About Us

Lisa Pollard's Saxlady Productions company provides music contracting services for singular corporate events and extraordinary celebrations. Whether you're booking a convention, a music video, a commercial, or unique personal event, Saxlady can handle all your musical needs. Saxlady Productions is "first call" for exciting events and personal, music-filled memorials in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our corporate and institutional client list includes AT&T, the American Association of Bankers, IDEO Corporation, Stanford University, United Food & Commercial Workers, Zoetrope and many more.

Saxlady's ensembles consist of some of San Francisco's top musicians in groups of from 3 to 25 pieces. These lively groups have entertained the guests of clients like Francis Ford Coppola, Herb Caen, and columnist Art Hoppe. Saxlady groups play in venues as intimate as private homes and as vast as Moscone Center, St. Francis and Marriott Hotel ballrooms, San Francisco's St. Peter and Paul's church, and the Shrine of St. Francis.

You can see Lisa Pollard, conductor of the Green Street Mortuary Band, leading colorful funeral processions through San Francisco's Chinatown most weekends throughout the year. The world-renowned band has appeared in film and on television (Tucker, The Game, PBS's "Chinatown", the Nash Bridges opening); on NPR (Lost & Found Sound) Irish (IRE) and Taiwanese radio; and in numerous print publications (such as National Geographic, Lonely Planet, and Asian Week);

	The Green Street Band entertained Michael Tilson Thomas for his 60th birthday celebration in December 2004. Thomas' birthday party wish for "...something VERY San Francisco" brought together San Francisco luminaries at glorious Tosca in the heart of North Beach. See the cake and read the Chronicle story here.
	Read Leah Garchick's March 2004 column as she describes Francis Ford Coppola directing the Green Street Mortuary Band during "Francis Cooks for North Beach, Part III".
	Read Leah Garchick's April 2003 column describing Francis Ford Coppola's fund-raiser, Francis Cooks for North Beach Part II.
	Read Garrison Keillor's January 2003 interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti whose famous poem, The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band, celebrates the flavor and pathos of a San Francisco Chinese Funeral in the 80s.
	In July 2002, the Green Street Band helps Francis Ford Coppola set the stage for the lighting of the Zoetrope headquarters building in San Francisco.
	Read Scott Ostler's story, "A Final, Magical Mystical Tour" in the San Francisco Chronicle. "The Green Street Mortuary Band: Don't leave this mortal coil without it..."
	Read Carl Nolte's San Francisco Chronicle feature story, "How Sweet the Sound" - "With trumpets and trombones, the Green Street Mortuary Band upholds an ancient Chinese tradition in the streets of San Francisco"...