Suzy will join forces with the powerful vocalist Meredith Axelrod (also a dynamo on guitar and ukulele and, for this special show, will also be playing glockenspiel!) and long-time friend and musical collaborator Del Rey, goddess of the resonator guitar and ukulele. Vintage seasonal repertoire includes "Christmas In Jail", "Santa Claus Blues", "Cold Morning Shout" and many other wonderful old-time bluesy Xmas songs. These three women love making music together, and you're invited to join the party!
Wed. Dec. 11 - 7:30 pm - Santa Cruz: House Concert - email herrmann.irene@gmail.com for info
Thurs. Dec. 12 - 8:00 pm (doors at 7:00) - Berkeley: Freight & Salvage - Tickets available now!
Fri. Dec. 13 - 8:00 pm (doors at 7:30) Woodside - House Concert - email aschillace@gmail.com for info
Sun. Dec. 15 - 6:30 pm (note early start time - doors at 5:30) - Caspar: Caspar Community Center (the tiny town of Caspar lies halfway between Mendocino and Fort Bragg) - Tickets available here
TODALO SHAKERS OCTOBER 2019 CALIFORNIA TOUR!
Thurs. Oct. 10 - 7:30 pm - The Ugly Mug, 4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Todalo Quartet (Matt won't be able to join us for this show). $18 with reservation, $20 at the door. Payment for both at the door by cash or check. Reservations (recommended but not required) by emailing crbrundle@gmail.com, or 408 499 9441 (text or voice). This place has really great coffee, by the way! Presented by the wonderful folks at Fiddling Cricket Concerts
Fri. Oct. 11 -- 8 pm -- Encino House Concert. Please email barry.oneill@polisci.ucla.edu for more details.
Sat. Oct. 12 -- 8 pm to 10 pm - Los Olivos Grange Hall, 2374 Alamado Pintado Avenue
Los Olivos CA. 93441. Doors open at 7:30 PM. All ages welcome. Advance tickets @ $15.00 each will go on sale September 16th, at The Book Loft, 1680 Mission Drive in Solvang and on-line at:
https://bluegrasswest.com/tickets.htm
Sun. Oct. 13 - Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers Convention, Stowe House, Goleta - the Todalo Shakers play a main stage set at 2:30. At 12:30, Frannie & Suzy teach a harmony singing workshop, and Eric teaches a guitar workshop. Great lineup and a beautiful site! fiddlersfestival.org
Mon. Oct. 14- 8 pm - Down at the Yard Music Series, Yard Theater, 4319 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles. Tickets $10-2o. www.theyardtheater.com
Tues. Oct. 15 - 8 pm - Naiditch House Concert, Altadena.
Tickets $25 at the door. For reservations and directions, email: davidnaiditch@charter.net
Sun. Sept. 8 - 12:30-2:30 PM - Eric & Suzy with Meredith Axelrod and Craig Ventresco (aka Sneaky Freaky String Band) -- at Marin Country Mart, Larkspur. Look for us at this shopping center just across from the ferry - we'll be outdoors where there is plenty of seating and lots of delicious places to buy some lunch too. If weather is very cold or rainy (unlikely but you never know) we will be inside Copperfield's Bookstore. FREE! We'll play some juicy ragtime, blues, stomps and other music from the early 20th century. We really love playing music with Craig and Meredith and if you come to this show, you will see why.July 26-Aug 3 - Lark Camp, Mendocino - Eric will be teaching at this world music camp, with a huge and wonderful staff, nearly every kind of music you can imagine! www.larkcamp.com
July 26 - Suzy with Jim Kweskin - Bellingham, WA - a concert in the beautiful big room at the Bellingham YWCA. 1026 N. Forest St, Bellingham, WA. Tickets $20, available at the door
July 27 at 2 pm - Suzy with Jim Kweskin - Gig Harbor, WA - more info and link to buy tickets HERE. Or, email band@UBMNA.org or call 253-225-7655.
July 28 - Aug. 4 - Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Workshop & Festival - Suzy will be teaching fiddle (there are 2 other fiddle teachers this year!) and she will be co-leading a jug band lab with Jim Kweskin! Fantastic staff this year including Jerron Paxton, Sunpie Barnes, Cedric Watson, John Miller, Guy Davis, and many others. centrum.org/blues-festival-artist-faculty/
Eric and Suzy are excited to be playing a couple of Bay Area shows with Johnny Nicholas! Suzy got to know Johnny when they were both part of Geoff Muldaur’s “Texas Sheiks” project (along with Stephen Bruton, Cindy Cashdollar and several other stellar Austin-area musicians). He’s now splitting his time between Fredericksburg Texas and southwest Louisiana, where Eric and Suzy and Johnny spent some time playing music together at the Black Pot Camp and Festival last fall. Johnny is one of the most soulful singers ever, and plays resonator guitar, harmonica, piano, mandolin and probably a bunch of other instruments, he’ll definitely have the resonator guitar on hand. He and Eric will have just spent a week at Lark Camp playing their resonator guitars, so they’ll be all warmed up, and Suzy will have come straight from Blues Week in Port Townsend so it should be a terrific reunion. We’ll play some blues, some of Johnny;s originals, and, at the Ashkenaz dance, we’ll add some Cajun music to the mix. This is a rare opportunity to hear Johnny Nicholas live in the Bay Area!
Sun. Aug. 4 at 7:00 pm - Eric & Suzy with Johnny Nicholas in concert - University Lutheran Chapel, Berkeley. Located at 2425 College Ave, Berkeley (at Haste). Tickets available at the door. Be sure to leave enough time to find parking!
