Beatbeat Whisper

Beatbeat Whisper is made up Davyd and Ayla Nereo, two siblings currently residing in Oakland. They have earned the respect and praise of fellow musicians and press folks with their creative and sweet songs. Their melodic voices weave beautifully and the instrumentation is varied and often involves many found percussion objects. You might even be asked to join the band for a night.

When asked how to describe the music they make, they say, "We write stories of lives gone by and still going, memories as they're made, what is between. We write music for places we've been to and only heard about, lands we imagined and made real and visited. We play out whispers we hear, in beats and notes and two strings of voice."

"Dreamy, poignant renderings of life's breathless moments. Brother and sister duo wrap delicate melodies in Nick Drake-like guitar weavings. Fans of Devendra Banhart and Jolie Holland will find this friendly territory, but they'll wish they sounded more like this. If hummingbirds made music, this is what they'd sound like." ~Richard Rice, San Francisco Free Folk Festival

Hear an interview and performance with BBW on the Bay Bridged Podcast HERE!

Musee Mecanique

Musee Mecanique returns to the Delta and we're excited to have another one of the great songwriting and creative bands from Portland.  For those of you who missed the last show the band encompasses a vintage sound “while still looking to the future.”  Musee Mecanique’s songs build on artifact-centric ideas using layers of new and old sounds—Old World instruments such as saw, pedal steel, cello and oboe, mingled with space-y synth.

"Musee Mecanique’s songs revel in the mysterious, never fully articulating the memories or myths on which they are based. The end result is a collection of beautiful anachronisms, grounded in no particular time. It’s atmospheric, music-box folk that unearths only a pinhole view into other worlds—worlds that glow restlessly with an irreconcilable modernity that’s, well, perfectly unsettling."
-Willamette Week

Get to know more about the band HERE and HERE...

Travis Vick

I'm Travis Vick and I began playing piano when I was 10-ish (I'm 18 now) in a worship band at the church I used to go to. All the songs were the same, but I really liked playing with a band, so I kept going. One time, one of the guys on the worship team told me that God told him that I was called to be a worship leader. That's when I freaked out, and left the team.

After the worship experience, I started a rock band called "The Fuzz." We covered Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and other stuff like that. This didn't last very long.

After "The Fuzz," I joined a band called "Project Fairway" that eventually dropped the "Project" and just became plain old "Fairway." We wrote our own songs, but shortly after I joined the two original members quit. I kept things going, adding three new members and ended up being the singer until we found a good one. We never did. I stayed on vocals. Fairway called things quits in the fall of 2007.

I've always been writing songs that I'd never use in Fairway.

These songs, the songs I now play under my own name, Travis Vick, are those songs.

I like instruments. I use a lot of different ones. Piano, Guitar, Accordian, Banjo, Bass, Mandolin, Harmonica, Ukelele, Trombone, Clarinet and Drums. Every chance I get to use a new instrument, I do it. I listened to a lot of country with my dad when I was young. Country like... Guy Clark and Lyle Lovett. I think that has influenced my sound a little bit, but i wouldn't call my music country.

No. It's more like "melodic folk rock."