L.A. Bluegrass in Marin Sunday, February 14, 2010 The Mayflower Pub 1533 4th Street San Rafael, CA map www.themayflowerpub.com Show 4:00 pm
Lonesome Otis is an established bluegrass band that hails from Southern California. The boys — Chris Ruud (guitar,vocals), Steve Stout (fiddle, banjo,vocals), Chris Cerna (mandolin, vocals), Dennis Jackson (bass,vocals) — have been playing together off and on for about three years, but just recently made their union official in the fall of 2008. Lonesome Otis is a combination of new and experienced talent and with its ability to provide clean instrumentals and harmonies is guaranteed to satisfy even the most critical of bluegrass music aficionados.
Susie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band  Award-winning recording artist and critically-acclaimed Bluegrass powerhouse vocalist, Susie Glaze has been called by Bluegrass Unlimited "an important voice on the California Bluegrass scene." A native Tennessean, Susie was the winner of the 1999 Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest for Traditional Singing and her Hilonesome Band was named in Folkworks Top 10 2008 Acoustic Bands in Southern California. Presenting the best in Appalachia to bluegrass, they were Winners of the Just Plain Folks 2006 Music Awards for Best Roots Album, and Folkworks Pick for Best Bluegrass Album of 2005 for "Blue Eyed Darlin'." KCSN writes: "Susie Glaze does something with a song that only great singers can do...she grabs hold of a song's deepest emotion and purpose and wraps it tightly around your soul...." Susie's Hilonesome Band showcases the songwriting of lead guitarist Rob Carlson and features Steve Rankin on mandolin, Rodger Phillips on banjo, Fred Sanders on bass, and Ron Sutton on dobro.