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Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Dave Holodiloff Trio
High Energy Eclectic Acoustic Music
Dave Holodiloff, Elijah McCullar, and Juneau Rowe
Friday, March 7th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food-
if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage

Join the Dave Holodiloff Trio featuring Dave Holodiloff(mandolin, guitar, percussion, vocals), Elijah McCullar (violin/banjo) and Juneau Rowe (keys) for an evening of high energy acoustic entertainment, running the range from Celtic to bluegrass and Americana to Balkan music!

Dave is a virtuoso mandolinist. He has played for us several times before in configurations ranging from duo to seven-piece band. He has many CD's ranging through, bluegrass, swing, Balkan, Celtic, Gypsy, Latin, Folk, Old-Time, and Pop. Dave lives in Monterey. Elijah, a very talented violinist in several styles, is from right here in Soquel/Aptos. Multi-instrumentalist, Juneau, is also from Monterey and is a choir music director there. www.daveholodiloff.com

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Michelle Malone
American Roots music
Thursday, March 13th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

Michelle Malone is a lifer. She's been a mainstay of American roots music for more than 30 years, building her community onstage and off, mixing roadhouse rock & roll with blues, folk, and country-soul. It's a sound that's taken the award-winning songwriter around the world, but it's inspired by Malone's home in the South, too. After more than a dozen studio albums, she continues flying a flag for Georgia - a state with its own ever-evolving sound. http://michellemalone.com

"Michelle Malone has one of the most remarkable voices I´ve ever heard, uniquely able to blow the roof off the place and then whisper a soft song that will break your damn heart."- PASTE MAGAZINE

"raucous and jubilant - somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Shelby Lynne comes Malone alternating between soulful ballads and rowdy, riffy blasters." ROLLING STONE

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Kray Van Kirk
6 and 12 string guitar, singer-songwriter, from Alaska
Thursday, April 3rd, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society, Cosponsored by the Celtic Society of The Monterey Bay
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

A fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, but he set science aside to write songs, tell stories and summon heroes. Within those songs and stories are echoes he hopes audiences will hear and realize that THEY are the summoned heroes. http://Krayvankirk.com

"The evening's act was Kray Van Kirk, whose 12-string guitar and soaring vocals were spellbinding. The Alaskan singer-songwriter, in his Edinburgh debut, was not the reason I arrived early, but was certainly why I stayed late." Daily Fringe Review, Edinburgh, Scotland

"An enviable body of songs. An intelligent and gifted writer." Bob Leslie, Transatlantic Conversations CelticMusicRadio.net

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Mike Beck
Music and Horses: A Western Americana singer-songwriter and fine guitarist
Friday, April 25th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

Mike Beck is a solo acoustic solo artist who regularly performs in the US and Europe and is a regularly featured performer at The National Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering. Mike has seven albums under his belt with original songs that have been recognized as some of the finest compositions on Western Americana out there. The Western Horseman magazine picked "The 13 Best Cowboy Songs," and included two compositions by Mike, putting him alongside other writers such as Ian Tyson, Tom Russell, Lucinda Williams, and Gene Autry. His strong command of the guitar, reminiscent of Steven Stills, has also garnered him many requests for guitar workshops at festivals.

Mike Beck's mastery of the guitar works wonderfully to support his original songs, storytelling, and wide array of the American songbook. From traditional cowboy songs, to Dylan and Haggard, and Woody Guthrie, Mike has a deep appreciation of master songwriters. Ian Tyson took him under his wing, mentoring him on songwriting and performing. They remained close friends until Ian's passing. http://Mikebeck.com

According to Ramblin' Jack Elliot, "Mike Beck plays the guitar like a Byrd. His strings do things that mine could never do. They obey the slightest finger-touch commands like a fine Reining Horse."

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Poi Rogers
CD release
Saturday, April 26th, 7:00pm; General Admission $30, Gold Circle $40
AT KUUMBWA
Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Get more info, buy tickets, see additional photo here

More Information To Come

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
The Messiahs
(Bobby O'Neill, Ken Kraft, Craig Owens).
Local icons of hot guitar and original vocals.
Saturday, May 3rd, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

More Information to Come

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Tish Hinojosa
Austin singer songwriter in Spanish and English
Saturday, May 17th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

More Information to Come
https://www.mundotish.com/

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
An Evening with Brian Bowers
Autoharp maestro and story teller
Wednesday, May 21st, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

More Information to Come

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Bonny June and Bonfire
It's Bonny's Birthday!
Saturday, June 7th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

More Information to Come

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025
Late for The Train
Bluegrass, folk, Americana
Friday, July 18th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr

Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society
AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE
4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073
Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information.
Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check.
Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

