) was released in September

and has all the local hooligans and rock junkies pawning their family heirlooms to get it. Frankie performs either with a band or as a solo act in which he incorporates everything from guitar, drum machines, loop-pedals, to mannequins! Come get a piece of this sexual tyrannosaurus before he skyrockets to super-stardom and moves to a

villa in the south of France.

Girls in Suede (Santa Rosa) – 9:30pm

https://www.facebook.com/girlsinsuede

Such brazen experimentalism often comes across as pretentious and self-important in the wrong hands, but the members of Girls in Suede–multitalented as they are–don’t take it too seriously. Their artistic brand of rock ‘n’ roll is meant less as a preconceived reaction to the blandness of life than as an unconscious affirmation

of life’s possibility–and that is precisely why they are so successful.

Festival of Friends – 8:00pm

Genres: Other / Ecstatic Musical Libation

Artist Bio

This is a heart centered feel good music. Robin Rogers and his friends have been playing together for over 25 years. Festival of Friends is a versatile band that can cater to a wide palate of musical taste for their listeners. They love to be in the moment with the desires of the audience. This makes for a fresh, original & diverse live performance every time.

www.reverbnation.com/fofforestville

Midnight Sun Massive – 10:30pm

Hailing from Northern California’s Wine Country, Midnight Sun Massive is a Reggae/Calypso group who combines potent rhythms from around the world with party oriented, romantic and conscious lyrics that move your body and mind. Co-Founded by Milo Karobi and Andre Russell, they are a collection of multi-instrumentalists and song-writers, each drawing from their diverse backgrounds to create a genre-hopping, booty-shaking experience on dance floors across the Bay Area and beyond. Midnight Sun Massive combines an endlessly joyful combination of Reggae, Calypso, Soca and Ska, with a light touch of R&B. These vets of the Northern California Reggae Scene have a revamped lineup and strictly wicked sound to keep you in the groove. Massive in sound and energetic vibe, the band delivers a uniquely irie experience for all to enjoy. Let the Midnight Sun Massive conscious party begin!

www.midnightsunmassive.com

Happy Hour with Plectrum Duo – 4:30pm

The Plectrum Duo plays jazz guitar music from the 1930s. Originally started by Morris Acevedo and Cody Anderson in the summer of 2008, the duo has expanded to include bass and percussion. Influenced by guitar greats Django Reinhardt and Eddie Lang, the Plectrum Duo brings the energy and inventiveness of early jazz music to live performance.

Free Peoples – 10:30pm

“Free Peoples have quietly become one of the best American roots bands. They’ve evolved from bluegrass roots to be one of the best live jam bands anywhere, and the addition of a full-time trombonist has added elements of New Orleans and beyond. Fine harmonies, blues and jazz edges and rock elements all combine into a cohesive joyful sound. Their new CD, Sittin’ on a Goldmine, is another tight, focused work with impeccable musicianship and excellent songs. While some folks soar on the Dead, Phish or String Cheese Incident, I soar on Free Peoples. They’re as good as it gets.”
–Eric Alan
Music Director, Jefferson Public Radio

Los Dos – 9:00pm

Happy Hour with Frankie Boots – 4:30pm

After a brief stint in the all too glamorous world of middle school
rock bands Frankie Boots walked away from music to pursue a very
promising career in the field of fast living and heavy drinking. 10
years later he re-emerged as a master of the aforementioned pursuits
and once again thrust himself into the forgiving arms of Rock & Roll.
They embraced like long lost lovers and Frankie has since
independently released two albums and collaborated on many others. He
performs throughout the west coast with his band, The All Nighters,
but will be playing a free intimate solo set on this fine January
afternoon. Frankie is currently working on a folk album and another
of the face melting rock joints that he is best known for. He loves
Alec Baldwin and chicken potpies, but has a strong distaste for
stagecoaches and cattle drives after losing a quarter-brother in a
vicious accident.

The Moonbeams – 5:00pm

Vince DaLuiso M.A./guitar is a long-time bay area musician, was bandleader in “Too Much Fun” in San Francisco, and is associated with several grammy nominated projects.

