Can a wedding singer also write dirty songs for a nationally recognized storytelling show?

Can the lead vocalist of an Allman Brothers Band/Talking Heads tribute also be a game show host?

Can a Frank Sinatra, Rat-Pack crooner also be an insufferable fan of Dungeon Crawler Carl?

Can the guy playing and singing at this bar/winery cover both musical theater requests for your Mom and Taylor Swift for your sister?

If you don’t think the answer is YES to any of these questions, you should probably keep reading. 

(This is the part where the author of a bio pretends that someone else is writing it)

Jefferson Bergey is an Oakland-based, full-time entertainer. Who or how he’s entertaining depends on the day…

Bergey makes a living as a professional vocalist, bandleader, MC, DJ, and all-around musical Swiss Army knife for multiple agencies in Northern California on private events, weddings, and corporate gatherings. Through this work he’s lead bands and performed in Barcelona, Mexico, Hawaii, Seattle, Portland, Arizona, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and just about every barn, winery, and event space in the greater Northern California area. 

With Lucky Devils Band, The band and I were the cover story of the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday arts and entertainment supplement, Datebook. The bands he’s lead over the past 13 years have lead to many best-of awards on Wedding Wire, The Knot, and he’s been hand-picked to lead late-night-talk-show styled bands at high-pressure, high-profile conferences for name-branded pharmaceutical companies. 

He also performs on these events as a solo act, live-looping vocals and guitars, taking all requests for cocktail hours, back-yard parties, receptions, and corporate functions. He’s also retained a 6-year residency at Belle Cora in the wild North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco where once a month, he negotiates covers on the spot without a set list. 

Based on his colorful experiences as a private event bandleader, in 2016 he wrote an extensive handbook and has been delivering seminars for the past decade all over the West Coast and Hawaii for new bandleaders and musicians. 

Although he performs songs from the last eighty years of popular music at private events, he also moonlights in multiple tribute acts, showcasing his diverse musical interests and genre-crossing vocal style. 

For well over a decade, he’s been the voice of Gregg Allman in  Freestone Peaches : A Tribute to the Allman Brothers Band. The band has played many festivals, clubs, San Francisco Giants stadium, Guild Theater, Great American Music Hall, and has sold out Sweetwater Music Hall multiple years in a row. He recently joined forces with a Northern California super-group called Crosseyed & Painless, covering the music of Talking Heads as the role of David Byrne. 

For the past two years, he’s moved into a new realm as a professional singer by tackling the catalogue of one of the best that ever did it. Frank Sinatra. He’s written four different storytelling shows about the life and music of Sinatra, featuring an 8-piece band, new and classic arrangements, and tells rarely-heard stories of Ol’ Blue Eyes culled from extensive and obsessive research. He’s sold out multiple shows at the Sound Room in Oakland and has branched out to performing both the music of the Rat Pack and Nat King Cole at venues in Sacramento, Portland, and the historic Biltmore Hotel in L.A. (More about this project here) His holiday tribute to Sinatra has become a mainstay in Sacramento, going on four years. 

 In the chaos of 2020, a dream job fell into Bergey’s lap. Over the last six years he’s been a top-call gameshow host for The Go Game’s virtual platform, Weve. This work lead him to becoming an IRL gameshow host at Google, Salesforce, and every single META location in the Bay Area with Good Roots Events. 

Creatively over the past eleven years, Bergey has been a resident songwriter and performer for San Francisco's Bawdy Storytelling for which he writes custom songs for creator and host, Dixie De La Tour. (He calls this style of music (Immature) Adult Contemporary.) With the show he’s been featured at Punchline SF over two consecutive years for SF Sketchfest and traveled to Chicago, Seattle and even the most unlikely venues such as the JCC of San Francisco. His songs have been regularly featured on the award-winning Bawdy Storytelling Podcast and have appeared on Kevin Allison's wildly popular RISK! podcast. 

For five years and 250 shows,  he maintained a weekly, Monday night residency at Scopo Divino in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. This beautiful, award-winning wine bar is a classy place that hosted his classless show called Risqué , a two-hour interactive experience featuring Bawdy Storytelling songs, random audience-inspired covers, games, bells, whistles, impressions, and on occasion, some very special guests. 

In 2019 the restaurant’s head chef, Matt Woods, named their incredible burger after Bergey, (The Bergey Burger) which was the top-selling food item on the menu.  The burger won 48hills.com’s ‘Best of the Bay’ in 2020, 21, and 22. 

Jefferson Bergey already has a full, musical life. But he still feels that he has much more creative offerings to share with the world.  Through his account on Patreon. , he has written, produced, and recorded multiple EPs, and is releasing a full length album titled Ruby’s Rhythm of the Road Part 1. The album’s story is told in music and narrations by the heroine of the tale. This is not a musical or a rock opera. Bergey refers to this genre as Musical Fiction.

 A new single, “The Rhythm of the Road” hits all streaming services on 2/2/26. The full record, along with artwork by Justin Oltesvig, and narrations voiced by Meredith McHenry, arrives at the end of February. His new Patreon goal is to fund Part 2 of the story/song cycle to be released in 2027. 

In his waning free time, Bergey is also a rabid fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, 80's cartoons/pop culture, Dungeon Crawler Carl, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Coheed and Cambria’s Amory Wars, and for the last 30 years he’s been an insufferable phan. He resides in Oakland with his wife Sivan (who hates Phish), and their two dogs Xena Warrior Princess and The Cookie Momster.