Bicycle Music Festival

Highlights from 2009 San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival

This short highlight video begins with the Bicycle Music Festival faithful rolling away from Lindley Meadow in SF's Golden Gate Park to Dolores Park. SHAKE YOUR PEACE! performs LiveOnBike, joined by Sonya Cotton and Cello Joe, leading a raucous singalong of Joey's "Silly Song". With Joey and SYP!'s Gabe Dominguez using the Biker Bar as a mobile stage, they salute the people of Dolores, and the cops, who want to pull the plug. Read More »

Highlights from Vancouver Bicycle Music Festival online


Heather from Stitchcraft performs LiveOnBike at the Vancouver Bicycle Music Festival. Photo: Momentum

See all the highlight photos on the Momentum blog.

Thanks to the bands, fans, and volunteer crew for an intense, awesome San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival

I'm a Falcon! I'm a Falcon! I'm a Falcon. Fastest Bird. Viscious bird. by you.

Tornado Rider performed "I'm a Falcon" at our first ever night venue, Pier 7. 

Josh pitching in on the pedal power once again. by you.
Loyal BMF fan Josh pitching in pedal power for Tornado Rider.  Read More »

Antioquia is on Tour to Santa Cruz

Ran into Antioquia on my way to work. The band got seriously inspired by riding around San Francisco with us at Bicycle Music Festival this year and are now on their way to Santa Cruz on Xtracycle SUB's. It's a shake-down tour, getting used to being bike-touring musicians. In the future they're hoping to have their own pedal-powered PA system for live shows. Here's one of their videos below from performing at the Bicycle Music Festival in June.

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Nice writeup of SF's human powered music scene in World Changing

Gabe Domingez on Worldchanging

Environmentalists and change-makers "World Changing" have done a nice recap of some of the action in San Francisco's human powered music scene this past summer, featuring Bicycle Music Festival co-organizer Gabe Domingez. Read "Gabe Dominguez's Quest for Sustainable Rock & Roll".

 

Dozens of beautiful Bicycle Music Festival photos

Hernan Battiato performs at Alemany Farmers Market Originally uploaded by Rock The Bike

A big thanks to all who pedaled and performed at the bicycle Music Festival. More photos at Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bicyclemusicfestival&w=all

If you took photos at the BMF, make sure to tag them on Flickr with "bicyclemusicfestival" so that they'll appear in this search.