Ojai Underground Exchange

Join us Friday, October 21st for a live performance & broadcast with Expandards! Isaac and Mikael met in Ojai, California in 2016 and confessed a shared interest in songs from the Great American Songbook. Their collaboration resulted in a fresh new take on these old songs by way of Isaac’s classic vocal delivery and Mikael’s unorthodox accompaniment using synthesizers.

Join us live Saturday, October 22nd for another round of Ojai-Fi! Ojai-Fi is a music listening party from 7-9pm where we'll be listening to music selected by you, the audience.

Join us Saturday, October 15th for a live performance & broadcast with Jamie Drake! One of LA's best-kept musical songwriting secrets for over a decade -- collaborating with the likes of Sondre Lerche, Jim James, Moby, Sarah and Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek), and Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) -- Jamie Drake has all the while been carefully honing her own craft and preparing to take center stage.   

Join us Friday, November 11th & 12th for a live performance & broadcast with Perla Batalla! Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla earns critical acclaim for her distinctive voice, emotional honesty & culture-merging compositions. 

Join us Friday, November 11th & 12th for a live performance & broadcast with Perla Batalla! Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla earns critical acclaim for her distinctive voice, emotional honesty & culture-merging compositions. 

Join us live Friday, November 18th for another round of Ojai-Fi! Ojai-Fi is a music listening party from 7-9pm where we'll be listening to music selected by you, the audience.

Join us Saturday, November 19th for a live performance & broadcast with Plus One, where hosts Bernie Larsen & Cassidy Linder mix things up with special guest Kevin McCormick! Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and producer Bernie Larsen has lived a charmed musical life for many years.

Join us Saturday, December 10th for a live performance & broadcast with Phil Salazar & Tom Corbett! Phil has been a performer since the day he was born in Ventura, California, when he crawled around the stage of his father’s symphony. He has been playing the violin since he was 5.

Join us live Friday, December 30th for another round of Ojai-Fi! Ojai-Fi is a music listening party from 7-9pm where we'll be listening to music selected by you, the audience.

Join us live Friday, January 13th for another round of Ojai-Fi! Ojai-Fi is a music listening party from 7-9pm where we'll be listening to music selected by you, the audience.

Join us Saturday, January 21st for a live performance & broadcast with Mark "Pocket" Goldberg! Mark ”Pocket” Goldberg’s new all-acoustic CD “OFF THE WIRE” features original, honest, world weary, heart-felt lyrics over his own brand of Bluesy, Folky Americana music (that still rocks when it should) delivered by a voice reminiscent of Howlin’ Wolf & Johnny Cash hangin’ out with Randy Newman & Leonard Cohen at the “Annual Louis”Satchmo”Armstrong Picnic & Memorial BarBQ”.

Join us Friday, January 27th for a live performance & broadcast by Lola Quinn & Melia Rigsby.

Join us Saturday, January 28th for a live performance & broadcast with Refugees! The trio of artists that is The Refugees emerged on the music scene as a verifiably unmatched force of talent, diversity. and experience. 

Join us Friday, February 17th for a live performance & broadcast with Towse! Towse is an art-pop collective fronted by singer-songwriter Grace Fellows.

Join us Saturday, February 18th for a live performance & broadcast with Bernie & Cassidy Larsen & Petty Chavez! Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and producer bernie larsen has lived a charmed musical life for many years.

Join us Friday, February 24th for our 7th round of Ojai-Fi! Ojai-Fi is a music listening party from 7-9pm where we'll be listening to music selected by you, the audience.

Join us Saturday, February 25th for a live performance & broadcast with Shawn Jones! With a new blistering blues/rock trio album, winning the SCBS Battle Of The Blues Bands, and several European tours gaining him thousands of new fans, it's obvious Shawn Jones is on a roll!.

Join us Monday, February 27th for a live performance & broadcast with Jeffery Foucault & Erik Koskinen!

