Performer: Heather Normandale – StitchCraft

Gear: Pleasant Revolution Tour JBLs

Event: Vancouver Bicycle Music Festival

Date of Event: Aug 30, 2009

Location: Vancouver, BC

Website: http://www.pleasantrevolution.org, www.stitchcraftmusic.com

Riding through Vancouver with a huge crowd of accompanying cyclists during the Vancouver Bicycle Music Festival, 2009, with Aaron Goos pedaling the bike with one pedal!!

Performer: Paulus Bunion

Gear: Homemade bike made from scraps

Event: Live From Memphis Fridays

Date of Event: 2011-10-07

Location: Memphis, TN

Website: http://www.livefrommemphis.com/music/item/mobile-music-machine-featuring-paulus-bunion-2

Friday night restaurant patios Downtown were getting quite the show, but we also noticed lots of apartment dwellers on S. Main and also Monroe coming out to see the spectacle. In fact a local blogger bootlegged Bunion’s Bootlegger ballad!

Performer: Artistik Approach

Gear: Custom rickshaw — check out this video to see how they made it:

Website: http://

Awesome performance – simple and effective beatboxing and great raps! Lots of good street dancing moments.

Performer: Kipchoge

Gear: fm transmitter, crappy fm receiver, Inverter powered JBL, Yuba Mundo with a cushion and mic stand

Event: London Bicycle Music Festival 2010

Date of Event: June 2010

Location: London

Website: http://www.gingerninjas.com

Kipchoge sings Proud Mary as the London BMF crew rolls over tower bridge. The sound is being heard from the receiving speaker on Thomas’ bike.

Performer: Jorge Molina

Gear: Yuba Mundo cargo bike, JBL PA speaker

Event: Green Festival in San Francisco, CA

Date of Event: Dec. 15, 2008

Location: San Francisco, CA

Jorge Molina performs “Live on Bike” with a piano mounted on a Yuba Mundo cargo bike. Sound is then transmitted wirelessly to nearby sound amplification in the form of Fossil Fool’s Choprical Fish party bike, and Kipchoge’s “Long Tall Sally” tall bike with an amplified JBL PA speaker. The ride took place on Dec. 15, 2008 following the Green Festival in San Francisco, CA.

Performer: Sean Hayes, Cello Joe

Gear: The Biker Bar, 3-bike Pedal Power system

Event: Bicycle Music Festival 2009

Date of Event: June 2009

Location: Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, to Dolores Park.

Website: http://bicyclemusicfestival.com

Cello Joe & SHAKE YOUR PEACE perform Cello Joe’s “Silly Song” LiveOnBike on a rolling stage joined by Sonya Cotton as the entourage rolls from Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, to Dolores Park. After tense negotiations with police and another event organizer, the show goes on and Sean Hayes performs with Ezra Lipp on the Pedal Powered Stage. The Biker Bar is shown first as a mobile stage, then as a 3-bike Pedal Power system.

Performer: The Genie

Event: “Road To BMF” Benefit

Date of Event: Feb 5th

Location: San Francsisco, CA

Website: http://bicyclemusicfestival.com

Scratch guitar artist The Genie performs LIVE ON BIKE as part of The Road to BMF fundraiser. BigTop Co-Op Videotron was on the scene.

Performer: Fossil Fool

Gear: Choprical Fish, LiveOnBike Mundo with instrument mount, various Soul Cycles, Shure wireless bodyback mic rewired for line level instrument signal.

Event: Bicycle Music Festival 2008

Date of Event: June 2008

Location: Mission District in San Francisco

Website: http://fossilfool.com

Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper, and drummer Joel Elrod perform while cruising the streets of the Mission District in San Francisco at the Bicycle Music Festival held in June, 2008. Joel keeps the beat on a SPDS drum machine mounted on the LiveOnBike rig, a modified Mundo Cargo Bike, whose signal is sent wirelessly by a Shure bodypack microphone to the Choprical Fish (Fossil Fool’s bike) and then wirelessly amplified by two other Soul Cycles rolling alongside.

Performer: Janaysa

Event: 2008 Bicycle Music Festival

Location: San Francisco

Website: http://www.bicyclemusicfestival.com/

Shows the steps leading up to a LiveOnBike performance by Janaysa at SF BMF ‘08. From workshop prototyping, to mounting the instrument on the bicycle, to the test run, and finally the Live performance at Bicycle Music Festival in San Francisco, CA in 2008, this video shows the process from idea to reality.