The Living Earth Show is a San Francisco–based contemporary and experimental chamber-music organization, praised as “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle), “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper), and named one of the Washington Post’s “22 for ’22 performers to watch.” Founded by artistic director and percussionist Andy Meyerson and executive director and electric guitarist Travis Andrews in San Francisco, California in 2010, the organization uses experimental classical and vernacular music to create work that reflects and responds to our world.

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The Living Earth Show commissions, produces, and presents ambitious projects that expand the formal, collaborative, and conceptual boundaries of chamber music. Recent collaborations include Lyra by Samuel Adams, created with Post:ballet, A Kind of Ache by and with Sarah Hennies, featuring custom sound sculptures by Terry Berlier; Elemental View, composed by and performed with Ellen Fullman for the Long String Instrument, Tremble Staves, an evening-length, site-specific work by Raven Chacon, and Machines & Other Intergalactic Technologies of the Spirit with M. Lamar.

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The Living Earth Show is pioneering a long-term commissioning model centered on sustained artistic investment, forming bands with collaborators that develop new aesthetic worlds over multiple years. These projects include Trust Me, a punk storytelling band led by vocalist and poet Lynnee Breedlove; Bucket List, a multigenre virtuosic trio led by composer, keyboardist, and guitarist Mark Applebaum; Koollooꓘ, a movement-driven project created with Babatunji and Dennis Aman; Lazyhorse, a genre-expanding ensemble reimagining the mythology of the American West with Raven Chacon and Mali Obomsawin; and Dr. Bittinger, a hybrid project synthesizing rap, rock, metal, and theater led by Juba Kalamka.

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In addition to its commissioning and presenting work, The Living Earth Show operates Earthy Records, its in-house record label, and founded The Roar Shack, an incubator venue presenting monthly pay-what-you-can performances and serving as a vital home for experimental, noncommercial creation in the heart of downtown San Francisco.