Order up! Guitarist Will Bernard delivers an inventive new approach to funk with his joyously grooving Blue Plate Special band featuring keyboardist John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin & Wood fame), bassist Andy Hess and Galactic drummer Stanton Moore. After leaving Berkeley High’s vaunted jazz program, Bernard has cut a wide stylistic path across the Bay Area music scene for more than two decades. A key member of Peter Apfelbaum and Jai Uttal’s pioneering world jazz bands, he gained widespread notice on a national level with his groovalicious combo Motherbug and with T.J. Kirk, a funk-powered, Grammy® award nominated cooperative starring fellow guitar-slinger Charlie Hunter.

"Bernard locks down one ferocious groove
after another."
—KQED