Editor’s note: We may have had one “winner” for our first Tiny Desk Concert Contest — Oakland blues-rock musician Fantastic Negrito — but in truth we had many. This week we’re sharing 10 highlights from nearly 7,000 entries.
The One That Caught Alt.Latino’s Ear: Diana Gameros
Latin artists made a strong showing in the contest — so much so that Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Jasmine Garsd decided to center this week’s show around them. We loved entries from Como Las Movies and Melaena Cadiz, but Diana Gameros (and her cat, Lulu!) especially transfixed us with the sparsely beautiful “Ligerita.” Jasmine was drawn to one lyric in particular: “I love the line ligerita quiero ser, ‘I want to be light,’ like a feather, because her voice is so light and soft.”
Videographer: Claudio Nalerio
Join us today - either in person or online - as we play live on San Francisco’s Mutiny Radio today from 6 to 8 pm!
More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393235630985246/
Two big shows next week -Thursday 2/26 at Bender’s Bar and Grill in San Francisco for Noise Pop, and Saturday 2/28 at Awaken Cafe in Oakland with the Johnny Soultrain horn section!!
Here’s a flick of us from the Figment Oakland art fest, hanging out with GATS.
Muchísimas gracias to DJ Cia Cia La Pirata from KALX for including us in her Best-of-2014 playlist. View the whole thing here:::: http://kalx.berkeley.edu/bestof/2014
Happy hug-a-president day from your favorite musical bears
New music from our good friend @kendra_mckinley. She just released her bonafide new jam ‘Do What You Want.’ Check it out on Soundcloud!
Just Announced! Bear Lincoln @ Noise Pop Happy Hour Presented by Balanced Breakfast in San Francisco, CA - February 26th
Bear Lincoln is really excited to announce that we will be playing the Noise Pop Music Festival. We are headlining the Happy Hour Balanced Breakfast at Bender’s Bar and Grill, which lasts from 4pm to 8pm on Thursday, February 26th. And we’re playing with two of our top dawgs Friends W/O Benefits and The Damn Fanatics. San Francisco, it’s been a while. We’ll see you very soon!
Our next East Bay show is 2/28 with @johnnysoultrain & The Dirty Picture at @awakencafe. See ya there!
Just Announced! Bear Lincoln @ Awaken Cafe in Oakland, CA - February 28th
Kendra McKinley does what she wants on stage at the Fillmore’s first-ever Ladies Night #ohwhatanight (at The Fillmore)
Hot damn! The Bay Bridged was kind enough to include us in their roundup of Bay Area submissions for the Tiny Desk Contest.
Crane your neck over to their site to view some great videos by local Bay Area musicians. Link on our profile page.
Our video is linked there too. So if you haven’t seen it yet, now’s your chance!
Hey y'all - we wanted to give you a heads up about a wonderful event taking place in San Francisco this Saturday night.
Our good friends @rainbowgirrs and @kendra_mckinley are teaming up (along with @thehottoddies & @theshesmusic, both of whom are excellent) for an all female lineup at the one-and-only @thefillmore in SF.
This is the first event of its kind at this venue. And not a single fella will grace the stage.The music industry is, like many other industries, particularly male dominated. Organizations like WAM - Women’s Audio Mission - are out to change that.
So this show represents just a sliver of the powerhouse of female talent in the Bay Area, and we’re really proud of our friends for putting this awesome show together.
A few bears of us will certainly be there on Saturday. Come join us for an amazing show at this historic concert hall. Oh and Kendra is performing with a string quartet - way cool!
If every weekend were like this one… Huge thank you to the Lagunitas TapRoom & Beer Sanctuary (LAH-goo-KNEE-tuss) for taking such good care of us on Sunday, to Kendra McKinley for joining us, as well as The Starry Plough for hosting us on Saturday and Johnny Soultrain and Whippoorwill for tearing it up on stage like total bosses.
And of course thank you to everyone who came out to one (or BOTH!!) of these events this weekend. It feels so so so good to play two really great shows in two days, and they wouldn’t have been great without U there.
We’ve got a couple of big Bay Area shows at the end of February to announce - sit tight!
Hearts and Hugs,
-BL
Here is the ineffable @kendra_mckinley kicking ass at Lagunitas Brewery today. We played songs too - it was really really really fun. More than fun. Is there a bigger better word for fun than fun?
Mmmmhmm! Johnny Soultrain took us Uptown last night. Such a blast, huge thanks to everyone who came out to the Starry Plough and shook their tail feathers with us!
We’re ready for takeoff! Come join us as we cruise altitude at this weekend’s shows. Saturday in Berkeley, and Sunday in Petaluma. Fly the skies with Air Lincoln: The Only Way To Fly.
Hey you! You know what do do! Check out our NEWEST Live Video, filmed at the new Bear Cave for the NPR/Lagunitas Tiny Desk Contest. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvXFu1goqI
You can now pick up a copy of our album Bare Lincoln in-store at Viracocha in San Francisco’s Mission District. They’re on top of the metal thing and next to the wooden thing, you can’t miss ‘em. Thank YOU and thanks to Viracocha for supporting local music!
Too hot! Thank you Roem Baur, The Torch Club, and the fine folks of Sacramento for a great Friday Night. Berkeley & Petaluma, we’ll see you in two weeks!
Upcoming shows:
1/24 with Johnny Soultrain & Whippoorwill at the Starry Plough
https://www.facebook.com/events/1494767804079139/
1/25 at Lagunitas
https://www.facebook.com/events/320495331485034/