We spent last weekend camping with friends and family, playing music and dancing at the wonderful Kate Wolf Memorial Music festival up at the beautiful Black Oak Ranch in Laytonville.  There was incredible music on several stages Friday through Sunday. We rode our bikes from one stage to the next and back to camp for great meals and jamming with friends into the wee hours. What a joy!

This weekend we look forward to playing a wedding here in Calistoga. This wedding is located beside a vineyard where Michael and I had a job together when we first moved to Calistoga in 1980. We played the couple a love song, called “I’ll Meet You in the Vineyard,” that Michael wrote for me back then, (while working in that vineyard,) and they chose that song for their ceremony!

July 14th, 9am to noon
We’ll be back at the Calistoga Farmer’s Market.
This time we’ll play as a duo since our friends Danny and David will both be out of town.
That same day, later in the afternoon, we’ll be playing a private event for a rural neighborhood group called the Alpine Club.

July 28th, We’ll play for our good friend’s Gaelen and Lily’s wedding up in Garberville.  We’re excited that they chose to start their ceremony with the song we wrote for our own wedding vows back in 1980.

August 4th, We’re invited again to play a private annual Blackberry picking party, a really fun party some dear friends have asked us to play for the past 4 years.

August 5th, We’ll be back at the Windsor Farmer’s Market.

August 12th, We’ve been asked to play a 70th anniversary party for Virginia and Jess Dooley. Virginia is in her 90’s and still going strong. She dances up to us when she hears us playing at the farmer’s market!

August 18th, We look forward to playing again, for our 4th year in a row, at the annual Cur-Ville Dog Days Music Festival in Kenwood.

August 31st, We’re excited about playing a wedding and making the cake for dear friends Diane and Ziggy at the Strawberry Music Festival over Labor Day weekend.

September 13th, We’re looking forward to playing at the 2012 National Heirloom Exposition (hopefully our first annual!)

Sept 15th, We’ll be back at the Calistoga Farmer’s Market.

October 7th, We’ll play the Windsor Farmer’s Market again and later that day for our first time at the Healdsburg Pumpkin Festival.

Oct 27th, We’ll play the last Calistoga Farmer’s Market of the year.

November 1st, We’ll be back for one more Windsor Farmer’s Market this year.

We’re so glad to be able to play music between our regular day jobs which we haven’t been able to quit yet!

We hope you’re all well and enjoying summer too.

All the best,

Lindalou and Michael

Hi friends,

Due to a cancellation we’ve been asked to play at the Calistoga Farmers Market tomorrow morning,
Saturday June 9th, from 9am to noon
Bob Castell- Blanch was scheduled to play Latin Jazz but he can’t make it. We hope no one is too disappointed to hear folk music instead of Latin Jazz!

We’ll be there with our friend Dan Brunetti and hope to see you there if you happen to be in the neighborhood.

We’ll be there again on July 14th. In the meantime we’ve been playing some great private parties and have a couple of weddings coming up that we look forward to playing in July. Please keep us in mind if you or someone you know might like us to play at their event. Thanks!

In harmony,

Lindalou and Michael

Hi folks,
We’ll be playing a few places in the next couple of weeks and hope to see some familiar faces there. We’ll continue playing some private parties and care facilities, but have been invited back to play at the Elizabeth Spencer Winery in Rutherford. We’ve just been asked at the last minute to also play the Windsor Farmer’s Market. Then we’ll play opening day of the Calistoga Farmer’s Market on Cinco de Mayo as well as the Calistoga Education Foundation Auction later that day.

Here are the details:

Elizabeth Spencer Winery
Saturday, April 28th  11:30am to 2:30pm
We’ll be accompanied by Dan Brunetti and Terry Ann Gillette.

Windsor Farmer’s Market
Sunday, April 29th 10am to 1pm.
We were just asked at the last minute to play there.
We’ll play as a duo this time.

Calistoga Farmer’s Market
Saturday, May 5th  9:00am to noon
We’ll be playing with our friends David Chapman and Dan Brunetti. Between our own songs and old favorites, we also look forward to playing a few songs en Español for Cinco de Mayo.

Calistoga Education Foundation Auction
Saturday, May 5th  4:30 to 6:30
This fun event actually goes until 9:30 and will be in the Tubbs Building at the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga. We’ll play with David and Dan during the silent auction. Natalie Moon Wainwright will sing a few songs right before the live auction. There will be a dance after the live auction with great music by the Cassidy Crowley Band.

We’ll play a private party late that night, jamming with friends into the wee hours as long as our fingers and voices hold up!

We hope you’re all well and have had a happy healthy Earth Day!

Peace,

Lindalou and Michael

 

Hi Folks,
March has flown by and we’ve been playing a bit but no public gigs this month. We have a couple of things coming up later this Spring.

Our house concert back on February 25th was really fun and a nice way to honor my late Dad’s birthday. We raised almost $2000.00 for the DCWC ambulance project in Nepal. Thanks to all who came and enjoyed the evening and supported this project that my sister and brother in law are so involved in. We may do another house concert to help with this in the next couple of months. They are still only at 58% of their goal, so we’d love to help them raise more funds for this.

Yesterday we found out about a cool thing that our local Oliver’s Market is doing and we just submitted a song for it. They’re calling their project “Real Music.” It’s a way for them to help local Sonoma County musicians get their music heard and it will benefit the Redwood Empire Food Bank. Sounds like a great thing to get involved in and we encourage any other Sonoma county musicians reading this to check it out.  We’re hoping they might like our music enough to invite us to play one of their events, and maybe even choose one of our songs for a compilation CD they plan to make of local musician’s original songs. It would be a great way to donate to the food bank.

We’ll keep you posted and let you know more soon about our upcoming gigs, one on April 27th in Calistoga and one on April 28th down in Rutherford at the Elizabeth Spencer Winery, as well as opening day of the Calistoga Farmer’s Market on Cinco de Mayo and the Calistoga Education Foundation Auction later in the afternoon and evening on May 5th.

Thanks for checking in and we hope you’re all well!

In harmony,

Lindalou and Michael

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