Watermelon Music

Michael Baker Jr. is a Sacramento-area singer-songwriter and the frontman of the funk/soul outfit Little Mischief, stepping out for an intimate solo set of guitar, harmonica, and suitcase drum. Drawing from the raw storytelling of Shakey Graves, the soulful warmth of Al Green and Otis Redding, and the easy-going grit of Ray LaMontagne, Gregory Alan Isakov, Jack Johnson, Caamp, and Mt Joy, Michael brings a one-man-band energy to every song - foot-stomping rhythm, honest lyrics, and a voice built for small rooms.
$20 General Admission
$15 Seniors (in store or at the door only)
$10 Students w/ID (in store or at the door only)

Doors open at 7:30pm
Cash or Venmo at the door only (no Credit Card)

This is a BYOB event

Jim Bruno is a San Francisco Bay Area based published songwriter. He taught Songwriting at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley and at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills both for 11 years.

He's also taught Songwriting Workshops at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, at Far-West Music Conference, at San Francisco State University's High Sierra Campus and more.

Songs he's written have been recorded and released by Shawn Colvin, Chuck Prophet, Mary Lou Lord, Cliff Eberhardt, Thad Cockrell, Maurice Tani and Laurie MacAlister.

As a performing songwriter he has performed with or opened shows for the following artists: Shawn Colvin, Timothy B Schmidt of the Eagles, Graham Parker, John Gorka, Charlie Musselwhite, Joe Ely, Greg Brown, Steve Forbert, Bill Morrissey, Big Twist, and Cliff Eberhardt. He's performed at the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, the Udine Folk Festival in Udine, Italy and has toured five times in Europe. He also played bass, guitar and sang in the Shawn Colvin Band for several years and often performed with Shawn as a duet.

He has signed numerous song publishing agreements including Largo Music in New York and Bug Music in Los Angeles.

Enrollment is $20
Participants are asked to bring a printed lyric sheet to the event

Asheville, NC-based roots artists Anya Hinkle (vocals, guitar) and Billy Cardine (Dobro) team up for an intimate exploration of acoustic music rooted in the sounds of Appalachia and seasoned by their travels around the globe. Following international tours in Japan, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and throughout the US and Hawai’i over the past year, they were recipients of the prestigious USArtist International grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to bring their surprisingly dynamic range of styles and influences to France in 2025.

Originally from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Anya Hinkle's music is steeped in the tones of folk and mountain music, featuring award-winning songwriting, vibrant musicianship, and striking honesty. About Oceania, Americana Highways writes, “This North Carolina singer-songwriter has an engagingly smooth-toned classic vocal… She’s the real deal – melodic with rich traditional instincts… one of the year’s best.”

Billy Cardine is recognized as a pioneer of slide guitar, taking the Dobro into uncharted genres. Billy's unique voice on all things slide has led him to collaborate with Led Zeppelin's own John Paul Jones, world-renowned Edgar Meyer in his Porous Borders of Music, and dobro king Jerry Douglas, who stated, “Billy Cardine is an amazing Dobro player. He is fluent in everything that I do, and Josh Graves, and everybody that has come before. I couldn't have picked a better example for them of where the Dobro is now or what the possibilities are with the instrument.”

$20 General Admission
7:00 Doors Open
7:30 Show Starts
Cash or Venmo at the door only (no Credit Card)

This is a BYOB Event!