Join us Saturday, February 25th for a live performance & broadcast with Shawn Jones! With a new blistering blues/rock trio album, winning the SCBS Battle Of The Blues Bands, and several European tours gaining him thousands of new fans, it's obvious Shawn Jones is on a roll!.

Join us Friday, March 10th for a live performance & broadcast with Zoe Fitzgerald Carter!

Join us Monday, March 13th for our 8th round of Ojai-Fi! Bring 2 of your favorite songs, on vinyl or mp3, and get ready to share and listen with the group! There are only 20 seats available to get your tickets now! $25 and the listening begins at 7pm. No refunds. No kids please.

Join us Friday, March 17th for a live performance & broadcast with Love Me In The Dark! Love Me In The Dark is the sonic alchemy of lunar and solar forces, Steve McCormick and Heather Donavon. The two met on stage five years ago in Venice, CA. That chance encounter changed their lives forever. 

Join us Saturday, March 18th for a live performance & broadcast with Tara Jeffery! Tara Jeffery's voice is a storyteller, strong and clear. The music is both deeply rooted and stunningly all her own. In good company, it's enjoyable to not always know where it will take you next.

Join us Saturday, March 25th for a live performance & broadcast performance with Alan Thornhill! Alan Thornhill’s unpretentious nature could be misleading. You might think upon meeting him that he’s simply the modest legendary finish carpenter from the artist colony of Ojai, CA.

Join us Friday, March 31st for a live performance & broadcast with Rebecca Folsom! Colorado singer-songwriter, Rebecca Folsom believes every lyric, every note, every musical collaboration carries the potency to change the world.

Carl Sonny Leyland was born & raised on the South Coast of England, growing up close to the city of Southampton.

Join us Saturday, April 8th for a live performance & broadcast with The Make-Believe Spurs!

Join us Saturday, April 15th for a live performance & broadcast with Danny Wheetman, Jerry Fletcher, John Wilcox, & Bob Nichols from Marley's Ghost! “If there is a group who can push forward the ageless Americana blueprint of The Band, it might just be Marley’s Ghost.” — Something Else!

Join us Monday, April 17th for a live performance & broadcast with Larry & Joe! Larry & Joe is the duo of Joropo maestro Larry Bellorín (Monagas, Venezuela) and GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime star Joe Troop (Winston-Salem, North Carolina).

Join us Saturday, April 8th for a live performance & broadcast with The Make-Believe Spurs!

Join us Friday, April 21st for a live performance & broadcast with Abigail Cartright! “…an artist following her own luminous musical agenda.” - Los Angeles Times Abigail Cartright (formerly Wendy MaHarry) is a prolific songwriter. The released recordings of her own compositions exceed one hundred songs and she has written and recorded over four hundred compositions in the last three-year period alone. 

Join us Saturday, April 22nd for a live performance & broadcast with We Are The West! As vast and indefinable as the West itself, the intrepid sound stylists of We Are The West reach beyond the setting sun to create an eclectic symphonic landscape.  

Join us Thursday, April 27th for a live performance & broadcast with Will Solomon! Will Solomon is a contemporary-folk artist from Kentucky based in Seattle, Washington. His burgeoning career has taken him to #9 on the iTunes singer-songwriter chart and into the studio with a Grammy-winning team to record his recent EP, Misspelled Words. 

Join us Friday, April 28th for a live performance & broadcast with Bernie Larsen, Cassidy Linder, and Eric Sullivan! Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and producer Bernie Larsen has lived a charmed musical life for many years.

Join us Saturday, April 29th for a live performance & broadcast with Rick Shea & Tony Gilkyson! Cutting his teeth in the Southern California honky-tonks, San Bernardino-bred Rick Shea's songs reflect the folk, country, rock and Mexican influences he grew up with.

Join us Sunday, April 30th for a live performance & broadcast with Joel Rafael! The best writing comes from writing what you know - and based on Joel Rafael’s life experiences and over 50 years of making music, he has a deep well from which to draw.