Hosanna Bauer on vocals, comes from a bay area jazz musician family. She took off into many a rock and roll band since age 15, joined The Fairfax Street Choir, then into Gospel with the world renowned Glide Ensemble.

Judie Liebling is a skilled vocal harmonist from all that singing with her sisters, loves good lyrics, and has experienced show business as a Hollywood sit-com screenwriter.

Patrick Minnifield, authentic vocalist from Alabama, is percussionist and drummer, and well respected local musician.

Don Watanabe, a class act jazzman,holds down the bottom end, playing his steadily mellifluous stand up bass.

All of our players are journeymen musicians with professional experience.

Ladies Lime Light – 7:00pm

Open Mic hosted by Tawnie Love

Men welcome, too, although you might have to wear a tutu!

Tuesday Night Draw with Tony Speirs & Friends! – 7:30pm

Open Mic w/ Michael Lindner – 6:00pm

Aubergine’s Wednesday night Open Mic is a favorite with local musicians and those on tour in California.

Michael will often join in on bass and makes sure to include new musicians looking for a spot on this busy night.

Delhi 2 Dublin – 9:00pm

Long time favorites of Sebastopol are returning for another show with us on their way down the coast.

Delhi 2 Dublin continues to break the mold one album after another, busting genres as they go. It’s as if the band has been sent on a mission to further spread their sound across the planet and out into the galaxy. They describe the 2010-release of Planet Electric “as the buzz of the world that they are plugging into some large socket to electrify the people, to charge up their energy”. To capture that dynamism, all of the tracks on the album were road-tested in front of live audiences before being recorded. Something else the band did differently from the last album was going on a writers’ retreat where they worked on the music day and night for ten days straight. The results are definitely more representative of Delhi 2 Dublin as a band and a noticeable progression. The icing on the cake was being able to get Diamond “DJ Swami” Duggal (Apache Indian/Maxi Priest/Nusrat Fateh Ali) to mix the tracks.

Hour Magazine wrote that “Delhi 2 Dublin is the United Nations of rock ‘n’ roll”. The Vancouver, Canada-based band plays an energetic mash-up of Bhangra, Celtic, Dub, Reggae and Electronica with global rhythms and club beats. Tarun Nayar, Sanjay Seran, Andrew Kim and Ravi Binning, along with guest musicians Jaron Freeman-Fox and Sara Fitzpatrick, are diverse in both their backgrounds and musical influences. The band has been together almost six years and has released four full-length albums plus the latest EP, Delhi 2 Dubland.

Back in 2006, a live collaboration put together as a one-off performance piece for a club-night in Vancouver called “Delhi to Dublin” was so well-received that requests for additional performances led to the official formation of Delhi 2 Dublin. “Not being able to fit into any specific genre allows the band to create whatever we like and not be judged for it. Our audience expects nothing less.” The band finds this advantageous for their live show as it enables them to create a flow to their sets much like a DJ would for the dance floor. “Audiences love to see a band transcending stereotypes and letting the music speak for itself”.

www.delhi2dublin.com

You can buy pre-sale tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com

Chango B –

Favorite DJ Chango B will keep us dancing while they take a break!

Chango B has half a dozen live and studio DJ Mixes under his belt and is constantly working on projects and remixes that can all be found at http://soundcloud.com/chango-b. Festival Appearances include various Burning Man art cars and theme camps, Electronica Dome at Earthdance (Laytonville, CA), Techno Tribal at Harmony Fest 2011 (Santa Rosa Fairgrounds), Main Stage Harmony Fest 2011, and has performed and opened with international acts: Mad Professor, Fort Knox Five, Adam Freeland, Mark Farina, Lyrics Born, Nickodemus, the Glitch Mob, Vibesquad, Bassbin Twins, Stanton Warriors, Nick Thayer, J. Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, Pato Banton, Neighbor, All Good Funk Alliance, the Shotgun Wedding Quintet and more.

In 2012, Chango B continues to support his beloved dance community rocking beats and bass of all genres including Balkan, Glitch, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Worldbeat, Breaks, and Dub.

Chango B

http://soundcloud.com/chango-b

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chango-B/186370981389392