Crying Uncle Bluegrass & Electric Band

Name: Crying Uncle Bluegrass & Electric Band
Start: 2025-12-20T20:00:00-08:00
Location: 224 Vintage Way Novato CA 94945

Schedule

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

224 Vintage Way Novato CA 94945 | Novato, CA

KC TURNER PRESENTS
CRYING UNCLE
BLUEGRASS & ELECTRIC BAND

HopMonk Novato Session Room
DOORS: 7pm | SHOW: 8pm
ALL AGES | PARTIALLY SEATED

NO REFUNDS | ALL SALES FINAL
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ABOUT:
Teo Quale is a multi-instrumentalist from Alameda, CA who has been delighting audiences with his inventive and heavily grooved mandolin playing. Teo is fearless on the mandolin, playing with both a rhythmic and melodic creativity that never abandons the groove. He is a founder of and the mandolinist for bands Crying Uncle Duo, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, and Jubilee. In 2021, Teo was nominated for the IBMA [https://ibma.org/] Instrumentalist Award.
He has played with a number of bands, including: Special Consensus [https://www.specialc.com/] as a substitute guitarist; as substitute mandolinist for Missy Raines & Allegheny [https://www.missyraines.com/home]; as a substitute mandolinist for Brothers Comatose [https://www.thebrotherscomatose.com/]; as the mandolinist for Sam Reider’s Human Hands [http://www.samreidermusic.com/the-human-hands], and as a substitute mandolinist for Sister Sadie [https://sistersadieband.com/]. He also plays fiddle and electric mandolin for Pascal Bokar and his AfroBlueGrazz Band. In 2019, Teo had the honor of playing with his brother, Miles, at Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry (Nashville, TN). He recorded on Jennifer Berezan’s 2022 album, Belonging, which garnered a positive review from Rolling Stone France [https://jenniferberezan.com/news]. He looks forward to more collaborations and opportunities.
Teo is also an accomplished contest fiddler and picker, having won several picking contests in California and nationally in fiddle. On mandolin, Teo holds 1st Place in the 2018 Open Division CA State Picking Contest. And, in 2019, he was a finalist at Freshgrass Festival’s Mandolin Contest. No slouch on the fiddle, Teo is a 2-time National Fiddle Champion in the Jr. Jr. division in Weiser, Idaho (2019, 2018) and placed in the Top 3 in the 2019 Youth Grand Master Fiddlers Championship in Nashville, TN. He is also the 2019 CA State Fiddle Contest Champion of the Jr. Jr. Division.
At the age of 3, Teo began his fiddle studies with Catherine Manning of Manning Music in Berkeley, CA and now studies music with Tristan Clarridge of Crooked Still. He began mandolin studies at the age of 8 with multi-instrumentalist Sharon Gilchrist and has studied with mandolinist Mike Marshall. He graduated a year early from high school in 2024 and will attend UC Berkeley in 2025. Teo also has students of all ages, learning ukulele, guitar, and mandolin. He is an avid yo-yoer and aspires to be multilingual. Teo is a Fishman [https://www.fishman.com/] sponsored artist.
Miles Quale is a fiddler from Alameda, CA who plays and sings with depth beyond his years. Miles is accomplished in both bluegrass fiddle and jazz violin, playing with his own bands and as a guest on stages and at music festivals throughout the country and internationally. He is the fiddler for and a founder of bands Crying Uncle Duo, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, and Jubilee. Recording his first album at the age of twelve, Miles and his bands have since released several full length albums and EPs. He has been fortunate to play with many of his musical heroes, including Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Brittany Haas, and Country Music legend Marty Stuart. In 2019, Miles had the honor of playing at Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry. In 2021, he toured with band leader and guitarist, Pascal Bokar and his AfroBlueGrazz Band.
