We are sold out of advance tickets for this show.
Standing room only tickets will be available when the show starts at 7pm.
To make a donation directly to the Evans Family, please click here, and under Additional Information, please check “for the Bill & Kathy Evans Family Benefit”
Bill & Kathy Evans Family Benefit with Hot Buttered Rum, James Nash, Crary, Evans
& Spurgin and dozens more (7PM)
An All-Star gathering of musicians come together to support Bay Area banjo player
Bill Evans’ family as they help Bill’s wife Kathy, an Albany kindergarten teacher, in
her ongoing recovery from leukemia. Topping the bill is California jam/bluegrass
favorites Hot Buttered Rum with special guest James Nash from the Waybacks along
with Bill’s new trio featuring flatpick guitar master Dan Crary and songwriter Steve
Spurgin. Also performing will be Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, Steep Ravine, Alan Munde, New
Mexico’s Hard Road Trio with Steve Smith, Tom Rozum, Eric Thompson, Keith Little,
Sharon Gilchrist, Scott Nygaard, Alan Senauke, Steve Pottier, Max Schwartz, Avram Siegel, Larry Cohea and
surprise special guests. Over his twenty years of making music in the Bay Area, Bill
has shared the Freight stage with all of these musicians, so look for many special
collaborations and combinations in this very special concert event. Snap Jackson &
The Knock on Wood Players perform on the Gallery Stage from 6 to 7 p.m.