Marla Fibish & Rebecca Richman: Playdate CD Release party

Saturday, June 28th  7:30 PM

Suggested donation £12.00

Come and see these fantastic musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area. Concert, food and evening folk session at Welsh Mountain Cider.

Marla Fibish & Rebecca Richman are delighted to release their new duo album Playdate.

This project celebrates the friendship and musical connection between these two that has

blossomed over the past few years. Starting from their shared love of Irish traditional music,

they mix in some of their own tunes as well. Their selections mark some recent losses that

offset the many joys. What comes through is the playfulness found between these friends

and their joy in making music together.  Lewis Santer joins them for this show on guitar and bouzouki.

   "...a mature series of musical journeys that conjure a range of human emotions,

    from a celebration of life to the remembrance of loved ones gone past.... with a 

    sound and with an ensemble that reminds me of the intimacy of a small session

    at home with friends."          - Richard Gee, FolkWorks

Marla Fibish: mandolin, mandola & tenor guitar
   Marla's is a distinct voice of the mandolin in Irish music, bringing her own musical sensibility

to the tradition on one of its lesser heard instruments.  Her influences come from favorite

fiddlers, pipers, flute and accordion players, and her style one that aims to capture the movement

and flow of the music on those instruments, while highlighting the particular beauties the mandolin

brings to the table.  She is featured on her 2020 release The Bright Hollow Fog, on the 2017

Noctambule release A Sweetish Tune, on the eponymous Three Mile Stone recording with

fiddler Erin Shrader and guitarist Richard Mandel, and on The Morning Star, a duo CD with

legendary Irish singer and bouzouki player Jimmy Crowley released in 2011 —  an all instrumental

project that features Irish music on an array of mandolin-family instruments: mandolin, mandola,

mandocello, bouzouki, and dordan. She has performed and taught nationally and in Ireland, and

was a featured performer at the 2018 Masters of Tradition festival in Bantry, Co. Cork.

Rebecca Richman: fiddle & concertina
   Coming to music at a very young age, Rebecca was influenced by the diverse traditional music

scene of Northern California. In her playing are elements of Old-Time American, Contra Dance,

Scottish, Irish and other traditions. After her time studying at the Center for Contemporary Music

at Mills College, Rebecca took a long hiatus from music, returning over a decade later with a

new-found love for the art form, and a renewed understanding of her own place in traditional music.

Since her return, Rebecca has explored many collaborations including her work with Kyle Alden,

Jerry Hannan, Roxanne Oliva, Michael Harmon, Riggy Rackin, Amelia Hogan, Rory McNamara,

Heath Curdts, The Baybillies Stringband, and many more.

Lewis Santer: bouzouki & guitar
    Lewis makes and repairs Irish bouzoukis and guitars. He was raised on Pete Seeger and Odetta

and started playing Irish and English ballads at socialist summer camp. He has played in and led

Irish trad bands since 1996, playing for contra dances, concerts, festivals, movie soundtracks and

at pubs up and down the West Coast.