May 2026 Happenings
Upcoming shows: Suns of Mothers (trio with Tommy Guerrero and Nino Moschella) 5/25 in El Cerrito, CA. 5/27 guesting with Tommy Guerrero in SF. 6/13 with Antibalas headlining BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn.
We are all holding it together. Except for a few who are trying to break it all apart and sell us glue at marked up prices.
I wake up grateful that I’m still able to make art, teach, and contribute materially and time-wise to the upkeep of my family. My daughter is surprising me, cracking me up, challenging me and making me a better version of myself. My partner continues to amaze and nourish me with her brilliance and beauty.
I am relieved to be finishing my second semester of teaching Popular Music Theory at the University of California Berkeley. It was very time-consuming for a part-time adjunct position, but very grounding to be teaching and mentoring students. I’ll be back teaching the same course in the fall, and a new one titled Aurality and Creative Interaction in the Spring of 2027.
UPCOMING SHOWS
UPCOMING SHOWS
May 25: Suns of Mothers at Little Hill Lounge.
The is the reboot of the trio I co-founded with Tommy Guerrero and Nino Moschella in late 2024. We have been performing exclusively at Little Hill Lounge in El Cerrito- a mecca of contemporary jazz and indie music and good vinyl djs. Josh Lippi opens.
I’m sitting in on four songs. The last time he invited me, it was so far in advance, I totally forgot about it. The night of the show, I was solo-parenting and fast asleep in my kid’s bed by stage-time. I woke up the next morning, mortified, to some texts beginning with “Dude…are you here.” This won’t happen again.
I am in the clouds to be playing Prospect Park again. I have done it so many times over the years that all the memories have kind of blurred. A few times with Antibalas, once or twice with TV on the Radio where Kanye (circa 2008) was creeping backstage with Amber Rose, once with the Daptone Super Soul Revue where damn near thirty horns and a vast battery of orchestral percussion performed “Soul Fugue.” And countless times as a fan…once we went to see Chaka Khan and it was so packed we couldn’t get in but could hear her voice loud and clear over everything and everyone from way back in the cut.