Footprint

El Cerrito, CA

$300-$2500

Travels up to 200 miles

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Overview

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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Booking information

Price range: $300-$2500

Languages: American Sign Language, English

Gig length: 60 - 240 minutes

Unions: AFM

What to expect

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.

About

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.

Additional booking notes

To be determined during booking discussion.

Set list

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

Influences and inspiration

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.

Setup requirements

To be determined during booking process

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