PAST EVENTS:
SAVE THE DINOSAURS TOUR
June 24 - August 7, 2009
For full details on the tour, please visit our website at www.antioquia-band.net and click on "Show Dates"
Come welcome us home on Friday, August 7th when we play at Ashkenaz for I Like My Bike Night #4!
I LIKE MY BIKE NIGHT #4
Friday, August 7
ANTIOQUIA + FREE PEOPLES + sunset bike cruise!
The dance party starts at 9:00pm with the soulful funk and rock jams of Bay Area based Free Peoples, followed by the uplifting AfroColombian-influenced musical mash of Antioquia - fresh back from their month-long Midwestern "Save the Dinos Tour."
Tickets are $8 if you ride your bicycle or other human-propelled transport to the show, $10 otherwise. There will be a raffle for a Monkeylectric "Monkey Light," and bicycle-related vendors so bring extra currency! The only music venue in the East Bay with Kombucha on tap, Ashkenaz is always all ages and wheelchair accessible.
Sunset Bike Cruise from Telegraph & Bancroft departs 8pm
Doors open 8:30pm, Show 9:00pm-1am
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue (@Gilman) Berkeley
www.ashkenaz.com
Showline: (510) 525-5054
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ABOUT THE BANDS:
Antioquia is gathering a following from Berkeley to Bozeman and beyond, with high energy music that could be described (after a deep breath) as “Experimental AfroColombian Funk Rock,” and a 2009 mission to wean their music off dependence on dinosaur fuels using pedal power and waste veggie oil. The quartet of four men and a lady are as active in their community are they are in the music scene in California and beyond, having co-created the bike night series along with Ashkenaz’s Going Greener Committee, organized (and rocked) the Cody’s Corner Stage at the People’s Park Festival for the past two years, and performed on bicycle-powered stages at Makers Faire 2009, the SF Bicycle Music Festival two years in a row, the 2009 Chico Bike Music Fest and Yerba Buena Center. Don’t miss the welcome home party! www.antioquia-band.net
Jam-friendly and funk-happy, bluegrass-rock group Free Peoples will take you on a journey to Mars and back before depositing you safely back at your campfire. Formed in the San Francisco area in 2001 as a trio. The lineup that has solidified since those early days is Tim Sawyer of Buzz at the helm with lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Johnny Downer of Top Four Flights, Radioactive, and Solstice, on lead guitar and vocals. James Foster of Sonny Lowe, Jake Richmond and Jake Mackey band on drums, Jason Thor of daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra and formally of Brian Setzer Orchestra on trombone, and Mark Anthony Calderon of Tracorum, Zigaboo Modeliste, and Albino on bass and vocals. Don’t miss Free Peoples playing live! www.freepeoples.com
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL III
BMF San Francisco will take place over three venues across the city and include live on-bike music parading (and transporting all equipment, musicians, fans & fun) between venues.
BMF San Francisco 2009 Line Up:
Bands to be announced SOON (we can tell you that Antioquia is one of them)
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9:30am Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park
9:30 - 10:00am: TBA marching band
10:00 – 10:40am: Tin Cup Serenade
10:50 - 11:10am: MaMuse
11:20 - 11:45pm: StitchCraft
12:00 – 12:45pm: Spaceheater
1:00 – 1:30pm: Antioquia
1:30 - 2:00pm: TBA marching band
2pm Cruiser Ride with Live-On-Bike performance
2:00 - 2:45pm: SHAKE YOUR PEACE! & Cello Joe (combined set)
2:45pm Dolores Park
2:45 - 3:15pm: TBA marching band
3:25 – 4:10pm: Manicato
4:25 – 5:10pm: Sean Hayes
5:25 – 6:10pm: La Colectiva
6:25 – 7:10pm: Oona Garthwaite
7:10 - 7:40pm: TBA marching band
7:40pm Cruiser Ride with Live-On-Bike performance (sunset at 8:35pm)
7:40 - 8:30pm: Sunset cruise hosted by Fossil Fool the Bike Rapper, feat: dance performance by The Deurrailers, and an MC freestyle cypher featuring the Bay Areas top MC’s.
8:45pm Pier 7
8:45pm – 9:15pm: TBA Marching band
9:25 – 10:05pm: Tornado Rider
10:15 - 11:00pm: (superstar surprise band)
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!
