The Urban Music Program is a club, family and musical utopia dedicated to teaching and spreading our passion for music. This usually happens when we are DJ’ing, making beats, freestyling, playing loud instruments, doing field recordings, writing, recording, producing songs and performing unusual sonic experiments. Like any good family, we constantly inspire, support and challenge each other to grow.

The Urban Music Program was started by Jon Bernson in 1997 with 8 youth, a PMX 1600 Gemini mixer and two Technic 12000’s. Over the last 10 years, we’ve added new gear, many new branches and collaborated with many musical souls: old and young, gifted and green, famous and almost famous. We’ve crossed paths with hundreds of talented youth who’ve learned and taught us much in our quest for musical truth.

We’ve performed at San Francisco City Hall, Yerba Buena Center, the SF Zoo, Amoeba Music, Aquarius Records, Juvenile Hall and lots of great events. The DJ Club was featured in Scratch, an award-winning documentary film about the history of DJ culture and turntablism. We’ve had a bunch of articles written about us, including one by the SF Weekly.