An art project taking place in 43 cities around the world. In each city five artists take a handmade guitar for one week and write and record a song on the shared guitar. The songs are uploaded to our website and a concert is held in each city featuring the artists playing the song they wrote for the project plus two other originals. This year's concert in San Francisco features local songwriters Jessie Bridges playing "Now You are Mine", written for her dog, Banjo; San Francisco indie rock artist Jeff Desira playing "Ordinary Man"; Steve Meckfessel playing "Jimmie and Marco" as well as his popular song "I Date Myself"; traditional country sensation Jill McAnally playing "Little Darlin'"; and hard working blues man and guitarist DB Walker playing "In The Middle".

These five artists represent the incredible talent and musical diversity of the Bay Area, and this show offers the chance to hear the story behind the songs and get to know the artists in an intimate acoustic setting.

Jessie Bridges is an Indie/Folk Singer-songwriter living in Oakland, California. Her songs weave their way through her laid-back roots, using words and melody to paint vivid pictures of her life story and the things she’s observed along the way. While Bridges' influences are apparent at times, it is clear that she is carving out a musical path of her very own.

Jeff Desira delivers hope and heartbreak with natural grace. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he has had a diverse musical career before coming into his own as a singer-songwriter, crafting honest and endearing pop songs and ballads. Desira’s debut solo album, Weathervane, contains songs he wrote about his time in New York. It also includes “When I Let Go”, a piece recalling a life-changing accident in 2011 which rendered him unable to play guitar for four months. After a grueling recovery, in which he had to retrain his left hand, he returned to music in full force and began to record with producer Scott Mickelson.

Steve's music is “his own blend of urban folk with bits of blues and jazz.” Sometimes funny, other times moving, his songs tell stories that were waiting to be told. He wrote his first song growing up His first CD, Twice, was featured on the hit TV show “JAG”. His next release, “Under Beautiful Skies” received world-wide radio play and enthusiastic reviews—in the words of one critic “The folk world has just been handed some of the best music it will ever hear.” At the most recent Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon the local music critic picked Steve as one of his two favorite artists in a star-studded line-up of 40+ acts (including several Grammy award winners) and named Steve his “surprise artist of the festival”.

D.B. Walker is a San Francisco Bay Area native songwriter and fixture on the local club scene. He is known for passionate guitar playing and gritty vocals to match.

From Oregon to Texas to Tennessee and now California, Jill has sung and yodeled her own handmade songs, great country classics, and whatever else tickles her fancy. She began playing coffee houses in Portland, Oregon, when she was 16, sitting in with the likes of Doc Watson and the John Anderson band. Don Everly of the Everly brothers has sung her praises. Her voice will catch your ear and make you sit up and pay attention.