Venues and Festivals

Lisa has appeared in many Northern California bands, in a variety of settings and venues, including:

• Santa Cruz Live Television Series - produced by the Digital Media Factory
• Anderson Marsh Bluegrass Festival
• Musician's Weekly Community Television Santa Cruz County.
• Wintergrass Festival Tacoma, WA
• Rawhide Bluegrass Festival Scottsdale, AZ
• Bower’s Mansion Bluegrass Festival Carson City, NV
• Sammy Davis Jr. Ampitheatre Las Vegas, NV
• Strawberry Musical Festival Yosemite, CA
• California Bluegrass Association’s Fathers Day Festival Grass Valley, CA
• Summergrass Festival Vista, CA (2004)
• Temecula Old Town Bluegrass Festival Temecula, CA
• Bluegrassin’ in the Foothills Plymouth, CA
• Veteran’s Day Bluegrass Festival Woodland, CA
• Humboldt Hills Hoedown Garberville, CA 2005
• Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival Hollister, CA
• First Night Monterey, CA
• Monterey Live Monterey, CA
• Cayuga Vault Santa Cruz, CA
• Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA
• Don Quixote’s International Music Hall Felton, CA
• Espresso Garden and Cafe San Jose, CA
• Pebble Beach Resort Pebble Beach, CA
• Carmel Mission Inn Carmel, CA
• Sunset Magazine Celebration Weekend Menlo Park, CA
• Sam’s BBQ San Jose, CA
• Santa Cruz County Fair Santa Cruz, CA
• Skywalker Ranch Lucas Valley, CA
• Castoro Cellars Templeton, CA
• Monterey Aquarium Monterey, CA
• Woodland Opry House Woodland, CA
• Henfling’s Ben Lomond, CA

Lisa has played for dances and dance productions, including:

• Appalachian Overdrive with the Barbary Coast Cloggers at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
• 24th, 25th, 27th and 29th Annual Ethnic Dance Festivals with the Barbary Coast Cloggers, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
• 2005 California Bluegrass Association Father’s Day Festival with the Barbary Coast Cloggers, Grass Valley, CA
• Intimate Cabaret Dances with the Jean Isaacs Dance Company in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
• Contra Dances with the Bay Area Contra Dance Society and various dance callers, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Where to see her:

Lisa performs with Sidesaddle and Co. every first and third Wednesday of the month at Sam’s BBQ in San Jose, CA. Come on down and have some ribs and listen to some great Bluegrass music. Lisa also performs with the Sherry Austin Band at the Davenport Roadhouse at the Cash Store, every Thursday from 6 to 9pm. Great food, great views.

Sidesaddle will perform at the California Bluegrass Association's Father's Day Festival in June of 2008 in Grass Valley, California. Sidesaddle will also perform at the Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association’s Bowers Mansion Festival in August of 2008, and the Anderson Marsh Bluegrass Festival in September 2008.