The Team
Ivy Hill Entertainment is an artist-run entertainment agency; each one of our team members has spent years out performing as an artist and brings a unique set of skills and experience to our team.
Matt Roads, Bassist and Co-Founder
Matt Roads is a co-founder of Ivy Hill Entertainment and a bassist based out of the Bay Area since 2007. Graduating with a B.A. in Jazz Performance in 2011, and a M.A. in Multimedia in 2014 Matt has been a serial spender on education.
In addition to local performances, Matt has enjoyed touring nationally and internationally with David Binney, Art Lande, Tim Armacost, Mr. Kind, Loudtalkers, Rivvrs, Fantastic Negrito and many more. In 2014 Matt and his research team at CSUEB released the Sand Noise Device, an augmented reality sand box that creates generative music and projections. Their work was showcased at Moogfest, Maker Faire, and Engadget Expand NY, as well as being featured in CNet, NY Times, Billboard, Heise, and other prominent publications. Through his work as a musician and as a multimedia startup junkie, Matt brings a wealth of practical and conceptual skills to the Ivy Hill team.
Tyler Huffman, Event Guru and DJ Captain
Tyler Huffman is a multi-instrument musician who spends most of his time these days steeped in DJ culture and performance. Tyler fell in love with the turntables over a decade ago and never looked back. He now continuously works to become, and to train, the perfect DJ for any event. “As an open format DJ, I try to stay versed on all styles of music. I’m constantly researching music and digging in record stores. When I’m booked for a set, whether that be soul, hip hop, reggae, jazz, classic rock, etc, I do what I can to keep things funky enough to turn some heads.”
You can catch Tyler out and about DJing spots all over the Bay Area. His favorite nights to play are typically all-vinyl and have world flavors such as Reggae, Latin, or African music. But rest assured, if he needs to play for an audience that is looking for pop sensibilities to keep the crowd moving, he has been filling dance floors with recognizable hits for over a decade. Tyler has been intimately involved with the booking and execution of over 2000 weddings and other special events all across the country. He has parlayed his experience into a popular podcast called The Wedding Weirdos where he and his wife Shelley Anderson discuss all kinds of outside the box tips, trends, and new ideas with top experts in the industry.
Wesley Woo, Soul Singer and Booking Guru
Wesley Woo is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bassist from the Oakland based funk and soul band Trace Repeat. He is also a house engineer at the Oakland based recording studio Watershed Sound, and an avid freelance dog walker in his spare time. Wesley joined the Ivy Hill booking and sales team in 2018 to help scale to the growing needs of the Bay Area music scene. He's stoked to be working with all of the incredible musicians that he has met in the last year, and excited to get more folks on stage!
Rashida Chase, Vocalist and AMP Oakland Director
Rashida Chase is an incredible vocalist and community advocate, she brings a wealth of performance experience and community knowledge to our team. Rashida is the Director of Outreach for the AMP Oakland program, helping us to connect with the bay area’s most authentic local performers.
Owen Clapp, Social Media Guru and Bass Monster
Owen Clapp is an active upright and electric bassist in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in Los Angeles, where he attended the Jazz Performance program at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music on scholarship. In the Bay Area, he enjoys playing with the bands of Grammy-winning jazz violinists Mads Tolling and Even Price, accompanying jazz vocalist Paula West, and touring with his own project East of Eden.
At Ivy Hill, Owen is responsible for all things community engagement, from the curation of the Community Calendar to the management of Ivy Hill's Social Media channels. He hopes that his experiences as an artist will help to foster strong connections between Ivy and the incredible roster of artists that has formed around it. Additionally, as the author of Community Blog posts, Owen hopes to bridge the gap between Ivy's clients and its musician network.