Bio
Jim Bruno is a Northern California based published songwriter. Songs he’s written or co-written have been recorded and released by Shawn Colvin, Chuck Prophet, Thad Cockrell, Mary Lou Lord, Cliff Eberhardt, Maurice Tani and Laurie MacAlister.
As a performing songwriter he’s performed at the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, the San Francisco Folk Festival, the Udine Folk Festival in Udine, Italy and the Madame Guitar Festival in Tricesimo, Italy and has toured many times in Europe. He also played bass, guitar and sang in the Shawn Colvin Band and often performed with Shawn as a duet.
He has signed numerous song publishing agreements. Among others these publishers include Bug Music and the Welk Music Group in Los Angeles, and Largo Music in New York. In addition to his having his own publishing company, Jimmy Bruno Music, as a songwriter he currently has a music publishing agreement with Universal Music Group. He is an affiliated Publisher and Songwriter with BMI and the Harry Fox Agency.
He previously taught songwriting courses at Foothill College in Los Altos Hill, CA and at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, CA.
Jim Barnes has performed in several bands for solo artists, local community theatres and the Oakland Temple Hill Orchestra.
Jim has also provided lead and rhythm guitar parts for studio recordings. Jim loves the creative process that goes into creating parts for a songwriter.
Jim comes from a musical family and has a formal musical education beginning at age 6 with classical guitar and jazz at age 13. He continued his formal education in music composition and performance at Cal State Hayward. His feels his best music education came from performing through the years with several artists and within their varied genres.
A product of the public school music system, Andrew Sisco bounced from horns to skins to strings between grammar school and college, settling on bass guitars and viols in various bands around Modesto, until moving to Sacramento.
Joining the Folk Rock duo The Hey-Nows! of Yolo County has kept him rocking for ten years and counting, entertaining beer bars, wine rooms, state fairs, and most venues in between.
Concurrently to driving Yolo County’s Favorite Dad Band, Andrew has supported such local talent as Nikki Nation and recording artist Emily Adams.