Dear Friends,
In memory of our Dad and his upcoming birthday we’re planning the 1st annual Ken Harris Memorial House Concert!  He would have been 87 on February 26th. This will be a fund raiser for DCWC. (Development of Children and Women Center, Nepal)

Here’s the flyer that my sister Jeanette made.

This will take place on Saturday Februray 25, 2012, from 5 to 9 pm in the beautiful home of my sister and brother in law, Jeanette and Steve Gross, in the Oakland hills. (Details when you RSVP.)

It will be a potluck. Please bring a salad or main dish to share and what ever you’d like to drink. We’ll provide desserts and coffee or tea.

There is a suggested donation of $15 to $20 with all proceeds going towards DCWC for a new ambulance. This is a project Jeanette and Steve are very involved in. Steve has been in Nepal 4 times in the past 5 years and on treks there twice. He’s become good friends with the founders of DCWC, who have been building hospitals and schools. We know our Dad, Ken would have loved to support this project!

Come enjoy a private concert of our music including some of our Dad’s favorite songs, and a short video about DCWC.

Please RSVP to 707-942-0913 or to Jeanette as space is limited.

Hope this finds you all well!

Love, Lindalou and Michael

 

Hi Folks,

Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Let’s hope it is a happy 2012 and we all survive the end of the Mayan calendar!

We’ve been invited to play a few songs with Festival of Friends Friday night, January 13th, 7:30 to 10pm. This will happen in Santa Rosa at Gaia’s Garden which is at 1899 Mendocino Ave.

Gaia’s Garden is a really nice venue with delicious food. Festival of Friends are some good friends of ours who make great music. We hope to see some of your smiling faces there.

P.S. Just a reminder about Paddling South. We’re still hoping a few friends might sign up for a kayaking trip down in Baja. We’re looking forward to entertaining on the beaches again on a trip scheduled for March 25th through April 1st. It would be great if some of our friends could be there! Please contact us for more info if you’re interested.

All the best for 2012,
Lindalou and Michael

 

 

Seasons Greetings,
It’s been a bright sunny December so far. We’ve been asked once again to play the annual Pauper’s Feast at the good old Calistoga Inn! We look forward to seeing some of your smiling faces there. Several people have already told us they’ve made reservations, and this event always sells out, so if you’d like to go it’s a good idea to call soon.

We’ll be there Thursday Dec. 15th 6pm to 9pm in the dining room with Dan Brunetti and David Chapman.

We had a great time recording a bit last weekend with our friend and great musician John Estes. He’s making a compilation Cd with a bunch of his musician and singer/songwriter friends and wanted one or two songs from each friend. We recorded 8 and he can choose from them. The rest will be a nice demo Cd for us to take home and hopefully even share with you sometime!

On March 25th through April 1st,  if enough people sign up, we’ll be the hired entertainment again on a kayaking trip down in Baja. This was an incredibly fun trip last year and we’re hoping we might get to do it again. Here is the flyer, which Trudi Angell, the owner of Paddling South made.

We want to wish you all the best for the holidays and may the world find Peace and Harmony in 2012!

With love and best wishes,

Lindalou and Michael

 

 

Dear friends,
We’re looking forward to playing music for the Peace and Justice Center in Sebastopol for their Annual Community Celebration and Awards dinner. This is also celebrating the Occupy movement. There will be great food, wine and beer, speakers and a silent auction.

Saturday, November 19th 5pm. to 11pm.
at the Sebastopol Community Center
390 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA.
707-823-1511

Our set is from 10:10pm. to 10:35pm. We’ll play as a duo and we’ll be joined by the sweet harmonies of good friends Ted Dutcher and Ellen Silver for a couple of songs.

There will be many musicians performing in two different rooms. We’ll be in the acoustic room along with Shari Garn and Wild Iris, Chris Bramble and Moss Henry.

The Love Choir, The Hub Bub Club and Teresa Tudury will be entertaining earlier in the evening. Later there will be a dance party with Free Peoples and the Jug Dealers in the main room.

We hope you can come and enjoy this festive event and support the Peace and Justice Center.

There is a facebook page for the dance party and also this FB page for the whole event. We’re still among the last holdouts on signing up for facebook ourselves… but we’ll send out these links to support this worthy event anyway.

Hope to see you there!
Peace,
Lindalou and Michael

Hello all and Happy Fall,
This year sure is flying by. We’ve been playing a lot of private gigs this month, something every weekend!
This coming weekend we’ll be playing the last Calistoga Farmer’s Market for this year.
Saturday, October 29th, 9am to noon
We’ll play with our pals Dan Brunetti and David Chapman. Hope to see you there!

