About

Oh, you wanna know stuff? Fine, I’ll tell you.

Greetings, salutations, and gesticulations! My name is Jefferson Bergey and I’m a professional musician in Oakland, California. What kind of musician really depends on the day….

I make a living performing songs from the last 75 years of popular music with multiple sought-after private event and party bands. ( Lucky Devils Band , Ivy Hill Entertainment )

With Lucky Devils Band, I’ve performed hundreds of events all over Northern California, Tahoe, Hawaii, and even as far as Barcelona, and Cabo. The band and I were the cover story of the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday arts and entertainment supplement, Datebook.

I teach private lessons through my home studio. . I’m the voice of Gregg Allman in Freestone Peaches. I take pride in being a musical chameleon and my office is different every day.

Meanwhile, the music that I write and perform…is NOT for everyone! When I’m not performing in a family-friendly environment, I take great delight in participating in shows that could very well be considered, well, family-UNfriendly.

With a flair for musical theater, I write songs that are built using the blueprints of jazz, blues, pop, folk, bluegrass, and rock, but break form with lyrical content that is smutty, twisted, foul, juvenile, and just plain SILLY. I employ polite vulgarity, or smut with a smile. I perform this unique genre that I call (Immature) Adult Contemporary in variety shows, podcasts, story-telling events, and house concerts as a solo artist around the Bay Area and beyond. You could call me a coffee shop singer-songwriter…if that coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. My songs are definitely not for the very young, the very old, or the very conservative. At least they haven’t been so far!

Sometimes I write songs about some of my other obsessions including Mystery Science Theater 3000, 80's pop culture, and being an insufferable phan. Again, NOT for everyone.

Most notably over the past seven years I’ve become a regular performer in San Francisco's Bawdy Storytelling for which I write custom songs for creator and host, Dixie De La Tour. With the show I’ve performed 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. My music has been regularly featured on the award-winning Bawdy Storytelling Podcast and has appeared on Kevin Allison's wildly popular RISK! podcast.

Over the past five years, I’ve 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 hosts my classless show called Risqué which is a two-hour interactive experience featuring my dirty songs, random audience-inspired covers, games, bells, whistles, and on occasion, some very special guests.

In 2019 the restaurant’s head chef, Matt Woods, named their incredible burger after me, which is now the top-selling food item on the menu. Every jewish mother dreams of having a sandwich named after their child. What a miztvah. It won 48hills ‘Best of the Bay’ in 2020 and 2021.

I already have a full, musical life. But I feel like I have much more to offer. That’s why, I’ve started an account on Patreon.

I’ve started this Patreon account because I’m trying to create original content and entertain people. Maybe that’s you. (Maybe so, maybe not.)

Again, my music is NOT for everybody. My music will not change the world, bring people together, motivate any sort of political change, or anything lofty/delusional like that. And honestly, that is FINE BY ME.

You can see me every first-Monday at Scopo Divino, live-streaming ‘Bergey in the Bun House’ the other Mondays and at Belle Cora in North Beach on most Fridays. Or you can find me hosting game shows for the WEVE/Go Game during the week.

My newest EP titled ‘Another Balloon’ will be available on all streaming services on Friday, May 27th.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope to see you seeing me at a show sometime soon.

((((gong noise)))

JB

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