Live Music Revival Fund

ABOUT US

The Live Music Revival Fund is a non-profit organization created for the purpose of supporting live music in local venues to revive the joy and fellowship that live performance brings to the community.

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

- Victor Hugo

Resulting from economic shifts and exacerbated by the pandemic, live music venues have been disappearing in the Bay Area and around the U.S. Musicians who often live hand-to-mouth are especially struggling to be able to continue performing and stay in the Bay Area.

The Live Music Revival Fund is a direct payment program to local artists. 100% of donated funds go to support musicians and live music productions. This relief program is an economic life-raft for local musicians and directly benefits the communities in which they perform. The U.S. is in a mental health crisis and will be for the next few years. The joy and fellowship that music provides is in desperate need to revive not only our musicians but our communities.

Operationally, the program selects an array of local musicians through a peer review process. Musicians are provided monthly financial support, to give them the economic foundation to continue to focus on their art and promote live performances.

How can you help? Please consider hosting a venue for these upcoming performances or donate directly to the fund.

This is a grassroots support system to revitalize live music in the Bay Area community and beyond!

ARTISTS

Sheldon Brown

Sheldon Brown is a San Francisco Bay Area composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist. He leads several groups presenting original work. He also tours and records with Bobby Weir’s Wolf Brothers and Omar Sosa, and performs and records with Paul McCandless, Adam Theis, Pete Escovedo, Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, Clarinet Thing, Ben Goldberg, and Darren Johnston.

Dan Cantrell

Sheldon Brown

Kevin Choice

Sheldon Brown

Rob Dehlinger

Kev Choice is a pianist, M.C., producer, composer, band-leader, educator, activist, and cultural strategist. He has a Master's Degree in Piano Performance, studied classical and jazz music, and is deeply rooted in the traditions of Hip-Hop, Soul, and music of the African-American Tradition. Kev has toured the world with many artist, worked with Oakland and San Francisco Symphonies, and produced 5 solo albums.

Rob Dehlinger

Frederick John

Rob Dehlinger

Rob Dehlinger is a San Francisco vocalist and trumpeter. He performs thought the globe as the frontman of the swing/jump blues band the “Alpha Rhythm Kings”. Rob is also a songwriter and composer. His recordings have been used in television, radio, and film, both in the US and abroad.

Jerry Hannan

Frederick John

Jerry Hannan got his first guitar at age 18 and became a music minor (voice) at College of Marin and Dominican University. He started a band with his brother Sean and quickly became well known for songwriting and performing. He’s been a working musician ever since.

Frederick John

Frederick John has been playing music from the age of 4 starting with piano. He attended the Berklee college of music in Boston in the late 80's and has been playing live and recording with multiple bands at any given time since. Frederick prides himself on being versatile, listening and doing his best to service the song and the song writer.

Dr. Alex Kelly

Lisa Mezzacappa

Dr. Alex Kelly is a San Francisco based cellist, composer, and educator. He performs with a large array of ensembles and genres, ranging from symphony orchestras, new music ensembles, string quartets, rock bands, jazz combos, and world music ensembles. He also composes music for a variety of ensembles, including symphony orchestras, modern dance companies, theater companies, and circus troupes. He is also a film composer, has premiered 1000+ new works, and has produced string parts in 1200+ recording sessions. Alex teaches recording software classes part-time at College of Marin and is the author of the cello technique book "The Seven Points", which teaches fingerboard-mapping techniques. His live-looping solo show has been seen in a variety of venues ranging from Davies Symphony Concert Hall to Yosemite mountaintops. Alex performs with stars on big stages and well as home-growns in hole-in-the-walls.

Lisa Mezzacappa

Lisa Mezzacappa is a Berkeley, CA-based composer, bassist and producer. She has been an active part of the Bay Area’s vibrant music community for nearly 20 years. Her activities as a composer and ensemble leader include ethereal chamber music, electro-acoustic works, avant-garde jazz, music for groups from duo to large ensemble, and collaborations with film, dance, and visual art. Recent projects include Cosmicomics, a suite for electro-acoustic jazz sextet based on Italo’s Calvino’s stories about the origins of the cosmos; Organelle, a chamber work for improvisers grounded in micro and macro scientific processes; Glorious Ravage, an evening-length song cycle for large ensemble and films drawn from the writings of Victorian lady adventurers; and Touch Bass, a collaboration with choreographer Risa Jaroslow for three dancers and three bassists. She also co-leads the community improvisation ensemble, the duo B. Experimental Band, with drummer Jason Levis and is collaborating with writer Beth Lisick on the new audio opera The Electronic Lover.

PC Muñoz

Lisa Mezzacappa

Darren Nelson

PC Muñoz is a musician and writer based in San Francisco. His diverse body of work as an artist and producer includes GRAMMY-nominated contemporary classical music, acclaimed funk/hip hop projects, and compositions for film and dance. He is the 2022 Quinteto Latino Composer-in-Residence and a Mosaic America fellow.

Darren Nelson

Angeline Saris

Darren Nelson

Darren Nelson is a sing/songwriter and a graphic artist. His passion is music and he enjoys writing stories and putting them to music and/or visual art. He also loves recording music and performing live. He is very blessed to be married to his best friend who is a talented clothing designer. Darren and his wife live in the beautiful and quiet town of Woodacre with an amazing dog and cat!

Angeline Saris

Angeline Saris was born and raised in the SF Bay Area and began her musical adventure at the age of 15 years old in the jazz band at San Rafael High School, where she fell in love with the electric bass. Since then, Angeline has worked relentlessly as a freelance bassist and studio musician, touring internationally as well as being a regular in her local music scene. Angeline has been featured in a number of publications, including Bass Player magazine, and on the covers of Bass Musician, Guitar Girl, and Bass Quarterly magazine. When not out performing or in the studio recording, Angeline works as an educator and has taught at the Warwick Bass Camp in Germany, the National Guitar Workshop, as a demonstrator for Hal Leonard educational material, and as a private local instructor.

Erik Smyth

Angeline Saris

Erik Smyth has been a local San Francisco Bay Area musician playing the clubs since 1988. In the 90’s he was a founding member of the funk and soul group The Mo’fessionals. The Mofessionals got to share the stage with many large acts including Rage Against the Machine, The Fugees, Parliament, Wall Flowers, and War to name a few. The Mofo’s recorded two albums together, “Live at Slims” and “Finally Over”. Erik has been on countless recording sessions playing guitar for East Bay Hip Hop artists like Too Short and many others. He has been working with ProTools for over 15 years and is very knowledgeable with computer based recording and editing. Erik currently manages Marin’s local music store Bananas at Large, performs locally with Jerry Hannan Band and many other acts, and is a partner at Allegiant Records, a local recording studio in San Anselmo.

ARTISTS

Matthew Szemela

Matthew Szemela is a violinist who crosses musical genres with ease and has been praised by the New York Times for his “outrageous fiddling”. He has performed as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in several renowned concert halls both domestically (Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully, Merkin Recital Hall, Library of Congress, Kennedy Center), and abroad (Japan, China, Korea, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, Italy). Matthew has collaborated, recorded, and performed with a myriad of artists including Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna, Savion Glover, Sting, Lana Del Rey, Josh Groban, Placido Domingo, Bob Weir, Dave Stewart, Billy Childs, Lisa Fischer, Johnny Mathis, Andrea Bocelli, and Olivia Newton John. In the fall of 2007 Matthew portrayed an Irish rock violinist in the Warner Brothers film August Rush, working with famed music producer Phil Ramone. TV appearances include Good Morning America (with Josh Groban), The View (with Rihanna), and American Idol (with Lana Del Rey).