Baby Gramps, The Faraway Brothers with Eric McFadden. Also Adam Traum Trio

Baby Gramps

Old-Time Salty Vaudevillian ~~ Live from Johnny Depp's Rogue's Gallery with tales from Australia and Italy.

"If you have never caught Baby Gramps live, this is your chance -- he's a performer with a style so distinctive you'll never forget it." He's been called "The Salvadore Dali of Folk Music".

Baby Gramps is a high energy humorously entertaining performer with an endless repertoire. He plays acoustic antique resonator National Steel guitars, and sings his own unique arrangements of rags, jazz, & blues songs from the 20's & 30's, folksongs, and many originals with wordplay, humor, and throat singing. He appeals to a wide range of audiences from folk to jamband to punk to old timey traditional and to kids of all ages. Venues he performs at vary from intimate coffeehouses and pubs, to large concert halls, theaters, and festivals across the States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

According to an article in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with Ray Charles, Jelly Roll Morton, John Cage, Bill Frisell, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, The Wailers, The Ventures, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam. He is credited with making Seattle audiences aware of old blues and novelty songs that the rest of the world has mostly forgotten.

Baby Gramps toured Australia, England, and Ireland as part of the Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys CD Concert Tour with Tim Robbins (actor), Marianne Faithful, Martha and Rufus Wainright, Jenny Muldaur, Lou Reed, The Watersons, Martin Carthy and Eliza, Suzanne Vega, Ralph Steadman, and many other internationally know performers. The Rogues Gallery CD, produced by Johnny Depp and Hal Wilner in connection with The Pirates of the Caribbean film, landed Baby Gramps on the David Letterman Show.

Audio clips and more info are available at: www.babygramps.com


The Faraway Brothers may be the West Coast's most
eclectic combo, blending jazz, blues, rock and swing into a
twist-and-turn musical experience that has given the band a mythical
reputation among jam band fans and music industry insiders.

Faraway Brothers are bassist Ed Ivey (Rhythm Pigs, Brass Monkey Brass
Band), guitarist Eric McFadden (Stockholm Syndrome, The Animals, EMT),
drummer Paulo Baldi (Cake, Les Claypool), and organist Chip Roland
(Zero, Doug Kershaw).

Members have a blast calling out off-the-cuff tunes, and the list has
since filled with country, jazz, bluegrass, and acid rock, all
tempered by group's penchant for spontaneity. They are downright
eccentric, they "only do songs by dead guys" and prefer to mutate
instead of imitate, such as their mash-up of Black Sabbath's War Pigs
- a reggae-laced dirge with forays into straight fusion jazz.



Faraway
Brothers had a weekly show in San Francisco for many years that became
a required stop for visiting pros, and lucky fans could boast of
seeing guest players like Trey Anastasio of Phish and drummer Steve
Smith of Journey.

Each player brings a fresh direction to the songs. McFadden is a fiery
guitarist with a wry sense of humor in reworking classic hits, while
organist Roland's soulful work in Zero with jam guru Steve Kimock
touched thousands of fans at festivals around the world. Ivey's years
working as a studio bassist for rock and folk bands is the perfect
compliment to Baldi's interest in hard jazz and Eastern music.

The band completed its third album (their first-ever studio record)
during Summer 2009 recording sessions at famed West Texas recording
studio Sonic Ranch (Tesla, Conner Oberst, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). The new
disc features 15 songs, almost all originals by all the players.
Previous releases include two live albums, Long Ago And Far Away and
Start The Engine And Drive Away , originally released on NMX Records
and available on various digital music websites. Faraway Brothers
willrecord a new album of original songs in Texas in fall 2009.

Eric McFadden, guitar, and vocals a native of Albuquerque, McFadden
has become a standout American guitar slinger, touring with modern
funk's founding father George Clinton, rock legend Eric Burdon's
Animals and his own band Stockholm Syndrome, featuring members of
Government Mule and Widespread Panic. McFadden's electrified classical
guitar is the heart of Faraway Brothers rootsy, jazzy sound.

Ed Ivey, bass, tuba, vocals. Originally from El Paso, Ivey played in
pioneer punk rock band Rhythm Pigs, releasing five albums and touring
worldwide. Later tours include Dan Hicks, J.J. Malone, and Brass
Monkey Brass Band. Ivey opened a popular restaurant in San Francisco's
Civic Center district in 2007 and opened a new live music venue in the
mid-Market area in September. Ivey is a career musician and still
manages to play frequently in the Bay Area.

Paulo Baldi, trap set, percussion - Since his first professional work
with flamenco-jazz guitarist Ottmar Leibert, Paulo Baldi has been
increasingly in demand as a session and live drummer. He appears on
records by such diverse artists trance singer Riffat Salamat and San
Francisco hard rock trio Deadweight. Baldi is a sought-after rock
drummer who currently plays with pop hitmakers Cake as well as touring
with Les Claypool of Primus.

Chip Roland, organ, lap-steel, and tenor guitar Chip Roland first
gained national prominence in southern rock band Cowboy and went on to
road work with Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw before settling in the Bay
Area. Roland's Hammond organ sound has been delighting devoted fans
for years in cult groove-jam band Zero and he works as a session man
in many area studios. Roland's organ chops are simply the tastiest,
and his tenor guitar and lap-steel bring a sweet, down-home polish to
Faraway Brothers.

Adam Traum Bio

A Bay Area Favorite, Adam Traum has been performing in clubs and festivals for 18 years. A versatile musician, he plays many styles as well as multiple instruments, including mandolin, bass and lap steel, though he is most fluent on the guitar. His "Outlaw Country Blues " style incorporates Piedmont and Delta blues, bluegrass, rockabilly and a little good ole' country.

Some of his influences include Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Freddy King and Robert Johnson . Adam has also been influenced by songwriters John Hiatt, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle and Bob Dylan.