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<\/p>\n\n\tFrom The Grateful Dead to Jefferson Airplane, San Francisco has a long and storied musical history. At the heart of that legacy is community. Whether on Haight-Ashbury\u2019s counterculture-paved streets or the bustling jazz clubs that punctuate the city\u2019s nightlife, the SF music scene is tied together by a camaraderie and a common passion for the craft. That\u2019s what made the city a perfect destination for Rolling Stone\u00a0and Sonesta International Hotels to host the first installment of the 2026 Musicians on Musicians live tour. Live onstage in The\u00a0Clift Royal Sonesta\u2019s iconic Redwood Room, Rolling Stone\u00a0senior music editor and\u00a0Nashville Now podcast host Joseph Hudak hosted a live interview with Bay Area musicians Shannon Shaw of Shannon and the Clams and electronic artist Scott Hansen (aka Tycho).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI came here from Sacramento, which had this really cool, tight-knit electronic scene,\u201d said Hansen. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people in the electronic music scene here that I felt really connected to. And immediately when I got here, I met a lot of them and felt accepted. It was really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFor Shaw, that community has shown up in both the good times and the hard times. In 2022 her fianc\u00e9, drummer Joe Haener, passed away in a car accident. The tragedy inspired the 2024 Shannon and the Clams album, The Moon Is in the Wrong Place. She says the experience was a reminder of how tight-knit the SF music scene is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKoury Angelo<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cA few weeks before he passed away, Joe played a solo band show and I introduced him as my fianc\u00e9 onstage for the first time,\u201d she says. \u201cSo many people from that audience\u2014and beyond\u2014reached out when he passed. I have felt beloved here for a lot of my career, but it feels different now. I feel even more held. Making music is an energetic exchange. You are sharing all of your insights with everyone out there, and [the audience is] taking it in and alchemizing it and then giving it back to me. It\u2019s a back and forth. We\u2019re necessary to one another. I feel that now more than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Bay Area is also known for its iconic music venues. Shaw and Hansen shared a few of their favorites with the hometown crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThey do a blues night on Mondays at Eli\u2019s Mile High Club in Oakland,\u201d said Shaw. \u201cI don\u2019t know where else you could go experience that. It\u2019s all true Oakland people. I lived there for many years, but I know that I\u2019m not a real Oakland person. If you want a slice of musical history and tradition, I would go there on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWith so many incredible locales, the odds of one of the panel members having a personal connection to The Clift Royal Sonesta\u2019s onsite bar were slim. But not none. In fact, the space hit especially close to home for Hansen.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKoury Angelo<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI met my wife right there in 2007,\u201d he said pointing to the bar. \u201cDreams do come true at the Redwood Room.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMusic fans\u2019 dreams continued to come true as the artists returned to the stage later in the evening for a duo of intimate performances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tShaw was first to take the stage, where she performed songs from 2018\u2019s Shannon in Nashville. Strumming on her mint green bass, Shaw was flanked by two additional musicians as she belted retro-inspired, emotionally charged songs from her Dan Auerbach-produced debut solo outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tNext, Tycho brought his signature chillwave sounds to the Redwood Room. His set was a 10-year-anniversary celebration of his Grammy-nominated album Epoch as well as his most recent release, 2024\u2019s Infinite Health.<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe evening was a stunning way to kick off a new season of Rolling Stone\u00a0and Sonesta International Hotels\u2019 2026 Musicians on Musicians live tour. Sonesta Travel Pass members can catch the next event in Denver, with more information available at sonestaevents.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From The Grateful Dead to Jefferson Airplane, San Francisco has a long and storied musical history. At the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[132194,19958,132195,101,103,102,104,106,105,132196],"class_list":["post-315858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-brandedcontent","tag-noads","tag-rs-travel","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sonestamomsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}