San Francisco Bear Pride presents
MATT ALBER, NAKIA, AND JEB HAVENS!
Friday November 8th @ 8:00PM
(Doors at 7PM)
$20 at the door
$10 off with Bear Pride Tags
Rickshaw Stop - 155 Fell
http://www.ticketfly.com/search/?q=bear+pride
http://www.sfbearpride.com
(A Percentage of the proceeds go to Larkin Street Youth Services)
Throughout the week, SF Bear Pride will be bringing together some incredible talent for your listening and viewing pleasure! Come join us at The Rickshaw Stop at 8:00PM on Frid...
San Francisco Bear Pride presents
MATT ALBER, NAKIA, AND JEB HAVENS!
Friday November 8th @ 8:00PM
(Doors at 7PM)
$20 at the door
$10 off with Bear Pride Tags
Rickshaw Stop - 155 Fell
http://www.ticketfly.com/search/?q=bear+pride
http://www.sfbearpride.com
(A Percentage of the proceeds go to Larkin Street Youth Services)
Throughout the week, SF Bear Pride will be bringing together some incredible talent for your listening and viewing pleasure! Come join us at The Rickshaw Stop at 8:00PM on Friday, November 8th, for a concert featuring some amazing Bear talent:
MATT ALBER
Matt Alber’s latest acoustic album, Constant Crows, feels a lot like a living room concert– one where they invited a small orchestra (and Madonna.)
Alber recorded the album last Fall on Vashon Island– a wooded, fog-bound rock in Puget Sound inhabited by more deer than humans. It debuted at #2 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart just above James Taylor’s Greatest Hits, which seemed rather unlikely to the 37 year old beardy gay troubadour from San Francisco.
Alber first became known in 2009 for his song “End Of The World” and it’s accompanying music video set in a 1960′s barbershop. Alber gets swept off his feet by a Don Draper-type in the video, and MTv’s Logo Channel introduced him to gay America. He embarked on a solo career after touring the globe with a classical acapella group called Chanticleer, with whom Alber won two Grammy Awards.
Alber’s solo shows are a mix of guitar and piano stripped-down versions of his lushly orchestrated album originals. He also hushes the room with unlikely covers like Whitney’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” Madonna’s”Take A Bow” and a hauntingly delicate rendition of Imogen Heap’s “Hide & Seek.” Alber’s newest album, Constant Crows, plays in full from his website, www.mattalber.com
“That was so sweet. I want to listen to him again.” — Madonna
NAKIA
Austin-based, Alabama-raised singer/songwriter Nakia has a heart that beats to the rhythms of Muscle Shoals soul, pumping blood infused with Stax funk to cells lined with Chicago blues grooves. His vocal talent is the kind that instantly turns listeners into fans — among them CeeLo Green, who invited Nakia to sing on his Muppets Christmas special.
On his new EP, Drown in the Crimson Tide, on the Something-Music label, Nakia unleashes that voice on six songs he wrote in collaboration with top-tier artists including Barry Goldberg, Bleu, Chris Seefried and Brian West. Three were co-produced by legendary keyboardist Goldberg, whose vast resume includes playing Dylan’s ’65 Newport gig and producing Percy Sledge; and guitarist Johnny Lee Schell, who’s worked with Bonnie Raitt, John Fogerty and Eric Burdon. A YouTube video of the band led to The Voice producer Mark Burnett recruiting him for the pilot, which resulted in his relationship with CeeLo.
Hero encounters aside, Nakia is generally regarded as a super cool, affable guy, one who makes friends as easily as he earns fans. www.Nakia.net
JEB HAVENS
Jeb Havens has been singing, playing the piano, and writing songs since the age of 10. Since moving to San Francisco in 2007, he has performed at numerous Bay Area venues and events, including Sonoma Pride, Red Devil Lounge, Lone Star Saloon, Easter in the Park, Kimo’s, SF Pride (Fairy Freedom Village), and Martuni’s Piano Bar, where he co-hosts a monthly showcase of local queer music called Homophonic.