Four Fabulous Females
play the blues & the funk for the swabbies and waves!

Pat Wilder, guitar and vocals.
Jennifer Jolly, piano.
Ruth Davies, bass.
Daria Johnson, drums.

$20 cover charge / students $10 /
kids & sailors free!*
All ages. Wheelchair accessible.
Reservations 415-586-3733.

Deets on the crew and their captain…

Ruth Davies has played and recorded with Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop, Clark Terry, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Jay McShann, Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur, Junior Mance, Linda Tillery, Barbara Dane, Barbara Morrison, Etta Jones, Elvis Costello, Eric Bibb, Keb’ Mo’, Terry Gibbs, Jimmy Witherspoon and Little Jimmy Scott, and her discography includes Platinum and Grammy-winning recordings of jazz, blues and movie soundtracks. She has recorded with Charles Brown, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Sammy Hagar, Clark Terry, Vassar Clements, Toots Thielemans, Ernie Watts, Elvin Bishop, Maria Muldaur, Clairdee, Tammy Hall, Jackie Ryan, Pamela Rose and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, among others.

   Jennifer Jolly performs on keyboards, melodica, guitar and vocals with Jennifer Jolly & Friends, Pamela Rose’s Blues is a Woman, Jean Fineberg’s JAZZphoria, Jean Fineberg’s The Party Monsters, Nancy Wenstrom & The Restless Girls, Creekside Community Church Worship Band, Big B & His Snake Oil Saviors, Token Resistance and other Bay Area groups, and can often be found joining the merriment with Tom Rigney & Flambeau, Shake It Booty Band and other local bands. Along the way, you’ve heard her with Chelle! and Friends, Kotoja, Zulu Spear, Barbara Dane, The Broken Angels and Hot Links/Carnival. 

 

Daria “Shani” Johnson has collaborated with Pamela Rose, Tammy Hall, Barbara Dane, Esperanza Spalding, Kofy Brown, Terrence Brewer, Eoin Harrington, Theresa Perez, members of Jazz Mafia and more. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Shani began her musical journey in Los Angeles during elementary school and honed her skills at the Hamilton High Academy of Music. After Berklee, she co-founded the band London Street upon moving to San Francisco. The success of London Street’s debut album, “Life through Lyric and Melody” led to West Coast and European tours, sharing stages with John Legend, India Arie, Erykah Badu, Angie Stone and Ozomatli. Evolving from London Street, Shani has plunged ahead with the Daria Johnson 4, Blues Is A Woman, Tracorum, Four Year Bender, Catfight! and Jordan and the Ritual. She’s been proclaimed by Dirty Impound as a “ferocious badass” with influences akin to Keith Moon and The Black Crowes’ Steve Gorman, and displays a command over jazz, orchestral, rock, blues, funk and beyond. 

 Pat Wilder was bequeathed her first electric guitar by bluesman Taj Mahal, who taught her to play and sing “Ain’t Gwine Whistle Dixie (Any Mo’),” and the rest is funky blues history. She soon began writing her own songs. “There’s no way to mess up when you’re the one writing it!” Her family home was full of records, and she credits her upbringing for her versatility as a musician; “Being young and having fun, there’s the funkadelic music. Taj comes in and brings the delta blues. My favorite record was Mr. Herbie Hancock, so that’s where I got my soul and my urban. Gospel is just a given feeling for me. All of it is rooted in gospel. That’s what keeps it all in balance, too: loving what I’m doing with the music, keeping it all in balance. I don’t know how it works, but it works for me.” After high school, she journeyed to her auntie’s juke joint outside of Houston, Texas, playing in bands and figuring she was doing something right— “I ain’t never seen folks dance like that!” she reminisces. She’s had decades of musical exploration in funk, blues and rock bands, has been nominated in the Traditional Blues category for a WC Handy Award (now called Blues Music Awards), received Honorable Mention for the Billboard Songwriting Contest Award in 2009, toured worldwide in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 with the Music Maker Revue. Her tune “Night Train to Glory” was released on Music Maker’s 2021 compilation “Waiting for a Train: Listener’s Circle Vol. 50.” She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Music Makers Foundation in 2023. Pat has said that working with Music Maker stands among her proudest accomplishments.

“I FEEL FINE JUST LOVING EVERYBODY.”– Pat Wilder