Maker Faire

BRAINY TUNES: Smarter Songs for Smarter Kids   Ira Marlowe
I loved performing last year on the Human Powered Stage! I write and perform fun, challenging songs for kids 4-10, and use puppets and props to bring the songs alive onstage, while encouraging participation from kids and parents alike. Songs emphasize adventure, cooperation and creativity.

Abby and the Pipsqueaks   Abby and the Pipsqueaks
The 3 time AWARD WINNING and UNESCO FEATURED ARTISTS: Abby and the Pipsqueaks, from the Bay Area, CA. A cartoon concept band, Abby and the Pipsqueaks brings to life award winning original songs in a zany show with jazzy joke bits, science segments, gym and dance classes, magic, and more!! ...the age 2-6 group has been struggling to find its voice in pop music. That void has been filled... SF Weekly's Listen Up by, Dan Dion. Motown meets the Muppets meets Schoolhouse Rocks, Abby and the Pipsqueaks is sure to inspire and delight.

McPuzo and Trotsky   McPuzo & Trotsky
Heinrich McPuzo (Stroh violin) and Sid Trotsky (bantar) are purveyors of satirical songs from the Roaring Twenties, such as "Warren G. Harding Is A Horse's Ass", and "You Wouldn't Know She Was Irish". Interspersed shall be fabulations of mankind's bright technological future, including "The Lurch Head-on Collider" and "Mansect!".

Shake Your Peace  
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is a folk band based in San Francisco's Mission District. The band's goal is to - in the words of the great folk singers - "get happy," "walk the freedom highway," and "make a living, not a killing."

The SHE'S   The SHE'S
The SHE'S are a rock band from San Francisco, California. They formed in 2007 learning, writing, and performing rockin' music. A colossal explosion of rock n' roll music in a candy shop. The SHE's are, SAMI: Bass and "oooohs"...... HANNAH: Lead Vocals...... EVA: Guitar...... SINCLAIR: Drums and Percussion!

Shovelman   Isaac Frankle
I play a guitar that's made out of an antique SHOVEL. (Dig it!) I loop, drum on the shovel body, play the strings with a slide, and sing through a bullhorn. (Folktronica!) My friend and I worked together to build it and make it sing. I even played it for my friends' wedding aboard the Neverwas Haul (Victorian spaceship) at Maker Faire last year!

Antioguia  
...Experimental Rock/Funk/Reggae meets AfroColombian rhythm... !Musica para la revolucion!

Microfiche   Tricerabot
Microfiche is a San Francisco-based, four-piece instrumental outfit – something of a noiserockdanceparty. A Microfiche show delivers a full-on extrasensory experience, drawing diagrams for your ears and mind while keeping your booty shakin’. Microfiche will team up with Andrey Turley and Mike Carnes to deliver a full-on Audio-Visual collaboration, inviting the audience to use crowd-controller sequencers, and incorporating large-scale VU meters and microfiche machines turned light-sensitive MIDI controllers.

The Slow Poisoner   The Slow Poisoner
The Slow Poisoner is a one-man-surrealistic-rock-and-roll-band, playing strange songs of the weeping willows and curing all manner of ailments with his patented miracle tonic.

McPuzo and Trotsky   McPuzo & Trotsky
Heinrich McPuzo (Stroh violin) and Sid Trotsky (bantar) are purveyors of satirical songs from the Roaring Twenties, such as "Warren G. Harding Is A Horse's Ass", and "You Wouldn't Know She Was Irish". Interspersed shall be fabulations of mankind's bright technological future, including "The Lurch Head-on Collider" and "Mansect!".

Lou Lou & the Guitarfish Live!!!   Lou Lou & the Guitarfish
Spiritual heirs of 60’s British Invasion and actual heirs of 70’s San Francisco punk, these 5 teens mix quirky lyrics with addictive melodies -- and rock’n’roll sounds new again. Longtime Makers already, The Guitarfish have fun doing it all: writing and recording music, shooting videos, creating merch, designing costumes, and more!