We’ll also be playing the Windsor Farmer’s Market again next month.
Sunday, November 13th, 10am to 1pm.
We’ll play this one as a duo. Hopefully the weather will be good!

We received a fun youtube video today.  You can check it out right here.
It might help you see why we love the Strawberry Music Festival so much. If you watch it all the way through the credits you’ll see the part that surprised us and made us smile even more! Enjoy!

Love, Lindalou and Michael

 

Hi friends,

We have a couple of Farmer’s market gigs we’d love to see you at.

September 10th 9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
with Dan Brunetti and David Chapman

September 18th 10am to 1pm
Windsor Farmer’s Market
We’ll play as a duo that day unless our dear friend and extraordinary guitar player Hank Levine can sit in with us on a few!

Sept.25th 10am to 1pm
Windsor Farmer’s Market again!
We’ve been invited back to play with our dear friend and amazing musician Hank Levine! Some of you might remember Hank from his group Collins and Levine who were popular back in the 70’s and 80’s when they got to open for the likes of Bonnie Raitt, as well as Dire Straits and several times for Jessie Collin Young. Hank’s band didn’t stick together, but Hank has just gotten better and better on guitar and his voice is beautiful. What a treat for us to get to play with him!

We spent Labor Day weekend at the Strawberry Music Festival and had an extraordinarily great time. We were delighted to get an email right before the festival from a couple we met in Germany when we were playing there in 2009. They had traveled a few hours by train from Berlin to see us there which took us by surprise at the time. They surprised us again and told us they were coming to the Strawberry Fest inspired by our song about it! We invited them to camp with us and had a wonderful time getting to know Anya and Thomas and showing them a good time. They’d never been to a festival quite like that and loved it. They said it was just like our Strawberry Jam song described it. They went to Yosemite after the festival and then came and spent the night here with us before heading to Portland. Now we all feel like old friends!

On another note, we’ve been asked to entertain on another Kayaking trip with Paddling South!  This won’t be until March 25th 2012, but that gives us plenty of time to plan for it. It was an amazing experience last Spring and we hope to get some folks we know to sign up to go with us again.

We hope you’re all well and doing something you enjoy.

Peace,

Lindalou and Michael

 

 

 

Hi folks,
Summer is flying by and we hope you’re all well and enjoying yourselves.

This coming weekend, on August 13th, we look forward to playing at the 6th annual Cur-ville Dog Days Festival in Kenwood. We’re happy to be invited back to this down home, high quality, back yard music festival. We’ll play as a duo at 3:00, right after our friend and Cur-ville host, great singer/songwriter  Dale Henry Geist and right before the famous singer/songwriter and dear friend, Michael McNevin entertains us. (NOTE: The schedule has just changed after I posted and sent this out. Due to JL Stiles needing to leave early for another gig, we’ll be playing at 8pm instead of 3pm.) There will be great music all afternoon and into the evening. There’s plenty of room to camp and a nice campfire where we’ll all be jamming into the wee hours. There is no fee to get in but they encourage donations to help cover their costs. There will be free beer and it’s a potluck, but there will also be food for sale. We hope to see some of your familiar faces there!

We’ve been keeping really busy with music every weekend lately. Last weekend we played a wonderful private blackberry picking party in a beautiful place. We’ve been invited back to play there three years in a row now. What a treat! After that we played around the campfire at a good friend’s 70th birthday party. The next day we had planned to stay home for a change.. but we woke up to a surprise phone call from our friend Ginger who had two extra tickets to the MUSE concert!  So we went with her family and had a great time. What an experience!

The week before that we played the Calistoga Farmer’s Market on Michael’s birthday and he was thoroughly embarrassed by our friend Frederick making a big deal out of it. Thank you to all who sang to him and signed and generously contributed to the nice birthday card!

That same weekend we were invited to our good friend Christopher Smith’s home studio to do a little recording. We worked on six songs and felt like we’re finally making some progress on our 2nd CD which we’ve been meaning to do for years.

Besides working our regular jobs, we’re still playing some care facilities occasionally on week nights. We’re also planning to go to the 30th anniversary of the Fall Strawberry Music festival over Labor Day weekend! Never a dull moment.

We’ll be back at the Calistoga Farmer’s Market on September 10th and at the Windsor Farmer’s Market on Sept 18th.

Enjoy the rest of the summer and be well!

Love, Lindalou and Michael

 

Hi friends,

We’re playing the Windsor Farmer’s Market as a duo this coming Sunday, July 3rd, from 10am to 1pm.
They’ll be having a quilt and flower show. This is a really nice little market. Hope to see you there!

We have several private things lined up this summer, but just a couple more public gigs.

