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Mickelson + Brad Brooks
$15 General Admission
Doors at 7:30pm.
Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission
MICKELSON
Scott Mickelson is an artist/producer from San Francisco. His debut release “Flickering” was on the Grammy ballot for Best Folk Album and Best Roots Music Performance. His follow up full-length “A Wondrous Life” received great reviews in the US and abroad which led to his first European tour in 2019. He then produced the critically acclaimed “Blanket The Homeless” benefit compilation which included Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito. In 2020, Mickelson released “Drowning In An Inflatable Pool” to rave reviews in the U.S. and Europe. The first single, “Jagged Tooth” was accompanied by the fantastic animated video. In 2022, his single/video “UNarmed American” premiered on Americana U.K. and he was invited to play three nights at The Mavericks Festival in England. The full length “Known To Be Unknown” (April, 2022) featured the iconic track “UNarmed American”. In November, 2022 the band released “Only Grey Matter Boiling In My Head” which included the XTC’s Colin Moulding on bass. His current single “Jump Off The Earth”, accompanied by a groundbreaking video which includes uniquely styled AI animation. Mickelson continues to perform in the UK and Europe.
Mickelson's keyboardist from England, Jon Buckett, will be in SF for this special show. The two are preparing for a duo tour of New Zealand/Australia in February, 2024.
"This music is the balance between strong, subtle, unexpected, and sophisticated.” - Paste Magazine
http://www.mickelsonmusic.com
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BRAD BROOKS
Brad Brooks is beloved in the Bay Area as one of its finest vocalists and songwriters with 4 solo records under his belt since 2000. His latest release "God Save The City" explodes with Brooks screaming "Come on!!!" and the record never loses that urgency. From the Hall and Oates slow burn of "Feel The Might" to the classic Hi Records groove of "Why Do You Hurt" and "The Chance," this is Brooks' soul album, one he has earned the right to make. Recorded with his longtime, devoted, and white-hot live band, the record is full of first and second takes with minimal overdubs, raw and vulnerable.
Not surprisingly, Brooks' journey and the country's wild descent into partisan rancor over the last few years show up all over "God Save The City.” Brooks tackles wealth displacement in the title track ("they sang it like an angel with the devil’s rhyme"), his own mortality in "Sacred Was I" ("Fear can change you, keep you from what's true"), recalls a hilarious encounter with "Lee Marvin's Uzi," On "Strange Fruit Numb," what started as a band jam evolves into a civil rights anthem for the 21st century in the grand tradition of other Bay Area politically musical visionaries like Sly Stone and Boots Riley. With "God Save The City", Bay Area artist Brad Brooks made a triumphant return with the most direct, soulful record of his life.
https://bradbrooksmusic.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJFF0-OufR4dWbZEIz3RfQ
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https://bradbrooks.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/bradbrooksmusic
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MlxFOk6IKyUZAbn2yxsAh?si=ew1lcDPSSHmVZlVGYXwtcw
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2157306-0
