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photo credit © 2010 Barbara Pratt
Gretchen Barton
(oud, dulcimer, bansuri flute) has been making music on stage
the past few years with Sofyan, Rock Rose Tribal bellydance troupe
(Rakkasah in Richmond, Tribalfest in Sebastopol, Caspar Community Center, Harvest Hafla at Arena Theatre) and as a guest musician of the Mendocino Stories & Music Series.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Janet DeBar
first heard a didjeridu ten years ago in the Mojave desert.
She has been learning to play since then. The didj is her first and only
musical instrument, although she does have fourteen of them.
She lives on the coast at The Sea Ranch where local harbor seals sometimes clap in
appreciation of her solos.
Janet passed away in August, 2021.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Harrison Goldberg
has performed on tenor, alto and soprano saxophone
with a variety of groups, including
Neon Egypt,
Tabula Rasa, Legend and Baku;
he sometimes adds hand percussion or spoken word to Cloudfire's sound.
An alumnus of Berklee College of Music,
Harrison has literally spent a lifetime in music from East to West Coast.
Visit his website:
Harrison Goldberg Arts.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Dave Jordan
is Cloudfire's bassist, playing grooves on a left-handed
electric bass guitar. A refugee from Silicon Valley, he is also Cloudfire's
recording engineer and web designer.
Before moving to the coast, Dave played keyboards with Limbic Sanctuary, an eclectic folk-rock band.
photo credit © 2011 Barbara Pratt
Leon Schneiderman
(drums, metallophone) was a member of the theater
group Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and a founding member of Oingo
Boingo. During the group's early years he built original instruments, sets, costumes and theatrical devices, which contributed to the group's memorable and unique shows.
He now sculpts and builds / plays percussion instruments.
In Memoriam
Lynn Stoller
was nearly born in the window of a department store to
bohemian puppeteer parents from Greenwich Village.
In 1972, he dropped out of IBM and opened Up The Creek Records in Boulder Creek.
He began playing Indian tamboura and middle eastern percussion in the '80s;
he was a founding member of Cloudfire.
Lynn passed away in July, 2009.
Special guests: 2013 - 2014
Cloudfire & Friends
Multi-instrumentalist Johny Qwest Heubel
joins us on kora, guimbri, yalai tambur, flute and percussion.
He performed in several groups with Lynn Stoller, including Bhakti Tribe,
which released their recording Ancient Waves in 2007.
Karl Young has studied shakuhachi flute for over 20 years.
His primary sensei are Kaoru Kakizakai and Riley Lee, both masters in the dokyoku tradition and students of Katsuya Yokoyama.
In 2011 he released a jazz CD, Lost in the Wood.
Tim Mueller is a sensitive and creative guitar improviser.
Tim performed on Audio Radiance, released in 2007.
Special guest: 2007 - 2009
Zoë Presley
joined us for our performance at Art in the Redwoods in 2009. Her
inspired - and inspiring - vocals appear on several tracks of our CD,
You'll Be Fine.
A Sufi teacher and professional singer,
Zoë has performed and recorded with
Portland bluegrass group, Cross-eyed Rosie.
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