BMF needs you! Visit the BMF Website to see all the volunteer needs and sign up! It’s going to be fun in the sun with the rest of the volunteer crew. Help make BMF 2009 rock!
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INFO
Please make your best efforts to arrive at this show by public transportation, bicycle or other non-car options! If you ride your bicycle, you'll get $5 off the ticket price at the door...
>>The #800 All-Nighter bus departs from directly across the street from Ashkenaz every hour all night long while BART is closed, and goes to San Francisco via Downtown Oakland. The All-Nighter services will let you bring your bike on the bus, even if it's very very packed. The bus costs $1.75 for East Bay destinations and $3.50 for Transbay destination.
HERE IS A LINK TO THE #800 ROUTE MAP
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD #800 SCHEDULE IN PDF FORMAT (PDF,2kb)
>>North Berkeley BART is just 1 mile away. Check out the Google Map we've created below for the best walking & biking routes between BART & Ashkenaz.
SUNSET CRUISE --
Route Map
[the ride rolls rain or shine]
I LIKE MY BIKE NIGHT #2
RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES + THE GINGER NINJAS + FOSSIL FOOL
ASHKENAZ - 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Sunset Bike Cruise gathers at Telegraph & Bancroft (UCB Sproul Plaza) at 7:30 pm, departs at 8:00pm
Doors at 8:30 pm; Show at 9:00 pm
$8 with bike / $13 without Buy tickets online!
National Bike Month may have ended, but the concepts of green transportation, community spirit, and music to dance to continue in Ashkenaz’s second “I Like My Bike Night,” a series that takes place on the first Friday of every month through the summer. Initiated by Ashkenaz’s Going Greener Committee and Antioquia, the series aims to bring bicycle innovators, enthusiasts, artists, and organizations together under one roof, as well as to encourage regular Ashkenaz showgoers to leave their cars at home and arrive at the venue by bicycle instead.
June’s I Like My Bike Night features local sensations Rupa & the April Fishes and bicycle touring band the Ginger Ninjas. The festivities kick off at 7:30 p.m. at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza (Bancroft Way at Telegraph Avenue), where a Sunset Bike Cruise will gather. The cruise departs at 8 p.m., riding via Downtown Berkeley and North Berkeley BART stations to Ashkenaz. Performing en route is San Francisco-based Fossil Fool the Bike Rapper, who will lead the ride and provide the soundtrack for the Sunset Cruise from his “Soul Cycle.” www.fossilfool.com
The Ginger Ninjas, who recently returned from their second bicycle tour to Mexico, will get the dance floor moving with their bicycle-inspired blend of folk, funk, reggae, and Latin music, which they deliver through a pedal-powered sound system. The band will also present a slideshow of their bicycle tour adventures and raffle off an XtraCycle to help fund the next leg of their world bicycle tour. www.gingerninjas.com
This is the Ashkenaz debut for Rupa & the April Fishes. Since the band’s first CD, “Extraordinary Rendition,” was issued last year, Rupa & the April Fishes have quickly garnered critical and popular acclaim and have gone from local favorites to international touring. They visit Ashkenaz just after playing the Joshua Tree Music Festival, and just before a cross-country summer tour that leads to festivals through Europe and on to Reunion Island (on the African side of the Indian Ocean).
Rupa & the April Fishes is the brainchild of singer-guitarist Rupa Marya, a young woman of Indian heritage whose nomadic upbringing and dual life as a musician and doctor has led her to explore issues of identity, borders, and the vagaries of life, love, and death. The band’s music echoes with influences of French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbias, and even Indian ragas. The Utne Reader reviewed the band’s CD: “Clearly the work of a terrorist organization, ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ promotes dangerous anti-American notions such as multiculturalism, internationalism, and exuberant dancing.” The April Fishes are accordionist-singer Isabel Douglass, bassist Safa Shokrai, trumpeters Ara Anderson and Marcus Cohen, and Aaron Kierbel on percussion, contraptions, and fish. Together they make music that the San Francisco Bay Guardian calls “The shining embodiment of globalization gone good.”
www.myspace.com/aprilfishes
Saturday:
12:30 -- SHAKE YOUR PEACE!
