Will Bernard + Beth Custer

BETH CUSTER

Beth Custer is a member of the ensembles Russian Telegraph, Club Foot Orchestra,Trance Mission, Eighty Mile Beach, Will Bernard/Beth Custer and Beth Custer Ensembles, Clarinet Thing, and The Mighty New Farm Band. She has composed for Zeitgeist and Left Coast Chamber Ensembles, and for the films of William Farley, Cathy Lee Crane and Brad Coley, and for the dance troupes Joe Goode Performance Group, AXIS Dance Company, Harupin Ha, and Osseus Labyrinth, and for the theatre productions of Campo Santo, The Magic, San Diego Repertory, and California Shakespeare.

WILL BERNARD

Twice Grammy nominated guitarist Will Bernard’s unique voice was formed from the most part from the rich cultural roots of the San Francisco Bay Area. Along the way he studied classical music, jazz, played in basements and coliseums and absorbed the Bay Area Multi Kulti , the funk of New Orleans, and the New York Downtown edge. He has performed and/or recorded with Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Robert Walter, John Medeski, Bill Laswell, Ben Sidran, Peter Apfelbaum, Dr John, Tom Waits and a lot of other known and unknowns. His 2007 CD “Party Hats” as well as his 1997 collaborative project T.J. Kirk “If Four Was One” were both nominated for Grammys. “Pond Life”, released 2022 on Dreck to Disk records is his11th album as a leader.