McNevin & Friends October 20, 2010

This month Michael has the Red Shoes and Ronnda Cadle joining him on stage.

The Red Shoes are two teen-aged sisters, sixteen-year-old Lucia Purpura-Pontoniere and fifteen-year-old Flavia Purpura-Pontoniere. They play lively traditional Celtic and American music on fiddle and cello. Both girls began their musical training at age six. After years of classical training, they began to play jazz and fiddle music. Currently, they focus on arranging traditional fiddle tunes for their instruments. they have performed at the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, the Berkeley Old-Time Music Festival, the San Francisco Farmer's Market and on KPFA. Born and raised in San Francisco, the girls moved to the East Bay three years ago, where they now live and play music in Hayward.

Ronnda Cadle is an acoustic contemporary fingerstyle instrumental guitarist based in the greater Seattle area. She is in the process of recording her next release with former Windham Hill Founder and producer William Ackerman. Tentative release is set for early 2011. Be sure to visit http://www.ronndacadle.com for more info!
“Ronnda Cadle’s music offers purity that is breath-taking. The sincerity of her expression leaves no room for anything but the essential.
Though a very accomplished guitarist, there is an innocence to her music in which beauty, grace and open emotion are un-obscured by ego and unencumbered by gratuitous flourish. When you listen to Ronnda Cadle you believe her unconditionally.”
—Will Ackerman
Windham County, VT

This cafe is owned by friends, neighbors - and it is a block from the Mudpuddle Shop. It is the place where Niles gets it's musical mojo most Wed Nights, with 2nd & 4th Wed Open Mic Nights, and the McNevin & Friends night on 3rd Wednesdays. We do this for love not money, but out-of-town artists who visit do often need.. ya know.. money, for gas and food. Buy their CDs, and tip them healthy!