MONDAY May 23
High
sierra music festival preview feat:
JP Cutler
Samantha Stollenwerck
Mokai
CC's Acoustic Underground
Showcase (CAUSE) and Sunset Promotions present a sneak preview of High
Sierra Music Festival artists, and a fundraiser
for the High Sierra Foundation.
JP Cutler (Guitarist/singer/songwriter)
Samantha Stollenwerck (Cali
soul)
Mokai (100%
Organic Acoustic Blues)

Samantha Stolenwerck JP
Cutler Mokai
Monday, May 23. Doors open at 8:00 PM, with an 8:30 show at the Elbo
Room, 647 Valencia St., SF 94110. Tickets go on sale at www.SunsetTickets.com in
early May
for a sliding scale $5 - $20 donation in advance and at the door.
PLEASE NOTE: due to personal matters, Free Peoples has cancelled participation
in this month's show. We may have a surprise special guest filling in
from within the festival lineup, so come on down and catch the show to
find out the surprise.
Last month was an incredible show for an important civil rights trial
that ended April 28 in a victory for the people! The ancient forest activists
known as the"Pepper
Spray Eight" won their case to end to the police practice of
using pepper spray to torture nonviolent protesters.

Save the DATE: Our June showcase will occur on June 20, and
will feature Garrin Benfeild and Kenni, with Joshua Zucker on upright
bass for both them and Mokai.
CC's Acoustic Underground Showcase (CAUSE) www.cause-music.com
3rd Mondays @ the Elbo Room, SF www.elbo.com
647 Valencia St., SF 94110 (415) 552-7788
8:00 PM doors, show at 8:30 ($5-$20, sliding scale)
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Live Eclectic Acoustic
Music Benefits
3rd Mondays Every Month
Elbo Room
647 Valencia, SF, CA
(415) 552-7788
8 PM doors, music at
8:30
$5-20 BUY
TICKETS
Comin' UP:
June
20 Garrin Benfield and Kenni
Past Showcases:
April March Feb Jan Nov
more
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THANK YOU to our SPONSOR EMB
Studios. They are giving away 4 hours of studio recording time
every month at CAUSE!
Each month, the audience votes on the artist to receive the
studio time. So come on out and vote your favorite artist! (we count EVERY
vote).
Congratulations Kid
Beyond, Trevor
Garrod, Loretta
Lynch, and Storyhill who
won the drawings thus far.
CC's Acoustic Underground Showcase
(CAUSE) is
presented by "CC" and Sunset
Promotions (of SF
Funk Fest and North
Beach Jazz Fest) at the Elbo Room in San Francisco's Mission district.
We raise money for important causes while presenting an eclectic mix
of acoustic music on the third Monday of each month. CAUSE has featured
many of the Bay Area's finest emerging artists including:
Kid Beyond, Trevor Garrod of Tea Leaf Green, John Ellis (Charlie Hunter),
Etienne de Rocher, essence, Loretta
Lynch, Garrin Benfield, Erika Luckett, Mokai, Shelley Doty, Austin Willacy,
David Jacobs-Strain, Teja Gerken, David Boyce, Joanne Rand, Copper Wimmin,
AJ Roach, David Hopkins, and Rachel Garlin. Want to perform? Click here for info
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If you want to perform at
CC's Acoustic Underground Showcase the best thing you can do is support
this event!
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I
am working to build a community of musicians and music lovers who gather
once a month to celebrate the underground scene and the causes we care
about. If you have submitted a CD and have not heard back, come to the
next showcase and bring some friends. I am building each night as a theme
around a specific cause, but I will be giving preference to those artists
who become part of the scene by showing up each month and bring new people
to the event.
If you have not yet done so, come to the next showcase, bring a copy
of a CD that demonstrates the set you want to perform, bring a copy of
your gig schedule, and bring some people to the showcase. I am working
with each artist who performs as partners, so if chosen to perform, I
expect each artist to devise their own strategies for getting their crowd
to turn out.
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A note to performers...I am especially looking for duos,
acoustic bands, percussion, world-music influence, exciting and interesting
eclectic instruments. The showcase is designed to bring acoustic music
to the broader audience of fans of funk, jazz, world music and blues.
I have limited slots for solo acoustic singer/songwriters, so if that
describes you, consider putting together a duo or getting someone to back
you up for this showcase and you will have a greater chance of getting
booked.
Follow up within 2 weeks of giving me the info about your music
415-522-6644. or use cc at cause-music.com
thanks,
CC
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PAST FEATURES AT CAUSE:
  
Photos
by Progressive-Alliance.org
May 17, 2004
David
Jacobs-Strain Austin
Willacy MOKAI
w/his TRIO
Brook
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September 20, 2004
Sun of Mercury
Alan Tower
Mokai with Joshua
Zucker (Garrin Benfield trio)
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August 16, 2004
Copper Wimmin
David Hopkins
Mokai
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July 19, 2004
Chris Gallagher
Mokai
Mica Lee Williams
Mary Elizabeth Beckman
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John Ellis |
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June 21, 2004
Garrin Benfield
Erika Luckett
Inka
Mokai
Green and Root
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April 26, 2004
Shelley Doty
Eileen Hazel
MOKAI w/his TRIO
+ DJ Romanowski
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MARCH 15, 2004
Teja Gerken
Rachel Garlin
Mia Mustari
Mokai and his trio
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Last year, CC started the series at Mad Dog in the
Fog, and featured AJ Roach, Austin
Willacy, Alexis Harte, Vanessa Lowe, Inka, Arin Simonian, and MarQue alongside
Mia Mustari and Mokai.
Click here to view pix from the 2003 showcase
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