A concert honoring and to benefit our dear fiddling friend, Sue Draheim, who now lives in Berea, Kentucky and has incurable brain cancer.
MONDAY APRIL 1st, at 7 pm, at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley
Tickets are 28.50 in advance, 20.50 at the door.
More info here: http://freightandsalvage.org/concert-sue-draheim

The concert will be streamed live via Concert Window:
We will be live-streaming the Concert for Sue Draheim at The Freight & Salvage, which starts at 8p PT. Wherever you are in the world, you can tune in! You can purchase online tickets for $5 anytime at http://www.concertwindow.com/shows/concert-for-sue-draheim, and the webcast will be viewable on computers, iPhones, and iPads. The show will not be recorded, but you can watch it live in HD.
Income from the webcast will be added to the proceeds from the concert, which is a benefit for Sue Draheim and Wayde Blair, her partner.

Performers:
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
Tempest
Laurie Lewis, Tom Rozum & Kathy Kallick
Leftover Dreams (Tony Marcus and Patrice Haan)
Golden Bough
String Quartet with Joe Edelberg, Josie Fath, Emily Onderdonk and Paul Hale
Live Oak Ceili Band and friends, with the Patricia Kennelly Irish Step Dancers
Will Spires
Don Burnham & the Bolos
Eric & Suzy Thompson
Johnny Harper
Delilah Lewis & Karen Leigh
Harry & Cindy Liedstrand
Gerry Tenney & the Hard Times Orchestra

The evening will begin at 7:00 p.m. with Cajun and old time music in the lobby, and will shift to the Freight stage at 8:00 p.m. with a string quartet featuring some of Sue's colleagues from the classical music world. From there, the show will feature many wonderful musicians who played with Sue over the years.

Sue's musical career began in the late 1960s with Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show, and went on to encompass work with John Renbourn, the Albion Band, Any Old Time String Band, Golden Bough, Tempest, and Caliban. Sue also performed with several regional orchestras, the Western Opera Theater, and the long-running light opera company, the Lamplighters. Since moving to Kentucky, Sue has been playing for contra dances.

"Sue is one of the best musicians I have ever met," the guitarist John Renbourn said. "She is incredibly versatile and her playing in each idiom is always right on the money. When we last saw each other she had a chair in a West Coast orchestra. The enjoyment of listening to Mahler was enhanced by the thought that she could easily slip into the Skillet Lickers. She learned Irish fiddle so perfectly that when the great piper Willie Clancey heard her he was truly moved and I can't think of a higher accolade than that."