Greetings,
I guess we should be learning some Irish songs for times like this…We actually had to turn down a gig for today because they wanted us to stick to Irish music and we weren’t quite prepared for that! Fortunately it’s rare that we have to turn down an opportunity to play music.
Spring is coming on and we’ve been lining up more and more places to play. In the past we haven’t really pursued gigs, they’ve just come to us by word of mouth. This year, since we’ve both been laid off our regular jobs and doing odd jobs where ever we can find them… we decided to put a flyer together to actually try to promote our music for the first time. We’ve been getting the flyer out to local inns, wineries, restaurants, event/wedding coordinators etc. as well as retirement communities and schools. We’ve had some positive response so far and have been hired a few times as a result of advertising. If any of you folks on our mailing list, (or who just happen to be reading this,) know of anyone getting married or planning an event where our music would fit in, please consider recommending us. We kind of specialize in love songs for ceremonies, and also have a band for receptions. At the retirement homes we try to focus on some of the old songs the residents know, filling in a bit with originals and our old favorites. It’s great to see folks smiling and singing along.

So here are the public venues where you can find us making music in the near future. Hope to see you out dancing and singing along with us soon!

This coming Saturday March 21st  6:00pm to 10:00pm
Calistoga Fair Grounds in the Butler Building
1435  North Oak Street
The Mountain Volunteer Fire Department has asked us to play with our band for their annual Italian Dinner fund raiser. We told them we love pasta but don’t really do Italian music…They want us to play anyway with Danny Brunetti  and David Chapman. It’s for a very good cause and should be a lot of fun with great food! In the local paper it says “Dinner from 6 to 8pm and plenty of dancing from 8 to 10pm.”  We’ve never been billed as a dance band before, and we’re excited about playing an up tempo repertoire for this event. We’ve also been trying to learn a couple of Italian songs before then…
For tickets or more info call Jan  707-942-5002

Wednesday April 22nd 3:00 to 6:00
1491 Lincoln Avenue, Calistoga
Cal Mart Appreciation Day
Once a year our local market puts on quite a festive party with live music inside and out, with lots of free samples and a raffle. Everyone has a great time. They’ve had us play this event before. We’ll be playing with our band in the parking lot where there will also be vendors with samples and smiling faces and who knows what surprises.

Saturday May 2nd details TBA
Mark West Lodge Creekside May Celebration!
Our friend Jack Martin, who owns the Mark West Lodge and the old resort across the road, has been fixing the place up for live music events and plans to be ready for an event in May. We’re excited to be a part of this new venture. This is still in the planning stages, and may turn out to just be a big party, but we plan to play music there, hopefully with a bunch of our great musician friends to celebrate May and the re-opening of this beautiful spot in the woods.

Saturday May 9th Calistoga Farmer’s Market 9am. to noon
We look forward to being back at our favorite farmer’s market with our compadres Dan Brunetti and David Chapman! Hopefully Duncan Draper will show up with his stand up bass and Terry Ann Gillette may even surprise us with her fiddle.

We have a bunch of other dates after this, mostly farmer’s markets, which we’ll post more of in the next few months. In the meantime, please keep us in mind if you know anyone who might be interested in our music at their next event. Thanks for reading this and helping us promote our musical endeavors!

Love,

Lindalou and Michael

It feels a little late to say Happy New Year! But we’ll say it anyway and hope it turns out to be a happy year for all of us and a lot better for the world than the past 8 years….
What a relief it is to see the rain! Sure has been dry so far this year.

I haven’t updated our website in a long time. I finally updated the front page a bit which was pretty outdated. We also finally repaired and added to our photo page. I’ve decided to stop sending out our whole news letters to our mailing list and will just send a short note with a link to this page.

We’ve recently been offered several dates to get out and play farmer’s markets and a few other events where we hope to see you!

