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photo credit © 2010 Barbara Pratt
Gretchen Barton
(oud, dulcimer, bansuri flute) has been making music on stage
the past few years with Sofyan, Rock Rose Tribal bellydance troupe
(Rakkasah in Richmond, Tribalfest in Sebastopol, Caspar Community Center, Harvest Hafla at Arena Theatre) and as a guest musician of the Mendocino Stories & Music Series.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Janet DeBar
first heard a didjeridu ten years ago in the Mojave desert.
She has been learning to play since then. The didj is her first and only
musical instrument, although she does have fourteen of them.
She lives on the coast at The Sea Ranch where local harbor seals sometimes clap in
appreciation of her solos.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Harrison Goldberg
has performed on tenor, alto and soprano saxophone
with a variety of groups, including Tabula Rasa, Legend and
Neon Egypt;
he also provides hand percussion to Cloudfire's sound.
An alumnus of
Berklee College of Music,
Harrison has literally spent a lifetime in music from East to West Coast.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Dave Jordan
is Cloudfire's bassist, playing grooves on a left-handed
electric bass guitar. A refugee from Silicon Valley, he is also Cloudfire's
recording engineer and web designer.
Before moving to the coast, Dave played keyboards with Limbic Sanctuary, an eclectic folk-rock band.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Leon Schneiderman
(drums, metallophone) was a member of the theater
group Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and a founding member of Oingo
Boingo. During the group's early years he built original instruments, sets, costumes and theatrical devices, which contributed to the group's memorable and unique shows.
He now sculpts and builds / plays percussion instruments.
In Memoriam
Lynn Stoller
was nearly born in the window of a department store to
bohemian puppeteer parents from Greenwich Village.
In 1972, he dropped out of IBM and opened Up The Creek Records in Boulder Creek.
He began playing Indian tamboura and middle eastern percussion in the '80s;
he was a founding member of Cloudfire.
Lynn passed away on July 19, 2009.
Special guest
Zoë Presley
joined us for our performance at Art in the Redwoods in 2009.
Her inspired - and inspiring - vocals appear on several tracks of our CD,
You'll Be Fine.
A Sufi teacher and professional singer,
Zoë has performed and recorded with Portland bluegrass group,
Cross-eyed Rosie.
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