Arts Alive!

Michael Dieter and Nola Pierce

Michael Dieter and Nola Pierce came together for an art gallery performance a while back when a local artist asked them to compose and perform some music to go along with the event. Finding the collaboration to be a success they kept up with it.  Nola Pierce, being a founding member of local vocal group AKAbella and folk groups Vintners' Daughters and Queen Moss, is no stranger to tight vocal harmonies. Spending time more recently honing in on her song-craft and instrumentalism, she brings a strong contribution to the project.  Michael Dieter has played bass in many groups, local and non, including Ponche, Miles Ahead, Vintage Soul, and the Drifters. More recently he has take time to shed up on his guitar chops as well as work on compositions.

Using folk-finger-style guitar, percussion, bass, banjo, tape samples and good old-fashioned songwriting the two create a blend of Americana and swirling cinematic textures, striving for a large, open sound to parallel our western wilds.

Wallace and Phines

Vocalist Karrie Wallace plays slide, blues harp, and Fender Stratocaster with minimal effects. She has played with Mike McClaren, Dave Hinz, Tami Pallingston & Nalini Cogswell & Pete Dyszczakowski and is currently part of the duo known as "The Fabulous Bluejayz".  Steve Phines plays a Fender Jazz bass through an SWR cabinet & Gallien Krueger Amp, and is also a vocalist and a guitarist as well.

Together their style is an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, rock, country, reggae, Tex-Mex...  You name it! They can play it!

The Redwood Coast Children’s and Alumni Singers

Kathe Lyth is the director and founder of the Redwood Coast Children’s Chorus. She started RCCC in 1978 as a grass roots children’s chorus dedicated to making our community, our country and the world a better place. The RCCC is a non-profit organization that focuses on creating friendships and bridging economic, social and cultural barriers through singing. The most recently formed level of singersAlumni Singers are young adults who have returned to the Chorus after previouslyparticipating through the years in the chorus and traveling with the RCCC.   One of the goals of the Alumni Singers is to provide ways of helping our local community through their music. Presently, we are collecting lullabies from around the world which will be arranged by their director, Kathe Lyth, This collection of lullabies will be uniquely beautiful and diverse. The selection will be suitable for babies, young children, and adults alike.