1:30 -- Antioquia
2:30 -- McPuzo & Trotsky
3:00 -- Justin Ancheta
4:00 -- Open Mike
5:00 -- Cello Joe
6:00 -- Oona Garthwaite
7:00 -- Fossil Fool
Sunday:
12:00 -- Quinn Deveaux
1:30 -- Five Cent Coffee
2:30 -- Street Beats
3:30 --Gomer Hendrix Experience
4:30 -- Open Mike
5:00 -- Fossil Fool
Bike to MAKER FAIRE 2009 and dance your face off at Rock the Bike's pedal-powered stage!
Music by Antioquia, Justin Ancheta, Shake your Peace, and more!
We'll arrive at Maker Faire at approximately 11AM, plenty of time to set up our Pedal Powered Stage for the first band of the day, Shake Your Peace. We'll be playing at 1:30pm.
Let Rock the Bike know you're coming on the ride! Visit the Ride Blog and RSVP by writing a comment.
The route from San Francisco: We'll be closely following the San Mateo County North South Bicycle Route. This is a flat route, which closely follows the Caltrain route. This route starts on Tunnel Avenue, then uses Bayshore Boulevard through Brisbane and then a series of different streets through South San Francisco to get the Delaware Street in San Mateo. It takes about 1.5 hours to ride this route at an easy pace.
Get a map of the route at: http://bikesiliconvalley.org/files/nsroute/nsroutemap.pdf
Note this is a schematic map to define the route, use with a good local street map if you are not familiar with this area.
MAY 14-19, 2009
FUNDRAISING VEGGIE TOUR
Antioquia will be embarking on a short tour with our friends The Ginger Ninjas, in a veggie bus named Millie... We'll be heading to the Chico Bicycle Music Festival happening May 16th, and also playing shows in North San Juan and Nevada City -- all shows will be played on The Ginger Ninjas' Pedal-powered Sound System.
MAY 1, 2009
I LIKE MY BIKE NIGHT #1
MAY DAY FUNDRAISER CONCERT
ASHKENAZ, BERKELEY, CA
Coordinated by Ashkenaz & Antioquia,
I Like My Bike Night will take place on the the first Friday of every month beginning May 1st.
Photos by Scott Finsthwait
In order to keep the admission price low while still raising funds for our project, we are offering a VIP-style ticket for "Project Friends."
For just $30, you get:
>>Admission
>>Access to Backstage Lounge with nibbles donated by Sabuy Sabuy II Thai, Cafe Gratitude, Berkeley Natural Grocery and more generous local businesses.
>>A Bicycle Blended Smoothie voucher
>>50% off voucher for anything at the Antioquia merchandise table (CDs/accessories)
>>Copy of live audio recording of the concert mailed to you
>>A warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that you're supporting an awesome project!
CLICK BELOW TO BUY A PROJECT FRIEND TICKET!
Oh, what a night:
Musical delights:
Antioquia
Carne Cruda
Fossil Fool (DJ Set)
Goodies:
Live painting by Alan Tarbell
Door prize donated by Rock the Bike
Free Bicycle Valet Parking by EBBC
Bike repair station by Street Level Cycles
Bicycle Smoothies thanks to Rock the Bike
Sunset Cruise
A leisurely bike ride from UCB Sproul Plaza to Ashkenaz via BART stations. departs at Sundown (8pm)
w/ en-route performances by Fossil Fool (LiveOnBike) + Dance Skate Live
See route map below!
$13 / $8 with bike valet ticket in hand
PROJECT FRIEND: $25
ASHKENAZ
MUSIC & DANCE COMMUNITY CENTER
Berkeley's home of world music & dance since 1973...
Always all ages. Wheelchair accessible, Non-profit.
1317 SAN PABLO AVE at GILMAN
BERKELEY, CA (SEE MAP DOWN BELOW)
www.ashkenaz.com
7:30PM: Gather on bicycles at UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza
8PM: Sunset Cruise departs from UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to Ashkenaz via Downtown & North Berkeley BART stations, with LiveOnBike performance by Fossil Fool and pitstop performance at Ohlone Park by Dance Skate Live!
8:30PM: Ashkenaz doors & EBBC Free Bicycle Valet Parking open
9:00PM: Show begins with Antioquia!
HELP PROMOTE THE EVENT:
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