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Hi Folks,
Just want to let you all know about our latest musical adventures.We played last month at the Calistoga Bookstore for a going away/closing party for the owners Reece and Jeannie Baswell. This was supposed to be private, but word soon got out, and quite a crowd showed up to bid them farewell. We were playing with Dan Brunetti and Terry Ann Gillette,and eventually had folks dancing. Great party for a sad occasion.

Former Paul McCartney impersonator Robert Bataille was there and heard us play. He asked us to play with him at Ana’s Cantina in St. Helena. He set up a series of 6 Wednesday night gigs and has kind of embarrassed us with the posters he made and his press release…. but hey, a gig is a gig… and we do love to play! Didn’t want to turn down an opportunity to play with new people, and this will be fun playing with bass and drums!

We’ll be playing some of our own songs as well as a lot of Beatle songs and other old favorites with Robert B playing bass and guitar. He will also do his own sets and some originals and covers of a lot of oldies, including Elvis,who he also likes to impersonate……..(we told him we can’t help out much there, but our pal Dan Brunetti plays great lead guitar!) David Chapman will play drums. We’ll be playing several short sets between us, and on some of the dates local guest musicians Tim Pinney and another singer songwriter Dawn Rose will perform with her trio.

The series starts on March15th from 8:00 to 11:00
and will be ongoing on Wednesday nights through April 19th
at Ana’s Cantina 1205 Main Street St. Helena
For more info call Robert 707 965-3480

We hope to see some of you there!

Hope you’re all well and enjoying this cold weather. It’s been snowing sideways at our house (again!) and looking like the Sierra. Quite a sight! Here’s a link to some pictures we took recently if you’d like to see how beautiful it’s been here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryge/sets/72057594080080055/
Enjoy!
Love, Lindalou and Michael

Happy New Year!
Hope all of you are safe and dry. We are, but we won’t be going to town any time soon since part of our road has become a most beautiful raging river. Our son Ian barely made it home on the 30th before the landscape changed radically and part of our road just disappeared under mud and boulders and logs. Fortunately it was late at night and no one else was on the road, but Ian said it was pretty terrifying driving up the Mtn. that night. From his description it sounds like the slide may have just been starting as he drove home.
The next day we went down to check it out and Ian took some great pictures!
In the meantime we’ve been cozy at home eating well and playing music. Michael has been baking bread and making soup and enjoying some time off! Several trees have fallen around our house but so far we’ve been safe!

This is unusual for us to send out another newsletter so soon after the last two, but we’ve been offered another gig on short notice. If our road is found by then… we’ll be opening for our friend and wonderful musician/songwriter
Lisa Sangita Moskow, in San Rafael on Saturday January 7th, at 7:45 pm. (details below)
Hope to see some of you there if this wild weather calms down by then!

Here is a copy of the mailing Lisa Sangita sent out with all the info.

You are invited to the Just Do it Music Fest taking place
in the cottage behind my house. It will be an opportunity
to see a wide (and wild) assortment of really creative artists
in an intimate environment. This is a last-minute plan (due
to my cottage not being rented until Jan. 15th). I will keep
you updated as dates with other artists are arranged. I hope
to have a free jamming night—if you wish to participate in that
you can let me know your preferred dates(s).

Jan. 7th (Sat.) 7:45 pm
Lindalou and Michael Ryge are folk musicians who do
originals and tasteful selections from other musicians.
The love they have for each other and for their Music is
palpable. Words that come to mind: harmonious
synchronicity, union with the muse—well you get the idea.
They also play a bunch of instruments. Lovely.
They will open for me (Lisa Sangita). I will do original
songs: celebrations of sacred places and all kinds of
dieties from a number of cultures. I accompany myself
on electric sarod.

Directions: 2126 5th Ave. San Rafael CA 94901
From 580 (coming from East Bay and Richmond
Bridge) or from S.F. going north on 101. Take the
Central San Rafael exit. Go West (left) on 5th St.
from the exit street. The house is a little over a mile up
5th between K St. and California. The house in on
the right-hand side of the street, covered with a jungle
of foliage. Go down the driveway through the wooden
gate to the cottage in back. Please don’t talk loudly or
draw attention to yourselves—my neighbors are okay
and never complain about moderate-level music, but
they may feel disrespected by noise on the street and
may even feel some irritation by more cars parked on
the street than usual. You may want to bring your
own backjack just in case—I have a few cushions
and a number of chairs.

