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Wedding music specialist, lead vocalist of tributes to The Allman Brothers Band/Talking Heads/ Frank Sinatra and The Rat Pack.

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Jefferson Bergey is an Oakland-based, full-time entertainer. 

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 led 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 led over the past 13 years have led 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 world-renowned 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. His holiday tribute to Sinatra has become a mainstay in Sacramento, going on four years. 

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.