Footprint!
We provide several options of group size and style. Our acoustic music is provided by two, three, or four formally educated musicians playing some combination of guitar, mandolin, violin, and upright bass with vocals sung by each member. We do either all instrumental or a mix of vocal and instrumental music for a variety of events such as Corporate luncheons and dinners, birthday and wedding events, holiday events, and specific theme events.
Our set lists run the spectrum of Folk, classic soft rock, bluegrass, and gypsy jazz. We can play completely unplugged for intimate venues such as house concerts and small cafes, or provide a state-of-the-art sound system for larger venues.
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Price Range: $300-$2500
Gig Length: 60 - 240 minutes
Languages: American Sign Language, English
Unions: AFM
We can arrive as a duo of guitar and bass, or as two guitars, or as a trio or quartet of guitar, bass, mandolin, and violin (fiddle), or any combination of these musicians, all with strong vocals when needed. We can play classic rock, folk, bluegrass, jazzgrass, or very soft and mood appropriate dinner background music. We can play completely unplugged, or fully connected to our state-of-the-art sound system.
We are all university educated musicians.
Footprint is comprised of the core duo of Frances Franks on lead guitar and vocals, and Lowell-James Hicks on upright bass, acoustic guitar, and vocals. We have several musicians who rotate to fill out the group when we get requests for trio, quartet (most often), or quintet.
We are mostly "boomers", having grown up playing bluegrass, classic rock and folk, progressive rock, and jazz standards. Most of the personnel in Footprint have advanced degrees in a variety of disciplines including Law, Psychology, Counseling, and Music. It is safe to estimate that when adding our recent history as individuals and collectively, we represent well over 500 performances in the four years prior to Covid. We know the requirements of the gig, whether it be a Birthday Party, Corporate Anniversary, Non-Profit Fundraiser, Outdoor Festival, or Candlelight Dinner.
To be determined during booking discussion.
Here's the set list, sculpted for a "boomer " crowd who expressed a desire for heavily bluegrass laced performance for our recent gig as an acoustic trio at an outdoor festival in Martinez, CA.
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Midnight on the Water
Cherokee Shuffle
Big Sciota
Salt Spring
Red Prairie Dawn
Red Shift
Blackberry Blossom
Sweet Georgia Brown
Dust in the Whiskey
Jerusalem Reed
Manzanita
Red Haired Lung
Salt Jessica
Shady Grove
Wild Horses
John Barleycorn
Bojangles
Angel From Montgomery
John Barleycorn
I know You Rider
Midnight Moonlight
Whiter Shade of Pale
Nine Pound Hammer
Turning Away
Willin
Ready for the Storm
The Weight
Pancho and Lefty
Blind Willie McTell
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
LA Freeway
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
We draw from each member's eclectic musical background. Influences range from folk artists of the '60s to progressive and classic rock, bluegrass, singer/songwriter, and jazz. We, as our rock band configuration, have played Rush's Tom Sawyer, and Rolling Stones' Wild Horses to concert crowds in San Francisco. As our acoustic trio/quartet we have played Raitt and Prine's Angel From Montgomery for 'Boomer audiences in Breckenridge, Colorado. We have played Tony Rice's Manzanita for Bluegrass audiences. We have played Pachelbel's Canon in D for small dinner parties.
To be determined during booking process
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