Tues. Aug. 6 at 8:00 pm - Johnny Nicholas, Eric & Suzy and friends - Blues and Cajun DANCE at Ashkenaz. Dance lesson at 7:30, live music at 8. Ashkenaz is located at 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley (near Gilman). All ages welcome, free parking across the street in the REI lot. Admission $15 at the door. Ashkenaz info
Wed. Dec. 11 - 7:30 pm - Santa Cruz: House Concert - email herrmann.irene@gmail.com for info
Thurs. Dec. 12 - 8:00 pm (doors at 7:00) - Berkeley: Freight & Salvage - Tickets available now!
Fri. Dec. 13 - 8:00 pm (doors at 7:30) Woodside - House Concert - email aschillace@gmail.com for info
Sun. Dec. 15 - 6:30 pm (note early start time - doors at 5:30) - Caspar: Caspar Community Center (the tiny town of Caspar lies halfway between Mendocino and Fort Bragg) - Tickets available here
TODALO SHAKERS OCTOBER 2019 CALIFORNIA TOUR!
Thurs. Oct. 10 - 7:30 pm - The Ugly Mug, 4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Todalo Quartet (Matt won't be able to join us for this show). $18 with reservation, $20 at the door. Payment for both at the door by cash or check. Reservations (recommended but not required) by emailing crbrundle@gmail.com, or 408 499 9441 (text or voice). This place has really great coffee, by the way! Presented by the wonderful folks at Fiddling Cricket Concerts
Fri. Oct. 11 -- 8 pm -- Encino House Concert. Please email barry.oneill@polisci.ucla.edu for more details.
Sat. Oct. 12 -- 8 pm to 10 pm - Los Olivos Grange Hall, 2374 Alamado Pintado Avenue
Los Olivos CA. 93441. Doors open at 7:30 PM. All ages welcome. Advance tickets @ $15.00 each will go on sale September 16th, at The Book Loft, 1680 Mission Drive in Solvang and on-line at:
https://bluegrasswest.com/tickets.htm
Sun. Oct. 13 - Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers Convention, Stowe House, Goleta - the Todalo Shakers play a main stage set at 2:30. At 12:30, Frannie & Suzy teach a harmony singing workshop, and Eric teaches a guitar workshop. Great lineup and a beautiful site! fiddlersfestival.org
Mon. Oct. 14- 8 pm - Down at the Yard Music Series, Yard Theater, 4319 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles. Tickets $10-2o. www.theyardtheater.com
Tues. Oct. 15 - 8 pm - Naiditch House Concert, Altadena.
Tickets $25 at the door. For reservations and directions, email: davidnaiditch@charter.net
Sun. Sept. 8 - 12:30-2:30 PM - Eric & Suzy with Meredith Axelrod and Craig Ventresco (aka Sneaky Freaky String Band) -- at Marin Country Mart, Larkspur. Look for us at this shopping center just across from the ferry - we'll be outdoors where there is plenty of seating and lots of delicious places to buy some lunch too. If weather is very cold or rainy (unlikely but you never know) we will be inside Copperfield's Bookstore. FREE! We'll play some juicy ragtime, blues, stomps and other music from the early 20th century. We really love playing music with Craig and Meredith and if you come to this show, you will see why.July 26-Aug 3 - Lark Camp, Mendocino - Eric will be teaching at this world music camp, with a huge and wonderful staff, nearly every kind of music you can imagine! www.larkcamp.com
July 26 - Suzy with Jim Kweskin - Bellingham, WA - a concert in the beautiful big room at the Bellingham YWCA. 1026 N. Forest St, Bellingham, WA. Tickets $20, available at the door
July 27 at 2 pm - Suzy with Jim Kweskin - Gig Harbor, WA - more info and link to buy tickets HERE. Or, email band@UBMNA.org or call 253-225-7655.
July 28 - Aug. 4 - Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Workshop & Festival - Suzy will be teaching fiddle (there are 2 other fiddle teachers this year!) and she will be co-leading a jug band lab with Jim Kweskin! Fantastic staff this year including Jerron Paxton, Sunpie Barnes, Cedric Watson, John Miller, Guy Davis, and many others. centrum.org/blues-festival-artist-faculty/
Eric and Suzy are excited to be playing a couple of Bay Area shows with Johnny Nicholas! Suzy got to know Johnny when they were both part of Geoff Muldaur’s “Texas Sheiks” project (along with Stephen Bruton, Cindy Cashdollar and several other stellar Austin-area musicians). He’s now splitting his time between Fredericksburg Texas and southwest Louisiana, where Eric and Suzy and Johnny spent some time playing music together at the Black Pot Camp and Festival last fall. Johnny is one of the most soulful singers ever, and plays resonator guitar, harmonica, piano, mandolin and probably a bunch of other instruments, he’ll definitely have the resonator guitar on hand. He and Eric will have just spent a week at Lark Camp playing their resonator guitars, so they’ll be all warmed up, and Suzy will have come straight from Blues Week in Port Townsend so it should be a terrific reunion. We’ll play some blues, some of Johnny;s originals, and, at the Ashkenaz dance, we’ll add some Cajun music to the mix. This is a rare opportunity to hear Johnny Nicholas live in the Bay Area!
Sun. Aug. 4 at 7:00 pm - Eric & Suzy with Johnny Nicholas in concert - University Lutheran Chapel, Berkeley. Located at 2425 College Ave, Berkeley (at Haste). Tickets available at the door. Be sure to leave enough time to find parking!
Tues. Aug. 6 at 8:00 pm - Johnny Nicholas, Eric & Suzy and friends - Blues and Cajun DANCE at Ashkenaz. Dance lesson at 7:30, live music at 8. Ashkenaz is located at 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley (near Gilman). All ages welcome, free parking across the street in the REI lot. Admission $15 at the door. Ashkenaz info