We ask for a $10 (or more) donation. You’re welcome to bring
drinks or snacks for post-concert schmoozing.
Music will not go past 10pm, but you are welcome to
hang out post-concert.

Contact number (Lisa Sangita) (415) 457-4754

Hi folks,
We normally only send out an email to all you music lovers once a month or so (if that! ) But the last one got us an offer to play in Fairfax. Our friend Gordy who works for KPIG -AM 1510 asked us to open a song writers circle at a “KPIG in Fairfax” event. We’ll have the honor of opening for our good friend
Christopher Smith as well as Joe New and Blackie Farrell.

We’ll be playing our homemade songs (as a duo) on Saturday, December 17, from around 8:00 until 8:45pm
at Cafe Amsterdam, 23 Broadway, Fairfax, CA.

We’ve also been asked back again to the Presbyterian Church in Calistoga to play a few songs the next day
Dec. 18th. at 10:30am

We had a great time playing in San Rafael last Sunday even though we were on the busiest street we’ve ever played on… our PA system helped us to be heard over the traffic! Quite a few of you folks on our mailing list showed up and it was great to see your smiling faces. Thanks to those who supported our friend Carolena’s new store “Gypsy Deva.” Also thanks to those who bought our CD and welcome to the new folks who signed our mailing list!

These emails go out to friends (and many folks who’ve signed our list) from all over the country and to loved ones in Denmark and England. We know it’s very unlikely that we’d ever see many of you at our local gigs but we just want to keep in touch and hope to get a chance to play closer to all of you someday! We wish you all the best.

Peace and Happy Holidays!
With Love,
Lindalou and Michael

Seasons Greetings!
We hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and that you’re all well. It’s December already… and time sure is flying by.

Our dear friend Carolena Kling has just opened a beautiful little store in San Rafael, and she’s asked us to play at her opening celebration this coming Sunday. Her store is called “Gypsy Deva.” It’s an eclectic, bohemian store full of international clothing, jewelery, lamps etc. A sort of global market place for seekers and free spirits. Located in San Rafael at 1410 2nd Street between D and E St. 415-457-4492 for more info. Parking lot on 2nd near E.

We’ll be there Sunday December 4th from 1:00 to 5:00 playing off and on throughout the day with our friends Dan Brunetti and and Terry Ann Gillette backing us up with guitar and fiddle and sweet harmonies.

Hope to see some of your smiling faces there!

Happy Harmonious Holidays to you all and may there one day be Peace for all beings!
With Love and Hope,
Lindalou and Michael

Greetings,

Once again, sending out our little music newsletter seems rather trivial in light of the horrible natural and manmade disasters going on in the world. We do hope all of you and your loved ones are well and safe from the horrendous events we hear about in the news. Our hearts go out to all the people affected by the hurricanes and earthquakes and wars that have devastated so many lives.

We’re grateful for every day we have the opportunity to enjoy life as we’ve known it. Music seems to be one small thing we can do that can help make people smile.

We’ll be playing at the Calistoga Farmers Market next Saturday Morning,
October 15th — 8:30 to 12:30
Dan Brunetti and Terry Ann Gillette will join us.

The next day
Oct. 16th– from around 12:00pm until 5:00 pm (or so..)
The 4 of us will be playing several sets throughout the day at the Adobe Pumpkin Farm in Petaluma.
Located at 2478 East Washington St. (on the east side of Hwy.101)

We hope to have our good friend, Christopher Smith, joining us at some point, (depending on his other gigs.) Christopher is an amazing song writer and great musician. We’ll be singing a few of his quirky wonderful songs at this event. We’ve been learning one of his new ones, perfect for this occasion, a song called “Pumpkin Town,” that makes us laugh every time we hear it.

Oct 22nd — We’ll play at the Pumpkin Farm again.(Possibly the 23rd too, though we haven’t committed to that yet.)
These are the 2 big weekends of the year for the Adobe Pumpkin Farm. They’ll have hayrides and picnicing by the lake from 10am until 6pm.
Hope you can make it out to get your pumpkins and hear some music!
Love,
Lindalou and Michael

P.S. Thanks to the folks who have bought our CD recently at CD Baby where all proceeds continue to go to the Red Cross.

