Happy 4th of July!
We’re playing a private party tonight at our 97 year old friend Catherine’s house where we’ll have a great veiw of the Calistoga fireworks. The lightening display looking west from our house last night was as spectacular as (and more scary) than any fireworks display. Hopefully no serious damage was caused by fires. It sure has been hot and windy.

We spent last weekend at the wonderful Kate Wolf Music festival camping and jamming with good friends in the heat. Great music all weekend and relief from the heat by swimming in the river.

Michael’s arm is healing up and he’s been playing his guitar again and trying not to over do it.
We’ve been asked at the last minute to play the Calistoga Farmer’s Market this coming Saturday due to a cancellation. We were already scheduled to play the following Saturday. This coming Saturday also happens to be the Dalai Lama’s birthday…so we’ll sing him a birthday song!

Here are the dates we have coming up:
July 6th -9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market

July 13th -9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market

August 10th -9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
Then we’ll pack up the PA and drive to Sebastopol where we’ll set up the sound system again at 2pm to play a private Blackberry picking party put on annually by some dear friends.
We’ll have to miss the wonderful Cur-Ville Fest in Kenwood this year where several of our good friends will be playing! Boohoo! We just can’t be in two places at once or play three gigs in one day much as we love to play!

We have several other private parties and my neices wedding to play this summer but we’re always happy to be invited to play and hope the dates work out.
We hope you’re all keeping cool and enjoying the summer. Come by and see us at the farmer’s markets if you get a chance!
Love, Lindalou and Michael

Saturday, June 1st, Calistoga Farmer’s Market 9am to noon~

Michael had a slight accident last week and hurt his arm so he can’t play his guitar for a few weeks… fortunately it wasn’t a much worse injury! We’re happy to say we’ll be accompanied at the farmer’s market by our dear friend, extraordinary guitar player, singer/songwriter Hank Levine. He’ll play a set of his own and play guitar for us while Michael’s arm is in a sling! At least Michael can still sing! We’ll also have our friends Dan Brunetti and David Chapman joining us and hopefully our new friend Bob Aranguren will accompany us with his excellent Saxophone playing. Hope to see you there!

Happy Spring!
We had a great time playing a double 50th birthday party yesterday and look forward to playing out and about for the next 3 weekends. We hope we might get to see you at some of these events.

Saturday, April 20th
11:30am to 12:30pm and again from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Earth Day in Calistoga
Pioneer Park on Washington Street.
We’re looking forward to playing with our good friends Terry Ann Gillette on violin, Dan Brunetti, guitar and bass and David Chapman on drums.

Saturday, April 27th, 11:00am to 2:00pm
Elizabeth Spencer Winery
We’ve been asked to play as a trio with Terry Ann for their Rosé release party. This is also our 33rd wedding anniversary! Yikes! How did that happen?! Sure is nice that we’re still in love and harmonious!

Saturday, May 4th, 9:00am to noon
Opening day of Calistoga Farmer’s Market
With Dan Brunetti and David Chapman.
We were scheduled to be there again on June 8th, which is what I sent out in our music newsletter, but that has been changed to:

June 1st for our 2nd Calistoga Farmer’s Market this year. (We’ll also be there 7/13, 8/3, 9/21 and 11/2/13.)

Saturday, June 23rd, 10am to 1pm
We’ll play as a duo at the Windsor Farmer’s Market.

Welcome and thanks to the new folks who signed our mailing list recently. Thanks to those who supported our 2nd annual benefit house concert back in February, in memory of my Dad for his 87th birthday and for helping us raise over $2000 again for DCWC’s fundraising efforts for a hospital in Nepal. Our new friend Mele, brought my Mom, Shirley, to the concert and took videos of some of our songs which my sister Jeanette has posted on youtube. We especially treasure one of my Mom singing along with us.

Another one is a song we wrote for our son Leif right before he was born 30 years ago.