Saturday February 14th Valentines Day 6:00 to 8:00
at Christopher’s Inn downtown Calistoga.
The two of us will be playing love songs and instrumentals for their guests
in the lobby by the fireplace.

Saturday March 21st  5:00pm to 8:00
Calistoga Fair Grounds in the Butler Building
1435  North Oak Street
The Mountain Volunteer Fire Department has asked us to play with our band for their annual Italian Dinner fund raiser. We told them we love pasta but don’t really do Italian music…They want us to play anyway with Danny Brunetti  and David Chapman. It’s for a very good cause and should be a lot of fun with good food! We’re trying to learn a couple of Italian songs before then…
For tickets or more info call Jan  707-942-5002

Wednesday April 22nd 3:00 to 6:00
1491 Lincoln Avenue, Calistoga
Cal Mart Customer Appreciation Day
Once a year our local market puts on quite a festive party with live music inside and out, and lots of free samples and a raffle. Everyone has a great time. They’ve had us play this event before. We’ll be playing with our band in the parking lot where there will also be vendors with samples and smiling faces and who knows what surprises.

Saturday May 2nd details TBA
Mark West Lodge Creekside May Celebration!
Our friend Jack Martin, who owns the Mark West Lodge and the old resort across the road, has been fixing the place up for live music events and plans to be ready for his first event in May. We’re excited to be a part of this new venture. This is still in the planning stages, and may turn out to just be a big party, but we plan to play music there, hopefully with a bunch of our great musician friends to celebrate May and the re-opening of this beautiful spot in the woods.

Saturday May 9th Calistoga Farmer’s Market 9am. to noon
We’ll be happy to be back at our favorite farmer’s market with our compadres Dan Brunetti and David Chapman! Hopefully Duncan Draper will show up with his stand up bass and Terry Ann Gillette may even surprise us with her fiddle.

We have a bunch of other dates after this, mostly farmer’s markets, which we’ll post more of in the next few months. In the meantime, we plan to keep making music and we’re looking forward to plenty of rain before all our outdoor gigs! We hope you’re all well and enjoyed the Spring weather in January!

Be well,
Lindalou and Michael

Greetings,
How can it already be the end of November? Time is racing by. We’re relieved that the election is over and happy that Barack Obama will be our new President! We have high hopes!

We’ve had the opportunity to play some really nice gigs this year. Last month we were asked to play with our friends at a memorial service for Olga Kolbeck who owned the Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga for many years. She passed away just before her 93rd birthday. She wanted more of a party than a memorial service. We were able to get the whole band including our favorite fiddler Terry Ann Gillette to come and play at the Geyser for a couple of hours. It was a beautiful setting and a wonderful celebration of Olga’s life. People even danced, which Olga would have loved.

We’ve just been asked at the very last minute to play for the Mountain Volunteer Fire Department’s party at Mountain Home Ranch, in Calistoga, from 2:00 to 6:00pm Sunday Nov. 30th. They recently got a new Fire Chief and a bunch of new volunteers and have reason to celebrate! The community is welcome to come to this potluck party. For more info call Suzanne or John Fouts at Mountain Home Ranch 942-6616.

On December 5th we’ll be joining our drummer friend David Chapman, who will be playing with his band, The David Chapman Band, at a free family dance put on by the Chamber Of Commerce at the Calistoga Elementary School from 7:00 to 9:00pm. We’ll be playing a few songs with his band, when we’re not dancing!
Hope to see you there.

We hope you’re all well and had a nice Thanksgiving. Enjoy the rest of the season!

Peace, Lindalou and Michael

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We’re looking forward to playing several dates in October:

October 11th 9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
On Washington Street
With the 3 D Band
Danny Brunetti on guitar, David Chapman on drums and Duncan Draper, Stand up Bass
(and accordion!)

October 12th 10am to 1pm
Windsor Farmer’s Market
We’ll play as a duo this time
Downtown Windsor on the Town Green

October 18th 7:00pm
Santa Rosa House Concerts
The 2 of us will have the honor of opening for and singing a couple songs with The Rowan Brothers, Lorin and Chris!
This show is already sold out but there may be cancellations. You can contact us for more info.