An accomplished contest fiddler, he placed 4th in the 2023 Open Division Grand Master Fiddlers Championship (Nashville, TN) and won the 2019 Youth division of the same contest. In 2019, he won the Jr. Swing Division National Fiddle Contest Championship (Weiser, ID). In 2021 and 2020, Miles was nominated for the IBMA [https://ibma.org/] Instrumentalist Award; and, in 2019, he was a finalist at Freshgrass Festival’s Fiddle Contest. In 2022, Miles was awarded a Whippoorwill Arts Fellowship [https://whippoorwillarts.org/wa-fellows] . The Fellowship allowed him to take a gap year from the University of California Los Angeles, to travel around the world, learning from and recording with musicians. He currently studies Global Jazz and Astrophysics at UCLA.
Miles began Suzuki violin at the age of 3 and switched to bluegrass fiddle when he was 6. He began his studies with Catherine Manning of Manning Music in Berkeley, CA, and has since studied with Tristan Clarridge of Crooked Still, Chad Manning of The David Grisman Quintet, Grammy Award winning jazz violinist Mads Tolling, and Darol Anger.
Miles has taught fiddle at Manning Music School, Berkeley CA, since the age of 12, and he currently teaches jazz violin at Oaktown Jazz, Oakland. He has also worked as a teaching assistant for Freight and Salvage’s Freight Kids Music Camp and for California Bluegrass Association’s Kids on Bluegrass program. He plays a mean round of chess, is a green belt in judo, and enjoys cooking for family and friends. Miles is a Fishman [https://www.fishman.com/] sponsored artist.
Andrew Osborn is an award-winning, bluegrass upright bass player, trombonist, and vocalist from San Rafael, California. At the age of 4, Andrew began his musical education on the fiddle. As a small child, Andrew’s father Joe took him to many Bluegrass music festivals, where he would fall asleep in his tent listening to all-night jam sessions. At the age of 9, Andrew became fascinated by the trombone, which he saw when his father was appearing in a production of The Music Man. At age 11, he added the string bass to his list, after falling in love with the instrument at a local Bluegrass festival.
As part of the young band Rambling Minors, Andrew recorded a CD produced by Keith Little (Dolly Parton Band, The Little Band), and appeared on National Public Radio’s California Report [https://soundcloud.com/thecaliforniareport/rambling-minors-californias-next-generation-of-bluegrass?fbclid=IwAR3Lo34lcHVoe2MgOM0OBTyRk4SgsRSxfM9bbQcPwvtL1bblbILIrUnHJd8], as well as the California Bluegrass Association’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival. As part of the subsequent band Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Andrew opened for The Del McCoury Band at Berkeley’s famous Freight and Salvage Theater, as well as David Grisman’s Bluegrass Experience. In 2019, Andrew (on trombone and vocals) and members of CUBG performed at the California State Fiddle and Picking Championships for the Anything Goes Band Competition, where the group won first prize.
Andrew was also selected to appear in the International Bluegrass Association’s Kids on Bluegrass program (Raleigh, NC) in both 2016 and 2017, and played many showcases there in 2018. He also plays bass in the Adult bluegrass band Festival Speed, which along with CUBG, was selected to appear at the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in 2018. Andrew is currently a Mechanical Engineering student at San Luis Obispo CA State University. He is a Fishman [https://www.fishman.com/artists/] sponsored artist.
Ian Ly is a flatpick guitarist who makes his home in San Francisco. Drawing upon the influence of guitar greats like Clarence White, Tony Rice, Doc Watson, and Norman Blake, Ian’s picking demonstrates both a reverence for the rich history of American acoustic guitar and a sense of violent, reckless abandon.
Ian grew up in Santa Cruz, California and started playing guitar at the age of 15, quickly becoming an adept flatpicker under the tutelage of Santa Cruz bluegrass legend Steve Palazzo, who gave him a deep knowledge of bluegrass and flatpick lore and sensibility, and Jake Workman of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, who helped hone his technique and vocabulary. While attending college in his birth state of Kansas, Ian began competing in the Walnut Valley National Flatpick Contest; he is the 2023 National Flat Pick Guitar Champion [https://bluegrasstoday.com/2023-walnut-valley-instrumental-contest-winners-from-winfield/].
Ian currently studies Visual Communications Design at San Francisco CA State University. He is an accomplished doodler and enjoys sleeping on the couch.