Bay Area House Concerts

Lorin Rowan and the Deep Blue Jam
Saturday, September 27, 2025
4:30 pm- 7 pm
San Rafael

San Francisco Bay Area-based "Deep Blue Jam" band, founded by Lorin Rowan (Rowan Brothers) & co-founder Kirk Casey, showcase their original songwriting, mandolin/guitar-based American Roots/Rock music sprinkled in some Bob Marley, Police, Dead and Steely Dan.
With fellow band members, Mark Levine (bass), Matt Willis (drums), all of whom have played with a wide variety of virtuoso musicians from Phil Lesh, Steve Miller, Huey Lewis and the News, Barry Manilow, Little Feat, Levon Helm just to name a few!

Fans of the FogHouse and Hardly Strictly will be please to know that long time alumni (2015!) Phoebe Hunt & Dominick Leslie will be returning to play both!!

We met these star struck musicians over 10 years ago and that star continues to shine bright. This time they will be visiting us as parents to little Vassar (destined to be a fiddler no doubt).

For fans of HSB you’ll have an opportunity to see them playing with the Sam Grismon Project. But for the ultimate experience join us before the festival for an intimate evening in the best setting of all, my living room!

Phoebe Hunt & Dominick Leslie are a rare conversation between voice, fiddle, and mandolin—equal parts songcraft, improvisation, and heart. Hunt is a Texas-raised, Nashville-based artist whose 2017 LP Shanti’s Shadow drew praise from Rolling Stone and the Austin Chronicle for its adventurous blend of roots and global colors; her 2023 album Nothing Else Matters distills that vision to voice and violin alone.

Leslie, a dazzling picker known best for his work with Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, is a two-time Best Bluegrass Album Grammy band member and one of his generation’s standout mandolin voices; he first turned heads winning the RockyGrass Mandolin Contest at 14, the event’s youngest champion.

As a duo, they’ve appeared at the Austin Music Awards in a “borderless love” segment and on major festival lineups including Telluride Bluegrass—bringing songs that breathe, burn, and bloom in real time. Expect sparkling interplay, vivid lyrics, and the kind of chemistry that only miles, craft, and devotion can forge.

Please join me for my next house concert featuring Bay Area native Rachel Barton, and Florida-born Jaden Lehman, now both based in Los Angeles and enrolled at USC's Thornton School of Music.

David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach are a multigenerational, bicoastal duo who have been performing together since 2010. They currently perform between 70 and 100 shows a year on both east and west coasts, delighting and bewildering roots music lovers.

David Jacob-Strain is a striking slide guitar player and song poet from Eugene, Oregon. His deep love of blues and roots music is evident in every one of the songs he writes. He studied masters like Robert Johnson, Taj Mahal and Jackson Browne, but plays his own sound, his own song, with a virtuosity that is uniquely his. David began playing on street corners and at farmers markets as a teenager, and bought his first steel guitar with the quarters he saved up. Before he dropped out of Stanford to play full time, he had already appeared at festivals across the country, often billed as a blues prodigy, but he had to fight to avoid being a novelty act: “I wanted to tell new stories, it just wasn’t enough to relive the feelings in other people’s music.”

David Jacobs-Strain has appeared at Merlefest, Telluride Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly, Bumbershoot, and Blues to Bop in Switzerland. On the road, he’s shared the stage with Lucinda Williams, Boz Scaggs (more than 60 shows), Etta James, The Doobie Brothers, George Thorogood, Robert Earle Keen, Todd Snider, Taj Mahal, Janis Ian, Tommy Emmanuel, Bob Weir, T-Bone Burnett, and Del McCoury.

Bob Beach plays harmonica with calm fierceness. A mouth-harp maestro who swaggers into a solo like The Marlboro Man, then quietly leaves the set while the rest of us wonder what just happened and how such a tiny instrument could possibly sound like that. Bob has been a working professional musician for more than 40 years bringing harmonica, flute, and vocals to a broad scope of genres.

A native Philadelphian, Bob relocated to Western PA after high school and worked in bands and musical projects from 1976 to 1997 while based in Pittsburgh. As a sideman, he has recorded or performed with acts such as; Ollabelle, Langhorne Slim, The Avett Brothers, Pat Wictor, Beaucoup Blue, Fruit and many more. Bob was also a sound engineer at The World Café Live music venue for 15 years. Bob Beach is a working musician who carved out his own career on his own terms, raised a daughter, stayed married 40 years, and is still playing for the love of it. The heart of it. The fun of it.

Together, David and Bob play unrestrained and from the heart. “Have you ever seen anything like this before?” Wait. Just wait until you see them live.

(David) ‘just one of these guys who is in his own class. A great singer and guitar player.’
Jorma Kaukonen