Inside Look: Travis Hayes recaps Fog City Fest
Travis Hayes (photo: Estefany Gonzalez) To celebrate the three-year anniversary of Fog City Songwriters, a quarterly event which allows artists to showcase their work an intimate setting, Bay Area musician Travis Hayes took a break from planning his wedding and recording a new record to put on a three-day music festival at Neck Of The Woods titled Fog City Fest. Best of all, the festival raised $2,000 for La Casa De Las Madres, an organization which helps victims of domestic violence and seeks to create a community where violence against women and children is not tolerated. After the last songwriting event back [...]
Giveaway: Fog City Fest at Neck of the Woods
Last month, we told you about Fog City Fest, a three-night extravaganza of the Bay's best singer-songwriters. We have a pair of VIP tickets to give away to one lucky acoustic fan. Spanning a weekend, Fog City Fest is bringing together a lineup of Bay Area songwriting heavyweights like M. Lockwood Porter, Avi Vinocur, Lauren O'Connell, Jeremy Lyon, DonCat, and tons more. For the last three years, Fog City Fest has served as a spotlight on the year's best in local songwriting. This year, there are some artists we've been fans of for years, and some we're just getting to [...]
Fog City Fest comes to SF’s foggiest neighborhood next month
Fans of acoustic guitars, thoughtful lyrics, and gentle (and sometimes not-so-gentle) melodies, listen up: We're co-presenting 2017's Fog City Fest, and, not that we're biased, but we think it's more than worth venturing out to the Richmond for. Spanning three nights in November, this year's Fog City Festival lineup reads like a veritable who's-who of the Bay's singer-songwriter scene. Included are names like M. Lockwood Porter, Avi Vinocur, Lauren O'Connell, Jeremy Lyon, DonCat, and way, way more — a large percentage of them have graced these very pages several times over. Fog City Songwriters, organized by Hayes Life Presents, is [...]