THE HOT LICKS BENEFIT FOR KPFZ

Presented by LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY RADIO
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2024
6:30 PM      Doors open 6:00 PM
OPEN SEATING: $25 GENERAL; $22 KPFZ MEMBERS

Lake County Community Radio proudly presents “The Hot Licks” for our annual benefit concert. Dan Hicks has passed on, but his music lives on. The original members have reformed and will be bringing Dan’s songs for our listening and dancing pleasure. This six piece acoustic combo plus amazing vocal harmonies will make it a night to remember.

PAUL ROBINSON toured internationally as lead guitarist with folk-swing inventor Dan Hicks,
pop icon Al Stewart (Year of the Cat), Romeo Void’s Debora Iyall and the Hot Club of San
Francisco. Paul has added his signature guitar sound to CDs ranging from pop and rock to
jazz and beyond. He has shared the stage with Don Was, Bob Weir, David Sanborn, Steve
Winwood, Hal Blaine, Al Jardine and Maria Muldaur. Paul has also performed and/or recorded
with Bayside Jazz with Dan Hicks, The Original Sons (Sons of the Kingston Trio), among
many others and has opened for such greats as Joni Mitchell, Joan Osborne, Dave Mason
and Roger McGuinn.

DARIA is an innovative vocalist and songwriter, known for her reimagined interpretations of
jazz and pop standards. She has 3 critically acclaimed CDs. Her
most recent, Strawberry Fields Forever, Songs by the Beatles, was released on award
winning Origin Records. Daria has performed internationally, including tours to Japan and
Montreux Jazz. She toured with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. She has recorded and/or
shared the stage with many notable musicians including, Dan Hicks (On SurfDog Records),
Ricki Lee Jones, Diana Krall, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Grisman, Bob Dorough, Maria Muldaur, Joe
Sample, Christian McBride, José Neto, Abe Laboriel, and Alex Acuña, among others.
PAULA BRADMAN is an accomplished singer and actor. She has appeared in national
commercials, movies and television shows and includes voiceover and jingle work in her
credits. In addition to singing rock and jazz styles, she has performed leading roles in musical
theatre productions throughout the SF Bay Area including the long running musical Party of
One and For Whom the Bridge Tolls by Rita Abrams. Paula has performed with Craig
Chiquico, toured with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and is a member of Bay Area rock band,
The Flaming O’s and The JessePaula Band.

CANDY GIRARD has toured as a violinist in the US, Great Britain, Japan, Korea and
Australia. Her recording credits include, the soundtrack for the TV series, Firefly, video
game World of Starcraft, Mason Williams and The CD, Cats Under the Stars with the Jerry
Garcia Band. She has performed at The Great American Music Hall and the Kennedy
Center. She has performed with Shirley Bassey, Hank Thompson, Circus Flora with the Flying
Walendas, Big Band Leader, Wayne Foster, the Raiders Band under the direction of Horace
Heights, Disneyland and Knottsberry Farm. She has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, American Idol, Dancing With the Stars and Who’s Line is it
Anyway. Candy received the honor of fiddle player of the year for both Los Angeles and
California from the California Country Music Association and was inducted into Western
Swing Hall of Fame as well as the South Australia Country Music Hall of Fame.
ALEX BAUM has performed from Osaka to Orviedo playing both stand up and electric
bass. Working in many styles, he has performed or recorded with Dan Hicks
(Shootin’ Straight), Surf Dog CD /DVD release Dan Hicks & Hot Licks 60th Birthday Concert,
Eddie “ Lockjaw” Davis, “Sweets” Edison, Johnny Nocturne Band (Rounder and Bullseye
Records), Murasaki Ensemble, Dave Sanborn, Pinetop Perkins, Mitch Woods Rocket 88’s,
Bob Weir, Clarence Clemmons, Jessica Williams and Riche Cole among others. He has
performed at Umbria Jazz Festival and Monterey Jazz. He toured extensively as a member of
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks and the Acoustic Warriors.

Roy Blumenfeld • Drums, Vocals
Roy Blumenfeld had a ringside seat from his drum kit on some of the most exciting musical
events in New York City during the mid-’60s. Born in the Bronx in 1944, he reached his teens
as the first wave of American rock & roll was being created. He took up the drums and found
himself drawn to blues, R&B, and jazz. Blumenfeld linked up with bassist Andy Kulberg
through work with Al Kooper on the latter’s early solo recordings for the Elektra Records
sampler What’s Shakin’. In 1965, he joined guitarist Danny Kalb in the latter’s new band,
which, with the addition of Kooper to the lineup, became the Blues Project. Blumenfeld was
one of the longest serving members of the renowned group, whose mixture of R&B, blues,
jazz, folk, and rock & roll influences made them a major cult band of the ’60s, and a huge
influences on generations of other musicians. He was there past its end: with Kulberg, he
formed Seatrain out of the ruins of the Blues Project in 1968. He played on folk singer Mark
Spoelstra’s self-titled album for Columbia Records in 1969, and also on the subsequent Blues
Project reunions. Blumenfeld worked with Nick Gravenites in the ’70s and Robert Hunter at
various times in the ’80s and ’90s, but his most visible gig was with Kooper on the live shows
that became Soul of a Man.
Back in the mythic Summer of Love, 1967 — if you were in New York City, the place to be
was MacDougal Street. The club to be in was the Cafe Au Go Go, pedigreed in hipness by
Lenny Bruce’s famous profanity bust there by the NYPD. The Au Go Go’s star band was the
Blues Project, a group on the cutting edge of improvisational, classical, blues and jazz. Danny
Kalb was the Project’s lead guitarist and vocalist; Al Kooper was the keyboardist and vocalist;
Steve Katz was its guitarist and vocalist; There was Andy Kulberg on bass and flute. And the
drummer — the heartbeat — for the group was Roy Blumenfeld.