Hi everyone!
We hope you’ve all been having a great summer.
It’s been a while since we’ve sent an update of our music adventures. We’ve been playing some great private events this summer. Also had the opportunity to hear and play with some wonderful musicians. We’ve added a links page to our website where we have links to a few friends and some of our favorite musicians.

We finally have a couple of things lined up to let you all know about. We’ve had a lot of new names added to our ever growing mailing list. We want to welcome and thank those of you who signed our list or have recently bought our CD! Hope you’re enjoying our music~

Here are some dates we have coming up:

Saturday AUGUST 27th

8:30 AM — 12:00 PM

Calistoga Farmers Market

(accompanied by Dan Brunetti on guitar and Terry Ann Gillette on fiddle)

The last farmers Market we played in Calistoga was wonderful. It’s a small but great market and we had a really nice response to our music which always makes it more fun to play!

Saturday SEPTEMBER 17th

At Calistoga High School

We’ll be playing for Calistoga’s Relay For Life.

This is a wonderful 24 hour event that we volunteered for last year as well. It was a huge success for Calistoga’s first Relay for Life, which benefits the American Cancer Society.
We’ll be there all day until we leave to play a wedding ceremony around 5:00. We’ll be back after the wedding to play more, on and off throughout the evening. Danny and Terry Ann and hopefully some other great musician friends will join us. Let us know if you’d like to play a few songs or join a team for this event!

Saturday OCTOBER 15th

8:30 AM — 12:00 PM

Calistoga Farmers Market

Just a reminder that our CD Beginner’s Luck is still for sale at this great online service called CD Baby.
Once a year they have a contest to encourage all us independent artists to try to push our CD sales. So they choose the top 100 sales for the month of August, and pick a song off of each of those CD’s to put on a compilation CD. Then they send that CD (with each artists info) as a bonus CD to the next 5000 customers. They say you can sell as few as 30 CD’s to be among the top 100 sales. So once again… we’d like to encourage you to consider buying our CD (perhaps as a gift for a friend!)

Thanks again for supporting independent music!
Hope to see you here in Calistoga soon~
Love,
Lindalou and Michael

Hi everyone far and near,

We’re off to the Strawberry Music Festival for the beginning of a music filled summer! We’ll be jamming around the campsites with dear old friends and new friends for the next few days, when we aren’t dancing to the many incredible musicians on the main stage or riding our bikes over to one of the other 2 stages for workshops, or swimming in Birch lake. Today was our last day of work this week and we can hardly wait to leave! Unfortunately both Spring and Fall festivals are sold out, but you can check out the website if you want to:
http://strawberrymusic.com/

We’ll come home on Monday only to leave again the following Saturday for The Wild Iris Folk Festival at the Mendocino County fairgrounds in Boonville.We’ll play a “tweener” (a short set between the main acts) at 12:30pm on Saturday June 4th on the Wild Iris Stage. The great Joe Craven and Django Latino will play later that day, and the amazing Waybacks close the show on Sunday. We’ll be camping out and jamming with friends after the show on Saturday. Should be another wonderful weekend. Tickets are still available at http://www.wildirisfolkfestival.org/ where you can also see the schedule. Hope some of you can come!

On June 11th at 8:30 am to noon
We’ll be playing at the Calistoga Farmer’s
market. (Yikes! We’re not used to playing in the morning unless we’ve been out
playing all night!) This should be a fun gig though once we wake up. Terry Ann
Gillette and Dan Brunetti plan to accompany us.

On June 18th 11:00 to 5:30 Art In The
Park
We’re playing in the Gazebo in Pioneer Park in Calistoga. Lots
of great local art on display and for sale, benefitting the artists and the
Calistoga Art Center. Terry Ann and Dan will join us again.

That’s what we’re up to for now. More dates coming later in the summer. Hope
you’ve all been enjoying the erratic Spring weather, and have a great summer.
Hope to see you along the way!

Be well,
Lindalou and Michael

Happy 2005! We have some music dates to let you all know about. We realize many of you on our mailing list are way too far away to come but we still want to keep you all posted about what we’re up to and hope some of you can make it out to enjoy our music sometime.

