Jet Black Pearl + Rosie + Joe

Name: Jet Black Pearl + Rosie + Joe
Start: 2026-11-06T20:00:00-0800
End: 2026-11-06T22:00:00-0800
Location: The Back Room

Fri, Nov 6, 8pm - 10pm PST

The Back Room

Berkeley CA, United States

The Back Room

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A trio of very unique songwriters share the stage with intimate sets of original music...

The untamed and inimitable Jet Black Pearl from the port of Amsterdam spent many years in the south of France before settling in Portland in 2014. She has performed on more than a thousand stages all over the world. Intelligently zany, her songs sound like a mad hatter's European tea party with a hip hop attitude. She creates grooves and mesmerizing layers of flute, plastic bottles, vocal percussion and harmonies all while squeezing one hot accordion.

Rosie Steffy (of Oakland trio La Dee Da) welcomes you to a piano-pop dreamworld with ethereal vocals, humor and insight that sparkle into song. Shifting and cinematic, her music moves from hypnotizing to rockin with whimsy and style compared to Regina Spektor. She has collaborated on countless albums as a back-up vocalist, and released original songs in bands such as Whiskey and Women, Upside Drown, and Wordsky. Rosie currently performs as drummer and singer in the Dogweeds and Tall Grass, and helps curate local DIY music events.

Joe Rosato Jr. is a San Francisco singer-songwriter with a long, varied career in music. He plays upright bass with Bay Area Turkish band Lars and in Charge, and has toured Europe on bass with blues legends Fillmore Slim and Sugar Pie DeSanto. As a composer he’s scored films featured in the Smithsonian Institute as well as Toronto and Tribeca film festivals. He's released two solo albums as a songwriter; The Downtown Church and Compass & Sparrow.

Tickets are $20 general admission; a limited number of discounted tickets ($15) are available. Children under 12 are free. Advance tickets are available here, or if the show is not sold out, you may purchase your tickets at the door before the show.

Doors open 30 minutes before show time. We accept cash or Venmo only at the door.

The Back Room is an all-ages, BYOB (for those 21+) space, dedicated to (mostly) acoustic music of all kinds. You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. The venue is ADA accessible. If you need more information or have any questions, please call us: #510-381-1997.

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Although masks are no longer required, we strongly encourage their use to keep everyone safe in our intimate space.

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When, as a young man in 1981, Sam Rudin moved from his native Philadelphia to the East Bay, he quickly fell in love with the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley’s quirky little 87-seat concert hall.

Filled with comfortable thrift store furniture and an informal ambience of appreciative attentiveness, the Freight was a perfect fit for performers of modest renown and acoustically-based music.

As a solo (albeit high-energy) pianist, Sam’s music fit the bill, and the Freight became Sam’s home base. In the absence of other Freight-like rooms, Sam turned his solo performer attention to the outdoor fair and festival circuit, and later started the jazz/blues band Hurricane Sam & the Hotshots.

Now, maybe it’s all the energy he put into becoming a master piano teacher, or maybe the fair and festival circuit just doesn’t have the right ingredients to nurture a high-profile career. Whatever the reason, despite critical acclaim, four CD’s, and a whole bunch of happy audiences, years later Sam was still a performer of modest renown, and he missed that great little room.

As the Freight grew and expanded, ultimately arriving at the gorgeous 420 seat theater that it occupies today, Sam started to feel that maybe it was up to him to recreate that wonderful small space. No longer a young man, it would be his late-life adventure.

Eventually, he found the perfect spot: a beautiful space with brick walls and vaulted wood ceilings right by the Arts District in downtown Berkeley. As of April 2016, it is open for business, complete with the requisite thrift store furniture.

The space is actually the back room of a larger building, so of course it is called The Back Room, and the tag line on its logo says it all – “an intimate place for music.”

The site, at 1984 Bonita Ave., also functions as Sam’s teaching studio, so if you’re looking for “The Piano Lessons You’ve Always Wanted,” now you know where to find them.