Friday, August 24, 2012 - Sophia's Thai Kitchen w Miss Lonely Hearts. We played a show with Miss Lonely Hearts (Davis) at Sophia's Thai Kitchen in Davis on Friday August 24th. We loved those guys and sadly it's hard to find out where to get any of their music because Wyatt Hesemeyer is such a good songwriter and they had a great lineup of musicians involved.
Sunday October 7th, 2012 - Old Town Sacramento SacWorldFest. Our first festival gig. We performed at SacWorldFest - sacworldfest.org doesn't exist anymore so I assume this is over. At the Pony Express Global Folk Stage, 3:15 to 3:45 pm. I remember this because we had a very small lineup back then and a Moldovan gentleman came up to us asking about the Romanian songs we were singing. This took place in Old Town Sacramento. Local Irish musician James Wilson, a total sweetheart, set up us with this event.
October 11, 2012 - Sophia's Thai Kitchen. Steve Gardner from Beso Negro (SF CA) sat in and the folks from Buster Blue (Reno, NV) were in attendance.
Wednesday November 13, 2012 - The Torch Club w Buster Blue We opened for Buster Blue at the Torch Club in Sacramento, one of my favorite venues in the city and the first time we performed there.
February 9th, 2013 - Sudwerk The Sudwerk gig was always a fun daytime event in Davis, CA. Breweries were getting popular and Sudwerk and Berryessa were always fun gigs for being daytime, outdoor events.
February 17th, 2013 - Harlow's. We opened for Fishtank Ensemble here. I'd met some of them in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Such good musicianship, it was also fun to play a larger venue in Sacramento for the first time. We had a decent attendance come out to see us that night, and FE were very complimentary about our repertoir.
April 23, 2013 We got booked to the Davis Music Fest for this first time -
http://davismusicfest.com - checking it out it looks like the festival has really grown and added more national and regional acts.
May 24, 2013 Robin Croen had come to see us at Harlow's and ended up joining us on bass as Kim Nguyen was always playing in multiple acts. She would end up joining us on flute, sometimese in bass, in future gigs. The highly accomplished Irish-music fiddler Laura Tjoelker also started performing with us around this time. That June was crazy busy with 5 shows in Davis, Sacramento, and Lake Tahoe.
June 2013. We ended up having a second lineup in New Orleans for when Juan went home to visit, featuring members of Debauche, Zydepunks and other local phenoms. These were the shows: August 22 at Saint Roch Tavern - a fantastic place to get things started with a new lineup. August 23 at DBA - this ended up being cancelled and turned into a Zydepunks show instead to appease the venue. August 24 at Siberia (the early show) and the Circle Bar (the late show). I remember the afternoon show at Siberia because we had a few more friends come up to play a few tunes with us.
May 2014. We did Oor second New Orleans tour, this time in New Orleans and Lafayette.
February 2015. We got nominated for a SAMMIE in 2015 and 2016 by SN&R. They also did a write up on us. Finally, a nice blog post someone wrote about us.
June 2015. Our last 3rd and last Davis Music Fest performance. 7:45pm Trackside Stage (901 3rd parking lot - new stage!) on Saturday, 6/20
June 2016. Our last show - the first and only performance by the Goshen Indiana version of the band organized by Jess Stoltzfuss.
