UUCB Concerts for a Cause presents Dirty Cello Band at the UU Church on March 20th to benefit Midcoast New Mainers Group and Tedford Housing.
From Iceland to Italy, and all over the U.S., San Francisco-based band Dirty Cello brings the world a high energy and unique spin on blues, rock, and Americana.
With wild vocals and world class cello playing, the group is led by vivacious cross-over cellist, Rebecca Roudman playing cello like you’ve never heard before. Combining virtuosic musicianship and a fiery taste for rock and roll, Dirty Cello Band presents a dynamic show turning well-known covers into one-of-a-kind experiences. Combine the virtuosic wail of Jimi Hendrix, the soul of BB King, and the fire of Bill Monroe, and add a whole lot of cello, and you get the Dirty Cello band. From down home blues and rock with a wailing cello to virtuosic stompin’ Americana, Dirty Cello is a band that gets your heart thumping and your toes tapping!
“Dirty Cello’s music is all over the map: funky, carnival, romantic, sexy, tangled, electric, fiercely rhythmic, and textured, and only occasionally classical.”– Oakland Magazine
“The band plays every style imaginable, and does some fantastic covers. (Their rendition of “Purple Haze” is incredible.) But what is most spectacular about them is hearing the depth of soul in Roudman’s playing—it goes beyond what most people would expect from the instrument. She plays it with so much heart, you’ll wonder why more bands don’t have a cellist.” — Good Times Santa Cruz
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and $10 for students/children and will be available at the church office, Gulf of Maine Books, or online at ticketstripe.com/celloband .