Benefit for Saxophonist Marin Fierro with Django Obscura and the Matt Eakle Band October 27, 2007

In one of the most anticipated concerts of the fall season, The all new Matt Eakle Band and Django Obscura will be playing at 333 Caledonia St. in Sausalito on Saturday, October 27 at 8 pm. This event is a Murphy Production at one of their new favorite rooms and is a benefit for the great rock saxophonist Martin Fierro who was recently a victim of a house fire!

Headlining the evening will be the Matt Eakle Band. Matt Eakle is best known as the flute sensation with The David Grisman Quintet for the past 18 years. In this, his first featured venture apart from the Grisman Quintet, Matt teams up with three of the Bay Area's best musicians, Joey Edelman on piano, Alex Baum on bass, and Jack Dorsey on drums, to create a hard grooving jam-band sound in a set of originals penned by all band members, including material from Eakle's CD "Flute Jazz," produced a few years back by Grisman. This band is geared up and ready to set the world on fire in this premiere appearance of the Matt Eakle Band.

Django Obscura will open the show by laying down the a beat inspired by equal parts of legendary gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt, and jam-rock of Jerry Garcia. Led by Peter Harris of the "Jerry Garcia Band" fame, he has long been featured at the annual "Jerry Day." An amazing guitar virtuoso, Harris is joined by his brother, Charlie Harris on bass, local legends, Steve Farzan on rhythm guitar, and Greg Anton on drums, and finally, Matt Eakle's brother, Kit Eakle, joins the band on violin. Kit recently returned to the bay area from Canada, where he enjoys a reputation as a fine jazz and rock violinist. Local painter Andrew Schoultz has called this band "just awesome" and describes Peter Harris as "one of the best guitar players I have ever seen."

This concert is also being held as a benefit to a true San Francisco legend, sax player Martín Fierro. Martín has played with virtually everyone on the SF rock scene from the Grateful Dead to Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs. He is currently a founding member of the jam band Zero and is a truly one of Marin's National Treasures. Unfortunately Martín was recently burned out of his apartment in Corte Madera when a neighboring apartment fire spread into his own. Martín has also had serious medical problems of late, recently causing him to be confined to a wheelchair for 3 weeks. Fortunately, he is well on the road to recovery from both incidents, but they have taken a financial toll. It is to be hoped that this concert will help him both literally and figuratively to get back on his feet. After a set by each of the bands, Martín has promised to sit in with these fine musicians, all of who have jammed with Martín many times in the past.

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