This all-star band features top performers from the Bay Area company, Soul Graffiti Productions. Featured at this show are the talented Desirae Harp, Maren Metke, & Heather Normandale. SG is a collective based in Oakland, California.
Internationally acclaimed touring musician Justin Ancheta is a guitarist, vocalist, and composer who has started Soul Graffiti Productions. Hailing from Oakland, his band is a conscious spreading, influential voice in today’s culture. A rarity, Ancheta has shown his perseverance by touring Europe and the United States by Bike and Train. He is an artist making waves and setting precedents across the globe with his lyrics, which share the human power of community. Ancheta’s eclectic style of reggae flavored funk and jazz is infectious. Ancheta has played with Joan Baez, Tunisia’s MC Rai, opened for the Wailers, Creedence Clearwater Survival, Charles Neville, and Ricky Skaggs. Ancheta was a featured artist at the Hawaii Spirit Festival 2010 on North Shore Oahu, Wanderlust Festival Lake Tahoe, MannaFest Grass Valley, One of Ridgestock’s Festival Headliner’s in 2013, helped by playing Barcelona’s first Bicycle Music Festival, and was a featured artist at San Francisco’s prestigious Yoshi’s Jazz Club. His CD, ‘Plant’ was released in April 2013. He continues to produce compilations and singles from Soul Graffiti Studio based in Oakland, California.