5 Cent Coffee & the Junkstock Allstars   5 Cent Coffee
We are dedicated to the idea that everyone can make music. Whether you play a plastic bucket or a thousand dollar guitar, expressing yourself through sound is what it's all about. The Junkstock Allstars play orginal and traditional standards played in the old American tradition and employing found, homemade or dirt cheap instruments whenever possible. Music is everywhere, go out and grab it!

Justin Ancheta  
Justin Ancheta is an artist hailing from a small town of Meadow Vista, California with eclectic styles. He has been playing throughout Northern California for seven years, generating a worthy buzz with music worth falling for. He has opened for the Wailer's, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The Hounds Acoustic Stomp   The Hounds
The Hounds are a high-energy acoustic indie band from San Francisco, who take old-fashioned instruments like fiddle, accordion, and steel-string guitar, and play them with rockstar levels of passion and fun. Bass and drums back up their hoe-downs and pop tunes, making EVERYBODY want to dance!

Mr. December   Mr. December
We are an ukelele/upright bass duo, involving singing, harmonizing, rapping, being handsome, creating ill mouth beats, and playing rag-timey bluegrass. we call it folk-stomp.

Guella  
Four San Francisco-based musicians, all pulling in slightly different directions, find dynamic equilibrium in Guella. The music is at once catchy, open-ended, and original. Due to the great amount of energy and improvisation that Guella brings to each of its sets, it is truly best appreciated in the live setting. A combination of skillful songwriting, intelligent musicianship, and open-ended improvisation always leaves listeners wondering what might happen next.

Nathaniel Johnstone and his Band of Miscreants at Carnival Mechanique   Nathaniel Johnstone
I and a few other musicians will be providing live music with the Steampunk/Vintagepunk group using custom instruments/amps created by Jake Von Slatt and Molly Freidrich.

Shovelman   Isaac Frankle
I play a guitar that's made out of an antique SHOVEL. (Dig it!) I loop, drum on the shovel body, play the strings with a slide, and sing through a bullhorn. (Folktronica!) My friend and I worked together to build it and make it sing. I even played it for my friends' wedding aboard the Neverwas Haul (Victorian spaceship) at Maker Faire last year!

Cello Joe  
The wildest beatboxin' cellist in the west!

OCB   Michael Molenda
OCB is a Celtic-punk-folk-rock act that serves up a stylistic combination of The Faces, The Pogues, and British Isles rockers of the 1970s. We call it "Busker Rock," and it's fun and danceable and kinda wild even! California punk legend Dave Dalton leads the band, which is composed of guitarist Michael Molenda, bassist Patrick Wong, bagpiper/tin whistle master Sean Cummings, and cajon player, percussionist, and background vocalist Cheryl Doll.

Vagabondage   Vagabondage
Vagabondage is a musical duo from a past that never happened – one full of the hard roads and dark roots of Americana. Featuring the barking mad vocals of John Flaw and the whiskey crooning of Emchy, Vagabondage will usher you into a realm of accordion, guitar, kazoo, and hindsight prophecies.

Oona Garthwaite  
Electro / Soul / Rock

The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup   The Evolution Control Committee
Spin the wheel, make a mashup! The Evolution Control Committee wasn't content to merely get credit for making the first mashup in 1993 – they've been cutting and pasting their way through music ever since. Now, you can too! Come to our show and spin the Wheel of Mashup – two wheels actually; one lands on the music, one on the vocals. The two are mashed up on the spot thanks to The ECC's Vidimasher 3000, a video control screen hacked from Nintendo Wii controllers. Faster than a DJ, cooler than a laptop show, this is the short-attention span dance party you've been waiting for!

3rd Thursday   mike mckevitt
A six piece band that plays every third Thursday of the month. guitar,bass,drums,sax two vocals.All star players. Plays Abba to Zappa

California Jug Band Association/Tarantulas Jug Band   California Jug Band Association
Good-time music can be played on just about anything - garden hoses, kitchen sinks, combs, artillery shells, and luggage. CJBA members will provide toe-tapping musical performances and demonstrations on building and identifying a wide variety of music-makers. The audience will be quickly drawn into participating in the musical madness.

