Mixtape: Spotlight on San Francisco Singer-Songwriters
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/SF_Songwriters_2015_Mix.mp3 Download: Mixtape: Spotlight on San Francisco Singer-Songwriters (Podcast #361) It's not entirely clear why a remarkable new wave of singer-songwriters has begun to emerge in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, but we certainly aren't complaining. Other genres may fall more in and out of vogue, but a wide array of local songwriting talents influenced by folk, rock, blues, pop, and psych are performing regularly in places like Viracocha, Doc's Lab, and The Chapel, and banding together for showcases like the Fog City Songwriters series of quarterly events. While veteran performers like Lia Rose and The Sam Chase regularly [...]
Get to Know: Rosie Cima
As 2014 was coming to a close, I was listening to tracks that I had enjoyed throughout the year, and came across this simple folk song made of nothing more than a guitar and a strong, stunning voice. I stopped whatever I was doing to learn more, and soon realized the singer was Rosie Cima, who happens to live in the San Francisco. From what I can tell, she remained mostly unnoticed in 2014, so 2015 is the time to start paying attention, folks. Cima tells me she's slowly putting together a full-length album to complement her three-song solo EP [...]