Oct.19th, 25th and 26th 1:00 to 4:00
Adobe Pumpkin Farm in Petaluma

With the 3 D band except on the 25th when Duncan can’t make it.
Here’s a map.

We hope you’re all well and that we might see you along the way!
Best regards,
Lindalou and Michael

P.S. Back in April we posted our album on a music sharing site in Luxembourg called Jamendo. We’re getting some really nice reviews from several different countries which you can read if you scroll to the bottom of our Jamendo page. It’s great to know at least a few people all over the world are enjoying our songs!

Hi folks,
We don’t usually send music news twice in one month, but we’ve been asked to play at an event in Fairfax and just wanted to invite any of you who might be in Marin this coming Sunday morning, September 28th.

Come Celebrate Public Art!
The Peace Center of Marin is having a dedication of the Seeds of Peace Mural at the Good Earth, 1966 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Fairfax.
This is a beautiful mural that the Peace Center has finally completed.
We’ll be playing music with our friends Christopher Smith and Duncan Draper from around 9:30am.
The dedication starts at 10:30 and we’ll be playing before and after that on and off until noon or so. We hope to see some of you there!

We also have several dates coming up in October which we’ll post on the 1st.

Best, Lindalou and Michael

Hello out there,
It’s hard to believe it’s September already! Our summer has been like a roller coaster ride of changes and challenges… some good, some bad, some extremely sad, and we just hope all of you who receive this are well and happy and enjoying life!

I know all our lives are full and this is very short notice, but we just got a call asking us to play at the Calistoga Farmer’s Market tomorrow morning. They had a cancellation and called us, even though we’re already scheduled to play there next weekend.

So just in case you’re near by… (We don’t know about you, but music is what gets us through!)
Here are the upcoming dates:

Saturday, September 6th, 9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
Downtown Calistoga on Washington Street

Also on Saturday, Sept 6th, at 8pm.
We’ll play a few songs at the Ketchup Festival.
This is a take-off on the annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival.
It’s actually a benefit for the annual Calistoga Relay for Life, raising money for the American Cancer Society. It’s sort of an open mic but you sign up in advance and pay to perform! Our friend Nick Triglia has organized a great line up and raised extra money several years in a row for his Relay team. This takes place at the Calistoga Roastery on Lincoln Avenue from 5pm to 10pm.  It’s great fun.

On Saturday, Sept. 13th, 9am to noon again
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
Our extremely talented friend Duncan Draper has been showing up and playing Standup Bass (and occasionally accordion…)  with our (also lovely and talented) friends Dan Brunetti on guitar and David Chapman on drums. We had a great response last month when we all played together at the Farmer’s Market. We called our band “Lindalou and Michael and the 3 D’s.”

Later that same day– Sept 13th
Calistoga High School on Lake Street
We’ll play the Relay For Life event which will have a wide variety of music throughout the day and into the evening. We’ll be there with The 3 D’s entertaining folks as they walk the track, sharing the task with their teammates for 24 hours, to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.

Hope to see you soon!

Peace,
Lindalou and Michael

Dear friends,

We hope you’re all safe from fires and smoke. It’s been pretty smoky here in Calistoga and dreadfully hot this past week, but we’re all well here so far! We send our heartfelt thoughts to all who have been affected by these devastating fires lately. We’ve been working really hard the past 2 weeks to make our home in the dense woods more fire safe. It’s an endless job but it’s starting to look park like around here. Napa County/CDF has come up to chip huge brush piles for us 3 times already. What a great service they provide for free!

This is very short notice and many of you are way too far away to come anyway, but just in case you’re near Calistoga tomorrow morning… we’re playing the Calistoga Farmer’s Market again and have a couple of other dates coming up as well.

