 |  Jocelyn Kane is Deputy Director of San Francisco's Entertainment Commission, which is charged with ensuring the health and vitality of all indoor and outdoor entertainment venues in the City. Current projects include facilitating a new amphitheater on Pier 96, permitting (protecting) street performers for the first time in the city's history, and revising San Francisco's outdated sound ordinance to stay current with technologies of the 21st century.
Jocelyn is also the founder of Motogirl Productions, an SF-based artist development company. Motogirl Productions works with large and small artists in various genres, to help them understand the "business" of music and how to reach individual goals effectively in one of the toughest industries around.
Jocelyn speaks at workshops and panels around the Bay Area and beyond, including California Lawyers for the Arts, NARAS (the Grammys), San Francisco State University Music Program, CMJ, AFM Musicians Union Local 6, as well as serves as a judge for NCSA competitions.
Motogirl Productions co-produced Nadines Wild Weekend 2002 which included producing 20 shows with over 135 bands in 15 clubs over 4 days. Nadines Wild Weekend garnered major national and international media attention this year and included media partnerships with the SF Weekly, Live 105 radio and Tower Records. Motogirl Productions also co-promotes an all ages series called "L3: Live, Loud and Local" together with The Matches, a great, young band out of the East Bay, recently signed to Epitaph records. |