There is also one of us covering our favorite Steve Earle song. These were all taken with a camera phone and not great quality videos, but we like them enough to share them and hope you might enjoy them too!

We’ve been enjoying playing as much as we can on weekends and occasional weeknights at care facilities, but we still haven’t quit our day jobs yet! Michael continues doing carpentry and I’m doing quite a bit of eldercare, house and yard work as well as office work from home for our friend Trudi Angell’s great company Paddling South.

Just want to spread the word that we’re always happy to play for parties, weddings or any event where our music would be appreciated!

We hope you’re all well and enjoying Spring.
Hope to see you soon!
Love, Lindalou and Michael

Hi folks,
We’re getting ready to play our 2nd annual Memorial Benefit House Concert in memory of my Dad, Ken Harris, on Feb 23rd. He would have been turning 88 on February 26th. This will once again be a benefit to raise money for a hospital in Nepal that my sister and brother in law have been very involved in supporting as it’s been built by a Nepalese friend of theirs. Below is the invitation my sister Jeanette has sent out. We hope to see you there. Please open the invitation/flyer below for details and RSVP to my sister.

HouseConcertFlyer2013

Spring is coming on soon, and our daffodils and narcissus are all in bloom. We’ve just been given dates for the Calistoga Farmer’s Market. We’ve been asked to play the opening day again which is always nice!
These are the dates we’ll be there:
May 4th
June 8th
July 13th
August 10th
September 21st
November 2nd

We always start around 9am and play until noon or so. Dan Brunetti and David Chapman usually accompany us, and sometimes we have other friends join us as well. Hope to see you at the market, but we really hope to see you before then! There are still a few seats left for our house concert this weekend. If you’d like to come or if you’d like to make a donation please contact my sister at jeanetteg2@gmail.com

Thanks!
Lindalou and Michael

We started the year off right playing a great private party with the amazing Hank Levine on New Years Day. What a blast! This was the 2nd year in a row the Castelli’s have had us play their big party.

We’re looking forward to playing with Hank again on Friday evening February 1st at Fresh Restaurant in Santa Rosa.

We’re getting ready to play our 2nd annual Memorial Benefit House Concert in memory of my Dad, Ken Harris, on Feb 23rd. He would have been turning 88 on February 26th. This will once again be a benefit to raise money for a hospital in Nepal that my sister and brother in law have been very involved in supporting as it’s been built by a Nepalese friend of theirs. Below is the invitation my sister Jeanette has sent out. We hope to see you there. Please open the invitation/flyer below for details and RSVP to my sister.

HouseConcertFlyer2013

May 2013 be a happy, healthy and peaceful year for all of us.
Love,
Lindalou and Michael

We’ve been asked at the last minute to play the Calistoga Farmer’s Market tomorrow Saturday Dec. 8th – 9am to noon.
We thought we had played the last market of the season on Oct 27th, but they decided to extend the market this year until January.

The market is smaller now so we’ll be playing unplugged as a duo. The weather should be great and we’re looking forward to it!
Hope to see you there.

Lindalou and Michael

We had the honor of opening a house concert for our friend Megan McLaughlin in Yountville on November 3rd. Thanks to Darlene and Ray for opening their beautiful home for this event and thanks to those who came out to listen and support our music and especially Megan’s upcoming CD.

We’re scheduled to play our last Farmer’s Market of the season at the Windsor Farmer’s Market this coming weekend.

Sunday Nov 18th from 10am to 1pm.
We’ll play as duo and if it’s raining we’ll be under cover in the big gazebo on the town green. Hope to see you there!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Lindalou and Michael

Today we had a great time playing with good friends Dan Brunetti and David Chapman at the Calistoga Farmer’s Market.

Tomorrow Sunday Oct. 7th 10am to 1pm
We’ll play the Windsor Farmer’s Market

Also on Sunday Oct. 7th 2:30pm to 6pm
We’ll play the Healdsburg Pumpkin Festival
Grandma’s Pumpkin Patch
17740 Healdsburg Avenue
Healdsburg, Ca. 95448

On Saturday Oct. 27th 9am to noon
We’ll be back to play the last Calistoga Farmer’s Market of the season.