Join us Saturday, May 6th for a live performance & broadcast with Luis Muñoz! Luis Muñoz is a composer, producer, arranger and percussionist from Costa Rica. He has performed in some of the best Jazz Festivals and theaters in the USA and abroad, including The Litchfield Jazz Festival, The San Jose Jazz Festival, The Queen Mary Jazz Festival, The National Opera House in Costa Rica, The Moss Theater (Santa Monica), The Jazz Bakery and the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara, CA. 

Join us Sunday, May 7th for a live performance & broadcast with Alice Howe & Freebo! To hear Alice Howe sing is to be enraptured by the natural, unaffected beauty of her voice. There’s no artifice, no histrionics — just honest, authentic, emotionally resonant singing in the tradition of the roots music that shaped her.

Join us Friday, May 12th for a live performance & broadcast with Jodi Siegel & Joey Delgado! Jodi Siegel was born in Chicago, IL. The Home of the Blues! She eventually relocated to California and began playing and singing in countless blues, R & B, pop and original music bands throughout Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Join us Saturday, May 13th for a live performance & broadcast with Julie Christensen! Julie is well-known for her work with such luminaries as Leonard Cohen, Divine Horsemen, Van Dyke Parks and many others—not to mention her formidable solo life, with many albums and legacies to boot.

Join us Sunday, May 14th for a special benefit concert in support of the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy! Live music will be provided by The Chillz, Natalie Gelman & Melia Rigsby. Tickets are $25, and the show is from 6-8pm. A portion of the proceeds will go directly to the OVLC.

Join us Monday, May 15th for another round of Ojai-Fi! Bring 2 of your favorite songs on vinyl or mp3, and share the music you love & listen to music others love. $25 per seat, and only 20 spots allowed so get your tickets now! The listening begins at 7pm

Join us Friday, May 19th for a live performance & broadcast with Brad Colerick! When I'm not playing music...I founded DeepMix in 2002. My work as a producer, composer and music supervisor for commercials has garnered an Emmy Award, a London International Advertising Award, and many other accolades.

Join us Saturday, May 20th for a live performance & broadcast with Susie Glaze & The New Folk Ensemble! The Susie Glaze New Folk Ensemble continues their CD release tour at the Ojai Underground on May 20. They have joined forces with producer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven to release their brand new studio EP "Do You Have This in Blue." 

Join us Friday, May 26th for a live performance & broadcast with Nathan & Jessie! Music with a spirit of beauty, spontaneity, dance, and jazz improvisation! From the city where they sun shines through the mist, Temecula, California, comes the jazzy folk duo Nathan & Jessie.

Join us Saturday, May 27th for a live performance & broadcast with Bernie Larsen, Cassidy Linder, Randy Ray Mitchell & Waldo Bliss! Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and producer bernie larsen has lived a charmed musical life for many years. He has recorded, toured, and produced an elite handful of artists most of which are Grammy Award recipients including Melissa Etheridge, Jackson Browne, Rickie Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, and Public Enemy.

Join us Monday, June 5th for another round of Ojai-Fi! Bring 2 of your favorite songs on vinyl or mp3, and share the music you love & listen to music others love. $25 per seat, and only 20 spots allowed so get your tickets now! The listening begins at 7pm. No refunds

Join us Friday, June 9th for a live performance & broadcast with Jaraneh Nova! Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jaraneh Nova is a magnetic performing artist who fuses the essence of her Apache and Inuit Roots with Electronic and Live Looped Music.

Join us Thursday, June 29th for a special live performance & broadcast with Disco Iskandar! Disco Iskandar brings to the stage a far-out, unforgettable experience.

Join us Monday, July 10th for another round of Ojai-Fi!

Join us Saturday, July 22nd for a live performance & broadcast with The Linda Ronstadt Experience!  

