We’re looking forward to playing with The Strider Factor at the Lost Church on November 20!

Greetings friends,
We hope you’re all doing well this Fall!

We’ve been really busy with care home gigs and playing a few private parties, while also working on our old house up here on the mountain.

We’re getting ready to go play a wedding in Upstate New York for our son Ian’s best friends Dan and Emily!

In November we’re looking forward to playing at the Lost Church again with our friends Robin Factor and Jon Strider “The Strider Factor” on November 20th. This will be another singer-songwriter in the round format where we’ll be taking turns playing our home made songs, mostly as duos the way they were written and recorded, but also accompanying each other on a few of them which is always fun. I’ll update this with more information when we have it and hopefully with a date and time that we’ll get to be on KRCB again with our friend and favorite DJ Doug Jayne.

It’s been 20 years since we tragically lost our beautiful nephew Steffen. He was only 18 when he died in a car accident. He was a talented musician and in a great theater group at the time that was raising money for Children’s hospital in Oakland. His theater teacher, Leslie Noel Hansen is putting on this Beatles tribute concert for him on the 20th anniversary of his passing. She’s asked us to participate. She and her students and some of Steffen’s close friends and bandmates will all be singing to celebrate Steffen’s life. This is coming right up on August 15th at 7pm in Lafayette where Steffen grew up and had just graduated from high school shortly before his life was suddenly cut short. He loved the Beatles and had sung “With a Little Help From My Friends” at his graduation.

Here is a link to buy tickets to the event:

https://ticketstripe.com/events/724109282020733

We finally finished a new album! It’s called “Different ’round Here – Camp Rose Sessions”

This recording project was started a long time ago with Darryl Webb in his studio at Camp Rose in Healdsburg. We got sidetracked by a few other things and dropped the ball on finishing it for way too long. We had planned to have our dear friends Ted Dutcher and Susan Ballinger add tracks to it, but unfortunately time got away from us…Darryl has gotten a full time teaching job and is closing his studio, but he kindly offered to spend last week with us finishing our album! So we had to keep it simple and just make it a duo CD. We finally went back and completed recordings of 16 of our home made songs. Our son Ian has been helping us get the CD cover design done and ready to send everything off for duplication. He also helped us get it all on Bandcamp where it is available for download. Yay!!!

On Friday July 10th we’ll be back on KRCB 104.9 FM with Doug Jayne at 1:30 pm! We’re excited to get a chance to promote and play a few songs off our new album! If you want to listen you can tune in online at KRCB.org Friday July 10th at 1:30pm.

On Thursday July 16th, we’ll be playing at the Blue Water Lounge in Bodega Bay from 4pm until 7pm. This is a great venue with delicious food and an amazing view of Bodega Bay. We’re happy to have been invited back for a third time and hope to see a bunch of our friends there again!

We’ve continued playing regularly at care facilities a few times a week, which we’ve been doing for many years. This is our main job now that we’re on Social Security! We always get a nice response and it feels good to be able to get folks dancing in their chairs or with walkers and singing along.

Hope you’re all having a great summer and we hope to see you soon!

Love, Lindalou & Michael

We’re looking forward to playing the Calistoga Farmer’s Market on March 14th, 9am to 1pm.
We’ll be there again on April 25th, also 9am to 1pm.

We’re delighted to have been invited back to the Bluewater Lounge on July 16th, 4pm to 7pm
We had a great time there with an enthusiastic audience at the end of January and look forward to playing there again!

If you need something to distract you from the sadness and madness, music is what keeps us going. It seems to be really good medicine!

We’re delighted to have been asked to play again at the Bluewater Lounge in beautiful Bodega Bay on Thursday, January 29th, 2026 from 4pm to 7pm.
We’re still playing regularly at retirement homes and elder care facilities but really looking forward to playing at a public venue again. We’ll play as a duo and hope to see some of our friends there!

Below is the poster our friend Jonah Pelter put together last year when he hired us to play. We knew him when he was a kid in Calistoga and now he books the music for the Blue Water Lounge! He chose the photo off our website from when we were playing for a customer appreciate event many years ago at Cal Mart in our home town!

It’s been way too long since we’ve even looked at our website…and we doubt anyone else is looking at it either! Still, just in case anyone is checking, I’d like to post our first public gig we’ve had in many moons, which is coming up this weekend. We still enjoy playing regularly in memory care and assisted living places every week but they aren’t open to the pubic so I never post those gigs.

This coming Saturday though, on November 22nd, 2025, we’ve been asked to play the Calistoga Farmer’s Market again after taking a long break from playing there. We’ll be there (if it’s not raining) from 9am to 1pm. We’re looking forward to seeing old friends there and reconnecting with our Calistoga community.

Then in January we’ve been invited back to the Blue Water Lounge in Bodega Bay! Last January we had a great time playing there.

We’re looking forward to being there again on January 29th 2026 from 4pm to 7pm. We hope to see some of our friends there again!

Be well everyone!
In harmony,
Lindalou & Michael

It’s been a long time since we’ve played a public venue, and the first time we’ve gotten to share a stage with our friends, great local singer-songwriters Robin Factor and John Strider. They kindly asked us to join them for a singer-songwriters in the round concert at The Lost Church in Santa Rosa! We’re really looking forward to this and hope to see a lot of our friends there, on lucky Friday the 13th of September.
Doors at 7:30pm. Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission

We’re excited to have been asked to provide some afternoon music for this family friendly gathering, and honored to be the opening act for some of our musical heroes! We’ve loved seeing/hearing Mamuse and the Fula Brothers perform at festivals. They’ve joined up as FulaMuse and they’ll get us all dancing!

We’ll be playing outside at 4pm before their concert in the main hall at 7pm. We hope to have our favorite bass player, great harmony singer and dear friend Ted Dutcher joining us!

This will be the first time since last year that we’ve played for an event that is open to the general public and we’re really looking forward to it!

For more information please check out the website: https://seb.org/the-gathering/


Meanwhile, we’ve been keeping really busy with regular elder care home gigs, a few weddings, parties and memorial services. Also working hard on trying to be as prepared as we can for another fire season.

At the end of February, we got snowed in with almost a foot of snow for the first time here! We lost many of our beloved trees that had been partially burned but had somehow survived the Glass fire in 2020. They couldn’t handle the weight of the snow though, so we’re still trying to clean up the broken and fallen trees on all sides. We’re so grateful to still be able to live here though! This Spring has been amazing with more abundant flowers blooming here than usual.

We’re trying to get back in the studio to finish recording the demos we were working on last fall. We’re hoping to have some new recordings to share soon.

Wishing everyone all the best!

With Love, Lindalou & Michael