On January 16th there is a Tsunami Aid Concert in Sonoma. We offered to play but they had too many musicians already scheduled, so they said we might get a chance to donate our services for the next one they do, as the need for aid there will unfortunately go on for years. This concert will be in the Sonoma Square at Andrews Hall 12:30 to 5:30 with 10 local bands and a raffle.

We’re playing these dates:

January 20th, Thursday 4:30 to 8:00 pm. @ Lagunitas Brewing Company

With Dan Brunetti on guitar and vocals and Terry Ann Gillette on fiddle.
1280 North McDowell Blvd. Petaluma, CA http://www.lagunitas.com/ 707-769-4495
No cover charge. Great beer on tap!

January 22nd, 1:00 to 5:00 pm. @ Graton Community Center (in Graton, CA)

This is a benefit potluck/concert for our dear longtime friend Karin Lease who suffered a brain aneurism on Christmas day. She’s home from the hospital recuperating now after a successful surgery. Her partner Andy and several friends are organizing this benefit for her. We’ll have Dan Brunetti and Terry Ann Gillette accompanying us.

February 13th, 4:00 to 5:30 pm. @ Sebastopol Community Center (in Sebastopol CA.)

$15.00 cover charge. We’ll be opening this Valentine show for our good friends Maria and Diego Jameau, a wonderful duo, known as “Twin Souls.” They’ll also be playing at the benefit for Karin.

Hope to see you soon.

Wishing you all the best,
Love,

Lindalou and Michael

Seasons Greetings! Welcome to all the new folks who recently signed our mailing list. Hope you are all well and able to find time to relax and enjoy the holidays, even with the troubled state we find our world in. Sometimes it seems trivial to be focusing on music at a time like this, but we hope people find some respite and healing from listening to music. It helps us get through each day and we hope we’re spreading some of that around.

We only have private events lined up right now except for one thing this weekend. Our local Community Presbyterian church here in Calistoga has asked us to play this Sunday Dec. 5th at their 10:30 am weekly service. Although we’re not members of the church, we have played a wedding and a memorial service there and since then they’ve hired us from time to time. This time they’ve asked us to do some Christmas carols. (They didn’t mind that we’ve taken the liberty of changing a couple of lyrics we weren’t quite comfortable with!) The Pastor, David Moon Wainwright, also asked us to play 4 songs he chose off of our CD which we look forward to doing. This church service is of course open to all and there will be coffee and cookies and people making advent wreaths after the service.

We want to remind folks that we’re available to play parties and at this time of year we have some traditional and alternative holiday songs including instrumentals of some of the old carols.

Also a reminder that our CD’s make nice gifts. Most of you on our mailing list already have a copy yourselves, and if you’ve enjoyed it, someone you know might like it too! If you are interested you can go to www.cdbaby.com/cd/llmr or, of course, you can contact us directly at 707-942-0913 or by email at tunes@lindalouandmichael.net

Wishing you all the best,
Peace and Happy Holidays~
Lindalou and Michael

Hi folks,

Just want to let you all know about an event we’re playing at next Saturday. We’ve played some great parties and weddings this summer and have more of those coming up, but this is one that’s open to the public (and free!) We hope to see some of you there~

August 28th at 5:00 pm Low Gap Park in Ukiah

The Cloud Forest Institute, an environmental/education non-profit organization started by our friend Alida Burnstad, is putting on an event called the “Activist Family Jamboree”. There will be organic food and beer and all sorts of fun and educational activities. We’ll be playing in between 5:00 & 7:00 with Terry Ann Gillette on fiddle and Dan Brunetti on guitar. Then a great dance band called Sabrosa will play until dark. After that there will be fire twirlers and then a drum circle. Bring your drum!
For more info call 707-463-2482

We have some other gigs coming up that we’re excited about but don’t have all the details yet. We’ll keep you posted.

We’re available to play house concerts, parties ,weddings, coffee houses etc. If you know of anyone looking for music for their event please pass on our info. Thanks!

tunes@lindalouandmichael.net – 707-942-0913

Hope all of you have had a great summer! Hoping to see you soon.
With love,

Lindalou and Michael