The Social Contractors
2024-08-10 21:00 - 23:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
The Social Contractors return to The Big Easy for another evening of great music, fine food, and drinks from the full bar on August 10th!
Founded by Jason E. Davies on the heels of the pandemic, The Social Contractors offer an upbeat blend of melodic original rock and classic covers from the 60s-90s (e.g. The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Police, Men At Work, U2, Stevie Wonder, and more).
Jason’s tightly crafted tunes feature improvised solos with pointed lyrics that span edgy political and environmental themes to tales of unrequited love and introspection – all with an ultimately optimistic perspective on the possible. The guitar driven “power trio” line-up for the evening includes songwriter Jason E. Davies on guitar and vocals, Nick Schneider on drums, and Alex Fabian-Davies on bass.
The Social Contractors are excited ready to rock your evening at The Big Easy – see you there!

Chuck Sher Jazz Trio
2024-08-11 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-08-18 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-08-25 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-09-01 14:00 - 16:30 | Speakeasy, 139 Petaluma Blvd. North Ste. B, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Live Outdoor Jazz Music in Downtown Petaluma

Highclass swinging music with some of the best musicians in the Bay Area!
Free in front of the Speakeasy restaurant.

Sunday Funday Blues Jam
2024-08-11 19:00 - 23:00, 2024-08-18 19:00 - 23:00, 2024-08-25 19:00 - 23:00, 2024-09-01 19:00 - 23:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
The Sunday Funday Blues Jam is THE hottest blues jam in the North Bay!
A fun night for blues fans and the players are having a blast!
We are all about the blues and we love to Honor the greats that came before us as well as provide a stage for players you don’t have a place to play on Sunday nights.
We love dancers too!! You have no idea what you do for a musician when you just show up. So whether you’re a dancer singer player or just love the blues, we’ve got a place saved you.
This is a player’s jam come ready.

Meridian Odyssey
2024-08-12 18:00 - 20:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Meridian Odyssey is a Seattle/New York Based band touring in the summer of 2024. They are a young group of musicians coming from Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, and Cornish College of the Arts playing original music derived from the jazz tradition.
Doors at 5. $20 sliding scale suggested donation.
Here’s a link to their debut album “Second Wave” that was listed as one the top 15 albums of 2021 in The Seattle Times:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4KB5Fr9Ooh2EoeY6en558y?si=wQy_zT15Td2gR3JtDbIaOQ
Here’s a link to their Sophomore release “Earthshine” which was listed as one of the top 20 albums of 2022 in the Seattle Times and received the Northwest Recording of the Year award from Earshot Jazz’s 2022 Golden Ear Awards:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3jz6XvviiIEnRSVWb3lkOx?si=Pa8VvwlfRmmm7ytq5sWfZw
Their trumpet player Noah Halpern is a recipient of the 2023 ITG Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition.
Press:
https://www.knkx.org/jazz-and-blues/2021-02-04/the-new-cool-meridian-odyssey-records-a-jazz-love-letter-to-alaska
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/second-wave-meridian-odyssey-origin-records
Social Media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meridianodyssey/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeridianOdyssey/
Website: meridianodyssey.com
email: meridianodyssey@gmail.com

Videos:
XD – Meridian Odyssey
Meridian Odyssey live at Room 623, New York City, 3/1/24

After the Laughter
2024-08-12 20:30 - 23:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Next up… am doing a show with covers, remixes, vague inspirations, and LIVE ART inspired by a very popular band you may have heard of… what an original idea!* This lineup is wild. If you know, you know. Marshall House Project Tika Moon Faethora Paige Bay Shifty Shey The Big Easy George Utrilla Angulo
Shifty Shey * vinyl deejay / comic / hip hop artist

https://www.instagram.com/shifty.shey/

ChappAI
2024-08-13 19:00 - 22:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Petaluma’s Chris Chappell (aka Chappy) of The Incubators, plays solo featuring originals with real backing tracks, and AI backing tracks of familiar covers.
This is a free show inside the Big Easy.
Listen to Petaluma Wind from The Incubators album “Apollo”

Wednesday Night Big Band Jazz
2024-08-14 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-08-21 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-08-28 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-09-04 19:00 - 22:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Still going strong after four decades, our 17-piece modern jazz big band playing the works of Jones, Kenton, Corea, Kubis, Goodwin and many others.
Great food and drinks! NO COVER CHARGE!!

The Heard Eye
2024-08-15 19:30 - 22:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
The Heard Eye brings the funk n’ rockin’ to the Big Easy in Petaluma, Third Thursday of every month! We call it “The Heard Thursday”. Come check out this exciting new band! Great original songs that get the dance floor groovin’! 7:30 pm NO COVER!!!

