Two Bay Area singer-songwriters deliver the goods in a beautiful spot on San Pablo Bay!
COST: $15
Point San Pablo Harbor
1900 Stenmark Dr, Richmond, California 94801
Maggie Forti
Singer-songwriter Maggie Forti grew up across a field from the North river in MA. in an old pine forest; her dance with the muse began there. At 14 she was learning guitar and writing songs and at 17 she was playing with a local band “Full Moon Revue” singing harmonies and taking voice lessons with opera singer Pearl Layton. Maggie enrolled in Berklee College of Music, auditioned for and toured with Berklee’s Gospel choir --alongside college mates Layla Hathaway, Susan Tedeschi, and Paula Cole. She received a degree in Professional Music, networked and thrived in the Cambridge arts scene where she played clubs like the celebrated American folk music “Club Passim,” earning a loyal following in Boston before leaving in ‘91 to do a year long 30 state tour from MA. to Key West, Key West to CA. and up to Alaska. The road led her to singing for White Water Rafting companies in Texas, Colorado, Utah and eventually CA. where she moved to Berkeley and became part of the thriving SF folk music scene. Maggie has performed at High Sierra Music Festival, has opened for and played alongside Peter Rowan, Chris Smither, Jerry Jeff Walker, Libby Kirkpatrick, and the Rainbow Girls, to name a few. Along with her solo work Maggie plays with violinist, composer, arranger and international recording artist. Irene Sazer, along with her mates from “Wildcat Canyon”, an all women’s singer-songwriter troubadour group that performs in the SF music scene.
DAVID GANS
A David Gans "solo electric" performance is likely to consist of several elements: country-blues-style fingerpicking; loop-based improvisations created live in the moment; sweetly-sung ballads, original or borrowed; Grateful Dead songs reinterpreted to suit his voice and guitar; wry observations of the music-festival subculture and the larger world; soulful and passionate political commentary; favorites from the folk-rock canon of the last 50 years. Mix and match - it's never the same show twice, but it's always worth a listen.