Music

1984 to Present

Spring 2004-Present: E.B.'s new project: Chickwagon is underway. Live performances coming 2005.

Spring 2003 - Present: Strawberry Music Festival

Summer 2002 : E.B. and her trio (with Mark Gould guitar, Mike Anderson bass) opened for The Bootcuts at The Hotel Utah.

Fall 2001 - 2002 : Cafe Muse, Albany, CA. Open mic Wednesday nights. Debuting some of my new songs almost every week.

Fall 2001 - 2002: Guitar with Judith Kate Friedman––currently studying guitar with bay area songwriter Judith Kate Friedman.

November 2001 -- Erika & the Equations, a trio with Mark on drums and Bill on upgright bass, upstairs at the Paradise Lounge, San Francisco. The photos on the left are from this gig.

1999 to 2001: Studied doumbek drumming with Bay Area drummers: Evan Kumar, Mary Ellen Donald.

April 1999: VIA, Voices of Integrated Arts, Benefit Concert. Erika & The Dogpeople performed at this event. Original songs: The Long Journey; Love Poem Seen Through the Eastern Wall; Words are Bridges.

Summer 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998: Lark in the Morning Music Camp, Mendocino, CA.

1991-96: Poetry with guitar, Oakland, CA. The Wanderers. Studio recordings.

1994: Poetry in performance at the Coffee Mill Poetry Series, Oakland, CA. Fall

1993: Vocal composition and performance for 3-Part Concert, Live at Mills College,

1991: Poetry and vocal for independent film, Oakland, CA.

1990: Vocal composition for electronic music, Live at St. Mary's College; Moraga, CA.

1984 to 1988: Professional acoustic-folk trio; Fresno, CA. Ides of Mars. Vocalist and songwriter.

Guitars: Latest is I had some help from local musician and vintage expert Mark Gould helping me pick out and purchase a '65 Epiphone Casino electric guitar! ( It's amazing. Almost as old as I am and the same kind that John Lennon played.)

I also play a Palamino bird's eye maple PR-7 Epiphone acoustic-electric which you see in these pics, and a Vagabond travel guitar with a pickup.

Drums: I play a Rhythm Fusion dumbek with Fibreskin head and a Turkish Gumbus (pronounced Jumbush) dumbek with plastic head and zils mounted inside the drum. I also play an Indian Dafli frame drum and a Turkish Pro Riq I found in Istanbul that's very heavy but tunable.