The Incubators
2024-08-16 19:30 - 23:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Full Incubators line up with Chris, Katie, Derek Brookr, Ben Jacobs, Kendrick Freeman and Toby Tyler.
The Incubators – close harmony, Petaluma-based singers Katie Schuch and Chris Chappell combine talented local musicians Toby Tyler on bass, Derek Brooker on lead guitar, Ben Jacobs on keyboards and Kendrick Freeman on drums with their Soul-Folk Rock songs, blending blues, folk, country and jazz into infectious grooves.

Listen to the Incubators latest album:

Found Poets
2024-08-17 15:00 - 18:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States

Ira Marlowe and the Slow Reveal
2024-08-17 20:00 - 23:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States

Chappy and Friends
2024-08-20 19:00 - 22:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Petaluma’s Chris Chappell (aka Chappy) of The Incubators plays with local phenom Emily Froberg
This is a free show inside the Big Easy.
Listen to Petaluma Wind from The Incubators album “Apollo”

The Abaloneans
2024-08-22 20:00 - 23:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States

Burrows and Dilbeck (Frobeck) with Sebastian Saint James
2024-08-23 19:00 - 23:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Spencer Burrows and Kris Dilbeck are the powerhouse songwriting duo most know for the music of their award wining north-bay Super-funk-rock band, Frobeck.
With Sebastian Saint James of The Highway Poets

Greg Hoy and The Boys and Strange Cabbage
2024-08-24 19:30 - 23:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Greg Hoy is many things. He’s a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, a recording producer, a recording engineer, something of a marketing guru, a jingle and sound composer and producer, a ‘people engineer’ in the tech world, an art director, and a label owner. But when you boil it all down — he’s really just a guy in a band.
“Music is in everything I do. Helping companies hiring people is just like putting a band together. I’ve been fortunate that both sides of my brain work in tandem,” the California-based artist says with a good-natured laugh.

ChappAI
2024-08-27 19:30 - 22:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Petaluma’s Chris Chappell (aka Chappy) of The Incubators, is joined by Mike Pascale on guitar featuring originals with real backing tracks, and AI backing tracks of familiar covers.
This is a free show inside the Big Easy.
Listen to Petaluma Wind from The Incubators album “Apollo”

Total Chaos, Resilience with Fistpack
2024-08-29 19:00 - 23:00 | CA

Captain Monk and The Layover
2024-08-30 19:00 - 23:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Captain Monk brings their friends The Layover to get the night started. Both bands feature some of the Bay Areas premier players. Captain Monk is comprised of
Jackson Allen (Aloe Blacc, Otis McDonald, Narada Michael Walden, The Temptations)
Jon Herrera (Fantastic Negrito, Zigaboo Modaliste, Oz Noy, Garaj Mahal)
Tahkus Allen (Narada Michael Walden)
Joel Griffin (Puzzlefish, Bebe and Daniel Winans)
The Layover is
Scott Woods, Vocals and Guitar
Ben Burleigh (Eric Gales)
Justus Dobrin (Narada Michael Walden)
Ronnie Smith (Chris Cain)

John Brothers Piano Company
2024-08-31 20:00 - 23:30 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
The innovative sounds of The John Brothers Piano Company are the colors of timeless energy – early jazz meets stride and swing, but the definitive quality of this dynamic band lies not just in genres they bend or blend, but in a strong notion that the audience has been the primary inspiration in the development of their sound.
From their first sidewalk street show – hauling their Wurlitzer spinet to the nearest subway station – to a weekly appearance at an after-hours speakeasy, to theaters and festival stages throughout the country, The John Brothers have been on a steady track to success. Highlights have included Outside Lands, The Monterey Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ, Stern Grove Festival, the Fonda and Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, the Warfield Theatre and Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, the world-famous Edwardian Ball and enthusiastically received at private events for Exploratorium, SFMOMA, Salesforce, Twitter, Genentech and more

Kid Galaga
2024-09-06 20:00 - 23:59 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Kid Galaga will be touching down in their pop culture “way back machine” to rock your socks @ The Big Easy, Petaluma. Bring your boogie shoes and come dance to favorites old & new!
Kid Galaga rocks your world with their exuberant mix of danceable rock, funk, disco, new wave & more from the 70s-00s!
Bring your color-coordinated track suits and Rubik’s cubes as we lay some Beastie Boys and other tasty goodness on you!

The doRiaN Mode
2024-09-07 19:00 - 22:00 | The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Smooth and in the groove. The doRiaN Mode explores the Great American Songbook as it dishes up vintage jazz, swinging R&B and soulful ballads, from the sassy sounds of 1920s speakeasies and 1930s big-band swing to 1940s jump blues and the rollicking R&B of Ruth Brown. Vocalist and bassist Dorian Bartley, leads this Petaluma-based acoustic quartet featuring Bob Johns on piano, Peter Graves on sax/flute and Tony Blake on drums. Whether they’re stomping at the Savoy in salute to Count Basie or paying homage to R&B legend Etta James, the doRiaN Mode brings elegance to classic American music.
Read more about Dorian Bartley

Instagram:
@thedorianmodecombo
Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1TXa2GLWorExAHtGcp-xg
