PRESS QUOTES:
       “A FESTIVE BLEND OF HAUNTING VOCALS AND BONE SHAKING RHYTHMS”
       “JIG 'TIL YOU DROP!”  “MONSTER DRUMMING, DRIVING FEELS, ABSOLUTELY KILLER”

RADIO QUOTES:   “A TRIBAL JOURNEY TO CELTIC LANDS WHERE MYSTIC DRUIDS OF OLD DANCE WITH WITCHES!
         DRUID SISTERS EVOKE RITUAL DANCING WITH SPELL BINDING VOCALS, VERY COMPELLING!” S. Brown, Celtic Quilt, KRVM

        "NO SHRINKING VIOLETS, THE DRUID SISTERS TEA PARTY POURS FORTH A MIGHTY
         STREAM OF MIDEASTERNCELTOFUNKY, TUNEFULLY TRANCY TOETAPPERS. BEWITCHING
         IN BASIC BLACK & BLINGBLING, THESE GRRRLS GO OVARIES-OUT TO GET THE CROWD
         UP & DANCING!" Latenight Liz, KMFB, Mendocino, CA

Claudia Paige- drummer / percussionist
Claudia has had the great opportunity, at a young age, of playing drums with bands from JEFFERSON STARSHIP, GRATEFUL DEAD, THE BYRD’S to STEELY DAN. Claudia toured with LINDA PERRY of the 4-NON BLONDES, (of PINK, CHRISTINA AGUILERA), as well as played with JERRY GARCIA, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, BONNIE RAITT, RAY WHITE-FRANK ZAPPA, GENE PARSONS, BEN ATKINS-MICHEAL JACKSON, TITO PUENTE, NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN (ARETHA FRANKLIN) BRUCE BARTHOL-COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH, & BENNY RIETVELD (Bass player for Santana). Claudia Paige has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, 47 states and 10 countries, including the UNITED NATIONS in Bosnia, Hungary & Croatia. She has performed/composed music in musical theater including the Tony Award-winning Theater Company, SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE. International tours include sponsorship by CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, Loft Concerts sponsored tour of Berlin Germany & Vienna, Austria and performances at the German Consulate & the Goethe Institute.

Major Festivals include; Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles/Laguna Seca Day’s Music Festival, Monterey with ANI DEFRANCO, JOAN OSBORN, BEN HARPER, BOB WEIR/World Expo Fair, Vancouver, Canada/Whole Earth Fair, Davis, Calif. with PAPA WAMA, BOZ SCAGGS, ELVIN BISHOP/Monterey Jazz Festival with SPYRO GYRA & THE YELLOWJACKETS/Blues by the Bay, SF, with B.B. KING & JOHN LEE HOOKER. Shared Stage with ZAP MAMA, GEORGE CLINTON, NATALIE MERCHANT, JELLO BIAFRA, THE RAMONES, GREEN DAY, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, FAITH NO MORE, CHRIS ISAAK, GANG OF FOUR, VINCE WELLNICK, PRIMUS, VIOLENT FEMMES, LINDA HOPKINS, 10,000 MANIACS, TOWER OF POWER, WALL OF VOODOO, THE GOGOS, LYDIA LUNCH and more. full bio www.claudiathedrummer.com

Claudia's one of a kind drumming brings an eclectic world rhythm style, tribal trance grooves, funky rock & roll, and a solid in the pocket feel to the music. The "Claw" makes you dance no matter what, so forget your troubles & dance!

CYOAKHA GRACE- voice / keys / harmonium
Cyo joins DRUIDS from her band, LAND OF THE BLIND, produced three award-winning CD’s & playing all the major alternative festivals, from OREGON COUNTRY FAIR to 6 years performing at BURNING MAN, including being House Casbah Band for the EMBASSY, to the recent international ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL '06 (only 2 American acts chosen world-wide), Adelaide, Australia. The ground-breaking Blind (members from SANTANA, Dan Reed Network, & THE HARRY PARTCH Ensemble) mixed World, Tribal, Trance and Dance. CYO also sang lead for SF’s “World-Fusion-Prog-Rock" band, AZIGZA, touring internationally for 4 years to critical acclaim & 2 amazing CD releases. Guest singer with SF's favorite avant innovators, BIG CITY ORCHESTRA, recently opened for THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS,featured in the ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR PROJECT (Oakland Opera) as well as recordings with BCO. Cyo's amazing 4 octave voice & wild stage presence won her awards: BEST OVERALL PERFORMER and BEST VOCALIST, both categories at PROG FESTIVAL, N. Carolina, against 3 days of international bands! Winner of Young Composers awards from A.S.C.A.P., NY, for her CD "OUT OF CHAOS". Chosen from avant female composers world-wide for 2 CD compilation"Women Bring Back The Noise". Cyoakha/The Blind have shared stage with PATTI SMYTH, JEFFERSON STARSHIP, SKY CRIES MARY, CRITTERS BUGGIN', TRILLIAN GREEN, CHEMICAL BROTHERS, SCOTT HUCKABAY, LOST AT LAST, JOANNE RAND, KALI'S ANGELS, and international bands while on tour: WENDY RULE, SHOOGLENIFTY, ANKH, THE NECKS, SARS. Cyo is also a film composer: H.P. LOVECRAFT'S novel Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and others. full bio www.landoftheblind.com Soundtrackswww.cyoakhagrace.com Cyo is the trance in druid dance!

KATHY BUYS- violin
Kathy has been playing violin for 32 years from the SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA to the STOCKTON SYMPHONY and the rock band SANDPIT. She recently released an album of Celtic and original music & plays with her Celtic band, HORSES' GREEN in the bay area, as well as her new Celtic duo, BRACKEN. More about Kathy, www.dragonsdance.net
Kathy brings out her fiddle and the jig comes out in everyone with legs!

JAN MARTINELLI - bass
Jan is a driving funk, eclectic world bass player with styles from around the world, African, Middle Eastern, Afro-Cuban, Latin, Indian funk, rock and more. Jan has toured with dozens of bands, playing major festivals, performance halls and clubs around the country, and has more than twenty recordings to her credit. Some of the artists she has worked with are Terri Garthwaite, Larry Lynch, Holly Near, The Blazing Redheads, Mary Watkins, Robin Flower, Lindy Tillery, Orquesta Once, Adriana Moreno, Mutama & The Tamarind Quintet. Jan is an original member of WILD MANGO, 7 piece world ensemble that toured nationally and internationally with multiple releases. Fests include: Barbados Music Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Aspen Jazz Festival, Smithsonian and more.... She has shared the stage with Manhattan Transfer, Poncho Sanchez, Joe Lovano and more. Jan brings the FUNK-A-DELIC driving grooves to the "Druids Sisters Tea Party".

SPECIAL GUEST
MARCIE BROWN- acoustic & electric cello
Marcie joins the Druids from CIRQUE du SOLEIL's Las Vegas "O" show (2002-2004) where she dominated the string section with her wild Russian-Slovik feels. Classically, Marcie was a member of the TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA for the 2004 season and head of the strings department at Oakland School for the Arts (2005). Marcie has shared stage with such majors as RAY CHARLES, DIZZIE GILLESPIE, STING and YUSEF LATEEF. She recently played with ANDREA BOCELLI and in one of PAVAROTTI's last concerts. www.mbrownmusic.com Marcie gets the gypsies dancing in the Druid woods!

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