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

Peace,

Lindalou and Michael

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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