SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 24, 2010): The fourth annual Switchboard Music Festival is an 8-hour, non-stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event. Due to over-capacity crowds last year, Switchboard 2011 moves to the Brava Theater, a larger venue known for its fantastic sound and remarkably renovated interior.

The 2011 Festival presents some of the Bay Area’s most original performers, including Causing a Tiger, an all-star group featuring Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat Trio), and up-and-coming indie band Birds & Batteries. Other performers include Erik Jekabson and the Bay Area Composers Big Band, The Genie, Gojogo, Telepathy and Wiener Kids. Switchboard also presents living composers whose work challenges traditional ideas of notated music, including Dan Becker, William Brittelle, Ryan Brown, and Jonathan Russell. In addition, sound artist Loren Chasse will create a work specifically for the unique environment of the Brava Theater.

The Switchboard Music Festival was founded by local composers and performers Jeff Anderle, Ryan Brown, and Jonathan Russell with the goal of bringing together many of the unique musicians working in the Bay Area. Their mission is to highlight musicians and composers who float effortlessly between genres, challenging and re-defining the music scene in the Bay Area and beyond.