We’ll  play the Calistoga Farmer’s Market on July 30th, (Michael’s birthday!) 9am to noon with our pals Dan Brunetti and David Chapman.

on August 13th, we look forward to playing at the 6th annual Cur-Ville Dog Days Festival in Kenwood. What an honor to be invited back to this down home, high quality, back yard music festival.

We had a great time at the Kate Wolf Memorial Festival. Many of our good friends were playing the main stage this year. Check out  Houston Jones and Stevie Coyle. They put on wonderful shows (as always!) and our friend Karl Kummerle was invited to play a couple of songs with them which was great!

Our dear friends Diane and Ziggy help host the Sunset Radio at the festival and have invited us to play the past few years. Diane says it’s becoming a tradition. The main stage music is broadcast all weekend so folks in their camps can tune in when they don’t make it out to the stage. During the breaks on the stage they invite various musicians to play. Diane and Ziggy keep inviting us back which we really appreciate!

Our good friend Terry Ann Gillette, who plays fiddle on our CD, showed up on Sunday and surprised us. She and Karl had never met before but we invited them both to join us on Sunset Radio to play three songs. We had a great time and it was a joy to be accompanied by our two favorite fiddlers!

We’ll be continuing to play our local farmer’s markets and care facilities throughout the summer. We might also be available for more weddings, parties or any occasion where our music would fit.

Hope you and yours are all well and enjoying the summer! Have a happy Independence Day and thanks for supporting independent music!

Peace, Lindalou and Michael

 

 

Dear friends,
We have a couple of gigs coming right up. We’d love to see you.

This Wednesday, June 15th,  11am to 3pm
We’ll play an event at the Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga. We’ll play as a duo focusing on familiar old time songs. This is actually a private lunch put on for a senior group in Calistoga called Creative Living. Warren Klima, who owns the geyser, generously puts on this event every year. We played there last year and it was a really nice event. The Geyser is open to the public, (with an entrance fee.) It’s a beautiful site, and you’re welcome to come enjoy the music.

The next day, Thursday, June 16th,  5pm to 8:00
We’ll be back at Elizabeth Spencer Tasting Room in Rutherford.
We were asked in April to play the first Thursday of every month, but friends of ours, Sweet Burgundy who I recommended, were only available on the first Thursday this month so they played then.
We’ll be playing there in the pet friendly courtyard with our good friends, fantastic fiddler Terry Ann Gillette and great guitar player Dan Brunetti. Come enjoy our music along with some exceptionally good wine.

On Saturday, June 18th, 9am to noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market
We look forward to playing at our favorite farmer’s market again with Dan Brunetti and David Chapman.

We’re sure glad for a break in the rain. It’s finally  feeling like summer. Our garden is so happy to get some sunshine!

We were at the Strawberry music fest over Memorial Day weekend and had a great time despite the rain, sleet and even a bit of snow. Our young fiddler friend Karl Kummerle was there with us and got his second ‘tweener on the main stage! The first time was when he was twelve and our friend Duncan Draper got to accompany Karl on stand up bass back then. Now Karl is 17 and he got to play 3 songs on stage with great dobro player Michael Witcher whose brother Gabe has been a big inspiration to Karl with his exceptional fiddle playing. Here are some links to Karl’s songs at Strawberry   “Jerusalem Ridge ,”    “an old Scottish tune” (our favorite!) and “Old Dangerfield“  We were all there cheering him on under the drizzling sky. As soon as he started to play, a rainbow appeared over the meadow!

We’re getting ready for the Kate Wolf Music fest where several of our good friends will be playing the main stage this year! We look forward to camping, dancing, swimming in the river and playing music with friends all weekend. If you come you can find us camping near our friend Alan’s famous candle chandelier which is hard to miss, especially at night.

Hope you’re all well too- and find time to get out and soak up some music!

Love, Lindalou and Michael

Hi folks,
We just wanted to let you all know we’ll be playing music again tonight, May 5th, in Rutherford. We had a great time playing with our band last month at the Elizabeth Spencer Tasting Room. It’s a really nice place and they were serving delicious appetizers and high quality wine. They asked us to come back and play on the first Thursday of every month. Yay!

This month they’re celebrating their five year anniversary and they’ll have new music every Thursday night. This event is free! I had posted earlier that it was $20.00 to the general public because that’s what it was for last months event, but I was mistaken!

So here’s where we’ll be playing this week:

Thurdsay, May 5th 5:00 to 8:00pm
Elizabeth Spencer Tasting Room
With Dan Brunetti, Duncan Draper and Terry Ann Gillette

Saturday, May 7th 9:00am to Noon
Calistoga Farmer’s Market Opening day with the 3 D’s!
Great musicians, Dan Brunetti, David Chapman and Duncan Draper

We hope to see some familiar faces!
Happy Spring,
Lindalou and Michael