More Information to Come

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Last Updated: 02/16/2025

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025 Dave Holodiloff Trio High Energy Eclectic Acoustic Music Dave Holodiloff, Elijah McCullar, and Juneau Rowe Friday, March 7th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr
Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073 Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information. Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check. Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food- if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage Join the Dave Holodiloff Trio featuring Dave Holodiloff(mandolin, guitar, percussion, vocals), Elijah McCullar (violin/banjo) and Juneau Rowe (keys) for an evening of high energy acoustic entertainment, running the range from Celtic to bluegrass and Americana to Balkan music! Dave is a virtuoso mandolinist. He has played for us several times before in configurations ranging from duo to seven-piece band. He has many CD's ranging through, bluegrass, swing, Balkan, Celtic, Gypsy, Latin, Folk, Old-Time, and Pop. Dave lives in Monterey. Elijah, a very talented violinist in several styles, is from right here in Soquel/Aptos. Multi-instrumentalist, Juneau, is also from Monterey and is a choir music director there. www.daveholodiloff.com

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025 Michelle Malone American Roots music Thursday, March 13th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073 Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information. Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check. Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)

Michelle Malone is a lifer. She's been a mainstay of American roots music for more than 30 years, building her community onstage and off, mixing roadhouse rock & roll with blues, folk, and country-soul. It's a sound that's taken the award-winning songwriter around the world, but it's inspired by Malone's home in the South, too. After more than a dozen studio albums, she continues flying a flag for Georgia - a state with its own ever-evolving sound. http://michellemalone.com "Michelle Malone has one of the most remarkable voices I´ve ever heard, uniquely able to blow the roof off the place and then whisper a soft song that will break your damn heart."- PASTE MAGAZINE "raucous and jubilant - somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Shelby Lynne comes Malone alternating between soulful ballads and rowdy, riffy blasters." ROLLING STONE

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025 Kray Van Kirk 6 and 12 string guitar, singer-songwriter, from Alaska Thursday, April 3rd, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society, Cosponsored by the Celtic Society of The Monterey Bay AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073 Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information. Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check. Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)
A fine finger-style guitarist with a precise baritone, Kray Van Kirk has a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, but he set science aside to write songs, tell stories and summon heroes. Within those songs and stories are echoes he hopes audiences will hear and realize that THEY are the summoned heroes. http://Krayvankirk.com "The evening's act was Kray Van Kirk, whose 12-string guitar and soaring vocals were spellbinding. The Alaskan singer-songwriter, in his Edinburgh debut, was not the reason I arrived early, but was certainly why I stayed late." Daily Fringe Review, Edinburgh, Scotland "An enviable body of songs. An intelligent and gifted writer." Bob Leslie, Transatlantic Conversations CelticMusicRadio.net

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025 Mike Beck Music and Horses: A Western Americana singer-songwriter and fine guitarist Friday, April 25th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073 Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information. Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check. Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)
Mike Beck is a solo acoustic solo artist who regularly performs in the US and Europe and is a regularly featured performer at The National Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering. Mike has seven albums under his belt with original songs that have been recognized as some of the finest compositions on Western Americana out there. The Western Horseman magazine picked "The 13 Best Cowboy Songs," and included two compositions by Mike, putting him alongside other writers such as Ian Tyson, Tom Russell, Lucinda Williams, and Gene Autry. His strong command of the guitar, reminiscent of Steven Stills, has also garnered him many requests for guitar workshops at festivals. Mike Beck's mastery of the guitar works wonderfully to support his original songs, storytelling, and wide array of the American songbook. From traditional cowboy songs, to Dylan and Haggard, and Woody Guthrie, Mike has a deep appreciation of master songwriters. Ian Tyson took him under his wing, mentoring him on songwriting and performing. They remained close friends until Ian's passing. http://Mikebeck.com According to Ramblin' Jack Elliot, "Mike Beck plays the guitar like a Byrd. His strings do things that mine could never do. They obey the slightest finger-touch commands like a fine Reining Horse."

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025 Poi Rogers CD release Saturday, April 26th, 7:00pm; General Admission $30, Gold Circle $40 AT KUUMBWA Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Get more info, buy tickets, see additional photo here

More Information To Come

Fiddling Cricket & Canyon Acoustic Society Concert Series 2025 Tish Hinojosa Austin singer songwriter in Spanish and English Saturday, May 17th, 7.00pm (doors open at 6.30pm); $25 adv / $30 dr Presented by Fiddling Cricket Concerts & Canyon Acoustic Society AT THE UGLY MUG CAFE 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel, CA 95073 Contact Fiddling Cricket at 408 499 9441 or crbrundle@gmail.com for reservations or more information. Reservations still pay at the door, by cash or check. Food and Drink: Beer, wine, coffee, tea and soft drinks available. Usual coffee shop food. (if you wish, bring your own wine and pay corkage)
More Information to Come https://www.mundotish.com/