On Saturday November 3rd, 8pm (doors open at 7pm)
We’re excited to be opening for our friend, great singer/songwriter Megan McLaughlin at a private house concert in Yountville. To get more info and make reservations you can contact Megan at:  megan@meganmclaughlin.com or contact Darlene at:  yountvlmom@aol.com > Darlene and Ray are hosting the concert in their beautiful home.

Hope to see you there!

Lindalou and Michael

Dear friends and music lovers,
We’ve had a real good summer and hope you have too. The Strawberry music fest was even more amazing than usual and our friends Diane and Ziggy had a beautiful wedding. We had the honor of providing music for the ceremony along with our friends Hank Levine, Ted Dutcher and Phil Lawrence. What a joy that was! We also made the wedding cake which came out great despite the heat.

We have a few gigs coming up that we hope we might see you at.

This coming Thursday Sept. 13th, 5:15pm to 6:45
We’ll play as a duo at The National Heirloom Exposition.
We’ve heard this is a great event and we’re happy to have been invited to play there.

On Saturday Sept. 15th  9am to noon
We’ll play the Calistoga Farmer’s Market.
We’ll be accompanied by our good friends
Dan Brunetti and David Chapman.

On Saturday Oct. 6th, 9am to noon
We’ll be back at the Calistoga Farmer’s Market

On Sunday Oct. 7th 10am to 1pm
We’ll play the Windsor Farmer’s Market

Also on Sunday Oct. 7th 2:30pm to 6pm
We’ll play the Healdsburg Pumpkin Festival
Grandma’s Pumpkin Patch
17740 Healdsburg Avenue
Healdsburg, Ca. 95448

On Saturday Oct. 27th 9am to noon
We’ll be back to play the last Calistoga Farmer’s Market of the season.

On Saturday November 3rd, 8pm (doors open at 7pm)
We’re excited to be opening for our friend, great singer/songwriter Megan McLaughlin at a house concert in Yountville.
To get more info and make reservations you can contact Megan at jim-meg@pacbell.net

Come out and enjoy some live music! We hope to see your smiling faces soon.
Happy Fall,
Lindalou and Michael

Dear friends,
We’re on our way to play for a 70th anniversary party for a sweet couple in Calistoga today. Virginia and Jess Dooley are in their 90’s and still going steady! Virginia still dances when she hears us playing at the farmer’s market. Hopefully there will be plenty of shade today when it’ll be so hot, or maybe they’ll move the party inside. We’re playing there for 3hrs before going to play at another party for some neighbors.

Next Saturday, August 18th, we’re looking forward to playing a small backyard festival in Kenwood which you’re all invited to!

Note: After I posted this news and sent it out to our mailing list, due to a cancellation, we were asked to play the Calistoga Farmer’s Market this coming Saturday August 18th from 9am to noon. So we’ll be there playing with Dan Brunetti and David Chapman before going to play at the Cur-ville fest later that day.

The Cur-ville Dog Days Music Festival is in it’s 7th year. This year we’ll once again be closing the show and inviting a few pals including Ted Dutcher and Phil Lawrence, to join us.  There will be great music all day starting at 1:30 pm. We’ll play from 7:30 to 8:15 and then the jamming around the campfire begins. If it’s as hot as this weekend perhaps they’ll forgo the campfire and we’ll just jam around the wading pool! This is a kid friendly potluck and a really fun event. Dale and Laura have been putting this on every year and providing a wonderful venue, great entertainment on a shady stage, along with a keg of good beer, a great space to camp out and a delicious pancake breakfast on Sunday morning when the jamming usually starts up again.

Please see the website or contact us for more details. Stay cool and we hope to see you there!

Love, Lindalou and Michael