Zach Gill is a singer-songwriter with a decent amount of soul who has played with the likes of Jack Johnson and lives in Santa Barbara. He stepped on stage definitely looking the part of an indie guy, plaid and all. His shoes though did not match his outfit and were athletic style with bright blue and orange colors that clashed with the rest of his generally earth tone ensemble.  

Gill started things up with a toy voice distortion device that looked like a small megaphone and a simple keyboard part played on one hand.  Gill used his vocals more as an instrument and had no actual words.  The song sounded strangely full for what was being played.  It was not readily apparent at the time, but the song was U2's "With or Without You".  This point would be the only time the music would reach anywhere near a dark tone.  From then on the songs were all upbeat and easygoing, just like Gill seemed himself.  

His undistorted voice was surprising at first.  The vocals were much more robust than to be expected by his thin frame.  He had more than a touch of Randy Newman from the music of Toy Story in his voice.  His music is not far from Newman's as well.  His lyrics were almost all literal, directly from his own life and fairly simple.  The music covered everything from his daughter, his old neighbor to the subject of maintenance and a metaphorical monkey.  The music was kept interesting with lighthearted but soulful wordless vocal parts including a trumpet imitation.  He also played a bongo type of instrument, a ukulele and finished things off with a couple of accordion songs.

There was not much of a crowd for Gill.  He commented early on how we had "flanked" him and how he was focusing forward to the empty blankness ahead where no one stood except for the sound guy.  It was also then fairly quiet with a smaller crowd and his smaller but appropriate sound.  The quietness allowed for the constant planes overhead, usually muted by the music, to easily be heard.  Gill said, "All these planes are making me feel continental."  

The last two songs did not go as planned.  The sound was not working for the accordion, even with the attempts of the sound guy.  Gill went to "plan B" which consisted of walking into the crowd and asking everyone to gather 'round.  He played an accordion version of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" even changing some lyrics, such as switching it from being a fiddle duel to an accordion duel.  This got some laughs as did other songs.  He also got the crowd to stomp a beat and do their best demon cry.  

Gill has a great personality, he puts out good vibes and this world could use more of his kind if he is as good as his nature seems to be, but any cynic would want to slap the happiness right out of him.  That said, those who can endure a whole set of easy going songs are in for a treat with Zach Gill.