Together, Laurie and Nina weave a rich tapestry interwoven with insightful stories, a good measure of humor, rocking headbangers and a shared musical sensibility.
Melissa Ferrick continues to disrupt normative categorization. Indie, Alternative, Folk, Punk….Melissa Ferrick won’t be labeled.
There are no strangers at a Drew Holcomb show. For the better part of two decades, the award-winning songwriter has brought his audience together night after night, turning his shows into celebrations of community, collaboration, and contemporary American roots music. Strangers No More, the eighth album from Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, celebrates that sense of togetherness synthesized in the #1 Americana Song, “Find Your People.”
Country-folk artist and 4-time Grammy winner John Prine was one of the most influential singer-songwriters of his generation. Musicians from across the San Francisco music scene join forces at The California for one night only to pay tribute to the legend, covering songs from Prine’s six-decades-long career.
Taylor Mountain String Band is a group of seasoned singers and multi-instrumental musicians formed in the of 2022, comprised of Jim Wagner on vocals, dobro, bass, and guitar, Alice Fitzwater (who also play with Foxes in The Henhouse) on fiddle and vocals, Sheridan Malone on bass, guitar, ukulele, and vocals, Marc Dwaileebe on mandolin, fiddle, and guitar, and Dave Carlson on Banjo, guitar and vocals. We play mostly acoustic roots to western styles and are quite danceable: Traditional, bluegrass, country, swing, and folk.
The 2024-25 Pops Series concludes with a nostalgic journey through the iconic works of the legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon.
Singer-guitar player, Willie Perez, has been performing for audiences since the mid-sixties for a variety of venues ranging from high school and college dances, dance hall gigs with rock bands, big bands, blues clubs, country and western bars, county fairs, and dinner-dance clubs. One of his favorite engagements was playing back-up for blues and jazz singer, Margie Baker, at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Most of his playing has been in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Humboldt and Mendocino counties. Willie finally settled down in the Russian River area and has performing solo or with other musicians in a number of local venues playing a mixture of blues, folk, and pop.
Las Cafeteras have taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and have crossed many genres and borders along the way. Their electric sound & energy has taken them around the world playing shows from Bonnaroo to the Hollywood Bowl, WOMAD New Zealand to Montreal Jazz, & beyond!
THE SWEET REMAINS is the very rare all-independent band to have nearly 60 MILLION SPOTIFY streams and counting! They’re also unusual on today’s music scene as a band headed by 3 gifted singer- songwriters, each of whom contribute to the writing and 3-part harmonies that define the band’s sound.
John Cruz grew up in Hawai‘i in a home immersed in music. He performed with his father and brothers from a young age and moved to the East Coast in 1983 to develop his own style as a singer songwriter. He performed everywhere from New York’s coffeehouses and bars to clubs and local haunts from Martha’s Vineyard to the Boston area, as well as venturing into both theater and dance.
