The 5th Annual Sonoma County Americana Music Festival comes to the California Theatre on October 10 with a full day of live music. Experience the richness of America’s roots traditions, from western swing and rock ’n’ roll to gypsy jazz, blues, country, fingerstyle guitar, and unforgettable songwriting.
Featuring
The Occasionals
April & Monroe Grisman The Beautiful Hang Gang
Tom Rigney & Flambeau
The Occasionals This band plays great urban blues, swing jazz, classic country, pop, rock and gypsy jazz. This is a congregation of top shelf talent. Made of players from many well know north bay bands, including The Familiar Strangers, Back Porchestra, The Gypsy Trio, Shana Morrison, Jesse DeNatale and more! Considered by many to be America’s Jukebox given the wide breadth of material they cover.
The band creates performances that touch your heart and get’s you up dancing! Enjoyed by fans and fellow musicians, this group is considered to be the Musicians Musicians!
Fasten your seat belts!
Dallis Craft - vocals & piano
Paul Olguin - bass & vocals
Loralee Christensen - vocals
Brent Rampone - drums
Emily Froberg - guitar
Kevin Russell - guitar
And very special guest Candy Girard - fiddle & violin, vocal
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April & Monroe Grisman The Beautiful Hang Gang
April & Monroe Grisman have spent their lives surrounded by music, art and the creative community of Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area. Those roots continue to shape the original music they make today with The Beautiful Hang Gang, a collective of longtime friends and Bay Area musicians blending Americana, soul, reggae & rock & roll with big, rich vocal harmonies.
The Gang is rooted in original songs, friendship and the gathering of friends, family and community through the shared joy of making music together: the beautiful hang.
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Tom Rigney is one of the premier American Roots Music fiddle players on the planet. His band specializes in blazing Cajun and Zydeco two-steps, low-down Blues, funky New Orleans grooves, Boogie Woogie piano, and Roots Rock and Roll. Much of the repertoire is original music written by Rigney, but they mix in some classics from the Cajun/New Orleans songbook.
Flambeau showcases Rigney’s fiery, virtuoso fiddling, his charismatic stage presence, and his range and originality as a composer. He and Flambeau have forged a unique sound that blends American Roots styles into something original and
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The 5th Annual Sonoma County Americana Music Festival comes to the California Theatre on October 10 with a full day of live music. Experience the richness of America’s roots traditions, from western swing and rock ’n’ roll to gypsy jazz, blues, country, fingerstyle guitar, and unforgettable songwriting.
Featuring
The Occasionals
April & Monroe Grisman The Beautiful Hang Gang
Tom Rigney & Flambeau
The Occasionals This band plays great urban blues, swing jazz, classic country, pop, rock and gypsy jazz. This is a congregation of top shelf talent. Made of players from many well know north bay bands, including The Familiar Strangers, Back Porchestra, The Gypsy Trio, Shana Morrison, Jesse DeNatale and more! Considered by many to be America’s Jukebox given the wide breadth of material they cover.
The band creates performances that touch your heart and get’s you up dancing! Enjoyed by fans and fellow musicians, this group is considered to be the Musicians Musicians!
Fasten your seat belts!
Dallis Craft – vocals & piano
Paul Olguin – bass & vocals
Loralee Christensen – vocals
Brent Rampone – drums
Emily Froberg – guitar
Kevin Russell – guitar
And very special guest Candy Girard – fiddle & violin, vocal
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April & Monroe Grisman The Beautiful Hang Gang
April & Monroe Grisman have spent their lives surrounded by music, art and the creative community of Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area. Those roots continue to shape the original music they make today with The Beautiful Hang Gang, a collective of longtime friends and Bay Area musicians blending Americana, soul, reggae & rock & roll with big, rich vocal harmonies.
The Gang is rooted in original songs, friendship and the gathering of friends, family and community through the shared joy of making music together: the beautiful hang.
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Tom Rigney is one of the premier American Roots Music fiddle players on the planet. His band specializes in blazing Cajun and Zydeco two-steps, low-down Blues, funky New Orleans grooves, Boogie Woogie piano, and Roots Rock and Roll. Much of the repertoire is original music written by Rigney, but they mix in some classics from the Cajun/New Orleans songbook.
Flambeau showcases Rigney’s fiery, virtuoso fiddling, his charismatic stage presence, and his range and originality as a composer. He and Flambeau have forged a unique sound that blends American Roots styles into something original and HOT–mixing irresistible grooves with deep musicality and spectacular soloing. Rigney’s high-energy showmanship pulls the audience into his performances and makes them feel they are a part of the music and the show.
7pm doors
7:30 – 8:15 The Occasionals
8:30 -9:15 April & Monroe Grisman
9:30 – 10:15 Tom Rigney
Doors open at 7:00 pm.
Show Starts at 7:30 pm.
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