Join us Saturday, July 29th for a live performance & broadcast with Birds & Arrows! "Andrea and Pete Connolly of Birds and Arrows have been making music together for more than 15 years, and this familiarity and cohesion certainly shows.

Join us Monday, July 31st for our 1-year anniversary of Ojai-Fi!

Join us Saturday, August 5th for a live performance & broadcast with James Lee Stanley! It is only a long-lived singer-songwriter career that lets James Lee Stanley unite the unpredictable creative turns and the eclectic elements that make up his world.

Join us Friday, August 25th for a live performance with Bernie Larsen & Cassidy Linder! Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and producer Bernie Larsen has lived a charmed musical life for many years.

Join us Saturday, August 26th for a live performance & broadcast with Aurora! AURORA is a Galactic Walk-in and an impossible genetic shape, representing the combination of both matter + energy.

Join us Saturday, September 2nd for a live performance with Al Staehely & Phil Lee! Al Staehely is a singer/songwriter from the 1970s. He was featured in Spirit, The Staehely Brothers, The Nick Gravenites / John Cipollina Band and recorded with labels such as Epic and Polydor.

Join us Friday, September 8th for a live performance & broadcast with the Barrel House Wailers! The Barrelhouse Wailers serve up their own take on Prohibition Era hot jazz and blues music of the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Join us Saturday, September 23rd for a live performance & broadcast with Twanguero! Dubbed a “firebreathing guitar hero” by the press, and called “the King of Twang” by Guitar Player Magazine, Latin Grammy- winning, guitarist/composer/performer Twanguero (Diego Garcia), is considered by many to be one of the finest guitarists in Spain.

Join us Saturday, September 30th for a live performance & broadcast with Adam Levy! Whether Adam Levy’s many gifts as a guitarist and songwriter are the result of good fortune or hard work is tough to say — safe bet it’s a combination of the two. But what’s undeniable is that Levy has created a remarkable body of music over the past 30 years, and his talents continue to evolve today.

Join us Sunday, October 1st for a live performance & broadcast with Gadan! Gadan is a new project created by four experienced and well-known musicians in the Irish trad and European folk/rock scene. They come with years of experience touring the major European and US traditional and alternative folk music festivals.

Join us Saturday, October 7th for a live performance & broadcast with Bad Ass Boots!

Join us Friday, October 20th for a live performance & broadcast with Elsa Nilsson - Band of Pulses! Many species use sound to communicate. Flutist Elsa Nilsson, Pianist Santiago Leibson, Bassist Marty Kenney and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren asked themselves; what is the line that makes sound music?

Join us Saturday, October 21st for a live performance & broadcast with Max Gomez! When he’s not on the road, Max Gomez splits his time between his beloved hometown of Taos, New Mexico, and Los Angeles.

Get ready to be swept away by the harmonious melodies and rustic charm of The Rose Valley Thorns!.

Join us Friday, November 3rd for a live performance & broadcast with Rebecca Folsom! Colorado singer-songwriter, Rebecca Folsom believes every lyric, every note, every musical collaboration carries the potency to change the world.

Get ready for a night of exquisite mandolin melodies that will transport you to a world of musical enchantment!

Join us for a musical journey at Ojai-Fi on November 20th, hosted by the one and only Mikael Jorgensen!

We are thrilled to invite you to a special music show at The Underground Exchange, featuring the incredible talents of Marc Ford! Get ready for an unforgettable evening of soulful music, good vibes, and great company.

We are thrilled to announce an unforgettable evening of live music at The Underground Exchange on Saturday, November 25th, starting at 7:00 PM.

Join us Sunday, December 3rd for a live performance & broadcast with Sara Lee Guthrie! Sarah Lee Guthrie’s lineage is undeniable. But if you close your eyes and forget that her last name is synonymous with the river-legacy of a widening current of American folk music, you’d still be drawn to the clarity and soul behind her voice.

Get ready for an unforgettable night of music as we present the sensational Babi Manatee in concert, with an electrifying opening act by Girl Dad!