Avi Vinocur

BIO

At 23 years old, Avi Vinocur’s folk music bleeds the love of classic novels and poetry that so enthrall the mind of this San Francisco based singer-songwriter. His songs draw comparisons to a young Bob Dylan or Paul Simon: maintaining elegant melodies with lyrics that stand alone as poems.

His live performances have earned him regular positions in coffeehouses in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, and South-of-Market districts and a strong following of young and old. Very involved in the local SF music scene, Avi is an assistant engineer and intern at hip Bay Area record label and recording studio ‘Talking House Productions’ and he also hosts a weekly local songwriter showcase at The Brainwash Café.

His poetry has been published in the San Francisco State University newspaper and received acclaim and approval from poets, authors and survivors of Hurricane Katrina at benefit poetry reading in New Orleans. His biting song entitled “How is your coffee, Mr. President?” received attention and overwhelming applause, even in red states like Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, for its comical critique of President Bush.

Avi has toured the United States inside and out with Sebastian Clark (LA), the band ‘Quarry Hill’ (Philadelphia), and Jason Reischel (NY) and performed in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, and South Korea. Doing so has earned him a mailing list of 500 devout fans. He performs around 100 shows a year.

He is also a former member of successful LA rock band, and SXSW favourites, E>K>U>K and co-wrote and performed with them on songs for the "Epic Movie" Soundtrack (2007 Fox).

His debut record "Forty Years Too Late" was released on February 9th, 2004 and his sophomore EP "New York" was released on May 30th, 2006. A live EP of a KXLU Los Angeles performance was also released in limited number on a parent label of fLA. A new full length record is scheduled for release on fLA as fLA 7012-LP in Spring of 2008.

“We stare at the ending before it’s begun,
but it only makes the middle lose all its fun,
because we both did the race
and though neither of us won,
we ran.”
-Avi Vinocur

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