Songwriters Unplugged Showcase III w/ Bonnie Hayes, Heather Combs, Anita Lofton, Valerie Orth, ZIVA October 14, 2010

Bay Vibes and Sonic Zen records present the 3rd magical showcase of Bay Area's favorite local songwriters.

Heather Combs
Armed with an acoustic guitar and an irreverent heart, singer-songwriter Heather Combs is not afraid of the stage. She is fiery, funny, intense and not afraid to take risks. Her voice is sweet and then rough, strong and then vulnerable, but always honest and true. Throughout the past 5 years she has been named “Best Band in the Bay” twice by San Francisco Magazine, been a finalist and winner in both the USA Songwriting Contest and John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and been a KFOG featured local artist. Heather has opened for Sheryl Crow, Joan Jett, Joan Osborne, the Go-Go’s, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty just to name a few. She is a powerhouse on stage and thrives on connecting with the audience. She plays guitar with reckless abandon and isn’t afraid to show the listener who she really is. Give her a chance, and she’ll win your heart with her songs, her passion, her voice.

Valerie Orth
Described as "soulful, genuine, and edgy" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian and an "indie folk powerhouse" by Bend's Source Weekly, Valerie Orth is a fearless and genre-bending songwriter. Her distinctive hybrid of rock, groove, soul, and folk reaches out and commands your attention.Fresh on the heels of releasing her new CD, Faraway City, she brings a dynamism to her stage performances that at once captivates and charms.
Bonnie Hayes
Bonnie Hayes has written songs for artists as diverse as Adam Ant, Cher, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray and Booker T. and the MG's. She has recorded five albums of her own, and currently works as a songwriter/producer at Icehouse Studios in the Bay Area (when she is not planning road trips to exotic american locales or laying around in her underwear drinking yoohoo and playing her 1966 fender mustang). Her music sounds like something paul westerburg and liz phair might cook up at 3:00 AM after imbibing a little too much tequila.

Anita Lofton
With her former rock trio Sistas In the Pit, she toured China and Europe, and took an infamous national tour supporting a certain James “Iggy Pop” Osterberg and the Stooges during that band's reunion in 2007. She claims to have “traded in her Marshall half stack and Epiphone semi hollow body casino for a microphone and an Epiphone acoustic guitar,” yet she’s got the rock in her blood. With Anita’s new minimal and acoustic approach she expresses a new direction in songwriting that is as candid, earnest, cool and assertive while seeking greater understanding of others and cloaking sentiment in attitude. Her newest creation is The Anita Lofton Poject, an all brown girl stringed instrument band that plays Neo-Black-Folk, and they rock!

Ziva Hadar
Referencing jazz, blues, rock, and pop – Ziva's voice is dimensional and sure from its deepest brooding lows to fierce highs. Her music possess theatrical elements, exotic rhythms, and a healthy dose of instrumental dynamics.

The event, co-produced by Bay Vibes & Sonic Zen Records moves from the lounge to Yoshi’s main stage, and will be a milestone event
honoring the tremendous collection of creative songwriters in our
community.

San Francisco has a new home for songwriters: the Songwriters
Unplugged Showcase taking place on October 14th at the San Francisco Yoshi’s main stage. It will be the 3rd culminating event of an ongoing weekly series which, for the past fourteen months, has featured over 160 local and national songwriters, and brought this format to the Yoshi's main stage in March of this year. Feeling like a family, working in a collective atmosphere, the Showcase has made the unplugged format into a combination of the 60's San Francisco folk movement and cutting edge modern songwriting.

www.songwritersunplugged.com

Official Website: http://www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/jazzclub/artist/show/1170