Twice voted “North Bay’s Best Band, Dgiin was let out of the bottle back in 2001 by Mimi and Gabe - musical sibs from France. Out came music, and everybody started dancing. TOUT DE SUITE! They called all their musical friends and before you could count un, deux, trois, Dgiin was a band playing to […]
Holly Near has been singing for a more equitable world for well over 40 creative years. She is an insightful story teller through her music, committed to keeping the work rooted in contemporary activism. Respected around the world for her music and activism, Holly released her 31st album in 2018. One of the most powerful, […]
Two incredible acts join forces for one amazing show! The Musers are Sonoma County’s “free-range” folk group: Megan McLaughlin on guitar and mandolin; Anita Sandwina on vocals and guitar, Tom Kuhn on bass; and Leslie Jackson on cajón and mandolin. Their sister-like harmonies and award-winning songs hit all the roots genres including, bluegrass, swing, blues, […]
House concert filmed in Boston during the civil rights fight for desegregation of the city schools. Artists include: Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry and the McPeake Family from Ireland among others. Park at 500 Robinson Rd, Sebastopol (St Stephen's Church parking lot) and you will be directed to […]
" … you would think they'd been playing together for centuries. While his fiddle dances, her cello throbs darkly or plucks puckishly. Then opens her cello's throat, joining Fraser in soaring sustains, windswept refrains, and sudden, jazzy explosions. Their sound is as urbane as a Manhattan midnight, and as wild as a Clackmannan winter." — […]
With the intuitive sense and emotional depth of a filmmaker, California native David Luning looks deeply into the human condition in his music, exploring its shadowy recesses and its brilliantly lit corners. He spent a few years studying film scoring at the Berklee College of Music, then John Prine’s music changed his life. “Some friends […]
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The world-class musicians in Big Richard initially convened in 2021 for a festival date. The quartet showed up to the one-off like it had been together for years, bursting with […]
During the Great Depression, San Francisco-native Sidney Robertson carried out a remarkable ethnomusicological survey—the WPA California Folk Music Project. From 1938 to 1940, with support from the New Deal’s Works […]
"Hardly-Strictly Irish" duo Cady & Murphy blend lush, acoustic country-folk and traditional Irish music on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bodhrán, and harmony vocals. Ambient or forefront, custom-tailored sets for events with […]
Poor Man’s Whiskey is an Americana band originating in the San Francisco area in 2001. The music is rooted around the songwriting talents of Josh Brough and Jason Beard (who […]
Featuring Parisian singer Mimi Pirard, SonoMusette authentically recreates the moody and evocative sound of the Paris music scene of the Mid-20th Century. SonoMusette’s renditions of timeless French classics provide a […]