Amy Obenski's CD Release Party for "Restless"

Mark your calendar! This is going to be a night to remember. There will be a live performance of the whole album by the Amy Obenski Band. (Members to be introduced in August.)

There will also be DJ Sig O (https://soundcloud.com/sigo)
and live painting by super prolific and talented SF artist, Joshua Coffy (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofJoshuaCoffy)
His work is featured on the cover of The SF Open Studios Guide this year!

There will be time to mingle or dance.

We're also putting together free food to offer so you won't have to get dinner. This will be held at Amnesia in San Francisco's Mission District from 6:30-9:30 on Saturday, September 13th.

Please come party, listen, and participate in a very special and memorable night for me, and hopefully for you too! The more the merrier, so bring friends if you want.

$10 at the door
21 and over

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About Amy Obenski:

With a stark and hon­est inten­sity, Amy Obenski’s rich, crys­talline voice cuts through the noise of every day life. She’s a Cal­i­for­nia native. Raised in San Diego and now based in San Fran­cisco, the sound of the far west is unmis­tak­ably infused into her words and sound. She’s toured the West Coast for ten years and even got her song “Carousel” into the Hol­ly­wood scene when it was placed on the TV Show, Grey’s Anatomy.

In 2011 Amy went to Europe for the first time with a mind open to sur­prises. This is where she met The Car­bone Band from Nantes, France. They had a prac­tice and two con­certs that week. The music was a col­li­sion of Amy’s free “Cal­i­for­nia girl” sound and the French’s deep pas­sion and inten­sity. Their per­son­al­i­ties and musi­cal­ity imme­di­ately clicked.

Two days after her return to Cal­i­for­nia, Amy decided she was going back to France. She planned a four-month tour across the United States, the U.K. and France, where she reunited with The Car­bone Band. They played sev­eral con­certs and the music grew and became intensely pas­sion­ate, grounded rock that sways as if float­ing on the breeze.

In 2013, Amy returned again and spent three months with The Car­bone Band. They recorded an album and were artist in res­i­dence at La Mai­son des Arts in Saint Herblain. Her fifth album, Rest­less, will release in sum­mer of 2014. Rest­less fea­tures the dis­tinc­tive sound of The Car­bone Band and also a string ensem­ble of stu­dents and asso­ciates of La Mai­son des Arts. The Car­bone Band is com­prised of Philippe Cro­chet on gui­tar, Jos­selin Sebille on bass and Mourad Aït Abdel­malek on the drums.

Amy’s musi­cal his­tory stretches back to age five, when she began singing in her school choir. She took up piano at age six and has been study­ing music ever since. She finally picked up the gui­tar when she began song­writ­ing at twenty-two.

In Santa Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia, she sup­ported local orga­ni­za­tions through a series of ben­e­fit con­certs called Take Back Your For­est. Col­lec­tively they raised six thou­sand dol­lars for the Sem­per­virens Fund, an orga­ni­za­tion that pur­chases and pro­tects red­wood for­est in the Santa Cruz Moun­tains. She con­tin­ues to sup­port these types of orga­ni­za­tions as much as pos­si­ble. In 2012, her Car­bon Con­scious Tour raised aware­ness about the affects on cli­mate change from burn­ing rain­for­est in South America.