Barbara Higbie Winter Solstice Celebration and CD Release at Freight & Salvage

Name: Barbara Higbie Winter Solstice Celebration and CD Release at Freight & Salvage
Start: 2024-12-22T19:00:00-08:00
Location: 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704

Schedule

Sun, 22 Dec, 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704 | Berkeley, CA

Celebrate the season with the Annual Winter Solstice Concert by longtime Windham Hill recording artist, Barbara Higbie. Joined by her brilliant musical friends; guitarist, Vicki Randle, percussionist, Michaelle Goerlitz, cellist, Mia Pixley, bassist, Kofy Brown, mandolin prodigy, Jasper Manning and Seattle music/comedy icon Lisa Koch, Barbara performs selections from her Solstice, Chillogy and as yet untitled new CD, as well as classics from the multi-platinum selling Windham Hill Winter Solstice series. Join us for a warm, joyful and inclusive holiday tradition made new each year.
Barbara Higbie is a Grammy-nominated, Bammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist, known for her work as a composer, pianist, fiddler, and singer-songwriter. She has performed on over 100 albums, including collaborations with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, and the Kronos Quartet. Higbie’s genre-spanning music draws from jazz, folk, classical, and world traditions, earning critical acclaim for its innovation and emotional depth. | Website
Vicki Randle was born into a musical family, her father a jazz pianist and her brother a world renowned opera singer. A guitarist, bassist, percussionist, composer and singer, she has a 50 year long career recording, touring and composing in multiple genres: folk, jazz, rock, pop and others. She has toured with Narada Michael Walden, Laura Nyro, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Loggins,. She recorded with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Todd Rundgren, Branford Marsalis. She was percussionist and singer in the Tonight Show with Jay Leno band from 1992 to 2010. She toured with Mavis Staples for 8 years, appearing on 3 records, and her HBO documentary “Mavis!” Her rock and funk band “Skip The Needle” released their 3rd album on Little Village records and she most recently recorded and toured as a member of the iconic rock quintet MC5. | Website
Michaelle Goerlitz has been playing drums and percussion since she was eight years old. After attending college in the Midwest, she moved to San Francisco in 1980 to continue her studies, which have led to exploration of Brazilian, Afro Cuban, Venezuelan, Peruvian and Middle Eastern rhythms (plus American idioms jazz, R & B & funk). She was a founding member of two renowned & long-term projects, the Blazing Redheads and Wild Mango. Both groups blended many different styles which showcased Michaelle's versatile percussive skills. | Website
Mia Pixley, Ph.D. is a mother, clinical psychologist, and artist who uses her cello, voice, and music performance to study and represent aspects of self and other, community, and the natural world. Similar to the collaborative lens from which she approaches her psychotherapy practice, Mia’s artistic collaborations lead with curiosity, honesty, humility, and humor. Protectively whimsical and simultaneously melancholic, Mia’s music gravitates toward the beauty hidden in sorrow, pain, and loss and this beauty’s potential to inspire curiosity, wonder, rebirth, and reconnection to ourselves, each other, and the natural world. | Website
Kofy Brown, an Oakland, CA musician, singer, and songwriter, is a pioneering force in the Bay Area’s hip-hop soul scene. As the leader of her band, KBB (Kofy Brown Band), she has toured extensively, paving the way for other indie artists to follow in her footsteps. In addition to her work with the KBB, Kofy is also a co-creator, bass player, and lead songwriter/vocalist in the legendary all-black girl rock trio Sistas in the Pit AND showcases her talents as the drummer and vocalist in her latest project, Skip the Needle.
For Jasper Manning, playing bluegrass music is about more than just the catchy melodies and lightning-fast licks. When he picks up his mandolin, he’s carrying on an oral tradition that began before he was born, which he hopes to carry into the future.
Twisted songs, social satire, and singing vulvas, Lisa Koch brings the funny, with velvet pipes and razor-sharp parody. With 5 solo recordings, she is an alumnus of Seattle's loony sketch comedy duo, Dos Fallopia (My Breasts are Out of Control, Ham for the Holidays), and cult quartet Venus Envy (I'll Be A Homo for Xmas). She has shared the stage with Steve Martin, Janis Ian, Lily Tomlin, Karla Bonoff, Kate Clinton, and more.