Rock the Bike at Sunday Streets Mission

Featuring the rockabilly acoustic punk sounds of Kemo Sabe (mandolin, guitar, upright bass)

Soundwave partners with Rock the Bike for this incredible free environmental music event. Rock the Bike is group that has created a pedal-powered stage, using off-the-grid electricity in the form of bike pedaling human energy to power amps, mics and instruments.

Pedal power is not only environmental but also community-building: an ice-breaking, fresh social activity that connects strangers in an electrifying new way: working shoulder to shoulder, rocking the party as a team. The musicians and Rock the Bike crew magically arrive on cargo bikes loaded with sound equipment, set those same bikes up to power the sound system, then load the bikes back up and vanish, all without consuming any fossil fuels.

Green Sound rocks Sunday Streets with the wicked sounds of Kemo Sabe on the Rock the Bike Stage with a pre-show bike-powered musical parade and a post-show dance party. Come down and watch the spectacle, or help power the performance by pedaling away.

Rock The Bike has been Pedal Powering music stages since 2007 and Bike Culture events since 2003. A dynamic crew of entertainers, inventors, and bike people, they live to load up cargo bikes with audio gear, turn the beats up as they cruise through town to gigs, still leaving room for passengers they meet along the way. Once arrived at a gig, they quickly convert their bikes to pedal power mode and encourage the general public to assist them in amplifying bands, speakers, and rallies, and more. Their event highlights include the Maker Faire, West Fest, Bicycle Music Festival, SF Marathon, Earth Day at Central Park, the Yes Men, and more. Rock The Bike has appeared on National Public Radio, the Jay Leno Show, and the BBC.
http://rockthebike.com/

Part Ralph Stanley, Calexico and The Reverend Horton Heat, Kemo Sabe is a wild acoustic trio that play what they call “modern-day campfire songs” with the bare-wire energy of punk rock. There’s mandolin, a beat-to-shit upright bass, acoustic guitar, and calamity. At times fast and furious, at other times soft and sweet, they kick around a variety of genres from bluegrass to klezmer, to rock n’ roll. Playing such diverse venues as street corners, Taco Bell, musical saw festivals, and punk rock clubs, they’ve developed a reputation for zany stage antics and solid picking and slapping
http://www.myspace.com/kemosabeband