I will post news of this group to Harp-L and Harptalk and see what happens. Hope some will sign on. Seems to me more interplay among Bay Area harp players...
Hi, Bob Thanks for giving this a try. I have let my Bay Area customers know about it. We are lucky to have perhaps the highest concentration of great harp...
At last count three, with one more pending. I hope all of you will send a self-introduction post and add your Web site links, if any, to the Group's Links...
Glad to have you aboard, Greg, and I have long suspected that we have a large contingent of harpers here. It can't hurt to provide a forum and gig promotional...
Well it's been a while since I 'hung out" on Harptalk or Ben's Hot Harp Cafe so I hope I have enough time to join all my local brothers.. Some of you know me...
Good to hear from you, Rich. I am an old Berkeleyan - spent most of my life there - now living in Mount Shasta for the past 4 years (vacation home turned into...
Oops! Forgot to mention. For anyone who comes up here to Mt. Shasta for our fine skiing (we now have a 10 foot base on our uncrowded groomed slopes) or for one...
Thanks, Larry, we do go up northward at least once a year and usually spend the night either at Dunsmuir or Ashland on our way up. If it fits in we'll at least...
I'm 68, a retired journalist, worked in the San Francisco Bay Area (mostly the East Bay) for most of my career as a reporter, copy editor, page layout editor,...
There are a number of good jams around the Bay Area. I have been to most if not all of them at one point or another. But there is one that is head and...
+1 on the Redwood City Blues Jam. I hit this one about once or twice a month. It's very well run and the music is almost always very good. The World Famous...
Thanks, Greg, I'll plan to hit it soon and mayne get a carpool together with some other harpers out in my neck of the woods in the far east bay. I've been...
That's the count as of this morning. Great to welcome all aboard. Plus Greg has already supplied us with a tip on a hot Bay Area jam in Redwood City. I'm...
It's Friday through Sunday at Yoshi's in Oakland. Our band's harp player said it was sold out, but I don't know for sure if that's true. The ad in the...
I'm guessing that I'm number 20. Greetings. I spend a good deal of time in and around the SF bay area. My primary office is in SF, but I invariably work all...
Wow! Great harp autobio! Glad to meet you online and hope we can meet in the real world soon. Again, welome aboard. Hop you'll share more harp stories with us...
They've also got one going on down at Moe's Alley. See the schedule on Mark Hummel's website for details. Moe's usually doesn't sell out and it's a nice...
Just got word from Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto that they will be holding two harmonica workshops in March with Hiram Bell instructing: Hiram...
I just want to say hi. I am in Fremont and I play a little harp. I am really not that good but I keep trying. I have been to Barretts class back in 2003 and...
Hello All, I'm "Eye Bone" Harmonica in Blues Cadillac just want to say hi to you all. Started blowing in High School (class of 1971) after a freind showed me...
I know our harp player John Barclay is going, but not sure whch night. I will try to find out. Bob Loomis ... am really not that good but I keep trying. I...
There is ALSO a harp blowout at Last Day Saloon in Santa Rosa THURSDAY 1/24. I'll be there. Have to be. Hummell sent me his mic for repair yesterday and needs...
So to summarize and get it all correct, we've got three Blowouts and one other big harp show: One Blowout at the Last Day Saloon in Santa Cruz on Thursday,...
Hi, I am sure delighted Bob formed this group! Thanks so much. Well done. My name is Michael Cox. I am called "MC," "Merc," or "Mercury Miner," because I am...
According to a post on the Yahoo Bay Area Blues Group, Drummer Francis Clay passed away Tuesday. He played with Muddy Waters and other blues legends. His bio...
Also off the Blues Group, this announcement from the Seahorse Saloon in Pacifica: The Seahorse Saloon Blues Jam continues every Thursday night, but now ...
Welcome aboard, Merc! Glad to see you here. We will wait a couple weeks till things settle in and then discuss some sort of get-together for those who can make...