Saturday, July 12th 9am to noon
On Washington Street by the Community Center.
We’ll be accompanied by our friends Dan Brunetti and David Chapman

Sunday, July 27th, 10am to 1pm
Windsor Farmer’s Market
Downtown Windsor off Hwy 101
We’ll be playing as a duo this time.

On Saturday, August 9th, 9am to noon
At the Calistoga Farmer’s Market again.
with Danny and David making it even more fun!

Best to all of you,
Lindalou and Michael

Dear Friends,
Greetings from Calistoga!
Just a quick note to let you know we’re looking forward to playing music in our little town the next 2 weekends:

Saturday June 14th  9:00am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
On Washington Street by the Community Center
We’ll be playing as a duo this time.

Saturday June 21st 11:00am to 5:00pm
Calistoga Art Center’s Annual Art in the Park
with our friends Dan Brunetti and David Chapman
at Pioneer Park on Cedar Street.

We want to welcome any newcomers to our mailing list. Thanks for signing on and supporting our music!  If any of you know of anyone looking for live music for their event please keep us in mind and let people know we’re available and looking for work… We hope you’re all well and enjoying the Summer. Thanks again!

Peace,
Lindalou and Michael

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Greetings friends!
We hope you’re all well and enjoying this beautiful May weather.

We got a call last week asking us to play the opening day of the Windsor Farmer’s Market.
Someone who heard us at the Calistoga Market last year highly recommended us.
We love it when that happens!

May Muse Music:

May 10th 9:00am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
On Washington Street in Calistoga

May 11th 10:00am to 1:00pm
Winsdor Farmer’s Market
Downtown Windsor on the Town Square. (Happy Mother’s Day!)

May 17th 5:30ish to 9:00ish
A Trail Lover’s Event  organized by Volunteers for Outdoor California
Camp out in the field on the Calistoga Mineral Water property after working on the Oat Hill Mine Trail clean up crew all day! To sign up to help out, go to: http://www.v-o-cal.org/index.html
After working on the trail all day they’ll feed every one dinner and we’ll be providing the entertainment for the evening.

The following weekend we’re off to enjoy the Strawberry Music Festival! It’s already sold out but if you want to learn more about it go here: http://www.strawberrymusic.com

Peace and Harmony to ya’ll,
Lindalou and Michael

Hello out there!
Hopefully you’re all well and soaking up the Spring. We haven’t been playing music out in public much since last October, but we’re still playing as much as we can when we’re not working. We’ve recently been asked to play a few events. We hope you might be able to come out and enjoy some of these happenings and hear the new songs we’ve been working on. We’ve been writing a bit but also learning some wonderful new songs written by friends and favorite song writers. We’re looking forward to getting out and about again! Our good friends Dan Brunetti and David Chapman will join us on guitar, drums and vocals. Yay!!!

Friday April 11th 5:30 to 7:30
“Roses In April” A benefit for Hospice Respite Camp
Aegis Of Napa
2100 Redwood Road
Napa, Ca.
707-251-1409

Saturday April 26th 11am to 4pm
Earth Day Celebration in Calistoga!
At Pioneer Park in Calistoga.
This event was originally planned to be on Lincoln Ave. and Myrtle Street but it has been moved to the park.

Saturday May 10th 9am to 12pm
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
Washington Street Calistoga
By the Community Center

Sunday May 11th 10am to 1pm
Windsor Farmer’s Market

Saturday May 17th Music from 5pm to ?
“A Trail Lovers Event”
A benefit for Volunteers for Outdoor California
A weekend camp out event to clean up one of our favorite places here in Calistoga, The Oat Hill Mine Trail at the intersection of Highway 29 and the Silverado Trail. We’ll be playing during dinner and off and on throughout the evening.

June 14th 9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market

June 21st 11:00am to 5pm
Calistoga Art In the Park
Pioneer Park in Calistoga
For the Calistoga Art Center

Happy Spring to all,
Lindalou and Michael