Music

• Oona

  Website Link: http://oonamusic.com

  Oona is one of Rock The Bike’s premiere dance pop bands, a perfect match for pedal power to the next level of excitement. The Examiner in San Francisco put it this way… “Oona Garthwaite is a force to be reckoned with. Her talent level is through the roof, on a level reserved for those musicians [...]

• Cello Joe

  Website Link: http://www.cellojoe.com

  There aren’t very many singing, rapping, beatboxing, cello players in the world. You could probably count them on your fingers, if you knew any of them. But there’s a particularly funny and funky curious one you should remember and he goes by the name of cellojoe. Like most cello players, Joseph Abraham Tal Tien-Ru Chang [...]

• SHAKE YOUR PEACE!

  Website Link: http://www.shakeyourpeace.com

  Bicycle-music-touring since 2005, folk band SHAKE YOUR PEACE! continues to define and embody the values of the sustainable music community. With the rallying call of: “harmony onstage and harmony offstage,” SHAKE YOUR PEACE! plays everywhere from green meadows to green festivals, red rock outcroppings to San Francisco music halls, and has gone on 4 bicycle-based [...]

• The Ginger Ninjas

  Website Link: http://www.gingerninjas.com

  In 2007, the Ginger Ninjas became the first band in the history of rock and roll to tour by bicycle, unsupported by automobile. On a 5000 mile odyssey from their home in Northern California to the pyramids of southern Mexico, they promoted transportation cycling while also exploring the frontiers of pedal-generated electricity, using their own [...]

• Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper

  Website Link: http://www.fossilfool.com

  Fossil Fool is a San Francisco-based street performer who uses his custom-made Soul Cycle party bikes as amplification and transportation. Listen to Fossil Fool For booking, please contact the Paul at paul@fossilfool.com

• Antioquia

  Website Link: http://www.antioquia-band.net

  This SF bay Area-based quartet of three men and a lady create music that dances from genre to genre as if there’s no such thing. Their influences include Talking Heads, Primus and Grace Slick, and their sound has been called “Afro-Colombian Progress Rock.” Peppered with fits of improvisation, bouts of silliness and crowd-rousing AfroColombian percussion [...]

• MaMuse

  Website Link: http://www.mamuse.org/

  The Muse fell from the sky one night and landed in the spaces between our heart beats. She instantly took a liking to the rhythm in our chests, and her sweet melody joined the pulse. One of us picked up father bass, and thumped it’s belly in response. The other picked up father mandolin, and [...]

• Heather Normandale – of Stitchcraft

  Website Link: http://stitchcraftmusic.com

  Heather Normandale, leader of Stichcraft, has had the honor of being involved in San Francisco’s sustainable music movement, contributing to and performing in the Bicycle Music Festival, which travels from park to park on pedal powered PAs and all human power. Heather just got back from a 7 month Music Bike Tour throughout Europe, selling thousands [...]

• Locura

  Website Link: http://www.reverbnation.com/locuramusica

  LoCura experiments with fusing Flamenco dancing and Salsa rhythms, Funk and Hip-Hop with Ude and Cello, and West Coast Reggae beats crafted from unexpected percussion instruments. Lyrics in Spanish and English, LoCura brings to the stage a vibrant collage of sound and movement, with a message of bridging cultures and transcending borders. Their debut album [...]

• Band of Mystics

  Website Link: http://www.myspace.com/bandofmystics

  Bay Area’s Soulful Nu-Jazz-Reggae/World-Hip Hop! Zahira & The Band of Mystics will melt your heart and make you groove! These musicians have come together in a creative way to reflect positivity within all beings on the planet. All the music they create has a backbone of truth and realness that is driven by a sweet [...]

• The Get Back

  

  The Get Back are a power of hip hop and vocal flows that hit your core. Based in San Francisco, they spread their seed of lyrical power to the masses wherever they go. In 2010 they were featured at the San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival, Laying down Fat grooves with a heavy pocket. If you [...]

• DJ’s Manny & Bigface

  

  Website link: http://www.iscratchvinyl.com/ Austin-based mobile DJs Manny and Bigface worked with Rock The Bike to trick out their rickshaw with a 1000-watt sound system. They’d been DJing in clubs for years and wanted to take their act mobile so they could bring the beat to outdoor events.    

• Justin Ancheta

  

  Website Link: www.justinancheta.com Hailing from San Francisco, California, Justin Ancheta’s ’eclectic style of reggae flavored indie-rock, funk and jazz has created a buzz throughout Northern California. With a sound that appeals to fans of all ages, he has opened for the Wailer’s, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Charles Neville, and Ricky Skaggs, to just name some. Justin [...]