Diego's Umbrella & Rachael Sage

Tickets are $11 in advance, $12 day of show (plus $1 service charge).

Tickets are also available through Hold My Ticket (112 2nd St SW), 505-886-1251, Monday to Friday, 11 AM-6 PM.

SHOWTIMES:
8:00 PM: Rachael Sage
9:45 PM: Diego's Umbrella

Diego's Umbrella [web site | Amazon.com] are San Francisco's Ambassadors of Gypsy Rock. Internationally known and revered, their lively stage show, great songs, antics and humor have garnered them a cult following around the world. With a mix of Eastern European tradition, pop sensibility and punk rock energy, they have had crowds going wild for years. "Where Gogol Bordello meets Muse. These underground heroes will soon be international superstars." (AP)

Born in the fiery cauldron of Babylon, Diego's Umbrella started rising on the Northern California coast in 2000. With the seed planted by Vaughn and Tyson, DU slowly grew to the monster it is today. While its home base is in the San Francisco Bay Area, the troupe has managed to solidify worldwide acclaim and has toured internationally for years. Violinist Jason came on board early in the project, followed by Singer Benny, Drummer Jake, and finally Marcus on the bass.

The Group has released 3 albums, and a host of independent recordings. They have been featured in major motion pictures, Network Television, and numerous documentaries, in addition to countless worldwide radio and print.

Singer, songwriter and producer Rachael Sage [web site | Amazon.com] has penned quirky, melodic pop songs since she was old enough to reach the piano keys. Over the course of her career she has steadily built a loyal grassroots fan base with a rigorous international tour schedule that has seen her sharing stages with such seminal artists as Eric Burdon, John Lee Hooker, Judy Collins and Colin Hay, and prompted Performing Songwriter Magazine to name her "One of the Top 100 Independent Artists Of The Past 15 Years." Leaving aside set lists in favor of a more spontaneous approach, every show she performs combines top-notch musicianship with hilarious between-song banter, what The New York Times recently dubbed Sage's "inner Fanny Brice."

Delving into the writing process for her latest album Delancey Street with her typical fervor, the two-time Independent Music Award winner turned to her immigrant Jewish heritage, combined with the prospect of finally moving from the same East Village Manhattan neighborhood she'd lived in for over a decade, as a creative starting point. Inspired by the Green Movement and her own very personal desire to "redefine what 'environment' means to me," Sage decided to give herself exactly a year to let go of over a decade’s worth of accumulated miscellanea, and to move to the musically vibrant Lower East Side.

"With Delancey Street, I hope I painted a map that points toward taking more risks, versus shying away from them. Some of it's imaginative, but a lot of it is a chronicle of me implementing some pretty dramatic changes in my own life, and it's going to be liberating to get out on the road and perform these songs live.”