Autumn Sky Hall is a 25+ year veteran of the folk scene in California and now the east coast who's entranced audiences for many generations since she began playing at 15 years old. 

An early vocal jazz major, she's a part of the California music Hall of Fame (with 7 wins for Artist of the Year, Best Songwriter and Best Indie,) and has played over 5,000 shows, many to crowds in the 10,000s and had listens in the 100,000s for releases online of her music over the years. She's graced the stage at The Sundance Film Festival, opened for Manchester Orchestra at Powerhouse Pub and for Heart at Bottlerock and at The Club Car, she's got a drink named after her for playing so often. She's played Sacramento Pride, Hotel Utah, San Francisco Music Festival, Napa Wine Festival, Holy Diver, Goldfield  Ace of Spades over six times, Concerts in the Park over five times, Harlows over seven times, Chalk It Up! Art Fundraiser Festival seven times, TBD Fest, City of Trees Fest, The Sacramento Music Awards, The Napa Theater, The Blue Note, Harlows, The Russ Room, Chalk It Up! and thousands of events, shows and open mics more since first starting. 

Her approach to Folk, Indie and Americana makes the traditionally predictable genre shine with a new sheen all her own, reflecting the times we live in for a brand new generation of folks who, well, love folk and want to see themselves in it. Her lyrics  \(always the most remarked upon thing in her arsenal,) comfortable crowd work on stage and emotional vulnerability are the cherry on top of a sundae already reflecting the musical foundational styles of her go to favorites (Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Patty Griffin, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, Cat Stevens and Lucinda Williams) as well as modern heavy hitters (Brandi Carlisle, Sierra Farrell, Alison Ponthier, Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, Cat Power, Kacey Musgraves, Tre Burt, Leigh Graham Nash, Rainbow Girls and Allison Russell) she's a fan of.

Her latest releases are being considered as her best work by far, working together with the decades of talented people she's met along the way. She released "I Woke Up," a decades long crowd favorite known by heart by many who like to sing along at shows, "My Anxious Brain & My Broken Heart" and its coinciding music video, followed up recently by "LA" and it's music video, as well.

Not to say she's been standing idly by: she's been busy recording the over 500 songs she wrote in the past two decades in her "reclamation of self" projects which seek to bring the work she was doing as a young person with lots of passion but very little connection or money to release her work, onto official recordings for the first time ever. Oh, and she's also rehearsing, booking. and writing more music. Please send tea (sort of a joke but also not!)

Big jazz fan, so its hard to find stuff I like out there.  Love bop and straight-ahead, but it's hard to describe.  Want to find small-combo jazz music and old-school vocals.

A collective of artists Dripping vibes from the underground. @therealsambosam @lowerclassdougie @cpngz @justinh3r3 @stantonadam

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Combining the sophistication of classical music with the emotional power and broad reach of pop has been a lifelong pursuit for Bernard Weinstock.

As a child, he was drawn equally to the Tschaikovsky and Beethoven albums in his parents' record collection as to the lyrical Israeli popular music of the 1970s. A transformative experience was listening to Rick Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" at age 11; hearing the Moog for the first time was stunning and opened his mind to the complexities possible within the progressive rock genre. While exploring the masterworks of Brahms, Bach and Rachmaninoff as a piano student, he was also absorbing the experimental sounds of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Yes, and the rhythmic drive of Led Zeppelin and Meatloaf. Among pianists, Keith Jarrett became a role model for his ability to "speak music spontaneously" through his wide-ranging improvisations.

Weinstock has complemented these early influences with a diverse array of professional experiences. After studying piano performance at Julliard and the Manhattan School of Music, he honed his improvisational skills as a modern dance accompanist. For more than a decade he worked with such dance luminaries as Norman Walker, Carmen de Lavallade and Gemze deLappe in companies including Alvin Ailey, the Eglevsky Ballet, and the Adelphi and Hofstra University dance programs. The intense creativity of the experience confirmed that composition, rather than classical performance, was his true calling, and he began pursuing other avenues of musical expression. He has since scored music for Court TV, an independent film, and a documentary for the Taiwanesse government.

"Evening - Piano Solos", Weinstock's debut album, showcases both his compositional brilliance andvirtuosity at the keyboard. "Evening" was met with considerable critical and popular success, including a live performance on CBS television in New York. In 2005, music from "Evening" was used by the CBS "Early Show" during its coverage of Pope John Paul II's final illness. Weinstock is now recording his second album. Other current projects include the score for an upcoming PBS documentary, chamber-style compositions for piano and wind instruments, and experiments with the pipe organ. He also appears in New York-area live performances. 

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