Quinn Devaux  
Quinn DeVeaux and the Blue Beat Review is a dance and groove band with hopping mad rhymes and rhythms. Quinn has been playing soul and blues in the bay area for years and has finally started his own band The Blue Beat Review! It's sweet melody and soul music with a groove that makes you wanna use your feet for moving. This band is at the root of it and keeps the people in a state of joy. Don't miss em.

Art Lessing and the Flower Vato   Art Lessing and the Flower Vato
We are a band that uses a bunch of home made instruments. We have both invented and traditional instuments, but we like to use mostly DIY things when we're performing.

The Lee Maverick Band   The Lee Maverick Band
Rock-n-Roll using some instruments made from motorcycle parts and a unique kitsch set incorporating sculpture and paintings.

5 Cent Coffee & the Junkstock Allstars   5 Cent Coffee
We are dedicated to the idea that everyone can make music. Whether you play a plastic bucket or a thousand dollar guitar, expressing yourself through sound is what it's all about. The Junkstock Allstars play orginal and traditional standards played in the old American tradition and employing found, homemade or dirt cheap instruments whenever possible. Music is everywhere, go out and grab it!

Ralph Carney and The All Ones   Ralph Carney
Music performance May 31st.

jesse morris and the man cougars   joe dean
country music played by strange folks.

"Streetbeats" by John F King II   John King II
About my show! It's called "Streetbeats-Sounds of San Francisco". It is a high energy, innovative, infectious "all" instrumental drums and percussion show that was developed on the streets of San francisco, CA. The music consist of an eclectic blend of expressions with wide ranging cultural diversity and global appeal, emphasizing the introduction and promotion of positive messages/images. Fun beats and grooves with infuences from Celtic to afro-Cuban to Polynesian to American and East Indian to Jazz, country, Soul/R&B, hip-hop, Rock etc... All done with items found in a garbage dumpster such as old pots & pans, #10 foodservice cans, CD rack, 5 gal. buckets,garbage cans, etc..

Lou Lou & the Guitarfish Live!!!   Lou Lou & the Guitarfish
Spiritual heirs of 60’s British Invasion and actual heirs of 70’s San Francisco punk, these 5 teens mix quirky lyrics with addictive melodies -- and rock’n’roll sounds new again. Longtime Makers already, The Guitarfish have fun doing it all: writing and recording music, shooting videos, creating merch, designing costumes, and more!

the Way-To-Go-Joes   Josef Szuecs
A musical trio that plays jazz, blues, and what-have-you.

The Gomer Hendrix Experience   the Gomer Hendrix Band
The Gomer Hendrix Experience does original fun music that's a mix of Weird Al Yankovic's style and mash-ups between different styles of music. Humorous, upbeat, fun for the whole family, musical entertainment.

Los Banos   mike mckevitt
the cyclecide bike rodeo band bicycle themed mariachi-punk

Mr. December   Mr. December
We are an ukelele/upright bass duo, involving singing, harmonizing, rapping, being handsome, creating ill mouth beats, and playing rag-timey bluegrass. we call it folk-stomp.

The Gomer Hendrix Experience   the Gomer Hendrix Band
The Gomer Hendrix Experience does original fun music that's a mix of Weird Al Yankovic's style and mash-ups between different styles of music. Humorous, upbeat, fun for the whole family, musical entertainment.

The James Moseley Band   James Moseley
The James Moseley Band fronted by lead vocalist and guitarist James Moseley has been wowing audiences in the Bay Area for over ten years at a wide range of music venues, festivals and special events. Their continually growing fan base, one of the most loyal in the Bay Area, is no doubt due to their high energy live performances that get everyone up and dancing with tunes by Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and many more. The James Moseley Band showcases the very best in Motown, R&B, Jazz, Blues, Funk and Reggae.