Featuring
The Occasionals
April & Monroe Grisman & the Beautiful Hang Gang
Tom Rigney & Flambeau
7pm doors
7:30 – 8:15 The Occasionals
8:30 -9:15 April & Monroe Grisman
9:30 – 10:15 Tom Rigney
The Occasionals This band plays great urban blues, swing jazz, classic country, pop, rock and gypsy jazz. This is a congregation of top shelf talent. Made of players from many well know north bay bands, including The Familiar Strangers, Back Porchestra, The Gypsy Trio, Shana Morrison, Jesse DeNatale and more! Considered by many to be America’s Jukebox given the wide breadth of material they cover.
The band creates performances that touch your heart and get’s you up dancing! Enjoyed by fans and fellow musicians, this group is considered to be the Musicians Musicians!
Fasten your seat belts!
Dallis Craft – vocals & piano
Paul Olguin – bass & vocals
Loralee Christensen – vocals
Brent Rampone – drums
Emily Froberg – guitar
Kevin Russell – guitar
And very special guest Candy Girard – fiddle & violin, vocal
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April Grisman and Monroe Grisman are both lifelong residents and well-known musicians in the Marin County & Bay Area music scene performing and recording both locally and nationally with numerous bands and artists as well as writing their own music.
They have been a couple for over 35 years, married for 28 of those and proud parents of adult boy/girl twins. However, it was not until the beginning of the pandemic during the periods of self-isolation in their home that they began to write songs together for the first time.
The following two-year period was very productive in this regard, as they continued to write and develop some 18+ songs that expressed a myriad of feelings they both felt about current events and the people and things they cared about.
Their songs are influenced by a broad range of influences: Classic Roots Rock, Country-folk, R&B, Reggae and Soul.
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Tom Rigney is one of the premier American Roots Music fiddle players on the planet. His band specializes in blazing Cajun and Zydeco two-steps, low-down Blues, funky New Orleans grooves, Boogie Woogie piano, and Roots Rock and Roll. Much of the repertoire is original music written by Rigney, but they mix in some classics from the Cajun/New Orleans songbook.
Flambeau showcases Rigney’s fiery, virtuoso fiddling, his charismatic stage presence, and his range and originality as a composer. He and Flambeau have forged a unique sound that blends American Roots styles into something original and HOT–mixing irresistible grooves with deep musicality and spectacular soloing. Rigney’s high-energy showmanship pulls the audience into his performances and makes them feel they are a part of the music and the show.