Pedal-powered concert on "Dixie Rock" a redrock outcropping in St. George, UT. 2007 Bike Tour 

The Bernal Heights hilltop concert, which was followed by an epic capture the flag game ~ SF's Mission District, SYP!'s home.


Winter Walking Tour 2009 - A 3-day, tour on foot from Bolinas to SF, CA ~ with Sonya Cotton Band, and StitchCraft.

Sonya leads the caravan along Deer Creek Reservoir - Provo Canyon, UT. 2008 Bike Tour

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! cellist Joey Chang, bucket drum at the ready, rolls down Hwy 1 somewhere in CA. Pleasant Revolution Tour 2007.

[2009 Utah Tour Press Release]

Bio:
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is a folk band based in San Francisco's Mission District. The band's goals are to - in the words of the great folk singers - "get happy," "walk the freedom highway," and "make a living, not a killing."

Core Cast:
Gabe Dominguez: lead vocal, guitar, fiddle, wiggles, whoops;
Cello Joe: cello, backing vocal, beatbox, step
Sonya Cotton: backing vocal, guitar, tapdancing
Justin Ancheta: backing vocal, lead guitar, percussion

Extended Cast of Friends:
Anna Perlmutter (SF)
Ben Abbott, Chris Jacoby (Utah)
Cosmo D, Tom Abbott (NYC)

Discography: Sing It As You Please (2006).

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A Brief Timeline of SYP!'s Roll:

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! has been touring on bicycles without sag-wagon support since 2005.

Anti-copyright/pro-stewardship un-licensed their music and put no-prices on their merchandise since 2006.

Used audience leg-power to run their bicycle-powered PA system on tour since 2007.

Finished their fourth major bicycle-music tour in 2008

Embarked on two regional walking tours along the California coast in 2009.

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Tradition & Influences:

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is a link in a chain that might be called the "punk rock" tradition of American folk music, epitomized by artists like: Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Utah Phillips - artists who embodied their message at all times, consciously blurring the line between their stage performance and their life of social-justice activism.

As ecology-minded musicians, SHAKE YOUR PEACE! practices what they call "sustainable musicianship," a wholistic embodiment of the ideal of harmony. Simply stated, the mantra of a sustainable musician is: "harmony onstage, harmony offstage." The paradigm has been gaining momentum in the Bay Area - exemplified by 100% human-powered events like San Francisco's Bicycle Music Festival.

SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is also influenced by the political performance art of Mahatma Gandhi, whose theatrical self-reliant action ("Swaraj" / "Self-Rule") enabled him to at once immediately enjoy his freedom, while at the same time iconically symbolize his larger vision of freedom. SHAKE YOUR PEACE!'s "pilgrimage as protest," for example, draws directly on Gandhi's infamous "Salt March."