Roem Baur [http://fb.me/roem.music] debuts his new band at a free, all ages show in Mountain View, CA. Also joining the bill, bay area standouts, The Blind Willies & Rebecca Cross!
Roem Baur is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter who first began singing his heartfelt songs in the agriculturally rich small town of Modesto, California. After a short stint as an award-winning stage actor...
[read more] Roem Baur [http://fb.me/roem.music] debuts his new band at a free, all ages show in Mountain View, CA. Also joining the bill, bay area standouts, The Blind Willies & Rebecca Cross!
Roem Baur is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter who first began singing his heartfelt songs in the agriculturally rich small town of Modesto, California. After a short stint as an award-winning stage actor Baur exploded onto the local music scene scene, becoming a fixture at open mic and cafes in the Central Valley and SF Bay Area. With his opera trained voice and soulful acoustic sound, he was soon playing to thousands at festivals and traveling all over the world, playing to small crowds in Thailand, Mexico, Belize, and Argentina, where he recently wrote and recorded with local musicians. And all of this has been accomplished independently, without the help of labels or management, with only the support of his grassroots fan base. In June of 2011 Roem Baur released his first E.P. "The Thief" to iTunes, CD Baby and Amazon. The album has garnered tremendous praise from fans and musicians alike, for the haunting quality of Baur's powerful voice married to deeply personal tales of lost love, enveloped in the swelling string quartet of fellow San Francisco band, The Family Crest.
"Roem Baur's powerful voice causes an avalanche of jaws hitting the floor."
- KC Turner - KC Turner Presents
"We’re excited to hear more of this powerful, soul-driven voice as he says what he needs to say in his music."
- David Ibsen - The Five (blog)
"The first time I heard it I realized a few moments later that I had forgotten to breathe. It was almost as if my entire body stopped what it was doing just to focus on the way Baur spilled his heart out in one note."
- Nina Ragonese - We Move Against The Tides Music Blog
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Blind Willies [https://www.facebook.com/blindwillies] is a San Francisco rock Americana band led by singer/songwriter Alexei Wajchman. The band began at San Francisco’s High School of the Arts as a duo playing covers of American folk songs and Alexei’s originals which he began writing when he was 15. After their professional debut at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the band’s first two releases of all original songs, The Unkindness of Ravens(2007) and Everybody's Looking for a Meal(2008), were highly praised. The albums defined their sound and provided them the opportunity to perform extensively at eclectic venues, from New York's Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and San Francisco's Djangofest to Brooklyn's intimate back room at Barbès. They shared stages with punk icon Penelope Houston (Avengers), “Dawg Music” innovator David Grisman, and folk iconoclast Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders).
The band has used the various gifts of its new members to forge a dynamic and unique sound that reflects the deeply resonant American musical traditions they each brought to the table. Their songs have been played on more than 200 radio stations around the world, including the Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Australia, and Canada, and they’ve toured throughout the West and East Coasts.
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Rebecca Cross composes music ranging from electronic dance to acoustic Americana. Her work has been seen in NY Times, Vouge, SFWeekly, Elle, Nylon and was recently showcased at the International Museum of Women recognizing women in technology. "Cross takes up the challenge and wins it... with a vocal tone as crystalline as Sinead O'Connor's ...this sweet little voice has a strong command of language and a sharp wit that makes it work...She's hard to label, let alone stereotype." SF Weekly
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