Celebrated Bay Area songwriter Chuck Prophet showcases cumbia album at the Chapel

Beloved SF raconteur and guitarist Chuck Prophet plays songs from his acclaimed new collaborative cumbia album Wake the Dead at the Chapel Saturday night. Born in the Southern California town of Whittier and raised the Bay Area suburbs, Prophet first came to fame in the mid-1980s after joining the country-influenced neo-psychedelic band Green On Red when the group relocated to Los Angeles from Tuscon, Arizona. The band would record it’s landmark Enigma Records effort Gas Food Lodging, earning the group accolades in the U.S. and Europe and a major label deal with Mercury.

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